Chapter 136: On the Form and Evolutionary Possibilities of Fossils, Bones, and Undead Creatures

The hunting of elves and the observation of the battle continued, and the principle of letting them only hunt a few elves on the periphery of the battlefield was firmly enforced.

The nest dragons did not act recklessly, so he was very satisfied, and every time they hunted and killed, they dispatched troops that were more than twice the estimated combat effectiveness, and there were also special troops to respond and release the wind-

The Ground Line did not personally direct such an operation.

Because, it's time to let it go.

His energy is really limited, and it is not only laborious to do everything slightly, but also because of the limitation of the size of his vision, his command is sometimes not the most preferred.

He is cultivating subordinate executors who can obey orders and then command.

No, not dragonmen.

The earth line has already been decided, and the dragon people, these king dragon species, are only used as an auxiliary system, and the same is true in the team, and they will not become team leaders, at most they are auxiliary functional positions such as staff officers.

At the beginning, Di Xing also felt that teaching Chaolong language and writing and other things was just an idle move.

Now, however, it has been determined that it is not.

Subpoena.

If the field of vision of the extended core of the earth line is less than a few hundred meters, he will not be able to get information.

However, after the nest dragons were able to use the language and writing, he got a piece of information-

Wall.

A wall of trees in rows.

Although, it is impossible to intuitively imagine exactly what the state of these walls is from the somewhat barren vocabulary and vocabulary of the nesting dragons.

Is it a pure barrier tree wall made of trimmed wood, tied together, and lined up? Or is it like a city wall? Can you station a guard on it?

Anti-crows, a group of birds and dragons, gave the earth an answer.

It is a wall-like tree wall.

A lot of information can be passed on to him in this way when he can't see it directly.

Attacking such a tree wall?

That's not how you look for death.

This is also the reason why the Terra allows the nest dragons to wander around the fringe battlefield-

When you see an undead creature, leave and don't be tough.

Skeletons left behind by undead creatures can be used as material, but they do not provide entries for undead creatures.

Because only bones remain, the level of labels that can be provided is relatively low.

You may be able to find some good labels, but the earth has already discovered some differences between this world and the previous life.

Evolution, evolution, many organisms in previous lives, in the process of evolution, almost only two points are fixed.

The first is efficiency, the evolved organs and structures, if it is a homotypic structure, then with the evolution of time, the structure generally tends to the higher the structural efficiency, the higher the probability of survival.

The second is the absolute amount of resource consumption, the same organ, in the case of "enough", the lower the consumption, the easier it is to survive.

When the two are combined, there are two general directions of evolution -

Or, it is to stand out in the competitive advantage.

Or, it is to compromise with environmental resources and reduce efficiency.

The "evolution" and "evolution" in many people's impressions tend to be the former, and after the impression is further simplified, the diode type is either black and white, strong or weak.

The closer it is to modernity, the more "progressive" and "advanced" it must be.

This notion may not be problematic in terms of technology, but it is an unquestionable bias in the context of natural history

, ignoring the complexity of the environment and biology.

Those who can survive are not the most powerful, on the contrary, in natural history, because of the consumption of resources, the more powerful the creatures, the more difficult it is to survive-

To put it simply, if you don't have enough resources, you will starve to death.

Conversely, small-sized organisms that are entrenched in the underlying niche tend to survive.

Even, there is such a law that is not a regular -

If any of the organisms abandon their small niches and go on a large scale, then their footsteps will stop at this period of natural history.

This is related to the ecological environment of the previous life.

However, this is not the case in this world.

Just like the evolutionary route chosen by the ground line, except for the energy-saving mode of heterothermal energy that has been being considered recently, it has never compromised on resources.

He found that the correlation between the labels of artificial evolution and the integrity of the corpse can also be applied to undead creatures -

The weaker the undead creature, the weaker the overall labels will be after its skeleton is converted into material.

He wondered, when the undead creatures chose their "hosts", they chose them according to their strength?

Or is it that the strength of these undead creatures is related to the strength of the bone tag they are inhabited by?

It is important to know that label grade does not equate to bone strength.

Some of the labels themselves correspond to flesh organs.

With only bones left, why are the skeletal undead creatures that reside in a lot of flesh-related tags weaker than the undead who don't have as many flesh tags, but have a higher strength of limb specialization?

To illustrate in layman's terms, why is the skeleton of an octopus with a three-meter physique corresponding to an undead creature stronger than a human with a two-meter physique?

Of course, he didn't find the bones of an octopus, which had no bones other than jaws that resembled a bird's beak.

What is the principle of the strength of undead creatures?

