The guy who was interrogated by Chen Taiyuan was named Basru, and he was teaching at a nearby middle civilization academy (that is, a middle school). And because there has always been no separation of literature and history, these teachers of literature are often more proficient in history.

It can be said that Chen Taiyuan has found the right person this time.

Hearing Chen Taiyuan's inquiry, Basru immediately said, "We are 'human beings'!" Although we have different appearances from His Holiness, we are still the same before. ”

Saying that, with the acquiescence of Chen Taiyuan and Yin Hongcha, Basru went to the bookshelf and found a somewhat old book. In the illustrated version, Basru opened the first few pages, and Chen Taiyuan's pupils shrank when he saw it. Because the first few patterns are very similar to normal humans!

Although there are some differences in the subtleties, they are largely the same. If you throw the person in the pattern into the outside world, no one will be able to recognize it when you walk down the street.

"This is our historical textbook, which says that our ancestors were honored with such appearances." "So when the Supreme One came to our world, we all submitted to it with joy and sincerity. ”

Supreme? Chen Taiyuan immediately thought that it must be Yuan Shiqing. When the old man came here, he acted as the ancestor of the locals, a living immortal. But to say that the locals are really convinced, Chen Taiyuan definitely doesn't believe it. Kidding aside, no one wants to be ruled by someone else, and must have gone through a series of revolts and repressions.

It's just that Basru regards Chen Taiyuan as a person on Yuan Shiqing's side, and of course he has to show piety and respect. Chen Taiyuan felt that this misunderstanding was also a little beneficial to him, so he did not expose it.

"Did you go through a long period of evolution and eventually evolve to this point?" Yin Hongcha was a little stunned in her heart. If my children and grandchildren become like this in the future, it would be quite sad.

In fact, he can't get used to looking at others, and people can't get used to her, and they don't like each other.

Basru poked his head forward and nodded slightly: "In fact, after the research of the historical community, our evolution is not a natural evolution, but is interfered with by external forces. ”

What interference? Chen Taiyuan and Yin Hongcha were very curious.

"Thousands of years ago, our world invented computers and mobile phones, and with the rise of electronic networks, people became addicted to sitting in front of computers or indulging in mobile online games," Basru said. Especially after the emergence of a large-scale online game of 'Dead Pesticide', various games and entertainment have emerged one after another, and people have indulged in it. ”

"Coupled with the high development of mechanical civilization, human beings are basically free from manual labor, resulting in most people not being diligent and indistinguishable, and over time, because of the effect of using the use of advance and waste, everyone's head begins to lean forward, the arms become longer, and the legs are getting shorter and shorter."

"And because of the chronic lack of thinking, our brain capacity is much smaller than that of our ancestors;"

"In addition, due to long-term laziness and lack of exercise, our digestive system has become more fragile, with a smaller stomach and shorter large and small intestines."

"As food becomes more delicate and does not require too much chewing by lazy people, teeth become smaller and rarer, and because teeth take up less space in the mouth, the mouth has evolved smaller and smaller;"

"On the other hand, because you look at the screen of your computer or mobile phone all day long, your eyes are always staring, and your eyes slowly evolve into a big ......."

"Our historiography has taken the emergence of 'pesticide for the dead' as the benchmark of the times, and since then more than 300 years have been named the 'period of the dead' to describe the decadence and depression of mankind."

Although it was corrected in the next few hundred years, it was too late, until now the government has encouraged exercise and encouraged the abandonment of computers and mobile phones during non-working hours, but the habits that have been cultivated for thousands of years cannot be easily broken. Besides, many people don't think there's anything wrong with that.

It's just that now, reproduction is starting to become a problem. As a result of being immersed in the virtual world for a long time, human beings have become weaker, and often they have lost the power to do "that kind of thing". The two small thin legs are already difficult to support the strenuous exercise of the upper body.

Moreover, technologies such as "machine companions" and "virtual love" invented nearly thousands of years ago have also allowed human beings to further get rid of their physiological dependence on the opposite sex. In doing so, it is said that it has greatly stopped the bad trend of "sky-high bride price", but at the same time, it has caused a huge crisis in the reproduction of human beings. Everyone has a robot companion, but there is no need to marry a daughter-in-law, but what about offspring?

As a result, it later gave birth to the large-scale promotion of IVF technology, which seemed to completely solve these troubles. However, after a long time, it was found that IVF has been passed down from generation to generation, and eventually there will be many problems in evolution.

