Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 506 The Source of Dreams
Upon hearing that the material usurper had been breached by the caveman, the book-eating demon's eyes lit up immediately: "I will speed up the interpretation of the consciousness fragments. Without the influence of the evil brain, I can read with all my strength!"

She turned around and looked at Sun Hao beside her: "Can you bear it?"

"Don't worry, I won't hold you back."

The boy looked tired, but his tone was firm.

So they began to continue repairing and deciphering the fragments of consciousness.

Zhou Yize continued to communicate with Dong.

The evolution of the ursinus is all about survival, which does not mean that this group is backward. As the excavation progressed, the cave people made many new discoveries.

The most important point is.

"Zhou Dong, there are cells in the body of the tyrant worm that are highly similar to ours. At first, we thought it was a dead body of our own kind that was swallowed up by other existing cells inside. But after repeated verification, we found that this is one of the six core cells that control the tyrant worm and dominate their collaborative ability."

"That's why we were able to connect to this cell and quickly control the parasite without it being rejected or creating attacking cells."

Dong said in a serious tone: "The usurper may be our descendant."

Zhou Yi immediately asked Da Vinci and Galen to do a genetic comparison.

After hearing this, the two electromechanical doctors suggested adding the genes of Nige and Panshu for comparison.

after an hour.

Da Vinci's screen progress bar finished first.

It said: "Chairman, the BLAST basic mode test is out. The genetic similarity between the tyrant worm and the caveman is 26%, and the genetic similarity between the mud and the caveman is 60%."

"This model is fast but less accurate. We will have to wait for Galen's Smith-Waterman algorithm. It has high computational complexity and takes a long time, but it can provide more accurate results when comparing all base factor groups."

When Zhou Yi heard these two numbers, he immediately said, "Does this test result mean that the Mud Tree People are really descendants of the Cave People?"

"You can't judge like that."

Leonardo da Vinci corrected: "Genetic similarity reflects the genetic conservation between species."

"Based on current data and the actual situation of the Mud Tree World, we can only conclude that the Usurper and Mud Tree People are most likely evolved from the common ancestor, the Cave Man."

"The high genetic similarity between Mud Tree Man and Cave Man proves that the Mud Tree Man evolved at a slower rate and that some genes were highly conserved during the evolution process."

"The similarity between the uran worms and the cavemen is low, precisely because this life group evolves faster, so the difference between them and the source cavemen is getting higher and higher."

Zhou Yi suddenly realized.

It seems that the cave people did not commit genocide at the beginning, but started a new round of evolution, which led to the later usurper insects and mud tree people.

He asked again: "What about the Pan tree?"

“The correlation is very low.”

"In the field of genetic similarity, if the similarity is less than 10%, it can usually be considered that the two species are not obviously related in most genes, but there may still be a small number of highly conserved core genes," Da Vinci said.

"With a similarity of less than 5%, it can be considered that the two species are barely related."

"The genetic similarity between Panshu and Dongren is less than 1%. From this, we can infer that these are two completely unrelated species, and the origin of Panshu should have nothing to do with Dongren."

Zhou Yi was surprised: "In other words, Panshu is another life system independent of the cave people?"

"Yes."

7 hours later.

The verification test on Galen's side is finally over.

"Chairman, the results I got here show that the genetic similarity between Nige and the caveman is 62.77%, the similarity between the uran and the caveman is 21.02%, the similarity between Panshu and the caveman is 0.44%, and the similarity between Panshu and the uran is 1.13%."

"It is worth mentioning that the similarity between Panshu and Nige reaches 36.97%, which means they are distantly related. It can be determined that Nishu people and Panshu have a high degree of similarity, and they are most likely a life form formed by the combination of Paleozoic Panshu and cave people."

"In addition, according to molecular clock measurements and the tracing of the entire genome sequence, it can be confirmed that the uran worms are descendants of the cave people who were born earlier than the mud tree people, and the mud tree people are a new branch derived later. According to relevant information, it is speculated that the uran worms should have been born more than 100 million years earlier than the mud tree people, and they are the earlier descendants of the cave people."

"We have reason to believe that Panshu is an alien species in the local world. Panshu appeared first, and then there came Mud Tree Man, a combination of Panshu genes and Cave Man genes."

"In summary, the Tyrant Bugs can be identified as direct descendants of the Cave People. The Mud Tree People are descendants of an alien species."

Nige, who was standing next to him, widened his eyes and said, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"Your data must be wrong!"

"show me!"

Galen ran the entire data several more times and sampled repeatedly, and the results were the same.

unambiguous evidence.

Nigge was a little dazed for a moment and almost lost his balance: "We are the outsiders... and the usurper insects are the local life? How can this be..."

Zhou Yi patted him on the shoulder and said, "There are not so many locals and outsiders. We all live in the same world. We are all part of each other. Don't worry about such trivial matters."

Nigge's face was filled with anguish. "Chairman... Could it be that after the Tyrant Bugs evolved, they were controlling the Mud Tree People in order to expel us, the descendants of foreigners?"

"Based on the information we have, they just need your brains to survive, or to survive better."

He was so confused at the moment that he completely forgot that the usurper had very low intelligence.

Zhou Yi comforted him, "We will go to the Mud Tree World in the future, and we will find out then. Don't think too much, let's focus on what we can do right now."

Nigge came back to his senses a little, slapped his face with both hands, and smoothed his spiky hair: "You are right, thinking too much will only cause trouble! We still have to work."

Together, Da Vinci and Galen consolidated the data and conducted another round of biopsies and biological tests on the evil brain.

They came to a conclusion.

