Becoming a creator in prehistory

Chapter 3 The First Ancestor of Life on Earth
As the planet cools dramatically, it becomes less efficient to convert heat with melanin.

And the next is the era of stars, the frequency of planets, comets, and meteorites visiting the earth will increase dramatically.

Although Yuan Chu would not be crushed to death by meteorites, being disturbed from time to time was equally disturbing.

After much consideration, he decided to temporarily switch to live in the primitive ocean.

After some tossing, he landed on the sea smoothly.

At this time, the seawater contained a large amount of minerals, and there was no sign of life.

There was nothing to be concerned about in such a pool of stagnant water, Yuan Chu immediately swam the flagella behind him and swam towards the depths of the water body.

The further downstream, the higher the temperature of the water. As it deepened, rows of things like black chimneys appeared on the bottom of the sea.

Although the collision of the planet Theia caused the temperature of the earth to drop a lot, the geological activities have never stopped, but they have changed to a relatively mild way.

The chimney-like submarine hot springs slowly release sulfides, which spread in the water like real smoke, and they have a wonderful chemical reaction with the alkaline seawater.

Substances called amino acids are produced in this environment.

Yuan Chu was delighted when he saw these hot springs under the sea. This was the place he had planned to settle down, and it was also the canteen he had found for himself.

I saw that he flicked his flagella vigorously and swam all the way over.

Then I chose a smoke exhaust hole of about the same size on the chimney, and directly blocked the fungal shell.

Amino acids passed by him in a steady stream along with the smoke and water, and they could be captured easily.

The previous scientific research knowledge played a role again. Like building blocks, he used amino acids to synthesize proteins in the body for the fungal shell to absorb.

If we said that what we ate in the sky was quantitative fast food before, then now it is an unlimited buffet.

The disadvantage is that the food is semi-finished and needs to be processed by yourself.

However, even if there is an additional process of converting protein, it is more efficient than absorbing heat before.

After settling down, apart from "cooking" for himself every day, Yuan Chu also paid attention to the changes in the surrounding environment in his spare time.

Amino acids are the building blocks of life, and these pristine oceans are the easiest places for life to arise.

As a former scientific researcher, he is full of curiosity about the birth process of life from scratch.

It's like a bottle of amino acid facial cleanser, no matter how long it's left on, it won't come back to life.

In addition to the necessary material conditions, a hidden element is also needed to sublimate matter into life, and then complete the breakthrough from zero to one.

Yuan Chu wanted to take a look at the hidden elements that stirred up the bowl of primitive soup in front of him and constituted life.

As time goes by, everything in the water is the same as before, and the amino acids and minerals are still suspended in the water lifelessly.

Instead, the inner wall of the pore where Yuan Chu lived was gradually covered by a layer of oil film.

Looking at this layer of special substance, Yuan Chu's mood was complicated for a while.

He knew that this thing was the most critical lipid in the cell membrane, formed by the protein residue excreted from the fungal shell combined with other substances in the water.

The pusher of life he wants to observe is none other than himself.

Although life has its own way to flourish, according to the historical process, the initial life should not burst out under his influence no matter how you think.

At this moment, Yuan Chu realized the changes he had made to the world.

Even if he went through 45 billion years according to time, the future generations may have already changed beyond recognition.

What's more, the ancestor of life on earth is affected by him, which may lead to the complete disappearance of the human species from the source.

Thinking of this possibility, and looking at the new life that was gradually taking shape with the rock pores as the womb, his heart suddenly turned cold.

Feeling the fungal shell inside him, and acting at the same time.

I saw that the cell membrane on the surface of the fungus began to sag inward, like a big mouth that opened, constantly approaching the little life.

Yuan Chu wanted to eat it, so as to erase the influence he might have on future generations.

At the last moment, however, he hesitated.

Seeing the cell membrane struggling to spread on the inner wall of the pore, and the translucent cytoplasm beating like a heart, Yuan Chu could feel that it was trying hard to be born into this world.

Especially when he saw it stretching out its unformed flagella and groping towards him like a curious child, he finally put away his "fangs".

"Forget it, so what if we travel back in time and go back to the previous era.

As far as I am eternal and immortal, the future is just a flash in the pan. Since it is just a passerby, why should I care about it. "

After figuring it out, Yuan Chu no longer hesitated to change the future. He not only took the initiative to provide protein as nutrients for the small life, but also used the captured amino acids to help it build its core.

Seeing a brand new life growing under his own care, he actually felt the joy of being a parent at this moment.

The little guy is not big, only about one-tenth of the fungal shell.

And as the most primitive life, its internal structure is also very simple, far from being comparable to fungal shells.

However, there is one thing about the body that must be willing to bow down, that is, it has two flagella.

When swimming in the water, it keeps shaking like a pair of braids, looking ugly and funny.

But after Yuan Chu watched it for a long time, he felt that there was something cute in the ugliness.

"Since the ancestor of life on earth is called Luka, I'll name you Luka too."

With Luka's intelligence, he naturally couldn't understand what the name was.

Even though she didn't understand anything, she still swam to Yuan Chu's side and rubbed her body against the fungus' shell, showing a very attachment.

However, life comes to the world with a mission, and instinct drives them to multiply. As the origin of life on earth, Luca is no exception.

Not long after she was born, she spontaneously split her core and began to reproduce in the form of duplication.

For a single-celled organism with a simple structure, this way of reproduction is undoubtedly suicide.

In less than a day, the ribosomes in Luca's body were missing to varying degrees due to errors during replication.

Looking at Luka's tattered body, Yuan Chu couldn't help feeling a little distressed.

"Enough is enough, Luca.

You have done what you should do, and then let your heirs complete the heavy task of reproduction for you. "

Then, Yuan Chu used his own consciousness to forcibly scrape a little bit of tissue from the core of the fungal shell, and then implanted it into Luca's body to help her repair the damaged core.

With his help, Luca's body has recovered, and her intelligence has also improved a bit with the naked eye. At least she can remember her name now.

What made Yuan Chu even more gratified was that the process of multiplying life on earth has not been broken because of Luca's withdrawal.

Once the wheel of life evolution turns, it will not stop because of a single goal, it will turn faster and faster under the inertia of life's desire for new life, and keep moving forward.

In less than a year, the water body of the primitive ocean where Yuan Chu lived was full of microorganisms.

Among them, there are descendants that are exactly the same as Luca, and there are also individuals whose structure has changed greatly due to errors in copying.

The diversity of life starts from these mutant individuals, and among them the most primitive bacteria and viruses have emerged.

In the next time, they will sweep the world, setting off a microbial frenzy no less than the Cambrian explosion of life.

However, Yuan Chu felt that these were not enough.

The most missing thing is often the most desired in the heart.

He has been alone for too long, and he desperately wants to bring life to the earth.

Now that you have accepted the changes that may occur in the future, you might as well do it more thoroughly...

(End of this chapter)