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 initial life appeared around the deep-sea hot springs and spread due to the eruption of undersea volcanoes.

In the time when it was rushing like a river, countless strange and simple carbon-based organisms appeared naturally and then disappeared naturally... Single-cell, multi-cell, primitive organisms, primitive algae, various carapaces, echinoderms and even spinal organisms appeared, evolved or extinct.

In this process, there was no extraordinary power, nor any miracles. Everything passed like this for countless years.

Until one day, a primitive marine arthropod climbed onto the land together with mosses and ferns during a long evolution.

This kind of creature that looks like a large isopod, and seems to be nothing strange, 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, the isopods have evolved a rather wonderful method of stacking arthropods: they have a strong and sensitive carapace tentacle on both sides of their bodies. When in the ocean, this tentacle can be used to detect changes in the surrounding water flow, and at critical moments, it can be connected to the tentacles of other isopods and tightly entangled the two.

Not only that, this tentacle also has a very developed nervous system. During the entanglement process, the nerves are connected, and the two equal footworms can temporarily merge into one, advancing and retreating together, and look like a large creature. The more equal footworms gather together, the larger the size of their stacked arhats. There have even been instances where equal footworms rush up, wrapping the predator in a group, trapping them to death.

On land, the tentacles that connect the worms to each other have not only not degenerated, but have evolved further: their tentacles have become more flexible and stronger, just like two small joint whips that can be used to carry and lift many things. Many worms are connected together, forming a whole that carries out many cooperation, such as forming a human staircase and a human stair bridge, so that their companions can go higher and go further.

There are even some groups of equal-foots that have been connected since their birth. Some of the equal-foots specialize in the nervous system, crossing out the carapace and arthropods, while some equal-foots degenerate the excess nervous system and specialize in the strength. Several equal-foots combined together can become a larger and stronger "combined equal-foot". The equal-foots that have not evolved this point are basically eliminated by this same ecological niche, but more powerful similar species.

It is like a macroscopic cell differentiation that takes place on land - in the larvae of isopods, a scene similar to the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells is emerging: part of it becomes the brain, part of it becomes the foot, part of it becomes the supply, digestive system, and then the worker worm assembles it so that a larvae of the ‘big larvae’ can be formed.

Each individual isopod is not a smart creature, even a "brain worm". At least three brain worms must be able to generate wisdom. The three brain worms need more other components to form a large paw that can survive independently. Only after at least dozens of components are combined can the "large pawodle" with initial wisdom be born.

The original isopules were just creatures living on two-dimensional planes. They only knew the front, back, left and right in their lifetime. However, because of the developed nervous system, the height formed by the large isopules, they quickly understood the third dimension of "high". The broad vision brought by this is the source of crushing.

Needless to say, the following things are: wisdom in the age of primitive life, can use tools and fire, and large footworms with three-dimensional spatial thinking are simply cheating players. They easily evolved into neural language, created text, and used tools to defeat other arthropods, crust creatures and insects that became increasingly large due to excessive oxygen.

[Preface: Founders were soon spread all over the world. They were really smooth sailing, didn’t they?]

The sound of the immortal lighthouse came, making Joshua, who was watching these memories, nodded slightly.

Large-sized footworms, or a different name, "gathering people", can be called a species of intelligent creatures together. Their civilization has developed rapidly over a thousand years, from mud pits by the sea to caves in the woods, from caves in the mountains to greenhouses made of mud on the plains, from stone tools to iron tools, and from primitive tribes to larger civilizations.

Gathering people has learned a way to communicate with each other without nerve connection and communicate with each other, that is, relying on words and customs to connect everyone into one. Even if it is not born in the same nest, Gathering people can aggregate and divide through acquired preferences. They call this novel, although there is no physical connection, but can make the hearts communicate with each other. They also call this group of gatherings that combines this "culture" and a super-large "gathering people" a "country".

