Chapter 21: Prehistoric Truth
Dees activated the silver-white spaceship, and in an instant, it took off from the ground. Neil felt the acceleration for a few seconds, and he couldn't see the Earth outside the window.
The ship moved at a uniform speed in a gray mist, with occasional flashes of blinding lightning flashing through the porthole.
After Dies's slender fingers crackled on the instrument panel for a while, he turned his head and asked Neil, "Neil, what do you think of what that Dzorkin man Schimer said about the creation of man?" Neil said: "I basically believe it. He also took me to see their man-making factory at the time. ”
"Then you must be very clear about the purpose of their creation of you in the first place."
"I think I've understood: they want to get some smart and obedient labor in the shortest possible time. Although, Schimmer has always been ambiguous in this matter. ”
"Well, in that case, let's not talk about that...... As a visitor to Earth from an alien galaxy, I am curious about one thing, how do you humans see your place on Earth today? ”
"Oh", Neil was a little dazed for a moment by such a broad question, and he roughly organized the language in his head, and said cautiously,
"Objectively speaking, we humans can be called the rulers of the earth, because after all, we have minds far superior to those of other species, and of course, as far as I know now, our minds are far less than intelligent beings outside the earth...... But at present, we do have a blind and arrogant mentality towards other creatures living on the earth, and we think that we are the masters of all things, so we are not friendly to other species other than ourselves, and even to the ecological environment of the whole earth; Of course, we are completely unaware that we humans are equal to other creatures on the level of the soul; Compared with other life on earth, our desires are indeed too strong, and human beings' arbitrary actions will not only harm other species, but also eventually destroy themselves and even the entire earth, which Schimer has expressed before......"
"Neil", Dees suddenly interrupted the other party's discussion, he kept shaking his head and said,
"There are at least two points that you said just now that are not accurate. First, even compared to other creatures on Earth, you humans are not the most powerful; Second, you don't have to worry about your own destruction, let alone your Earth. It can be said that you human beings will be destroyed in the end, this is a fateful ending, no matter what you do, it is nothing more than the difference between time and time, and there will be no substantial change; After that, your Mother Earth will remedy the damage you have inflicted on her in her own way. This is actually the law of the development of the earth, and it is also the law of the development of the entire universe. Neil was momentarily stunned.
"As an astronaut, you must know the age of your mother planet, Earth. Earth, by your concept of time, has existed in the universe for more than 4 billion years, and your generation of Homo sapiens, since the beginning of self-consciousness, has been less than 10,000 years until the time of your birth. Neil, do you realize that this is a very exaggerated time comparison, if you convert the entire age of the earth to more than 4 billion years old into one day, the time node of your human generation is only less than a second before midnight, in other words, before you appeared, the earth has spent a little more than 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds of this day, Neil, do you know that in such a long time, on your planet, And how much weird and fantastical history you have never known and could not have known? Even from a probabilistic point of view, it is a certainty. Where did you come from to have the confidence that the Earth, with a long history of 4.6 billion years, would be so simple and boring that it would produce only your generation of advanced intelligent beings? Dies's words made Neil a little dizzy, and for a moment, the history of the earth appeared in his mind like a kaleidoscope of books opened with a bang.
He also thought of the cows and snakemen that Schimer had led him to peep, and they were indeed magical beings that he had never known about.
