26.8 Species Competition

In the light blue square-shaped scientific research office, Jun Jiexing relies on magnetic levitation clothing to move in front of one data projection, and next to each projection is an interface, and the interface is the real-time situation of a large laboratory.

Compared to the apocalypse calendar, today's technology is several generations stronger, not to mention other details: this real-time monitoring of information transmission speed can make the early expectations of the information age unattainable. Through the screen, you can see the details of the rapid incitement of some micro-particle creatures with their long whiskered wings. This doesn't look like remote monitoring (live streaming), it's more like a film shot with an ultra-clear digital camera and sent to the lab for playback.

If you want to go into the details, the standard network cable of this large laboratory is as thick as an arm's arm, and it is by no means comparable to the network cable thinner than chopsticks in the 21st century on Earth. - Installing network cables, all of them can't hold it with one hand, so they can only let the robot do it for them.

The office where Jun Juxing is now located has a space comparable to the City Hall, and the hundreds of laboratories observed at its interface are all in this floating city. This kind of luxurious scientific research infrastructure was unimaginable hundreds of years ago.

The core of scientific research: Scientists themselves only make conjectures and design solutions within the framework system.

Scientific research efficiency: the ability of various laboratory facilities to observe phenomena, supercomputers to deduce patterns, artificial intelligence, or the ability of technical talents (hard to force graduate students and doctoral assistants) to summarize and analyze experimental data.

In the end, the chief scientist is like the emperor taking the excerpt from the hands of the minister of the military aircraft department, and receiving the data from the assistants of the various experimental departments to determine whether the general idea of the experiment is in the right direction!

Narrator: This is why in the 21st century, the scientific research departments of private companies often have court drama plots, when the experimental plan and experimental progress make the financier dissatisfied (the situation is unstable), and there are often students who take the place of the teacher to take charge of the laboratory and seek to usurp the throne!

Summary: Today's magnetocloud infrastructure allows scientists to produce as efficiently as they did hundreds of years ago, just as much as the difference in productivity between the industrial and agricultural eras.

The main reason for the number of scientific research achievements is not - "the teaching philosophy of the scientist's alma mater", "the intelligence of the race, the talent of innovation in the country!" ", but "How can you be strong without krypton?" ”

After the background board is introduced, we will return to the project in front of Jun Xingxing.

The projection in front of the stars is the "Wind Splitter", whose genetic template was basically finalized eighty years ago, and although it is the lowest among the current Broken Tooth beasts in terms of strength, it is currently the most suitable predator in the storm area. Its eight subspecies, from filter feeding to high-speed predators, monopolize the main ecological niche.

Just as lions and tigers of the leopard genus can send chills down the backs of lone adults in the wild, the snow leopard living in the snowy mountains poses little threat to human safety.

And if a brand new species wants to take the position, it will definitely not be on the home field of the original dominant species at the beginning. Rather, it is to determine the superiority of one's own structure on such a secondary battlefield, and then challenge the main battlefield.

All of them are now transferring 99% of the information of the Wind Splitter Dragon (the remaining 1% is related to the backdoor of the Wind Splitting Dragon's secondary brain program. )

On the left side of the Wind Splitting Dragon's data interface, there is all the information of the electric chain worm.

Bio-competition is similar to war, but it's very different from war.

War is often a situation in which the strong take advantage and the weak compromise. But biological competition is the survival of the fittest.

According to the rules of war, the lethality of a series of metal weapons by humans when entering the magnetocloud star is more powerful than that of these native species, but in the end, it is the survival of the fittest on this planet.

The ecological niche behind the planet can provide a steady stream of resources for native species to thrive, and human weapons, although more powerful than temporary, have always intercepted the "logistics" of these native species.

And the current biological battle must not be designed along the "idea of weapon indicator data", having the ability to kill the opponent is not called victory, but being able to cut off the opponent's survival resources is considered victory.

In fact, before it was determined that it would compete fiercely with the Gale dragon species, Jun Jiexing envisioned six evolutionary directions for the electrostrepto, but five of the evolutionary directions, after making a lot of observations in the large storm area, thought that it was not suitable for the time being.

One of the evolutionary routes is the development of long-barreled launchers!

The ambition of a certain idea of picking up the stars: I am a swarm, so how cool it is to let a large number of electric chain worms directly become shooters, and beat each other into a sieve.

If it is a bullet storm, it is indeed the largest Wind Breaker that can be destroyed. But if you go this route, the burden of the electrostreptode will be very large, and the organs that produce ammunition will waste a lot of nutrients.

And after the largest of the eight subspecies, the Wind Splitter, was hunted, there were still seven subspecies, among which there were many small Wind Splitters, and it was quite a loss for the electric chain worm to deal with the bullet storm! Can you shoot one in a few hundred rounds? No, if the opponent can dodge and just attack the lone resource gathering chainworm, it may only be possible to shoot hundreds of thousands of bullets to kill one.

