Chapter 139 Life
The camel carried Bifang into the distance, moving slowly in the desert, swaying and swaying until it disappeared in the yellow sand.
He only told everyone the direction and distance of the well. Apart from that, he asked nothing and asked for nothing, as if Gu Qingyuan and others had never been there.
"I lie on my back in the world, without a house or a tent. I am so free and without worries. My life deserves this moment." Song Yanning looked at the disappearing figure with a dim gaze.
"What?" Gu Qingyuan was stunned.
“I was inspired by Thomas Bernhard’s Summer.”
Gu Qingyuan thought about what he just said and agreed: "I didn't expect that he would refuse so straightforwardly. I was trying to persuade him."
But Bifang convinced him with just one sentence.
"If I get in the car, what's the difference between that and calling for help? I'm lucky enough to be alive. Please let me end it beautifully!"
Gu Qingyuan recalled his memory and waved his hand: "No more talking, no more talking, business is more important, first send Tiktaalik to the laboratory, then we will go for a field investigation."
"Is this fish so important? There are many new species discovered every year, right?" Song Yanning followed behind him.
"Of course it is important. Its existence is already a treasure in evolutionary biology, and it will open up new research horizons for the theory and practice of paleontology and evolutionary biology!"
Gu Qingyuan quickly called on the team members to lift the strange fish into the car: "Be careful, it's very big, you have to bear with it."
In fact, there was one thing he hadn't told Song Yanning. Compared with its significance in evolution, perhaps this discovery had greater significance in molecular biology.
This is also the real reason why the higher-ups are determined to obtain the entity regardless of animal protection.
The lungfish genome contains approximately 43 billion DNA base pairs, making it the largest of all animals sequenced to date, and fourteen times the size of a human genome!
What about Tiktaalik, which is similar to it?
Will there be more?
Such a huge genome may contain the secrets of life evolution...
On the camel's back, Bifang wrapped himself tightly. Now that the strange fish was taken away, he could ride on the camel and travel, feeling much more relaxed.
The load capacity of a single-humped camel is generally between 160 and 200 kilograms. It is not difficult for it to carry a strange fish, but it is impossible for it to carry a person.
Now the burden is lightened for both parties.
Moreover, Professor Gu’s arrival also reveals a lot of information.
"Professor Gu and his team came here in a jeep. Judging from the time, the town they started from can't be too far away. This means that our survival will soon succeed and we will reach the human settlement. If it's fast, it will be tonight, and if it's slow, it will be tomorrow."
[Honestly, when Lao Fang said I refused just now, he looked quite handsome]
[Fang Shen is so handsome when he rejects people ! 】
[No! I refuse! ]
[ Is this the world of the strong? ]
[I'm very strong, just bear with me.]
【Tyrand presents the streamer with a spaceship＊1. ——This is the best live stream I have ever seen, Bollywood movies are so weak compared to you! 】
【??? Where did this guy upstairs come from?】
[Foreigners are watching Fang Shen’s live broadcast? Can someone translate it for me? ]
[This guy said this was the most exciting live broadcast he had ever seen, Hollywood movies and Fang Shen were nothing compared to it! ]
【Awesome! 】
Bifang traveled a lot in his previous life and often read some academic research reports. His English was naturally not bad and he could understand them. He immediately expressed his gratitude in English, which made the netizens look very proud again.
Lao Fang really knows everything, it's outrageous!
Even Bifang himself didn’t expect that there would be foreigners climbing over the wall to watch his live broadcast. He thought that at most they would just watch the videos he edited. Does he really have fans abroad?
The development is getting faster and faster.
But it's normal. He is still wandering around the country. Maybe it won't be long before he goes abroad for adventure. By then, foreign channels will also need to be opened up. Then the number of his overseas fans will explode. Compared with now, his income will more than double!
Time passed slowly and the sun began to set again.
It's already past five in the afternoon.
Bifang went from being dizzy to having a headache, and his overall condition had visibly deteriorated. In addition, he had lost a lot of blood, and his face was as pale as paper.
Camels are best at moving at a speed of 15 to 25 kilometers per hour, and they can do so without rest for four days and four nights. This speed is three to five times that of humans.
Today, Bifang walked about 80 kilometers, including many sand dunes that needed to be avoided, but in a straight line, it should be more than 30 kilometers, which is already a considerable distance.
The entire Qaidam Basin is only about 800 kilometers long from east to west and 300 kilometers wide from north to south, and the desert area is only one-third of it.
The hope of survival is just around the corner.
Bifang straightened his body and looked into the distance.
In the distance, there was a desert full of yellow sand, but suddenly a different color appeared. It was brown, and there were clumps of orderly bushes!
Among these shrubs that form a web-like network of deserts, a black railroad track lies in the sand like a dragon.
"It's the railway!"
Bifang was overjoyed and ordered the camel to speed up. After reaching the railroad tracks, he was completely relieved when he saw the intact sleepers and the rails with new marks.
It's not an abandoned railway.
The netizens were completely convinced.
[Awesome, this is really a hope for survival, not just luck! ]
[The railroad tracks have appeared, so just keep walking along them and you will meet people sooner or later]
[Too strong, yyds! ]
[The King of Survival! The World's No. 1 Explorer! The King of Kings! ]
Walking along the railway track, Bifang slowed down and began to summarize his adventure.
"Having arrived here, our survival mission can be said to have been basically accomplished. I have to say that this experience is truly quite magical. What makes me happiest is not the success of survival, but the discovery of prehistoric creatures."
"The moment I discovered Tiktaalik, I was really excited and felt an incomparable sense of pride."
As he spoke, a smile appeared on Bifang's face.
You have been here, I bear witness.
Even though the sky has never left any trace of you, you have once flown past and I have remembered it.
How lucky.
"There are more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, which is just one of approximately 140 billion galaxies. But even though the universe is so vast, the only place known to have life is Earth."
"And yet here on Earth, from the deepest trenches to the highest mountaintops, the entire range of known life is only 28 kilometers thick. Compared to the vastness of the universe, what is that?"
The sky gradually darkened, the bright moon rose, and silver light spread everywhere.
The starry sky is shining.
Bifang walked slower and slower, as if reluctant to leave.
“The history of life is a story of mass elimination followed by differentiation of the few survivors, rather than the story of continuous optimization, complexity, and diversification that is commonly believed.”
"Earth has witnessed five major extinction events, in the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous periods, as well as many smaller extinction events."
"In every mass extinction event, 70% to 85% of species become extinct. In the Permian period, more than 95% of animals disappeared and never returned."
"We need to know that the chances of a species being fossilized and preserved, and eventually discovered and recorded by humans, are very small."
"Humans have only one thing in common with every other creature: for nearly three and a half billion years, at every necessary moment, our ancestors have slipped through - without failing once at the trillions of critical moments that could have wiped us out of history."
“This is the miracle of life!”
Bifang stopped the camel and looked up at the starry sky.
far away.
The roads are crisscrossed and brightly lit.
