Intelligent brain.
It floats in the nutrient solution, showing a pleasant attitude.
The villi extending from the brain tissue are long and thin, continuously absorbing nutrients around them, and they enjoy this treatment very much.
Looking from afar.
The huge brain tissue is full of absurdity and weirdness, and for some reason it always gives people an evil feeling.
Another week has passed.
Every day, different researchers will ask questions about the brain.
These questions are not only about the zombie tide and alien species, but also some questions about human geography, and even some opinions about religion and politics. Zhinao’s answers are always surprising, but the logic is reasonable. .
A researcher took the note and asked: "Zhi Nao, what is your view of time?"
time?
Zhinao thought for a moment and said slowly: "When my Lord first created me, time would pass very slowly. I was very ignorant at that time, and I would be very curious about everything. Every day was very fulfilling."
"The master didn't interfere too much with me. It allowed me to learn slowly by myself."
"I will study each species, observe their behavior, and study their flaws and weaknesses."
Zhinao seems to be a very talkative old man, with rich experience telling the past history.
"Until later, time seemed to flow faster."
"I just observed the life of a few creatures, watching them from birth to death. Hundreds of years have passed in a hurry during the careful study, and in the blink of an eye, the small tree buds in the soil have turned into big trees in the sky."
"My sense of time is getting blurry."
"Live for ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years, and even longer... It seems that after a little sleep, the descendants of the descendants of those species all die out."
time.
The researcher kept recording while feeling the same thing in his heart.
When I was young, I always felt that one day was so long, and I was very curious about everything in the world.
I still vaguely remember that when I was in kindergarten and elementary school, waiting for the bell to ring after school was so torturous. Just a few dozen minutes seemed like a year had passed...
But as people grow older, they feel that they are getting busier and busier, and time always slips away unknowingly. You just work as usual for a while, and when you look back, you find that the Chinese New Year is almost here, and you don’t seem to have done anything. What?
"Does the concept of time become blurred with the sensory awareness of living things?"
"If the life span of a living thing is extended to one hundred thousand years, one million years, or even longer, maybe a few hundred years will pass by taking a short nap."
Although Zhinao's answer is a bit absurd, it is very logical.
The researcher asked again: "Zhinao, what do you think of the concept of hometown??"
Human beings' concept of hometown is not as simple as the place of birth. It is often accompanied by many beautiful or bitter memories.
Does another creature also have this concept?
Zhinao fell into memories again, and then said slowly: "Hometown... my birthplace... that concept has long been gone."
"Human beings have a short lifespan, so they develop emotions for a place that has only existed for a few decades."
"But my life span is too long. After leaving the place of my birth, when I look back, my hometown has long since disappeared."
"Crustal movements, landslides, forests are sometimes burned to ashes by lightning flames, and rivers are blocked by rivers that wash away the ground."
"Looking back... I have been unable to find my hometown for a long time."
"They may have turned into mountains, they may have become lakes, or they may have been submerged in the deep sea. In hundreds of thousands of years, everything will be changed beyond recognition."
Zhinao's concept of hometown is already very vague.
Human life spans hundreds of years, and hometown often represents a city, a small county, or a village.
If you live to old age, perhaps those vague memories will no longer exist.
The muddy roads have been replaced by high-speed trains and asphalt roads. The former small mud houses have been built into high-rise buildings. Shopping malls have risen from the ground. The places where I played when I was a child have become McDonald's and Starbucks...
This is just a matter of decades.
If this time is extended to hundreds of thousands of years, I am afraid that human beings will feel completely strange when facing their hometown. Perhaps by then our high-rise buildings will have been submerged by wind, sand, frost and soil.
Changes in the sea.
Looking back, everything has changed.
"What do you think of human civilization?"
Another researcher asked, Zhinao will answer all these questions carefully, and will not feel bored, but will feel like enjoying it.
"deformity."
"Humans are one of the few creatures I have ever seen that can use tools."
"In the process of biological evolution...the weak will eat the strong, and the fittest will survive, which is inevitable."
"In order to survive better in the water, fish grew gills, climbed onto land and grew jointed limbs, evolved claws to hunt prey, and grew wings to fly in order to pick fruits from the top of trees."
Zhinao began to talk about the process of evolution. The evolution of every living thing is for a better survival.
Stronger power.
faster speed.
Harder carapace.
Sharper claws.
Genes are constantly mutating, and organisms are constantly making changes to adapt to the environment.
"But humans are different."
“Human beings use tools and don’t turn their hands into hammers to crack the shells of nuts.”
"Human beings have invented transportation tools, so they will not run for long periods of time and cause changes in their thighs."
"Human beings have invented weapons. They don't need to make themselves very strong, but they can defeat dangerous creatures that are dozens or hundreds of times heavier than themselves."
Zhinao sighed: "Human beings... are very special... You have transferred your own mutations to your tools. It may take thousands or tens of thousands of years for other creatures to make changes, but you only need to improve your tools."
"The mutation of genes is transferred to the mutation of tools. Human beings are more efficient to a certain extent, but they are also more deadly to the earth because you mutate too fast."
Humans mutate too fast! !
Insects may have to undergo tens of thousands of years of mutation if they want to eat sweet watermelons, but humans only need to invent a small tool and sharpen a kitchen knife, saving ten thousand years of time.
Birds have undergone hundreds of thousands of years of transformation and evolution in order to fly into the sky. Humans can just build an airplane.
We have transferred the changes in genes to changes in tools. Every new tool will save hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution... This gives us an advantage over all living things.
It took hundreds of thousands of years for you to evolve
All it takes for me to evolve is a little invention.
The researchers around them nodded one after another. Zhinao's observation angle was very tricky. Humans were accustomed to the tools they created, but for monsters and alien species... even simple bows, arrows and spears would feel extremely magical.
Not to mention those high-tech weapons, guns, missiles and explosives, and even nuclear bombs.
Today's "interview" is over.
Unconsciously, another day passed, and there were many similar interviews. After a few weeks, those researchers all had "admiration" for Zhinao.
It's too erudite.
It has such a long lifespan, and researchers are eager to learn all aspects of knowledge.
Soon, the time those researchers spent interviewing Zhinao every day became the most anticipated thing.
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PS:
The inspiration for this chapter comes from the movie "The Man from Earth"
I rewrote it twice and I am finally satisfied. Some of the descriptions are very cumbersome, but they are designed to take care of younger readers. I hope you can understand it and have some thoughts about life.
Well, I’ll update it tomorrow! !
(End of chapter)