Chapter 3101

No matter trilobites, Nautilus or armored fish, they are the absolute sea overlord.

Trilobites and Nautilus have hard crustaceans and relatively large bodies. They are the most terrifying killing machines in an era when most marine paleontology are not much bigger than plankton.

Not to mention, in addition to its hard shell, the armored fish also has the ability to move quickly, so it can rush around and sweep away all its prey.

But Lee did not hesitate to rule out these three seemingly attractive evolutionary options.

Because he knows very well that no matter how powerful trilobites, Nautilus and armored fish look, they will be eliminated in a long time.

Too large size means that they need to consume more energy to survive, and they are bound to spend most of their time hunting, digesting and absorbing.

On the other hand, they indulge in the illusory sense of security and lose the necessity of evolution.

A life without a sense of crisis and enterprising spirit is doomed to be a life without a future. It can never ignite the fire of evolution, and will only become a fossil in billions of years.

Therefore, Li Yao excluded all the top predators, but chose a humble little silver fish as the carrier of his consciousness.

It is said that they are small silverfish, but their average body size is no more than half a centimeter. They are just like small silvery insects.

This little silverfish has almost no hunting ability. On the contrary, it is the best food for the top predators such as Nautilus, trilobites and armored fish. When the top predators wander around them, they have no resistance and can only be slaughtered.

But they have one of the biggest advantages, that is, unparalleled reproductive capacity and viability.

Their life cycle is very short, and they mate and breed almost every second in their short life. They have evolved a preliminary male and female. Every time a female fish ejects, it can eject thousands of dust like seeds of life. As long as it absorbs the heat energy near the sea, it has a chance to survive.

Their unique digestive system can transform almost all food into energy, from plankton on the sea surface to the decaying corpses of top predators, from the primitive fungus blanket on the sea bottom, or seaweed and anemone. They can even attach to the ancient jellyfish, form harmonious and orderly symbiosis with them, and rely on the residue of food digested by jellyfish to survive.

At the beginning of life, quantity is far more important than quality.

Li Yao's consciousness is devoted to this group of small silverfish, and devoted himself to choosing the direction of variation that can increase the number of the population.

He refused to expand the body size of the little silverfish, ruled out the possibility of covering the body surface with a strong carapace. Of course, he did not hesitate to erase the seemingly aggressive but actually suicidal variation of growing sharper teeth, which gave the little silverfish more powerful digestion and absorption ability and reproductive ability, as well as the subtle perception of the planet's magnetic field, And more powerful long-distance ability.

In this way, in a short moment or billions of years of evolution, the little silverfish and its different varieties gradually spread to the whole ocean, from the dark and cold Arctic to the sunny equator, all the waters are shining with the light and shadow of the little silverfish.

During this period, the trilobites were covered by the sediment on the sea floor, and the Nautilus became empty. After the armor fish, which once dominated for a while, evolved stronger and stronger crustaceans, sharper and sharper teeth, and larger and larger body size, they were gradually dragged down by their own heavy "armor, shield and blade", unable to keep up with the agility and speed of the new generation of marine life, Finally, he was engulfed by his own insatiable appetite and became a failure of evolution.

A new ocean overlord has emerged.

They may be streamlined, faster and more agile sharks.

Or octopus that can freely change skin color and body shape, grow eight tentacles that combine hardness and softness, and even use water jet to improve speed.

And even all kinds of jellyfish that evolved to be highly toxic.

The vast majority of ocean overlord will be small silverfish as one of the main dishes on the recipe.

There is a kind of whale with star spots all over its body, which can swallow several tons of small silverfish in one breath. For this reason, it has specially evolved a set of organs for filtering seawater and absorbing small silverfish.

However, no matter how much they kill, they can not reduce the overall number of small silverfish. On the contrary, they make small silverfish the basis of the whole food chain and the key to the survival of countless species.

Li Yaoyin felt that the time was ripe.

March, March, we must march to land at all costs!

Although the ocean is vast, except for the places near the continental shelf and submarine volcanoes, the resources are not as rich as people think, but rather quite barren - just like the desert full of distilled water.

What's more, the heavy pressure of sea water makes it difficult for "flame" to exist as a natural catalyst for civilization, let alone to smelt metals and develop civilization.

