After learning almost all of the Skeletal Dragons' language and writing, Lin immediately found the tablets that the Skeletal Dragons used to record their history. These tablets were placed in a corner of the room. Although the pillar in the corner looked inconspicuous, it recorded a lot of useful information.
Lin also found many other records that indicated that there were originally many different versions of the Skeletal Dragon's history, but after some integration, it finally formed the version that Lin had just seen.
The entire historical record was not very complicated, but it also explained what the Skeletal Dragons had experienced, and every experience was recorded in an era.
Lin found that this group of Skeletal Dragons had lived for at least two thousand years. Of course, these two thousand years were their years, which was calculated in terms of 1,060 days and nights in a year.
If the records of the Skeletal Dragons were true, then they had been developing for a long time since they knew how to record history.
And their birth was inseparably related to the creator mentioned in their history.
Lin found that in addition to the historical record, there were many recording tablets about the creator. Most of them described something about the creator, and they were all stories that were imagined with thoughts. There were quite a lot of them, and Lin could confirm that they worshipped the creator very much.
In the White Skeleton Dragon's mind, its creator was omnipotent. It had unparalleled power and could create life. It could create everything.
This was a strange phenomenon. The way they worshipped the creator was somewhat different from the Emerald Dragons and the Skeletal Dragons. The Emerald Dragons worshipped many things. But no Emerald Dragons thought that they were created by something they worshipped. And the Skeletal Dragons did not think that the pom-poms created them. The Skeletal Dragons thought that the pom-poms guided their direction, their path, and their lives.
In the historical record, the Skeletal Dragons thought that they were molded by the creator out of mud.
This sounded strange, but it also meant that the Skeletal Dragons did not remember what it was like in the beginning. It was only when they learned how to record later that they began to imagine how they were born and how they came to be. This made them think that they were molded by the creator.
Molded into a Skeletal Dragon from mud? This idea seemed unlikely, but many ingredients in the mud could be converted into nutrients for living creatures, so it could not be completely wrong.
In fact, Lin had also thought about this question. How did living creatures come to be? But at least it was not like what the Skeletal Dragons said. It was still possible to mold them out of mud, but they later said that the creator created other creatures out of rocks.
Generally speaking, these creatures did not know about the existence of cells. They thought that a creature was a whole, and not made up of many small things. They thought that a creature was like this when it was born.
If he were to tell a White Skeleton Dragon or an Emerald Dragon about cells, they might not believe him at all.
Their brains did not have any information about cells. They did not know that cells had gone through many complicated evolutions to become like this.
Speaking of evolution, it was a very complicated matter. In fact, there were many different kinds of evolution. Now that Lin had integrated her research on biological history and evolution, Lin believed that there were three main types of evolution.
The first, the most primitive Evolutions, was what Lin called a completely random evolution evolution.
Every time a creature reproduces, including when it splits, there is a possibility that its body will undergo some kind of change. If a creature has a change that is beneficial to its life, it will have more opportunities to reproduce. Then, it will slowly eliminate other creatures of its kind. Over time, the creatures in the area will become creatures with this advantage.
This Evolutions were very slow. Due to the randomness, they could not evolve quickly. They could only rely on the random changes that happened during their next reproduction. At the same time, they could not cope with sudden changes in their environment.
To put it simply, this Evolutions relied on coincidence and fate, and required a large population. If the population was too small, it might go extinct before a good ability was randomly produced.
If living creatures evolved in this way, it would be difficult for large arthropods to appear in hundreds of millions of years, let alone species with specialization or dinosaurs. No, it was hard to say if multicellular creatures would even be born.
Thus, another type of creature was born. They had a more powerful Evolutions, which Lin called a non-completely random evolution.
It sounded similar to the name above, but this type of creature evolved much faster.
This type of non-completely random creature still relied on coincidence to evolve. In the beginning, they needed coincidence. They had to encounter something by chance. For example, a beetle accidentally had an explosive substance in its body, and then secreted this liquid in its body.
