Chapter 10 The Creation of Factories
Climbing over the low hills, the sound of the river fading away, and a dense jungle appeared in front of him, and Schimer led Neil into the dense forest.
The clumps of trees block the sunlight overhead, and the intertwined roots are intertwined, and there is almost no road underfoot, making it very rugged and difficult to navigate.
There were often branches in the way, and Schimer walked in front to push them aside, making a way for Neil to pass behind.
Neil panted and followed Schimer closely. After about a meal, the trees gradually thinned.
Neil could faintly see a row of large white walls flashing in the distance. Schimer stopped abruptly, took off the backpack from his back, and then did something that puzzled Neil: he opened the backpack, took a cloud of air out of it like a pantomime and put it on the ground, then grabbed a handful of the air and shook it before holding it up in front of Neil.
Neil looked at the other party like a tailor making new clothes for the emperor and showed him something that didn't exist, feeling strange and funny, and couldn't help but look dazed.
Schimer laughed, "Neil, this is a wearable light warping device, which is commonly known as the invisibility cloak. In our time travel, if there are intelligent beings in the target space-time, we need to wear it in order to prevent some unpredictable adverse consequences from being witnessed by them, so as to prevent the creation of parallel worlds as much as possible. In our concept, the principle of stealth is a rule that every time traveler needs to adhere to, and we should try not to be discovered by other sapient beings in the target plane. This device is designed for this. When Neil held the non-existent suit in his hand, he realized that although it was invisible, it was completely touchable and had a lot of weight.
Upon closer inspection, Neil noticed that the garment was not completely transparent, and although it was possible to see what was behind it, the area where the garment was located still shimmered with a bluish-purple glow, presumably because the device did not distort the light of all lineages, but was limited to the light within the visual range of the human eye.
When Neil looked up again, Schimer was gone. He hurriedly fumbled to put on the hoodie and pants, and pulled up a mask and put it on his face.
Neil fumbled his way around Schimer as carefully as he felt ridiculous.
Suddenly, he heard Schimer whispering his name on it, and when he looked up, he saw two black hole-in-the-dark eyes floating in the air above his head, and he shivered involuntarily in fright.
The two slowed down towards the white wall. The walls are tall and wide, all made of white stone, about seven or eight meters high and six or seven hundred meters long, and there is almost no end in sight.
The appearance of such a building on the desolate and primitive prehistoric earth is very abrupt, and Neil is very curious about what it looks like inside the walls.
Schimer led Neil to a stop at a large gate. The door was a door-shaped depression in the stone wall, as if carved out of it, and the style was very similar to the Dzolkin buildings Neil had seen.
The gate is tall and obviously not designed for the entry and exit of humans on Earth. Schimer flicked a combination lock-like disc next to the stone door, and the stone door slowly slid open.
The two walked in. Within the walls are rows of tall bungalows, also made of white stone.
The bungalows are separated from each other so wide that no one can be seen moving around them. Schimer gently pushed open a door, and a low rumble came from the room, and Neil smelled the smell of chemicals in the hospital.
Schimer and Neil cautiously stepped into the room. It looked like a factory building, with large machines and equipment standing under the high ceilings, and Schimer pulled Neil through it.
Neil saw giant machines producing all sorts of strange solvents that were fused or separated through clear glass pipes and transported elsewhere through other pipes.
What surprised Neil even more was that in the distance, two tall Drowin men, dressed in uniform and uniform, could be seen clicking on the panel next to a machine to control the machine and equipment.
Schimer and Neil walked further inside, entering a huge room with countless rows of metal stands.
Each row of stands is four or five meters high and more than a dozen meters wide, and dozens of transparent glass containers are fixed in four layers, each containing a human embryo that has begun to take on a human form, these fetuses are closed eyes, curled up in the liquid, blindly paddling their limbs, swallowing amniotic fluid, no different from in the mother's womb.
The umbilical cord of the fetus extends through a long, thin tube that connects to a turbine device soaked in liquid like a car engine, which extends out with two tubes extending up and down.
Neil looked around, and the metal shelves were lined up in rows throughout the room, and roughly calculated, there were hundreds of fetuses soaked in the glass womb in this room alone, and the whole factory was like a forest of young embryos.
