In the depths of Tawan Bogdo National Park in Altai, Mongolia, bad weather is causing trouble for Lin Shuo and others.
The previous heavy snow was just the prelude to this series of bad weather.
Immediately afterwards, a blizzard came, and the wind blew through the mountains with snowflakes.
Manpower is sometimes poor. In this case, it becomes a luxury to continue on the road.
Fortunately, Zhang Jin, who led the way, was clever and took the lead to lead the team into a cave before the storm hit.
This cave is not deep, only less than three meters or four meters. Judging from the traces on the cave wall, it should be an artificial cave, but it is very old.
The original murals painted with animal blood on the cave wall are still clearly identifiable after thousands of years, but no one has the time to think about what is painted on it.
Because now that they are free, everyone's thoughts are on that "Zhang Guohua's Notes".
At this time, the wind and snow outside, as well as the ancient murals in the cave, like the burning bonfire in the cave, are just the background of this shocking secret.
The five people on this trip have all read this notebook during their journey.
Zhang Guohua's grammatical habits are very capable, his writing is concise and to the point, and the calligraphy fonts are also very large, so there is actually not much content in this thin booklet.
If this booklet were in the hands of a dealer who sold second-hand books, it might be regarded as an autobiographical novel with the theme of ghost foxes and strange stories in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the author's writing skills were not good enough.
But in fact, this is the most precious first-hand information about "Mountain Hades".
The history of Liemen is almost synchronized with human civilization, and written records plus legends can be traced back roughly 10,000 years ago.
There are definite written records, which are still preserved today, from Xiaozhuan to the present, more than 2,200 years ago.
And Zhang Guohua is the first human being to formally contact the "Mountain King of Hell", which he has never had before.
Wei Xingshan was the logistics equipment transport vehicle for everyone on this trip, and the backpack was full of things, but there was no pen and paper.
So, Lin Shuo borrowed a notebook from Di Lan, tore it open, returned half of it, and spread the other half in the cave, copying this "Zhang Guohua's Notes" with a carbon pen.
This work should have been done by the hunters of the Cao family. They were responsible for collecting and summarizing the information of the hunting gate. The information about the prey in the hands of each family of the hunting gate would be collected in the Cao family, and then the Lin family, as the leader family, would also prepare a set of information. share.
But for this operation, the hunters from the Cao family did not come, and Lin Shuo, as the leader of the hunting gate, would have to work too hard for those who can.
This notebook belongs to the Zhang family, and Liemen has no right to confiscate it, but according to the usual practice, there is no problem in copying a copy.
Lin Shuo wrote the notes by the light of the bonfire. Outside the cave was the whistling wind and snow, but inside the cave was silence.
Before the blizzard came, everyone read this notebook one after another, but after reading it, it took time to digest the contents.
Among them, those with a relatively simple knowledge structure, such as Wei Xingshan, can't digest it no matter how much time is given to him.
The man fiddled with the bonfire for a while, and finally couldn't hold back the many questions in his heart. He wanted to ask Lin Shuo, but found that he was busy copying, and Xiao Ba was dozing off on his shoulder.
Looking at Zhang Jin again, I remembered that he stuttered.
Looking for Anne, I found that the woman was arranging something at the hole with leather gloves on.
It seemed that only Dylan beside him was idle.
So the man coughed softly, and asked, "Miss Dilan, what do you think about the book that Lao Lin is currently copying?"
"I didn't expect Mr. Lin's handwriting to be so beautiful." Di Lan looked at Lin Shuo's notes and said softly, "My father likes Chinese calligraphy very much, and there are many collections at home. Although I can't write well, my appreciation ability is still good. Yes. Mr. Lin's block letters, elegant posture, has the style of Zhao Mengfu in the Southern Song Dynasty, really powerful."
"I didn't ask you this." Wei Xingshan waved his hand, "I mean Zhang Guohua's notes."
"Mr. Zhang, it can be seen that he has also put in a lot of effort in calligraphy, but his attainments are far inferior to Mr. Lin's." Di Lan said.
