History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 51
Geng Sihan: "Did you know? From the formation of the solar system from an accretion disk 50 billion years ago to about 37 billion years ago, except for the sounds of lightning, thunder, and waves crashing on the shore, the primitive creatures on the earth were almost all Very very quiet."

Yang Yi: "Oh, really? So what?"

Geng Sihan: "So what is that... Isn't this very interesting?"

Yang Yi: "What's so interesting about it? Tell me, if it can make me feel interesting within three sentences, then it's interesting."

Geng Sihan: "Hmm...Okay! The first sentence: You know that there was a time when there were some irresponsible and funny restoration pictures, depicting the Tyrannosaurus rex as a ten-meter-high, tens of tons heavy rooster, right?"

Yang Yi: "Hahahahaha... I remember, the restoration picture looks really funny, but Tyrannosaurus rex has bird-like feathers in many parts, and there is indeed fossil evidence."

Geng Sihan: "Well, yes. And, according to fossil analysis, the voice of Tyrannosaurus rex is also very interesting. Do you know what Tyrannosaurus rex is called?"

Yang Yi: "I don't know, how do you call it? According to many stereotypes of "beasts" in the past, many people think that the sound of Tyrannosaurus rex is very similar to the "roar" of tigers and lions, but I don't think so?"

Geng Sihan: "No, no, indeed, you feel right. Also according to the analysis of fossils, the cry of Tyrannosaurus rex must not be the 'roar' like the mammals we usually think of, but more similar to the 'crow'."

Yang Yi: "Rooster crowing? Is it similar to the sound of a big cock crowing in the morning? This kind of picture feels almost as funny as a ten-ton big rooster?"

Geng Sihan: "Hahaha, it's like a rooster crowing, but it's just the principle of sound production. This is a sound that starts from the vibration of the deep structure of the chest and is mainly made through the nose instead of the mouth. But ah, the sound frequency of the big rooster's crowing It is higher, and the sound of Tyrannosaurus rex can be imagined as the sound of those brass instruments in the wind band, such as trumpets, trombones, French horns, French horns, etc. How about it? It has a sense of picture, right?"

Yang Yi: "Yes, yes, yes, compared to a ten-ton rooster standing there announcing the dawn, a tyrannosaurus rex with only a crest and some brocade hair on its back making a low whistle sound is still very oppressive. Sensational!"

Geng Sihan: "I see that you are already a little interested? Do you want to listen to another thing related to the sound of dinosaurs?"

Yang Yi: "You won! All ears!"

Geng Sihan: "Similar to Brontosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, and the plesiosaur in "Nobita's Dinosaur" in the Doraemon series novels created by the ancient Japanese manga artist Fujiko F. Fujio. These long-necked The dinosaurs and reptiles in the world may not actually make elephant-like roars like those in previous film and television works."

Yang Yi: "Huh? This is more deeply rooted in people's hearts than the Tyrannosaurus rex, which sounds like a lion and a tiger. Then what are these long-necked ones called?"

Geng Sihan: "They hardly know how to bark."

Yang Yi: "??? Then why?"

Geng Sihan: "It's because of the long neck. For almost all tetrapods on the earth, including the first terrestrial chordates and their descendants, the larynx is the structure that is mainly used to make sounds, and the vocal commands of the larynx are mainly composed of Controlled by the recurrent laryngeal nerve."

Yang Yi: "Huh? And then? Then why does the one with the long neck hardly make a sound?"

Geng Sihan: "During the evolution of chordates, the reflex laryngeal nerve almost always extends down the neck to the large blood vessels in the middle and upper part of the thorax, and then returns along the neck to the larynx that is very close to the mouth or nose. .For other chordates, the route of this nerve signal is not very long, but for dinosaurs with long necks, it is very long when they go up and down."

Yang Yi: "Well, I understand. Is the delay of nerve signals caused by long-distance transmission more serious than other short-necked creatures?"

Geng Sihan: "Yes, when they try to make more complex sounds, they cannot properly control the rapid movement of the vocal cords."

Since childhood, his love for small animals and the plants and trees around him has given Geng Sihan an unimaginable affection for nature.This kind of love for nature has gradually made Geng Sihan have some feelings of compassion and compassion, and the systematic study of biology at the university level has shaped her inner desire to integrate into the world of animals and plants.

After graduating from university, Geng Sihan got the job that seemed to be the most suitable for him in this universe-freelance animal and plant researcher and writer.There is no need to work from [-] to [-], no need to trap herself in a small office or home, no need to come and go with all kinds of colleagues, she only needs to use her professional knowledge, plus the understanding of those who are native or from the earth when they set foot on the planet I brought careful and keen observations of animals and plants on the Internet, and then wrote reports and articles that are suitable for the public to read in simple terms, and then I can get a lot of royalties, and then continue my lonely and fulfilling journey.

In this way, Geng Sihan, who is lively and even talkative, and Geng Sihan who loves to travel, was completely transformed on Ronnie Buke.Of course, Geng Sihan himself has almost lost his memory of before he set off for Robnico.These are all the masterpieces of a branch in Alaska when the only homeland survival sect was still on the earth.Since the end of the [-]th century, due to changes in the overall environment of the earth, serious algal blooms such as blue-green algae, brown algae, and green algae have occurred in many parts of the world, and the long coastline of Alaska is a high-incidence area for this blue-green algae.

