This is a vast lake.

The whole body is round, the lake water is pure, just like a silver white round mirror, buckled at the foot of the rolling green mountains.

Once upon a time, it was a place where countless creatures gathered for drinking water, and also a hunting ground for wolves, tigers and leopards.

But since the rise of mankind and the occupation of this mirror like Lake, no fierce beast has dared to hunt here.

The animals that were too stupid to realize the horror of human beings turned into white bones by the lake, towers and tombstones of different shapes.

On that night, the stars were very bright. Even the big and round moon could not cover the shining stars. The stars gathered into a vast ocean, like a silver storm, which fell from the sky to the earth.

The tribe at the foot of the mountain has lit a bonfire and is celebrating the killing of a huge prey.

A tribesman with wrinkled face and slightly bent back stepped up and down and left the people and came to the lake.

Behind it is the celebration of joy and noise.

In front of us is the silent and profound unknown.

The tribesmen first gazed at their reflection in the lake.

His forehead was slightly tilted back, his nose was big and flat, his face was not completely hairy, but his lips showed two huge canine teeth. At first glance, he still could not get rid of the traces of flood and ignorance.

But that pair of slightly yellow turbid eyes, is quietly absorbing the reflection of the lake stars, gradually become deep and sharp, adding a bit of black and silver color.

The tribesmen's sharp eyes gradually extended, first licking the bright moon in the lake, then extending to the sky along the moonlight and stars.

When hundreds of millions of stars burst out in his eyes, he couldn't help stretching out his hairy arm towards the endless sea of stars, as if he wanted to hold the whole universe in his palm.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch!"

He began to howl, as if to use his own voice to break the darkness between heaven and earth, to give the moon and every star a name, and to call his people, one day, to look above the moon and stars, to see what the world in the sky looks like.

"Boom!"

At the moment when the tribesmen stretched out their hands to the starry sky and howled, the whole world burst out a dazzling golden awn again, representing the tester's second leap, from ancient times to medieval times, and the birth of a real sense of "civilization"!

Li Yao watched all this quietly.

Like an omnipresent and omnipotent God, he looked down at the rise, struggle, spread and conquest of countless human tribes.

However, he got into the body of this tribesman, who was facing the lake and looking up at the starry sky. He personally felt that human beings knew themselves for the first time, and was curious about the starry sky, which was beyond description.

"That's it?"

Looking at the dancing "self" in the lake, Li Yao uttered a confused murmur, "is this the so-called" ultimate test "

No wonder he doubts.

Although it is very difficult to make tens of thousands of choices for the evolution of life in a short moment, these choices basically do not escape the basic route of human evolution. Li Yao only needs to rely on his instinct to make choices, and he has roughly completed the promotion from an Archaean blanket to a human tribe.

It seems that such a test does not match the power and mystery of the original ancestor, the black wall maker, nor is it enough to defeat 100 ancient civilizations!

Li Yao pondered for a moment and realized that he was taking things for granted.

From his point of view, of course, I think the "ultimate test" is too simple to answer, because he is a pure human, a 100% gene clone of the original ancestor.

Therefore, he knows very well how he, the original ancestor, went along the road of evolution, and his instinctive response is the right answer.

But what if the tester is not a human like him, but another carbon based intelligent life?

For example, if the tester is a "Gonggong tribe" born in rivers, lakes and seas, such as jellyfish and sponges, can we see at a glance that "little silverfish" is the most promising race to reach the top of evolution?

Even a "Gong Gong Zu" tester will definitely choose to go to the land instead of exploring the deeper ocean to find out the possibility that one in a billion people will be born from the sea?

In the same way, "zhurong tribe" is a kind of extremely special carbon based intelligent life, which was born in the volcanic and magmatic environment and relies on high temperature and "poisonous gas" to survive. When a tester of zhurong tribe is in the initial submarine volcanic environment, can he really endure the temptation of changing the structure of extracellular membrane and absorbing heat energy?

