"Then why didn't we find such a special environment?" Zhou Xin wondered. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Perhaps—" Rhea continued to speculate, "this special environment is very hidden, and our probe has not found this kind of place yet, or maybe—for us, this special environment is not special, and even if the probe arrives in this kind of place, it is not considered special, so we can't find it." ”

Zhou Xin touched his chin, "Maybe there is some truth, continue." ”

"No, no." Leia was a little nervous, "That's what I thought. ”

"Okay." Zhou Xin nodded, and then he said to Spred, "What do you think of Leia's point of view. ”

Spred thought for a moment, "I think there is a certain possibility of Leia's idea, so some unreasonable things can also be explained." But the most important thing now is that to find evidence to support this view, we must at least find a special environment that can lead to biological variation, otherwise this view is just conjecture and cannot be confirmed. ”

Zhou Xin nodded in agreement, but then frowned and said, "I can ask Voyager to continue to send more probes to explore this planet, but there is a problem here." Zhou Xin paused, "If this special environment is like the first situation that Leia said, as long as you launch more detectors, you can find this kind of place sooner or later." But what if the second case is that the detector is not recognizable even if it is in a special environment, then we will not be able to launch more detectors. ”

Spred frowned as well, "I hope it's not the latter, otherwise we really won't be able to solve this problem." ”

"Huh-" Zhou Xin thought for a moment, let out a long breath, and then spoke, "Maybe we can try to deduce something from the distribution of these special creatures first?" Voyager, mark all the places we've found special creatures so far on the map. ”

A small screen appeared in front of Zhou Xin, and on the screen was a topographic map of the planet, on the topographic map, there were sparse red dots and green dots, of which the red dots were the places where special animals were found, and the green dots were where special plants were found.

Looking at the topographic map in front of him, Zhou Xin found that although the distribution of these points was very sparse, they were almost all over the entire planet. From the point of view of latitude, the planet's hot equator to the cold polar regions have more or less special creatures, of course, there will be a little more near the equator, and there are only one or two points on the polar regions. From the perspective of topography, there is nothing special about the distribution of these creatures, from the sky to the bottom of the sea, from the mountains to the plains, from the rivers to the sea.

Looking at this distribution map, Zhou Xin frowned and said, "Is there any pattern in this distribution?" I can only see a gradual decrease from the equator to the poles, but this seems to be in line with the ordinary species distribution of this planet, and it cannot be searched for as a special law. What do you see? Zhou Xin asked Spred.

Spred shook his head and said, "I didn't find anything other than this rule, and I also made a special observation around the equator, and found that even if these species are a little concentrated near the equator, they are evenly distributed at the equator, and I don't see any particularly concentrated places." ”

Ralph next to him also interjected, "I don't see anything special, it seems that what you said about Uncle Captain can't be speculated by distribution." ”

Zhou Xin scratched his head in embarrassment, and at this time, Leia, who was standing next to Ralph, said in a low voice, "Maybe this even distribution is something special." ”

"Oh?" Hearing this, Zhou Xin became interested, "Keep talking." ”

Leia's voice was a little louder, "Don't you think these special creatures are too evenly distributed, I just took a look, and the closest distance between these points is more than a thousand kilometers." It's not just the distance between animals and plants, but all the points are evenly distributed. Don't you think that's weird? This place in particular—" Leia pointed to a large red dot on the map, which represented the location where the alloy skeleton Tyrannosaurus rex had been found, "Isn't it a little strange that no special species have been found within 3,000 kilometers of this unusually special Tyrannosaurus rex." ”

Listening to Leia's analysis, Zhou Xin carefully looked at the topographic map on the screen, and found that it was really as Leia said, the distribution of points on the map was too even, but at first they didn't think in this direction, so they felt that this was normal.

Spred thought for a moment, "It seems that I really told Rhea, after listening to what she said, how do I feel that this distribution is a little familiar, it's—"

"Territory." After listening to their conversation, Ralph also reacted, and rushed to say the answer, "It's like these special species have their own territories." ”

"Territory?" Zhou Xin looked at the map and thought, "It really looks a bit like it." He thought about it again and said to the Voyager, "Traveler, with this line of thought, can you draw the approximate extent of the territory of these creatures?" ”

After a while, the topographic map on the screen changed slightly, and Voyager circled a rough range around each point. "Since the evidence is not very sufficient, this is only a result of extrapolating the distance between each two points, and the actual range should be smaller than the range given by the ship." The Voyager added.

Zhou Xin carefully looked at the drawn territory distribution map, and after a while, he asked suspiciously, "I can understand why animals have territories, but why do plants have territories, and plants don't move, what is the matter with their territory being so evenly distributed, which gives me the feeling that these plants seem to be deliberately placed like this." ”

Spred nodded thoughtfully, "I think it makes sense to hear you say that, and it's also puzzling to me that the range of special animals doesn't coincide with the range of special plants. ”

"Maybe they have a unique way of communicating with each other." Ralph came up with an unbelievable idea.

