[Chapter 402: It's about to break its shell!] 】
After a while, the two walked into the laboratory, which was very large, and there were more than 20 bioengineers working in various areas at the moment. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoRen Hong looked around for a moment, and came to a corner of the laboratory, where he came to a greenhouse cultivation room, where round platforms of different sizes and shapes and heights were like miniature mansions.
There is a kind of vegetation seedlings on each independent countertop, which is not ordinary vegetation, but from prehistoric plants that have long been extinct hundreds of millions of years ago, and now they have miraculously appeared on the earth, more than 60 independent terraces in this greenhouse cultivation room, each of which is an independent species. Species categories such as prehistoric algae, bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms, etc., are present.
Ren Hong came to one of the round platforms, and he looked at the sign J-0043 on the side, which showed that it was a gymnosperm, but it was not named, which means that it was an undiscovered species on Earth but that existed in prehistory, and was now reversely deduced by Sakura.
I saw Ren Hong stretch out his hand slowly, and a strange scene soon appeared, when Ren Hong's hand approached it, the stem and column of this kind of vegetation suddenly began to move and contract slowly, and suddenly, this kind of vegetation launched an attack on Ren Hong's hand like a snake, and the speed surprised him, but Ren Hong already knew its details, and the attack naturally failed.
The hunt failed, and it shrank again motionless, ready for the next attack.
Ren Hong, who was full of interest, teased here, this unknown species of plant failed to hunt again and again, and spared no effort to repeat it again and again. After a while, a staff member came here with a device, and Ren Hong saw that he was coming to the round platform where he was, so he stepped back for a moment to make room for the staff.
"I don't think it should be classified as a plant, it's more like an animal." Ren Honghuan, who was standing on the side, crossed his arms and smiled.
"Haha, animals don't have chlorophyll. This is the end of the Paleozoic Era, that is, the Permian era extinct species, generally living in wetlands or swamps, belonging to the spore plant, which also makes them often appear in groups. The staff explained with a smile, and at the same time did not forget to work, and began to use professional instruments to induce according to its habits, only to see that it was like a snake attacking, instantly biting the hard metal instrument, and the staff immediately cut off the column stem in its middle.
After collecting the samples, he continued: "Its aggressive or hunting behavior is very interesting, just like the stress response, it is extremely sensitive to light sources, and this is what tends them to react. You'll see groups of these species in wetlands or swamps along the waterfront doing this as if they were convulsive during the day when stimulated by light. ”
"You might think about how does it forage? The food was scared away, prehistoric animals can't be so stupid, right? Of course, it also secretes a peculiar hormone that directs it, and its main food is arthropods, insects, jumping cockroaches, dragonflies, etc. The oxygen concentration of prehistoric Earth was not comparable to that of today, and the prehistoric creatures were enormous, with the jumping cockroach about the size of a rooster and the dragonfly species the size of an adult's two fists together, all of which were its food sources. ”
"And once it's night, the hormones stop secreting, and they're like they're dead, and no matter how much you try to interfere with it or even hit it, there's no resistance."
"At night it's more like a plant." Ren Hong said with a smile.
The staff also laughed when they heard this, and added: "However, this kind of vegetation is not without natural enemies, herbivores that specialize in foraging at night are their natural enemies, and the characteristic hormones secreted during the day have become their foraging skills and the main culprit of destruction, their natural enemies are specially here for them, and they have nothing to do at night." ”
Speaking of this, the staff looked at the gap that had just been cut by him and said, "In less than a week, it will grow back again, and the growth rate is amazing." In this way, the regional ecological balance composed of a completed biological chain is maintained. ”
Ren Hong nodded slightly, looking at the label that was affixed with a capital cross, this label means that it can only stay in the laboratory forever, it has been eliminated, it is obvious that the current earth environment is not suitable for this kind of species.
"Be careful, don't let its spores get taken out of the lab." Ren Hong reminded before leaving, although he was still a seedling.
