40,000 Years of Cultivation

"I'm the answer?"

Li Yao muttered to himself, "Don't you even know who you are, where you came from, and why you were born?"

"Yes, the man who is called the'Emperor' in the myths and legends of later generations, leaving behind countless grotesque and absurd legends, is just a passerby lost in the sea of ​​stars, a man who spent his entire life searching for answers It’s a pity that man, until the end of his life, he doesn’t know the meaning of himself and even the entire human civilization being created, and our...may delay our mission for hundreds of millions of years."

The voice of the tomb guard is full of desolation, clumsy, and helplessness.

Along with the rippling and surging information flow, the looming illusions around have also become clear.

It's like going back hundreds of thousands of years, back to the time when Pangu civilization just discovered the archaic relics and established a large-scale cutting-edge laboratory here.

"The emperor... my memory begins with a small embryo."

The voice of the tomb guard is getting lower and lower, like a babble in a dream. It has entered the role of "the emperor", or simply is playing the emperor's last words, "I am like a floating in a primitive ocean. The ancient bacteria, drifting with the waves in the hot and nutritious seawater, in just a few days or dozens of days or hundreds of days, have gone through the path from bacteria to carbon-based intelligent life for billions of years, and then I realized Then, I am not drifting in the vast ocean, but living in a piece of artificially simulated nutrient solution.

"That's really a very strange feeling.

"If I am really a bacterium, or just a cell, even an embryo of a carbon-based intelligent life, I should not have self-awareness and sophisticated thinking abilities, be able to'conscious' to my own living environment, or even release Come out something similar to'spiritual thought' and'think touch' to perceive and explore the world around you.

"But I happen to have the ability to clearly perceive the whole process of my evolution from a small, flagella and tentacle-waving bacterium to a multicellular organism and even an embryo of intelligent life. I can even scan for nutrition. The strengthened glass wall outside the liquid, and the vast and complicated laboratory outside the incubation chamber.

"That is a cutting-edge laboratory that is larger and a hundred times more advanced than the laboratory you see before your eyes. It seems that there are thousands of similar incubators that are simultaneously cultivating batches of embryos or similar things, and there are many others. The mature but unsuccessful embryos are also used as waste. They are sliced ​​in the operating tables and crystal brains of the Pangu and Nuwa tribes, and virtual experiments are carried out. Various weird and whimsical experiments continue one after another, day and night. Absolutely."

As the tombkeeper kept playing the "Emperor"'s last words, the surrounding environment also changed, and there really appeared countless Pangu and Nuwa tribes wearing sealed sterile clothing, immersing themselves in experiments.

The experimental objects on the operating table and the crystal brain light curtain contained various strangely shaped beasts, but most of them could still vaguely recognize the appearance of human beings.

"At that time, I didn't understand everything that the Primordial Races did. I only knew that they had cultivated thousands of embryos similar to me, and used various methods to stimulate the embryos, wanting to activate the mysterious power hidden deep in the embryos. , But most of the experiments failed."

The emperor continued in a low and sad voice, "Some embryos cannot activate any power, and they stop abruptly in the process of evolution, turning into various carbon-based life without the slightest wisdom at all, and beasts with hairy and blood-drinking; some embryos cannot bear too much. The strong stimulus directly bursts and destroys, and completely melts in the nutrient solution. Although most embryos have successfully grown into fetuses and turned from fetuses into babies, they did not show any supernatural powers after falling to the ground, except for reproductive ability In addition to having a relatively strong ability to adapt to the environment, there is simply no power to restrain the chickens. It is far inferior to the advanced and powerful prehistoric races such as the Pangu, Nuwa, Gonggong, and Zhurong tribes.

"The researchers of the Pangu and Nuwa ethnic groups seem to be very dissatisfied with the results of the experiment. I can perceive their anxiety, anger and even despair.

"At that time, I was just a small embryo, not much more complicated than bacteria. In my cognition, the Primordial Race was more than a **** or a demon, it was a kind of higher-dimensional life, and there was something that could make it They all feel'irritable' and'despair', I really can't imagine what it will be.

"In short, the researchers of Honghuang Civilization conducted experiments on countless embryos, and input the data of the failed experiment into the next batch of experimental embryos, changing the experimental environment and stimulation parameters, and then suffered the next failure. However, In the failure of each batch of embryos, 1% of embryos can survive by chance. They are neither destroyed by strong stimuli nor embarked on the wrong path of evolution. They matured in a relatively weak posture, they just maintained Embryo state, silently absorbed, continue to dormant.

