Yunnanensis is one of the most important discoveries in the Chengjiang biota. Numerous papers and research materials have confirmed Yunnanensis' status as a transitional link between invertebrates and vertebrates.
In other words, Yunnanworm is the ancestor of all fish, amphibians, and mammals, as well as the ancestor of humans.
The New York Times once published an interesting comment on the discovery of Yunnanworm: "If Yunnanworm dies, the central nervous system of animals will never develop, and the earth will be as lonely and desolate as the distant moon."
Now, the cataclysm has brought about the end of the world. At this turning point in the historical process, it may be the sixth mass extinction of organisms, or it may be another explosion of life.
Extinction, explosion.
It was difficult to judge in a short time, at least Shen Cong couldn't judge.
He felt that the explosion was very similar. The Cambrian explosion of life was a precedent, and now evolutionary beasts are also blowing out. The extinction was also very similar. The fifth mass extinction of organisms, that is, the extinction of the dinosaurs, was caused by an asteroid impacting the earth, which caused the earth to be destroyed. The dominant dinosaurs became extinct, and now a meteor shower has knocked humans off the altar.
But no matter what, he hopes that there will be an explosion of life. After all, no one wants to become extinct.
He even hopes that he can become a "Yunnan bug", the founder of a new era in the future, and the ancestor of future civilization - even though he does not have a girlfriend.
"If the lv1 era is really transforming into a metal form, then the lv0 era can be defined as the 'lv0-gradient period', and the lv1 era can be defined as the 'lv1-invasion period'... The active core metal of the bone structure gradually changes, and then invades the body tissue. Parts, finally, the lv2 era, will it be the 'lv2-metal period'?"
In "Doomsday Diary", Shen Cong came up with his own deduction: "Could the metal gradient be a phenomenon similar to the 'phosphorus formation event'?"
In the history of the earth, there were two great explosions of life near the boundary between the Precambrian and Cambrian periods, which coincided with the two events of phosphorus accumulation at that time. Phosphate rock was formed and enriched in the ocean.
Phosphorus is an important life element and ecological environment element. It is one of the important elements that restricts the ecological environment and the cycle of nutrient components (including carbon) on the earth's surface. It is the regulatory center in biochemical processes. In particular, the bones of living things contain a large amount of phosphorus, which plays a great role in skeletalization.
There is no doubt that the formation of bones helps biological evolution.
The two events of phosphorus accumulation correspond to the two explosions of life, and there is a positive connection between them.
Similar to the Cambrian period when ancient organisms acquired phosphorus and began to form skeletons, in the current environment, Earth's organisms gradually gain activity and slowly undergo metallization.
Naturally, Shen Cong was asked to do some brainstorming and compare the current environment to a "survival event", where activity accumulates and becomes a resource.
All organisms absorb activity and transform themselves.
Then Shen Cong shook his head again and continued typing: "Mutants conform to the metal gradient characteristics of this evolution, but how do you explain Iron Man? What does Iron Man's lv1 era look like? I don't have an active core, how can metal invade my body? Organization? What is the relationship between me and Donkey Kong?"
"The reproduction of mutants will give birth to mutants with more powerful talents like Little Li Du. So if Iron Man reproduces, will a new Iron Man be born? If so, what will be the vehicle of the new Iron Man?"
"Or is it that Iron Man has actually gone astray? We cannot become Yunnan Worm, but we are just those unknown insects that cannot even be classified next to the Yunnan Worm fossils?"
They are all questions without answers.
If the similar issues recorded by Shen Cong in "Doomsday Diary" were listed separately, a book "One Hundred Thousand Whys" could almost be published.
To understand these issues, I am afraid it will take countless people to explore them over an endless and long time.
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"I like your face, I like your eyes, I like your smile that infects every day..." A cheerful song played in the laboratory, sweeping away the dullness caused by unsatisfactory discoveries in the lv1 era.
Shen Cong also suppressed his confusion about the way forward and began to study in more detail the metallic gradient clam meat invaded by the active core - he called this meat "meat gold", corresponding to bone gold.
He used an optical microscope to observe the composition of meat gold.
The instructions for using the optical microscope are in the "Instructions for Use" written by researchers from the scientific research institute. Just follow the instructions.
After several failures, Shen Cong successfully observed the shape of meat gold and made a careful comparison with ordinary pearl clam meat.
Finally, I came to a conclusion: it seems to be a little different, but I can't tell what the difference is.
The effective magnification of the optical microscope is 1500 times. The cell tissue seen is just round cells that are close together and appear slightly yellowish. This is the case whether it is an old pearl mussel or a pearl mussel.
"It may be that the metal invasion is not deep enough, so you can't see the difference. Continue to raise the old pearl clam for a few days to see its next change."
The study on the morphology of meat gold ends here.
Shen Cong then experimented with some reactions after injecting activity, and found that compared with bone gold, which is not deformable and will destroy the stable structure after smelting, after injecting activity into meat gold, it still maintains the softness that meat should have, and has both Very high toughness.
An ordinary knife cannot cut it.
"If the flesh metal can be continuously invaded by metal and maintain its softness, it will be of great use. But I don't know, after all the metal is invaded, can the flesh metal still remain soft?"
"Soft metal..."
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Shen Cong ended the experiment.
I made a late-night snack, ate a lot of live fruit and live pearls, drank some Miba, and finally measured my height - from 1.5 meters to 1.87 meters, and continued to grow.
As I grow taller, I do feel very different, especially my field of vision becomes wider.
Take a bath and lie down until you sleep.
Couldn't sleep for a while.
All he was thinking about was the changes in the metal invasion of body tissues by the active core in the lv1 era. Thinking about the changes in various behaviors once you become a metal life. For example, what to eat, how to excrete, how the brain changes, how to think, how to grow, and how to reproduce.
"Don't think about it... Think about how you can find the meteorite fragments tomorrow. You can't turn over such a large barrier lake, and you don't know what the meteorite fragments look like, how deep they are buried under the soil, or even So, I don’t even know whether the meteorite fragments exist or not.”
Shen Cong had a deep desire for the meteorite fragments.
It is his obsession, and it is about to become his demonic obstacle. If he does not find the meteorite fragments, he will not be able to truly calm down for a day.
In the end, I still couldn't sleep.
Shen Cong got up from bed, took out paper and pen, and prepared to continue designing several plans to find meteorite fragments.
"Activity is a kind of radiation, and meteorite fragments may carry radiation and be the source of radiation... So, can I use active radiation to create contact...resonance with meteorite fragments?" (To be continued.)