Every Day One Step Closer To the Manifestation

Feng Yi was holding a starfish.

The one that was tossing has already been thrown far away, and the other one is ready to continue tossing. After thinking about it, he still didn't swim far.

Not moving forward, Feng Yi simply grabbed the starfish for research.

In the small pavilion next to the dormitory area, I have seen this creature up close and from all angles. There is also an anatomical map of a starfish on the wall. Of course, Feng Yi is not curious about its structure.

What interests him is whether Sea Star is afraid of him.

Marine organisms mainly rely on the transmission of chemical information in seawater to search and prey. Amino acids, nucleic acids, organic molecules, etc., which are hard to be seen by the naked eye, can be sensed by receptors.

Changes in chemical information in water can cause them to behave differently.

Behavior is the most direct response of animals to changes in stimuli.

Feng Yi wanted to see, if this starfish felt his breath, would it be stimulated? What kind of behavior will occur?

Feng Yi did not change his body shape, but the inhuman breath passed through the diving suit and radiated out with the sea water. .

Through these, we will conduct a close communication between "non-ordinary humans" and "sea creatures".

Although there are diving suit restrictions, and the information molecules emitted are not strong, the starfish's reaction is already obvious.

Feng Yi was surprised.

It's strange that for the first time in their lives, this group of starfish felt this signal, but they all made the same avoidance behavior.

Could it be that this is "fear engraved in the DNA"?

Feng Yi looked at the starfish in his hand, his pupils turned into vertical thin lines, and they were enlarged due to the light, but they were still erect ellipses. Completely different from normal human eyes.

There is no one else here, and his eyes can change at will.

"I really want to see what other important information is hidden in their DNA."

Feng Yi thought to himself. Stare at the starfish in your hand, as if to explore inside through their skin.

Just as I was thinking, the communicator rang.

Feng Yi regained his senses and quickly connected.

"Feng Yi, where are you?" the diver over there asked.

"Me? Just take a look around." Feng Yi looked around and couldn't tell the exact location, but it wasn't too far, right?

The two divers choked on hearing this.

What a **** "just look around"!

Do you have a devastating understanding of the word "nearby"? !

However, people are safe. Their hanging hearts dropped a little.

Feng Yi also realized from the diver's tone at this time that he seemed to have exceeded the acceptable range of the other party this time.

Swimming in the sea was too excited to pay attention to the distance in the eyes of normal people.

But negligence is negligence.

"I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention to running away." Feng Yi apologized.

The diver's tone softened slightly and asked, "How are you over there?"

Feng Yi said, "A lot of starfish."

"Sure, they're still gathering. You're surrounded by starfish, don't you feel the tension?" another diver laughed.

Feng Yi glanced around: "No, the atmosphere is quite... harmonious."

Harmony is empty.

"In short, we get along fairly well." Feng Yi said.

As he was talking, he felt something different in his hand, and Feng Yi looked over.

Originally holding a sea star in his hand, now there is only one wrist of the starfish left in his hand.

Feng Yi: "???"

Aware of Feng Yi's silence, the diver over there asked worriedly, "What happened?"

"It's nothing." Feng Yi looked at the starfish who escaped from Xiao Bubu, and let go of the stump on his hand.

The diver wanted to tell Feng Yi not to continue to stay away, not to run after animals in the water, it is easy to get lost, and if something happens, there is no time to rescue him.

"You're almost done over there? I'll go back immediately."

"There's still some work to do, but it won't take long, you can come back. Need our help?" the diver asked.

"No, I'm going back."

"Don't get lost, find your way," considering the face of the young expert, the diver's words changed, "Don't be in a hurry, safety is the first thing. Keep in touch."

"Okay."

Over there, the two divers finished talking and chatted about Feng Yi.

"This expert doesn't seem to be very reliable."

"His attitude is okay, unlike an expert I saw last time, who screamed when he did something wrong."

"Do you think he can come back smoothly?"

"not sure…"

As soon as the words started, the positioning instrument clicked, and the target light spot appeared.

Feng Yi has entered the range of one kilometer.

Seeing this, the doubts and worries in the hearts of the two divers subsided a little.

"Looks like he didn't swim very far."

"The sense of direction is pretty good, and I didn't wander off."

When Feng Yi, who they were talking about, went back within one kilometer, his speed was greatly reduced, and he tried to get as close as possible to the speed that normal humans can achieve.

But in the eyes of the two divers, it was still very fast!

"Is this guy a flying fish?!"

"He swims like this, can his body hold up?"

When the two divers dealt with the work at hand, they thought it would take some time for Feng Yi to come back. They were about to ask the expert group if they wanted to add some data when they saw Feng Yi.

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"Are you all right? Get on the boat and take a break," said a diver.

"No problem, do you want to start laying the net now?" Feng Yi still looked normal.

