"A mother nest has appeared in the sea's planktons. They have begun to set up gene locks to limit the size of the spore creatures!”
Xu Zhi frowned and silently gave the order.
The orchard was only so big, so it was impossible for them to evolve too much.
In the memories of the previous Queen Mother, it also showed that the method of evolving a huge body was wrong.
There was no need to deliberately expand the size of the Insect race. Maintaining the original small size of the Insect race was the correct way to evolve. The smaller the size, the easier it was to produce a qualitative change in energy.
Their bodies no longer expanded.
From then on, the size of the normal species in the sandbox was smaller than that of ordinary ants. This was the true Zerg, the Insect race. The largest species, even if it evolved to the level of dinosaurs, would not be larger than a cat.
A bug the size of a cat was already an exaggeration.
A sand table of 100 acres was the size of a small province for ant-sized micro-organisms.
On the afternoon of the sixth day, after five days of single-celled oceanic life, there was finally a drastic change. Multicellularized organisms began to appear in the seawater.
In just a few minutes, Xu Zhi felt like he was in an accelerated ecological discipline film. On the artificial ocean in the pond, new floating species were born in seconds, then died out, giving birth to the next generation…
Soon, all kinds of strange aquatic plants floated in the pond in the orchard.
Xu Zhi had wanted to give it a try and cast a single cell into the ocean to evolve into a species, but he did not expect it to be so powerful.
" Ten thousand years accelerated to one day. In just six days, after sixty thousand years of species evolution, the single-celled organisms in the ocean have evolved into the planktons in the sea, forming a super-palaeozu ocean similar to the Cambrian-era explosion at the end of the Phanerocosm on Earth 500 million years ago. This insect spore is simply too powerful."
Xu Zhi did not understand the history of Earth's evolution.
However, he could naturally return to his room, turn on his laptop, search the internet, and crazily study the evolutionary history of Earth, the origin of species, Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian...
After all, Earth could be used as a reference.
" But the sky is about to turn dark. My biggest worry is about to begin. The world of the sandbox is about to be destroyed…"
He looked at the man-made ocean in the courtyard and looked up at the dark sky. The last rays of dusk fell in the corner of the wall.
Cell division and evolution were accelerated by 10,000 times. He condensed 10,000 years into one day, which was equivalent to 5,000 years of day and 5,000 years of night.
Now that the sky was dark, it was equivalent to five thousand years of daylight having passed. It was about to welcome five thousand years of endless night.
Sunlight was the source of all life. These aquatic plants that had just been born in the ocean would lose their photosynthesis and die.
As expected, the moment the sun was gone, a drastic change occurred in the seawater.
A large number of aquatic plants withered and sank to the bottom of the sea, losing their lives. They were like the Dead Sea, lifeless under the night sky.
"In my evolutionary era, the first mass extinction has begun…I didn't expect it to be so fast."
Xu Zhi took a deep breath.
He had checked the information online.
In the long history of evolution, Earth had experienced five times of mass extinction, from the birth of single cells to the evolution of multicells, and the reproduction of various species in the ancient era!
In history, the most famous event was naturally the mass extinction at the end of the cretaceous period. 65 million years ago, the era of dinosaurs, which was once the overlord of the earth, was destroyed. At that time, 80% of the animals died.
The first mass extinction on Earth was actually more than 400 million years ago, at the end of the Ordovian period.
That was due to the sudden drop in temperature and the lowering of sea levels, which led to the destruction of the Earth's marine ecosystem and the extinction of 85% of marine species at that time.
Now, unlike the Earth era, the sandbox under his control had suddenly fallen into an endless night that lasted for 5,000 years. The sun had suddenly disappeared, causing his first mass extinction.
Earth was a huge planet, and there were billions of species on it. There was great compatibility, and even if there was a mass extinction, it could survive.
However, it was different here. The environment was too small.
Logically speaking, even if the pond and ocean were filled, there would only be tens of millions of species. According to Darwin's theory of evolution, a small number of creatures was not enough to evolve a new creature that could adapt to the environment.
" But this is the extremely adaptable single cell of the Zerg, spores. If they can survive on a barren planet, there's no reason why they can't here."
Xu Zhi took a deep breath. He could not help but feel a little excited and uneasy.
He waited quietly. Moonlight shone down from the courtyard. Half an hour passed in the lifeless sea of plant corpses. Suddenly, a touch of faint blue surfaced on the surface of the water.
It was a blue plant the size of an ant with delicate leaves.
Losing direct sunlight, the plant chose to direct the source of photosynthesis to the moon, which had extremely little light, and managed to survive.
After the plant successfully survived the first round of mass extinction, it grew, developed, and died in just a few seconds, just like a speeding up movie recording.
