Chapter 125: The Journey of Life
An analysis report was finally submitted to Lu Ming. After looking directly at the conclusion after going over the long list of analysis processes full of complex symbols and charts, Lu Ming was stunned.
The results of the investigation and analysis of the top experts once again exceeded Lu Ming's expectations.
At the end of the analysis report, there are more than a dozen dragons and phoenixes, each with different signatures, representing the authenticity and accuracy of the analysis report.
No matter how many contradictions there are with the existing clues and speculations, as soon as this analysis report comes out, all the contradictions are immediately falsified.
Lu Ming groaned for a while, and only walked into the conference room when the time for the regular meeting came.
Zhang Dingshan also walked in from outside. He Wei and Lu Qingliang's figures also appeared in the video screen on time.
"There is a major breakthrough that I would like to inform you about."
Lu Ming raised the analysis report in his hand: "The truth of the matter may be beyond our expectations. But this conclusion has been signed by more than a dozen experts to confirm its authenticity and accuracy. We do not have the slightest need or reason to question this document. ”
"Oh?"
The investigation of the murder house has not made any progress for several days now. With the improvement of the overall damage of the Binhai Building, and the increase in the probability of the destruction of the Zhenlong Pile Formation, that sense of urgency has always lingered in the hearts of several people in the second team of the action, and there has never been a moment to disperse.
Right now...... Is there finally significant progress?
Several people didn't speak, but just focused their eyes on Lu Ming at the same time.
"The death of the fungus has nothing to do with the Zhenlong pile."
Lu Ming almost uttered this conclusion word by word.
He Wei raised her eyebrows, and almost subconsciously asked a question: "How is it possible?" How can it have nothing to do with the Zhenlong pile? ”
Lu Qingliang's brows furrowed, his eyes full of shock and doubt.
"The truth of the death of phobia is that with the in-depth study of the physiology of phobia by a team of experts, they found that phobia is very different from the bacteria we usually know. One of the most important differences is that phobia is a group of bacterial life. ”
When he first saw this description, Lu Ming was also puzzled by this. The reason is simple, I have never heard of social animals such as wolves, hunting dogs, buffaloes, etc., and I have never heard of any bacteria that would be called social bacteria.
Moreover, the grouping nature of phobic bacteria is also different from the social living we have known in the past. To put it simply, every bacteriophobic individual has the ability to release extremely weak bioelectricity into the external environment. Countless phobic bacteria come together, and the weak bioelectricity released by them unites to create an electric field within an area. However, the survival of individual phobic bacteria depends on this electric field. ”
Every phobic bacterium is a participant, modifier and beneficiary of the current environment.
"This extremely weak and imperceptible electric field is of great significance for the physiology of individual phobic bacteria. Without the involvement of this electric field, the enzymes, hormones, and even DNA inside their bodies cannot function properly. The end result is self-apoptomy. ”
Leaving the group, a single person, or less than a certain number of phobophobes, cannot survive on their own.
Lu Ming looked at Zhang Dingshan, He Wei and Lu Qingliang, and said slowly: "Therefore, once it is collected, it will die within a maximum of two hours, and it has nothing to do with the Zhenlong pile." It's all because they're detached from this vital miniature electric field. ”
From a human point of view, collecting a cotton swab from the ground to the microscope only moves a little more than a meter. Or if you put a microscope on the ground to observe, the distance of the bacteria is even smaller, only a few centimeters.
It's a short, short distance.
But for the phobia, it's like a moat. The kind of weak electric field they construct cannot cover such long distances. And so they died.
At each step of the argument to reach this final conclusion, the expert team has conducted a lot of meticulous research, supplementing a lot of evidence and data that Lu Ming can't understand, but can feel by feeling. Therefore, there is nothing to question this final conclusion.
Since the experts have said so, then believe it.
"This ...... This survival mode is really the first time I've heard of it. He Wei still felt a little incredulous: "Is this bacterium really the life that should exist on the earth?" ”
Lu Ming said: "Phobic bacteria are indeed life on earth. Genetic analysis has shown that there are many homologous DNA between phonophobs and life on Earth. This shows that in ancient times, phobic bacteria had the same ancestor even as us humans. It's just that the two chose different evolutionary paths, and eventually, one branch evolved into humans, and the other branch evolved into the current phobia. ”
"How many years?"
