At first, everything was silent.

All things are born in a world without miracles.

As organic matter was born in thunderstorms caused by volcanic eruptions, the first life appeared around hydrothermal vents and spread as a result of submarine volcanic eruptions.

In the rush of time, countless strange and simple carbon-based creatures appeared naturally, and then died out naturally...... Single-celled, multicellular, primitive organisms, primitive algae, all kinds of crustaceans, echinoderms and even vertebrates appeared, evolved or became extinct.

In this process, there was no supernatural power, no miracles, and everything passed like this for an unknown number of years.

Until one day, a primitive marine arthropod landed on land along with mosses and ferns in the long process of evolution.

This creature that looks like a large isopod has a plain appearance, which may not seem surprising, but it is not—because there are many large predatory arthropods in the ocean, and small arthropods such as isopods are just their food, in order to avoid being hunted, isopods have evolved a rather strange method of stacking arhats: they have a strong and sensitive carapace tentacle on each side of their body, which can be used to detect changes in the surrounding water flow when they are in the ocean, and at critical moments, Can be attached to the tentacles of other isopods, wrapping the two tightly together.

Not only that, but this tentacle also has a fairly developed nervous system, in the process of winding, the nerves are connected, and the two isopods can temporarily merge into one, advancing and retreating together, looking like a large creature - the more isopods gathered together, the larger the size of its stacked arhats, and there have even been incidents where isopods have swarmed up, wrapped predators in groups, and trapped them to death.

On land, the tentacles connected to each other of isopods not only did not degenerate, but evolved further: their tentacles became more flexible and stronger, like two small joint whips, which could be used to carry and lift many things, and many isopods were connected together to form a whole to carry out many cooperations, such as forming human ladders and human bridges, so that companions could go higher and farther.

Even, there are some groups of isopods that have been connected together since the beginning of their birth, some of them have specialized their nervous system, delineating their carapace and arthropods, while some isopods have degraded their excess nervous system and specialized their strength, and several isopods combine to become a larger and stronger 'zypod isopod', while the isopods that have not evolved this point are basically eliminated by this same niche, but more powerful of the same kind.

It's almost like a macroscopic cell differentiation that takes place on land – in the larval nest of an isopod, a scene similar to the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells is emerging: part becomes the brain, part becomes the foot, part becomes the sustenance, the digestive system, and then the worker worm assembles it so that it can form a 'great isopod' larvae.

Each individual isopod is not an intelligent creature, not even a 'brain worm', it must be at least three brain worms to produce intelligence, and the three brain worms need more other components to form an aviopod that can survive independently, at least dozens of components are combined together to give birth to a 'megapod' with initial intelligence.

Originally, isopods were just creatures living on a two-dimensional plane, and they only knew the front and back left and right in their lives, but because of their developed nervous system, the height formed by the combination of large isopods quickly understood the third dimension of 'high', which brought a broad field of vision, which was the source of crushing.

The next thing, needless to say, was that in the age of primitive life, they were intelligent, they could use tools and fire, and the three-dimensional thinking of the megapods were simply cheating players, and they easily evolved neural language, created words, and used tools to defeat other arthropods, crustaceans, and insects that had grown in size due to oxygen overload.

[Foreword: The founders soon spread all over the world.] They're all smooth sailing, aren't they? 】

The voice of the Immortal Lighthouse came, causing Joshua, who was watching these memories, to nod slightly.

Mega-isopods, or to put it another way, 'gather people', and only when they are gathered together can they be called intelligent creatures. Their civilization developed rapidly in the course of millennia, from mud pits by the sea to burrows in the woods, from caves in the mountains to greenhouses piled with mud and grass on the plains, from stone tools to iron tools, from primitive tribes to larger civilizations.

Juren has learned a way to communicate with each other without nerve connections, that is, to rely on words and customs to connect all people, even if they are not born in the same nest, Juren can also be aggregated and divided through acquired preferences, they call this novel, although there is no physical connection, but can make the same mind things 'culture', and the many people who are grouped together by this 'culture', a super-large 'Jujuren' is called 'country'.

The battle between countries is the battle between culture and culture, if the culture is defeated, it can only rely on force to eliminate and expel the other party, otherwise, there will be a part of the people who gather people to leave the original country and join other countries, and with the war of cultures, the knowledge and information held by different countries have also begun to interact, which has brought about large-scale technological progress again and again, and the countries that are aware of this have begun to stop 'destroying' the country for the purpose of 'destroying' the country culture wars', but deliberately control the exchange of knowledge within an acceptable range.

In this way, in the first million years of the appearance of the Juren, they began to stop caring about the strife on the earth, but to raise their heads and look at the stars in the sky.

The field of view stretched, Joshua could see that this was a medium-sized world with multiple solar systems, constituting a small gravitational equilibrium, and the planet where the people were located was the second planet of their galaxy - and amazingly, the moon of their planet was actually a habitable world.

Not only that, but the third planet of this galaxy is also a habitable world, but colder.

