Chapter 8: Teacher, I Think
Yan Hua leaned against a big tree alone, silently chewing the stiff gray potatoes in his hands, his head hanging down in a faint fluorescence that made it impossible to see his expression clearly.
"What are you thinking?" Ling Feixue sat on the life support cabin, looked at the thoughtful Yan Hua and asked.
Yan Hua raised his head, first glanced at the life support cabin under Ling Feixue that he had abandoned in a hurry and was picked up by Ling Feixue, then moved his gaze to Ling Feixue's face and asked, "Since you can even kill the Black Swamp Dragon, why don't you take advantage of the time when you go back to get the life support cabin before and solve that Wind Splitting Beast?" ”
The Wind Splitting Beast was the one that left a deep impression on Yan Hua and looked like a cheetah, and Yan Hua only learned this name from Ling Feixue's mouth.
As for the ancestor of the Wind Splitting Beast, it was once again beyond Yan Hua's expectations, according to Ling Feixue's account, this new overlord of the Blackwater Swamp was once a black-footed cat 10,000 years ago.
The ghost knows what Yan Hua's expression was when he knew this, but it was definitely not inferior to when he knew that the Phantom Dragon had evolved from a chameleon.
What Yan Hua couldn't figure out was the black-footed cat, no, it should be the Wind Splitting Beast, although from Yan Hua's point of view, it was a powerful and invincible existence, but it shouldn't be anything to Ling Feixue, a five-star superpower.
After all, before the Black Swamp Dragon died, the overlord of the Black Water Swamp had always been the Black Swamp Dragon, not some Wind Breaker.
According to Ling Feixue's previous story, the Alien Beast is the biggest enemy of mankind, so Ling Feixue should not let go of the other party no matter what angle he starts.
Ling Feixue heard Yan Hua's question and knew that although Yan Hua had seen the shocking scene of the Wind Splitting Beast "ascending the throne as king" before, his understanding of the Ability Beast was still very limited, so he shook his head and patiently explained: "That's meaningless, even if I kill the Wind Splitter Beast again, there will be a new Ability Beast that will stand up and become the overlord of the Black Water Swamp."
There are so many Strange Beasts in the entire swamp, my power alone is always limited, even if I live in the Blackwater Swamp from today onwards and keep destroying these Strange Beasts, I can't stop this from happening. ”
Yan Hua still said with some reluctance: "But it can always weaken the strength of the Abnormal Beast camp, which is also a good thing for human beings." ”
"It's useless." Ling Feixue shook her head, but did not immediately explain the reason to Yan Hua, but asked rhetorically, "Do you know the difference between evolution and mutation?" ”
"The difference between evolution and mutation?" Yan Hua was a little confused by Ling Feixue's question, but he still subconsciously said what he had learned.
"Evolution refers to the gradual development and change of things, especially the process of evolution of living things from a lower, simpler state to a higher, more complex state; Variation, on the other hand, refers to the differences in physical characteristics and physiological characteristics between biological offspring and different individuals of previous and contemporaneous organisms. ”
After listening to Yan Hua's answer, Ling Feixue showed a rare smile on her face and said, "So generally speaking, evolution should be a more holistic and slow process, but mutation is the opposite. ”
Ling Feixue's expression was correct again: "Then classmate Yan, have you ever thought that compared to the long history of biology before the Cambrian, whether it is a superpower or an alien beast, it is more like a product of mutation rather than natural evolution, but why do I still call these anomalies evolution?" ”
Yan Hua didn't speak, because he knew that what Ling Feixue was going to say next must be very important.
Ling Feixue looked at Yan Hua's eyes, raised two fingers and said, "First, evolution is larger than mutation, and the number of mutations in the biota is more, so it is called evolution, not individual mutations.
The earth in the Cambrian period and the earth 10,000 years ago have changed dramatically, not only animals, but also all plants have been involved, and the blackwater swamp is just a microcosm. ”
Yan Hua nodded as if he didn't understand, and Ling Feixue continued: "Second, evolution has a more important feature than mutation, and that is continuity. Even if the first individuals to change are more mutated than evolved, these individuals have passed the test of nature, and then gradually spread this change to the entire population through genes, which is what forms evolution.
Therefore, even if the Blackwater Swamp overturned in the past, all the Alien Beasts in it were all dead, which was only a drop in the bucket compared to the huge group of Alien Beasts. ”
"The Black Swamp Dragon in the Blackwater Swamp is dead, but there are still Black Swamp Dragons alive in the Green Water Swamp, White Water Swamp, or some other swamp jungle. Similarly, the new King of the Blackwater Swamp, the Wind Splitter, is dead, and there are still such Beasts in other jungles on Earth. ”
Ling Feixue concluded to Yan Hua in a solemn tone, "The battlefield of human beings has never been in a swamp or a mountain forest. ”
"Whew!" Yan Hua let out a sigh of relief, hiding the shock in his heart deep in his heart, and no longer asked Ling Feixue why he didn't do anything to the Wind Splitting Beast, but asked another question in his heart, "The Alien Beast has evolved so much, so what have the human beings evolved?" ”
Ling Feixue knew that Yan Hua had already listened to his words, so she no longer emphasized the previous discussion, and seeing Yan Hua's curiosity, she thought about it and said: "Everything in the Cambrian is evolving, and human beings are naturally no exception, in addition to the huge improvement in physical fitness, the most obvious is the super ability corresponding to the Alien Beast. ”
Ling Feixue cleared her thoughts for a moment and continued: "Although these superpowers are very different, they can still be divided into three major systems according to the initial individuals who began to evolve. ”
"The three major departments?" Yan Hua felt in a trance that he was back in the university classroom, although he was now in a jungle, not a multimedia classroom in his memory, but Yan Hua still naturally entered a state of listening carefully.
