The evolutionary process of genetic confrontation, and the origin of tribal conflict.

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Nights are not suitable for travel, especially in the already shallow waters, where strange creatures are appearing more and more frequently. If you spend the night near the coastline of the Macro Continent, the danger in that vast area with no hiding place will not only come from the sea, but also from some dangerous creatures on land and in the sky.

Therefore, after some discussion with Xinglan, Feng also agreed: he simply spent the night at the place where the three islands converged tonight, and then set off for the coastline early tomorrow morning.

Xinglan naturally helped keep vigil at night, so as not to be attacked by some dangerous creatures in the middle of the night, but maybe it was because of his heavy heart that caused him to sleep badly, or maybe the group of three-pronged crabs around him was too noisy, in short, in the end, Feng didn't sleep too deeply, and woke up early the next day.

"The time of the four stripes can be regarded as an early wake." As soon as he began to open his eyes, which were still a little blurry, Feng Feng, who was still lying on the reef at the edge of the island, heard Xinglan's grinning voice, "New day, is the boy ready to sprint towards his final destination?" ”

I don't know if it's purely accidental, but the rotation period and revolution period of Lanxing are very close to the earth...... The error is not even more than an hour, and the alternation of the seasons brought about by the tilt of the axis of rotation is very similar, so if you calculate it according to the 24 hours of the day, four of the eight lines of the wheel appear around 6 o'clock in the morning, which is indeed a very early time to get up.

Of course, Xinglan also checked the time through the signal subnet, and found that the periodic biological changes of the Kalachakra are indeed running with some very precise law, even if it is not as accurate as an atomic clock, it can be regarded as very punctual in this era.

"No problem." Feng took a deep breath...... Well, the fresh sea water in the morning? He casually took out some food from the small bag on his waist and stuffed it into his mouth, then stood up, "I should be able to go straight to my final destination today." ”

"After all...... Xinglan suddenly thought of something, "I've already walked here, and I still haven't heard you say what you're out for." ”

Feng Wenyan was slightly stunned for a while, and then nodded: "Well, it's not a secret anyway, but it's a relatively long story." ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Signalson quickly made a positioning to estimate the distance, and Xinglan chuckled and said, "There is still a long way to go to reach the coastline ahead, and we have enough time to talk slowly." ”

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The Sea Giants are a very strange race, there is no doubt about that, even on Earth there have been legends of undersea people and sea civilizations, but it is estimated that it cannot be more bizarre than the series of encounters of this race.

When the gamma-ray burst caused by the supernova explosion at the end of the Genesis period swept across Arashi, it was only a little aftermath after being weakened by Xinglan countless times, and it was not able to deal a devastating blow to the microorganisms that were only a very small number at the time...... But it has succeeded in causing a huge impact on the genes of organisms in a radiated sea. Originally, if according to the setting, the hidden code set by Xiao Cheng in the biological gene would be unlocked when the environment is suitable for survival, then there would be no next series of problems at all.

Hiding a whole set of codes for other traits in a gene without being expressed requires making it something similar to the annotations in the program code, but it is clear that high-energy gamma rays destroy these annotation markers in the DNA, so that most of the genes are unlocked and then expressed.

As a result, the birth of the sea giants, the most affected race, fell into a strange cycle of death, on the one hand, the hidden genes insisted on expressing more human traits, and on the other hand, the natural environment was obsessed with eliminating the sea giants with these traits due to adaptive natural selection.

I have to admit that Xiao Cheng was also worried about whether there would be any accidents in the long years, so the vitality of this part of the code he left behind was very tenacious, and even had some self-repair ability, so this tug-of-war against the opponent became extraordinarily long, and turned the sea giant into a strange existence in the long confrontation of hundreds of millions of years...... It's not just weird for humans, it's weird for sea creatures.

They look like humans in appearance and facial features, but their internal organs are completely different, and they don't even have lungs but rely entirely on their gills for breathing. As marine animals, they can't survive on their own without the water, but they can't master the almost simple skill of swimming. Their entire race lives on the ocean floor where there is almost no light visible all year round, but they would rather live in trouble with photobacteria than lose their eyesight for light. They live and reproduce like mammals, but they have the hard exoskeleton and hydraulic power that arthropods can grow.

Nevertheless, no matter what happened in the end, they survived, earned a place for their race in the vast sea, and gradually developed their intelligence to the extent that they were no less than that of earthlings.

