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Since the nearby star is much more energetic than the Sun. The "winter" on these two planets is completely different from the winter on Earth.
Although the planet itself is so massive that it is not sucked directly next to the star and burned to ashes, the orbit and rotation of the planet create a very different seasonal change from that of the Earth.
Spring and autumn are completely gone, and there are only scorching summers and bitter winters on both planets. In addition, the alternation of day and night here is completely different from that of the earth.
According to the human way of measuring time, two planets of similar size and mass will basically enter the same 36-hour night after 36 hours of daylight.
Of course, like the Earth, day and night alternate between regions.
Every cold night, both animals and plants will slow down their metabolism and go into a dormant state. And in the cold winter, many animals and plants will be directly frozen to death and fall on the road of evolution.
However, as the creatures on both planets continue to evolve, both dinosaurs and trees have found ways to cope with the cold winter.
Dinosaurs found a rock containing rare earth elements in a canyon on the surface of the planet, and by knocking it on the stone, it could create sparks and heat that ignited the dead branches and leaves nearby, and lit a fire for heating.
With the emergence of the behavior of "taking fire", which marks the rapid evolution of civilization, the dinosaurs who obtained the source of fire suddenly increased the speed of scientific and technological development.
In addition to heating with flames, the herbivorous dragons have begun to experiment with throwing ore into the fire for the most primitive smelting work. On the Carnivorous Dragons, they also began to divide the territories of various ethnic groups, and then built simple buildings out of wood to shelter from the wind and rain.
The era of civilization of the dinosaurs has finally begun.
At this time, the plant side began to move in an abnormal evolutionary direction.
Unlike the bloody history of war on Earth, in the face of the harsh winter, plants have chosen to support each other to tide over the harsh weather.
After Lin Chi chose the direction of "peace" development, more and more forests began to negotiate, and then connected the roots buried deep underground, completing the simple and crude "great unification", and the area of the connected forests continued to expand, and soon covered the entire surface of the planet. And then......
Almost all the large plants on the surface of the planet have evolved universal USB cables...... No, it was after the universal roots that an incomparably large and complex "shared consciousness" was born!
Almost all the trees on the surface of the entire planet have contributed their "brains" to turn this incomparably huge and species-rich forest into a super-giant biological computer!
In addition to the large forests, even the small shrubs on the edge of the desert, and even some of the weeds that evolved into satellite brains, all merged with this giant symbiote. It has become a prosperous and loss-making existence.
Then, this "giant beast", which is bigger than any living thing in human history, began to dispatch the resources in its own body to maintain the survival rate of plants in the harsh environment.
- Plants that live in cold regions will receive more nutrients, and plants in hot areas that are directly scorched by the stars will receive more water through their roots.
In order to accomplish this fantastical distribution, the roots of the plants have begun to evolve again to deliver nutrients at a faster rate.
Of course, after attaining an unimaginable speed of thinking, the consciousness composed of the "brains" of billions of trees cannot simply think about survival.
After absorbing the content and knowledge of other plants from countless forests, this incomparably vast consciousness has given a part of its thinking ability back to the trees of its "various parts of the body". He began to collect "data" on the entire planet and observe the state of the world.
Due to its size, it is still very slow to collect detailed data on the world, even if the subject's consciousness has been fixed in a giant eucalyptus tree in the center of the continent.
In addition, if the information collected by the surrounding trees is transmitted by pheromones alone, it is likely to be cut off in the middle of the process.
So now, in addition to improving the survival rate, the huge forests that are connected have not changed much compared to before.
"Evolution on your side has stopped." The purple-haired girl also noticed the unusual condition of the forest.
"Who knows." Lin Chi said casually, continuing to observe the huge lifeforms covering the entire continent.
Even dinosaurs with too large bodies can be inconvenient. And the forests that connect the entire planet can no longer be described as "huge" alone.
With a giant life form of this size, it is undoubtedly very difficult to maintain the normal functioning of the body.
If the current situation is to keep the subject's consciousness in one place, let alone pheromones, even if nerve conduction is used, it will take several months to receive the condition of the distant forest.
Lin Chi knew that in order for the trees to continue to evolve under such circumstances, a new opportunity was needed.
And that opportunity is likely to come up in the next hand.
Thinking of this, he didn't say much, just patiently waited for the round to end.
A minute later, when the host started to deal cards again, seeing the two choice cards he had obtained this time, Lin Chi smiled again:
"Sure enough."
In this round, the two options available to players are "Continue to evolve normally" and "Discover alien ruins". Seeing that the normal evolution of plants was at an impasse, Lin Chi also decisively chose the option of "discovering alien ruins".
However, the opponent on the other side of the table obviously won't let him succeed so easily.
In the face of the two silver cards this time, the expression on Pandora's little face also became serious, and she naturally knew very well that as long as Lin Chi's giant lifeform made of trees from all over the world solved the problem caused by the oversize of the body, it would immediately crush the dinosaurs that were evolving in a normal way!
"I'm not going to let you get away with it."
The purple-haired girl said and picked up the card of "Discovery of Alien Ruins", and looked at Lin Chi with dark golden eyes without blinking. In the petite body, it seems that an invisible powerful aura has suddenly been released.
"You're going to me in blackjack?" Lin Chi asked with interest.
"I'm known as the 'God of Gambling.'" Pandora said coldly.
Hearing this, Lin Chi was also interested, and looked at the two cards on his table: "Are you sure you want to have a serious game with me?" ”
"Are you scared?" The girl stared at him with a frown.
"Ha, of course not." Lin Chi couldn't help laughing, and his body, which was leaning on the chair in a near-paralyzed position, suddenly sat up straighter.
"In that case...... Let's just take a look at how professional players play cards. He laughs.