In the biological laboratory, the living samples of the three captured combatants were kept in a special cage provided by Chen Xin. A group of biologists around them were conducting various studies on them.
The three fighting larvae in the cage seemed a little languid. This was not because they were overdrawn from too many experiments, but because biologists had tried various methods since they were captured, but could not find these fighting larvae. food, so much so that they haven’t eaten anything until now.
For biologists, this is, of course, very bad news.
It took a lot of effort to capture these three fighting spawn. If they starved to death, it would obviously be a huge loss.
What's even worse is that if they haven't researched anything, not to mention the military and Chen Xin who paid a lot of money to capture these three combat cubs, they themselves will want to strangle themselves.
But unfortunately, these three fighting children really didn't eat anything. Even if they got all the food they could get, they couldn't attract the attention of these three fighting children.
Therefore, when Chen Xin came to check the progress of their research, he faced not only these three hungry and languid fighting cubs, but also requests for help from biologists.
"Hey, you have posed a problem for me!" Faced with this problem, Chen Xin also felt very troubled: "How do I know what these alien creatures eat! Do these creatures eat or not? Everything on earth is a question mark.”
This is not to say that Chen Xin is evasive, but that he really can't think of any good solution.
If what biologists want is better research instruments and more detailed analysis of extraterrestrial life, then for Chen Xin it is just a matter of words.
But it is too difficult for Chen Xin to figure out what they eat.
However, in the face of Chen Xin's complaints, the biologists could only say with a bitter look on their faces: "We really have no choice but to go to the doctor in a hurry and seek help from you, Academician Chen. If this continues, these precious animals will be lost." The living samples will really have no choice but to starve to death.”
Hearing what the biologists said, Chen Xin could only scratch his head and bite the bullet.
He walked to the container holding three living samples, carefully observed the three living samples, and then asked the biologist: "Have you ever collected their feces? Can't you analyze the composition of the feces?" Analysis, can you tell what you have eaten?”
"We also thought about this, but these alien creatures have never been beaten at all. They don't even have excretory pores and cloaca. Even our previous dissection of corpses did not find the existence of excretory organs in their bodies, but only Digestive organs, it’s like they only eat but don’t poop.” When the biologist said this, the expression on his face was as if someone had made a huge joke.
However, when Chen Xin heard what the biologist said, he had a different idea and asked him: "If there is a kind of food that can be completely digested by their stomachs after eating, does that mean there is no need to excrete it?" Already?"
"Theoretically, this is true, but this does not conform to the theory of biological evolution! Biological evolution cannot evolve the entire digestive organ into such a closed loop, and there is no food in nature that can be completely digested and absorbed without excretion!" Although Chen Xin felt that The proposed hypothesis is somewhat possible, but biologists obviously think it is still very unlikely.
But Chen Xin shook his head and said to the biologist: "The alien creatures themselves are a group, and these offspring are all bred by the mother. If the offspring do not need to be digested at the beginning, then slowly over time As time goes by, it is possible for them to lose their excretory function."
"This... is indeed possible in theory, but it is unavoidable..." The biologist couldn't help but shook his head. Although nature is full of strange things and various possibilities exist, even if this is an alien creature, it is too exaggerated.
However, Chen Xin didn't have any additional thoughts about this. He just asked the researchers on the side: "Are the maternal corpses we got back well preserved? Get some maternal body fluids and see if they can eat them."
Hearing what Chen Xin said, the biologists on the side naturally did not stop him. They thought that mammals in their early years depended on the secretion of sperm from their mothers to survive.
Taking human newborns as an example, after the newborn grows to three to five months, as the intestinal function improves and the digestive ability increases, if it only drinks breast milk, it will take a long time to excrete it once.
Judging from this kind of alien creature, they have obviously grown completely and have perfect digestive functions. If Chen Xin's judgment is correct, then there may indeed be a possibility that they do not need to be excreted.
But the biologist still found it incredible and said with emotion: "How did this evolve? No matter how amazing natural evolution is, you can't say that such a thing has evolved, right?"
However, facing the biologist's lament, Chen Xin shook his head and said with uncertainty: "I'm afraid this creature may not have evolved naturally. It may have been guided or interfered with."
"Guide and interfere? Academician Chen, do you suspect that this is an alien biological weapon?" The biologist obviously thought of a common plot in science fiction.
"It's possible, but the greater possibility is that there are highly intelligent superior individuals in this group that can guide and control the breeding and evolution of lower-level individuals. If it is a group consciousness or an existence similar to an insect swarm, it is possible that they are evolving In the process, it gradually differentiated into something like this." Chen Xin's imagination was obviously bigger. He asked biologists to put forward his own guess: "Suppose that if creatures like ants can continue to evolve and develop advanced intelligence, With the queen ant’s control over the colony, can they really not control the evolution and reproduction of worker ants?”
"This..." Biologists had not imagined such a possibility, but after careful analysis, these biologists had to nod and answered affirmatively: "It is indeed possible, with the queen ant against As for the control of ant colonies, it is possible to adjust the reproduction and evolution direction of ant colonies through means such as pheromones."
While Chen Xin and the biologists were discussing this issue, the researchers also took the previously preserved maternal body fluid samples, and under the watchful eyes of Chen Xin and the biologists, they put them into the chamber where the living samples were kept. in the container.
Under the expectant gaze of everyone, these three living specimens finally showed their desire to eat.
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