Neil felt indescribably weird, and at the same time felt a little disgusted. Originally, he sketched it out in his head
"God created man", is as it is
The miraculous process described in Genesis, Neil was looking forward to seeing how they were
"Make a man from the dust of the ground, and blow life into his nostrils", only after seeing the real scene with his own eyes, can he understand that the ancient way of Dzorkin artificial man, that is, just like modern medicine, is artificially cultivated through high-tech biochemical technology, and there is no mysterious supernatural means.
And seeing the human babies in the house being bred in batches like crops on rows and rows of shelves, Neil only felt extremely eerie and terrifying, and couldn't help but feel cold all over his body for a while.
Schimer led Neil into another building. and
Compared with the "embryo factory", the environment here is clean and quiet, and the layout is similar to that of a hospital. Pushing open the door of a room, I heard the cry of a baby inside.
Neil saw rows of small beds in the room, each with a naked newborn baby lying on it, sleeping quietly, kicking their shins, sucking their thumbs, babbling, crying, or stupidly dazed.
Each baby has a rubber breast hanging from the top of its head, and when a baby starts crying, the baby automatically hangs down in front of the baby, and the crying baby holds it and starts sucking.
Each baby's cot also seems to be equipped with a similar temperature and humidity detection device, once a baby starts to defecate, a robotic arm will hold his body up, and when the defecation is over, the bed sheet will be automatically replaced, and the baby will be placed on the bed.
Neil was looking hard when he heard the door open, and when he turned his head to look, he saw two tall female Drogin people walking into the room.
Schimer and Neil hurriedly dodged and hid aside. I saw two Zhuoerjin people slowly walking through the rows of shelves and beds, inspecting each baby, and from time to time making some records in the notebook in their hands, as two
As the "nurseryman" walked away, Schimer patted Neil on the back and motioned for him to leave the room. Neil and Schimer walked forward again, and there was a commotion in their ears.
In front of them appeared a large lawn, about the size of two football fields, on which groups of human children were playing.
Younger children crawl around on the grass, while older ones run on it, chasing each other and fighting.
Neil saw a high chair on each side of the lawn, and four Drowkins in white uniforms sat in it, watching the children in the field as quietly and boredly as caretakers by the pool.
Some of the children clashed during the play and fought with each other, the beaten children cried, and the Zhuolkin caretakers ignored them when they saw them, and the children ran away to continue playing when they were tired of crying.
Neil looked at it and felt like a ranch for young humans. Schimer and Neil stood silently for a moment, then Schimer touched Neil's shoulder, leaned down and whispered something in Neil's ear
"Let's go," Neil nodded, and the two of them went back the way they came, out of the massive white complex within the walls.
The two silently walked through the jungle and returned to the grassy riverbank, where Schimer and Neil both stripped of their invisibility suits and sat down on the grass.
Schimer said: "Neil, what I just showed you is the scene of the Dorgin people making humans in ancient times on Earth. The building, as you have seen, is actually our breeding base for mankind, and the area enclosed by the wall is later called the Garden of Eden in your Jewish and Catholic Bibles. Neil was surprised, "High priest, but this real scene is inevitably too different from what is recorded in the Bible." Schimmer didn't answer Neil directly, he was silent for a moment, stared at Neil and asked, "Astronauts on the moon, do you think that with your human technology today, do you have the ability to create people?" Neil was stunned, and didn't know what to answer.
