Chapter 961 A fatal flaw at the genetic level!
Since it was discovered that the Turan people were divided into two classes: professional warriors and military nobles who belonged to the clan, and rat people who were expelled from the clan.
Meng Chao has been thinking about the difference between warriors and rat people.
Although he had contact with some Turan people in his previous life, at that time, he was just an involuntary chess piece. All he wanted to do was gain strength, find his sister, and... survive.
In that chaotic life, his biggest impression of the Turan people was that they were a bunch of idiots with well-developed limbs and simple minds. When they charged into battle together, they were quite suitable as human shields, but most of the time, they were nothing more than a bunch of fools.
There is not enough success and more than enough failure.
In this life, having mastered a higher level of wisdom and power, he could observe and analyze the Turan civilization more calmly. Meng Chao soon discovered more clues.
At first, he thought that rat people and warriors were distinguished by blood.
But he soon discovered that after thousands of years and hundreds of generations of mixing, the blood originating from the rat people in 99% of the rat people was now very thin.
Like Ye Ye, there is no trace of rat-man characteristics at all, he is just a big boy with slightly thicker hair.
Moreover, mixed blood is not excluded among clans.
Through the "Blood Granting Ceremony", even the humblest rat people are eligible to join the clan and pass on their blood and characteristics.
Such customs and habits have caused many warriors to look strange like the rat people.
He is obviously a wild boar man, but he has a huge horn on his head.
They are obviously wild elephants. In addition to their thick and long trunks, they also have sharp claws similar to those of tigers and leopards.
Icestorm, the female leopard, could join the Bloodhoof clan in a minute if she wanted to.
Once she marries a tauren, the offspring will naturally have feline characteristics, but they will also be considered tauren!
Meng Chao also learned from Ye Zi that the clan masters didn't care much about their own offspring, and were even very harsh.
According to the rules of the Turan nobles, it is not a problem at all for warriors and rat people to mix together and give birth to dozens or even hundreds of illegitimate children.
However, these illegitimate children did not have clan status from birth.
They can only enjoy the treatment of ordinary rat people as "house rats" at best.
Unless they can pass the clan's coming-of-age ceremony.
Otherwise, even if their father is a village leader, a temple priest or even a clan chief, they will live a life of shame as rat people.
And their leader, the priest and chief father, would never look at them.
It sounds like the difference between warriors and rat people is purely based on strength.
But what exactly determines the difference in power between samurai and rat people?
Meng Chao didn't believe in the nonsense about "glory bloodline" and "humble bloodline".
He initially thought it was because clan warriors and military nobles had been able to obtain sufficient food and training resources since childhood.
The chances of children from poor families in Dragon City becoming extraordinary are far less than that of children from wealthy families.
Is it because children from poor families are born stupid, lazy, or even have genetic defects?
As the saying goes, "the poor in culture and the rich in military affairs", this principle is the same in the Turan civilization.
But just now, when Ye Zi and the others were being chased by the rat servants of the Ironhide family and running all over the place, Meng Chao had a flash of inspiration and suddenly realized the biggest difference between warriors and rat people!
The so-called advanced orcs are the product of genetic modulation.
This is beyond doubt.
It is absolutely impossible for natural evolution to evolve such a strange species as a "humanoid carbon-based intelligent life form" that has the characteristics of a lion, tiger, cheetah, elephant and wild boar on a human body.
However, gene modulation is not easy.
Cross-species integration is not as easy as imagined.
Even if they are forcibly fused, they often cannot exert strong combat effectiveness and are just deformed and ugly waste.
If you want to combine the ferocity of a lion with the sharpness of an eagle to create a new species called the "Griffin", how many times will you have to fail?
However, attempts to transfer the characteristics of griffins to humans and create "gryphons" with wings growing on their backs, capable of flying freely, fighting fiercely on land, and possessing the wisdom and logical thinking abilities of ordinary people failed.
The probability may be magnified a hundred times.
Meng Chao didn't know who created the ancestors of the Turan people.
Just judging from the military buildings of the Turan civilization and the super plant that a single species like the Mandala tree can support a civilization, the ancestors of Turan who were originally created, the so-called "ancestral spirits", all
It is the crystallization of outstanding biochemical technology.
The original lion-men, tiger-men, leopard-men, or tauren, wild boars, and elephant-men were all the ultimate killing machines that had been refined and refined, with human organs and beast organs perfectly compatible.
However, just like after tens of millions of years, the once glorious Turan civilization gradually declined and even degenerated into the clan era.
