Chapter 9: "Genesis"

On a plain formed by the alluvial waters of two great rivers, fugitives from Drow Venus and their descendants have lived here for nearly a hundred years.

The six outlaws who blew up their home planet and rushed all the way to this new planet have finally lived a relatively stable life after the initial hardships.

The new home will not be as warm as its hometown, the oxygen level will be maintained to the most basic level, and the air, soil, and water will still contain many germs and microorganisms that have not been exposed to before, which has caused several exiles to fall seriously ill shortly after their arrival.

Either way, they survived the difficult transition and survived the new planet.

Life here is a hundred times more difficult than the precarious days of being enslaved by a foreign race, not to mention that this strange and imperfect neighbor is the only option for the fugitives who have been shipwrecked and will not die.

Frontier life is always exhausting and exciting at the same time, because those painful and happy days are pregnant with hope.

From the earliest days of drilling wood for fire, cutting down forests to build houses, wrapping leaves for warmth, hunting to satisfy hunger, to gradually forming a fixed residence and living a relatively stable life, the six Zhuoerjin people have reinterpreted the simplified version of human evolutionary history from beginning to end.

Every morning, they come out of their huts in groups against the rising sun, the men hunt in the jungle and graze in the grasslands, and the women work in the fields or pick in the bushes; In the evening, dressed in the afterglow of the setting sun, people who have been busy all day drag their tired bodies home, and sleep peacefully in the sound of insects in the stream, and the new immigrants live a full and warm life.

Of course, there are also the flowers of love that have quietly sprouted in the difficult years, as well as the abundant fruits that naturally bear fruit.

Maintaining the continuity of the community is a top priority

The "seeds of man" have worked each other with the best efforts and great zeal, and as the decades have passed, the second and third generations of the exiles have been born one after another, and they have gradually spread out, multiplying from the first six to more than thirty, and the population has increased more than fivefold.

Their settlement also slowly developed from a few small wooden houses to a village that began to take shape. After worrying about food and clothing, they are moving towards a new field for a better life.

They built factories, farms, bazaars, government offices, hospitals, schools, they collected ores, smelted metals, and made all kinds of production tools, scientific equipment, and weapons.

After the primitive accumulation was completed, they further expanded their scale, producing large machinery and equipment, as well as more advanced means of transportation.

They slowly walked out of the plains and explored deeper territory. Except for a few labor-intensive industries that have not yet been developed, these Zhuoerkin exiles, who have excellent genes in their bodies, have to a large extent regained the glorious flower of civilization in the past.

Just as they were full of energy and hope to make a big splash on the new planet, the explorers sent to the frontier brought back some not-so-good news one after another.

It turned out that in this seemingly harmless new planet, which was not quiet and peaceful, in the area that the pioneers had not touched in the past and which had now been explored, at least two intelligent beings had been discovered: in the depths of the ocean more than 6,000 kilometers west of the settlement, there was a lonely island, on which lived a group of creatures similar in appearance to the Zolgins, but relatively short in stature (the Zolgin people called them island people), they were not amazing, but they seemed to have a mysterious ability to communicate with nature, Explorers have seen them crack the ground and sprout springs out of thin air with the help of an inexplicable force, or make the migratory fish of the sea follow their command and travel in a fixed direction.

In addition to this, they also built a huge structure with a strange shape, which they claimed to use to communicate with the gods and men from outside the sky.

However, the islanders are very weak in terms of technology and military capabilities, and even now they are still living a slash-and-burn life, and they are not able to leave the islands and travel to other continents for the time being.

Around a huge river more than 4,000 kilometers east of the settlement, the explorers discovered another group of strange-looking intelligent creatures (called orcs by the Drogins), who were ugly, strong, energetic, and violent, and these orcs were numerous and very active, and their range of activities was spread over the vast alluvial plains along the great rivers.

If the Dzorkin's exploration area continues eastward, it is possible to come into contact with these orcs.

Fortunately, these seemingly savage creatures, although their limbs are well developed, their minds are not very bright, and they often rely on a moment of courage to solve problems, but even so, they will eventually bring some trouble to the current sparsely populated and weak Dzolkin people.

If the newcomers want to expand their sphere of influence and survive on this planet for a long time, they will need to think carefully about how to get along with these original intelligent creatures.

Yahweh, one of the six fugitives from Drow Venus, has been serving as the chief priest of the tribe since arriving on the new planet, the de facto leader of the newcomers.

A hundred years have passed in a hurry, and Yawei has lived to be one hundred and fifty years old, and the young man who died at the end of the world has now become a dying old man with gray hair.

He was glad that his race could still survive in the universe under his leadership, but what made him even more uneasy was that the current situation was far from the time when he could sit back and relax.

