Chapter 12: The Wheel of History
I was completely stunned by the barrage of questions that made me feel so embarrassed to jump out of my car and die on the road when I thought people could see so many problems in such a short period of time and I was still there. Under his questions, E's identity is about to come out.
"You mean he's Gega?"
"What do you say Gega is most afraid of?" Gege asked me rhetorically.
"Afraid of light and water, do you need to say that?" I answered without thinking, but it suddenly occurred to me that I am neither afraid of water nor light, and it seems that I was wrong.
"Yes, but why does the army have to use conventional weapons instead of running out of water when fighting Gega?"
I really didn't pay attention to this before, Gege said this, I remembered, it must be inappropriate to use water, in the offensive and defensive battles in the prison before, the whole process was thick haze, and these Gega were completely unaffected, the real lethal should still be a sufficient volume of water, not small droplets suspended in the air, the battlefield is uncertain, I'm afraid it is not so convenient to use water. But now high-power laser generators are also popular in the army, although the energy consumption is high, but it is not comparable to the consumption of conventional weapons, why has it not been applied to the battlefield?
"Why?" I asked.
"Because at the very beginning, human beings have discovered that Gejia's ability in self-improvement is amazing, and it takes dozens or hundreds of generations in natural selection to be able to make physical adjustments in the face of changes in the environment, but Gejia is different, they can adjust in the contemporary era, although they can't do it in terms of changing the body structure, but they seem to be able to integrate the impression of the surrounding environment into their genes, and then make corrections when infecting other people." Gege talked eloquently, as if he had been sorting out his rhetoric for a long time.
"You mean, just like bacteria are resistant, humans are afraid to breed super Gejia?" I asked.
"Yes, Gejia's extraordinary learning ability imprinted in his genes makes people feel terrifying, but no one has ever known what Gejia uses to reproduce, and no one dares to imagine what the next generation of these Gejia will be like!"
"E's the second generation of Gejia?" I asked.
Gege didn't admit or deny it, but looked at me lightly and said, "How much do you know about natural selection?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, feeling that this span was a bit large, but Gege was not a fool, I thought about it and decided to answer this question seriously, "It should be the words natural selection and survival of the fittest, right?" ”
These eight characters are from Yan Fu's translation of the Theory of Heavenly Evolution, which not only contains the views of evolution, but also implies the idea of the unity of nature and man in traditional culture.
"Not bad!" Gege nodded, "There will be many different directions in the natural evolution of any species, but those directions that are not suitable for nature will be obliterated, but the directions that are in line with nature will gradually stabilize and slowly evolve into completely different species, which is the wonder of evolution." Evolution will not stop, there are species extinction and species rebirth on the earth, the cycle will never end, but this evolution is extremely slow, our life is too short, and we will not be able to see it in our lifetime! ”
I know that what Gege said is indeed true, evolution never stops, although scientists say that there is no essential difference between people today and people 5,000 years ago, but it is undeniable that modern people are more intelligent, taller, and more beautiful than the ancients. Although this is not organic evolution, if we take into account all the things of human society, such as intelligence and appearance, according to human standards. Ancient and modern humans can literally be divided into two subspecies, like the yellow race and the white race, or the Tibetan mastiff and the Chihuahua.
"You know what? At that time, the ancient ape also divided into many branches after descending from the tree, and the gap was so large that it was beyond the difference between subspecies, but it was the Terbaemus that entered and exited the water that eventually evolved into humans! ”
I've heard of this, and it's also said that Ahuizotl evolved from aquatic mammals, and even the Australopithecus that descended from the trees was not a species at all. And the kind of ancient apes that are traditionally considered to be the ancestors of mankind are completely enemies of our ancestors, and have long since disappeared in the slow long journey of evolution.
"You're saying evolution has accelerated in Gejia?" I asked, still wondering in my heart, didn't you start talking about this?
Gege didn't look at me, rubbed his face with his hands quickly, and said, "How many creatures have repeatedly masochized themselves in nature in order to evolve into intelligent creatures, and only humans have succeeded. Si'an, have you ever wondered whether those creatures that have failed are our brothers or our enemies? ”
I really can't think of the fact that even if they were our enemies, they would have been extinct or reduced to our food. And I was already convinced in my head that the theory of evolution was inconsistent with historical truth.
"I've seen four kinds of Gejia!" I said slowly, "In addition to the ordinary ones, there are also little Gejia who has some wisdom and great strength, Gejia who is not afraid of water, Gejia who has a huge head, and I don't know what kind of ability I have......"
"I've seen more!" Gege interrupted me, "Fusheng Company has more than a dozen samples of Gejia, almost all of which were mutated by Gejia after infecting people after modifying genes. Every time I look at those samples, I have the feeling that everything that is happening now is so similar to what happened tens of millions of years ago, these Gega are like the ancient apes that came out of the jungle at that time, developing in different directions......" Gege rubbed his face again, "History is indeed a wheel, maybe new humans are among them!" ”
Perhaps to alleviate my shocked feelings, I asked Gege seriously: "You are always rubbing your face, what is on your face?" ”
Gege may have known that I was joking, maybe he didn't hear it at all, but instead asked me a question, "Si'an, you said that if these lives were created by God, then what is God doing when there is no life?" ”
"God must be boring!" I replied, "You haven't told me what you're going to say after going around all this day." ”
Gege's eyes were a little chattering, "There was a gap of at least 40 million years between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the appearance of human ancestors. What has happened in these 40 million years? ”
"Eldest sister, you are too worried, as Wang Shanqi said, those monsters in Wangwu Mountain came from 70 million years ago, according to this calculation, there is really no window period on the earth!"
Gege continued to ask as if he hadn't heard: "The blackboard full of words is going to be written with new things, so who will wipe the blackboard?" ”
"It's not me anyway!" I decided to end this conversation.