45 Global Evolution Part 1
In the end, the two of them returned empty-handed and were mocked by Zhuang Yao. However, when they heard that there had been a significant change in the breeding speed of rats, Zhuang Yao's face turned even more serious.
Cong Xia felt a little embarrassed and said, "How about we go out again and find something for Abu to eat?"
"I stocked two tons of cat food for it, but there's not much left. It's in the underground cold storage. Can you help me bring up 30 pounds?"
Cong Xia was stunned and stammered, "How big is your villa? How long did it take you to build it like this?"
"I started remodeling it when I was seven years old. I originally wanted to create a large-scale experimental base that meets my requirements. However, many of my ideas hadn't been implemented before doomsday arrived. I ended up buying over a hundred acres of land next to it for nothing." Zhuang Yao shook his head, looking disappointed.
The three became increasingly curious about Zhuang Yao's background. What kind of family raised such a child? Not only was he exceptionally intelligent, but he also seemed to have endless money. Most importantly, it seemed that nobody was supervising him.
Zhuang Yao furrowed his brows, turned his head, and looked at them. "Are you guessing about my background? With your intelligence, don't waste your effort. I won't tell you."
The three followed him into the underground cold storage. It turned out that Zhuang Yao had also stocked some rice and a half-wall of cat food inside.
Zhuang Yao sighed, "Abu couldn't adapt to eating raw meat, so it could only eat cat food. Later, when the cat food ran out, I had to force it to go out and find its own food. Now that we’re leaving, let it eat a bit more. After finishing this, there won't be any left.”
In this world, there will probably never be anyone producing cat food, such a valueless thing.
Each of the three carried a bag of 5 kilograms of cat food and placed them in front of Abu.
Cheng Tianbi waved his hand, and the vacuum-sealed packaging was torn open by an invisible force. The cat food scattered with a rustling sound. Cong Xia happened to be standing next to the pile of cat food. Abu excitedly opened its mouth and took a big bite, but ended up causing Cong Xia to stumble and fall into the swimming pool turned into a cat's nest.
Liu Fengyu and Zhuang Yao burst into laughter, while Cheng Tianbi pulled Cong Xia out.
Cong Xia wiped the wet saliva off his arm and asked, "How's your bullet research going?"
"Oh, I just read six books and got some ideas. Give me two days to study them."
"Six books? In two hours?"
Zhuang Yao dismissed it, "After my brain mutation, my reading speed is very fast. I can basically read ten lines at a glance, and I won't forget what I've read."
"That's amazing."
"Well, why do you think Cerebral Domain Evolvers are valuable?" Zhuang Yao crossed his arms and spoke arrogantly in a childish voice. "But even without the mutation, my IQ is 246. I don't care about evolution at all."
"Evolution is always a good thing."
"Not necessarily," Zhuang Yao frowned slightly. "Look at the rapid decay of those gecko cells. If their size and reproductive speed can evolve, can the rate of cell decay evolve as well? If these evolutions don't stop, then the ultimate outcome of evolution is destruction."
The ultimate outcome of evolution is destruction?!
Zhuang Yao said, "No species can dominate the world through infinite evolution. The reproductive crisis and food crisis during evolution will become more prominent. The resources consumed by species evolution will eventually overwhelm the Earth. At that time, nature will head towards destruction. Isn't humanity a good example? Otherwise, why are we capable of anything on this planet but still end up in this situation?"
Cong Xia pondered, "Are you suggesting that the apocalypse is the result of excessive human evolution?"
Zhuang Yao nodded, "That's my preliminary inference. After we reach Beijing, I want to meet a few people. They have better research conditions, and they should have deeper insights. However, I believe my ideas are very close."
"Can you be more specific?" Cong Xia asked further.
"Not now. I still need to verify some things. If I can verify them, I think I will be able to determine the true cause of the Second Cambrian Explosion."
Cong Xia opened his mouth but ultimately remained silent. Cheng Tianbi, the only one who knew the truth, signaled him with his eyes.
Currently, the only thing they could confirm was that the attributeless energy was indeed the culprit behind the chaotic evolution of species worldwide. Even the tiny amount of attributeless energy inside him could temporarily remodel cellular vitality and metabolism. If such a minimal amount of attributeless energy could achieve such miracles, what about the vast attributeless energy radiated globally after the earthquake? These energies triggered the frenzy of species. This information was initially inferred from the content left by the ancient jade, and it was the biggest secret between Zhuang Yao and Cheng Tianbi.