"The structure of the evil brain is highly similar to that of the mudger, so it should be the brain of the mud tree man." "The brain is very developed, a mature and extremely strong light nanoorgan, reaching the light core level. But this is not the result of natural achievement, but the product of long-term stimulation and transformation by the usurper worm."

"The broodworm secretes a special substance, which we named "broodworm pheromone", which can paralyze and stimulate the brain to continue to develop, and it will not stabilize after entering the mature stage like normal organs."

"So the size of this brain is far larger than normal because it is still being stimulated and grown by the usurpers. But for some reason, this brain is in a deep sleep state. According to the EEG, it is still dormant."

Seeing that the progress was good, Zhou Yi returned to Emerald City and took a nap.

He was awakened by Yuanxiao in the middle of the night.

"Chairman, Da Vinci said that the Book-Eating Demon and Sun Hao have made an important discovery that needs to be reported in person."

Zhou Yi suddenly lost all sleepiness and took Yuanxiao to the medical department on the rooftop hemisphere.

In the laboratory.

Everyone has different expressions.

The book-eating demon had a happy look on his face as he ate French fries.

Sun Hao was drinking a bottle of energy drink produced by the company, just thinking about something.

Nig watched the evil brain.

Galen was fiddling with an electron microscope, still making further cellular observations.

Zhou Yi asked: "Where is Da Vinci?"

The book-eating demon washed his hands at the washstand next to him, wiped off the water and said, "Minister Da Vinci is out for an emergency operation. A child has a fish bone stuck in his throat. It has penetrated the esophagus wall. The child has been struggling and crying, so it needs precise positioning and endoscopic removal, so the operation is very difficult. Before the minister leaves, let me wait for you here and report on his behalf."

"Chairman, this is what happened. After the caveman took control of the evil brain, Sun Hao and I continued to repair and read the consciousness fragments."

The book-eating demon said seriously: "Although the dream demon's consciousness has only been restored to 30% at present, we have already read out a lot of information inside."

"The nightmare demon discovered the floating evil brain in the depths of the Dead Sea. This is an extremely powerful light core-level brain, which is extremely tempting to the nightmare demons. The consciousness of powerful life is what the nightmare demons like most."

"After confirming that the brain posed no threat, it dived in."

"After entering, the nightmare was imprisoned by the power of the tyrant insects, and then dismembered and reassembled, turning it into a usable consciousness tool and matching it with this brain."

Zhou Yi frowned: "Wait a minute, this nightmare is a light core body, right? Can the usurper capture light core bodies?"

“The key is this brain.”

The Book-Eating Demon pointed to the black organ in the metal container in front of him: "Its strength is at the light core level, and the usurpers have the innate ability to capture consciousness. This is like a mousetrap for consciousness. Once you enter, you can't get out."

"It can cut off the connection with the Great Holy Spirit outside, making it impossible for the consciousness to escape and unable to borrow external power."

"The physiological structure of the usurper insect is simple, and it is integrated with the evil brain. It is completely unaffected by thinking and does not have any complex consciousness mechanism. Because it is simple, its consciousness is fragmented, making the consciousness ability of the nightmare useless."

"They captured the nightmare and installed it into the evil brain, turning it into a tool that the brain can use. The whole process is like turning the nightmare into a program and installing it in the brain."

"It's just that the tyrant insects are not intelligent enough to use this program, but the matching advanced consciousness will allow the brain to develop further and faster."

"That's about it."

She paused and said, "I have carefully researched the nightmare and found that it contains a secret that few people in the outside world should know."

"Dreams are not born naturally, but are created by nightmares."

"They sneak into the brains of various life forms, especially intelligent species, and create dreams when their brains are resting. This is the truth about dreaming."

Zhou Yi frowned.

Dreams are actually created by nightmares... If this is the case, it is no wonder that dreams cannot be controlled by humans and are unpredictable.

"Why do they create dreams?"

“That’s the fun part.”

The book-eating demon raised his right index finger.

"Dreaming is to separate the necessary fragments of consciousness from the existing life consciousness."

"We often feel that many things in our memories have faded, and even if there is no other carrier to record them, we are completely unable to rely on ourselves to remember them. This is because the nightmare has stolen the relevant fragments of consciousness."

"If you don't dream, you won't lose these things. But in this world, everyone is used to it and thinks that dreams are just a physiological phenomenon like a knee-jerk reflex. They don't think there is anything wrong with dreaming at all."

"In fact, it's not like that at all. The nightmare demon keeps instilling this concept, saying that dreams are normal physiological phenomena, an experience randomly generated by the unconscious mind..."

Sun Hao's nightmare appeared in Zhou Yi's mind. The horned creature was secretly looking at him with fearful eyes.

He hasn't had any dreams since he woke up from the wasteland.

It may be related to Bai Suanni.

"The nightmares steal our consciousness and create the parts they need. Most of the secrets of this world cannot be hidden from them..."

The Book-Eating Demon narrowed his eyes, with a sly look in his eyes: "Next, it is a secret that only light core-level nightmares know."

"The fragments of consciousness are stolen by nightmares and sent to a secret place in the Great Holy Spirit to help them breed new nightmares."

"That is an area that is almost like an artificial consciousness field. Apart from nightmares, no other conscious beings or conceptual life forms can enter that place, or even discover its existence."

"After reaching the light core level, nightmares don't want to be seen, and no consciousness can detect their traces."

Zhou Yi's breathing paused when he heard this.

"You mean, they are... the ancient rulers?"

The Book-Eating Monster smiled slightly, revealing small white teeth under her pink lips: "Today is such a good day, we finally found these guys hiding at the back of the world!"

(End of this chapter)