"The code of life, I think it won't be long before humans can crack it. The mystery of why various species on the earth show a kaleidoscopic and ever-changing posture comes from genes. Genes are carried by chromosomes, which in turn are made up of DNA, which is nothing more than a large molecule composed of some bases and sugars, which can be copied completely. Understanding these laws is equivalent to mastering the method of creating life, replicating life, and then transforming life and creating life, although the workload is somewhat huge, but it is only the permutation and combination of different DNA and chromosomes. On Earth, cats have 19 pairs of chromosomes, mice have 20 pairs of chromosomes, and you humans only have 23 pairs of chromosomes, so there's nothing very special. In the future, with the development of technology, you may first try to create simple species, and when you accumulate a certain level of knowledge and experience, you will be able to reach the stage of creating humans. Of course, this may pose some ethical problems, but from a purely technical point of view, there are no insurmountable obstacles. As for the records in the Bible, you must know that they were written by ancient humans thousands of years ago, and from their point of view, limited by their scientific and technological knowledge, they could not describe these things objectively and accurately, which is also completely normal. Something that you have never been exposed to cannot be created in your mind out of thin air, and if something is contrary to what you have always been, you will not be able to understand it correctly even after explaining it to you. I'm willing to bet that if you met a prehistoric human right now, you wouldn't be able to explain to him exactly how you flew your spaceship to the moon. Neil thought for a moment, and basically agreed with Schimer's words: for example, the Zolgin people who produced solvents in the machine shop they just saw, what they did might be understandable as a modern human, but if an ignorant primitive human was also watching, he might think that they were performing some form of divination with the help of a huge magic weapon.
Schimer continued: "Your human memories of this period of history are scattered in the myths of the ancient times of your peoples, and in the various religions that have been derived since then, and those records are in fact the projections of the real historical events of that time. But because the human beings who were recording at the time could not understand what they saw, they could only describe it in the way they knew and could understand, and these accounts would seem absurd to you, modern humans, like the babbling of children. It's like, if other animals on the earth can describe everything in the world in the same way that you humans do, then they may also describe a very different world. Another question gradually appeared in Neil's mind, and he asked Schimer: "High Priest, I don't know how long it has been since the original Dorgin landed on Earth at this moment, but I am just very puzzled, what kind of reason did you spare a lot of manpower and material resources to carry out such a large-scale human-making operation?" Schimer pondered slightly, and said slowly: "Neil, in fact, I didn't want to tell you about this reason, but since you asked, I simply told you frankly: when my ancestors came to Earth, the first thing they did was to build a new home and restore the former Zolkin civilization. But as you know, at that time, they were only six individuals, and later, even after nearly a hundred years, the population only increased by a few dozen. Although they came from a great civilized world and had advanced technology in their minds, they were faced with a huge wilderness with their bare hands. Neil, you know, rebuilding the home is a series of extremely hard work, a lot of physical labor, and it can't be done in a short time with just a small number of Drogin people on their own, so at the time, they needed some— uh— some people who were smart enough and very cooperative to help them do it together. It is for this reason that my ancestors, in deliberation, decided to create a new, highly intelligent creature on Earth to assist them, which is why they decided to create humanity at that time. Although Schimer adjusted his words out of politeness, Neil could not be difficult to hear the implication of his words.
For a moment, a rather complicated emotion surged into Neil's heart, and he didn't know how to respond to Schimer's words for a while.
Schimer noticed Neil's face, he shook his head slightly, and comforted Neil: "When the truth is in front of you, there is no harm in facing it calmly. It sounds more plausible to have a brain like yours, created by a higher order, than an ape. Historically, you humans have been the creatures of our Dzolkins, and we have seen you as our own children. We have given you wisdom far superior to that of other Earth creatures, and we have done our best to pass on to you what we have learned. That is why you have become the spirits of all things on Earth today. Moreover, what you have just seen is only an extraordinary measure that we used in the early days of the creation of man, after which you beings of higher intelligence will be able to reproduce naturally on Earth without our intervention. Neil, the fact that you and I are able to sit and talk together today is, in a sense, thanks to the decision of our ancestors. Neil understood that there was nothing logically wrong with Schimer's words, but deep down, he simply couldn't
The notion that "human beings were created by other higher beings" is a common sense that is accepted calmly.
Moreover, he still retains a considerable degree of doubt as to whether or not the Dzorkin people created humans.
Neil asks Schimer if he can see more of the prehistoric human condition, especially adult humans.
Schimer's expression was a little serious: "Neil, the era we are in at this time is the stage when my ancestors just began to produce humans in large quantities, so to speak, the children you saw just now are the first humans they produced on Earth. Twenty or thirty years ago, they did breed the first pair of human specimens, which you call Adam and Eve in the Bible, but this pair of adult humans is now housed in a strictly secret place, and I can't get into, so you can't see them. If you want to see more mature humans, I can also take you for a walk a little later than now. ”