"More than 2 billion or even more than 3 billion years ago, and the specific age cannot be determined."
Lu Ming shook his head: "But it doesn't make any sense." Something really meaningful happened about 125 million years ago. Available genetic analysis data suggest that some individuals of a certain archaea were isolated in a place that was not connected to the external environment. As a result, this part of the archaea lost the possibility of exchanging their DNA with the outside world, and embarked on an independent evolutionary route that was completely different from the outside world, and finally evolved to the present. ”
"The cave!"
Lu Qingliang couldn't help but call out these words.
Lu Ming nodded slowly: "It should be like this." ”
He Wei was slightly distracted at this moment. The words she was talking about at this moment seemed to transport her to a world full of strange lights and illusions.
The world seemed so unreal, but reason told her that it had all existed.
125 million years ago, the Earth was still in the Cretaceous period. At that time, the continents of the Earth were separated by oceans, and the Earth's environment was warm and arid.
Many new dinosaur species appeared in this geological epoch, and the largest dinosaurs were born here.
Dinosaurs rule the land, various pterosaurs rule the skies, and giant marine reptiles rule the oceans. The first snakes, moths, bees, and many new small mammals also appeared here, as did angiosperms.
It could be accompanied by an earthquake, or a landslide, a collapse, a cavity in the ground, or a space buried underground.
Some archaea that originally lived in this space were also buried underground with this geological movement, and they were completely isolated from the outside world.
They thus embarked on an evolutionary journey that was very different from the rest of the world.
For a long time, this underground space has maintained an environment that can sustain the survival of this archaea for some unknown reason. It may be accompanied by geological changes over the next hundreds of millions of years, and it may be buried deeper or closer to the surface.
Eventually, they came to a distance of less than 100 meters from the surface.
After a long period of unimaginable years, this archaea eventually evolved into what it is now. Accompanied by Wu Qingfu's construction of the Binhai Building, he accidentally dug up this underground cave, opening a channel for the phobic bacteria to communicate with the outside world.
It's a journey of life full of incredible wonders.
Zhang Dingshan knocked lightly on the table, waking several people from the reverie full of fantasy.
"This evidence does not prove that there is no relationship between the phonophobia and the Zhenlong pile."
Lu Ming sorted out his thoughts slightly, and said solemnly: "That's true." Although it has now been proven that the death of the dinosaur has nothing to do with the Zhenlong pile, the reason why the dinophore did not leave the Marina Building on a large scale, and why, after getting out of the 'mass electric field', they can survive for two hours inside the Marina Building, and less than half an hour outside the Marina Building, is probably still because of the Zhenlong pile. ”
The removal of a single or a small number of phobic individuals from the "electric field" created by the whole will lead to the death of a small number of phobic individuals that are not sufficient to create that electric field.
So a new question is, why haven't the phobic bacteria living in the Marina Mansion spread outward on a large scale?
They can follow the normal path of reproduction and propagation, always maintain a sufficient number of individuals at the boundary of the territory, and always maintain that each individual is shrouded in an electric field, spreading outward by micron until the entire earth is occupied.
Even if the group is "cut off" for some reason, such as the spraying of disinfectants, they can still survive because the two groups are separated, each group still has a sufficient number of individuals.
And to do this, you don't need any intelligence, you don't need any intelligent command. They only need to rely on their instincts to do this.
Just as when an ant colony is large enough, some ants will go out and build another nest, and some bees will do the same. And this behavior, on the whole, also expands the territory occupied by the population.
Existing research is also enough to show that in this regard, the microorganism that has evolved on its own for hundreds of millions of years is no different from its "distant relatives".
They also have this ability.
But the key question is, why aren't they?
I'm afraid this matter will still fall on the Zhenlong pile.
"Now it seems that the role of the Zhenlong pile is still undeniable. Those dinosaurs did not die because of the dragon pile, but the entire group of dinosaurs was confined to the Binhai Mansion because of the existence of the dragon pile, and could not spread to the outside. ”
Zhang Dingshan said and looked at Lu Ming.
Lu Ming agreed with Zhang Dingshan's conclusion, and then said: "I have informed the experts and asked them to study this matter to see what is hindering the spread of the bacterium." ”