Chapter 23 The Ecology of Big Trees

Zeng Tianqi and his party were settled in an empty house on a tree branch on the top, where they could take care of two unconscious people. But Brother Li told them that at present, the village has successively accommodated more than 70 people, and the construction of wooden houses has always been very tight, and everyone has built their own houses by themselves. Next, they had to get their own treehouse up by themselves, and he could call someone to help. Zeng Tianqi agreed, and he also hoped that he and Su Xiaoyu's wooden house would still be built by himself.

That night, Brother Li came over again to call everyone and said that Village Chief Qian had opened a bottle of 'White Phoenix Fairy' for the first time to catch everyone's wind. During the feast, they saw roasted shoots and mosses, some kinds of mushrooms and other companion plants that they had seen in the valley, and some roasted insects that could not be named. Qian Feng "feasted" them. Qian Feng pulled Zeng Tianqi to sit side by side, next to Su Xiaoyu and Ma Lin and others. Qian Feng was puzzled, and he tried to talk to them, but Zeng Tianqi responded very sloppily. Let Qian Feng's doubts about a few of them with guns gradually dispelled.

A bottle of 'White Phoenix' is really not a good wine in the East. But it depends on when, now, such a full-fledged wine is a luxury for ordinary people. Brother Li took two mouthfuls of yellow soup, patted Su Xiaoyu's shoulder with a red neck and said: "Su Beauty, that is, you and Ge Pai have this blessing, and I will also follow the light, usually this Baifengxian village chief is reluctant to take it out, this kind of extravagant thing, take a sip and drink a bottle and a bottle less." Su Xiaoyu followed with a smile: "Then I have to give the village chief a drink." With that, he raised the pottery bowl in his hand towards Qian Feng.

"Hey~~~Hey~~~ Su Da Beauty, what is the village chief, my big brother Qian is fine." Qian Feng glanced at Su Xiaoyu's face again and again, she was indeed a beauty, she was delicate and delicate, especially after drinking a little wine, her cheeks were flushed with a faint blush, and she looked very good under the torch. It's just that this Su Xiaoyu looks like a young girl, but she speaks very sophisticated, he Qian Feng thinks that he has been in the mall for a long time, and he has also captured many girls, but he can't find any flaws in Su Xiaoyu. Zeng Tianqi was heartless and just drunk, and he didn't hear about him teasing Su Xiaoyu.

The end of the world has happened for more than a month, and who has not survived until now? He thinks that the escape of nine deaths these days is a process of big waves and sands, and those who once fled together have more or less become food in the mouths of the mad corpses. Qian Feng thinks that he is also a beginner to the family, in this village, except for Brother Li, no one can live three tricks in his hands. On the one hand, his position as village chief was obtained by his own resourcefulness, and years of business training allowed him to know people and judge people with two brushes. On the other hand, he also fought through his fists, such as Brother Li, a brave and unscrupulous reckless man, who fought with him, but he couldn't beat him. So just follow him. That's why he can control the village, monopolize a good position in the tree, a good house, and all the food and drink he used to carry are concentrated here for him and managed them in a unified manner.

Maybe it was his keen intuition, Qian Feng always felt that Zeng Tianqi had a strong smell of blood. This made him extra wary of this seemingly heartless person. He didn't dare to be like before, as long as he took a fancy to the beauties in Tree Village, he would quietly get involved, and afterwards he promised all kinds of conveniences to shut him up.

Even though he was very moved when he saw Su Xiaoyu, he held it silently, he thought he was not a righteous man, but he never did anything he was not sure of.

Zeng Tianqi saw it in his eyes and didn't take it to heart, there are not many people who can hide the black water black crow with a micro-expression in this world. When they met and shook hands before, he almost figured out the details of this Qian Feng. If he dared to harass Su Xiaoyu, it was estimated that he would be beaten out by Su Xiaoyu.

Ba Zhuo was eating on the side, watching Zeng Tianqi and them drinking, picking up Zeng Tianqi's bowl and drinking two sips curiously, his little face was red to the root of his ears, and after a while, he was soft on the table. Su Xiaoyu took the opportunity to get up and help this "younger brother" up and send him back to the wooden house to rest.

