Chapter 3101: The birth of the spirit of all things! (1/2)

Whether trilobite, nautilus, or armor fish, they are all out-and-out marine overlords.

Both trilobites and nautilus have a hard carapace and a relatively ”large and uncompromising” body shape. In an era when most marine paleontologies were not much larger than plankton, they were the most terrifying killing machines.

Not to mention the armored fish, in addition to a hard carapace, it also has fast mobility, can rampage and sweep away all prey.

But Li Yao did not hesitate to rule out these three seemingly attractive evolution options.

Because he knew very well that no matter how powerful the trilobite, nautilus, and armor fish looked, they were eventually eliminated in a long time.

Too large size means that their survival needs to consume more energy, it is bound to spend most of their time on hunting, digestion and absorption.

And the too hard carapace, on the one hand, blocked their ability to mutate further, on the other hand, it made them indulge in an illusory sense of security, and lost the need for evolution.

A life without a sense of crisis and aggressiveness is destined to be a life without a future. It will never ignite the fire of evolution, and will only become a fossil after hundreds of millions of years.

Therefore, Li Yao eliminated all the top predators, but chose an unremarkable little whitebait as the carrier of his consciousness.

Said to be small whitebait, but their average size is no more than half a centimeter, just like a strip of silver worms.

This little whitebait has almost no hunting ability. Instead, it is the best food for top predators such as nautilus, trilobite, and carapace. When top predators are patrolling around them, they have nothing to resist. Power can only be slaughtered by others.

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

Their life cycle is extremely short, and they mate and reproduce almost every second in their short life. They have evolved preliminary male and female sexes. Each time a female fish sprays, it can shoot out thousands of dust particles. Like the seeds of life, 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 everything into energy, from plankton on the sea, to the carrion of top predators, from the primitive fungus blanket on the seabed, or seaweed and anemone, they It can even attach to the body of ancient jellyfish and form a harmonious and orderly symbiosis with the jellyfish, relying on the residue of the jellyfish digested food to survive.

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

Li Yao devotes himself to this group of little silver fishes, and with a single mind, he has carefully chosen those mutation directions that can increase the number of the group.

He refused to expand the size of the small whitebait, ruled out the possibility of covering the surface of the small whitebait with a strong carapace. Of course, he did not hesitate to obliterate the appearance of sharper teeth, which seem to be extremely aggressive, but in fact it is self-defeating. The mutation of extinction has given the little whitebait more powerful digestion, absorption and reproduction capabilities, and of course the subtle perception of the planet's magnetic field, as well as more powerful voyage capabilities.

In this way, in just a brief moment or billions of years of evolution, the whitebait and its different variants have gradually spread to the entire ocean. From the dark and cold North Pole to the sunny equator, all the seas are shining with the whitebait. Light and shadow.

During this period, the trilobite was covered by the sediment on the seabed, and the nautilus became empty. The armor fish that once ruled the roost is evolving more and more solid carapace, sharper teeth, and larger and larger After his size, 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 eventually swallowed by his own desperate appetite, becoming an evolutionary loser.

The new ocean overlord appeared.

They may be sharks that are streamlined, faster, and more agile.

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

Even various jellyfish that have evolved to be highly toxic.

The vast majority of ocean overlords regard the small whitebait as one of the main dishes in their recipes.

There is a whale covered with star spots that can swallow several tons of small whitebait in one breath. For this reason, a set of organs used to filter seawater and absorb the small whitebait has been specially evolved.

But no matter how aggressively they kill, they will not be able to reduce the overall number of small whitebait, on the contrary, make the small whitebait the basis of the entire food chain, the key to the survival of countless species.