Chapter 39: Two Races
After listening carefully to Spred's analysis, Zhou Xin thought carefully for a while, and then nodded. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Sounds reasonable." Zhou Xin looked at the two parts of the spaceship that had been separated far away on the screen, "I just don't know if the truth is like this." ”
At this time, the aircraft that had gathered near the exploding spaceship had begun to return to the surrounding spacecraft one after another, leaving only about a few dozen aircraft still surrounding the two parts of the spaceship, and these aircraft were still making a last-ditch effort to rescue the sporadic aircraft or escape pods that escaped from the wreckage of the spaceship. However, at this time, there were only a handful of objects that could escape from the spaceship, and Zhou Xin stared closely at one part of the spaceship, but within five minutes, only two flying machines and a smoking escape pod flew out of it.
Twenty minutes passed, and during this time, the part of the hull that was originally the tail of the spacecraft exploded again, and this time the explosion almost completely destroyed this part of the ship, leaving only the hull on the side far from the center of the explosion, but this piece of hull was only a small strip about ten meters long. As for the other fragments, they burst out of the center of the explosion at high speed, and it didn't take long for them to mix with the wreckage of the ship that had existed around them. In the process of flying out of the debris, several spaceships were hit by one or two pieces of debris that were particularly fast because they couldn't dodge, but fortunately, it seemed that none of the important parts of the spaceship were hit, so no new accidents occurred. Just after the third explosion, the last remaining aircraft seemed to receive the order, and they changed directions almost simultaneously, heading towards the ships around them. After receiving all the craft, all the ships regrouped, forming a neat formation near the part of the ship that was still intact in the explosion. Then, starting from the far left in front of the camera, the ships began to light up in red, white, and blue one after another, and after all the spacecraft lights were on, the lights of these three colors began to flash at a frequency of once a second. The flickering tri-colored lights continued for about three minutes, and the lights of all ships returned to normal. Then, the ships on the screen began to turn, changing formation, and it seemed as if they were preparing to leave.
Just when Zhou Xin saw the spacecraft turning, he seemed to anticipate their departure, so he ordered a little impatiently: "After these spaceships leave, send some probes to explore the remaining half of the spacecraft and see if you can know what the cause of the ship's crash is?" At the same time, you can also see if there is any information related to them. ”
"Understood." "Understood. The Voyager replied at about the same time as Atlas.
"By the way, send a few probes to follow and see where this force is hiding." Zhou Xin explained again. Then, with a lot of confusion, he turned off the screen.
After that, three days passed without incident, during which there were not many ships visiting the wreckage area of the fleet. What made Zhou Xin feel a little strange was that on the northern continent, only a group of aircraft were sent to the wreckage area to investigate once on the night when the fleet was attacked, and nothing was sent to that area. On the contrary, the Southern Continent, which was the attacker before, would launch a different number of aircraft into the wreckage area every day according to the time of this planet, but these flying machines only flew around the wreckage area and returned to the planet. However, Atlas noticed that the patterns of the vehicles launched towards the wreckage area were not uniform, they were different in size and shape, and in particular, none of them were exactly the same as those flying over the southern part of the planet today. Hearing Atlas's discovery, Zhou Xin also felt a little strange, so he asked Atlas to release the footage observed by the probe in the distance, and found that those flying machines were really just like what Atlas had reminded, and there were even obvious differences between the same batch of flying machines. However, just when Zhou Xin wanted to delve into this issue, another important thing interrupted his thoughts.
"Brother Captain, don't worry about the problem of the aircraft, the DNA analysis of those aliens has been completed, and they have come up with a very interesting result." Atlas interrupted Zhou Xin as he pondered.
"Oh? Has the analysis been completed? Zhou Xin's attention was immediately attracted, and he asked curiously, "What interesting results have you come up with?" ”
"They got four, oh no, five samples." Atlas replied, "Two of them are from the two bodies inside the fusiform device, and it is estimated that there is a high probability that the two aliens are from that continent in the Northern Hemisphere." The remaining three are from the three aliens that were discovered together three days ago, and these three people are almost certain to be from the Southern Hemisphere. DNA analysis of these five samples showed that the DNA similarity of aliens from the same continent was more than 99.9%, which was valid for two people from the northern continent or all three from the southern continent. At this point, Atlas paused, allowing Zhou Xin to digest what she had said, and after a minute, she spoke again, "However, if you compare everyone's DNA together, people find that the genetic similarity between people in the southern hemisphere and people in the northern hemisphere is less than 98%, only a little more than 97%. Then, Atlas coughed twice and said again, "So the final conclusion is that the higher life on the two continents on this planet, although their origins are the same, they have diverged a long time ago, and now they are no longer the same species in any sense." ”
After listening to Atlas's detailed explanation, Zhou Xin was very surprised, "Two different species? Two different types of higher life have developed on one planet? And they also developed their own civilization at the same time? It's incredible, isn't it? ”
"People were a little unconvinced when they first came up with this analysis, but after repeated checking, they found that the final result was like this." Atlas replied.