After the meal, on the branches of the big tree, Zeng Tianqi and Ma Lin lit a 'Yundong Building' and sat on the branches to swallow the clouds and spit out fog. The trees at night are quiet and magical, and they become another world. The leaves that covered the sky and the sun only saw a little bit of light, and Zeng Tianqi looked carefully, it was some kind of luminous moss on the tree, faintly emitting a light blue glow. And the young leaves and shoots on the branches of the tree actually have some glowing emerald green trim. There are some jellyfish-like mushrooms growing under the huge tree roots, and even unknown plankton roaming in the small puddles next to it, joining the magic lantern concert of this night, and the night Bodhi becomes a colorful fairy tale world. There are no plants around, but microorganisms, fungi, plankton, lichen mosses also form a complete ecosystem with the Great Bodhi. It's as if all these ecosystems were born around serving the Great Bodhi tree. Zeng Tianqi strolled under the tree, curiously watching the two of them carefully collect these samples. Gao Suo and his party, as Marin told him about the nature and project of Gao Suo, he was full of confidence in Marin. If there was anyone he knew who could one day solve the mystery of X Gamma, he believed that it would be Marin.

Zeng Tianqi observed carefully, recalling the changes between this tree and the previous one. While describing to Marin the scene when the tree first grew. Marin, on the other hand, was collecting one sample after another while listening to Zeng Tianqi's description.

In the face of this treasure house, he was full of confidence, especially when he learned that no one who came here had any more crazy corpse incidents, and he became even more interested in this mysterious big Bodhi tree. When they left the institute before, he was almost obstinent about bringing all the experimental equipment he could bring. Fortunately, when they drove over, the car was almost stuffed with experimental equipment, and Ge Lianchen and Zhang Erdan stuffed them in the gap of the equipment.

"I probably won't be here for long. Marin can continue to stay here and finish his research, Xiaoyu, I'm still going to find them. The "they" Zeng Tianqi said here can only be understood by Su Xiaoyu and Zeng Tianqi.

"Fang Fu and I will start installing the extraction equipment tomorrow... It's just a venue limitation. I'm afraid it's a little bit unworkable. Marin said.

"Who said we're going to do experiments in a treehouse??" Zeng Tianqi smiled mysteriously. "Everything we get here must be kept secret from the people here for the time being...

"Huh? Why is that? Marin wondered.

"The simplest truth. When it comes to the secret of evolution, all human beings are selfish. You don't want to keep this secret here, tomorrow I'll go with Xiaoyu to settle our car and find a suitable place nearby. You can do your experiments there with peace of mind. Zeng Tianqi stood up and said, as if he was saying to himself. If we can find the secret to evolution, I think we will be one step closer to realizing our wishes. ”

The next day, Zeng Tianqi took the initiative to find Qian Feng to thank him for his reception last night, and took the initiative to suggest that they Ge Lianchen and Zhang Erdan were on the verge of mutation, so in order not to cause trouble, they moved as far away from the village as possible to settle the two. Qian Feng agreed without thinking about it, and asked Brother Li to clean up for them.

Zeng Tianqi refused, carried the unconscious Ge Lianchen and Zhang Erdan, and settled in a cave on the side wall of the valley.

"Lu Yan, are you going to pick glow-in-the-dark mushrooms again?" After a few days, Su Xiaoyu and Ba Zhuo became familiar with the people in the village, and they met and greeted each other. Lu Yan is an activist here, she works energetically every day, and collecting is her strength. In her eyes, the village chief has the most knowledge, and she often knows what she can eat and what she can't eat. When she fled to this valley, she was almost fainting from hunger. The fear of the wild corpse made her squeeze all the potential of her body, and she didn't know how she got to this valley. By the time she reached the valley, she was almost delirious, and her eyes were bloodthirsty. Brother Li picked him up and took him back to the village, and in a blur, the village chief fed him juice mixed with unknown juice. He had been in a coma for a few days and miraculously recovered.

