Chapter 13: Suspicion

Neil slept heavily that night, but he had a strange dream. He dreamed that his consciousness had detached from his body and floated into the air.

At his feet, a colony of ants wriggled like an ignorant group of creatures resembling ancient humans, unkempt and unclothed, with spears made of sharpened twigs and stone axes made of sharp stones, and their mouths made terrible screams, were rounding up a pregnant doe.

The doe slammed into each other, but was eventually hunted by this group of primitive humans. Hungry primitive people gathered around the slain deer, slashed the body of the deer with stone tools in their hands, cut off the venison and put it directly in their mouths and chewed it bloodily, and some people lay on the deer carcass like wild beasts and tore it directly.

Suddenly, in the distant sky, a tall Drogin man floated in, and Neil looked at the man's eyebrows, which were the appearance of Schimer, but he was wearing strange ancient clothes.

The Drowjin man came to the crowd of venison and let out a clear roar, and when the ancient people looked up at him, they all put down their food and bowed down to the air.

As soon as the Dzolkin raised his right hand in mid-air, a small bush on the ground suddenly burst into flames, and he magically moved the carcass of the wild deer that the primitive man had gnawed over above the burning bush, and the body of the deer made a sizzling sound under the flames, giving off an enticing fragrance.

Before long the deer was roasted, the Dzolkin in the air made a gesture to place the deer carcass on the ground, and then floated away, and the people on the ground rushed up, shouting and tearing at the roasted venison, and feasting on it.

In a trance, Neil falls from the sky and becomes one of the terrifying-looking primitives.

The cooked venison had long since been eaten, and Neil stood blankly on the field with the primitives beside him.

At this moment, there was a loud sound in the sky, and I saw an extremely dazzling golden disc flying from the sky, the disc emitted a huge amount of light and heat, and it drew an arc above the heads of this group of primitives and flew into the distance.

The primitives shouted, and ran after the disc as if they were enchanted, and Neil mixed in with the crowd, following everyone inexplicably in the direction where the disc flew.

The disc flew through the sky, radiating light and heat like a small sun to the ground, and primitive people chased after it, as if chasing light and hope, but gradually, people began to fall behind due to physical exhaustion, and in the end, only seven or eight people, including Neil, kept chasing.

I don't know how long I ran, but the disc suddenly stopped, and Neil saw that the primitive people who were running with him were floating in the air with their feet off the ground, and at the same time, his body lost its gravity and began to float towards the sky.

The golden disc grew bigger and bigger in front of Neil's eyes, and his body felt warmer and warmer, until in the end, several primitive people were actually sucked into the disc.

Neil was ignorant, and felt a dazzling light in front of him, and in the light stood a tall figure in a robe, which was the appearance of a Zorgin man, who looked down at a few ragged primitive humans who entered the disc, with a strange look on his face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and suddenly, the Zorgin turned his body to the side, and a blackened six-legged monster flashed behind him, and the monster waved its thick arms and screamed and pounced on Neil and the others, Neil screamed and sat up and woke up from his sleep...... The next day, Schimer and Neil travel through a wormhole to another plane, and there is a scene in front of them where several Drogin people lead a large number of humans to build a dam on a wide river.

The humans here are no longer as crude and unscrupulous as Neil had seen yesterday, dressed in uniform and neat clothes, cutting down trees in the forest beside the riverbank, and burying their thick trunks in the sides of the river as foundations; Next, they filled a large amount of gravel into a long cage made of large bamboo, and piled it up on the river layer by layer.

A few Dzorkin people stood out from the crowd, giving guidance to the human laborers from time to time, and the entire dam-building team worked together like an army to narrow the river much in one morning.

Schimmer and Neil stood on a high slope in the distance and watched for a long time, until noon, when the workers were resting, and then turned and left silently.

Leaving the riverside where the Dzorkin and humans were busy working, the two walked into a forest, the sound of rushing water and the noise of the dam-building site fading behind them.

