Chapter 3030

No one knows exactly how lightning life came into being, just as no one knows exactly how the original organic molecules such as amino acids were born from the crazy collision and fierce reaction of inorganic substances. In short, in the atmosphere of ancient giant stars in the past billions of years, violent energy fluctuations have been released and exploded in the form of lightning for countless times, relying on incredible coincidence, Lightning catches unusual particles - rare elements such as argon from the depths of ancient giants or from outer space.

When the powerful lightning passes through the core of argon, it is immediately vaporized into crystal clear and perfect plasma spheres at extremely high temperature. The outer layer is composed of negatively charged free electrons, and the inner layer is composed of positively charged ions. The inner and outer layers form an obvious boundary, but allow energy to circulate and transform freely, just like the membrane and wall of biological cells, A big Yin and Yang that can communicate with heaven and earth.

In other words, countless lightning surges created the miracle of life, a gaseous, pure energy, plasma "cell".

Of course, this kind of "plasma cell" is not the same as the cell in the sense of carbon based life. It has no so-called "genetic material".

But the life form is gorgeous and colorful, and the genetic information may not be transmitted by genes. The five definitions of cell are self replication, information transmission, metabolic mechanism, self growth, and obvious boundary separated from the outside world. All these conditions are met by "plasma cell".

Although its "life" can only last for a few minutes at the beginning, in its short and brilliant life, it can continuously absorb energy from the outside world, expand and even split. It can stretch out the tentacle of lightning and absorb the neutral elements around it, such as argon, helium, even methane, ethane, etc., to join its own energy reaction, They radiate colorful light, and even split themselves into two different plasma cells, each of which carries the same electromagnetic characteristics.

It can even transmit information by radiating electromagnetic energy into other plasma cells, so that the atoms in each plasma cell maintain the same oscillation frequency.

If this is not "cell" or "life", what is the meaning of the definition of life?

Li Yao noticed that this wonderful lightning Genie did not appear for a long time, far less than the glorious history of human civilization of 100000 years, much less than the civilization of Pangu civilization or even the "black wall maker" civilization hundreds of millions of years ago.

Their "history" is only about two or three thousand years.

Two or three thousand years ago, it was the time when two high-quality stars near the ancient giant stars entered the end of their lives and began to bloom violently, showing signs of "supernova explosion".

Perhaps, it was just before the stars died that the fierce material and energy jets of dying struggle injected new vitality into the atmosphere of ancient giant stars, which led to the birth of these lightning elves.

They are truly "children of the sun.".

Although they have only two or three thousand years of history, they have crossed the journey of carbon based intelligent life which took hundreds of millions of years to complete.

Their lives are short and extremely fierce. Each flash of lightning can only last for a few seconds to more than ten seconds at most. In this flash of lightning, hundreds of millions of plasma cells are born in lightning. Lightning is their river of life and their eternal destination, They have to absorb all kinds of elements in the atmosphere in more than ten seconds, try new discharge structure and electromagnetic binding field, try to make themselves and lightning last longer, even for a microsecond. If they can't do this, they will split and proliferate wildly, and try to "jump" to another lightning just born before this lightning annihilates.

"Live, live, live!"

Li Yao seems to be able to hear the roar of infinite desire from the newly born plasma cells in the crackling arc.

Yes, the meaning of life is not just survival, but if we can't even survive at the beginning, we can't find any more meaning.

In any source where life is just born, especially in such a bad and cruel source, survival itself is the only meaning.

Every brain cell of Li Yao is surrounded by lightning.

He is full of respect and "appreciates" this poem of life which has lasted for thousands and hundreds of millions of years.

He "sees" that countless plasma cells grasp a few delicate lives, constantly absorb and devour the surrounding elements, and try to use a variety of elements and atomic vibration frequencies to form the cornerstone of their lives.

99.99% of the attempts ended in failure. Those plasma cells that swallowed the wrong elements and used the wrong oscillation frequency instantly annihilated without leaving a ripple. In return, 0.001% of the lucky ones were able to extend their lives by 0.001 microseconds.

