Chapter 2 Witnessing the Birth of the Moon

Eternal and immortal, it sounds like people's hearts are swaying, but Yuan Chu, who has obtained all this, is not very happy.

Watching the whole world fall into absolute stillness under the influence of his consciousness, he felt terrible.

This static eternity is like a cage, and it is not much better than the endless cycle of life and death that preceded it.

Anyway, he didn't want to stay in a place like this where the wind didn't even flow.

So, he retracted his consciousness into the fungal shell, and the next moment everything was moving again.

It seems that only a fungal shell, which is also detached from circulation, can carry his consciousness.

Yuan Chu didn't expect that the expedient measure to break the cycle would instead become the reliance of his normal activities.

4.57 billion years ago on Earth, he was the first visitor of this era.

It is not easy for ordinary life to survive in this era, just as the body temperature of newborns is much higher than that of adults, and the same applies to the newborn earth.

At this time, the earth was very hot, it was completely a huge lava ball, erupting volcanoes could be seen everywhere, and hot magma flowed freely, almost filling the surface.

From time to time, a few meteorites fall from the sky, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this is hell.

Now Yuan Chu was floating in the sky, and the hot air currents of the ground magma steaming were constantly pushing him high into the sky.

Of course, even if you fall into the magma, it's not much of a problem, the fungal shell is as immortal as his consciousness.

However, fungi are in a material form, and energy consumption is unavoidable.

In particular, Yuan Chu's consciousness resides in it, which exacerbates the daily consumption.

If the energy is exhausted, the fungal shell may end up as if it were dead, and it will be difficult to even move.

Yuan Chuquan was counting on it to be active normally, and he naturally didn't want to see this happen.

So, he immediately set out to solve the problem of dry rice with fungal shells.

First of all, fungi are not plants, cannot photosynthesize, and need to take nutrients from the outside just like humans.

Yuan Chu glanced at the ground, there was no grass around him except for magma, and he was a little embarrassed for a while.

However, when he felt the heat coming from below, an idea suddenly came to him.

He decided to synthesize melanin artificially in the fungus's body, using the heat released by the volcanic lava as a source of energy.

His previous scientific research experience came in handy at this time, and with his previous knowledge, Yuan Chu successfully synthesized melanin.

The process of falling slowly and being pushed up by the heat flow is the time for him to take in calories.

Although the energy conversion efficiency is not high, it is better to have an endless supply, at least you don't have to worry about the shell having no "electricity" to completely crash.

Time passed like this, and one day Yuan Chu noticed that the originally gray sky suddenly became a little darker.

He thought it was caused by too much volcanic ash in the sky, but when he looked at the sky, he realized that a huge star was taking over the entire sky.

Since settling on prehistoric Earth, Yuan Chu has seen all kinds of meteorite impacts, and he has become accustomed to them.

However, it was the first time he had seen a meteorite as big as the sky.

The next moment, the behemoth hit the ground straight up.

With a roar, the meteorite tore open the mantle and embedded itself in the interior of the earth.

The shock wave from the impact sent the magma high into the air, and for a moment the sky fell like an apocalyptic rain.

"Theia!"

Impacts of this magnitude, even in the course of billions of years on Earth, are very rare.

Only a visit from the planet Theia can create this kind of scene like the heavens and the earth are falling apart.

Being at the center of this catastrophe, Yuan Chuchu was very calm.

He is eternity itself, and not even a cosmic explosion can destroy him, let alone a planetary impact.

However, in order to prevent the fungal body from going wrong, he still symbolically prepared a little backhand.

I saw that under the interference of his consciousness, a grain of spores began to be produced in the fungi's body.

In the unlikely event that the fungal shell falls into some horn and cannot come out, the spore clone can continue to carry his consciousness.

When the spores were generated to the fifth grain, a hunger that penetrated deep into the nucleus began to spread in his consciousness, and Yuan Chu quickly stopped the production of spores when he saw this.

The act of reproduction usually consumes a huge amount of energy, and the efficiency of melanin to convert calories can be maintained, which can also be sustained by daily consumption.

It is really difficult for a strong man to make a child even if he can't eat enough, which is one of the reasons why he has not spread the spores.

However, looking at the only five spores in his body, Yuan Chuchu was very satisfied, these were enough as an emergency measure.

He then used his consciousness to forcibly interfere with the fungal cell membrane and made five small holes in it.

The spores are covered with a film of water, and when they come into contact with the cell membrane, they are instantly bounced out of the gap by the tension of the water, like cannonballs being fired.

Driven by the external air currents, the spores spread out and soon disappeared.

At this time, the hit earth also launched a counterattack.

As a new planet, the Earth was born with a huge amount of heat in its interior, and it is difficult to fully release the heat from its interior even if a geological activity as violent as a volcano fills the earth's surface.

The rift created by this impact has become the most effective cathartic channel for the heat of the earth's core.

The heat that had accumulated inside the Earth gushed out, instantly blasting the planet Theia embedded in it into several petals.

Just like the cork of champagne when it is opened, part of the wreckage is mixed with fragments, and it is pushed back into space by this force.

At this moment, it was as if the Star Wars Star Wars Star Destroyer weapon was activated.

The aftermath of the heat spawned several giant typhoons of magnitude 15 or higher, which began to wreak havoc on the earth's surface.

In the past 100 years, the storm of this planetary collision has gradually come to an end.

Despite being at the center of the disaster, Yuan Chu was rightfully unharmed.

In addition to flying up and down with the hot air, he would occasionally look at an irregular bright spot in the sky at night.

Yuan Chu knew that it was the newborn moon, and it was also a witness to this planetary collision, proving that the planet Theia had come.

Under the influence of the Earth's gravity, those scattered planetary fragments will gradually gather and eventually become the moon as they are known for posterity.

It's just that unlike later generations, at this moment an inconspicuous spore has also joined it.

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After 100 million years of heat catharsis, the earth has finally cooled down.

In some craters or low-lying places, large amounts of turbid liquid have accumulated, and the primordial ocean has begun to take shape.

This marks the end of the first generation of the Underworld, and the full opening of the second generation, where the first life on Earth will appear.

Having spent a generation alone, nearly 500 million years, Yuan Chu also hoped that the earth would have more life.

Before that, though, he plans to give himself a different way of life......