As high-dimensional spiritual bodies, when "looking down" on another dimension of the universe, the laws of time and space they follow are very different from the common sense understood by Ji Thrush.
It's just that these rules are too abstract to explain, and poor Ji Xiaoniao was so confused that he finally understood the general idea.
To make a metaphor, the time elapsed in the universe that Ji Thrush and the others live in is like a map of mountains and rivers hanging in the Palace Museum for high-dimensional life forms, while the spiritual body is like a person admiring flowers through glass. Tourists, as long as they go back, they can "backtrack" to the past and watch the past.
But the behavior of the spiritual body going back to the past also requires energy consumption.
Theoretically, as long as the energy allows, the spiritual body can even see the singularity of the birth of the universe.
But in fact, this behavior consumes a lot of energy, and even if they go back in time and space, the spiritual bodies can only stay in high dimensions as a bystander, and cannot directly have any impact on the established history.
-Oh.
Ji Thrush thought to himself, this is like watching a suspense movie. Although you can drag the progress bar to replay the scene where the heroine is stabbed in the back, you can't jump into the movie and catch the murderer before he kills the girl.
[Exactly.]
The resonance of the spiritual bodies resounded one after another.
For them, the biggest regret is that although they have a longer life and a more efficient way of communication, they have become a brand-new advanced life form beyond the shackles of the physical body, but they still cannot escape the crisis of genocide.
They go back in time and space, and can only watch the history of their home planet again and again, seeing how a prosperous, powerful, and prosperous civilization is going to destruction, but there is nothing they can do.
[So, we created "Peach Blossom Spring".]
Hearing that they finally got to the point, Ji Thrush's eyes lit up, and he listened intently with 120,000 energy.
The spirits told Ji Thrush that strictly speaking, "Peach Blossom Spring" was not created by them, but a different space designed and manufactured by hiring another civilization.
When the spiritual bodies realize that the entire ethnic group will eventually perish, their once splendid culture, profound knowledge, advanced technology, and glorious history accumulated over hundreds of millions of years, even the traces of their race will be obliterated in a cloud. When he was on the Death Star, he decided on an extremely complicated and difficult plan.
They can't modify history in a higher dimension, so hire a group of people who can do that.
To be honest, if it weren't for the spiritual body's way of communication and empathy is different, if you want to get everyone to reach a consensus, you may have to quarrel dozens of times just like the United Nations. Hundreds of years.
In this plan, they will search countless planets in countless universes, and select civilizations that meet their requirements as the executors of their plan.
The code name given to these executors by the spiritual bodies is "Ombudsman".
A civilization that can become an "inspector" must have a relatively high level of science and technology, and have a preliminary grasp of the method of contacting high-dimensional creatures, but compared with the knowledge possessed by the spiritual body, it is slightly inferior, and it must be ambitious and aggressive. Have a strong thirst for knowledge and curiosity.
In the end, the spiritual bodies selected three civilizations that were suitable to become "supervisors". After a long period of contact, they finally finalized one of them and started a plan code-named "subplane cage".
The "supervisor" civilization obtained a lot of advanced knowledge from the high-latitude creatures, and in exchange for this, created a closed demi-plane, ready to place the "cage" for raising and training "mercenaries".
While the "monitor" was making the "cage", the spiritual bodies began to cultivate a civilization that was very similar to the parent star.
They chose the earth in the vast universe.
Because this planet is 90% similar to the parent star of the spiritual bodies, no matter its relative position in the star system, temperature, atmosphere composition, species form or even the proportion of sea and land area.
Then, the spirits let the "monitor" civilization begin to intervene in the evolution history of this planet.
At that time, the "Monitor" civilization had obtained the time-space tunnel and wormhole transition technology from high-dimensional creatures, and officially entered the cosmic era.
They captured the late Homo sapiens who were still at a competitive disadvantage on the earth, and edited the genetic code of these primitive people according to the genetic spectrum given by the spiritual body, making their descendants more and more close to the race of the spiritual body.
During the tens of thousands of years of evolution of Homo sapiens, such gene editing and adjustments have been carried out many times to ensure that there will be no unplanned deviations in the evolution process, and finally modern humans have become the masters of the earth, and at the same time It has also become a 99.98% similarity to the racial gene sequence of the spiritual bodies.
Ji Thrush: "..."
When hearing this, Xiaoniao's mood was very complicated.
