Chapter 4 Survival of the fittest

The strange-looking little reds, under Guo Sen's control, gradually approached the little green who was leisurely eating seaweed.

Only by constantly ingesting nutrients can these guys divide and reproduce, produce more advantageous genes, and thus complete the great evolution!

And the only way for Xiaohong to take in nutrients is to eat those little greens.

In previous observations, Guo Sen also paid special attention to how the carnivorous Xiaohong preyed.

They almost always rely heavily on weapons such as spikes, pincers, or giant mouths to hunt, and when they successfully attack their prey, they will stick their mouths like straws into their prey to absorb various substances inside.

Attacking too much and being too slow due to their large size are also their fatal drawbacks. Guo Sen has observed that generally a little red will start to divide and reproduce when it eats more than four small greens.

These stupid guys are often eaten by their own kind when they divide and reproduce, causing the rate of evolution to be even slower.

This is also an aspect that Guo Sen is eager to change for them.

After all, the speed of evolution is the most important thing.

Compared with the little reds, the little greens not only swim fast, but also reproduce fast.

Guo Sen has observed that the number of these little guys seems to be increasing exponentially, which also has a lot to do with the overly lush algae plants.

The abundant food has made the population of Little Green continue to expand, even if it was preyed on by Little Red before, it has never been eaten up.

Guo Sen began to act, and he controlled all the little reds to carry out the hunting operation.

"That's it."

The Reds are more nimble under his control than before.

Like a pack of wolves, the little reds quickly swam close to the little greens who were still immersed in eating seaweed, and then, unfolded their weapons, instantly surrounding the little greens!

Under Guo Sen's control, the shortcomings of their originally somewhat clumsy movements were gone.

Fast, steady, accurate, ruthless!

At the same time that the little reds were preying on a little green, Guo Sen let go of the control, and after those little reds were stunned for a second, they used their own methods to kill and eat up the little green!

The little greens who were lucky enough to escape the clutches of the devil scattered at this time, and some even hid in the seaweed, or lurked farther away.

If it had been put before, it would have been difficult for the little reds to catch and eat them again when they encountered such a situation.

After Guo Sen repeated it a few times, he felt that this speed was still a bit slow.

Controlling Xiaohong to eat Xiaolu over and over again is still quite a waste of time.

As......

"Don't blame me, it's all about evolution." Guo Sen instantly controlled a bunch of little greens and sent them to the mouths of the little reds.

There's no reason not to enjoy what comes to your mouth.

The little reds continue to receive gifts from Guo Sen.

After a while, the little reds suddenly scattered to a far away location, and then they all began to split!

The process of splitting is as if someone has stabbed them in the center of their bodies, stretching at both ends and shrinking in the center, like a peanut. The inner nucleus gradually split into two, and finally even the body was completely cracked!

"Uh-huh, that's it, keep going." It was the first time Guo Sen had witnessed this whole process, and he was very satisfied, which could be regarded as the completion of the first split.

The experiment was a success.

He checked around, only to find that there didn't seem to be any individuals with even the slightest change in the newly split of the Little Red Gate.

Guo Sen observed that the ordinary little green side also began to divide and reproduce almost at the same time.

Under his intervention, the speed of the little reds has been faster than that of the little greens.

Guo Sen knew that if he didn't succeed so quickly, if he continued to repeat this process, there would always be Xiaohong who could produce special genes.

In this way, Guo Sen took the trouble to repeat it dozens of times.

However, the strange thing is that the little reds don't talk about evolution, and some even have a bit of a degenerative meaning, with shorter spikes and smaller pincers......

Only the number is growing steadily.

"Why?"

He was a little puzzled, he thought that with his own intervention, the evolution would be faster, but he didn't expect that in addition to the quantity, they would actually develop in the opposite direction.

Guo Sen looked at another area, the special little greens that were completely in free-range mode at that time.

They are laughing and playing while eating algae, and the number of them is quite large at this time.