Even Liu Fengyu only obtained part of the information from the ancient jade about cultivating internal energy and purifying energy cores. He had no knowledge of the ancient jade's existence, and it was impossible for them to reveal even a hint of it to this cunning child.
However, if combined with Zhuang Yao's speculation, the truth of the Second Cambrian Explosion seemed even more elusive.
Could it be true that excessive human evolution caused this result of attributeless energy altering global species? Is there really a connection between the two? Where does the attributeless energy come from, and what did humanity do to trigger the awakening of this energy? What role does the ancient jade play in all of this?
These series of mysteries constantly troubled Cong Xia. If it weren't for Zhuang Yao being so untrustworthy, he would really want to tell him the secret of the ancient jade. He believed that with Zhuang Yao's intellect, he would definitely be able to uncover many valuable things step by step. It felt like a waste to keep the ancient jade in his hands and explore it little by little.
Zhuang Yao said, "Let's not talk about this. Cong Xia, I need to study small-caliber bullets that can penetrate gecko skin in the next two days. I need your help to make something for me."
"What is it?"
"I have a few ounces of trivalent chromium here. I researched a subsonic emitter two years ago, and I have the blueprints. I want you to make it for me."
Cong Xia asked, "What do you want to use it for?"
"Put it in the rat's nest. Those rats are small in size, and two days should be enough to kill a group of them. The others will also leave due to the unbearable attack of the subsonic waves. This rat's nest is truly a golden opportunity. Where else can we find a dense group of small-sized mutant creatures? Before we engage in battle with the geckos, I want you to absorb some attributeless energy. If the quantity is large enough, you might be able to cure Abu immediately. With that, our chances of success will greatly increase."
Cheng Tianbi furrowed his brow. "That thing is highly radioactive. Do you have any protective measures?"
Zhuang Yao shrugged indifferently. "You have half a day to make it, at most you'll feel a bit sick, nothing serious."
Cheng Tianbi's tone turned cold. "No protective suit, no deal."
Cong Xia said, "I've never made a subsonic weapon before, but I understand the principles. However, I can't guarantee it within half a day."
Zhuang Yao rolled his eyes. "I've put the protective suit in the warehouse, you guys can go find it. The blueprints are here." Zhuang Yao printed out the diagrams from the computer. "You shouldn't be that dumb, and it's not that complicated. If you don't understand, try to figure it out yourself and don't bother me." After commanding Cong Xia, he turned to Liu Fengyu and said, "You come with me. I need some of your digestive fluid. I want to try putting the concentrated digestive fluid in the bullets. Even if it can't damage the vital organs of the giant geckos, the digestive fluid can corrode them internally to some extent."
"How much do you need?"
"Give me half a liter for now."
"Damn it, I can only produce half a liter of two fluids in my body: blood or urine."
Zhuang Yao glared at him. "When you completely transform, the area of a petal is close to four square meters with a thickness of seven centimeters. With just one petal, you can produce at least three liters of digestive fluid."
Liu Fengyu flipped him off. "I really can't stand you."
Cong Xia and Cheng Tianbi followed Zhuang Yao's instructions and found a set of protective suits in the warehouse. Cong Xia said, "There's only one set. You go cultivate, I'll make it myself."
"I'll be in the next room. Call me if you need anything."
"Don't worry, I've got it."
All four of them were busy. Cheng Tianbi and Liu Fengyu used their free time to intensify their training, continuously absorbing the freely roaming elemental energies between heaven and earth to increase their energy core reserves. Zhuang Yao devoted himself entirely to the development of the new bullets, while Cong Xia tirelessly created the subsonic wave weapon.
They were all preparing to confront the geckos that had once forced them to flee.
After a day and a half, Cong Xia finally transformed an old microwave oven into a subsonic wave emitter. He brought it to Zhuang Yao for energy radiation testing, and Zhuang Yao was quite satisfied. "Which one of you three will go? Put it in the rat's nest."
Cong Xia and Cheng Tianbi looked at Liu Fengyu.
Currently, he was the only one who could infiltrate the enemy's camp while still ensuring that the enemy had to avoid him.
Liu Fengyu shrugged and picked up the emitter. "I'll go, it's fine."