"No, it won't." Zhou Xin was slightly surprised when he heard this, "I still believe that there is a unique way of communication between one or two special species, but according to this distribution method, at least each special creature can communicate with several creatures around it to form such a distribution pattern, which is too exaggerated." ”

"I don't think we're thinking more and more complicated now." At this time, Ralph interjected next to him, "If we continue to think like this, we can all write a novel." ”

Hearing Ralph's words, Zhou Xin and Spred woke up like a dream, Zhou Xin patted his head and smiled, "Or Ralph is right, based on the current situation, we speculate that it will be almost the same here, and it will be a bit cranky to think about it further." ”

Spred also laughed, "Let's just write a novel, I think we just made a pretty reasonable point." ”

"Forget it, I don't think we made it up well." Zhou Xin pursed his lips, "Okay, let's stop the joke here." Based on what we just thought, I think we have two things we can do now, one is to find out what caused these creatures to mutate according to Rhea's ideas, it could be a special location, or it could be something special. The second is to study the reasons why the habitats of these special species form this distribution. Zhou Xin concluded.

Spred grimaced, "Looks like you're going to launch more probes again." ”

"This is a must." Zhou Xin said embarrassedly, "But I'll help you read the report together." ”

"Oh? Our captain has a conscience once in a while. Spred grumbled.

"Hehe-hehe-hehe-" Zhou Xin smirked.

=Dividing line of time=

Let's turn back the time to five days, in these five days, the probe explored various extreme environments of the planet, and found more than a dozen special creatures in these extreme environments, including the bottom of the sea at a depth of 10,000 meters, the coldest part of the polar region, and even found a special creature near the crater, of course, the location of these creatures is still at a certain distance from the location of those special creatures that have been discovered for a long time.

In the middle of the night, Zhou Xin sat in his seat tiredly, and for the past five days, the Voyager had sent a report every once in a while that he needed to see it himself. In addition to sleeping, Zhou Xin basically sat in his seat and read these reports all the time, including the daily reports that Zhou Xin had to read before, as well as reports of the discovery of special creatures, and reports of various special places that were suspected to have been discovered. Since it was not known whether the detector could identify a special location, any report of a suspected special location would be sent to Zhou Xin's desk, which added a lot of burden to him. But as the probes explore every corner of the planet bit by bit, these suspected reports are becoming fewer and fewer. However, to his disappointment, although the probe sent back many reports of suspected special locations, after Zhou Xin's research, these reports basically revealed some strange natural phenomena, and a few traces of biological activities, which basically had nothing to do with special locations.

Slumped in his seat, Zhou Xin contacted Spred, and under the continuous bombardment of reports in the past few days, Zhou Xin had no time to contact the people on the ship.

At the first glance of Spred, before Zhou Xin could speak, Spred teased, "Why are you free to contact me, and the report has been read?" He laughed.

Zhou Xin had a bitter face, "I know how many reports you have to read every day, these days I have been reading reports except for eating and sleeping, and now I don't even know the word 'report'." ”

"Haha." Spred smiled, "I've been in this state for more than half a month, and you've only been in this state for five days, so it's very early." ”

Zhou Xin smiled bitterly, "Okay, don't talk about this, I'll be sad when I say it." Let's get down to business, have you made any new discoveries over there these days? ”

"There is no valuable information other than a few occasional special biological reports." Spred spread his hands, "There is basically nothing special about the reports on special locations, what about you?" ”

"Not either." Zhou Xin spread his hands as he learned from Sprede's movements, "It's all some inexplicable reports, and I can't see any particularities in those places at all." ”

"The planet is almost finished." "I don't think there's anything special about this planet, maybe we need to change the direction of our investigation." ”

Zhou Xin looked at the topographic map and thought for a while, "There is still a little place left, let's wait until the detector is all done." ”

Just then, the Voyager connected to the communication between them, "Captain, there's an urgent report that you need to deal with. ”

"Here we go again." Zhou Xin said helplessly to Spred, "What special place did you find this time?" It's auroras, lightning, or flying pterodactyls. ”

"You're so skilled, you don't know what it is without reading the report." Spred complained.

"When you look at hundreds of these reports, you know what they're going to be." Zhou Xin looked right.

However, this time the Voyager gave an unexpected answer, "not from the probe, but from the anatomy lab." The robots have found some anomalies on those particular species. ”

"Oh?" This unexpected news made Zhou Xin slightly refreshed, "What kind of abnormal situation?" ”

Spred, who was on the other side of the screen, also showed a look of surprise when he heard the Voyager's words, and he also pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

"The ship conducted DNA analysis on these special species and found that the chromosome shape of these species is a bit strange."

As the Voyager finished, the topographic map on the screen vanished, followed by something distorted like a ball of thread.

"That's one of the chromosomes." The Voyager said behind it.

Zhou Xin carefully looked at the chromosome picture on the screen, and then said suspiciously: "Isn't this just an ordinary chromosome?" I don't see anything special about it. ”

"I can't see it right now." The Voyager explained, "The next thing we are going to do is to enlarge this chromosome. ”

As he spoke, the chromosomes on the screen began to enlarge, and as the chromosomes were enlarged, Zhou Xin and the others gradually saw what the DNA looked like. Then, the DNA on the screen rotated slightly, and then Zhou Xin saw that the lines of DNA took on a very special shape.

"What is this?" Looking at this shape, Zhou Xin felt a little familiar, but he couldn't tell where he had seen this shape.

At this time, Spred, who was on the other side of the screen, exclaimed in surprise, "Ah! Isn't this the coastline of the planet?! ……”