The mass of the minions shed each time you hunt is greater than the prey you hunt?! This model is bound to fail, and after the failure of this model, the remaining subspecies of the Wind Splitter will immediately divide into one branch, take the road of large-scale, and make up for the one that was missing from the original Wind Splitting Dragon.

If the precision guidance route is taken, this complexity requires the size of the electrochain worm to be expanded to 80 tons. However, according to the current ecological niche energy of the electrostrepto, if the size of the soldier insect expands to such a large size, the population will decline significantly.

The electromagnetic long-tube launch route is directly mothballed - well, don't pretend to be forced if you don't have enough capital, those ancient beasts in the history of the earth evolved big back sails, some deer continued to expand their horns, and some birds' tail feathers became more and more beautiful, all of them were too full to have time to evolve in the pretend route (most creatures, males pretend to be forced to court!). You have to be beautiful to attract the opposite sex. )

Although Jun Xingxing is now very interested in pretending to be forced (in terms of electric chain worms), the conditions do not allow it.

The electromagnetic cannon evolution plan can only be picked up after it unifies the magnetocloud star and flies out of the universe.

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If an evolutionary scheme is strangled, it is a major blow to contemporary normal researchers, and if several evolutionary schemes are frustrated, ordinary people will not play.

But Stars has a slight advantage over most manufacturers! That's the observation advantage!

There are very few makers who dare to observe creatures and hunt materials without fear of death in the area of a big storm. The lightning in the storm was terrifying, and if you were not careful, you would be killed.

Even though many large manufacturers can feel the electric field threat of lightning strikes a few thousandths of a second in advance, and can avoid it, they are definitely not a gentleman who does not stand under the dangerous wall.

In order to find out the path of evolution, Jun picked up the stars in the red warning lightning strike area of the storm area, and made at least 500 round-trips, basically once a day. See how your own electrostreptos die when they encounter other species!

Well, Jun Jiexing is still a celestial knight, and when he shuttles through the clouds, the information particles directly hit the biological fight area, and he can sense the situation of the entire fight area more directly than other manufacturers.

Other large manufacturers often have to go through a large cycle to launch unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, so that they can know the situation of an evolutionary feature in the environment from the connected fragments.

(In the 21st century, the scientist was credited with the least number of nuclear tests, but the fastest time to cross the threshold of atomic and hydrogen bombs, but 90 percent of the credit was due to the contribution of the person who collected the data during the nuclear test process.) )

That's right, Jun Jiexing, who was a saint of the Great Wall in his previous life, is so fearless. Take out the career capital of the Sky Knight to research and develop data!

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The six routes can be quickly determined, which seems to be a quantitative transcendence, but in fact, the quantitative change has produced a qualitative change.

Scientists' patience is limited when carrying out scientific research projects, and when the difficulty and scale are too large, they will choose to give up and choose good projects instead.

Back then, Blazing Butterfly had an idea that couldn't be done in the end, because the workload of that idea was too much for her alone.

Unless she doesn't have a family in her life and dedicates herself to her post, she can come up with results that prove that her route has great potential and let other researchers follow up!

However, she didn't break through this threshold, and she didn't have the wonder of picking stars. If this project is to be successful, the most likely scenario is that a somewhat idle person occasionally flips into her project and does some research data accumulation out of interest. Under the interaction of the information network, it is necessary to provide a foundation for the next person who has leisure to continue to accumulate, and when the accumulation reaches a certain level, the prospect will gradually brighten, and only then will a large number of people be attracted.

Well, as far as the current situation is concerned, there are very few big manufacturers who have the leisure to do so.

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Back to the evolutionary route of the electric streptode,

Among the six paths, there is also a rather gorgeous path, which is to directly specialize the tongue and form an electric shock tentacle, which pierces the opponent with instantaneous high-voltage electricity.

This path was also abandoned due to the fact that parasites in the atmosphere are prone to infect this electrical organ.

Well, the remaining path to failure, there is no need to introduce, just talk about the path of success.

The evolutionary route that is both cheap and can fully kill the Wind Splitter Beast Race is to play poison! To be specific, it's a strong acid! The swarm sour seems to be a little too angry.

After choosing the right path, I found that everything went quite smoothly!

The electrostreptoida didn't waste much evolutionary potential, but only slightly evolved a sac in the body that could hold acid, and this sac was made of an ethylene polymer (plastic).

At the same time, a loophole has evolved in the skull, and as for the rest, the tube made by the worker insect made of hot melt is firmly docked to it. This creates a swordfish-like fang.

As for the hardest acid to generate among reducing creatures! How was it solved? If the electrochain worm is to evolve this system, the entire internal structure needs to be greatly changed. Perhaps, it could not be formed at all.

