"If I confirmed that you were dead, then I couldn't possibly continue with the K-Strategy. I could only switch to the R-Strategy."
Lü Siya said, "But marriage is marriage, and continuing one's genes is continuing one's genes. Since I've decided to implement the R-Strategy, there really is no need for me to get married!"
"What K-Strategy and R-Strategy?"
Meng Chao was confused again.
"They're the two major reproductive strategies chosen by the vast majority of living things in nature!"
Lü Siya said as though it were only natural, "The R-Strategy is a reproductive method adept at rapidly exploiting resources in a localized environment. Organisms that adopt it are more capable of enduring abiotic environmental factors—such as broad fluctuations in climate—and pursue population numbers at the cost of massive death.
"Under normal circumstances, relatively small and primitive organisms, such as bacteria, insects, and certain fish, are accustomed to using the R-Strategy to multiply and thrive.
"The K-Strategy, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite. It pursues quality of survival and focuses on increasing survival rates. It is a reproductive strategy adept at utilizing stable resources in a regional environment, and it is also the sole or primary reproductive type of large animals and plants.
"In short, the R-Strategy values quantity over quality. It would rather produce hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of offspring at once and let them undergo nature's incomparably cruel selection.
"Even if, in the end, 99% of the offspring were eliminated, as long as 1% survived—or even evolved gene modules better suited to the environment—that would count as victory.
"The K-Strategy, however, values quality above quantity. At most, it produces three to five offspring at a time, then concentrates most of its resources on those three to five offspring. Unless absolutely necessary, it would never