Su Xiaoyu and Ba Zhuo also learned a lot of collecting knowledge from Lu Yan, there were no large plants in the valley, there were many mosses, mushrooms, vines, and some unknown insects. These creatures are like the subjects of the Great Linden in the valley. They decompose or synthesize rare elements in rocks and soil for the tree to absorb, and the dead skin and dead leaves shed by the tree feed back to them for survival. The most important thing is that the big tree can block a large amount of X gamma, so that these small plants and fungi that live in symbiosis with the big tree can get enough energy without dying from overdose. They have been blessed by the tree, and at the same time they have produced a lot of trace elements and nutrients to feed back to the tree, and the ecology under the tree is as large and complex as the service system tailored for the Bodhi tree, and even the blood earthworms and soil-loving insects in the soil are part of such a service system.

Su Xiaoyu and Ba Zhuo learned from the villagers to distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous fungi, mosses and a large number of lichen plants. On the one hand, samples were collected for Ma Lin and Fang Fu to be tested, but now in Ma Lin's hands, except for the equipment that uses a lot of electricity, it cannot be opened, and other reagents and small experimental equipment are placed in the cave. The small silver tree obtained from the Plateau Research Institute was found by Fang Fu in a large wooden basin and planted at the mouth of the cave. Fang Fu became Ma Lin's assistant, and he was originally an intern assigned to the reagent team under Wang Bei. He is very handy in the field of chemical reagents, especially the production of DNA chain reaction enzymes. And Zeng Tianqi gave up while observing their experiments and giving the two of them a hand. Ba Zhuo was pedaling a small bicycle motor next to him, and he once abandoned the beautiful name "exercise".

"Brother Zeng, quickly use the high-precision syringe next to you to absorb 5 ml of buffer, this polymerase oxidizes very quickly, and we have to complete the debugging in a few seconds." Fang Fu didn't raise his head and ordered Zeng Tian to give up.

"The oligonucleotide is not enough, and about 0.5 ml is needed, otherwise the fragment will accelerate the translation into proteins." After a while, Fang Fu muttered to himself again. "It's over, it's over, hurry up and anneal, the temperature is too high...

Marin next to him was speechless, and this guy broke his mouth when he started experimenting, endlessly.

In the past few days, Ma Lin and Fang Fu first took Zeng Tianqi's blood and centrifuged it, and used it for polymerase chain reaction to separate its nucleotides into RNA molecule single strands. In this way, a stunning fragment of the NNA blueprint was presented in front of Marin.

"Boss Zeng, do you want to know what your genes look like??" Ma Lin swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked straight at Zeng Tianqi.

"What happened??" Zeng Tianqi asked.

"If Brother Zeng hadn't taken the sample himself, I would have suspected that the sample I was holding was from two species." Marin said. "The effective gene fragments of our ordinary people do not exceed 10 percent of the gene sequence, but yours..." Marin took a pen and drew two figures on a piece of paper. "Brother Zeng, yours is like this. We've found at least about 15% of your body's normally active genes, and there are dozens of bases in it that I haven't seen before. What's even more peculiar is that the base of your right hand is at least 10% more than your left hand," Zeng Tianqi saw that a triangular prism-like molecular helix was drawn, and next to it was a cellular structure. Your right hand is completely genetically different species.

Zeng Tianqi looked at Marin, and Marin explained: "Let's not talk about this triangular prism spiral, this should be our fragmentary proliferation version. But you look at this cell, no, not at the cell, it's at the mitochondria. Brother Zeng, your mitochondria are different from ours. "Marlin wiped his sweat "The mitochondria of all known organisms, no matter what shape they are, must be of this structure" Marlin drew another mitochondrial shape next to him. "The adventitia, matrix and ridge form a long strip. But yours ... ”

Zeng Tianqi understood that his mitochondria were completely like a solid sphere, with many layers inside. The solid sphere then extends several antenna-like external tentacles through the outer membrane and connects to the nucleus and other mitochondria of the cell.

"Boss Zeng, no wonder you can withstand the inertia of extreme speed without musculoskeletal collapse. This cell structure is like a whole, stable and terrifying. Marin looked at Zeng Tianqi like a monster.

"Perhaps, I think it's you who is more terrifying than the crazy corpse...