The battle between countries is a battle between culture and culture. If culture is defeated, it can only be eliminated by force and expelled the other party. Otherwise, some people will be separated from their original countries and joined other countries. With the war of culture, the knowledge and information mastered by different countries will also begin to interact, which will bring about large-scale technological progress. The countries that are aware of this will no longer engage in "cultural wars" with the purpose of "destroying" the country, but will deliberately control the interaction of knowledge within an acceptable range.

In this way, in the first million years when people gathered, they began to no longer care about the disputes on the earth, but raised their heads and stared at the stars in the sky.

With the perspective stretched, Joshua could see that this is a medium-sized world with a plural solar system that forms a small-scale gravitational balance. The planet where people gather is the second planet in their galaxy - and what is amazing is that the moon of their planet is actually a livable world.

Not only that, the third planet in this galaxy is also a livable world, but it is just colder.

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

This discovery greatly shocked the civilization of gathering people at that time, because at that time, gathering people had a clear concept of biological history and was not behind in astronomy. They knew very clearly the distance between planets, and knew that it was impossible to appear almost the same creatures in completely different ecosystems - even in the livable world, it was definitely not something that gathered people in ancient times could have arrived by accident.

But the gathering people discovered—and they also discovered that it was the remaining power of this divine body that teleported the other gathering people to other planets.

The divine power penetrates all the life worlds in this galaxy. In the center of the mountain in the Sky and Heavenly Divine Mountains, they found a natural divine power gate, which leads to the moon and another livable world, where there are other technologies that are backward but belong to the same tribe to survive.

Then, there is an era of extraordinaryness that begins.

[Praise: At that time, the founders did not think too much about the ‘why’, because for them, it was just a natural phenomenon similar to the rainwater cycle and the ocean currents under the sea. But soon, one hundred and thirty-seven years later, someone finally started to study the ‘primitive divine power’ and successfully obtained some of the divine power characteristics.]

Analyze and structure from divine power, and then try to learn the "why". Using the huge skeleton of the god, people gathered people to study the divine power missing in the "first fire". Many people gathered people to separate part of the divine body and then gained divine power and became extraordinary individuals. Some people even gathered people to study divine power in depth, use divine power to bless themselves, and accelerated the evolution of the entire country.

This is a thriving era—everything seems so wonderful. Through in-depth research on the Astro-Sky God, the colonization of the other two livable worlds and the gathering civilization began to make rapid progress.

Then, the disaster called "Great God's Punishment" came.

First, some individuals holding divine power suddenly died and became vegetatives, and could no longer wake up. Then there were groups, societies, and even countries that studied divine power. Blockbusters and individuals and collectives who valued divine power lost their self-consciousness in turn, becoming dead flesh that didn't know anything and had no instinct. More than half of the wise individuals on the mother star of the gathering disappeared overnight, which immediately shocked all the remaining country of gathering and was also extremely afraid of divine power.

This is called the great punishment caused by theft of divine power. Countless people gathered in panic and launched many sacrifices, hoping that God would not blame himself for his blasphemy.

Next, there was a meaningless era of panic... During these hundreds of years, people gathered to give up studying divine power. They no longer used portals in the sky and sky mountain to colonize, but began to develop spacecraft... However, the time for the disconnection was too long, and the colonies of different planets rebelled one after another, and the chaotic war lasted for hundreds of years until one side activated the divine power again for the victory of the war.

[Confused: The founders did not tell us this history, they were vague and used it as a humiliation. However, the triple curtain was guessed, but the triple curtain did not tell them]

Joshua smiled slightly, he didn't care. The human figure of the warrior stood in the virtual world universe, staring at the entire galaxy. He knew that this was probably the beginning of the founder's creation of spiritual energy and soul.

Hundreds of years have been enough to make a race forget its fear. With the re-activated divine power, the research on divine power has also been brought to the forefront again. Similarly, the phenomenon of individuals with divine power suddenly becoming vegetative. They even gathered in the Central Science Park to artificially create such individuals through human experiments. They carefully observed the entire process of divine power individuals losing their will and finally discovered the truth of divine punishment.