When the people looked up at the starry sky and observed the moon with curiosity, they were shocked to find that the moon above their heads was actually almost the same world as the earth, where there were mountains, water, and even ...... There are also people gathered.

This discovery greatly shocked the Juren civilization at that time, because at that time, the Juren people already had a clear concept of biological history, and they were not lagging behind in astronomy, they knew very well the distance between planets, and they also knew that it was impossible to have almost the same creatures in completely different ecosystems - even if it was a habitable world, it was definitely not something that the ancient Juren could arrive by accident.

[Narration: Unlike many civilizations today, the founders of that time did not come into contact with any supernatural powers, and there were no superfluous illusions in their minds, and such things as 'imagination' were bound by various conditions. 】

So, this is undoubtedly a surprise to all the nations of the Gatherings, who have come together to form a huge United Nations, ready to work together to see the moon by any means.

In addition to vigorously developing space technology, the people have also begun to try to find all the possibilities on this planet - the 'miracle' that allows them to travel to other stars.

"They should have found it."

Joshua muttered in a low voice, staring thoughtfully at the strange gathering society, and then chuckled softly, "Even in a world without miracles, there are first miracles...... The world itself, born from the Initial Fire, is a great miracle. ”

"The question is, what exactly did they find."

[Admiration: Yes, what you said is indeed true, almost exactly the same as what the original founder said when he looked back on history. 】

[Emotion: They found God, Radcliffe.] The founders discovered the dead gods. 】

It is an extinct volcano, and it is also the largest mountain on the planet of Juren, it is about 24,000 meters high, and the former volcanic vertebrae formed a huge plain, where the space base of Juren was built, but because the mountain is too large and too dangerous, so far no Juren has tried to enter the upper reaches of the mountain range of more than 10,000 meters.

While exploring the upper echelons of this huge mountain range that was later named the 'Sky God', the Juren exploration team discovered an extremely strange phenomenon in the center of the mountain range: their nervous systems can sense each other without connection, there is no gravitational attraction in some places, some small hills float in the sky, and even strange flashes of light can be seen. According to the report of the exploration team, there is a very special anomaly in this mountain range, and the laws of physics seem to have lost their effect here, or in other ways, one member of the exploration team said that he seems to have seen a huge creature corpse buried in the volcanic mountain.

It was an incomparably huge rock giant, or rather, a rock giant worm, whose back was the main body of the entire 'Sky God' mountain range, and the sixteen arthropods were the cornerstones of the entire plateau, and according to detection, he was born at the beginning of the ancient planet, the founder of the entire astral volcanic phenomenon, and the original life was born from the winds and thunderstorms produced by his breath, and the land was also uplifted by him.

But He died—from exhaustion. As a 'divine being' born from the power of primordial fire that breathes with the world, the volcanic worm was born in response to changes in the planet's crust and died due to geological changes.

The remains of the gods are rapidly assimilating with the planet, according to estimates, about millions of years later, the existence of the gods will not be observed by geological exploration, and they will only think that it is a primitive rock, if it is not for the wisdom of the people and the rapid development of civilization, I am afraid that any normal life will not be able to find the existence of the remains of the gods at the corresponding time.

But the Juren discovered—and they discovered—that it was the remnants of the Divine Skeleton that teleported the other Juren to other planets.

Divine power penetrates all the life worlds in this galaxy, and in the center of the mountain range of the Sky God Mountain, they have found a natural divine power gate, which leads to the moon and another habitable world, where there are other technologically backward but belonging to the same race of Juren tribes to survive.

Then, there was a time for the transcendental, and it began.

[Praise: At that time, the founders didn't think much about 'why', because for them, it was just a natural phenomenon similar to the rain cycle and the ocean currents under the sea. But soon, one hundred and thirty-seven years later, someone finally started to study the 'primordial divine power' and succeeded in obtaining some of the characteristics of the divine power. 】

Analyzing and structuring from the divine power, and then trying to learn the 'why', using the huge and incomparably large divine remains, the Juren launched a research on the divine power that the 'Initial Fire' missed, and many Juren obtained divine power by separating a part of the divine remains, and became extraordinary individuals, and even the Juren Kingdom studied the divine power in depth, blessed their bodies with divine power, and accelerated the evolution of the entire country.

It was a time of great prosperity - everything seemed so wonderful, and through the in-depth study of the sky gods, the colonization of the other two habitable worlds, the civilization of the people began to advance rapidly.

Then, the calamity known as the 'Great Divine Punishment' befell him.

First of all, there are certain individuals with divine powers, who suddenly die, become vegetative, and can never be revived again. Then there are the groups, associations, and even countries that study divine power, and a large number of individuals and collectives who value divine power extremely much lose their self-consciousness in turn, and become dead meat that knows nothing and has no instinct - more than half of the intelligent individuals on the home planet of the Gathering People have all died out overnight, which suddenly makes all the remaining Gathering Nation terrified and inexplicable, and at the same time, they also have a great fear of divine power.

This is called the great divine punishment caused by the theft of divine power, and countless people have carried out many sacrifices in panic, hoping that the gods will not blame themselves for blasphemy.