"I didn't ask about calligraphy." Wei Xingshan was a little anxious, "The content, I mean the content."
"The content, don't the two write the same? Mr. Lin is copying Mr. Zhang." Dylan smiled slightly.
"Yes." Wei Xingshan glanced at Lin Shuo and complained, "This girl can't understand human speech."
"Old Wei." Lin Shuo said calmly while writing, "Since you are asking others for advice, please lower your posture. It is not right for you to ask Miss Di, a great scientist, to tell you the secrets in your notes."
"Then how should I ask?" Wei Xingshan asked.
"You need to know what Miss Di wants to hear now." Lin Shuo made a call, and continued to copy the book with her head bowed.
"Miss Di, what do you want to hear now?" Wei Xingshan asked eagerly.
Dylan smiled faintly: "I didn't hear what Captain Wei said before, but all guesses and inferences should be stuffed in your stomach, don't say it out to mislead others. I think what you said is right, so for this notebook, I currently No opinion."
The corner of Wei Xingshan's mouth twitched, thinking that this woman of yours really holds grudges.
During a meeting at the police station, Di Lan made some inferences about Yang Tuo's scientific research report, and Wei Xingshan pushed him back on the spot. Now Wei Xingshan himself has forgotten about it, but Di Lan still remembered it.
"Miss Di, please accept my sincere apology." Wei Xingshan immediately changed his face.
Face is not important at all to this mercenary leader who is licking blood with a knife.
Seeing the man apologize, Dylan nodded, looking satisfied, and said: "Mr. Lin, I have some immature guesses about this notebook, and I want to discuss it with you."
"Please tell me." Lin Shuo didn't lift his head.
At this time, Anne had finished setting up the "painting prison" at the entrance of the cave, and had come back. She sat between Lin Shuo and Di Lan, and then stretched out her hand to gently touch Xiao Ba's back.
Xiao Ba was dozing off, opened his eyes and glanced at Anne, then continued to sleep with his eyes closed.
Anne smiled slightly, picked up Xiao Ba, and hugged her in her arms.
The starling simply slept in Anne's arms on its belly, and seemed to enjoy it very much.
Di Lan observed Anne's actions, her face was a little dazed, but she recovered immediately, and continued: "From Mr. Zhang Guohua's notes, we know that the species 'Mountain Yama' has had six morphological changes. They are stork, wolf, ox, crocodile, leopard, elephant and tiger.
Among them, the 'Mountain Hades' that the old man met last time was a giant tiger, which is consistent with the information we have so far.
Mr. Zhang Guohua's final inference is that these seven-headed creatures are actually one thing. I agree with him, and based on this, I have the following inferences. "
Speaking of this, Di Lan glanced at Wei Xingshan: "The next thing I want to say may not be easy to understand with Mr. Wei's knowledge. If there is something you don't understand, you can ask questions."
Wei Xingshan rolled his eyes: "My old Wei is a person who has received nine-year compulsory education, and his comprehension ability is not a problem."
Di Lan did not refute, but continued: "Mr. Lin, 'Life is maintained by constantly reducing entropy'. Do you agree with this point of view?"
"It's over, the first sentence is not in human language." Wei Xingshan sighed and looked at Anne, "Miss Anne, can you translate?"
Anne held Xiaoba in her arms, her arms were shaking gently, she did not speak, but glanced at Lin Shuo, which meant to listen to Lin Shuo's stance first.
At this time, Lin Shuo paused with the pen in his hand, and his expression was slightly startled.
He thought for a while, then asked back: "The entropy you are referring to should be information entropy?"
"That's right." Dylan seemed a little surprised.
"I agree with this point of view." Lin Shuo nodded, "No life can escape this category, including 'Mountain Yama'."
Anne nodded slightly, seeming to agree with this opinion, and then explained to Wei Xingshan: "In the definition of thermodynamics, entropy refers to the measurement of the degree of chaos in a system. The term information entropy, 'informationentropy', is borrowed from the concept of thermodynamics." , which is used to describe the uncertainty of the source. The two can be converted by formulas.
