Generally speaking, in order to adapt to changes in the living environment, species tend to gradually evolve the ability to be beneficial to the continuation of the population in the long process of reproduction and natural selection.

From this point of view, it seems reasonable that X-0172 bacteria are capable of releasing spores, which can release pheromones that make the host dormant.

However......

When these two abilities, or two genes, appear at the same time in the nucleus of X-0172's bacteria, which is not very large, it is somewhat interesting.

If it weren't for Professor Liu's mention, Lu Zhou would hardly have found out.

It's a bit of a coincidence.

It's like......

This bacterium has existed since its inception to help one or more species survive long periods of extreme climates.

Of course, both Professor Liu and Lu Zhou are just speculations, and there is no direct evidence to prove that the genome of this bacterium is artificially edited.

But if this conjecture is confirmed, it means that millions or even tens of millions of years ago, or even more years ago, there was a civilization on that fiery red planet that had developed at least until the eve of the space age.

The significance of this for the civilization of the earth will undoubtedly be enormous.

As for the doubts found by Professor Liu in the study of the bacterial genome of X-0172, everything is still at the stage of speculation, because there is no good means of verification, Lu Zhou temporarily wrote it down in his working memorandum.

Bold conjecture and careful verification have always been one of the most important ideas in scientific research, and he will not reject Professor Liu's ideas because they are too unbelievable, but he will not release relevant information rashly until enough evidence is collected.

At present, he is deploying the "Reptiles" all-terrain survey vehicle on Mars, and is investigating the geological environment around the New Virginia, if there really is a civilization on Mars that has developed at least until the eve of the space age, then he should be able to find some new clues in addition......

The matter of Martian bacteria is put aside for now.

As the time passed in the busyness, the autumn wind dyed the sycamore outside the window in a blink of an eye, and the calendar in the corner of the table had turned to October.

After nearly a whole year of selection, the 2021 co-opted academicians, which have attracted much attention from the academic community, have finally come to an end with the arrival of October.

With the end of the second round of selection for each division, the main . The delegation deliberated and finally decided on the final candidate.

With the convening of the academician conferences of the two academies, after the voting and election of all academicians, the list of elected academicians for the current session was quickly decided, and it was published on the official websites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

There is almost no suspense, Lu Zhou, who has won the Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize, and led the national key scientific research project, easily won this title that has long belonged to him.

Not only on the homepage of the official websites of the two colleges, but also at the entrance of each school gate of Jinling University, on the most eye-catching position of the campus news bulletin board, a big red good news was pasted like a big-character poster, announcing the good news to the teachers and students of the whole school!

[Congratulations to Professor Lu Zhou of our university for being elected as an academician of the 2021 Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering!] 】

After entering the millennium, it has been a long time since a young professor from Jinling University has been elected as an academician.

Now Professor Lu of the School of Mathematics suddenly won two academician titles, not only a bit of a good start, but also brought some double happiness, so that many old professors of the Academy unconsciously smiled a little more when they were in class.

After all, Lu Zhou's popularity in Jinda has always been good, and many professors have watched him grow up from a student, especially Professor Liu Xiangping, who once guided Lu Zhou's mathematical modeling competition.

Putting aside these psychological satisfactions, from now on, Jin University will send one more academician, and he is such a strong one, and his weight in the domestic academic community will be much higher than before in the future.

For those scholars who are interested in further academic progress, Lu Zhou's election is naturally welcome.

At the same time, it is not only the professors and scholars of the University of Kim who are happy to see it, but also the students of the University.

Although Professor Lu's various legends have become calloused, the academicians of the two academies were elected at the same time...... still made many people sigh from the bottom of their hearts.

It is not that there have been no demons in history who were elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but they were elected at the same time......

I'm afraid there is no one before or since.

Stopping in front of the window of the news bulletin board, with glasses on the bridge of her nose and a stack of books on her chest, she couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Amazing, the names of our professors are on the lists of academicians of the two academies."

"yes." The girl with Qi bangs who was standing next to her nodded in agreement, and suddenly asked curiously, "By the way, senior sister, what is the academician going up again?" ”

"Academicians up again? Isn't there anymore...... If I'm not mistaken, academician is the highest academic title in the country, and it is co-opted every two years, and it can only be elected with the affirmative votes of more than two-thirds of the academicians of the department, which can be said to be the most difficult and difficult lifetime honor to evaluate! ”

Generally speaking, being able to get the title of academician before the age of fifty or sixty is already very strong.

To be able to get this kind of lifetime honor in his twenties is almost standing on the finish line of the academic careers of countless scholars with two feet.

"Lifetime honors......" Qi Liuhai looked at the good news posted behind the window with some fascination, and said with emotion, "Won two academic titles of lifetime honors at the same time, which means that more than two-thirds of the scholars on both sides of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering agree with his achievements...... That's pretty impressive, isn't it? ”

"Or else? This is not only powerful, it is simply demonic! Speaking of this, the girl with glasses suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly looked at her roommate who was standing next to her and had not spoken, and asked excitedly with her eyes shining, "By the way, Mengqi, isn't Professor Lu your mentor?" Tell me, what kind of person is he? ”

"Hmm......" Han Mengqi, who was staring at the good news in the window, was slightly stunned, and after being stunned for a while, she said with a confused face, "What kind of person?" Usually he is very busy and rarely appears in the office...... I don't particularly know. ”

Obviously, her answer did not satisfy the roommate, who had completely awakened the soul of gossip, only to see the bespectacled female master continue to ask excitedly: "Eh...... But he should have taken you, right? ”

"I've brought it...... I've brought it" Scratching his cheek with his index finger, Han Mengqi thought for a while, and said with a little embarrassment, "In short, he is probably a very easy-going person, right?" ”

As if he hadn't heard the answer he wanted to hear, his roommate muttered to himself with a little disappointment on his face.

"Easy-going? I thought it was the kind of cold and wise scholarly male god...... Last time I saw him in the cafeteria, sitting there alone eating barbecue bibimbap, but it was a pity that he didn't dare to go up to ask for it> looking at his roommate's face I don't know if it was a or an expression of adoration, Han Mengqi sighed, and some didn't know what to say Okay, he wrapped his index finger around the hair around his sideburns.

Speaking of which, this year is already the tail of 2021.

At the beginning of October, her graduation thesis was completed.

Wait until next summer, and it's time to graduate.

What do you do after graduation?

Whether to continue to go on academically, or to go back to help her mother take care of the company after graduation, to be honest, she hasn't thought about it yet.

Sometimes it's really head-scratching when you think about it......