Chapter 3092 The Birth of the Spirit of All Things!

Whether trilobites, nautilus or armored fish, they are all out-and-out ocean overlords.

Both trilobites and nautiluses have hard carapaces and relatively "huge" bodies. In an era when most marine paleontology were not much bigger than plankton, they were the most terrifying killing machines.

Not to mention the armored fish, in addition to its hard carapace, it also possesses swift mobility, capable of rampaging and sweeping away all prey.

But Li Yao ruled out these three seemingly attractive evolution options without hesitation.

Because he knew very well that no matter how powerful the trilobites, nautilus and armored fish looked, they were eventually eliminated in the long river of time.

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

The overly hard carapace, on the one hand, hinders their ability to further mutate, and on the other hand, makes them indulge in an illusory sense of security, losing the need for evolution.

A life without a sense of crisis and aggressiveness is destined to be a life with no future. It is absolutely impossible to ignite the fire of evolution, and it will only become a fossil hundreds of millions of years later.

Therefore, Li Yao ruled out all the top predators, but chose an inconspicuous small silverfish as the carrier of his consciousness.

It is said to be small whitebait, but their average size is no more than half a centimeter, and they look like little silvery bugs.

This small silverfish has almost no hunting ability. Instead, it is the best food for top predators such as nautilus, trilobites and armored fish. When the top predators are stalking around them, they have no resistance Power can only be slaughtered by others.

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

Their life cycle is extremely short, and they mate and reproduce almost every second of their short lives. They have evolved rudimentary male and female sexes, and each female can shoot thousands of particles Ordinary life seeds, as long as they absorb the heat energy close to the sea surface, they have a chance to survive.

And their unique digestive system can convert almost all food into energy, from the plankton on the sea surface to the carrion of top predators, from the original creepers on the seabed, or seaweed and sea anemone, they It can even attach to the body of ancient jellyfish, forming a harmonious and orderly symbiosis with jellyfish, and relying on the residue of food digested by jellyfish to survive.

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

Li Yao's consciousness was devoted to this group of small silver fish, and he single-mindedly chose those mutation directions that could increase the number of the group.

He refused to expand the size of the small whitebait, ruled out the possibility of covering the small whitebait's body with a solid carapace, and of course he did not hesitate to obliterate the growth of sharper teeth, which seemed extremely aggressive, but in fact he himself The mutation of extinction endows the small silver fish with stronger digestion and absorption ability and reproductive ability, and of course the subtle ability to perceive the planet's magnetic field, as well as a stronger long-distance navigation ability.

In this way, in a short moment or hundreds of millions of years of evolution, the small silver fish and its different variants have gradually spread to the entire ocean, from the dark and cold North Pole to the sunny equator, all seas are shining with small silver fish of light and shadow.

During this period, the trilobites were covered by the sand on the seabed, and the nautilus became empty. The armored fish that once ruled the roost evolved stronger and stronger carapaces, sharper teeth, and larger and larger After getting bigger and smaller, he was gradually dragged down by his heavy "armor, shield and weapon", unable to keep up with the agility and speed of the new generation of marine life, and was finally swallowed by his insatiable appetite, becoming a loser in evolution.

A new ocean overlord has emerged.

They were either streamlined, faster and more agile sharks.

Or an octopus that can freely change skin color and body shape, grows eight tentacles that are both rigid and soft, and can even increase speed with the help of water jets.

Even various jellyfish that have evolved to be highly poisonous.

Most of the ocean overlords take whitebait as one of the main dishes in their recipes.

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

But no matter how much they kill, they can't reduce the overall number of small whitebait. On the contrary, small whitebait has become the basis of the entire food chain and the key to the survival of countless species.

Li Yao faintly felt that the time was ripe.

March, march, must march to land regardless!

Although the ocean is vast, except for places close to the continental shelf and submarine volcanoes, the resources are not as rich as people imagined, but rather barren, like a desert full of distilled water.