"Is it all right?"

"No."

"Okay. If you feel any discomfort, you must say it, don't bear it!"

"Understood!" Feng Yi gave an ok gesture.

Seeing that Feng Yi was really fine, the two divers stopped talking and started their second mission in the afternoon.

After Feng Yi came back, he was much more honest, and he would do whatever the divers told him to do.

He cooperated like this, and he really exerted a lot of strength, and the two divers didn't care about Feng Yi's running away before.

For young people, it's normal for them to be a little bit off-kilter. Anyway, they don't have any trouble, and they have nothing to lose. And Feng Yi also knew that he was wrong, just pay attention next time.

When the mission is over, the two ships return.

There is still a lot of work after returning to the voyage, but those who have special personnel are in charge, and Feng Yi will not interfere and interfere with the efficiency of others.

Everyone was still on the coast. He didn't go back to the dormitory, and Feng Yi didn't go back immediately, but he couldn't do it if he was idle. He wanted to find someone to talk to.

On the expert group's side, Professor Ding and a few others were chatting about starfish-related topics. Feng Yi listened to it for a while and then left consciously.

The areas of expertise are different, and the focus is also different.

Also talking about starfish, several people over there are discussing body wall polysaccharides and in vitro antioxidant activity.

As for Feng Yi, he only knew if he could eat it here and if he could eat it there.

Instead of going there to be ashamed, Feng Yi looked around and found Professor Li who was quietly staring at the sea and thinking about things.

In fact, this professor is not serious, but has a temperament of worrying about the country and the people.

Professor Li studies marine ecology, but he knows more about starfish than Feng Yi.

Feng Yi walked over, "Mr. Li."

The melancholy in Professor Li's eyes subsided, and his attitude towards Feng Yi, the younger generation, was calm, "What's wrong?"

Feng Yi said, "I have a question. Do snakes eat starfish?"

Surprise flashed across Professor Li's face, as if he did not expect Feng Yi to ask such a question.

However, Professor Li replied patiently: "Don't eat."

After a pause, Professor Li added: "Strictly speaking, I can't say for sure. Sea stars live in the sea, and their growth stage has a larval stage. Maybe there is some kind of sea snake that I don't know will prey on them. But the adult stage Starfish, so far I haven't seen any snakes interested in them."

The larvae of the starfish are not as long as they are now. The starfish in the larvae stage of the feather arm looks small and weak.

Professor Li said: "Sea stars have more natural enemies in the larval stage, and the natural enemies in the adult state are greatly reduced. Therefore, when we consider the control methods of sea stars, we will also start to deal with their larval stages and formulate removal strategies."

Feng Yi asked: "That is to say, there is no predation relationship between snakes and starfish in their adult stages?"

Professor Li thought for a moment and said, "Whether the snake eats the starfish in the adult stage, we can analyze it from the perspective of the snake's feeding. Let's not talk about the toxicity, the adult starfish has a flat body, has spines, and the toughness of the calcareous bone plate is not strong. , For small snakes, it is difficult to swallow. From the perspective of energy conversion, even if snakes can swallow, a starfish can provide them with not much energy.

"Also, I have limited research on snakes, but I have also heard that snakes have the ability to judge the head and tail of their prey. When swallowing food, they will start from the head. I can't imagine how a snake swallows a starfish and can find the head. ?"

Professor Li looked at Feng Yi, "So, considering all these, I speculate that no snake would be stupid enough to eat it."

Feng Yi nodded, thinking in his heart:

There is no predatory relationship between snakes and starfish, and they are not considered natural enemies of starfish.

But those starfish were afraid of me, to the extent that the crowd avoided them.

Therefore-

I have nothing to do with snakes!

It has nothing to do with snakes on land or in the sea!

So, those starfish are only afraid of me.

Feng Yi's thoughts went round in his mind, and then he said, "I saw... When someone grabbed Hai Xing, Hai Xing broke one of his wrists."

Of course he wouldn't say what he did!

There are so many boats fishing for starfish recently, people come and go, and the question is "I saw it by accident".

Professor Li has no doubts.

"The kind of self-cutting behavior you are talking about belongs to the starfish, which is a common body response in predation relationships. The broken wrist will grow again." Professor Li said.

"You mean, it felt threatened by predators, so it cut off one of its wrists? Similar to a gecko's way of surviving by sacrificing parts to preserve the whole?" Feng Yi asked.

"Almost. But if in the sea, in addition to predators, they also experience this behavior when they feel the pressure from the external environment, such as increased water temperature, environmental pollution, parasitic or microbial infection, and so on that make them When the body is damaged, there will be self-cutting behavior.”

"That's it."

Feng Yi thought to himself, was the starfish that cut itself in his hands "the fear engraved in the DNA", or was it for other reasons?

Accidental or inevitable?

It is not difficult to verify.

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