Team Wei, or you can understand it this way, information entropy is the absolute antonym of intelligence and information, and reducing entropy is equivalent to obtaining information and intelligence.
Life maintains its own state by continuously reducing entropy.
The meaning of this sentence is: life is to ensure its own existence through continuous acquisition of information. "
"Then why don't you just say that? Why do you still use the term 'entropy'?" Wei Xingshan asked puzzled.
"Because it is more accurate to use the concept of 'reducing entropy'." Anne said, "Obtaining information is not the same as reducing entropy, but one of the ways. It's just that life on earth has undergone a long evolution and is always walking , that’s the only way.”
"Oh." Wei Xingshan still didn't understand much, but right now he could only pretend to understand, and looked at Di Lan, "Miss Di Lan, you continue."
"Miss Anne is right. Biologically, life on Earth has undergone billions of years of evolution, and the only way to reduce entropy is to obtain information. And what does life rely on to obtain information?" Di Lan looked at Wei Xingshan and asked back road.
Wei Xingshan was tongue-tied, and it took him a while to answer: "Sister, I only finished junior high school."
"Knowledge." Dylan asked himself and answered, "Life relies on knowledge to obtain information, thereby reducing entropy and maintaining its own state. So how does life obtain knowledge?"
"I know that!" Wei Xingshan replied, "Just study."
"Yes, study." Dylan asked, "How to study?"
"Read a book!"
"That's the way humans learn. How do you let a fly read a book?" Dylan asked again.
"You continue." Wei Xingshan shrank his neck.
"During the long evolution process of life, the first learning method that life learns is to reproduce." Di Lan said, "Life forms produce a large number of individuals that are similar to themselves but differ due to genetic mutations. Then use these Future generations, ask the current environment.
Is this set of genes suitable
Whether these individuals can survive is equivalent to the learning of living organisms.
The ability to survive in the environment means that the mutated individuals are correct before they reproduce themselves.
Then the entire set of genes corresponding to this individual is correct for the time being, and they are eligible for the next generation of reproduction.
Because whoever is wrong is dead.
So back and forth, from generation to generation, survival of the fittest, this is Darwin's theory of evolution. "
Wei Xingshan's eyes lit up, "I've heard of this."
"Reproduction is the first learning method mastered by living organisms. At the very beginning, all species on the earth survived through trial and error in the environment at the cost of their own lives through this rudimentary means. come down." Di Lan said, "The more advanced beings, because there are more and more ways to obtain information, and the means are getting more and more sophisticated, such as the nervous system, such as intelligence, so their dependence on the primitive method of reproduction, It's also lighter.
Fish need tens of thousands of fertilized eggs to ensure the continuation of the race. As for us humans, twins are considered a small probability event. "
"Oh! So that's what happened." Wei Xingshan nodded, and then asked, "But Miss Di, does what you said have anything to do with this notebook?"
"Yes." Di Lan said in a deep voice, "In my opinion, the content in this notebook is actually telling us that the life form 'Shan Yan Wang' is too advanced to reproduce. Its entropy reduction The method is actually the same as what Mr. Lin is doing now."
"Ah?" Wei Xingshan turned his head to look at Lin Shuo.
Lin Shuo was copying a book, and when he heard these words, he nodded his head dumbfounded, as if acquiescing to what Di Lan said.
"That's copying someone else's." Dylan explained, "It uses the host to iterate instead of self-reproduction. Other creatures use reproduction to ask the environment, and then answer at the cost of their own lives. But Shan Yanwang directly copies others. s answer.
And if the answer is wrong, the host will die, not itself. As for itself, it will learn the lesson of the host's death, copy more advanced answers next time, and even rewrite the genetic modification answers to try to make a more perfect answer.