Not chased and killed by Xiaohong, these guys live too leisurely, except for eating, they are constantly dividing and breeding.

Guo Sen looked around inside, and really found a lot of things that were completely different from before.

He picked a few out of it and looked closely.

The changes in the few in front of me are actually quite obvious, probably in order to grab the food faster, the tail has evolved a jet hole, and even the flagella have become two, and the body has slowly become a lot smoother than the previous cylindrical shape.

The heads have become a little sharper, and the whole is also spindle-shaped, which provides for their high speed.

However, Guo Sen was even more puzzled at this time.

The little red that has worked so hard to control has not changed, why has the free-range little green changed?

What the hell is going wrong?

Guo Sen pondered for a long time with questions.

Unable to figure it out, he turned back to look at the area of water where the meteorite had at the beginning.

As a result, something that surprised him extremely happened!

Whether it's Xiaohong or Xiaogreen, although the speed is relatively slow, there are some changes!

There are even some small reds, which seem to be much larger than before, and there seem to be more tiny single-celled organisms in the water.

Single-celled organisms are much larger and more diverse, and they have even expanded their occupied waters.

This couldn't help but make Guo Sen even more confused.

The active intervention is of little use, while the free-range ones have changed first.

This simply makes no sense.

Why?

Circling his home planet many times, he kept thinking about it.

I thought about it for a long time to no avail.

When Guo Sen went to look at the test subjects again, he found that they had changed again.

The selected reds are not under his control, and they are still clumsy and hunting and killing each other as before.

And among the ordinary little greens, like the little greens in other places, some individuals actually began to evolve!

"What's the trouble?"

Guo Sen went to find the special little greens again to see what changes had happened to them.

It turned out that there were only a few hundred of the special little greens left!

No matter how much he looked in that water, he couldn't find much......

"Huh? Where have they gone? It turns out that there must be at least tens of thousands! ”

At first, he thought he had misremembered the location, but he had turned the surrounding area upside down, and he couldn't find any more.

Guo Sen, who was a little depressed, began to ponder.

A story suddenly occurred to him.

There was a pack of deer and a pack of wolves in a national wildlife reserve, and the wolves were killed to protect the deer, and the deer began to die out.

Later, the wolves were reintroduced, and the deer herd began to flourish.

Isn't this special little green situation equivalent to that herd of deer?

Without the pressure of competition, these guys slowly degraded and perished after rapid reproduction......

Guo Sen began to reflect.

He felt that he had thought too simplistic at first.

In other words, the concept of "evolution" is underestimated.

Evolution takes longer, and a freer environment.

If intervention is imposed, it can be counterproductive, leading to the degradation or even extinction of the population.

However, if they do not intervene actively, they evolve too slowly.

Guo Sen felt that effective intervention should be carried out in an appropriate and scientific manner, and in order to do this, he had to do some comparative experiments at the same time.

Fortunately, he had made thousands of backups for insurance purposes before, which also gave him enough room for mistakes.

"Okay, there's no time to continue to regret it, check the status of all backups first, and then keep trial and error to find the right path!"

Thinking so, Guo Sen began to check all the backups in the world again.

The process was a bit tedious, and he tried to memorize the features of each single cell cluster as carefully as he could, and put it into his mind, which was much more powerful now.

However, after coming back in such a big circle, Guo Sen also came to a conclusion.

Except for a small part of the experiment, the rest of the more than 2,000 gathering areas are actually much the same.

The evolution of the little reds is slow, while the little greens seem to be faster, and the number of unique individuals gradually increases, and there is even a tendency to replace the original race.

Guo Sen also understands that this is called survival of the fittest.

The laws of nature.

"Then, what I have to do is to use the five ethnic groups as a test field first, make different interventions in turn, and then look at the specific situation!"

Thinking so, Guo Sen had returned to the place where life began next to the meteorite.

He looked at the group, which had developed and multiplied quite rapidly, and had already made up his mind.