Cong Xia reminded him, "Liu Ge, go quickly and come back quickly. Don't stay too close to it for too long."
"I know."
After Liu Fengyu left, Zhuang Yao took out a British-made L42A1 sniper rifle and spread his palm, holding three bullets in his hand. "Let's go out and test the gun. I've developed two types of bullets: the first one is the Digestive Fluid Bullet from the Corpse King Flower, and the second one is the Explosive Bullet, both are small-caliber armor-piercing rounds."
Cheng Tianbi took the gun and bullets and skillfully loaded an explosive bullet into the chamber.
"Come on, I'm ready." Zhuang Yao led them to the courtyard where two sticks were set up, with defrosted raw meat hanging from them. Zhuang Yao used a pen to draw two red dots on the meat.
Cheng Tianbi lay prone on the ground and locked the red dot in his sight through the scope. With a gunshot, the distant meat was hit. The explosive bullet detonated upon impact, and small fragments scattered and deeply embedded into the meat.
Zhuang Yao ran over to examine the piece of meat. It was riddled with holes. He shook his head at Cheng Tianbi. "You didn't hit the red core."
"Your bullet grooves have a problem. They deviate from the expected trajectory the moment they leave the barrel."
Zhuang Yao raised an eyebrow. "Are you that confident in your marksmanship?"
Cheng Tianbi said expressionlessly, "I can't miss an inanimate target."
"Try the next bullet, the one with the digestive fluid."
Cheng Tianbi loaded another bullet and took another shot. This time, he still didn't hit the red core, but the hit location was almost identical to the other piece of meat. Zhuang Yao nodded. "Seems like it really is a problem with the bullet."
The two of them approached, watching as the disgusting digestive fluid gradually melted the piece of meat, creating a small wound that slowly grew larger until the fluid was depleted.
Zhuang Yao took out his notebook and began recording data. "The first test yielded good results, especially with the digestive fluid bullet exceeding my expectations. However, the production difficulty is too high. After two days, I can make a maximum of four for you. When the time comes, you must aim for vital areas, otherwise, for such a big gecko, making a small hole won't matter to it."
Cheng Tianbi remained silent. He didn't need a kid to educate him on how to defeat the enemy.
45 Global Evolution Part 1
In the end, the two of them returned empty-handed and were mocked by Zhuang Yao. However, when they heard that there had been a significant change in the breeding speed of rats, Zhuang Yao's face turned even more serious.
Cong Xia felt a little embarrassed and said, "How about we go out again and find something for Abu to eat?"
"I stocked two tons of cat food for it, but there's not much left. It's in the underground cold storage. Can you help me bring up 30 pounds?"
Cong Xia was stunned and stammered, "How big is your villa? How long did it take you to build it like this?"
"I started remodeling it when I was seven years old. I originally wanted to create a large-scale experimental base that meets my requirements. However, many of my ideas hadn't been implemented before doomsday arrived. I ended up buying over a hundred acres of land next to it for nothing." Zhuang Yao shook his head, looking disappointed.
The three became increasingly curious about Zhuang Yao's background. What kind of family raised such a child? Not only was he exceptionally intelligent, but he also seemed to have endless money. Most importantly, it seemed that nobody was supervising him.
Zhuang Yao furrowed his brows, turned his head, and looked at them. "Are you guessing about my background? With your intelligence, don't waste your effort. I won't tell you."
The three followed him into the underground cold storage. It turned out that Zhuang Yao had also stocked some rice and a half-wall of cat food inside.
Zhuang Yao sighed, "Abu couldn't adapt to eating raw meat, so it could only eat cat food. Later, when the cat food ran out, I had to force it to go out and find its own food. Now that we’re leaving, let it eat a bit more. After finishing this, there won't be any left.”
In this world, there will probably never be anyone producing cat food, such a valueless thing.
Each of the three carried a bag of 5 kilograms of cat food and placed them in front of Abu.
Cheng Tianbi waved his hand, and the vacuum-sealed packaging was torn open by an invisible force. The cat food scattered with a rustling sound. Cong Xia happened to be standing next to the pile of cat food. Abu excitedly opened its mouth and took a big bite, but ended up causing Cong Xia to stumble and fall into the swimming pool turned into a cat's nest.
Liu Fengyu and Zhuang Yao burst into laughter, while Cheng Tianbi pulled Cong Xia out.
