Chapter 139: Life
The camel led Bi Fang into the distance, moving slowly in the desert, swaying, swaying, until it disappeared into the yellow sand.
He only told everyone the direction and distance of the well, and other than that, he didn't ask for anything, he didn't ask for anything, just like Gu Qingyuan and the others had never been there.
"I lay on my back on my back, without a house, without a tent, so free, without worries, and my life deserves such moments." Song Yanning looked at the disappearing back, his eyes gloomy.
"What?" Gu Qingyuan was stunned.
"Thomas Bernhard's 'Summer', I was impressed."
Gu Qingyuan tasted what he said just now, and agreed very much: "I really didn't expect him to refuse so simply, I still want to persuade him." ”
But Bi Fang only used one sentence to convince him.
"If I get in the car, what's the difference between calling for help? I'm lucky enough to survive, so let me end the ending beautifully! ”
Gu Qingyuan retracted his memory and waved his hand: "Don't say it, don't say it, it's important to get down to business, first send Tiktalik to the laboratory, and then we will go to the field." ”
"Is this fish that important? There are a lot of new species being discovered every year, right? Song Yanning followed behind.
"Of course, it is already a treasure of evolution, and it will open up a new world of research for the theory and practice of paleontology and evolutionary biology!"
Gu Qingyuan hurriedly beckoned the team members to carry the strange fish into the car: "Be careful, it's big, bear with it." ”
In fact, he didn't tell Song Yanning that compared with the significance of evolution, perhaps this discovery is of greater significance in molecular biology.
This is also the real reason why the above wants to obtain the entity despite the protection of animals.
The genome of lungfish contains about 43 billion DNA base pairs, the largest of any animal that has been sequenced to date, and the genome is 14 times larger than that of humans!
What will happen to Tiktalik, which is similar to it?
Will it be more?
Such a huge genome may hide the mystery of the evolution of life......
On the back of the camel, Bi Fang wrapped himself tightly, the strange fish was taken away, and he could also ride the camel to drive, which was a lot easier.
The weight of a single hump camel is generally between 16 and 200 kilograms, and it is not difficult to carry a strange fish, but it is no longer possible to sit on people.
Now the burden is lightened for both sides.
And Professor Gu's arrival also says a lot of information.
"Since Professor Gu and they came by jeep, from the time of calculation, the town they set off from will not be too far, which means that our survival is almost successful, and we are about to arrive at the human settlement, if it is fast, tonight, if it is slow, it will be tomorrow."
[To be honest, when the old party said that I refused just now, there were hundreds of millions of handsome]
[Fang Shen refuses people, and he looks so handsome! ] 】
[Nope! I refuse! 】
[Is this the world of the strong? 】
[I'm strong, you bear with me.] 】
[Tyrand Presents Streamer Spaceship*1--This is the Best Live Stream I Have Ever Seen, Bollywood Movies Are So Ared to Him!]
【??? Where did this guy upstairs come from? 】
[Crooked nuts came to see Fang Shen's live broadcast? ] Which one is a big translation? 】
[This guy said that this is the most exciting live broadcast he has ever seen, and the bad Hollywood movies and Fang Shenbi are weak! ] 】
[Awesome! 】
Bi Fang traveled south and north in his previous life, and often read some academic research reports, his English was naturally not bad, he could understand it, and he immediately expressed his gratitude in English, which showed off the faces of the sailors.
Lao Fang really knows everything, outrageous!
There will be foreigners who come over the wall to watch his live broadcast, even Bi Fang himself didn't expect it, he thought that the most he thought was to watch the video he edited, and there were really fans abroad?
It's getting faster and faster.
But it's normal, he is still wandering in China, maybe it won't be long before he will go abroad for an adventure, and then foreign channels will also need to be opened, and the number of his foreign fans will blow out, and compared with now, the income will be more than doubled!
Time passed, and the sun began to sink again.
It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon.
Bi Fang went from dizziness to the current headache, the whole person's state has deteriorated visibly, plus he has shed a lot of blood, and his face is as pale as paper.
What camels are best at is traveling at a speed of 15 to 25 kilometers per hour, and it doesn't matter if they go for 4 days and 4 nights without rest, which is three to five times faster than humans.
Today, Bi Fang walked more than 80 kilometers, and there are many sand dunes that need to be bypassed, but from a straight line, it should also exceed 30 kilometers, which is already a considerable distance.
The entire Qaidam Basin is only about 800 kilometers long from east to west, 300 kilometers wide from north to south, and only one-third of the desert area.
The hope of survival is at hand.
Bi Fang straightened his body and looked into the distance.
In the distance, the desert was covered with yellow sand, and suddenly a different color appeared, it was brown, a puffy shrub!
In the midst of these reticulated desert bushes, a black railroad track lies like a dragon in the sand.
"It's the railway!"
Bi Fang was overjoyed, let the camel speed forward, and when he came to the railroad tracks, he was completely relieved to look at the intact sleepers and the tracks with new traces.
Not an abandoned railway.
The sailors were completely convinced.
[Niu, this is really the hope of survival, not luck! 】
[The railroad tracks have appeared, so as long as you keep walking along it, you will meet people sooner or later]
[Too strong, yyds!] 】
[The King of Survival!] The world's number one explorer! The king of kings! 】
Along the tracks, Bi Fang slowed down and began to sum up his adventure.
"When we got here, our survival mission can basically be said to be completed, I have to say that this experience is really quite magical, and the most joyful thing for me is not the success of survival, but the discovery of prehistoric creatures."
"The moment I found out about Tiktalik, I was really thrilled and I felt an incredible sense of pride."
As he spoke, Bi Fang had a smile on his face.
You have been here, and I testify.
Even if the sky has not left a trace of you, you have flown and I have written it down.
How lucky.
"There are more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way is only one of about 140 billion galaxies, but even if the universe is so huge, the only known place where there is life is the Earth."
"And on Earth, from the deepest trenches to the highest mountain tops, the entire range of known life is only 28 kilometers thick, and what is this compared to the vastness of the universe?"
The sky was getting darker, and the moon was rising, and the silver light was shining through.
The starry sky shines.
Bi Fang walked slower and slower, as if he was reluctant.
"The history of life is a story of mass elimination, followed by the differentiation of a few survivors, rather than a story of continuous optimization, continuous complexity, and continuous diversification, as is commonly assumed.
"The Earth has witnessed five mass extinction events, in turn in the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous, as well as many smaller extinction events."
"For every mass extinction event, 70%-85% of species go extinct. In the Permian, more than 95% of the animals withdrew and never returned. ”
"We need to know that the probability of a species being fossilized and preserved and eventually discovered and recorded by humans is very small."
"Humanity has only one thing in common with other living beings, and that is that for nearly thirty-five billion years, at every necessary moment, our ancestors have slipped through every door that is about to close – and has not failed once in trillions of critical moments that could erase us from history."
"This is the miracle of life!"
Bi Fang stopped his camel and looked at the starry sky.
Distance.
The roads are staggered and brightly lit.
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