When the original "ultimate killing machine" was passed down for dozens or hundreds of generations, the uncertainty hidden deep in their genes finally broke out.
Even the most perfect and accurate "genetic blueprint" will gradually become blurry or even unrecognizable after being copied and transcribed dozens or hundreds of times.
What's more, due to famine, war, marriage... various reasons, a large number of mixed-race children were born between different tribes and clans.
Every hybridization is equivalent to an uncontrolled gene fusion experiment.
According to Meng Chao's observations in the Kirigakure, 99% of the results of uncontrolled gene fusion in this wild environment are not very good.
The result of mixing leopards and elephants is not necessarily a super warrior with both the agility of a cheetah and the brute strength of a giant elephant.
It is more likely to give birth to a waste that is covered in fat, unable to run, and has far less strength than a pure-blood Elephant.
Such a waste has the slender bones of a leopard man and the heavy flesh and blood of an elephant man. As long as it stands up, it will most likely be crushed by its own weight.
The Turan people must have realized this problem as their civilization gradually declined.
Their method of dealing with this problem is also very simple and crude.
Since there is a 99% probability of giving birth to deformed and ugly monsters, it would be better to give birth to a hundred at one go.
Anyway, there are plenty of datura fruits.
No matter how many lives you have, you can survive.
At least for the clan masters, that's the case.
Therefore, clan masters often choose spouses from the same clan and give birth to several pure-blood descendants to ensure genetic stability.
Then, let yourself go, find all kinds of weird rat people or other clan members to have fun, and give birth to more and weirder descendants.
If you are lucky and the descendants happen to inherit the advantageous characteristics of both parents and there are no incompatibility issues, such descendants will be absorbed into the clan through the coming-of-age ceremony.
The remaining wastes whose genetic fusion failed were expelled from the clan and became rat people.
Yes, this is the truth!
Warriors and nobles are the lucky ones with successful genetic modulation!
The rat people are the waste products of failed genetic modulation!
Meng Chao felt that this conjecture was much more reliable than the so-called "because he fled on the battlefield and tarnished the reputation of the Turan warriors, so he was dismissed as a coward."
It is precisely because there is not much difference in the genetic origin between samurai and rat people.
The extremely unstable gene pool of the rat people, if merged with each other, has a very small chance of avoiding all genetic defects and giving birth to powerful descendants.
Just like the product of incest marriage, it may cause intellectual and physical disabilities.
But it is also possible to give birth to geniuses with superior intelligence.
Meng Chao felt that Ye Zi was such a genius.
They are the lucky ones who finally succeeded after ninety-nine attempts at gene modulation.
It perfectly avoids all genetic defects, incompatibilities and instabilities.
Much closer to how the Turan people were originally created.
And those house rat servants of the Ironhide family...
No matter how much the fox pretends to be the tiger's power, he becomes domineering.
They are also rat people.
There are also fatal genetic defects!
"They're too strong."
After quickly sorting out his thoughts in his mind and confirming his thoughts again, Meng Chao said calmly, "These house rat servants imitate their masters, each of them has at least three to five hundred kilograms of flesh and blood piled on their bodies. They look like
Wild boars stand upright.
"Furthermore, the Iron Skin Family is known as the 'Skin of Steel'. If I'm not mistaken, they have far more trace metal components in their bodies than other families. These metal components accumulate in large amounts on their skin, which is equivalent to wearing a
An indestructible layer of armor.
“While the defense has been greatly improved, the burden on the body, especially the joints of the lower limbs, has also been greatly increased.
"If it is through the coming-of-age ceremony or the blood-giving ceremony, it is of course no problem for the genuine Iron Skin family members. Their genes...their racial talents, as well as the massive amounts of golden fruits and totem beast flesh they devoured, give them strong enough joints.
It is enough to carry hundreds of kilograms or even thousands of kilograms of weight and carry out an unstoppable charge.
"But these... house rat servants who were born with cripples, hehe, don't have such strong joints and tough tendons, how dare they imitate their master and add muscles to their bodies without any thought?
“It’s just looking for death!
“The more muscles you have, the faster you die!
"Leaves, spiders, have you noticed just now that although these house mouse servants are so menacing that they can crash through a copper wall and iron wall once they pick up their speed, they can only sprint in a straight line and it is difficult for them to change direction in a small area.
And running at a variable speed, even after missing you, I have to run forward dozens of arm's length before I can slow down and stop?
"Also, when this farce ended, all the people on our side were breathing evenly and their faces remained calm. However, this group of guys who seemed to have the upper hand and were all majestic were panting and sweating profusely. Many people's
Chapter completed!