Chapter 191 Deep Sea, Undercurrents

The moment Brother Li saw the fish clearly, he was stunned.

Where is a fish here?

This is a war machine forged by nature and built for battle!

The giant creature swings its tail leisurely, like the god of death in the deep sea, swimming through the darkness.

The huge mouth like a guillotine is the most powerful killing weapon, hunting all prey it encounters wantonly!

Schools of fish... turtles... seashells... Li Ge just followed this fish, quietly observing all his hunting activities.

The fish even encountered swarms of sharks along the way.

Li Ge originally thought that there would be a life-and-death fight between the strange fish and the shark, which were roughly the same size. Little did he know that when the shark saw the strange fish, he turned around and ran away. It could even be said that he ran away in embarrassment.

"This is..." Li Ge looked at it secretly.

"Host, judging from its appearance, this fish is probably Dunkleosteus."

"Deng's fish?" Li Ge looked confused.

Suddenly, several translucent pictures appeared in front of Li Ge's eyes.

"A placoderm fish that appeared in the Devonian period," the system explained, "in short, it was the top predator at that time."

At the same time, written materials also appeared in rows in Li Ge's field of vision.

Placoderm is a type of fish that appeared in the Devonian period, and its most distinctive feature is its exoskeleton.

The Devonian Period was about 400 million years ago, and that era was also called the Age of Fishes.

It was during that era that fish, or rather vertebrates, began to dominate the world and became the most prosperous group of organisms to date.

And humans also evolved bit by bit from fish.

However, what is quite dramatic is that placoderm fish such as Dunkleosteus were prosperous at that time and firmly established their dominance, but they all became extinct after several changes.

So... there should not be fish like placoderms in the world today, let alone this ancient creature - Dunkleosteus.

Li Ge narrowed his eyes slightly, stared at the terrifying figure, and thought slowly.

"This thing is actually a fish that has long been extinct on the earth?"

"How did this thing appear? Did it travel through time?"

"Or...is it simply an atavistic evolution of some ordinary fish?"

Li Ge expanded his spiritual realm in an attempt to find more fish-like traces.

This look really gave Li Ge some clues.

There are many strange animals on the bottom of the sea.

Li Ge followed the system's annotations and identified them one after another.

A huge black shadow floated past like a ghost, more than three meters long, but with forelimbs like a scorpion.

Scorpion? Sea scorpion! Living in the Ordovician period... 470 million years ago?

On the bottom of the sea, something that swam as flexibly as sea intestines appeared, with a row of neat holes on the side of its body.

Li Ge originally thought it was something like sea cucumber, but the system's labeling denied Li Ge's speculation.

Actually...a vertebrate? It is the earliest vertebrate to appear and should have lived in the Cambrian! Named by modern people as the crown bug!

The Cambrian period was about 500 million years ago from today!

Li Ge looked at them one after another, feeling that his world view had been torn to pieces.

In this vast and mysterious sea, in this dark place, countless animals that should have been extinct have reappeared.

These animals span billions of years and look so bizarre that it doesn’t even make sense!

And marine animals belonging to the modern world are not necessarily strong in front of these strange animals!

"Is this evolving again?" Li Ge looked at this strange and vibrant sea area and muttered to himself.

"But even so, it shouldn't be from all eras..."

At this moment, Li Ge noticed a corner of the spiritual realm.

This was an extremely ordinary hunting operation.

The apex predator Dunkleosteus is tearing into a succulent tuna.

And around him, some tiny, flesh-worm-like things were swimming flexibly, filtering and feeding on the minced meat in the sea water.

Suddenly, a meat bug froze and twitched.

Deep under the sea, undercurrents surge.

This stiff flesh bug floated freely with the sea water.

Various creatures that seemed to be carefree on the side instantly transformed into killers and swarmed forward.

"I want to eat him! That's not okay."

Li Ge quickly used his mental power to protect him.

His eyes fell firmly on this fleshy insect, and Li Ge's heart beat with the fluctuation of energy in it.

As Li Ge watched, the body shape of the flesh bug changed.

"Record the changes!" Li Ge ordered the system.

Immediately, in Li Ge's field of vision, the fleshy insect seemed to be seen through X-rays, that is, Li Ge could clearly see every change in its body.

Li Ge watched helplessly as the nerves on the thing's back became thicker and thicker, and then were wrapped in calcium.

A complete spine is formed! Since then, the nerve conduction rate of this little thing has increased a hundred times, from less than one meter per second to nearly 200 meters per second!

