After listening to Jingsu's words, Todd's first reaction was that the other party was lying: "Let's not talk about the other world I'm in now. But in my previous life, how could the earth have been created by you?! From the most primitive single-celled organisms, to the transformation of sea and land organisms, and finally to the emergence of Homo sapiens, we are the product of nature over millions of years!"

The water crystal in the air faintly flashed a faint red light under the smooth surface, and the voice sounded directly in Todd's head: "For 'Jingsu', time has no meaning, and space loses all value. Changing the laws of nature and physics seems to us to be like toppling a child's building blocks, simple and boring. ”

"We have created low-dimensional spaces, and selected a planet in each low-dimensional space universe as the carrier of life. The body of the "Jingsu" slowly brightened, and the gray mist switched to a vast galaxy: "Take your favorite experiment as an example, on our 'experimental table', a 'petri dish' is a universe, each 'sample' in the vessel is a planet where life exists, and you creatures are the insignificant individuals in the 'sample'. ”

Todd rubbed his forehead with his hand: "You mean to say that the planet we exist on is a sample of your observation, our universe is an experimental space that you have created, and we beings are the objects of your observation?"

Crystal shifted direction in the air, and a blue planet appeared in the background: "I know you're suspicious. Take your past life, the Earth, as an example, in order to ensure the uniqueness and non-interference of the samples in the petri dish, we will not place two life forms in the same space, which is why the Earth is still unable to find intelligent life in the universe after so many years of observation. Of course, at a certain stage of the experiment, we will also bend and refract the two spaces to carry out dimensional bridging. ”

"Look at your present life, a world similar to your previous life, where we have arranged for the creation and change of species, and adjusted history, people, and events with the dimensional space of the earth as a blueprint. Its existence is like a comparative reference experiment of two "petri dishes" under similar conditions, in order to find different discrete parameters of the same kind of evolutionary chain. ”

At this point, Crystal moved the inverted triangle closer to Todd, as if he was observing and said, "But your appearance is something we didn't planned. Due to the gravitational circulation in two low-dimensional spaces, your consciousness and memory enter this world in the form of gravitational waves. Some of us, after learning of this incident, suggested that the "petri dish" be reset, considering that the same accident had happened before, and fearing that the "sample" would be contaminated. But then your performance and results made us determined to continue experimenting. ”

Todd's mind was a mess: "Performance and grades? I don't know what you're talking about?!Why are you doing this? Keeping different races of life like experiments, in different dimensional spaces, for entertainment?"

"Your language and expression system is too rudimentary, and the answer to this question cannot be answered in a way that you can fully understand. To describe it in words that are closest to the answer, the reason why 'Crystal Sud' independently cultivates different lives in different dimensional spaces is to maintain the evolutionary chain of species and the diversity of life. ”

Todd was still puzzled by Crystal's answer, and the latter asked again, "I don't understand your explanation, why do you cultivate intelligent life forms like this, aren't you afraid that these beings will grow up in the future, threaten or even get out of your control?"

The Crystal Sutra tilted slightly, the light under its body flickering regularly, and it seemed to be very 'interested' in this question: "I've heard the philosophy of the earthlings about race wars, and you think that all threats should be nipped in the bud, and from your logic, this may be true. But the foothold of your thinking, in our opinion, there are three misunderstandings. First, you believe that all resources are finite, habitable planets are finite, mineable minerals are finite, life that can be fed is finite, and races will fight for finite resources......"

The picture changes again, and countless cosmic spaces rotate and expand, infinitely extending in all directions.

"But the reality is that once the living species have mastered the ability to modify the laws of the universe, you will find that the battle is the fool's folly, and the infinite time and space make all the fight meaningless. Territory, resources, and population are all meaningless numbers, and the evolution and integrity of living things is the ultimate goal of the race. To use a metaphor to describe the difference between you and us, when everyone is racing, we are running in front of us, there is no end in sight of the track in front of us, thinking about how to make ourselves stronger and faster, but you are looking behind you, only looking at the starting line you have just left, always thinking of ways to trip the people who are behind. ”