At a meeting of all races, Yahweh proposed the following: given the current scarce population of the Zolgins, it is impossible to quickly solve a series of problems that need to be faced by natural increase, since there are already some low-level intelligent beings on the earth, can one of the western islands be replaced?

The "islanders" brought it back to the mainland, and then appropriately modified it into what the Dzorkin wanted it to be; Next, a large number of copies of this modified sample were made, using the Zolgin settlement as the origin, and the new species spread everywhere.

For now, there are at least three benefits to this. First of all, a large number of production tools can be obtained: the most scarce thing for the Zolkin people is labor, and if there are a large number of helpers who are smarter and more obedient than cattle and horses, the speed of production and construction will be greatly increased.

Second, it can form a force against the orcs: in the short term, the most direct threat to the Dzorkin is the Orcs in the East, if you can create a creature with lower intelligence and distribute it to the east of the settlement, you can form a buffer zone with the Orcs, and the Durgin can use this to gain a rare space and time for development.

Third, longer-term benefits can be pursued: in addition to the original intelligent beings on Earth that need to deal with it, the remnants of the Chapis in the Gray Star are always a great threat.

Although they are still nowhere to be found, they may one day be hunted down, if they do

A group of servants like "wise followers" may have more room to turn around in the future when facing old enemies.

After a thorough assessment of the feasibility of the plan, the newcomers unanimously approved Yahweh's proposal.

So they secretly sent people across the ocean and ventured to capture a woman from the island

"Islanders" and brought back to the settlement to be imprisoned. Yahweh drew members of the tribe who were well-versed in biochemistry to form a research team, and the team members were taken from this name

The "islander" had a large amount of DNA samples taken from his body, and then he began to get busy nervously.

They used methods such as gene sequence shearing and modification to collect the genome

The DNA of the "islanders" was modified to produce seven pairs of slightly different somatic cells, which were then cultivated separately to form fourteen different embryos, which they then placed in artificial wombs to develop and grow, and later gradually formed human forms, and were born into this world.

The Zolkin people numbered the results of the seven pairs of experiments one by one, and spent more than ten years training them to grow up, teaching them some basic labor abilities and observing them.

In the end, they selected the most suitable pair of individuals from the seven pairs of samples as their final selection.

They named the two specimens Adam and Eve, respectively, and named the new species, which was created by their own intervention

"Human". Neil and Schimer made another four or five transfers like before, and in each gap between wormholes and wormholes, Neil witnessed scenes never seen in his life: the majestic and brand-new amphitheater in the ancient Roman city-state, the scenes of the ancient Chinese fighting wildly against each other on the wide plains, the pyramids that had begun to become dilapidated in the vast desert, and the ancient ancestors who were making clay tablets from clay naked under the scorching sun.

The fantastical sights always appeared before him without warning, and before Neil could properly explore them, they disappeared in a hurry, and Neil could only enjoy them in the brief gap between Schimer's adjustments to the teleporter.

Eventually, Neil and Schimer were spit out of the wormhole on the last ride, and the latter stopped adjusting his watch, and they had reached the end of the trip.

The two took off their protective suits and put them in their respective backpacks. Neil looked around and began to take in the scenery in front of him.

They were now standing on a low hillside, in front of them a large open field, with abundant green pastures spreading like silk on the yellow earth, tall date palm trees dotted around, flocks of yellow sheep roaming and chasing among the grass, occasionally startling a few birds lurking in the grass, a sparkling river flowing slowly, cutting the endless field into two pieces, the sound of rushing water came from afar, a herd of bison swimming across the river, briefly disturbing the calm river, The reflection of the white clouds on the water was broken but quickly restored, and a breeze swept through Neil's face, and Neil took a deep breath, feeling as fresh as if it had been carefully washed and properly dried in the sun.

The view is so breathtaking that Neil feels like he's in the middle of a beautiful picture.

The voice of the tall companion came from above his head, like that of God: "Neil, we are now on Earth around 4000 B.C., and you don't need to know the exact date. The present location, if you are smart enough, may be guessed: this is the ancient plain of Mesopotamia on earth, and the great river in the distance, which you later called the Euphrates, and at this time, our ancestors named it the Euphrates.

"My ancestors settled here when they first came to earth. Neil, I don't know if you're a Christian or not, but believe it or not, I think you've heard of the legend that God created man, and of course the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, and so on. Now, I am taking you through thousands of years just to let you witness with your own eyes the truth of those histories that only exist in your legends. Schimer's voice was muffled, but to Neil's ears, it sounded like a thunderclap in the open field, and he stood in stazed silence, his head as if struck by a bolt of lightning, and was exposed to nothing.

Schimmer looked at Neil with a smile, perhaps the reaction of the dwarf human in front of him had already been expected.

He didn't say anything more, just waved his hand to Neil, and strode toward the top of the mountain.