Chapter 178: The Mystery of Disappearance
In nature, there is a clear division between animals and plants, and the biggest difference lies in the difference in organizational composition and organizational structure.
From a cellular point of view, most plants have cell walls, but animals don't have this.
It is precisely because of this clear division between animals and plants that we can judge that there is a great difference between animals and plants.
After the end of the Devil's Troubles incident, analysis of the excavated sample cells revealed that they were essentially abnormal cells containing carbon-silicon bonds.
Silicon is the second most abundant element in the earth's crust and is an element close to carbon, although it is rarely used by carbon-based organisms. Silicon is theoretically close to carbon, and among the amino acids that make up carbon-based organisms, it is the carbon element that connects the amino and carboxyl groups, and in fact silicon can do the same.
For example, just as carbon energy and four hydrogen atoms are combined to form methane (CH4), silicon can also form silane (SiH4).
If we make bold assumptions, a silicon-based life could exist. The anomalous lifeforms in the sea of ghosts and gangsters almost verified their guesses. After passing the survey, they also came up with some important information.
One is that the cell structure of this organism is similar to that of plants, and its life form is also very close to that of plants in all aspects.
However, it is not necessarily a plant, but a "plant" with intelligence. From the perspective of life form, it has certain characteristics of being half animal and half plant.
Of course, this "half-animal, half-plant" was proposed by a certain science fiction scientist, who believes that this species, which may come from an extraterrestrial, may not be able to be explained by the ecological common sense of the earth.
The second is that the cells of this type of abnormal life can grow directly by absorbing proteins, and this kind of cell can absorb a large amount of nutrients from the outside world through cytosor.
This is different from our common plants, after all, most plants use themselves to synthesize proteins by absorbing nutrients.
Science fiction writers who were born as electricians believe that this belongs to the physical properties of this intelligent plant, and some plants on the earth are unable to produce certain amino acids and ammonium ions, so they simply become a kind of insectivorous plant, which can obtain more nutrients by self-generating insect traps for insect eating.
"This organism itself has a clear evolutionary orientation, and we all know that the evolution of life on earth is derived from natural choice, but this intelligent plant may continue to make more correct evolutionary changes according to its own needs......"
Life on Earth evolves by natural choice, and for the billions of years of life on Earth, most species have evolved by standing still and rolling dice.
Any kind of life, a kind of evolution, the result is actually uncertain, but also uncontrollable, this is equivalent to a gamble, success is of course good, for example, human beings are countless bets to win, and finally become the master of the earth.
Of course, if you lose the bet, the result will naturally be the demise of the entire race.
"However, we can now see that smart plants are different, for reasons that we cannot understand, each of its cells is a small factory with complex mechanisms, which can carry out all kinds of precise controls, and a large number of nanoconstructs are active inside, by absorbing solar energy, converting it into electricity......"
Dr. Petrov from Eastern Europe was the first to make such a view.
"This evolutionary ability of independent selection has made the survival of this intelligent plant beyond our imagination, and we can imagine how terrible the damage this alien species will have to the Earth's biosphere."
But, on the other hand, people also see the role of this new life form in advancing technology.
If the mystery of this xenogeneous life can be deciphered, the whole country will enter another social stage because of the impetus of the new industrial revolution, if it can be deciphered by the highly creative and promising genetic modification of biological materials.
There are huge benefits in this kind of risk, so the whole country is seriously considering this aspect.
"Click!"
The camera suddenly shook, and then the geological exploration robot lost contact with them above.
"W-What about this? Honestly, what the hell is that. ”
Everyone looked at each other, but the biologist held his chin and thought for a while, and whispered, "What kind of plants do you think those plants under the ground look like?" ”
"Plants? Is that really a smart plant? ”
"Hmmm! The cells of intelligent plants have special properties, they can be transformed into various forms, and the crystal-like plants we see among ourselves are only a morphological pattern. ”
For some reason, when he thought about it carefully, he felt that the black sea at the bottom of the pit was clearly a dense black aquatic grass.
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In fact, someone's guess was similar, countless low-level chaos plants began to grow at the bottom of the huge sinkhole, and their prototypes were grass clippings and plants rolling down from above.
For Lu Qi, who has mastered the "Evolutionary Branch", the power of the Chaos Touch he possesses is also continuously increasing, which also makes these simple plants also be polluted by Chaos during his sleep.
Under normal circumstances, Lu Qi would suppress his Chaos Infection ability a little, but when he fell asleep, this power would naturally not be able to suppress and continue to expand outward.
And the result of the expansion is that Lu Qi has another new kind of family.
These neonatal families are intelligent plants, they are not common angiosperms, but algae similar to spore plants, and there is no differentiation of rhizomes and leaves.
From the perspective of earthlings, this kind of freak that looks like a black mud snake is completely incompatible with plants.
But they can indeed be called plants, but they have been unusually transformed by the power of the Abyssal One.
They are the archetypes of an ultimate lifeform, and the "Evolutionary Branch" gives them a primordial evolutionary ability that can constantly change itself as the environment changes.
This is the power of infinite evolution based on itself, and the intelligent plants gathered in the dark space of the underground are currently in an extremely low-level state.
They absorb chaotic radiation for their initial growth, and are very photophobic, but they have a terrifying ability to grow, and sooner or later they will be able to occupy every inch of the planet and become the masters of the planet's ecosystem.
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The strange disappearance of Cheng Lingqiang, the head of the A618K sample laboratory, plunged the entire hospital attached to the military into chaos.
The silent loss of a scientific researcher who holds the core secrets is enough to make the big and small leaders lose their official titles and titles, and their political future is completely ruined, and from now on they will be delegated to the grassroots level, and there will never be any possibility of returning to their original position.
The investigation began as soon as possible, and soon, they found the body of Cheng Lingqiang's most trusted assistant, Xiao Fan, wrapped in plastic wrap, divided into several pieces, and stuffed into the refrigerator.
And when they investigated Cheng Lingqiang's single dormitory, they found a large number of strange words and numbers on the walls of the bathroom of the dormitory where he lived alone, some of which were written in Sanskrit and Naqt hieroglyphs, a few in Latin, and a few in unknown scripts.
Much of it is annotations describing mathematical formulas, but to be honest, these mathematical formulas are full of strange paradoxes, and from a mathematical point of view, they are nothing more than a madman's scribbling on paper.