At first, it might have injured itself, but it did not die. Then, it successfully healed the wound in its body. At the same time, the beetle also discovered that this liquid could scare away predators.
Then, it succeeded. It continued to eat, and then secreted a similar liquid in its body to resist predators. At the same time, its cells strengthened its internal organs to resist this kind of injury.
At this time, the beetle's cells would completely record this new ability, and its descendants would inherit this ability. Perhaps the initial ability was not very perfect. Perhaps at first, it only relied on squirming to squeeze out the liquid. However, each of its descendants continued to use this ability and improved it. In the end, it even became a super cannon that could directly synthesize and explode in its body and rotate 360 degrees!
To put it simply, as long as this new type of evolution encountered a certain coincidence, and it found that the coincidence was beneficial to itself, it would begin to adapt to the coincidence and produce changes at the right time. There was no need for the random changes to slowly stack up by chance through reproduction.
When living creatures reproduce, the offspring they produce will also have more abilities.
In fact, this new evolutionary ability of these creatures was also a result of a random occurrence at some point in time. They quickly replaced the slow and purely random creatures and became the dominant species. Most of the creatures Lin saw now, including various dinosaurs and skeletal dragons, were basically these creatures. Moreover, these creatures were not limited to animals, but plants and even fungi as well. The era of purely random creatures was over.
Only in a few places could one find some very primitive and purely random fungus creatures.
However, because this new evolution method relied on chance in the beginning, it was called a non-completely random N creature.
As for the evolution of the virus, it wasn't easy to confirm. Next time, it would be better to conduct an experiment. Lin still had a relatively ancient virus, and he didn't know what kind of effect it would have on modern living creatures.
Non-completely random creatures did not break away from randomness. They would still produce random changes during reproduction. Occasionally, they would produce changes that were not good for their bodies. If these creatures succeeded in reproducing, their offspring would inherit the same negative changes. This was called a hereditary disease.
Another thing that Lin discovered was that some emerald dragons, if they gave birth to their offspring in a very sad and melancholic situation, their offspring's' n 'points might also become quite melancholic.
But no matter what, their evolution speed had indeed increased greatly.
However, although these creatures evolved faster than purely random N creatures, it was still considered slow. They could not achieve the rapid changes required by the division of labor species.
Thus, the third evolution method was created. Currently, this evolution method was only used by the most powerful division of labor species.
They could control the evolution of their 'n' points.
This was also mainly the method the headworm used to create new units. Although the units produced by the headworm were different, their larvae were exactly the same. Only when they reached adulthood would they be able to see the difference.
The larvae's' n 'points were very large. If the headworm wanted to create a new unit, it would need to change a larva.
The headworm's queen secreted a special substance to control the growth of the larva. Usually, when a larva grew to about one meter, it would slowly metamorphose into a foot soldier. However, the headworm could stop it from metamorphosing and then continuously feed the larva until it grew to an unusually large size.
Then, when it metamorphosed, the headworm would have a giant foot soldier!
However, this was not the end of the story. If the foot soldier was directly enlarged, its carapace would not be suitable for its size and would instantly collapse.
The headworm needed to first affect the larva. For example, it needed to strengthen its carapace, strengthen its muscles, and so on.
However, this was not that simple. The headworm relied on the special substance secreted by the queen to cause the larva to mutate. However, the headworm itself did not know what kind of mutation it would become. It needed to wait for it to become an adult before it could observe.
Of course, this would produce some failed products. However, whenever there was something useful, the headworm would immediately use the Recording Orb to record it. Then, it would make further changes based on this foundation.
For example, a giant foot soldier like the Earth Splitter was created after many headworms went through a lot of modifications and enhancements.
Although it seemed very complicated, the speed at which new units were created was much faster than the previous two evolution methods.
However, the Inca bugs directly skipped this step. They directly stole the evolution results of other species. This caused their evolution speed to be incomparably fast.
However, no matter which evolution method it was, Lin did not belong to their system. Lin's evolution method was very different from theirs.
Everything started from the smallest to the most complex. This would not change.
However, where did the smallest form come from?
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