"I am one of the luckiest embryos. From cell to embryo to fetal state, I used it for three full years."

In front of Li Yao's eyes, a training room like a crystal tower emerged.

At the beginning, except for the light green nutrient solution, the culture chamber seemed to be empty and nothing existed.

Only by releasing his spiritual mind to the limit, can Li Yao scan a cell-like thing from the nutrient solution.

The reason why it is said to be "similar to a cell" is because the structure of an ordinary cell should be very simple, but the inside of this cell is mysteriously complicated to the limit, as if...the entire universe is contained.

As time passed, the researchers surrounding the crystal tower changed batch after batch.

From the tall Pangu tribe with a deformed and swollen brain; to the Nuwa tribe with a human head and snake body and a "gene capsule" on the tail, which can disassemble and assemble genes at will; and then to the Kuafu tribe and insect swarms of plant life The Houyi tribe of life, as well as the Zhurong tribe and the Gonggong tribe, and so on, each of the primitive carbon-based intelligent life uses their unique secret method to modulate the embryo, injecting a large amount of nutrients, gene fragments, psychic ripples and information into the embryo. flow.

Under such stimulation and "feeding", the embryo slowly expands and grows from the initial bacteria into a pale golden fleshy ball with a diameter of more than 20 or 30 centimeters, which is like a crystal after shrinking a star billions of times. Slowly spinning, a drum and a suction, releasing a mysterious and magnificent light, indeed, as the emperor said, for three years, he was dormant and swallowed, and he was unwilling to break out of the shell a second in advance.

"I seem to be the experimenter who has persisted in the embryonic state for the longest time in the entire laboratory."

The emperor said, "After standing out from the countless embryos, it naturally attracted the attention of most predecessor researchers. The resources of the entire laboratory were concentrated on me, which made me endure stronger stimulation every time. Indeed, under this kind of stimulation, I saw a lot of pictures and awakened a lot of knowledge, many of which did not belong to this era and the wisdom of this universe.

"It seems that this is not my first life, but my'reincarnation.' Before being cultivated in the laboratory this time, I have lived once or even countless times. Have fought, struggled, resisted, defeated, despaired, escaped in the vast star sea!

"In the depths of my sea of ​​consciousness, countless pictures flashed up. Even the simplest picture can't be described with pen and ink.

"I see myself in the past, or humans similar to myself, with pale golden flow patterns all over my body, born with the ability to call the wind, call the rain, and control all creatures. We step on an incredible warship, wielding lightning and thunder, and wandering in. Between Xinghai and even the multiverse, we conquer those intelligent lives that are different from ours, deprive them of their wisdom, devour their civilization, integrate the essence of their civilization into our civilization, and even transform everything of their civilization into The form of information flow is engraved in our gene bank.

"Whether it is the center of the shining star sea, the tall giants on the ultra-low-density planets, or the crystal clear, weak and boneless sea people in the ocean planets, or the planets that are too close to the stars and have almost no atmosphere, and the climate is extremely hot. The solar insect swarms born on the sky... all sorts of intelligent lives that look hideous and terrifying, even in nightmares, are all conquered by us and become a small and clear mark in the human gene pool.

"Every one of us, every cell in every human body, is a'Universal Civilization Museum'. Any chain of genes stores at least hundreds of carbon-based intelligent life and everything is solidified one by one. Civilization, this is our spoils.

"We use the dragon as a symbol, and we can even fully unlock our abilities and turn ourselves into a real dragon. The so-called'dragon' is a super life created by consuming hundreds of millions of living creatures and using the genetic essence of billions of living creatures.

"but……

"Even super beings that are overbearing like dragons or gods and demons will touch insurmountable limits when facing the mysterious and vast universe.

"After our civilization reached its peak, it fell to the bottom almost instantaneously. The invincible golden years were smashed and shattered. From the masters of the multiverse, we became the wandering dogs of the betrayal. All of the glory and glory of the world have become humiliation and fear that cannot be sustained all day long.

"Who is our enemy? How did we become like this? If this is what I experienced in my'previous life', then how did I go from the'previous life' to the'present life'?

"I really want to know the answers to these questions, and I want to continue to explore the bizarre picture and the endless past.

"But the predecessor researchers in the laboratory are unwilling to let me continue to receive too strong stimuli-I can faintly perceive them, they seem to be... afraid of me, the awakening of human beings."