4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

1703 Controlling Mutation

"Sometimes long, long ago ... actually not too long, when fungal infections occurred in the city."

"You didn't try to roll on the ground, but tried to escape from the city screaming, but you didn't notice that a lot of dust had rolled in the air and they came to a place."

...... The germ dust sank into the sea.

Maya has a lot of speculation about this series of situations ... it thinks the main process should be like this.

A dust that has not started to germinate will not die because of seawater, so they can be preserved in the seawater environment ...

For some reason, these bacterial dusts have gathered in one place ... that is where the trench is now.

There must be something in it, some living things or something else that transported these bacterial dust into the sea and transported it to the place where the waste was buried.

In fact, the waste was not originally buried there, but was directly thrown into the trench. At first, no people went down to dig the seabed to bury the waste.

But then I do n’t know how to bury it, but this is not the point ... The point is that after the dust has reached the sea, it began to grow there.

Close to the place where the waste is placed, the bacterial dust will be affected by the 'radiation' of the waste, and their cell nuclei start to change at a high speed.

The nucleus of fungi is not the same as that of normal organisms. Most of the information in them is "encrypted" and quite complicated, but it will also be "mutated" under various influences.

These mutations are random, and most of them are useless or harmful, but they are also beneficial.

Unlike ordinary organisms, fungi itself has a special ... system to solve this problem, and the dust that has produced various harmful mutations will be absorbed by other dust, after it is deemed harmful It will not grow.

The dust with favorable mutation will grow quickly.

Maya does n’t know how the fungus determines whether its various mutations are harmful or harmless to the current situation. Presumably this is ... they only knew it by themselves.

Because of this special system, they are basically not afraid of any virus, because the fungal cells infected by the virus will immediately stop functioning, and the virus cannot spread between them.

However, most of the viruses are directly absorbed by the fungus as food, and a few of them can infect the nucleus will encounter such a situation that cannot be spread. No virus has been found to harm the fungus.

This may be that there are more secrets in the complex structure of their original nucleus ... Maya guessed this, it seems that Lin has studied before, but did not discuss these with Maya.

Therefore, the fungus can use the waste material to quickly produce a lot of mutations, and then made a useful one.

In short, under the influence of waste materials, a special kind of dust is produced, which can secrete a layer of material like grease.

They seem to sacrifice the ability of high-speed transmission, but they can use these fats to filter out a lot of nutrients in seawater.

They cannot completely resist seawater, and they will not grow in seawater, but they will not die, but slowly secrete oil to cover the whole body.

Then, they can allow those highly infectious fungal species to live in the oil, so that they will not be affected by seawater.

From the beginning, these fungi are not ... very powerful.

Because they can't directly resist the sea water, and the growth rate is not very fast, although other bacterial dust can be 'inhabited', but other bacterial dust has nothing to do in the sea.

Later, Maya discovered that this kind of 'grease fungus' has other uses.

That is to strengthen the deep sea beast-the plague dragon.

The giant beast ate all the fungus growth sites at the bottom of the trench. Although the Maya ’s burrow did not directly see it eating the fungus, it was later missing from the traces on the ground and the large piece of fluorescent fungus. You can judge.

After eating, the monster has changed its body ... all its injuries have been restored, and its muscles have been strengthened, its speed has become faster, its strength has become stronger, and its protective ability has been the same.

The original beast did not dare to attack the submarine force directly, but now it dares to attack at will and solve this force.

Maya may think that this kind of fungus itself is not used to expand on the seabed, but only for the giant beasts, these things can greatly strengthen the giant beasts.

The target of the fungus ... should still be land. The attack of the behemoth here is just "sounding east to the west". Soon the land will also be attacked by the fungus, and because the vacant people pay attention to this, the defense on land will become weak.

... because there is nothing to do in a daze right now, Maya speculated a lot and told some thoughts to the dean.

... At the same time, on the side of the dean ...

"Do you think so?"

The dean is staying in his laboratory, replying to Maya ’s message: “I have another idea about fungi, but now I have more important things to deal with.”

Thinking, the dean pressed the screen for contacting Maya and opened another screen.

'boom!'

When the picture opened, a burst of explosion sounded, and a large amount of smoke and fire light appeared in the vision of the dean.

"Don't let it get there!" "Solve them!"

This is the first colony of the New World. Explosions and shooting sounds are constantly echoing here. Dozens of metal spiders are now forming a circle. Inside them is a huge round gate-the gate of the astral .

Around them, there are a lot of robbers armed with weapons.

The dean bypassed the group of united thieves and let the metal spider come here, but did not wait for the dean to open the door ... The group of thieves suddenly appeared outside the colony and they immediately attacked the colony.

Most of the inhabitants of the colony escaped or were killed. The thieves attacked the gate of the astral world without hindrance, and then launched a crazy attack on the metal spider of the dean. , But the thieves also destroyed many metal spiders.

The only metal spiders left are fighting under the door. They are all under the cover of a spider that is opening the door.

This door is not so easy to open, it is tightly sealed, so the best way is to melt it ...

One metal spider is responsible for this work, while others are protecting it. Now, it is almost done.

It can be seen in the melted crack ... Behind this door is a brand new world, not the cue ball of the Void People, nor any world that the dean understands.

The only thing that can be confirmed ... is full of life.