Unlike cyanobacteria, brown algae, and green algae elsewhere, which mostly only cause eutrophication in those waters, brown algae in most coastal areas of Alaska contain a deadly neurotoxin.If humans and other animals directly touch this brown algae and are affected by this neurotoxin, the statistical fatality rate is as high as 20.00%, and the remaining survivors are often accompanied by permanent amnesia.

This brown microalgae, which is unique to Alaska, usually reproduces on a large scale during algal blooms, and in the process it hardly changes the color of the water body, but the odorless, tasteless and highly toxic substance-paralytic shellfish poison does. Generated quietly in seawater that does not appear to be dangerous.This toxin is a thousand times more toxic than cyanide.

While people on Earth are panicking over asteroid 2973161, the One Home Survival sect begins to gain more believers.When people hear Dr. Gu Lanlan's information relayed by the United Nations, it will hit Mars, and the shattered pieces of Mars will enter the earth's atmosphere and cause mass extinction. People's desperation, madness, and helplessness have spawned organizations like the Only Home Survival Sect growing up.

At the time, the sect's branch in Alaska was seriously studying this particular brown algae in coastal areas.They found that when ordinary healthy humans ingested pure fucoidan neurotoxin diluted 157 times to 231 times, 80.00% of them may suffer from transient amnesia.And if a person is forced to ingest such a diluted neurotoxin for five to seven standard weeks, then the person will have a 90.00% probability of permanent amnesia.

When on Earth, such a neurotoxin is a research result that only very high-level members know about, even within the Only Home Survival Sect.At that time, the application of neurotoxins was limited to the treatment of religious members and family members with mental problems.When the Cults found their home planet and set sail from the solar system to their eternal home, their colony ships carried seven tons of this concentrated fucotoxin on board.

With excitement, Geng Sihan entered this galaxy she had never been to through the Star Tunnel, and landed in the western hemisphere of Ronibuco in the Animal Kingdom, Ronibus Town, and walked into the old cafe surrounded by thousand-year-old trees , ready to taste the unique coffee beans here to start a standard moon observation work here.When she was sitting on an ancient table and chair made of Ronnie Rosewood, which is unique to the planet, and drinking that cup of hand-brewed Ronnie Bacher semi-roasted coffee, her fate had already been ruled by those dirty hands and the darkness. The iron chain is bound.

In the plain white porcelain cup in front of Geng Sihan, without any decorations or patterns, the special fragrance of local coffee leaves floats along with the white heat.This cup of brown liquid was mixed with the sinful agent brought from the ancient earth—the fucotoxin diluted 167 times.Geng Sihan, who was gazing at the meticulously imitated "Scream" hanging on the wall of the old wooden house and slowly sipping coffee, fell down on a wooden chair and became unconscious an hour after entering the cafe.

That Geng Sihan who had no reservations about his friends and talked endlessly is gone forever...

They have already mastered almost all of Geng Sihan's "details", and it took great pains to make Geng Sihan's only friend Yang Yi also a part of them.In the next few standard weeks, they carefully let Geng Sihan take carefully adjusted concentrations of fucoidan neurotoxins, allowing her to be instilled with their "teachings" and "thoughts" while retaining the most basic memories of Yang Yi. Make Geng Sihan the most effective and vicious "tool" to subdue Yang Yi.

Since their purpose is limited to getting more and more diverse genes to continue the population base of their own sect, while allowing them to maintain a certain basic population on their "home" planet, and the superb asexual embryonic breeding technology makes them not care about those who are Health problems of kidnappers.Geng Sihan, who has been observing and working in the field for a long time and has the ability and body to survive for a short time, is getting weaker and weaker under their mental and drug torture, but no one shows any degree of concern for this.In this way, Geng Sihan, whose body was getting weaker and thinner day by day, had his spirit of resistance gradually worn away by the "program" like a file.In the end, what they got was a "qualified" mitochondria provider, which was also an excellent "weapon" to lure Geng Sihan's only friend.

At this time, the fate of Geng Sihan's only friend at home, Yang Yi, almost began to be wrapped in darkness, and Yang Yi, who felt that something was wrong, had already begun to use various methods to search for the trace of his only friend...

Two and a half standard months after Geng Sihan landed on Roni Buco, the spacecraft carried a poor girl with a pale face and wearing a black hooded robe, back to the planet where she and her only friend Yang Yi lived for more than ten years superior.She will be used as a tool to seduce her only friend, the only purpose is to make that friend become such a "believer" with a pale face and a black robe.At this time, Geng Sihan only had a thin memory of Yang Yi's name and appearance, and only the detailed steps of the implementation of those "plans" remained in her brain.

The rooster crowing in the distance still sounds at dawn every day, and the brass breath of those small wind quartets in a certain corner of the city is still full of melodic beauty from time to time, but those who like to listen to them have already fallen into love. dark abyss.

(End of this chapter)