Chapter 11 Topographic Maps

"Ahh Isn't this the coastline of the planet?! Spred exclaimed

"Coastline?" Zhou Xin didn't react at first, "Coastline?!" After a while, Zhou Xin finally understood what Spred was shouting. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 info "Are you sure?" Zhou Xin asked subconsciously.

"I've been dealing with this picture for half a month, do you think I'll admit my mistake?" Spred said angrily.

Zhou Xin carefully looked at the special shape posed by the DNA, after all, he had also dealt with that topographic map for five days, and if he looked at it carefully, he did find that the shape had an eight-point resemblance to the coastline of this planet. Immediately, he was also surprised.

"What's going on, why is the topographic map of the planet in the chromosomes?" Zhou Xin asked in surprise, "It can't be a coincidence, right?" He muttered to himself, confused.

"Let's listen to the Voyager's analysis." Spred said across the screen.

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded and motioned for the Voyager to continue.

"At first, I thought it was a coincidence, but after analyzing more chromosome samples, I found that these special creatures had such a strange shape in their chromosomes."

"Every special creature has it? Including plants? Zhou Xin asked.

"Every special creature has it." The Voyager gave an affirmative answer, "And the ship also took chromosome samples from different locations of the same creature, and found that this special shape existed in each chromosome." ”

Zhou Xin was a little surprised, "Each chromosome?" He said to himself suspiciously, "It can't be a coincidence." ”

Voyager explained, "The probability that two chromosomes have the same shape is already within the negligible range of the ship, let alone the existence of such an identical shape in all chromosomes." ”

"What about the parts other than this shape?" Zhou Xin asked, "Are there any other parts with the same shape?" ”

"Not yet."

Zhou Xin thought for a long time, and then muttered to himself, "There is a topographic map of this planet in the chromosomes, what is going on, and what does this mean?" ”

At this time, Spred, who had been pondering for a long time on the other side of the screen, said: "I don't think this can be explained by coincidence, this planet can evolve similar creatures, but not so that even the shape of the chromosomes can be adjusted." The discovery of this pattern at least proves that these special creatures did not appear naturally at least, but were related to a certain civilization. ”

"Could it be that what I was joking about turned out to be the truth?" Zhou Xin felt incredible.

"Who knows, maybe it's a coincidence." Spred spread his hands and said casually.

"It's a coincidence, who would believe it." Zhou Xin was helpless, and then, he remembered something, and casually said to the Voyager, "By the way, in addition to the abnormalities in shape, are there any other abnormalities in the chromosomes of these special creatures?" ”

"There are no anomalies beyond that." Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, but the next sentence made him puzzled, "There is not even a genetic defect, it can be said that the genes of these creatures are too perfect." ”

"Perfect genes?" Zhou Xin said in surprise, "Even we humans haven't reached this point yet." ”

"Obvious traces of transformation." "If it hadn't been transformed, I wouldn't have been the director." ”

Zhou Xin glanced at Spred, "You haven't been a good guy for a long time." ”

"Isn't that a habit?" Spred scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Don't worry about these details, let's see what the mystery of these chromosomes is." He decisively changed the subject.

Zhou Xin fell into deep thought, and after a while, he said, "The investigation has reached this point, and it is impossible for me to not believe that there is a high-level civilization on this planet now." But what exactly does civilization do it? What is the use of these special creatures that they have modified? Why did they hide the topographic map of the planet in chromosomes? ”

"I think it's too early to think about this, we just speculated that there may be a civilization on this planet, and we don't know if this civilization is still on this planet. You must know that we have made such a big disturbance on this planet, and there are no other civilizations that have come out to stop us, or even come out to take a look, this is unlikely. And even if they don't come out, we've basically explored the planet now, and we haven't found any traces of the life of this civilization, which is not very strange. Spred also analyzed, "So I'm wondering if the civilization of this planet will be on this planet for a long time, and they have no way to take these special creatures away, so they are left on this planet." ”

"What about the topographic map on the chromosome, the modification of a creature can be barely done with our current technology, but why draw a topographic map on the chromosome after the transformation, what is the purpose of this?" Zhou Xin asked suspiciously.

At this time, Ralph came out from behind Spred, and she just happened to hear Zhou Xin's last words, and she asked suspiciously, "Topographic map?" What topographic map? ”

Seeing Ralph, Zhou Xin greeted her, and then asked suspiciously, "Aren't you supposed to be busy 'exploring' this planet?" Why do you have time to come to us? ”

"Thisβ€”" Ralph hesitated, and looked embarrassed.

"Our Ralph will be embarrassed when he is going to be." Zhou Xin teased her.

"W-I'm sorry." Ralph said with a lack of confidence, "It's just--I'm going to break the detector." She whispered.

"Oh-" Zhou Xin continued to tease her, "It turns out that it was broken and I don't have to play-"

"They didn't mean it." Ralph said weakly, "It's not that the detector is too sturdy, I accidentally bumped it and broke it." ”

"Okay, it's that the detector is too sturdy." Zhou Xin laughed, "Okay, I won't tease you, I'll just connect a detector for you later." ”

"Mm-hmm, I knew that Uncle Captain was the best." Ralph was amused, and she asked, "By the way, what topographic map did you just say?" ”

Zhou Xin, who inexplicably received a good guy card, touched his nose, and then told Ralph about the analysis of the Voyager just now. Of course, it is indispensable to educate her about what chromosomes are.