When did the sea giants evolve from the chaotic animal age? I'm afraid no one can answer this question, Xing Lan won't pay attention to these details all the time, she only cares about ensuring the overall environment of Lan Xing, and although Feng Shu has always lived on Lan Xing, he doesn't have the leisure to dissect and study the sea giant's brain all the time, not to mention that the advanced scientific knowledge he has mastered has probably not been instilled with the memory of Yu Chen...... Xinglan hoped that he could help guide Lanxing's civilization in the future, but he didn't want to guide him too much, so he gave him some information but didn't give him much.

Like early primitive humans, although the sea giant is far from being invincible in the ocean world, it is no problem to let his blood occupy a place by virtue of forming a small group of family units, but it is obvious that the sea giant living in the cruel natural environment is not an honest and honest life, and the competition between their kind is gradually strengthening, and there is even a trend of some tribes attacking each other and entering the slave society.

They will take care of their own kind, and even feed the elderly, children and some disabled people for free, but that is only between their own people, and there is no affection for the people of other villages or tribes, and they are eager to defeat each other.

And in this chaotic era, the village where Feng is located is also one of them, this village with hundreds of sea giants has a large number of laborers, although I dare not say that life is very comfortable, but at least it is possible to ensure that no one starves to death.

However, in the nearby sea, they are not the only large-scale sea giant village, just a few dozen kilometers away from their village, there is another tribe of sea giants.

He didn't know exactly what kind of tribe it was, he had only heard from the adults in the village, that tribe did not live on the plains surrounded by artificial anchor grass forests and sea forests like them, but lived in a very tall place, it was a different kind of sacred mountain, with a large number of complex cave pipes, which became the living area of their tribe...... Of course, there are also some sea trees and anchor grass outside their habitat, which are almost indispensable materials for sea giants, but their yields are certainly not as good as those of the peak tribes.

Therefore, the competition between the two tribes is not only a simple desire for competition, but also for the rich resources of the other party's territory. Whether it's a large number of crops or a safer cave complex, it's something that the other side is very eager to get.

Originally, this situation could have lasted for many years, because both sides were large tribes of hundreds of people...... At least for this era, there is not much difference between adult sea giants with combat power, if you really fight to the death, even the winner will have to break his muscles and bones in the end, and it is clear that no one wants to risk the destruction of the tribe for those interests. Primitive people may not understand those complicated intrigues, but they are definitely not lacking in heart.

Recently, however, the form of the two tribes, which had been at odds for hundreds of years, has finally changed, and the occasion for this situation to be broken is actually a very coincidental thing.

A small undersea earthquake erupted and caused a local collapse of a nearby mountain range, causing massive rock tumbling and massive damage at the foot of the mountain.

One of the hunters of the rival tribe happened to be hunting in the vicinity at the time, and when the earth tremors had subsided, he quickly went there to check the specific situation of the disaster, originally out of pure curiosity, but instead obtained an unexpected harvest.

The sudden collapse of the submarine mountain buried a lure whale that was nearby at the time, even this giant beast was completely unable to resist in the face of natural disasters and was trapped alive inside, as for whether it was stoned to death on the spot or died of excessive injuries after that, no one knows, but a small lure whale next to it was stuck in the crack of the rock because of its small size and was not stoned to death.

Originally, according to the usual practice of the sea giant, of course, he killed the corpse on the spot and then brought it back, but I don't know if it was out of sympathy or if the hunter was really a far-sighted wise man, in short, he finally not only killed the little lure whale immediately, but also took great effort to rescue it from under the rock, and brought it back to the outside of the residence to raise.

Maybe it was really stressful for the tribe to feed such a big guy in the early stage, but it was actually a very smart choice, the little whale was soon able to be self-sufficient and no longer needed to be fed when it grew up, and it was unusually well-behaved and obedient, completely obeying the command of the hunter, who eventually became the patriarch of their tribe because of this power.

The tribe was happy, and the village where the peak was located suddenly fell into despair, although the sea giant was very strong, but unless the other party's actions were restrained, the sea giant of their entire village would not be enough to fight the sound whale...... The other village even directly declared war on them, and soon the army will be in the city.

Hearing this, even Xing Lan couldn't help but complain that this guy was incredibly good luck index, what kind of trouble is this kind of magical development like the protagonist template...... However, she finally understood why the eyes of the previous peak were so complicated when he saw the group of lure whales.

If the roles of the two tribes were reversed, the decoy whale would definitely have no problem with the pipes crisscrossing the interior of the island, after all, it would not be able to shake the rock with its flesh and blood, but it was obvious that the Anchor Grass Forest and the Sea Tree Forest would not be able to stop the attack of this giant beast.

"The warriors of the village can't deal with that giant beast, and the battle is just a needless death." Feng stared firmly ahead as he walked, "There has to be a way...... Something that can easily kill an adult sound trap. ”