Cong Xia wiped the wet saliva off his arm and asked, "How's your bullet research going?"
"Oh, I just read six books and got some ideas. Give me two days to study them."
"Six books? In two hours?"
Zhuang Yao dismissed it, "After my brain mutation, my reading speed is very fast. I can basically read ten lines at a glance, and I won't forget what I've read."
"That's amazing."
"Well, why do you think Cerebral Domain Evolvers are valuable?" Zhuang Yao crossed his arms and spoke arrogantly in a childish voice. "But even without the mutation, my IQ is 246. I don't care about evolution at all."
"Evolution is always a good thing."
"Not necessarily," Zhuang Yao frowned slightly. "Look at the rapid decay of those gecko cells. If their size and reproductive speed can evolve, can the rate of cell decay evolve as well? If these evolutions don't stop, then the ultimate outcome of evolution is destruction."
The ultimate outcome of evolution is destruction?!
Zhuang Yao said, "No species can dominate the world through infinite evolution. The reproductive crisis and food crisis during evolution will become more prominent. The resources consumed by species evolution will eventually overwhelm the Earth. At that time, nature will head towards destruction. Isn't humanity a good example? Otherwise, why are we capable of anything on this planet but still end up in this situation?"
Cong Xia pondered, "Are you suggesting that the apocalypse is the result of excessive human evolution?"
Zhuang Yao nodded, "That's my preliminary inference. After we reach Beijing, I want to meet a few people. They have better research conditions, and they should have deeper insights. However, I believe my ideas are very close."
"Can you be more specific?" Cong Xia asked further.
"Not now. I still need to verify some things. If I can verify them, I think I will be able to determine the true cause of the Second Cambrian Explosion."
Cong Xia opened his mouth but ultimately remained silent. Cheng Tianbi, the only one who knew the truth, signaled him with his eyes.
Currently, the only thing they could confirm was that the attributeless energy was indeed the culprit behind the chaotic evolution of species worldwide. Even the tiny amount of attributeless energy inside him could temporarily remodel cellular vitality and metabolism. If such a minimal amount of attributeless energy could achieve such miracles, what about the vast attributeless energy radiated globally after the earthquake? These energies triggered the frenzy of species. This information was initially inferred from the content left by the ancient jade, and it was the biggest secret between Zhuang Yao and Cheng Tianbi.
Even Liu Fengyu only obtained part of the information from the ancient jade about cultivating internal energy and purifying energy cores. He had no knowledge of the ancient jade's existence, and it was impossible for them to reveal even a hint of it to this cunning child.
However, if combined with Zhuang Yao's speculation, the truth of the Second Cambrian Explosion seemed even more elusive.
Could it be true that excessive human evolution caused this result of attributeless energy altering global species? Is there really a connection between the two? Where does the attributeless energy come from, and what did humanity do to trigger the awakening of this energy? What role does the ancient jade play in all of this?
These series of mysteries constantly troubled Cong Xia. If it weren't for Zhuang Yao being so untrustworthy, he would really want to tell him the secret of the ancient jade. He believed that with Zhuang Yao's intellect, he would definitely be able to uncover many valuable things step by step. It felt like a waste to keep the ancient jade in his hands and explore it little by little.
Zhuang Yao said, "Let's not talk about this. Cong Xia, I need to study small-caliber bullets that can penetrate gecko skin in the next two days. I need your help to make something for me."
"What is it?"
"I have a few ounces of trivalent chromium here. I researched a subsonic emitter two years ago, and I have the blueprints. I want you to make it for me."
Cong Xia asked, "What do you want to use it for?"
"Put it in the rat's nest. Those rats are small in size, and two days should be enough to kill a group of them. The others will also leave due to the unbearable attack of the subsonic waves. This rat's nest is truly a golden opportunity. Where else can we find a dense group of small-sized mutant creatures? Before we engage in battle with the geckos, I want you to absorb some attributeless energy. If the quantity is large enough, you might be able to cure Abu immediately. With that, our chances of success will greatly increase."
Cheng Tianbi furrowed his brow. "That thing is highly radioactive. Do you have any protective measures?"
Zhuang Yao shrugged indifferently. "You have half a day to make it, at most you'll feel a bit sick, nothing serious."
Cheng Tianbi's tone turned cold. "No protective suit, no deal."
Cong Xia said, "I've never made a subsonic weapon before, but I understand the principles. However, I can't guarantee it within half a day."
