Chapter 17: The Fifth Age

"After the end of the Third Age, the world fell silent again. But I didn't give up, and soon, I found the seeds of the creature, which I intended to cultivate from scratch. ”

"This time, I learned the lessons of the previous time and stopped interfering too much in the evolution of the species, but only regulated it when necessary. After a long time of trying, the world is once again full of life, and new intelligent beings have evolved in it......"

As he spoke, Shi Tao looked at the origin: "Then, it's you!" Civilization! ”

"It's us?!" Origin looked shocked, and the others looked at him: "It's time for you too!" ”

"Fourth Age...... Or maybe it's the era of ability......" Shi Tao smiled: "Not only do you have enough intelligence, but I don't know if it's a by-product of intelligent evolution, and you have also produced abilities of different forms...... Abilities make you less reliant on technology, but in the early days of civilization, you already had the power to transform the world! ”

"Then why are you destroying us?!" Origin roared, "Aren't we quite up to your mark? We are smart, we are strong, we can communicate with you, and we have not destroyed the environment of this world, why would you destroy us? ”

"Do you remember that I really destroyed you?" Shi Tao looked at the eyes of the origin and asked lightly.

"Of course it's you!" Origin shouted: "The apocalyptic scene back then, I still remember it vividly, who else but you can have that kind of power!" ”

"That power is indeed my ......" Shi Tao shook his head, "but I had to do that...... I don't know if you remember such a name......"

Shi Tao uttered a slurred syllable, which was not any human language, but the origin clearly understood, and his face changed suddenly.

"That's a secret organization you set up...... Shi Tao said with a smile: "The members include leaders from all walks of life, the most powerful supernatural beings, government officials, etc., and it can be said that it is a super organization that contains the most elite members of the entire supernatural civilization." If I'm not mistaken, you're one of the members too! ”

"However, the origin of that ......" was a little speechless, but Shi Tao sighed a little regretfully: "And this organization was established for only one purpose...... God Butcher! ”

"In the Fourth Age, because of the lessons of the Third Age, I did not spoil you so much, on the contrary, when you showed all kinds of signs of death, I would stop you. Although you show respect for me on the surface, in reality, there are a lot of people, especially the elite, who think that I am limiting your development, right? ”

"Therefore, on the one hand, you worship me as a god, and on the other hand, you are secretly studying how to get rid of me! As far as I know, there were tens of thousands of proposals to kill me, but they were all rejected because I was too hard to kill. But correspondingly, how to imprison me, sink me to the bottom of the sea, or send me into space, how many years have you studied this kind of proposal. ”

"But those proposals didn't pass!" Origin retorted: "At least I've been voting against it, and most of the members still don't agree, those plans have not been implemented......"

"What if I told you that I had been attacked at least ten times?" Shi Tao interrupted Origin's rebuttal: "In your eyes, no matter how powerful I am, no matter how much I have helped you, as long as I do something that is not good for you, then I am a potential threat. No matter what I do, the huge difference in our appearance makes you always have a trace of disagreement with me in your hearts...... Seeing this, I decided to start over......"

"I confess that the destruction of an era is indeed unfair to thousands of living beings. But on the other hand, without my cultivation, I am afraid that your race will never appear! ”

Origin was speechless for a while, and Shi Tao continued: "I cultivated you with one hand, and destroyed you with the other. Who among you can understand the torment of this? ”

After speaking, Shi Tao turned his head to face the strangers: "Then, it's you...... My, Fifth Age! ”

"When you come to us, is it already the Fifth Age...... Yin Wanchou frowned and said, "Could it be that the current human race is also cultivated by you?" ”

"That's right!" Shi Tao nodded: "And cultivating you, for me, is more difficult than before......"

"Because this time, I'm not just looking for wisdom, but also appearance!"

"The events of the Fourth Age have taught me that appearance is essential for mutual recognition, so I hope to breed a race with a high level of intelligence and a similar appearance to me......"

"So...... It is no coincidence that human evolution has so far......" Balthis's face was surprised: "The appearance of human beings is designed after you?" ”

Shi Tao took a deep breath: "In order to achieve the goal, I made revisions again and again in the Fifth Age...... Whenever a creature's form moves in a far direction from mine, I unleash a cataclysm that reshuffles the creature. Of course, these mass extinctions are not as complete as they were before, and I will always leave a small number of promising species for them to continue to thrive. ”

"My plan went on step by step, and when invertebrates were in vogue, I supported the evolution of vertebrates, which gave birth to fish, which you now call the Ordovician extinction; When fish didn't want to go on land and couldn't evolve limbs, I wreaked havoc in the sea and drove them ashore and turned into amphibians, which you call the Devonian extinction......"

"Eventually, a large number of creatures appeared on land, an abundance of species, but their joint structures were so far removed from mine that they could never stand. And for that, in the period when you call it the Permian, I set off the third mass extinction. Relying on this extinction, dinosaurs walking upright on both legs appeared! ”

"It can be said that in terms of appearance, dinosaurs, especially carnivorous dinosaurs, are the closest creatures to my appearance that I have never seen before. They walk on two feet, their forelimbs are nimble, and although they have slender heads full of sharp teeth and long tails, I believe that one day they will evolve into something similar to me......"

"In this way, I allowed the dinosaurs to evolve for 160 million years...... But then I found out that these scaly creatures didn't seem to be moving closer to me, on the contrary, the most successful carnivorous dinosaurs, with bigger and bigger heads and smaller forelimbs, were more and more different from my image......"