Ryan said, "These ...... Did my father tell you? ”

The old man smiled: "The people of the Ark have a good brain, and they can find the key problem at once, yes, with us, we can't make such an observation and come to such a conclusion." ”

Ryan said, "Is it really my father? ”

The old man "looked" at Ryan's face as if he could really see it, "I don't know, but I think he can do it if he wants to find his son, and, in my opinion...... It's a lot like. ”

"Like?"

"Well, similar faces, similar breaths."

The old man continued: "Twenty years ago, your father discovered this problem, if the Ark's genetic optimization strategy is to accelerate the evolution of the population, then what does the so-called evolution mean? In which direction? And who will decide on this direction? - Is it you, me, or who? ”

Ryan frowned.

The old man said: "For hundreds of millions of years, God has played this role for all life on earth, but more than 1,300 years ago, human beings built the ark and decided to play this role themselves.

"Now, we can see that this has paid off, and has succeeded in opening up such a large distance between you, the Chosen Ones of the Ark, and us, so forgive the foolishness of the old man, dare to ask, have you 'entered'?"

The old man stared at Ryan, "If you still can't get out of the sealed cabin after doing this for more than a thousand years, may I ask, what is the significance of such an evolution?" ”

Ryan was speechless. People think they are living comfortably in the sealed cabins they have built, and they think they are on the path of human progress, but is this really the case?

The old man said, "Let me ask you another question, is the rate of metabolism high or low?" ”

The old man asked himself: "High has the benefits of being high, high means higher, faster and stronger, but in the same way, high metabolism and high oxygen consumption cannot survive outside the cabin, if this choice is handed over to you, what choice will you make?" ”

“……”

"Would you still choose that?"

“……”

"What is called advance, what is called retreat, if you adjust or even reduce the function of your body, it is to adapt to the changed environment, if you make some abandonment, in order to be able to live, such a retreat, how is it not a kind of advancement!" The old man's rickety body trembled with the force of the voice, and his cloudy eyes seemed to glow.

"You have been outside the cabin for so long, do you understand your father's choice at that time, why did he choose to help us, why did he hand us the key to human knowledge, with the brain of your ark man, it should be easy to judge what the consequences of doing this will be, but he still did it, Prometheus stole the fire of the gods to mankind, because he knew that the future of the earth is in mankind.

"And you, in that sealed cabin, trying to play the role of God and manipulate the reproduction and evolution of mankind, if not out of arrogance and stupidity, is an unthinkable act.

"The sealed cabin is named after the ark, but you don't know what the ark is, the ark is the boundless sea, the unknown wind and waves, the oncoming rainstorm, and the way to survive, how is the sealed cabin an ark, it is just a petri dish, and you are just some insects in the petri dish, flies and dogs!"

Ryan's hand tightened the coarse sheet.

"You are completely ignorant, but you have no freedom, you think that you have boarded the ark, as long as you bow your head and work hard, live your cookie-cutter life, you can reach the other side of happiness, but you don't know that the real ark is here, the land under our feet, the scorching sun overhead, the dry sea, and the endless loneliness.

"You are self-contained, and in order to be able to function, you have even invented a self-circulating metamorphosis mechanism - what kind of species can treat your own kind like this? You thought the earth was dead and abandoned her, yes, you almost killed her, but you underestimated her life force, yes, she was alive, she was a living system, her sky, her earth, her air, her water, and all the creatures above her, were an organic whole. She looked dead, but she was reviving inside, she was slowly gasping and moving, and at a speed that we tiny creatures couldn't detect, she wasn't dead! She is still doing what she has been doing for billions of years, she selects, she cultivates, even though it is full of holes, but it never stops, she heals herself, she gives birth to all things, and as long as she exists, she is still the home of that life.

"The earth is the real petri dish, the petri dish of the universe, the petri dish of God."

Ryan's tears slid down his face and dripped onto the coarse cloth.

"And we, the people of the earth, were, were, and will be, we once lived underground, we once became food for snakes and reptiles, we once retreated to a state of savagery, we forgot what we used to be, we paid a huge price in exchange for the right to continue to live, we are worthy of the earth, worthy of humanity.

"Ryan-E-537, and you, you're nothing more than a synthetic product made in a man-made petri dish. You grew up eating the same kind of recyclables, you

How do you define you, Ryan-E-537? ”

Ryan's hand gripped the coarse sheet tightly, and his body trembled.

He remembered that the girl had turned her head, her gaze calm and natural, and she said, "Because I am human." ”

"It's a pity," the old man's tone was full of sympathy, contempt, and pity, "I don't know what you are, except to say that you are a man-made monster. ”

The light was dim, and Ryan sat in the silence and said, "I'll leave tomorrow." ”