Chapter 3021 The Poem of Life!

No one knows exactly how lightning life appeared, just as no one knows how the first organic molecules such as amino acids were born from the crazy collisions and violent reactions of inorganic substances. The fluctuations were released and exploded in the form of lightning countless times. Relying on incredible coincidences, the lightning captured some unusual particles—they were rare elements from the depths of ancient giant stars or outer space, such as argon, and so on.

When the powerful lightning penetrates the core of the argon element, it is immediately vaporized by the extremely high temperature into crystal clear and perfect plasma balls, and the free electrons with negative charges form its outer layer, and the free electrons with positive charges form its outer layer. Ions make up its inner layer, and the inner and outer layers form a clear boundary, but allow energy to circulate and transform freely, just like the membrane and wall of biological cells, a big yin and yang that can communicate with heaven and earth.

In other words, the coincidence of countless lightning strikes created the miracle of life, a gaseous, pure energy, plasma "cell".

Of course, this "plasma cell" is not the same as a cell in the sense of carbon-based life, and it does not have the so-called "genetic material".

But the form of life is originally gorgeous and colorful, and genetic information does not need to be transmitted by genes. The five definitions of cells are defined-self-replication, information transmission, metabolism, self-growth, and clear boundaries from the outside world. Conditions, "plasma cells" are all satisfied.

Although its initial "life" can only last a few short seconds, in its short and brilliant life, it can also continuously absorb energy from the outside world, expand and even split. The neutral elements in the body, such as argon, helium, even methane, ethane, etc., are adsorbed, adding their own energy reactions, glowing with colorful light, and even splitting themselves into two different plasma cells , each plasma cell carries the same electromagnetic signature.

It can even transmit information by radiating electromagnetic energy into other plasma cells, so that the atoms in each plasma cell maintain the same vibration frequency.

If this is not considered a "cell" or "life", then what is the meaning of the definition of life?

Li Yao noticed that this kind of wonderful lightning elves did not appear for a long time, far less than the 100,000-year history of human civilization, and it is even more incomparable with the Pangu civilization or even the civilization of the "Black Wall Builder" hundreds of millions of years ago. up.

Their "history" is only about two or three thousand years.

Two or three thousand years ago, it was the time when two high-quality stars close to the ancient giant entered the end of their lives and began to bloom violently, showing signs of "supernova explosion".

Perhaps, it was the violent ejection of matter and energy that injected new vitality into the atmosphere of the ancient giant star before the death of the star, which led to the birth of these lightning spirits.

They are literally, "Children of the Sun".

Although they only have a history of two or three thousand years, they have crossed the journey that carbon-based intelligent life took hundreds of millions of years to complete.

Their lives are short and extremely intense. Every bolt of lightning piercing the sky of the ancient giant star can only last for a few seconds to a dozen seconds at most. Cells are born in lightning. Lightning is their river of life and their eternal destination. They have to continuously absorb various elements in the atmosphere within ten seconds, try a new discharge structure and electromagnetic confinement field, and try to Allowing both themselves and the lightning to last longer, even a microsecond is fine. If they fail to do this, they will split and proliferate crazily, and try to "jump" to another newly born lightning before this lightning is annihilated superior.

"Survive, survive, survive!"

Li Yao seemed to be able to hear the roar of infinite desire from the newly born plasma cells in the crackling electric arc.

Yes, the meaning of life is not just survival, but if you can't even do the initial survival, then no amount of meaning can be found.

In the source of any life just born, especially in such a harsh and cruel source, survival itself is the only meaning.

Every brain cell of Li Yao was surrounded by lightning.

He is full of respect, "appreciating" this poem of life that has lasted for thousands of years and hundreds of millions of years.

He "saw" that countless plasma cells were grasping at the few microseconds of life, constantly absorbing and devouring the surrounding elements, trying to use various elements and atomic vibration frequencies to form the cornerstone of their own life.

99.99% of the attempts ended in failure. Those plasma cells that devoured the wrong elements and used the wrong oscillation frequency were instantly annihilated without leaving even a single ripple. Life lasted 0.001 microseconds longer.

Before being annihilated, these lucky ones immediately used electromagnetic radiation to transmit information such as brand new elements and vibration frequencies, and shared them with all "citizens" in the same lightning bolt.