Neil stared at Dis's purple-red eyes, and heard another concluding sentence come out of the other man's mouth: "So, the humans, the Zolgins, and even those of us who are outsiders are nothing more than a group of passers-by who come and go in a hurry in the eyes of the earth. Diess continued: "There have been countless intelligent beings on Earth, and in addition to you humans, there are Tuhidadas, Bixams, Gendayas, Pehiskenas, Mesopotayas, Orlanquedors, Murians, Halteins, Atlanteans, Mayans, etc., and this is only known to an ordinary uneducated West Errels 8.6 light-years away from you, and for more specifics, it is up to our galactic historians to investigate. These intelligent beings have been scattered irregularly throughout the long history of the earth, some of them are very different from you, some are similar to you humans, some are physically superior to you, and some have more intelligent minds than you. ”
"The last two you mentioned, I've heard of them before." Neil said excitedly. Diess raised an eyebrow and said, "Really?" Tell us what you know about them. "What I've heard about the Mayans is that they lived in Mesoamerica historically, and that they had a highly developed civilization, especially in astronomy, but a few hundred years ago, for unknown reasons, their civilization suddenly declined. Around the 16th century, the Spaniards who explored the New World met and interacted with them, and then as the Spaniards explored the Americas more and more, the Maya were gradually wiped out by the Spaniards who were well-armed at the time, and now only the ruins of ancient cities and a bunch of unsolved mysteries remain. The legend of the Atlanteans is even more ancient and mysterious, originally appearing in the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who is rumored to live on a mysterious continent whose exact location is still unknown, with magnificent and very different modern architecture, and their civilization is very different from that of modern humans. They made a glorious history, but in the end, they were destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, and the entire world of Atlantis sank to the bottom of the sea, never to be known again. ”
"It's a pity, it's a pity", Dees shook his head again and again,
"I can only give one comment on the demise of the Mayans: bad money drives out good money; As for Atlantis, in my impression, it was one of the most promising civilizations on the earth, but unfortunately it collapsed overnight, and the whole world was wiped out, and it didn't even have the slightest impact on your civilization...... Oh yes! Diese suddenly slapped his palm,
"Speaking of the demise of Atlantis, it has a lot to do with the Dzorkins." Neil sat up straight and his eyes widened.
"I can't remember exactly when the Atlantean civilization arose, but in terms of time units on Earth, it was around 4200 B.C. As you said, the Atlanteans lived in the historical continent of Great West, a sunken land that was about one-third the size of Oceania on Earth today. The location of the Great West is west of the Strait of Gibraltar on your earth, with Spain and Morocco to the east, and you the United States across the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The Atlanteans extended their influence to the north and south ends of the Mediterranean before they were buried at the bottom of the sea, and it is because of this that their stories were recorded by the ancient Egyptians and passed down through Plato's retelling. Neil, since the Drowin people have brought you here, why don't we go back a little further and see what you don't know about Atlantis? Neil nodded excitedly.
Dees turned his chair in one direction and swiped his slender fingers on the screen in front of him a few times, and Neil felt the ship suddenly rise and sail quickly in an unknown direction.
"The Drowin people are still traveling in that ancient wormhole way, right?" Dees suddenly asked Neil, his tone full of ridicule and disdain.
Neil nodded yes.
"After all, it's a bad ......", Dice wanted to continue to count a few words, but Xu suddenly thought that he needed to take care of the face of the earthling in front of him, so he reluctantly retracted the second half of the sentence.
Neil didn't care. Diess thought for a moment and then continued: "Neil, I can briefly describe the way we Sierelsians travel with concepts that you humans can understand, so that when you return to human society, maybe you can still be a physical authority, haha."
"Let's start with the limitations of wormhole travel. You know, with a simple four-dimensional theory of space, space travel is necessarily accompanied by time travel and vice versa. For example, our Thorpdette galaxy, which is 8.6 light years away from the earth, if we use a wormhole to pass over, there will definitely be a change in time, which is equivalent to saying that when we sail at high speed in the four-dimensional space to the earth, we either come to the distant past or come to the distant future, but what we want to go is the current earth, so how to operate?
In this case, we have to travel only in the seventh-dimensional spatial coordinate system. As you know, there are ten dimensions in the universe...... Oh yes...... You may not know it, but this is because of the limited vision, alas, the Gendayans were able to observe more than seven dimensions. Anyway, let me introduce it to you: there are ten dimensions in the universe, in addition to the length, width, height and perceptual time that you can observe, there are also six other dimensions, among which the seventh Veroni dimension can provide a coordinate system that travels through space without changing time, and the sixth dimension allows us to simply travel through time without having to travel in space, and what we are currently doing is traveling in the sixth dimension. Of course, there are scientists in other galaxies who have discovered more than ten dimensions so far, and some exaggerated aliens also claim that they are living in twenty-three dimensions of space, hehe, let's ignore him for the time being......" Dice was still talking about it, but Neil felt that the spaceship had begun to slow down at this moment, and he involuntarily leaned out of the porthole to look out.
In the mist, a large area of land lay in front of Neil's eyes, and Dishes looked at Neal and changed the subject: "Now we have come to the earth around 3200 B.C., and below us is the Great Western Continent at that time, which is later called Atlantis. We're still able to see it in its entirety, because the pesky moon is still ......" Victim, who had been silent, suddenly patted Dies, interrupting the latter who was talking.
Victim turned to Neil and said, "Neil, we are about to land on the Great Western Continent, you have to get ready, and then we are going to experience the life of the Atlanteans." ”