Schimer said to Neil: "In the past two days, I have taken you to see some scenes of ancient human life, in addition to satisfying your curiosity, in fact, I want to tell you one thing, that is, you human beings were created by our Dorgin people, and have lived with us for a long time. The dominance of mankind on the earth today is inseparable from the key role played by the Zolgin people in history, to put it bluntly, we are your creator, the source of all your civilizations, I don't think you have any doubts about this, right? Neil was in mixed moods at this time.

Scene after scene of the real scene, he could not doubt the fact that the Zolgin and humans once coexisted, even if it is doubtful whether the human race was created by the Zorgin, but the Dzolkin once gave great help to early humans, it seems to be an ironclad fact.

However, behind all these appearances, there seems to be some deep meanings that he still can't understand in detail.

Neil was silent for a long time, not immediately answering Schimer's question, and Schimer was silent, as if to probe what was going on in Neil's head.

After a brief silence, Neil said, "High Priest, I do not doubt that your ancestors gave me intellectual guidance, and I basically no longer doubt that 'God created man'. But I must say that your ancestors did not create humans for any noble purpose, and according to what you have described and what I have seen, to be honest, the reason why the ancient Dzorkin people wanted to create humans was only to get some mass production labor to serve them, and to put it bluntly, in your eyes, we are nothing more than some ...... High-class cattle and horses only. Schimmer looked down for a moment and said to Neil, "In a sense, I don't deny it, and you may be right, but I prefer to understand our relationship with you as a partner rather than a servant of one side to the other. Of course, you humans are fundamentally different from cows and horses: the needs of animals are very simple, and once the basic food and clothing are met, they go to rest, hang out, frolic and do nothing else, but you humans are far from that simple. You have far more advanced brains than other animals, which makes it a thousand times harder to control you than other animals. You have diverse behaviors, complex thoughts, know how to disguise, know how to advance and retreat, you can also summarize simple laws from the appearance of complex things and continue to move towards a higher knowledge structure, what is even more remarkable is that you still have immeasurable selfish desires like a black hole, your thirst for the material world and the spiritual world is also endless, bottomless, and it is precisely for these reasons that in history, you who formed a certain scale quickly broke away from the constraints and control of our ancestors, In a short period of time, it continues to extend to all corners of the planet. Truth be told, this was something that your creators, the Dzorkins, could not have anticipated. Only a few hundred years after we created you, most of your ancestors left us, and the time you see now as 'man and god coexistence' did not last long. Neil's mind flickered, and he blurted out, "So, with all due respect, why didn't you copy yourself in the first place?" "It's a problem on another level. Regardless of whether they had the ability to replicate themselves at the time, and even if they did, the scheme should have been excluded from the beginning, because if the Zolkins themselves had copied in large numbers, the scheme would have lost its original meaning, and we would have created our own brothers and sisters, not a ...... Belch...... A different race from us. At the same time, it's emotionally unacceptable, and you can imagine that if you humans one day acquired the ability to arrange genes to create life, you wouldn't be able to replicate yourself easily, which would involve a series of unexpected problems. Neil was noncommittal to Schimer's explanation, and at the same time, fragments flashed through his mind that prevented him from accepting Schimer's version of a brief history of humanity in its entirety and kept him from vomiting.

