[Chapter 528: Maternal Radiance]
These creatures will live in the "habitable zone" of Mars for a period of time, and when the periodic mating and activity carnival is over, the males will separate from each other, and the males will leave the "habitable zone" and migrate upwards along the cave, while the females will stay in the "habitable zone" forever. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although these last remaining Martian creatures are cruel and vicious, and will not hesitate to eat their own kind whenever they have the opportunity to give themselves a more advantageous living space, they also exude the most praiseworthy and beautiful maternal brilliance of life.
The first desperate battle between males for the right to mate, only the truly strong will survive and have everything in the end, and in the process, the weak will die one by one, their corpses are the best food on the planet, and on Mars, where there is no grass, this is the most perfect delicacy.
After the first battle to the death, the male creatures will start a second war for the ownership of these corpses, and it is a winner-takes-all result that the loser has nothing, and the massive corpses give them plenty of food sources, and those who survive are the real strong.
The female creature mates and conceives the next generation, and the new generation inherits the genes of the strong of the father's generation, because the weak do not have the right to mate at all. Pregnant females will be active in the "habitable zone" for about a month of earth, during which time the "husband" receives a large number of male carcasses of the same type to meet the energy they need to feed and maintain their bodily functions.
But at this time, there is too much "food", but it is impossible to eat at all, resulting in a surplus of food, and the pregnant female has no time, because the baby in her arms will grow up day by day, and the conceived female creature will return to the bottom of the water and pay the ultimate sacrifice for the next generation to complete the new life.
Like Earth's giant octopus in the North Pacific Ocean, they are the mothers on Mars who make the greatest sacrifice to raise their children, and they can lay about 20 to 30 eggs in a single conception. Every conceived female creature will find a place to nest in the bottom of the water, the "habitable zone" of Mars, the deeper you go into the core of Mars, the higher the temperature, the higher the temperature under the water, is a natural living area, the pregnant female will choose the best area to settle her life, where new life will be born.
The liquid water in the "habitable zone" of Mars has very little oxygen, but it is still oxygen-free water, which is in the middle of a volcano, and the water contains a large number of silicates and other various substances, but these are not the biggest threats to small life, the real threat is the aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms in the water.
However, their mother has a way, and the mother secretes an acidic corrosive solution that is lethal to non-living creatures, a liquid that not only accelerates the rate of oxygen-making reactions, but also becomes the patron saint of the birth of small life.
The first four months of the growth of new life are defenseless, any external factors can make them die, the mother's ultimate sacrifice lies in this, in order for the new life to grow healthily, it must not leave the nest an inch, regularly release acidic corrosive solution to provide an umbrella for the little life, unable to leave the nest means that the mother can not obtain a food source, and must secrete an acidic corrosive solution to protect the eggs. Therefore, it is not surprising that the mother's body is getting weaker and weaker, and the secretion of acid corrosion is becoming less and less, but fortunately, as time goes by, the little life is thriving and its resistance to the outside world is increasing.
In the process, the mother will die of starvation because she has no food source and does not hibernate to reduce the consumption of her body functions, but her mission is not over, and there is one last dedication.
When its babies hatch, the mother's corpse is the only source of food for the little ones, otherwise the fragile young ones simply cannot survive. The large carcass of females does not decompose in the short term, and there are no microorganisms, so acid corrosion plays an optimal role in preserving freshness. The corpse of a female can feed twenty or thirty new life forms for nearly 60 Earth days of consumption and complete the initial growth.
The new life has completed its initial growth, and has enough ability to leave the hotbed of the deep water, and after reaching the shore of the water, there is a large number of male corpses scattered here, and the former losers, the anaerobic environment and the acidic corrosion that once secreted protect the corpses from being eaten by microorganisms. The new life has been given a second source of food on the shore and is able to use the last "legacy" of its ancestors to complete its second growth and development.
After three months, the corpses at the mouth of the shore were almost completely consumed by them, and the original new life had grown, and the sudden decline in food made them feel hungry for the first time, and they were accustomed to eating the corpses of their own kind, so they set their sights on the living kind, even their brothers and sisters, and they saw the moving kind, as if they had seen the delicacies of the world, and they would definitely take action for it.
So, after they come to this world, they will start the first desperate struggle in their lives, in order to survive, during this period, some of the weak are eliminated and become the good meal of the strong, those who survive are the strong, no one can kill anyone, and the final result of fighting for a long time is to lose both.
But survival must continue, and in order to avoid dying of starvation in the future, they have to find new ways to survive, leaving the "habitable zone" one after another, one by one, and leaving here along the path of their ancestors, towards the colder areas above.
Finding a safe place to be disturbed, they curled up into a spherical shape and used an acidic corrosive solution to erode a groove in the rock wall or elsewhere to prevent them from falling out of dormancy. So a long hibernation begins, and the rate of metabolism becomes lower and lower. They gradually transform into aerobic-tolerant anaerobic organisms, which means that they no longer need to expend huge amounts of energy to produce the oxygen that their bodies need, during which time they no longer use oxygen as their final electron recipient.
Over time, the outer layers of their bodies begin to ferment, eventually enveloping their entire body. The next time they wake up, they will eat all the fermented food from the inside out to get energy, replenish their hungry bodies and return to the "habitable zone", the one who eats the most will have a good advantage, and when they arrive at the "habitable zone", they will have a greater advantage to beat their competitors, get the right to mate and everything the loser will become the biggest winner in life.
In this way, this species continued on Mars for hundreds of millions of years, and after the great changes on this planet, one species after another became extinct, and only this species has survived to this day as the last survivor, migrating from the surface of Mars to the surface of Mars.
(To be continued) (To be continued.) )