Hunting undead creatures does give you skeletal materials.

However, if you hunt flesh creatures, you can get flesh and blood materials in addition to bone materials.

With the same combat effectiveness, one has more output resources and the other has low output resources, so it goes without saying which one to choose.

Speaking of which, there are still some unanswered questions in the local line.

Regardless of how the process of being able to expend energy to generate flesh and blood from bones, reshape the body, and hatch it out.

Let's first look at the core of how to convert fossils into bone materials and use them.

The composition of fossils is not unusual, that is, calcification, silicification, mineralization, carbonization, and another component replaces the composition of bone and flesh, which can be compared to the process of forging and casting, and turning molds.

The composition of bones is also not unusual, that is, inorganic substances based on calcium and phosphorus, and calcium carbonate is the main form.

Let's not talk about organic ingredients like collagen.

Di Xing wondered if he could use another material to create a skeleton based on the structure of a certain bone, would it be able to use it as a material?

The earth has done the same—

He bored himself trying to carve some bones out of clay, wood, and even the image of a nesting dragon.

Then, he tries to turn these things into material.

Fail.

He used the skeletons of horn-nosed horses again, trying to shape them into the shape of dinosaur bones, and the transformation could indeed be transformed, but ......

The label that appears, or the label of the horned nose horse.

Moreover, because of "broken bones", the label level has been reduced.

Dixing is very curious about the core ability, and he can't use this "own" ability with complete confidence.

He wanted to learn as much as he could about the various things at this core, whether it was how it worked or whatever.

Even if he can't control all the processes in the core, at least he can avoid some unnecessary waste of resources.

After a lot of repeated attempts, he was more or less sure.

Perhaps it is the "spatial structure" of the bones.

Whether it is a foodie who has taken a bite of a bone, or a person who has never eaten but often cooks, you can more or less notice that the general bone will leave a more or less honeycomb structure, because the inside of the bone itself has a flesh and blood structure, and there is a sponge-like structure in it.

It is collectively referred to as "hematopoietic bone marrow", but there is actually a distinction between yellow and red bone marrow.

Let's take dinosaur and bird bones as an example, in addition to the ornithischian hips, which began to give up the airbag structure in the later stage, other traces of airbags can also be seen on the bones.

Another example is the question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded, which has been debated for many years.

And all amniotes, that is, the animals of the Zygosaurus and the sauromorphs, will leave a stable and water-insoluble "waste" in the process of aerobic respiration, and this waste, in the process of fossilization, leaves traces in the fossilized bones.

Using molecular spectroscopy, these traces can be found to determine their respiratory efficiency during their lifetime, as well as information such as metabolic rate.

Another example is the semicircular canal structure in fossils, combined with the effect of mucus viscosity in semicircular canals on the structure and size of semicircular canals, and the activity of mucus viscosity at different temperatures.

Eventually, an answer was drawn to determine what kind of body temperature patterns the different dinosaurs were.

As long as there are enough tools and the amount of data is large enough, then there is a lot of information that fossils can leave behind.

What if there was a machine that could access all the fossil traces?

Yes, the local bank is suspicious of the means by which the core function obtains information such as "label level".

I can't say that his core is something powerful that can affect time, and it can shrink back the time of fossils and resurrect a real dinosaur.

And what kind of artificial evolution is to speed up time and filter out the desired evolutionary result from an infinite number of evolutionary branches?

Compared to this mysterious "concept", "cause and effect" and other abilities, or manipulating time.

Compared with these theoretically irresistible capabilities, the core is a "machine that can scan material information and perform biological 3D printing", which is more acceptable.

However, not necessarily, after all, he has come to another world.

Another world? Shaking a thought out of his mind, Earthwalk redirected his thoughts to the undead creatures.

The question is, what kind of creatures are undead creatures?

Judging from previous discoveries, it is very likely that they will also be able to scan and detect this information from the remains of living organisms?

What is the relationship between their formation and the remains of these creatures?

If this can be proven, is it possible that the Underground Walk can also create "undead creatures"?

He doesn't play any fundamentalist role, pits the dead against life, and in dialectical terms, should expand the definition of "life".

And, even if it doesn't expand, when does the undead conflict with the definition of "life"?

If the Earth Walk was able to get death energy-related labels from the Death Worms and Cursed Elves, why couldn't they create an undead race that was close to those undead creatures in some way?

PS: Do you think you should make a nest dragon group of "fossil creatures"? Or is it a pure energy form, a group of nesting dragons like elemental creatures?

Don't you want it all?

Oh, and by the way, undead creatures and elemental life, although they are both "flesh and blood" in the form of energy, are not the same group.