Therefore, in the past two or three hundred years, the government has begun to encourage everyone to restore the original relationship between men and women, and encourage natural childbearing. However, due to the reason of use and abolition, the reproductive system of both men and women has degenerated significantly, so the chance of conception is reduced a lot. And those who really start to get pregnant often get official big rewards and are awarded the title of heroic parents.

Having a child becomes a hero, which shows what this society has become.

And just now the couple downstairs was trying to do this, Chen Taiyuan and Yin Hongcha suddenly felt so guilty that they interrupted this heroic behavior.

"But that's not right," Chen Taiyuan shook his head and said, "You were roughly the same as us a thousand years ago?" If you had gone out into the outside world, you would have been able to sweep the whole world, right? ”

A thousand years ago, there were only indigenous people in the Americas, Europe was still in the Middle Ages, and China, which had the highest degree of civilization, was only in the age of cold weapons. If the people in it had been killed with foreign guns and cannons at that time, it would only take a thousand people to sweep away.

But Basru said they simply couldn't get out of this small world because the way out was lost.

"You still know you're in a small world?" Yin Hongcha was puzzled, "Then it means that you also know that there is a big world outside." ”

That's right. People in this small world know that there is a big world outside, and outside is their "homeland"!

About a billion years ago, their ancestors were the masters of the outside world, and they lived and multiplied for an unknown number of thousands of years, creating an incredible human industrial civilization.

However, mankind later invented weapons of destruction, such as nuclear bombs, and achieved a self-destruction. Only a group of people who remained in this small world survived, and the original world turned into a scorched earth, and was finally buried by the wind and sand.

In other words, the people in this small world are the spark of human civilization in the previous life. Their way of being and meaning are strikingly similar to those in the Fangcun Peak space.

And according to their historical records, it was the corpse clan that caused the war of destruction in the first place. In the end, the corpses won a tragic victory, and the humans had to hide here. They don't know what happened next, but it is possible that the Corpse Clan has created a new civilization, after all, the Corpse Clan is more capable of surviving in the harsh environment at that time.

Even, maybe the corpse ruins that Lin Xiling and the others encountered outside were the sworn enemies of these human beings back then.

But it's still not right! If the human history in this small world has reached a billion years, then ...... No matter how slow the development of technology is, it must be so powerful that it makes people palpitate, right? Why is it that the first opening is a thousand years, an earlier history?

Basru sighed: "Soon after the ancestors came here a billion years ago, they actually fell into a new existential crisis, and at the critical moment, all human beings could only be dried up, and no one even knew if they could wake up. It was not until 2,000 years ago that nearly 1,000 ancestors were lucky enough to wake up and retain certain scientific and technological achievements. ”

Then, after a thousand years of multiplication, the number of human beings finally increased, and the peak of population prosperity was reached a thousand years ago.

"You've slept for a billion years!" Chen Taiyuan was surprised. It's a long time, it's terrifying, and it's simply unscientific not to be fossilized.

And the thousand-year recovery period has only restored most of the civilization of that year, which is close to the current state of science and technology in the outer main world. But in the following millennium, the development of science and technology in this small world took a detour.

People indulge in pleasure and are satisfied with the existing production capacity, and the whole world is happy and peaceful without the threat of foreign invasion. There are only a few rebels or criminals, and the official can deal with those armed robots, so everyone has no stress.

In this way, the people of this world began to indulge in various affairs such as metaphysics, superstition, and religion, coupled with the constraints of population and the world's natural resources, so that their scientific and technological civilization did not develop further, but generally stayed at the original level.

Now that officials have realized something is wrong, Basru said, they are also encouraging the resumption of science. But the grand plan has just begun, and the Supreme Supreme has arrived.

"Actually, you're only a little bit away from being super awesome, just a little bit!" Chen Taiyuan sighed, "Your civilization level at that time was about the same as our world now, and you were at the most critical moment of change and upgrading. Just taking this step is enough to make a qualitative change. ”

Outside, human beings have gone to the sky and the sea, or to explore the starry sky of the universe. Even for the means of transportation on the ground, Huaxia has even begun to develop super trains with a speed of four or five thousand kilometers per hour. Technology is exploding, but it's been shattered by a wasteland war.

It's like the technology in this small world, if it develops on the basis of the original for a thousand years, can it still be controlled by Yuan Shiqing? Maybe Yuan Shiqing will die in this.

But in the same way, wasn't the explosion of civilization in the outside world interrupted by Yuan Shiqing?

Thinking further, a billion years ago, this human civilization had reached the eve of the explosion of science and technology, and it was also interrupted by other races.

It seems that once you reach that critical juncture, there will always be a force to break your course, and this technology is a kind of fate of technological civilization.