Yan Hua felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it, he found that there seemed to be nothing wrong.
Teacher Ling Feixue was obviously very satisfied with Yan Hua's attitude, and continued: "The first of these three categories is called the intensive system, which belongs to the category that has evolved on the human race itself. In this lineage, two branches are clearly divided: the flesh strengthening system and the organ strengthening system.
Among them, the superpowers of the flesh enhancement system take the route of torso evolution, and their tall body and amazing strength are the most conspicuous characteristics of this type of superpowers. And they are also the easiest to distinguish the level of superpowers, usually the larger the size of the superpowers in this series, the higher the level, and the stronger the combat effectiveness.
At present, the strongest known physical enhancement superpower is at the eight-star level, with a height of one hundred and twenty meters and a huge size to match. ”
"One hundred and twenty meters, isn't that taller than the Black Swamp Dragon standing up?" Yan Hua was secretly speechless, but did not interrupt Ling Feixue again.
"As for the superpowers of the second organ enhancement system, the situation is a little more complicated, they are not so conspicuous compared to the physical strengtheners, but if you compare horizontally, you will find that some organs in the superpowers of this line are far more powerful than other superpowers, and these organs also give them all kinds of powerful means.
For example, superpowers with strong respiratory systems can create powerful air bombs by compressing air in their bodies and releasing them; There are also organ enhancement superpowers who have a strong heart and blood circulation system, and by forming a hydraulic pump in the body, they can obtain explosive power that exceeds that of the same level of physical enhancement superpowers in a short period of time; In addition, there are some other abilities brought by organ strengthening, and it is not convenient for me to list them all for you, so let's wait for you to feel it yourself in the future. ”
Yan Hua felt that he was still a little unsatisfied, but compared to exploring what other means were available to the organ strengthening superpowers, Yan Hua wanted to know what the other two types of superpowers looked like.
"The second type of superpower is called the ability system, which has no subordinate classification, and is a superpower that has evolved at the cellular level in the body and is projected to the outside of the body.
For example, the reason why I can discharge electricity is because my body produces cells that store electricity like stacked batteries, which I have already talked about before, so I won't talk about it here. As for other superpowers, some people produce cells that can convert fat into high-purity glycerin, which is the most terrible explosive by releasing these glycerin into the body by sweating and reacting with sulfur dioxide and other gases in the air. There are also people who have abnormally active bone enhancement cells, and the strength of the bones is far greater than that of steel, and even the skin on the surface of the body is unusually hard, and they have strong defenses......"
Ling Feixue paused, Yan Hua knew that Ling Feixue wanted to skip the explanation of the ability system superpower again, so he took over the conversation and asked, "Then what is the third type of superpower?" “
Ling Feixue frowned when she heard Yan Hua's question, as if she had encountered some tricky problem, and said after a while: "This third category is a bit special, from the outside, it looks like they have never evolved, and they themselves do not have strong combat power, but they can easily manipulate things around their bodies, including living creatures, to fight for themselves.
After years of human research, we have not figured out how this ability is formed, but it is probably clear that it should be related to something like electromagnetic fields, but I can't figure out the principle of it, so I have to classify them in a general way.
The superpowers of this line are the most dangerous and powerful, so be careful if you encounter them in the future. ”
"Careful?" Yan Hua was a little puzzled by Ling Feixue's admonition at first, but when he saw the solemn look on Ling Feixue's face, he instantly understood that Ling Feixue had put so much effort into giving himself a popular science lecture not only to "eliminate illiteracy" for himself.
The biggest enemies of human beings in the Cambrian are naturally those alien beasts, but infighting has always been the nature of human beings, even if it is Cambrian now.
Ling Feixue looked at Yan Hua's eyes flickering a little, thinking that she was struck by the cruel truth she had unintentionally revealed, so she opened her mouth to comfort: "Don't worry, even in the Cambrian period, killing people is an unforgivable crime, especially after experiencing that hundred years of despair, no one will want to go back to that kind of day......"
"I know!" Facing Ling Feixue's rare gentleness, Yan Hua suddenly stood up straight and said loudly, "Teacher Ling, I want to ......"
may be because he was too excited, Yan Hua was interrupted by himself in the middle of his words because of poor breathing, and he had to stop to take a deep breath.
Ling Feixue looked at the young boy in front of him who could even interrupt himself in this kind of operation, and couldn't help but feel a little funny and asked, "What do you want?" ”
After a short period of adjustment, Yan Hua straightened out his breath, looked at Ling Feixue with a firm face and said, "Teacher Ling, I want to be a superpower!" ”