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

The ancestors of most carbon-based intelligent life were born in the ocean, but they also had to go through the "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 full of wonders, among the billions of living beings, there are many "Gonggong clan" born in rivers, lakes and seas, intelligent creatures similar to jellyfish, but after all, they are very few of the very few, and even the Gonggong clan itself is also With the help of the Pangu clan and other prehistoric races, it really evolved into the starry sky era.

Under Li Yao's command, from the sea to the land, a mighty, magnificent and thrilling "landing battle" began.

This is not an overnight war, nor is it a war for the gain or loss of a city or a place, but a war that spans hundreds of millions of years for the rise or death of a civilization.

Little silverfish that initially inadvertently washed up on the beach, or jumped onto the beach in a panic to escape top predators, failed without incident.

But Li Yao had enough patience and a clear direction of evolution. He firmly grasped the most useful possibilities among the hundreds of millions of mutation possibilities, endowed some small silver fish with the ability to breathe in the air, and relied on strong and powerful fish fins, the ability to advance on sand, bounce and dig.

These little silverfish have even learned to use their fins to burrow in the sand, burrow in whole, and keep themselves moist until the next high tide, whereby the ability to come and go freely in sea and land is like some ancient creature, Like mudskippers.

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

The little whitebait jumping and jumping on the land encountered a hundred times more difficulties and dangers than they did in their warm and comfortable hometown, the ocean.

But in order to solve these dangers, or in other words, more genes that are not adaptable to changes are eliminated in the cruel survival competition, which endows generations of small silverfish with stronger survival ability.

The scales and fins fell off, and more powerful limbs and tails grew. Their skin was covered with air-insulating mucus, and the first row of sharp teeth finally grew out of their mouths. They evolved from fish to amphibians.

For the first time, the little whitebait breathed dry air, saw volcanic eruptions, mountains and rivers billowing in thick smoke, and saw lush virgin forests.

The subsequent evolutionary road was like embarking on the fast lane, with the vicissitudes of life and the stars moving, everything accelerated a hundred times.

The times are changing, the environment is changing, and all creatures are changing crazily 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 overlords on land at a certain stage in ancient times, with the mutation of plants, the air The oxygen content in the environment continues to decrease, and the size of giant insects and arthropods will be forced to shrink and withdraw from the competition arena of top predators.

He also rejected the direction of becoming a "swarm civilization" similar to bees. Although swarm intelligence may indeed breed a powerful civilization, it does not match Li Yao's ideas after all.

Similarly, he denied the path of giant reptiles without even thinking about it. When dinosaurs trampled the ground, killing and roaring, he would rather keep shrinking the size of the creatures he controlled, and scurry between bushes and caves.

Mammals, only mammals are the only correct direction of evolution, Li Yao firmly believes in this, and silently bears the price that he has to pay for the time being.

Sure enough, the expected meteorite rain hit one after another, the color of the mountains and rivers changed, the sun and the moon dimmed, countless plants withered and annihilated, and more new plants changed the atmospheric environment in completely different ways. "The dinosaurs either fell under the raging flames caused by the meteorite rain, or died of the drastic change in the composition of the air, or were unable to digest the new plants, so they could only watch the lush greenery and starve to death.

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

Until now, Li Yao's cautious choices and determination to persevere in the early stage have all been rewarded generously. The seemingly useless genes have shown rich and colorful mutations, making him the champion in the brand-new biological explosion. The first one to successfully evolve a large enough brain, enough brain synapses, and a flesh and blood body that has achieved a perfect balance in strength, agility, and energy consumption. " and "using flames, making tools", can be called "epoch-making" abilities.

Mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, all kinds of seemingly powerful wolves, tigers and leopards fell under the attacks of stone axes and stone spears one after another. Li Yao's group ravaged the land and expanded to farther places. When this group first learned how to set fire to mountains, When expelling and burning the beasts, the blazing fire symbolizes the birth of the real overlord, the spirit of all things that will eventually rule the universe!