Even the most successful and powerful carbon based intelligent life "Pangu" is the same. Compared with human beings, Pangu is more closely related to giant reptiles. Many Pangu look like Tyrannosaurus Rex. Perhaps, on the original planet of Pangu, giant reptiles such as dinosaurs have never encountered meteorite invasion and climate change, So that the Pangu people evolved into such a unique face today.

So, when a Pangu tester is faced with the choice between reptiles and mammals, can he choose mammals naturally like Li Yao, no matter how many difficulties and setbacks he encounters?

It's impossible. Every logical way of thinking of carbon based intelligent life is greatly influenced by its body shape, that is, the environment of the original planet. Even if they have acquired the cells of the original ancestor, deeply analyzed the gene fragments of the original ancestor, and roughly knew how the original ancestor's evolutionary path went, but in the face of the ever-changing environment, When we have to make hundreds of choices in a second, we still can't help but bear the distinctive brand of our own civilization.

In other words, Gonggong, zhurong, Pangu or those "mechanical civilization", "black iron civilization", "semi energy civilization"... All kinds of testers' mutation selection and the final evolved form are certainly not what Li Yao sees now.

From this point of view, experts and scholars in the fairy palace have a very correct idea - only by copying real human beings can we have a thorough insight into the mind of the original ancestor, and even complete the test of the original ancestor by instinct without any effort.

However, this is only the beginning.

From the bottom of the sea to the land, from ignorance to wisdom, from the spirit of all things to the king of the universe, human beings still have a long way to go, and this "road to heaven" along the stars into the universe is probably the real test.

Sure enough, when the idea flashed away in my mind, another plain, deep and clumsy voice rang up.

"Here you are."

Said the voice.

The way of information exchange of this voice is similar to that of Pangu and Nuwa, but it adopts a very special information compression and encryption structure. The amount of information carried in a syllable is dozens of times that of Pangu and Nuwa.

It took a long time to digest and absorb the short three syllables.

Li Yao manipulated the tribesman, took a deep breath and sat down beside the lake.

The bright moonlight, the bright stars, the turbulent lake, and the laughter of the people behind are the most suitable places to explore the mystery of Taigu.

"What should I call you?"

Li Yao tried his best to keep calm, and his consciousness gathered waves, "is it the" original ancestor, "" the maker of the black wall, "or the" Archaean race "

"The appellation does not mean anything to us, whether it's the" original ancestor "," black wall maker "or" Archaean. "

The voice said, "a long time ago, in what you call the" archaic era ", our race created the first civilization in the sea of the universe - even if it is not the first generation civilization in the true sense, we have conquered and devoured all the civilizations older than us. Therefore, we call ourselves" Yuanshi civilization ", and you can also call us" Yuanshi clan. "

"Cosmic sea, Yuanshi clan?"

Li Yao does not miss every opportunity to get to the bottom of the matter, "what does the sea of the universe mean, is it a multiverse?"

"Have you ever seen grapes?"

The sound not only gave out the syllable "grape", but also showed Li Yao thousands of grape like plants. "If every universe is imagined as a grape, then a bunch of grapes together is a" cosmic sea ", or a" mother universe. "

"But"

Li Yao's spirit suddenly shrinks. "On a vine, there are more than a bunch of grapes, but hundreds of grapes. Do you mean that even the" multiverse "is more than one, but there are countless multiverse, countless" cosmic seas "and countless" mother universes "

"Good question."

In addition, he added a message of refusing to answer in the syllables, and made an explanation. Even if he reluctantly answered, now Li Yao could not understand it at all. On the contrary, it would consume his mind and make him lost in the vastness and profundity of the universe. "But I can't tell you the answer, the answer on the sea of the universe, It's far beyond what our information interaction can explain. "

"So..."

Li Yao pondered for a moment, feeling that his voice didn't mean to exclude people from thousands of miles away. He changed his direction and continued to ask, "do you admit that you are the" Yuan Shi "and" Yuan Zu ", that is, to create hundreds of generations of civilization in Pangu universe? We are all your descendants, your blood, your varieties, in a sense, all created by you? "

"Yes."

The voice admits.

"And then, did you create us and... Destroy us and hundreds of generations of civilization?"

Li Yao's spirit was burning, and the pale gold ripples of his thoughts were shaking violently.