After listening to Zhou Xin's description, Ralph was also puzzled, "Oh? Found a topographic map of the planet in such a place? ”

"That's right." Zhou Xin nodded, "You have always had a lot of ideas, so what's the use of this topographic map?" ”

Ralph replied without hesitation, "Since you speculate that these beings have been modified by civilization, then do you think this topographic map is a sign of this civilization, proof that this creature has been modified, just like a trademark." ”

Hearing this strange idea, Zhou Xin didn't take it seriously at all, "How is it possible, if it's a mark, where the mark is not good, why put it in the chromosome, and put one on each chromosome, it's too troublesome." If you put a logo on an item, you don't always have one for every part. Speaking of this, Zhou Xin smiled.

"People just think about it." Ralph said embarrassedly, "Since that's not the case, it's a problem with the topographic map itself." ”

Zhou Xin nodded, "I think so too, since this topographic map will be hidden in this hidden place, it means that this topographic map must be very important." And hiding it here also shows that they don't want those civilizations with too low technology level to discover this topographic map, otherwise they would have put the topographic map in a more obvious position. ”

Spred also nodded in agreement with Zhou Xin's statement, "Let's study the topographic map, maybe we can find something on the map." ”

"Voyager, compare this map with our own topographic map of the planet."

As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, another map appeared next to the topographic map composed of DNA, which was a topographic map they had drawn themselves, but there were only a few simple lines on this map. The Voyager has removed all the complex terrain from the topographic map, leaving only a few coastlines to compare.

The two maps slowly coincided together, and after the two maps completely coincided, Zhou Xin found that the topographic map of DNA and the topographic map they drew basically coincided, and at this time, the comparison results of the Voyager also came, "According to the comparison, the similarity of the two topographic maps is 90%"

"Is it only 90%?" Zhou Xin frowned and said, "Isn't it supposed to be exactly the same, this difference is still a bit big." Voyager, is there a problem with these two drawings drawn? ”

"The DNA topographic map was drawn by comparing hundreds of samples from the ship, and the ship can ensure that the topographic map is accurate. Since the probe's exploration of the planet has not yet been fully completed, there may be some errors in the actual topographic map drawn by the probe, but this error will not exceed 3%, which is far from the 10% difference rate in the comparison results. ”

"That's weird." Zhou Xin wondered, "Could it be that our idea is wrong, this DNA structure has nothing to do with topographic maps?" Just misleading us because of the similarity? ”

"Impossible." Spred replied categorically, "I trust my vision, and can I find anything more similar than the topographical map of the planet?" ”

Hearing Spred's affirmative answer, Zhou Xin thought for a while, "Since the two pictures are sure that there are no mistakes, how did this difference come about?" Voyager, could it be that this topographic map is made of DNA, and there is an error due to the special material? ”

"According to the current speculation of the ship's scientific and technological situation of this civilization, this is unlikely. Since they have the ability to modify special organisms without defective genes, it is impossible to draw only a half-finished topographic map, so in terms of the portrayal of the topographic map, this ship thinks that there is no problem. ”

"If this doesn't go wrong, what could the problem be?" Zhou Xin analyzed, "In this case, then assuming that there is no problem with these two topographic maps, then how did this difference appear, it is impossible for the same place to appear in different places in two topographic maps." ”

Spred thought for a moment, and then said helplessly: "I can't come up with a reasonable explanation, I know too little about this aspect." ”

Zhou Xin frowned and pondered, after a period of time, Zhou Xinxin suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he said thoughtfully: "Could it be that our inference has entered a misunderstanding, since the two maps are correct, and there are differences, could it be that these two topographic maps were not drawn at the same time?" ”

"Not at the same time?" Spred repeated.

"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded and explained his thoughts, "The geological activity of this planet is so frequent, so it is normal for the plate to move violently, so if the time difference between the two topographic maps is a little farther apart, then it is normal for the terrain to be different." ”

Spred nodded thoughtfully, "I see what you mean, according to what you say, the topographic map drawn by DNA may have been done a long time ago?" ”

"So what do we do now, since this DNA topographic map was not drawn now, doesn't that mean that this map is useless?" Ralph asked anxiously.

"Maybe that's not the caseβ€”" Zhou Xin continued to think along his train of thought, "we can first find a way to find out when this topographic map was drawn, and then compare it with the actual topographic map at that time to see what can be found." ”

"Do you think there's anything else hidden in this DNA topograph?" Ralph asked curiously.

"Then what else would you do if you hide this picture here?" Zhou Xin said, "If I don't hide any information, I think I'm sorry for this way of hiding topographic maps, it's too creative." ”

"I agree." Spred agreed, and then he asked, "So how do we know when this DNA topographic map was made?" ”

"Maybe you can call the Voyager and try it." Zhou Xin touched his chin and thought, "Voyager, can you infer the status of the planet's plate activity based on the current address activity of this planet?" ”

"Theoretically, yes." Voyager replied, "But we've been on this planet for too short a time, so it's a big guess. ”

"Try it first, if it doesn't work, we'll stay a few more days and analyze the geological changes on this planet in detail."

The Voyager did not answer, it seemed that it had already begun to analyze the plate movement of the planet, and waited quietly for more than half an hour before the Voyager spoke again, "According to the analysis of the geological activity of this planet, this ship has basically established a model of the movement of the plates of this planet. Then, a new topographic map appeared on the screen, and the tiles on the topographic map were constantly moving. The Voyager said behind it, "Due to the intense geological activity of this planet, this ship has only calculated the plate activity of this planet from 10,000 years ago to the present. ”

"Is the speculation accurate?"

"The accuracy rate is estimated to be 90%"

"It's barely usable, so let's compare it with the DNA topographic map and see if there is any terrain that is more in line with this topographic map, I hope this topographic map is drawn no more than 10,000 years old......"