Technology Bigshot Chapter 434: : Dinosaur placement problem]

Ren Hong returned to the company's headquarters. The next day, Yonghua, the person in charge of the k-18 institute, got in touch with him as soon as he got the news.

Coming to the K-18 Institute of Prehistoric Biology, Ren Hong and Yonghua stood on the corridor of the fenced platform. The two of them were on the corridor wrapped by a giant spherical canopy. From the outside to the inside, they looked like a huge giant Like a hemispherical observatory, the interior cannot be seen from the outside world, but sunlight can penetrate the interior.

Inside the fence is an independent ecological environment. I saw a huge triceratops rushing out of the jungle. The horns on its head were slamming against the edge of the fence. In the corridor at the top of the fence, Yonghua looked at the people below. Dinosaurs, said to Ren Hong: "Chairman, for huge dinosaurs, closed ecological space is never an option. In the final analysis, the venue is still too small. These triceratops have recently become manic, and we are suppressing their nature. , their behavior is telling us that they are going back to nature!"

This is indeed an imminent question. Ren Hong stared at the triceratops that kept hitting the metal wall below, and was silent for a moment, "Let's go, let's talk about it later."

The two came to the room, Ren Hong said: "The Dinosaur Project and the Western Project are complementary. The scientific research team is currently improving the vegetation genes to make them have faster reproduction ability. By the way, the genetic modification of the plant department is carried out. How's it going?"

"The progress is normal, but it is quite difficult to artificially control the evolutionary trend of vegetation genes in the future. Even if it succeeds, the negative impact of the follow-up must be considered." Yonghua replied.

Ren Hong covered his mouth with his crossed hands and fell into a deep thought.

The Western Project and the Dinosaur Project are both in a symbiotic relationship, and it is impossible to talk about who serves who, or who is in charge. Ren Hong gave the scientific research team a very difficult task, which is to genetically modify the prehistoric vegetation that will be transplanted into the Taklimakan area of ​​the western reconstruction project in the future. This task is comparable to the difficulty of resurrecting prehistoric creatures.

Because the conditions are too harsh, Ren Hong's request is to make those prehistoric vegetation speed up the reproduction ability and increase the normal growth several times or even dozens of times. Only in this way can it have a considerable impact on the transformation of the entire western project.

But there are more than one thorny problem, and the consequent impact needs to be considered even more. Genetic mutation of vegetation is undoubtedly a double-edged knife. Rapidly proliferating vegetation can improve the efficiency of greening the entire Taklimakan Desert. Before greening the desert That's a good thing, but when the entire western region is covered with vegetation, the positive effects turn into negative ones.

If you get it wrong, it will destroy the surrounding ecological environment. The efficient and fast reproduction of genetically mutated vegetation is also a manifestation of aggression. They will rob the living space of other plants on the earth, and even cause other The extinction of vegetation, if a certain link of the ecosystem is destroyed, it will inevitably affect the entire ecosystem.

These factors cannot be ignored.

Ren Hong, who was in deep thought, recalled the negative effects Yonghua had just mentioned. He shook his head and said: "The positive and negative effects are both double-banded. The negative effects can still be suppressed through human intervention, as far as genes are concerned. In terms of mutated plants, we use as much vegetation as possible in the green forest vegetation of the western project, starting from the direction of availability, and after tens of hundreds of years, a large number of these extremely proliferating plants will be cut down for timber. Artificial materials can play an effective protective role.”

Speaking of this, Ren Hong suddenly laughed: "At this time, dinosaurs have a reason to exist. We have brought a large number of herbivorous dinosaurs into the ecosystem, and these huge guys have to eat a lot of food every day. energy, which can well inhibit the expansion of vegetation, especially the k-mto178 variety, which eats vegetation seeds and gymnoids for a living.”

Ren Hong added: "A normal ecosystem needs a complete food chain, and plant-eating dinosaurs without natural enemies would also destroy the ecosystem and devour all vegetation, so in order to curb the uncontrolled expansion of plant-eating dinosaurs , we also need some carnivorous dinosaurs that specialize in hunting herbivorous dinosaurs, and a complete food chain is a key element in the ecological rebalancing of the Taklimakan region.”

"Carnivorous dinosaurs?" Yonghua looked at each other in surprise, "Chairman, I don't think the outside world would agree to let 'Tyrannosaurus' or 'Velociraptor' appear on the earth. Humans prey on these fierce top-level predators. Eaters have deep-seated fears."

"The fear brought about by the exaggerated expression of art is nothing more than that. As long as dinosaurs are herbivorous or carnivorous, they are extremely dangerous." Ren Hong said indifferently: "But then again, No matter how fast the speed is, how fast can the bullet pass? No matter how hard the carapace can block armor-piercing bullets? No matter how amazing the bite force can bite steel? In my opinion, it is just the opposite. More valuable. Believe me, there will always be some people who will go into the jungle to hunt for them, don't forget that humans are the life standing at the top of the food chain on the earth."

Yonghua was speechless for a while, and Ren Hong continued: "If there is a real threat to the people, there is only pterodactyl, don't let this thing appear on the earth, as for other predators, we They can easily limit their range of activity."

After speaking, Ren Hong turned on the spotlight screen, and the display panel showed a satellite map of the Taklimakan Desert. He said: "The Tarim River and the middle and upper reaches of the Xijiang River surrounding the basin are the first blockades to block dinosaurs. , looking at the high mountains and plateaus on all sides, the cold and thin air in the high-altitude areas is the real forbidden area for dinosaurs, and the dinosaurs in the Taklimakan area can only be limited to more than 10,000 square kilometers in the basin under double insurance, which is enough.”

Ren Hong pointed to the river waters surrounding the Taklimakan Desert and said: "The most deadly are the 'Colorado River'-style swamps on both sides of the river, 6 carnivorous or plant-eating dinosaurs on the ground, except for Diplodocus Basically how many come and die. At the same time, we also need to introduce some crocodiles into the river as the only top underwater predators, and a large number of giant freshwater catfish, giant eels and other fish, especially eel species can affect the entire river. The activity of the swamp peat on the shore has a good effect.”

Yonghua listened to Ren Hong's analysis and nodded silently, "No surprise, the probability of dinosaurs wanting to cross the Tarim River in the Xijiang River is basically zero, not to mention the high-altitude areas behind."

“However, the Tarim Basin is no longer tropical, which needs to be considered,” Yonghua added.

(To be continued.)(To be continued.)8

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