Chapter 484: Mutually Beneficial and Symbiotic Relationship

At first, the habitable planet in which they were located was in a blue dwarf star system, which has a shorter lifespan than smaller stars such as yellow dwarfs and red dwarfs, because the nuclear fusion reactions inside them are intensified at massive masses, releasing more energy and reacting faster to fusion.

Because of this, the surface of habitable planets can receive far more stellar light than the Earth, and the leaves of plants are generally white in color under this extremely energetic environment, like crystal clear glass products.

Walking among the trees, the gatherers could clearly feel the heat from the stellar light.

"My moisture is dripping, why don't you remind me?"

At first, I was a little depressed, and the loss of water was necessary, because I wanted to cool my body, but in this case, I faced another problem, that is, the loss of too much water in the body, and I needed to replenish water.

Knowing this, I should have installed a solid helium container for cooling myself before setting off, and I thought a little depressed.

"Huh? Pay attention to the body temperature, didn't you say it at the beginning? Blue dwarfs are very bright, and that's something that everyone knows. ”

The gatherers who walked in front of them expressed surprise in their life field.

"Before landing, I saw that the atmosphere of this terrestrial planet was dense enough that it should be able to effectively block out a lot of stellar light, and I didn't want to go back to the trouble of being too troublesome, so I didn't transfer solid helium out of sub-light-speed organisms."

Chu explained to his fellow clans that he didn't expect anything valuable to appear on this habitable planet at first, and he didn't have much hope, so that the collectors on the habitable planet could work quickly after confirming it as soon as possible, and he could return to work quickly to continue the industrial activities of the tribe.

However, what Chu never expected was that this habitable planet was really worthy of being the research object of the race, because it was too rare.

"At first, you eat some plant fruits to replenish some water, and there is a water source in our destination, where you don't have to worry about a lot of water loss."

"You go ahead and lead the way."

At first signaling to continue walking, the group of gatherers moved again.

The gatherer leading the way walked as he explained to Hatsu the question he had asked not long ago.

"At the beginning, you just asked where the animals in the woods are, in fact, this time period belongs to the peak of stellar light intensity, and the creatures on this planet will gather near the water source in the woods in order not to evaporate their water, and replenish water in that place at the right time."

"Wouldn't it be okay to rely on the plants in the woods for hydration?"

At first, the collectors asked puzzled, but the gatherers bowed to their tentacles and answered.

"It is difficult to get water by eating plants in the woods, and at this time, in order to keep their water from losing, the plants will pull back the body fluids in the leaves and branches and flow back into a water storage container in the ground, and the part above the ground will enter a dehydrated state of suspended animation, haven't you noticed when you eat?"

"That's true"

At first, I broke off a branch and ate it, as my own people said, it does not contain a little water, although the appearance looks bright and bright, crystal clear, like glass jade, but it is completely dry material.

I didn't notice this when I first visited to understand the underlying genetic structure of this planet's creatures, but I was a little puzzled at first.

"Why isn't the water in the fruit recycled?"

"The fruit is used for animals to eat, of course, it will not draw back the water, there are various reasons, some are in a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with the kind of parasite you just spit out, when that kind of creature parasitizes the fruit into the host body to lay eggs, by the way, it will also plant plant seeds in the host, that kind of parasite can't distinguish the difference between its own eggs and plant seeds, so it will also be doubly careful to feed the plant seeds."

The gatherer explained to Hatsu.

"After the host dies due to an overdose of parasites, the seeds will absorb the nutrients from the host's corpse and thrive, while the parasites will also die in a large area because they have no nutrients provided by the host, and they will choose to place their eggs in the buds of seedling plants in order to survive, and when the buds mature and bear fruit, it will be a fruit with parasites, and so on and so on."

To put it bluntly, it is to use and be used, parasitic organisms use the fruits of plants, ensuring that they can get enough water even if they do not go to the water source, and if they are hungry, they can get nutrients directly from the fruits, without having to face the harsh competition for survival in the outside world.

When an organism eats the fruit, the parasite enters the host from the esophagus to complete the parasitism, and after a period of time, it kills the host, and the plant uses this point of the parasite to complete the long-distance sowing of the seed.

It's not trust, it's just a simple use of each other, so that the other party can be attracted to achieve their own goals because of the benefits they have created.

"It's really a brainless development model."

At first, I was not very optimistic about this biological model, it was too stable, the two species lost the pressure of survival under each other's dependence, and the direction of evolution would change, the plant would evolve the fruit more attractively, and the parasite would evolve more easily into the host.

In the end, both species will be completely inseparable from the other, and if one is destroyed, the other cannot live alone, and this disadvantage is very obvious.

"That's true, but it can be regarded as a relatively successful way of survival for the race on this planet."

"It's not a success, blue dwarfs have a much shorter lifespan than yellow dwarfs and red dwarfs, and when the stars reach old age, the species on this planet will face the consequences of wasting their time."

"If we judge it that way, then we can't be considered successful, because there are too many things that can destroy us in this universe, black holes, neutron stars, supernova explosions, vacuum decay"

"No, you misunderstood, that's not what I meant."

At first stopped the rebuttal of the kindred, it added a reply.

"What I want to illustrate is a vertical upward development model, as long as we are given enough time, we can one day develop to the ability to fight those horrible things in the universe, but they can't, and they can't give them a trillion years, because they don't have a vertical upward development model, they may eventually rule the planet, but they will stop there, and they will only end up being the burial objects of the death of the stars."

The other gatherers shook their heads helplessly.

"The requirements are too high, and if you develop vertically, you need wisdom as a guide, and how difficult it is to give birth to wisdom."