And these "citizens" either split wildly, increasing the number of plasma balls in the lightning with a geometric progression, or tried to jump out of the lightning like moths to the flame, and cut through the waves in the sea of ​​methane and helium elements to find another way. The newborn lightning bought a few seconds or a dozen more seconds for the entire group.

It was such a crazy attempt, the hard work and sacrifice of tens of thousands of generations of "people" within ten seconds, gradually, the survival time of the plasma ball increased from a few microseconds to nearly one second, and the lightning they lived in was also transformed by them It is different from ordinary lightning, which can last for a few minutes, tens of minutes or even longer. They even consciously seduce several lightning bolts together, and in an incredible way, "weave" them into ingenious three-dimensional geometric shapes, everything, everything, It is only to increase the survival time of lightning in the atmosphere and the ability of ultra-long-distance transmission.

They are building their own "star sea battleships, spaceships", they are refining lightning into their own spaceships!

Li Yao "sees" that the plasma cells that upgraded the lightning into a "battleship" have gradually acquired a high degree of self-organization ability in the fierce battlefield of life, and their exploration of the entire planet has also started, no longer limited In the place where the lightning is the most intense, it controls the lightning, surrounds the magnetic field, and spreads to all directions of the ancient giant star.

Then, they discovered the place where life can make a further leap and evolve into "civilization", which is the most obvious Great Red Spot on the ancient giant star.

The Great Red Spot is a super cyclone with a diameter of more than a thousand kilometers and a duration of more than a hundred years.

In the super cyclone, the drastic changes in air pressure can make the lightning discharge reaction more violent and faster, and create more possibilities for changes.

The super-strong cyclone constantly stirs the surrounding matter, and even absorbs a large amount of matter from the depths of the ancient giant star and spews out. It is also like a volcanic eruption in the depths of the primitive ocean, bringing abundant energy and matter from the center of the earth, and becoming the first source of life. The cradle can also bring more abundant elements to the plasma cells.

The special substance "red phosphorus" that constitutes the Great Red Spot can release magnificent and unpredictable flames in the super-high-speed friction of lightning, and has become the carrier of "civilization".

That's right, each beam of "red phosphorous fire" can only last for a few minutes at most a few hours, and it is "transient" when measured by the human time scale, but for a few subtle, a few seconds, it can be passed down from one generation to the next. As far as plasma cells are concerned, a beam of flame has been burning for a long time, just like paper that can last for decades, it can be used to make "books" and pass on "wisdom".

In this way, the plasma cells control the lightning, looking for the Great Red Spot one after another, multiply and prosper, and establish a real "lightning civilization".

Their civilization is of course completely different from the civilization established by carbon-based intelligent life. At least, 99% of the information Li Yao read is incomprehensible—he has no idea what these plasma cells are doing and what they are building. , in pursuit of something.

On the other hand, if the "Lightning Civilization" can observe the debauchery, wealth, love and hatred, the rise and fall of nations, heroic epics, etc. in the human world, they will certainly not be able to understand that these highly self-organized carbon elements condense Body, what are you doing?

However, there are some things that all "civilizations" have in common.

Li Yao "saw" that in the depths of the Great Red Spot, the plasma cells actively ignited bunches of red phosphorus fires, recording specific information with jumping flames.

Perhaps, that is their major research discovery, their understanding of heaven, earth and the universe, their secret method of inheriting life, and the method of constructing a more powerful "lightning warship".

It is also possible that they chant "faith" and "love" in their poems, flamboyant but useless showing off, or even the incantations of the sun-superstitious religion developed based on their origin.

Similarly, just as they tried to modify the lightning they were in in the past, now they are starting to modify the super cyclone they are in. They precisely manipulated the current, charge and voltage, manipulated the clouds made of helium and methane, manipulated the speed and speed of the storm. The angle is only to make the Great Red Spot where I am located bigger, more stable, and last longer, and can absorb more elements from the depths of the ancient giant star, and be able to carry a more magnificent red phosphorus fire.

The naturally generated Great Red Spot can only last for a hundred years, but after their transformation, it can last for three to five hundred years-on the scale of lightning civilization, this is almost eternity.

Then, there is war.

— War, especially civil war, is an integral part of the growth of all civilizations.

The war between two big red spots, billions of lightning bolts, and uncountable plasma cells has begun!