As the original god of quasar will, the divine power of the volcanic worm contains every detail of the planet's changes in that era. In other words, every divine power is a huge information database. It would be fine if it was just used simply. If the individual's will is outstanding, or if he has held divine power for too long, the countless information in the divine power will be leaked out, which will be enough to completely submerge the self-will of any intelligent individual and even the entire country, and turn it into unconscious dead flesh.

The deeper you think, the more you gather, you will find that the carbon-based brain and ganglion have limits. If you want to exceed this limit... you can only stop being a human being!

[Happy: That is the reason why the predecessor of the Three Curtains was born. Thanks to the founder for his extraordinary wisdom]

The emergence and birth of computers and artificial intelligence is not surprising, because it is nothing more than using mechanical parts to simulate the thinking process of gathering people. Soon, intelligent robots with high-performance processors and huge savings equipment appeared. Although the first decompression of divine power failed, there is no doubt that the robot's performance is much better than gathering people itself, and the loss is extremely small, it is just burning out the processor.

By experimenting with decompressing divine power on intelligent robots, gradually, gathering people has become very advanced in the corresponding mechanical field. Their experiments are gradually becoming successful. Finally, when the ninth generation high-performance processors appeared, the robot endured the divine power message of decompression for the first time - it became the first individual to hold the "blank divine power".

A processor that completely surpasses the brain, can replace the brain 100% and can withstand divine power is undoubtedly sought after by people. They want to transform themselves and put their consciousness into the steel body and processor - but a philosophical question stumps them.

Is it the gathering of people who transfer self-awareness into the machine or the original gathering of people? Is it a set of exactly the same but not my own algorithm, or is it the gathering of people itself?

Is this a suicide called "rebirth death" by the United States, or a "rebirth" without pain?

The way to gather people to solve this philosophical problem is very simple.

Since it is impossible to determine, the "self" is a collection of various impulsive feedback generated by the microcurrent of the brain nerves, or the entire life individual itself. Since it is impossible to determine, whether the self after being replaced bit by bit is still not the original self - then create a "thing" that can carry consciousness independently of the body!

"soul."

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

[Agree: Yes. In order to ensure that while entering the mechanical body and holding controllable divine power, the founders can also confirm that they are themselves, they have begun to prepare for the creation of their original souls]

If the natural body of the body is born with ordinary people, then the artificial mechanical body and artificial soul are the first step in life's evolution towards the acquired divine sacred.

Perhaps it is not a mechanical body, but a specialized carbon-based body. However, the cells themselves are an extremely exquisite carbon-based machinery. They are not so pretentious about gathering people. They think that carbon-based is better than steel, the flesh is more wonderful than machinery, and they think that naturally born flesh and blood mechanical structures must be more refined than artificial ones - they believe in their wisdom and technology and act persistently.

So, how can we transcend the natural mundane and become the acquired sacred?

What is needed is ‘imagination’ and ‘thinking’.

[Miracle Confirmation: After 3,400 years of research, the entire civilization has been focused on research, through several great scientists, voluntarily abandoning their bodies, and entering the mechanical body in a possible way of "suicide", mastering divine power, and personally experience and collecting data. Through an extraordinary genius, inheriting the wisdom and technology of all pioneers, breaking through the last difficulty of "spiritual existence", and the "miracle" was born]

You can see that with the shining of silver-blue light, a silver-blue, almost physical projection appears behind a gathered person. It is not divine power, but another strange, completely different artificial matter, or artificial power. This projection can appear alone or exist independently, undoubtedly carries the entire self-will of gathered person, and will not dissipate due to mechanical transfer at all!

He can be maintained by the body or by mechanical current. These energy sources are not important at all. The soul is not such a delicate thing. What really supports the existence of the soul is "imagination" and "thinking"!

[Cheer: Celebrate, the individual who inherits all hope, can control divine power, possesses the mechanical intelligence body of the soul, knows all knowledge and information, and transcends ordinary species. It is called the "founder", and this is the moment of its birth!]
Chapter completed!