But for the sympathetic species of the electrostrepto, the kite anemone, to evolve this function, it is only necessary to evolve an organ that collects sulfur and chloride oxidizing waste, and the anemone itself has a glazed shell.

No, the newly evolved electric streptoworm pokes a straw into the waste sac of the anemone, and then absorbs a liter of content, and its weak spike is doubled in lethality.

At this time, Jun Xingxing in the scientific research hall looked at a series of data of his latest work on the interface of the electric chain worm, and said slowly: "Well, everything is ready." The next step is the experiment, and hopefully I'll be able to get some decent papers. ”

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August 4, 834 in the cosmic calendar, pale yellow area (the interior of the storm is dark brown, the outer part is pale yellow. )

A spaceship circled around an area of six hundred kilometers in the atmosphere, and the average star in the spaceship was now operating at high power due to the high power of the magic vein, and the delicate skin of the electronic induction suit did not cover the cheeks, and the pupils of the eyes turned into a silver color.

And the palm of the hand is placed on the commander's message transmitter in the operation compartment, and the light particles are sent to the outside every second, and in the direction of the light particles are sent-

In the tumbling clouds, boom, boom, not the long rolling roar of thunder. It was the cry of the Storm Breaker, and all sorts of other sounds of shattering teeth. As for the electrostreptode, due to the nature of the species, the noise from feeding and chasing is very small, but the density of electromagnetic signals can make the detection of satellites in space feel very abnormal.

A large Wind Splitter and thirty sub-adults are now struggling to resist, and this dominant species has parasitic filaments, so there are 60,000 other associated groups near them. However, after careful detection of the information particles of the stars, it was found that all species in the area had joined the confrontation.

This is the competition of biological systems.

Three days ago, a new population of Treptods had moved directly into the area. Then there was the collision, the electric chain worm and the kite anemone as a group, and the large population of small clastodonts for which the Wind Splitter was the supreme predator were also one group after the information docking, devouring each other like Gu breeders.

It's not just a fight for a spot as the top predator, it's a pack challenge.

The Race Challenge is a unique concept within the magnetocloud and is a feature that is different from the oxidized atmosphere of Saturn.

The oxidative atmosphere is dominated by carbohydrate-based organisms, so communication is based on sound, while species in the reductive atmosphere are physiologically dominated by metal structures, and electromagnetic waves are used in information exchange. - In terms of information interaction, it is one level higher than that of organisms in the oxidizing atmosphere.

However, high information exchange also brings about a situation in which each individual is easily affected by the external environment, and as a result, in the process of evolution, it becomes a non-independent state. This is the tacit understanding mechanism that can form a huge amount of information and responsiveness between cross-species!

Yes, it is planetary consciousness, not only the metallic hydrogen layer, but also biological characteristics that support this common tacit understanding.

Back then, the human planet development machine was harassed by the joint harassment of all species in the entire magnetocloud star, and it was very surprising - "Why, different species, all attack themselves?" ”

Later, after learning about this mechanism, he designed the species to form a biota dominated by himself! Of course, under this mechanism, the internal contradictions are also resolved in accordance with this situation.

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In the clouds, giant beasts are fighting each other, and small life forms are also working together to devour foreign invaders of the same level. is so united, so that Jun Xingxing suddenly felt that he should put a ghost into the village BGM.

If the electrostreptoda only threatens the Wind Splitter, it does not have a strong predatory ability against other species in the biological chain. Other species in the biome do not have access to telecommunication links to the Splitter.

Now, the electric chain fish eats all the sizes, and they have to form a huge filter net of kite and anemone in this area, which is not allowed to be destroyed by various other small species.

This kind of behavior is not too much to rob the area of combat power and at the same time to cultivate and eliminate the habitat of other species.

The original plan was to destroy the Wind Splitter in the first phase, and then gradually replace the bio layers below. - that is, step by step, one stage at a time.

However, the plan missed the intensity of the response of the tacit understanding of the world's biota, and it immediately evolved into a big fight.

However, these biotas, after all, are not human societies. In this confrontation of efficiency. Eighty years ago, various biota were characterized, and there was no terrifying overwhelming advantage over the electric chain worm with a clear division of labor.

Now, in the cabin, Iron Ambition reports the battle situation to Jun Xingxing in an impassioned tone every ten minutes. (Actually, it's a sycophant!) Obviously, it's not a big deal to hit hard!

A large number of detection data on the interface of the cabin show that the electrostrepto, kite and anemone population system, matter and energy are slowly surplusing!

And such a conflict battlefield has twenty-one points on the map of the Even-Picking Star Operation Platform. Now only three have energy and material deficits. Most of them are much more simply won than this battlefield guarded by Jun Xingxing!