It began to evolve rapidly from generation to generation, and it adapted to the night environment in a frenzy. Water chestnuts and circular plates appeared, like lotus leaves lying flat on the surface of the sea, in order to absorb the moonlight from the courtyard's sky on a larger scale.
Another hour passed.
As the only marine species in the sandbox, the aquatic plant that Xu Zhi named " Blue Moon Grass " had undergone tens of thousands of generations of evolution and had begun to form various branches.
There were angular ones, slender ones, oval ones, deep-sea ones, and shallow-sea ones. At this time, it even developed two different species.
A portion of the Blue Moongrass continued to absorb the moonlight as it evolved, increasing the efficiency of the moonlight conversion.
A portion of the Blue Moongrass actually began to turn carnivorous, preying on other Blue Moongrasses. They also absorbed the moonlight and emitted a faint fluorescent light, attracting other Blue Moongrasses to float over and then devour them.
When Xu Zhi saw this, he marveled at the tenacity and wonder of life. Survival of the fittest." After surviving the first mass extinction, this only surviving aquatic plant actually developed its own diverse civilization in the dark ocean.”
He took out a black notebook, picked up a pen, and recorded the evolution process of this sandbox.
"Why don't we follow Earth's epoch calendar and record the countless epochs that my sandbox has evolved into?
During the Cambrian-era on Earth, there was a huge explosion of life. It was the origin of all life on Earth. Only then did dinosaurs, humans, and all kinds of ferocious beasts appear. However, there was a huge explosion of life here, but we were faced with 5,000 years of darkness. Let's call it the Dark Cambrian-era.”
Excitedly, he flipped to the first page of Genesis and wrote the first line of words:
In the Dark Warrior Era, the world changed drastically. The sun set and the moon rose. The world fell into a long period of darkness that lasted for 5,000 years. 99% of the marine creatures went extinct, and only the Blue Moongrass survived by absorbing the moonlight. It became the only species that survived. It flourished in this dark ocean, and the Blue Moongrass became the overlord of the era.
He looked at the pond called the Ocean of Life and silently waited.
" According to the history of biological evolution on Earth, the ocean is the origin of all life. The marine plants first appeared, and then continued to reproduce, becoming marine animals. What kind of marine animals will evolve from the Zerg cells?"
He did not sleep the entire night and waited until dawn.
The seventh day had finally begun!
However, unlike what Xu Zhi had expected, animals did not begin to evolve on the seventh day. Instead, it ushered in another terrifying mass extinction!
Because the sun had risen.
The moment the sunrise, the various Blue Moongrass in the sea that was flourishing in the middle of the night quickly withered.
They were originally exposed to the weak moonlight at night, but now they were suddenly exposed to such strong sunlight. They seemed to be burned and sank to the bottom of the sea.
In an instant, the Blue Moon Grass began to go extinct on a large scale.
" The second mass extinction happened so quickly. It didn't last long. It's really tragic."
This was the end of life.
In the long evolutionary era of species, countless species were born and extinct in billions of years. It was a vast planetary epic.
The process of spores evolving into life was long and arduous. However, in just a few hours, countless prosperity and decline were displayed before Xu Zhi's eyes. The shock that it brought to Xu Zhi was powerful and inexplicable.
In the afternoon, a touch of blue gradually recovered from the dead plants.
It was a five-star-shaped Blue Moon Grass. It had also welcomed its own mutation and evolution, successfully escaping this mass extinction. It transformed under the scorching sun and was reborn from the flames.
In order to adapt to the strong sunlight environment, it began to reproduce again.
In just a few minutes, they died, were reborn, and reproduced for countless generations. They began to gradually turn from blue to dark purple…In the end, it formed a mysterious black-blue five-pointed seaweed.
It had a beautiful five-pointed star and a mysterious balanced leaf that could expand and contract.
At night, it would open its pentagonal edges and flatten them on the surface of the sea to increase the area of absorption of moonlight. During the day, in order to prevent strong sunlight, it would shrink by half and become a flower bud.
It was a little like Starbeck.
The mass extinction of species was an opportunity for weak species to rise up.
In the entire ocean, there were no other species competing with it for the living environment. It began to reproduce rapidly again, producing various branches and filling the entire ocean with vitality.
"After five thousand years of scorching sun and five thousand years of darkness.”
"Five thousand years of the sun and moon hanging in the sky. As the only living being of countless species, you have experienced the scorching sun and darkness. You are a true hero.”Xu Zhi smiled and silently picked up his pen to flip to the second page of the black diary.
He continued to record the second mass extinction event in the evolution of his biological era:
In the Guangwu Period, the world changed drastically. The moon set and the sunrise rose, and a scorching sun that lasted for 5,000 years appeared in the sky. The Blue Moongrass, which had survived the Dark Warrior Period, began to go extinct on a large scale. Among them, the weaker branch of the Blue Moongrass, the Purple Shining Grass, rose up and became the main character of the era.
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