"The plankton in the sea appeared...the mother nest began to set up genetic locks to limit the size of the spore organisms!"
Xu Zhi frowned and silently gave the order.
The yard is only that big, so it's impossible to let them evolve too big.
The memory of the previous generation of Queen Mother also showed that the way of evolving the huge body was wrong.
There is no need to deliberately expand the size of the Zerg. Maintaining the original small size of the Zerg is the correct way to evolve. The smaller the size, the easier it is to produce qualitative changes in energy.
They no longer expand in size.
Since then, the size of normal species in the sand table has been smaller than that of ordinary ants. These are real bugs, Zerg. And the largest species, even if they evolve to the level of dinosaurs, will not be larger than one
cat.
A bug that is the size of a cat is already an exaggeration, and a hundred acres of sand table is equivalent to half the size of a small province for a micro ecological creature the size of a small ant.
On the afternoon of the sixth day, after experiencing the single-celled Paleozoic ocean for the first five days, it finally changed drastically, and multi-celled organisms began to appear in the seawater.
For a few minutes, Xu Zhi felt like an accelerated ecological film. On the artificial ocean of this pond, new planktonic species were born and died in seconds, giving birth to the next generation...
Soon, a variety of strange aquatic plants were floating in the pond in the orchard.
Xu Zhi originally wanted to give it a try and drop single cells to evolve species in the ocean, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful.
"Ten thousand years have accelerated into one day, and it has only been six days. After 60,000 years of species evolution, single-celled organisms in the ocean have evolved into plankton in the sea, forming a five-year-old planet similar to the end of the Phanerozoic on Earth.
In the super-Paleozoic ocean where the Cambrian explosion of life occurred billions of years ago, this Zerg spore is so powerful..."
Xu Zhi didn’t understand the history of Earth’s evolution.
But he can naturally go back to his room, open his laptop, search the Internet, and crazily make up for the evolutionary history of the earth, the birth and origin of species, the Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian...
After all, the Earth can be used as a reference.
"But it's getting dark soon, and my biggest worry begins. The world of Sandbox will be destroyed..."
He looked at the man-made ocean in the yard, looked up at the dark sky, and saw the last afterglow of dusk in the corner of the wall.
Cell division and evolution are accelerated ten thousand times. He condenses ten thousand years into one day, which is equivalent to five thousand years of day and five thousand years of night.
It is now dark, which means that five thousand years of long daylight have passed, and five thousand years of endless night are about to usher in.
Sunlight is the source of all things. These newly born aquatic plants in the ocean will lose photosynthesis and die directly.
Sure enough, as soon as night fell and the sunlight disappeared, drastic changes occurred in the sea water.
Large areas of aquatic plants withered and sank to the bottom of the sea, lifeless, like the Dead Sea, lifeless under the night.
"In my evolutionary era, the first mass extinction of organisms has begun...I didn't expect it to be so fast."
Xu Zhi took a deep breath.
He checked the information online.
In the long evolution of the epoch, the earth has experienced five tragic mass extinctions from the birth of single cells, the evolution of multi-cells, and the reproduction of various Paleozoic species!
In history, the most famous one is of course the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. Sixty-five million years ago, the Earth's former overlords, the Age of Dinosaurs, were destroyed. Eighty percent of the animals died at that time.
The first mass extinction of life on Earth was actually the end-Ordovician mass extinction more than 400 million years ago.
That was because the temperature dropped sharply and the sea level dropped, causing the earth's marine ecosystem to be destroyed and directly extinguishing 85% of the marine species at that time.
Now, what is different from the Earth Era is that the sandbox under his hands is due to the arrival of night, and the endless night that lasts for five thousand years suddenly descends. The sun suddenly disappears, causing his first mass extinction of species.
The earth is a huge planet, with billions of species among it, the survival of the fittest is eliminated, and there is huge compatibility. Even if there is a mass extinction of life, it can survive.
But here he is different, the environment is too small.
Logically speaking, even if the ponds and oceans were filled, there would only be tens of millions of races. According to Darwin's theory of evolution, a very small number of biological bases would not be enough to evolve a new creature that adapts to the environment.
"But these are extremely adaptable Zerg single cells - spores. They can survive on a deserted planet. There is no reason why they can't..."
Xu Zhi took a deep breath, feeling a little excited and uneasy.
He waited quietly, the moonlight shone down from the yard, and the lifeless ocean was full of plant corpses. Half an hour passed, and suddenly another faint blue surface emerged from the water.
It was an ant-sized blue plant with delicately shaped leaves.
Losing direct sunlight from the sun, this plant chose to direct the source of photosynthesis to the moon, which had extremely meager light, and managed to survive.
After this plant successfully survived the first round of mass extinction, it grew, developed, and died in just a few seconds, like a sped-up movie.