Zhuang Yao rolled his eyes. "I've put the protective suit in the warehouse, you guys can go find it. The blueprints are here." Zhuang Yao printed out the diagrams from the computer. "You shouldn't be that dumb, and it's not that complicated. If you don't understand, try to figure it out yourself and don't bother me." After commanding Cong Xia, he turned to Liu Fengyu and said, "You come with me. I need some of your digestive fluid. I want to try putting the concentrated digestive fluid in the bullets. Even if it can't damage the vital organs of the giant geckos, the digestive fluid can corrode them internally to some extent."
"How much do you need?"
"Give me half a liter for now."
"Damn it, I can only produce half a liter of two fluids in my body: blood or urine."
Zhuang Yao glared at him. "When you completely transform, the area of a petal is close to four square meters with a thickness of seven centimeters. With just one petal, you can produce at least three liters of digestive fluid."
Liu Fengyu flipped him off. "I really can't stand you."
Cong Xia and Cheng Tianbi followed Zhuang Yao's instructions and found a set of protective suits in the warehouse. Cong Xia said, "There's only one set. You go cultivate, I'll make it myself."
"I'll be in the next room. Call me if you need anything."
"Don't worry, I've got it."
All four of them were busy. Cheng Tianbi and Liu Fengyu used their free time to intensify their training, continuously absorbing the freely roaming elemental energies between heaven and earth to increase their energy core reserves. Zhuang Yao devoted himself entirely to the development of the new bullets, while Cong Xia tirelessly created the subsonic wave weapon.
They were all preparing to confront the geckos that had once forced them to flee.
After a day and a half, Cong Xia finally transformed an old microwave oven into a subsonic wave emitter. He brought it to Zhuang Yao for energy radiation testing, and Zhuang Yao was quite satisfied. "Which one of you three will go? Put it in the rat's nest."
Cong Xia and Cheng Tianbi looked at Liu Fengyu.
Currently, he was the only one who could infiltrate the enemy's camp while still ensuring that the enemy had to avoid him.
Liu Fengyu shrugged and picked up the emitter. "I'll go, it's fine."
Cong Xia reminded him, "Liu Ge, go quickly and come back quickly. Don't stay too close to it for too long."
"I know."
After Liu Fengyu left, Zhuang Yao took out a British-made L42A1 sniper rifle and spread his palm, holding three bullets in his hand. "Let's go out and test the gun. I've developed two types of bullets: the first one is the Digestive Fluid Bullet from the Corpse King Flower, and the second one is the Explosive Bullet, both are small-caliber armor-piercing rounds."
Cheng Tianbi took the gun and bullets and skillfully loaded an explosive bullet into the chamber.
"Come on, I'm ready." Zhuang Yao led them to the courtyard where two sticks were set up, with defrosted raw meat hanging from them. Zhuang Yao used a pen to draw two red dots on the meat.
Cheng Tianbi lay prone on the ground and locked the red dot in his sight through the scope. With a gunshot, the distant meat was hit. The explosive bullet detonated upon impact, and small fragments scattered and deeply embedded into the meat.
Zhuang Yao ran over to examine the piece of meat. It was riddled with holes. He shook his head at Cheng Tianbi. "You didn't hit the red core."
"Your bullet grooves have a problem. They deviate from the expected trajectory the moment they leave the barrel."
Zhuang Yao raised an eyebrow. "Are you that confident in your marksmanship?"
Cheng Tianbi said expressionlessly, "I can't miss an inanimate target."
"Try the next bullet, the one with the digestive fluid."
Cheng Tianbi loaded another bullet and took another shot. This time, he still didn't hit the red core, but the hit location was almost identical to the other piece of meat. Zhuang Yao nodded. "Seems like it really is a problem with the bullet."
The two of them approached, watching as the disgusting digestive fluid gradually melted the piece of meat, creating a small wound that slowly grew larger until the fluid was depleted.
Zhuang Yao took out his notebook and began recording data. "The first test yielded good results, especially with the digestive fluid bullet exceeding my expectations. However, the production difficulty is too high. After two days, I can make a maximum of four for you. When the time comes, you must aim for vital areas, otherwise, for such a big gecko, making a small hole won't matter to it."
Cheng Tianbi remained silent. He didn't need a kid to educate him on how to defeat the enemy.