Before annihilation, these lucky people immediately use electromagnetic radiation to transmit new elements, vibration frequency and other information to all "compatriots" in the same lightning.

And these "compatriots" are either frantically splitting, increasing the number of plasma balls in the lightning by geometric progression, or trying to jump out of the lightning like moths, chopping waves in the sea of methane and helium, and finding another newborn lightning, fighting for a few seconds or more for the whole group.

It's such a crazy attempt. With the struggle and sacrifice of tens of thousands of generations of "people" in more than ten seconds, the survival time of the plasma ball has gradually increased from a few subtle seconds to nearly a second. The lightning they inhabit is also transformed by them to be different from ordinary lightning, which can last for several minutes, dozens of minutes or even longer. They even consciously lure several lightning together, In an incredible way, "weaving" has become an ingenious three-dimensional geometry, everything, just to improve the survival time of lightning in the atmosphere, as well as the ability of ultra long distance transmission.

They are building their own "star warships and spaceships". They are refining lightning into their own Zeus!

Li Yao "saw" and upgraded lightning to plasma cells of "warships". In the fierce battlefield of life, he gradually had a high degree of self-organization ability, and their exploration of the whole planet also began. They were no longer limited to the most intense places of lightning, but controlled lightning, surrounded the magnetic field, and spread to all directions of ancient superstars.

Then, they found the place where life can leap forward and evolve into "civilization", that is, the most obvious big red spot on the ancient superstar.

The great red spot is a super cyclone with a diameter of more than 1000 km and a duration of more than 100 years.

Within the super cyclone, the drastic change of air pressure can make the discharge reaction of Lightning more violent, faster and more possible.

Super cyclones constantly stir up the surrounding materials, and even absorb a large amount of materials from the depths of ancient giant stars. Like volcanic eruptions in the depths of primitive oceans, they bring abundant energy and materials to the center of the earth, become the initial cradle of life, and also bring more abundant elements to plasma cells.

Red phosphorus, the special material that forms the big red spot, can release magnificent and unpredictable flame in the ultra-high speed friction of lightning, which has become the carrier of "civilization".

It's true that each "red phosphorus fire" can only last for a few minutes, up to a few hours, which is "fleeting" in terms of human time scale. However, for plasma cells that can be passed on for generations in a few subtle seconds, the burning of a flame is long enough, just like paper that can last for decades, and can be used to make "books", It's time to pass on the wisdom.

In this way, the plasma cells control the lightning, looking for one big red spot after another, reproducing and thriving, and establishing a real "lightning civilization".

Their civilization, of course, is quite different from the civilization built by carbon based intelligent life. At least, 99% of the information read by Li Yao is incomprehensible - he has no idea what these plasma cells are doing, what they are building and what they are pursuing.

Conversely, if the "lightning civilization" can observe the human world's lust and wealth, love and hatred, national rise and fall, heroic epics, and so on, they will not be able to understand what these highly self-organized carbon aggregates are doing, right?

However, there are some things that all "civilizations" share.

Li Yao "saw" that the plasma cells in the deep part of the great red spot actively ignited one after another of the red phosphorus fires, recording specific information with jumping flames.

Perhaps that is their major research findings, their understanding of heaven and earth and the universe, their secret way of inheriting life, and their way of building a more powerful "Blitzkrieg".

It is also possible that they chanted "faith" and "love" poems, which are gorgeous and useless to show off, and even based on their origin, they developed religious incantations superstitious in the sun.

Similarly, just as they tried to transform their own lightning in the past, now they start to transform their own super cyclone. They precisely control the current, charge and voltage, manipulate the clouds composed of helium and methane, and manipulate the speed and angle of the storm, just to make their own big red spot bigger, more stable, and last longer, And can absorb more elements from the depths of the ancient giant, can carry more magnificent red phosphorus fire.

Naturally generated red spots can only last for hundreds of years, but after their transformation, they can last for three or five hundred years - in the scale of lightning civilization, this is almost eternal.

Then there is war.

——War, especially civil war, is an indispensable part of the growth of all civilizations.

The war between two big red spots, billions of flashes of lightning, and incalculable plasma cells has begun!