Li Ge watched helplessly as the bone structure of this thing became more and more complex. Two ribs grew to protect the internal organs. The structure of the head began to change. Small bones grew in the mouth, which turned from a hole into one that could be closed. Open jaw.

This moment spanned hundreds of millions of years.

"Am I witnessing evolution..." Li Ge muttered to himself in wonder, trying to analyze this phenomenon.

"So, when these meat bugs were eating, they probably analyzed the genes in the minced meat, and added some of the gene fragments to their own genes, completing the changes in an instant."

Li Ge speculated, staring at the still motionless meat worm... No! Now we can no longer say that it is a meat bug, it is a fish.

Suddenly, the frozen fish flicked its tail flexibly and jumped out of the sea quickly.

Li Ge watched the little thing's back go away, and he roughly understood how this colorful scene on the bottom of the sea came about.

In short, a group of the most primitive life forms may have emerged from somewhere.

After entering the ordinary sea, these life forms began to evolve rapidly by devouring the genetic fragments of modern animals.

However, these animals don’t just have any genetic fragments!

Li Ge looked at the Dunkleosteus that was constantly hunting in the distance, and murmured: "For example, that Dunkleosteus, no matter how many monsters it hunted, it never had a genetic mutation."

"So...these organisms may have an ability to recognize advantageous gene segments."

This ability is indeed miraculous.

Because gene fragments are just gene fragments.

This thing is the code of DNA or RNA, just like a line of letters intercepted from a program.

Humans need professional training to recognize the function of this letter and use it selectively.

But what about animals? They come from ignorance, but they can identify genetic codes that are a hundred times more complex than programming, determine whether they are strong or weak, whether they are adapted to the surrounding environment, and insert them into their own genes.

Li Ge marveled, observing and even admiring the massacre and great evolution at the bottom of the sea.

Here, cruelty and hope coexist, death and rebirth are intertwined.

"I wonder if humans can develop this kind of ability?" Li Ge murmured to himself, somewhat yearning for it.

In fact, any creature can develop this instinct.

The premise is - at the cost of a lot of death.

Nature has an extremely simple and crude way of cultivating a certain ability.

——If there is, there will be life; if there is none, there will be death.

Let those individuals who can identify the genetic fragments survive and leave behind descendants.

And this principle has been implemented in the second, third, fourth, and even the thousandth generation.

Until this ability solidified into an instinct, hidden deep in the genes of all living things.

Now, although the era of great evolution has only started for more than a month.

However, no one knows how many times this group of creatures on the seabed have evolved, and how many corpses have sunk to the bottom of the sea, becoming the mud that nourishes all things.

Do humans have the courage to acquire abilities in this way?

Thinking of this, Li Ge felt a sense of awe in his heart.

That night, he stayed quietly in the deep sea, watching countless creatures break free from their original shackles and move towards a higher stage.

Some of them succeeded, and some became food for other creatures.

But no matter what, there is always an endless supply of those lowest-level beings.

Li Ge guessed that there must be the most primitive life factory somewhere under the sea.

Those first life forms burst out from it, filling this bizarre sea.

…

When we returned, the sky was already showing the white color of fish belly.

Li Ge sat up from the luxurious and soft bed and looked at the boundless sea in the distance through the large floor-to-ceiling windows.

"I really want to own this sea area..." A strong desire surged in Li Ge's heart.

He looked at the size of the Kingdom of Life on the attribute panel and tried to make the soil approach Qingzhou in a straight line underground.

In order to save the land volume, Li Ge made the Kingdom of Life that he explored very thin, only about one centimeter in diameter.

However...a sharp pain hit him.

Li Ge was shocked and let out a suppressed roar.

After a while, the pain subsided, and Li Ge gasped and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"no……"

This is not a distance of a few kilometers or dozens of kilometers... but a full seven thousand kilometers.

Li Ge threw himself on the bed dejectedly and let out a long sigh.

"Forget it, don't think about this first."

First think about how to turn those sea creatures into natural disasters in Qingzhou City.

"Maybe... I should try an experiment first?"

"But we can't do anything too extreme. Natural disasters can come bit by bit, and the Shensheng Biological Group must be destroyed bit by bit. We must always leave a glimmer of hope for the people living here."

"There is no need to massacre all the people here. After all, I am not a butcher."

Thinking of this, Li Ge raised his lips.

"You know...I am a god!"

"The legendary just, selfless and merciful god."