Neil said: "High priest, you know, we have been taught since childhood that human beings evolved from apes little by little over a long period of time, and at the same time, we also have a large number of archaeological discoveries around the world, archaeologists have found many fossils of ancient humans in strata of different ages, they are tens of thousands of years ago, there are hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago, these fossils used to be slightly different from us in morphology, but they are very close, these discoveries, are unquestionable evidence of human evolution. And, so far, we haven't found the fossil remains of Minotaur or Snake Tail, how do you explain that? Schimer seemed a little annoyed, and his tone became cold: "Those minotaurs and serpents you see have all existed alive on Earth, and I didn't make them up out of thin air. Also, Neil, I really don't know what to say about your words, I didn't expect that thousands of years later, your human minds would still be so stubborn and rigid. To put it bluntly, your so-called archaeology is the result of a patchwork of three parts empirical evidence and seven parts imagination. Do you know that until now, you have not found a complete fossil of ancient human bodies, and your so-called discoveries are only formed by the uneven mixing of remnants in strata of different ages, not to mention that there are huge deviations in your measurement of the age of fossils? I admit that there may have been creatures like you humans living on the ancient earth, and even one or more intelligent beings, but like parallel universes, they have nothing to do with your generation of humans, and the only correct answer to the origin of your generation of humanity is the reality that I have led you to see. ”

"But......" Skimmer interrupted Neil, and suddenly asked, "Neil, tell me, are these so-called ancient 'human' fossils you found the same as modern humans?" ”

"It's not exactly the same, there will always be some differences, such as body structure, brain capacity, etc."

"When did these fossils, which are very different from modern humans, appear at the latest, according to your identification?"

"As far as I know, they should all be more than tens of thousands of years old."

"When did we make you humans?"

"According to you, it is in the past...... Oh, about 6,000 years ago when I was born. ”

"Okay, let me ask you again, according to your research, can these ancient humans you found speak?"

"Strictly speaking, it probably won't, at most, it just 'talk' like an animal."

"Can you write?"

"No, it won't."

"Do you know how to make tools?"

"Makes simple tools, you know, rough stone tools and stuff like that."

"Do you humans know these skills?"

"Of course, it would, but it could also be the result of long-term evolution, and from the beginning, we didn't ......"

"Alright, alright", Schimmer interrupted Neil,

"What I want to say is that your generation of Homo sapiens is really ignorant, ignorant and arrogant. What is it that supports you to believe that the real situation in history must be what you envision? What makes you arbitrarily conclude that only you humans can speak, write, and make tools, while the other Homo sapiens who have appeared throughout history can only live like animals? Perhaps the civilization they created is far above yours. In addition, the evolution you are talking about is a ridiculous theory of the first kind, and the physical characteristics of animals may 'evolve' slightly differently, and your human skin can also 'evolve' from white to black, but the gap between species is difficult for any evolution to break unless it has gone through an extremely long period of time. Just like the so-called chimpanzees, which you think are close relatives, they have also evolved over tens of thousands of years, but why haven't they become humans yet? ”

"This," Neil insisted on,

"Maybe it's not a certain amount of time yet."

"Time, time," Schimmer sighed at length,

"Yes, time may change everything, but it is impossible for you and I, including other species in the universe, to live through such a long period of history, and it is impossible to see this result without traveling through time.

"Neil, I want to tell you that the so-called ancient humans that you have discovered in the earth's crust have indeed appeared in the distant past, but they were not what you actually deduced in your own minds, and you can say that you still know nothing about them. As for the remains of the ancient Minotaur and the Snake Tail, they may still be buried in the ice of the mountains, or they may be lost in the bottom of the sea at a depth of several thousand meters, but you just happen to have not discovered them. Another point I want to correct you is that monkeys will always be monkeys, apes will always be apes, and even if it takes tens of thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of years of self-evolution, it is impossible for them to become human beings without the help of external forces; As for your generation, it is entirely the result of our Dzorkin creations using biochemical means. And, I don't shy away from saying that letting you understand this fact is my sole purpose in bringing you to the Ancient Earth this time! Neil bowed his head silently, like a child who had done something wrong.

He actually had some doubts in his heart, and after hesitation, he bravely threw one of the biggest questions at Schimer: "Okay, High Priest, I agree with your statement. But what I want to know most is, what happened to you and the bulls and snakes who used to live with us on Earth to finally disappear? Schimer said coldly: "Neil, you asked me this question once, and I told you at the time that I would let you know the answer at the right time, but unfortunately, this is not the time. ”