Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Whether it is trilobite, nautilus or mackerel, it is a full-fledged marine hegemon.

Trilobites and Nautilus have hard shells, and relatively large-sized body, the most terrifying killing machine in the era when most marine paleontology is not much larger than plankton.

Not to mention the squid, in addition to the hard shell, it also has the power of rapid movement, can rampage, sweep away all prey.

But Li Yao did not hesitate to rule out these three seemingly enticing evolution options.

Because he is very clear, no matter how powerful the trilobite, nautilus and mackerel look, it was eventually eliminated in the long river.

Too large a body size means that their survival needs to consume more energy, and it is necessary to spend most of their time on hunting and digestion.

The too hard shells, on the one hand, deterred their ability to further mutate, on the other hand they indulged in illusory security and lost the need for evolution.

A life without a sense of crisis and an enterprising spirit is destined to have no future life. It is impossible to ignite the fire of evolution, and it will only become a fossil after hundreds of millions of years.

Therefore, Li Yao ruled out all the top predators, but chose an unremarkable small silver fish as a carrier of his consciousness.

Said to be small silver fish, but their average size is no more than half a centimeter, it is like a silvery small bug.

This small silver fish has almost no predation ability, but is the best food for top predators such as nautilus, trilobite and squid. When the top predators squat around them, they have no resistance. Force can only be slaughtered.

But they have one of the biggest advantages, that is, unparalleled reproductive ability and survivability.

Their life cycle is extremely short, and they are mating and breeding almost every second in a short lifetime. They have evolved the initial male and female sex. Each time a female fishes, it can shoot thousands of fine dust. As long as the seeds of life are absorbed by the heat near the sea, there is a chance to survive.

And their unique digestive system can convert almost everything into energy, from plankton on the sea, to the carrion of top predators, from the original carpet on the seabed, or from seaweed and anemones. It can even adhere to the body of the ancient jellyfish, and form a harmonious and orderly symbiosis with the jellyfish, relying on the jellyfish to survive the residue of food digestion.

At the beginning of life, quantity is a key indicator that is far more important than quality.

Li Yao's consciousness is devoted to this group of small silver fish, and one mind, deliberately choose the direction of variation that can increase the number of ethnic groups.

He refused to expand the size of the small silver fish, ruled out the possibility of covering the strong carapace on the surface of the small silver fish, and of course did not hesitate to obliterate the more sharp teeth and seemingly aggressive, but in fact The variability of extinction gives the small silverfish a more powerful ability to digest and absorb and reproduce, and of course, the subtle perception of the magnetic field of the planet, as well as a stronger voyage.

In this way, in a short or billion-year evolution, the small silverfish and its different variants gradually spread to the vast ocean, from the dark and cold Arctic to the sunny equator, all the seas are shining with small silver fish. Light and shadow.

During this period, the trilobites were covered by the sediments of the seabed, and the nautilus became empty. The once-married squid was evolving a stronger and stronger carapace and sharper teeth, and more and more After the body shape, it was gradually dragged down by his heavy "armor, shield and military blade", unable to keep up with the agility and speed of the new generation of marine life, and eventually was swallowed up by his own appetite and became the loser of evolution.

The new ocean overlord has appeared.

They are either streamlined, faster, and more agile sharks.

Or it is free to change the color and shape of the skin, grow eight rigid tentacles, and even use the jet of water to raise the speed of the Octopus.

Even a variety of highly evolved jellyfish.

Most marine hegemons use small silver fish as one of the main dishes in the recipe.

There is a whale that is covered with stars and can swallow a few tons of small silver fish in one breath. For this purpose, a set of organs for filtering seawater and absorbing small silver fish has been specially developed.

But no matter how much they kill, they can't reduce the overall number of small silver fish, but make the small silver fish become the basis of the whole food chain, the key to the survival of countless species.

Li Yao faintly felt that the time was ripe.

To march into the army, you must march into the land regardless of everything!

Although the ocean is vast, except for the place near the continental shelf and the submarine volcano, the resources are not as rich as people think, but rather rather barren, like a desert filled with distilled water.

More importantly, the heavy pressure of seawater makes it difficult for the natural catalyst of the "flame" civilization to exist, let alone smelting metals and developing civilization.