After coming out of the plant greenhouse, Ren Hong and Yonghua met again, and the two talked in detail around a table.
Yonghua muttered: "The implementation of the dinosaur plan will not be too smooth, the current ecosystem on the earth is completely unadaptable, the oxygen content in the air is a big problem, the oxygen content in the air in the dinosaur era exceeded 30%, and now it has dropped to 19%, and the massive deforestation of vegetation has reduced the oxygen content of the air by 2 percentage points in 20 years." ”
He added: "In addition, the ecological impact brought about by the intersection of two species in time and space is also important to the existing ecological system of the earth, and the special detectives of prehistoric plants that have been successfully resurrected in the laboratory are all savage and aggressive. ”
Yonghua continued: "The invasion of prehistoric organisms will bring a huge threat to the existing vegetation of the earth, and the entire history of prehistoric organisms is inseparable from the word huge, the size of animals and plants is very large, as far as vegetation is concerned, if you enter the current earth ecology, the huge body will almost 'eat' all the sunlight, and they will soon be able to eliminate competitors." For humans, this is also a mixed bag. ”
"The advantage is that it can change the current ecological environment of the earth, and the strong reproduction and growth ability can quickly green the earth and enrich the declining air oxygen. But the downside is that forests can become dangerous and have an indirect impact on human activities. The plant you just saw, the mature complete body will eat people, and the people who accidentally fall into this vegetation group are basically dead, even elephants are difficult to live, there are many similar vegetation species, and the worst thing is that some plants are extremely interdependent, and they can't live without each other, and one of them is very unfriendly to other species and even animals and even humans. ”
"We have hundreds of millions of years of heritage, and we will always find the right point." Ren Hong smiled optimistically.
"The reaction from the outside world is an important external factor." Yonghua threw this question out with a little solemnity, he said: "I think there will definitely be people who are worried that the earth's ecosystem will be destroyed, and will use this to target us and oppose us. ”
"But if we start with the improvement of the global environment, it will be different." Ren Hong said suddenly, adding: "What if our plan can bring the oxygen content of the Earth's atmosphere back to 21% or higher? ”
"This ...... Is it possible? Yonghua hesitated when he heard this.
"Anything is possible." Ren Hong said confidently: "Since the danger is inevitable, then put the danger in a cage and release the fresh air." ”
Ren Hong said with a smile: "The desert is the biggest cage that closes the danger, and people are just talking about the color change of the sand." ”
When Yonghua heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "Chairman, you mean to build a dinosaur park or prehistoric ecosystem in an uninhabited desert area?" And not an island in the sea? ”
Ren Hong nodded slowly and said: "The desert area is one of the forbidden areas for human beings, if we relocate the prehistoric ecosystem to a desert area where there are no human activities and turn the desert into an oasis again, I think it will be more of a voice of approval than opposition!" I've already decided on the address of the Dinosaur Park, which is in the Taklamakan area! That's why the genetic information I gave you first is vegetation, and you have to solve the environmental problems of the Taklamakan Desert first. Ren Hong added with a smile: "We must also participate in the ranks of the large-scale strategic development of the western region!" ”
"But it's too difficult!" Yonghua said. Transforming the Taklamakan Desert? How difficult it is to sow the seeds of life in that boundless forbidden area of life.
Ren Hong smiled confidently: "This is our specialty, we have been making the impossible possible." We can all turn back time and bring prehistoric creatures to the modern age, and the small problem of modifying the environment will be more difficult than this? ”
Yonghua was speechless when he heard it.
At this moment, there was an excited voice in the research room, and both Ren Hong and Yonghua were attracted to it.
"It's coming out of its shell! It's coming out! ”
When Ren Hong and Yonghua heard this, the two looked at each other in silence, stood up almost at the same time, and went in the same direction.
Dinosaurs that have been extinct for nearly 65 million years are about to be born?
(To be continued) (To be continued.) )