Liu Chang'an held views completely different from An Nuan's.
An Nuan was still young, inexperienced, and inevitably influenced by her existing framework of knowledge, often unable to break free from conventional thinking.
Biological reproduction was actually highly diverse. Many sudden mutational methods of reproduction were also wonderfully varied and quite fascinating.
For example, according to current human surveys, the world's largest individual organism was a forest in Utah, Ugly Country. There were nearly fifty thousand plants above ground, with a total weight of six million kilograms.
That forest was actually a single Pando clonal tree. All the plants had grown from the mother tree's roots, and because every plant had identical DNA, they were recognized as a single organism.
Besides that, there was also a fungus in a forest park in that country. It was the kind of mushroom Northeasterners loved to use in chicken stew with mushrooms. It had grown across an area for 2,400 years, covering more than a thousand football fields.
In truth, they were not the largest or most interesting individual organisms. When Liu Chang'an had once gone swimming around Exile Country, he had happened upon a vast, boundless expanse of aquatic grass. When he gently stroked it, he discovered that all the grass moaned happily. Only after careful study did he realize that this aquatic grass had double chromosomes. In other words, it had preserved both of its parents' genes intact, rather than taking half from its father and half from its mother like other aquatic grasses of its kind.
Because this aquatic grass possessed such a unique reproductive trait, it could not produce more aquatic grass babies with other aquatic grasses. So it had mutated a new method of reproduction, copying itself. Countless grasses sharing the same rhizome had filled a sea area spanning