Then there is the meaningless era of panic...... During these hundreds of years, the Juren gave up studying divine powers, and they no longer used the portals in the Sky God Mountain to colonize, but began to develop spaceships...... But the disconnection was too long, the colonies of different planets rebelled one after another, and the chaotic war lasted for hundreds of years, until one side used the divine power again in order to win the war.

[Confusion: This history, the founders did not tell us, they are vague, and they use it as a humiliation. However, the triple curtain guessed out, and the triple curtain did not tell them]

Joshua smiled slightly, he didn't care, the warrior's humanoid phantom stood in the virtual world universe, looking at the entire galaxy, he knew that this was probably the beginning of the founder's creation of psionic energy and soul.

Hundreds of years is enough time to make a race forget fear, and with the reactivation of divine power, the study of divine power has also come to the fore again - the same phenomenon of individuals with divine power suddenly becoming vegetative people, and even Juren Central Science Park has artificially created such an individual through human experiments, and they carefully observed the whole process of the divine power individual losing their own will, and finally discovered the truth of divine punishment.

As the primordial god of the quasar will, the divine power of the volcanic insect contains every detail of the planetary changes in that era, in other words, every bit of divine power is a huge information base, if it is just used simply, if the individual will is talented, or if the divine power is held for too long, the countless information in the divine power is leaked, it is enough to completely submerge the self-will of any intelligent individual, or even the entire country, into unconscious dead flesh.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that there was a limit to carbon-based brains and ganglia, and I wanted to go beyond that...... You can only not be a man!

[Rejoice: That is the reason why the predecessor of the Triple Curtain was born, thanks to the wisdom of the founder]

Computers, the emergence and birth of artificial intelligence is not surprising, because this is nothing more than the use of mechanical parts to simulate the thinking process of gathering people, and soon, intelligent robots with high-performance processors and huge savings equipment appeared, although the first divine power failed to decompress, but there is no doubt that the performance of the robot is much better than that of the people themselves, and the loss is very small, it is nothing more than burning out the processor.

Through experiments on intelligent robots to decompress the divine power, gradually, the Juren has become very advanced in the corresponding mechanical field, and their experiments have gradually become successful - finally, when the ninth generation of high-performance processors appeared, the robot withstood the divine power message of decompression for the first time - it became the first individual to hold the 'blank divine power'.

Processors that completely surpass the brain, can replace the brain 100 percent, and can withstand divine powers, are undoubtedly sought after by the people who want to transform themselves and put their consciousness into a steel body and processor - but a philosophical question stumps them.

Is the Juren who transferred self-consciousness into a machine still the original Juren? Is it a set of algorithms that are exactly the same but not the person, or is it just the gathering of people themselves?

Is this a suicide that the United States calls a 'death of a new life', or a 'rebirth' without pain?

The solution to this philosophical problem is simple.

Since there is no way to determine whether the 'self' is a collection of various impulsive feedback generated by the microcurrent of the cranial nerves, or the whole life itself, since there is no way to determine whether the self after being replaced little by little is still the original self - let's create a 'thing' that is independent of the body and can carry consciousness!

"Soul."

Joshua's humanoid projection exhaled, and he smiled: "The original soul." ”

[Agree: Yes.] In order to ensure that they can be sure that they can be confirmed that they are themselves while entering the mechanical body and possessing controllable divine power, they began to prepare for the creation of the original soul.

If it is said that the natural physical mortal womb is born mortal, then the artificial mechanical body and artificial soul are the first step in the evolution of life towards the acquired sacred.

It may not be a mechanical body, but a specialized carbon-based body, but the cell itself, which is an extremely delicate carbon-based machine, is not so pretentious, thinking that carbon-based is better than steel, that the flesh is better than machinery, that the mechanical structure of flesh and blood born naturally must be more elaborate than man-made - they believe in their own wisdom and technology, and act persistently.

So, how do you transcend the mundane and become the sacred?

What is needed is 'imagination' and 'thinking'.

[Miracle confirmed: After 3,400 years of research by the entire civilization, through a few great scientists who took the initiative to give up their bodies, settled in a mechanical body in a way that may be 'suicidal', mastered divine power, personally experienced the collection of data, and inherited the wisdom and technology of all pioneers through an unparalleled genius, and broke through the final difficulty of 'spiritual existence', and the 'miracle' was born]

It can be seen, with the brilliance of silver blue, behind a gathering person, a silver-blue, almost physical projection emerges, it is not a divine power, but another strange, completely different artificial substance, or in other words, artificial power, this projection can appear alone, or it can exist independently, undoubtedly carrying all the self-will of the gathering person, and it will not dissipate at all due to mechanical transfer!

It can be maintained by the physical body or by mechanical currents, these energies are not important at all, the soul is not such a delicate thing at all, what really supports the existence of the soul is 'imagination' and 'thinking'!

[Hurray: Celebrate, an individual who has inherited all hopes, a mechanical intelligence body that can control divine power, has a soul, knows all knowledge and information, and transcends the mundane species, its name is 'The Founder', and this moment is the moment of birth!] 】

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