Most of the ancestors of carbon-based intelligent life were born in the ocean, but they also have to experience the “thrilling leap” from the ocean to the land. Otherwise, it is difficult to develop a mature and efficient civilization.

Although the universe is vast and unpredictable, among the billions of creatures, there is no shortage of "community workers" born in the rivers and lakes, similar to the wisdom of the jellyfish, but it is a very small number of people, even if the co-workers themselves With the help of the Pangu and other wilderness races, it really evolved into the era of the stars.

Under the command of Li Yao, from the ocean to the land, a mighty, magnificent, thrilling "landing war" began.

This is not a war that lasts for a long time, nor is it a war for the gains and losses of a city or a place, but a war that spans hundreds of millions of years and is for the rise or death of a civilization.

The silverfish, which was inadvertently washed up on the beach by the tide, or sneaked into the beach in order to escape the top predators, failed without any accident.

However, Li Yao has enough patience and clear evolutionary direction. He firmly grasps the most useful possibilities of the millions of variability possibilities, gives some small silverfish the ability to breathe in the air, and relies on the strong and powerful fish. Fins, the ability to advance, bounce and dig on the beach.

These small silverfish even learned to use the fins to dig holes in the beach, the whole drilled in, kept themselves moist, waiting for the next high tide, so the ability to freely come and go on the ocean and land is like an ancient creature. The same as the bomb.

The road to evolution is destined to be lonely and dangerous.

The small silver fish that bounced on the land encountered more than a hundred times more difficulty and danger than the sea in their warm and comfortable home.

But in order to solve these dangers, or in the cruel competition for survival, more genes that are not adapted to change have been eliminated, but they have given generations of small silver fish, which is more powerful and viable.

The scales and fins faded, and the stronger limbs and tails grew. Their skin was attached with air-tight mucus, and the first row of sharp teeth finally grew from the mouth, from fish to amphibians.

For the first time, the small silverfish breathed dry air and saw the volcanic eruption, the smoke-filled mountains and rivers, and the lush virgin forest.

After the evolutionary road, it is like taking the fast lane, smashing the sea, fighting and moving, everything speeds up a hundred times faster.

The times are changing, the environment is changing, and all living beings are as crazy as changing the clockwork.

Li Yao refused to change the species he controlled to the direction of the giant crustacean, because he knew that although at some stage in ancient times, giant insects and arthropods were indeed landlords, but with the variation of plants, the air The oxygen content in the world continues to decrease, and giant insects and arthropods are forced to shrink and exit the competition stage of top predators.

He also vetoed the direction of becoming a "bug colony" like a bee. Although cluster wisdom may indeed brew a strong civilization, it is ultimately inconsistent with Li Yao's philosophy.

Similarly, he did not want to deny the path of huge reptiles. When dinosaurs trampled on the earth, killing and roaring, he would rather shrink his body to control the body, and hold a squirrel between the bushes and the cave.

Mammal, only breastfeeding is the only correct direction of evolution, Li Yao firmly believes this, and silently bear the price that has to be paid for the time being.

Sure enough, it is expected that the meteorite rains will follow, the mountains and rivers will change, the sun and the moon will be dull, countless plants will wither and annihilate, and more new plants will change the atmosphere in a very different way, the former king of land. "Dinosaurs, not under the blazing flames of the meteorite rain, are dying of drastic changes in the air composition, or unable to digest new plants, can only watch a lush green, starving to death.

This is a new era, this is the stage of mammals!

Up to this moment, Li Yao’s early choices and determinations to be hard-pressed have yielded rich returns. The seemingly useless genes have shown a variety of variations, making him the leader in the new big bang. The first one has evolved a large enough brain, enough brain synapses, and a perfect balance of strength, agility and energy consumption, and unlocked the body, including "standing upright, liberating hands." "With the use of flames, manufacturing tools," it is called "epoch-making" ability.

Mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, all kinds of seemingly powerful wolves and tigers and leopards fell under the attack of stone axes and stone spears. Li Yao’s ethnic group ravaged the earth and expanded further into the distance. When this group first learned to set fire to the mountains, When expelling and burning the beast, the burning fire symbolizes the true hegemon, and the spirit of all things that will rule the universe will finally be born!