It began to evolve rapidly from generation to generation, competing for natural selection, and adapted crazily to the dark night environment. It appeared like water chestnuts and discs, like lotus leaves spread out on the sea surface, in order to absorb the moonlight in the sky in the yard over a wider area.
Another hour passed.
As the only marine species in the sand table, the aquatic plant named "Blue Moon Grass" by Xu Zhi has experienced tens of thousands of species evolution and began to form various branches.
Some are angular, some are elongated, some are oval, deep-sea type, shallow-sea type... At this time, it even developed two differentiated species.
Part of the blue moon grass continues to absorb moonlight during evolution and enhances the conversion efficiency of moonlight.
Some of the blue moon grasses actually turned to carnivorous food, preying on other blue moon grasses. They also absorbed the moonlight and used this light fluorescence to attract other blue moon grasses to float over and devour them.
Seeing this, Xu Zhi admired the tenacity and wonder of life, the survival of the fittest and the elimination of the fittest. "After surviving the first mass extinction of life, this only surviving aquatic plant developed its own diverse civilization in the dark ocean.
."
He found a black notebook, picked up a pen, and recorded the evolution of the sandbox.
"How about recording the countless epochs of the evolution of my sand table according to the earth's epochal calendar?
In the Cambrian period on earth, there was a biological explosion, which was the origin of all life on earth. Only then did dinosaurs, humans, and all kinds of beasts appear... But the biological explosion here is facing five thousand years of darkness.
...Let’s call it Dark Martial Arts.”
With great interest, he turned over the first page of Genesis in this black notebook and wrote the first words on it:
[Dark Warrior Period, the world changes suddenly, the sun sets and the moon rises, the world falls into a long darkness that lasts for five thousand years, 99% of marine life is extinct, only the blue moon grass is left to absorb the moonlight and survive, becoming the only surviving species, in this area
The dark ocean is extremely prosperous, and Blue Moon Grass becomes the overlord of this era]
He looked at the pond called the Ocean of Life, silently expecting,
"According to the biological evolution history of the earth, the ocean is the origin of all life. Marine plants appeared first, and then continued to multiply, including marine animals and Zerg cells. What kind of marine animals will evolve..."
He stayed up all night and waited until dawn.
The seventh day finally begins!
However, animals did not begin to evolve on the seventh day as Xu Zhi thought, but another horrific mass extinction of organisms ushered in!
Because the sun rises.
With the moment of sunrise, all kinds of blue moon grass in the prosperous ocean in the middle of the night quickly withered.
They originally received weak moonlight at night, but now they suddenly received such strong direct sunlight, as if they were burned, and they sank to the bottom of the sea one after another.
In an instant, Blue Moon Grass began to become extinct on a large scale again.
"The second mass extinction of organisms broke out so quickly. It didn't take long for us to survive. It was so tragic..."
This is the death of life.
In the long evolutionary era of species, measured in hundreds of millions of years, countless species were born and became extinct. This is a vast planetary epic.
The process of spores evolving into life has been a long one, but now, in just a few hours, countless prosperity and rise and fall were displayed in front of Xu Zhi, which shocked Xu Zhi in a powerful and inexplicable way.
By the afternoon, a flash of blue gradually comes back to life from the dead plants.
It was a five-star-shaped blue moon grass. It also ushered in its own mutation and evolution, successfully escaped this mass extinction, transformed in the scorching sun, and was reborn from the ashes.
In order to better adapt to the strong sunlight environment, it began to reproduce from generation to generation.
In just a few minutes, it died, was reborn, and reproduced for countless generations. It began to gradually change from blue to darker, then to purple-black... Finally, a mysterious black-blue five-pointed star seaweed was formed.
It has beautiful, mysterious and balanced five-pointed leaves that can expand, contract, and open.
At night, the five corners are spread out and flat on the sea to increase the area that absorbs moonlight. During the day, in order to prevent strong light, they shrink by half and turn into a flower.
A bit of a mimosa pattern.
Mass extinction of species means death, but it is also an opportunity for weak species to rise.
In the entire ocean, no species competed with it for the living environment, and it began to multiply rapidly again, spawning various branches and filling the entire ocean with vitality.
"Survived five thousand years of scorching sun and five thousand years of dark night."
"Five thousand years of sun and moon in the sky. As the only survivor of countless species, you have experienced the scorching sun and darkness. You are the real hero. Let's call it Purple Chamomile." Xu Zhi laughed, silently picked up the pen, and turned over the black
The second page of the diary.
Continue to record the second mass extinction event in the evolutionary history of the biological epoch:
[In the Guangwu Period, the sky and the earth changed suddenly, the moon set and the sun rose, and the scorching sun hung in the sky for five thousand years. The overlord of the Blue Moon Grass who had survived the Dark Period began to become extinct on a large scale. Among them, the weak lineage of the Blue Moon Grass, the Purple Moon Grass,
Zhaocao actually rose into the sky and became the protagonist of the era that dominated the era]