He had a thousand words and didn't know where to start, and finally he could only sigh a long way.
No wonder these "people" claim to be the ancestors of human beings, and even the evolution of human beings is completed under their control!
—Are you doing this because you want to reproduce your civilization on Earth
Ji Thrush asked.
[No, that's not the case.]
He heard countless negative answers.
The spiritual bodies told Ji Xiaoniao that it is too difficult to copy a civilization from scratch, or it should be said that it is an impossible task at all.
Because there will be too many differences in the course of history, every seemingly small and inadvertent change is the flapping of the wings of a butterfly, and the effect caused is really incalculable.
Especially when the number of intelligent life on this planet reaches a certain base, everything will become uncontrollable.
— Just like the various "worlds" you have experienced.
In the "worlds" that Ji Thrush has been to, although "people" exist, each "world" has its own characteristics.
The spirits told him that these "worlds" exist in different parallel universes, and in a sense, they represent the differences and countless possibilities of civilization evolution.
Ji Xiaoniao thought about it carefully and nodded.
He seemed to understand a little bit what the spirits meant.
— It is precisely because a civilization cannot be fully replicated that you selected "some people", right
This time, Ji Thrush heard an affirmative answer.
In fact, every time the "supervisor" civilization opens a high-dimensional space-time channel, or maintains the stability of the "cage" subspace, it needs to consume a lot of energy.
The source of these energies can only be supplied by the spiritual body, which is equivalent to accelerating the burning of the life of their entire group, and causing all members to perish faster.
The reason why the season thrush saw so many "dead" yellow energy bodies is precisely because of this reason.
For the spiritual bodies, the successful evolution of late Homo sapiens into modern humans, and then the development to the current level of technology, has almost reached the limit that the entire ethnic group can bear. Next, it is time to start the "subplane cage" The second step.
The "Monitor" began to collect humans on the earth and "raise" them in "cages".
However, the "supervisors" did not arrest people from the earth casually.
The human beings they choose must carry genes that can stimulate supernatural powers, so that they can "train" the fighters that the spiritual bodies need.
In addition, the "supervisor" civilization is limited by their ethical principles, and can only choose those who are unfortunately about to encounter "death"—but are the reasons for the "death" of these people a bit strange, or will innocent people be involved? , it is completely out of the concern of the "supervisors".
Hearing this, Ji Thrush took a deep breath.
He thought of the derailment accident of the maglev rail car he had experienced, and he felt angry.
—What kind of weird ethics is this!
No wonder there was a period of time when weird accidents were very frequent, and many of them were caused by the "supervisors" in order to collect samples!
The other people died so unjustly, and there were my coach, team doctor and teammates in the car!
Feeling Ji Xiaoniao's burning anger, the tentacles of the mental bodies trembled a little.
But they still bit the bullet and continued talking.
The selected people are the "participants" like Ji Thrush.
The "supervisor" will open the space-time channel, and before the "participants" die, they will be brought into the "cage" in the subspace—that is, the "Peach Blossom Spring".
Here, the fatal injuries of the "participants" will be completely cured by sophisticated medical technology, and then they will be put into a "world" with F-level difficulty, where they will experience the first test.
Those who are not smart enough, too weak, or simply not lucky enough will be eliminated without mercy.
After that, it is a step-by-step "breeding".
The spiritual bodies will review the history of various civilizations in countless parallel universes, intercept the "challenges" they think are suitable, determine the space-time coordinates, and then divide them into five grades of F, B, A, S and SS according to the difficulty, and provide unlocking The energy of the space-time tunnel allows the "monitor" to send the "participants" into a specific "world" one by one.
"Participants" will gradually grow and become stronger through uninterrupted strengthening and experience, until they break through the "SS" level of difficulty, which means that they have met the requirements of the spiritual body.
Ji Thrush: "..."
He silently reminded himself that he must remain calm and never get angry, but the fingertips of the raised hand still trembled slightly due to emotion.
—Haven’t you already mastered the technology of gene editing
Because he was too angry, Ji Xiaoniao simply opened his mouth and shouted:
"Since you want strong people so much, why don't you just make a group of people out according to your own genetic template! Why do you want to torture us!?"
[…]
At the same time as these words came out, all the chaotic and noisy voices in Ji Thrush's mind stopped.
The network of the spirits was strangely quiet at this moment.
Deathly silence.
After two full seconds, a "person" finally answered:
[… Do you think we haven't tried it?]