This is why the old Mr. Zhang Guohua killed it six times. Not only did it not die, but it became stronger and stronger. "
"I'll go, this is too shameless." Wei Xingshan curled his lips.
"It has even more tricks." Dylan said.
One hundred and twenty-ninth new situation
When Di Lan said this, Lin Shuo quickly copied a notebook.
After closing the handwritten notebook and putting it in his arms, Lin Shuo handed "Zhang Guohua's Notes" to Zhang Jin, and then said, "Miss Di, what else do you have to say?"
"I don't dare to be a high-level theory." Di Lan looked at Xiaoba in Anne's arms, and said, "Combined with Baye's information, the power of Shanyan King is not only in its unique method of reducing entropy on a macro level, but also in its unique method of reducing entropy. It lies in its strange way of surviving in reality.”
Wei Xingshan rolled his eyes, more and more aware that he was out of place in this conversation.
Among the five people present, Dilan is a genius who was exceptionally admitted to Oxford University at the age of fifteen, and Anne is a PhD graduate from Harvard. When these two women talked about their fields of expertise, they couldn’t understand what they were talking about. Wei Xingshan This is acceptable.
But Lin Shuo, who according to him only has a high school diploma, was able to keep up with the rhythm of this conversation, which made Wei Xingshan feel that his IQ had been severely hit.
What's even more exasperating is that Dilan and Anne are either biologists or PhDs in biology. The attitude of these two people talking to Lin Shuo is as if they are asking for advice. The tone is extremely respectful and the words are extremely rigorous. , as if he was afraid that he would make a mistake and be laughed at by Lin Shuo.
Not long after he met Lin Shuo, Wei Xingshan knew that he was a pervert in the field of combat, and he was no match for him at all.
Later, in Liu Shunfu's family, Lin Shuo silently wrote about the inheritance of Liu's family of water animal husbandry, and Wei Xingshan learned that Lin Shuo had a good handwriting.
The superimposition of these two impressions does not actually conflict. This is called the flowering of both styles, both civil and military.
But now, when Lin Shuo unknowingly participated in this conversation indifferently as a team leader, Wei Xingshan realized how far this person who called himself a brother and brother was far from him.
This gap made Wei Xingshan feel ashamed for the first time, and at the same time, it also made Wei Xingshan cherish the friendship between the two even more.
Wei Xingshan understands that birds follow Luanfeng and fly far away, and people accompany virtuous and good people to exalt themselves.
These thoughts wandered around in Wei Xingshan's mind and were quickly suppressed.
Because what Di Lan was saying was even more unbelievable than before, Wei Xingshan once again felt the power of brainstorming.
"Ba Ye said before that in that forest, all the animals and plants showed signs of being manipulated by the King of Hades.
Obviously, Shan Yan Wang is consciously controlling the ecological structure of the forest, turning the disordered natural environment into an orderly production environment.
The result of an orderly production environment is to provide as much material energy as possible for Yama, who is at the top of the food chain.
And this act of consciously changing the environment from disorder to order, do you know what that means? "
"This is the behavior of us humans." Anne said.
"Yes." Dylan nodded, glanced at Xiao Ba in Anne's arms again, and continued, "Other creatures, even as smart as Ba Ye, can't do this.
The reason why we human beings are special is that we have beliefs, we believe in stories, and we can unite our will, thus forming a huge social structure.
Human beings change the environment is the result of brainstorming and teamwork.
We actually stand out from the natural world by networking with books and language, creating an orderly environment with the power of a group.
This behavior is also the best solution obtained so far after three billion years of biological evolution on the earth. It took at least 100,000 years for us humans to learn and master this ability.
And Yama Yama's change of environment is an individual behavior.
As a biological individual, how did it evolve this ability
Moreover, in Zhang Guohua's notes, there is no mention of this special behavior of Shan Yan Wang.
I believe that the old man's professionalism as a hunter and his level of knowledge were quite good at that time.
With his wisdom and ability, since he has played a ten-year long game with the King of Yama, if there are similar clues, he should not miss them.