Most of the ancestors of carbon based intelligent life were born in the ocean, but they had to experience a "thrilling leap" from the ocean to the land. Otherwise, it would be difficult to develop a mature and efficient civilization.

Although the universe is vast and there are all kinds of strange things. Among the hundreds of millions of creatures, there are many intelligent creatures like jellyfish born in rivers, lakes and seas, but they are the very few among the very few. Even the Gonggong clan itself, with the help of Pangu and other wild races, has really evolved into the age of stars.

Under the command of Li Yao, from sea to land, a magnificent and soul stirring "landing war" began.

This is not a war overnight, nor is it a war for the gain and loss of a city, but a war for the rise or premature death of a civilization spanning millions of years.

At first, the little silverfish, who was accidentally washed to the beach by the tide or jumped to the beach in order to escape the top predators, failed without accident.

But Lee has enough patience and a clear direction of evolution. He firmly grasped the most useful possibilities among the hundreds of millions of variation possibilities, giving some small silverfish the ability to breathe in the air, and the ability to move forward, bounce and dig on the beach by relying on the strong fins.

These little silverfish even learned to use their fins to dig holes in the sand, drill in, keep themselves moist, and wait for the next high tide, so that they can come and go freely on the sea and land - just like some ancient creature, the mudskipper.

The road of evolution is doomed to be lonely and dangerous.

The little silverfish, skipping on the land, encountered a hundred times more difficulties and dangers than their warm and comfortable hometown in the sea.

But in order to solve these dangers, or in other words, in the fierce competition for survival, more genes that do not adapt to changes have been eliminated, but generation after generation of small silverfish have been given stronger survival ability.

The scales and fins of the fish have faded, and more powerful limbs and tails have grown. Their skin is covered with air insulation mucus, and the first row of sharp teeth have finally grown in their mouths. They have evolved from fish to amphibians.

For the first time, the little silverfish breathed the dry air, saw the volcanic eruption, the mountains and rivers with thick smoke, and saw the lush virgin forest.

After the road of evolution, it's like stepping on the fast lane, the vicissitudes of life, the changes of stars, everything has accelerated a hundred times.

The times are changing, the environment is changing, and all creatures are changing like clockwork.

Li Yao refused to let the species under his control change in the direction of giant crustaceans, because he knew that although giant insects and arthropods were indeed the dominant species on the land at a certain stage in ancient times, with the variation of plants, the oxygen content in the air kept decreasing, and the size of giant insects and arthropods would be forced to shrink, leaving the competition stage of top predators.

He also vetoed the direction of becoming a "swarm civilization" similar to bees. Although it is possible for swarm intelligence to brew a powerful civilization, it is not in line with Li Yao's idea after all.

Similarly, he denied the path of giant reptiles without even thinking about it. When dinosaurs trampled on the earth, killed and roared, he preferred to constantly reduce his size to dominate the creatures and scurry between the bushes and caves.

Mammals, only mammals, are the only correct direction of evolution. Li YaoJian believes this and silently bears the price he has to pay for the moment.

Sure enough, the expected meteorite rain came one after another, the mountains and rivers turned pale, the sun and the moon disappeared, countless plants withered and annihilated, and more new plants changed the atmospheric environment in a completely different way. The former "king of land" dinosaurs either fell under the flames of the meteorite rain or died of the drastic change of air composition, Or can't digest the new plants, can only watch a lush, starve to death.

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

Until now, Li Yao's cautious choice and determination in his early stage have been rewarded with rich and colorful mutations in seemingly useless genes, making him the first to successfully evolve a large enough brain, enough brain synapses, and in power, The body of flesh and blood, which has achieved a perfect balance in agility and energy consumption, has also unlocked the "epoch-making" ability, including "walking upright, freeing hands" and "using fire and making tools".

Mammoths, Saber Toothed tigers, and all kinds of seemingly powerful jackals, tigers and leopards fell under the attack of stone axes and spears one after another. Li Yao's ethnic group ravaged the earth and expanded further into the distance. When this ethnic group first learned to set fire to mountains, expel and kill fierce animals, the blazing fire symbolized the real overlord, and finally the spirit of all things that will rule the universe was born!