Zhou Xin was surprised for a moment before calming down, he pondered Atlas's previous words carefully, and then he asked, "Since these two higher beings are of the same origin, can you deduce how long ago they began to diverge?" ”
"It shouldn't be likely." The little girl shook her head, "The samples that people have obtained now are too few, and if you want to know the specific differentiation time of these two types of life, you also need to obtain some samples of ancient creatures on this planet, otherwise people will not be able to determine the evolutionary chronology of the creatures on this planet." ”
"That's right." Zhou Xin's tone was slightly disappointed.
"However, although it is not possible to determine the specific time of differentiation of these two aliens, based on the results of DNA analysis, people can basically judge that the time for their differentiation should not be very long." Atlas then explained in detail, "These two aliens, the function of most of their different genes controls their body form, which is the main reason why the medical robot will send out different forms of prompts when examining the next few aliens." In addition to the huge difference in body morphology, their physiological structure is not particularly different from most of the circulatory system in the body, and even the speed of metabolism is about the same, and they also belong to the short-lived race. ”
Zhou Xin listened carefully to Atlas's explanation while thinking, and did not ask any questions, so Atlas continued: "According to people's estimates, the reason for this situation is most likely that the two races have developed wisdom before they diverge, at least elementary wisdom. After the emergence of elementary intelligence, for some unknown reason, they were separated into two continents far apart, and in order to adapt to the different environments on their respective continents, their genes began to change differently, until they became what they are today. ”
"Is that so?" It wasn't until long after Atlas finished speaking that these words came out of Zhou Xin, and then he said to himself thoughtfully, "After they separated, did they each develop their current civilization independently?" Or were they separated after civilization appeared, and then developed different branches? ”
"People think the previous guess is a little more likely." Atlas took Zhou's words, "If there is a civilization and they are separated, then they should at least live in a place like a cave where they can hide, so it is unlikely that their physical form will change so significantly." ”
"Either way, at least one thing is certain - the aliens on these two different continents on the surface of the planet are not of the same race." Zhou Xin finally concluded, and then he lowered his head and fell into deep thought, "However, even if they are not of the same race, there should be a reason why they have such an obvious antagonism. He looked up at Atlas and asked, "Haven't you looked up the history of these two civilizations?" What exactly happened on this planet before? ”
"Not yet." Atlas's face instantly became bitter, "No matter how much people check, they can't find any information related to history in their usual databases, as if they didn't have history at all before." ”
"How is this possible?" Zhou Xin was surprised, and he asked, "Are civilizations on both sides like this?" They all hide their history? ”
"That's true." Atlas replied, "I can't find anything like this in the general database of any civilization, and once they were lucky enough to get into their internal data management system, but still didn't find anything. ”
"That's weird." After listening to Atlas's words, Zhou Xin was very puzzled, "Why do civilizations on both sides invariably hide their own history?" And looking at the current situation, they are not only hiding the past of their respective civilizations from the outside world, but also hiding the history from their own people. Is it necessary to hide history so deeply? That's too much of an exaggeration, isn't it? What exactly are they trying to hide? Zhou Xin fell into deep thought.
But he didn't think about it for long, he gave up, "Forget it, I can't figure out the reason for it here, Atlas, the task of investigating history will be entrusted to you." Seeing that the little girl's face on the screen changed instantly, Zhou Xin also knew that it was a bit difficult to find out the history of these two civilizations in this deliberately concealed situation, so he added, "Try your best, the more they hide the history, the more curious I feel, if I really can't find it, forget it." Hearing this, the little girl's face changed a little, and then Zhou Xin temporarily skipped the topic of civilization history and turned to care about the situation of those aliens.
"It's been three days, and those two frail aliens haven't woken up yet? What about the other badly injured alien now? Zhou Xin asked.
Hearing Zhou Xin's question, the little girl's face changed again, and she became a little helpless, "Those two people, they haven't woken up yet." ”
"Why haven't you woken up yet?" Zhou Xin's tone was a little anxious, "Could it be that there is something wrong with their body?" ”
"Not really." Atlas shook his head, "At least the medical robots are still weak in their examination of those two aliens. ”
"It's been three days, and you're still weak?" Zhou Xin felt a little incredible.
"This person doesn't know." Atlas replied, "It's strange that they have been given the same nutrients as they normally eat in the past two days, but their physical condition is still not improving." ”
"Could it be that we have overlooked something?" Zhou Xin muttered to himself, he thought for a while, and then asked, "Do you have any opinion on the current situation of these two aliens?" ”
"He thinks that those two people may have been in a state of malnutrition until now, their physical functions have been in a state of barely maintaining, and this time they happened to suffer a huge disaster, and their bodies collapsed when they couldn't bear it, so they didn't wake up for so long."
"Is there any solution to that?" Zhou Xin asked.
"Big Brother Wren doesn't have any very effective solutions, he said that if this is really the case, then they can only slowly recuperate, as long as their bodies can recover, then they can wake up."
"How long will it take?"
"He can't say for sure, so he can only wait for their bodies to recover."
"Okay, it seems that this is the only way to go, let the medical robot take good care of those two aliens." Zhou Xin was a little disappointed, and then he asked, "What about the seriously injured alien, and what is his current situation......?" ”