But he didn't say a word about it, don't you think it's abnormal? "
"That only shows that when old Mr. Zhang Guohua was hunting the King of Yama, the King of Yama hadn't mastered this ability, or it didn't show it." Lin Shuo said.
"So, I have another speculation." Di Lan said in a deep voice, "The ability of the King of Yama has evolved recently. Combined with my previous speculation, the way of King Yama's entropy reduction is to steal genes, then I have reason to believe that Yama Yama can not only steal and change the genes of the host, but also steal the genes of food."
Speaking of this, Di Lan looked at Anne: "Miss Anne, do you still remember the tragedy of your Su family thirty years ago? Maybe it was at that time that the King of Yama evolved the ability to steal human genes and began to eat human beings." of."
"Is there such a coincidence?" Wei Xingshan interjected, "Since the earth has a history of three billion years of biological evolution, the King of Yama didn't come out of thin air. I guess it's a species that came out a long time ago, right? Then I prefer Dead or not, it became interested in humans thirty years ago?"
"Actually, it was not the King of Hades who chose humans, but humans sent them to our door." Di Lan's face showed a bit of sarcasm, "In the past 10,000 years, the population of humans has increased from hundreds of thousands to billions. Due to the rise of human beings, the earth has encountered the most serious mass extinction phenomenon in history.
10,000 years may be the entire history of our civilization, but in the latitude of biological evolution, it is only a short moment.
Any significant evolution in biology is a qualitative change caused by a quantitative change, which needs to be accumulated over a long period of time, which may be 10,000 years or a billion years.
It can only be said that thirty years ago, after human beings frequently knocked on the door, the 'Mountain Hades' continued to iterate itself with its own unique way of reducing entropy, and finally learned how to open the door.
Then it only took 30 years, and it has gone through the long 100,000 years of our human beings.
What will it look like if you give it another thirty years
To be honest, I really want to see how it will perform in thirty years. "
Dylan's words, accompanied by the howling wind outside the cave, made one's body chill.
…
That night, everyone rested early.
This cave is not big, and when we sleep at night, we use stones to block the entrance of the cave, and there is Anne's "painting prison" behind the stones as insurance, which is actually warm and safe.
This sense of security will be even more precious because of the blizzard outside the cave, and it should bring a good night's sleep.
But Wei Xingshan had nightmares for half the night. In the second half of the night, the man didn't sleep at all. He got up and leaned against the cave wall, looking at the original murals on the wall, in a trance.
Right now, Lin Shuo is still guarding the night.
"Old Lin, have you figured out a solution?" Wei Xingshan asked in a hoarse voice, "I remember what you said, but don't worry about your future if you do a good deed. But now, what should you do about this good deed?"
Lin Shuo didn't speak, the embers of the bonfire illuminated the man's wood-carved face, flickering on and off.
"To tell you the truth, I never doubt your ability, and I also believe that you can kill the 'King of Yama'." Wei Xingshan murmured, "But according to Di Lan, if you kill this thing, do you kill it or do you kill it?" How about helping it? Zhang Guohua killed it six times!"
Lin Shuo's expression moved slightly, and he was about to say something when he heard a bell ringing from inside the cave.
The bell rang in Anne's arms. It was the satellite phone that came with the last batch of airdrops.
This satellite communication system is provided by the Chinese side, and there are a total of two strictly encrypted satellite phones.
One is used for front-line communication and is controlled by Anne. She has no permission to communicate with the outside world and can only communicate with the rear.
The other is the rear communication, which is controlled by Yang Tuo, and only he can communicate with the Chinese high-level.
Yang Tuo's phone call is also equivalent to China's nuclear button. His final conclusion on Lin Shuo's operation will determine whether the nuclear missiles deployed in Northwest China will be launched into the air.
And the call at this moment was undoubtedly from Yang Tuo.
Anne sat up immediately, connected the phone, and pressed the speakerphone.
"There is something new." Yang Tuo's tired voice sounded on the phone.