"Second, the cost of waging war is too great. If I take the earth as an example, before the Second World War, you waged wars on a much larger scale and more often than after the Great War. As for the reason for this, it should be clear to you all that it was the birth of nuclear weapons. Any strategic move involving fundamental interests between nuclear-armed states could lead to the end of all living organisms. For us, it's the same. If the scale of the dimensional war between the Crystal and other races escalates, there are some weapons that can cause the collapse of the multidimensional space, the dichotomy of the main law, and even more serious catastrophic consequences. ”

The light of the Nakshatra brightened a little more: "At the same time, due to the diplomacy and restraint between the races of intelligent life, those high-level intelligent beings will be recognized as a warlike and brutal race if they use destructive weapons to attack or even eliminate low-level lifeforms. In inter-ethnic cooperation and sharing, there is also targeted exclusion. ”

"The third reason why we don't want to destroy the lower intelligent life forms is because of our own needs. ”

The longer Todd stayed in this strange space, the hotter his brain became and his limbs became weaker.

"In our dimension, materials, galaxies, and minerals are inexhaustible, and the only limitation is our own existence. Due to the particularity of the structure of the "Jingsu" species, it is determined that although we have the level of scientific and technological progress, we have lost the ability to evolve the species. After studying the infinite life in the universe, Crystal has discovered that the lower life forms, carbon life forms, although your life forms are relatively old, the genetic inheritance pattern makes them have infinite evolutionary possibilities. Using the diversity and evolutionary nature of the cultivation of carbon-based life, we can find ways to upgrade and complete the structure of the 'Crystal Sudwelling'. ”

Todd's eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and his body slowly began to become transparent.

Watching the other party's changes, a ray of light emanated from within his body, enveloping Todd's figure and helping him stabilize his vanishing figure.

Waiting for Todd to regain some of his energy and regain his concentration, "Crystal Su" said, "Detached from the physical body, the gravitational waves formed by your consciousness cannot exist in this space for a long time. What I'm going to say next is very important. To make a long story short, you have become one of the candidates for Crystal Suku to be a surrogate in this space. ”

Todd struggled to control his mind and asked, "What is an agent, and what is a candidate?"

"In each space we build, on the planets where life is observed, the 'Crystal Lodge' will select a different number of life forms at different evolutionary periods as proxy candidates to observe their guidance and contributions to the evolution of living beings. and finally select an agent to be the designated manager of the space. ”

Todd vaguely felt that this so-called agent was very similar to something he knew, and he asked with the idea of trying, "Agent, is it referring to the legendary gods?"

Crystal replied, "Judging from the history of your past and present lives, there are several agents who do coincide with your legendary gods. For example, Odin, the king of the gods in North Island mythology, and God, the supreme god of the church...... They all used to be our agents. The agent is endowed with the ability to change the world and the species, and in the dimensional space that belongs to him, he can be the creator or the god of destruction, and the "crystal house" will not interfere with the agent's actions. ”

There was a fluctuation in the space, and the light emanating from the crystal slowly dimmed, and Todd's form began to be transparent again.

"The beacon's energy is starting to deplete, and soon the space will begin to crumble. The crystal began to slowly sink into the ground: "Remember, we will continue to focus on you as a proxy candidate, and after proving yourself superior to other candidates, we will give you the ability to manage this spatial dimension." As you move forward, we may be able to meet again......"

Todd felt a surge of energy push himself backwards, moving away from the world in front of him, and shouted in a hurry, "Wait! I still have a lot of questions to ask! Why did you choose me as a candidate? Who are the other candidates?"

The crystal lost its light completely, the space began to crumble like a shattered mirror, and Todd's consciousness was repelled from the spire and returned to his shell.

Feeling the real world returning, Todd opened his eyes and saw Brunhilde, whose face was full of anxiety.

"The gods are above! You're awake at last!"

Hearing the Valkyrie's voice, Todd shook his head, looked at the "mirror" around him that had lost its light and looked like a stone slab, and asked in a whisper, "How long have I passed out?"

Brunhilde hugged Todd in the crook of his arm, shook his body, and said loudly, "Faint?!!You know? You just lost your heartbeat and stopped breathing, for a full minute!"

A minute?

It feels like a century......

Todd propped up his upper body with his arms, looked at the Valkyries around him, and sighed.

"Have you met the gods?"

Hearing this, Todd smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't find the gods, but I found the origin of the world......"