"This world … is a very ancient world."
"It has lasted longer than many of the worlds I have known before, and the creatures that live here have changed many times. They have experienced many extinctions and rebirths, just like other worlds."
"However, some creatures have not experienced extinction. They live in this world and observe this world …"
"During my stay here, I learned about the secrets of this world."
"Fluffy, the oldest part of this world has been recorded. You may want to know its secrets … This secret seems to have a certain connection with my kind."
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A long, long time ago, there was such a world in the Void.
Like other rollers, it looked relatively ordinary. It rotated around a star, and the normal temperature above it was enough for it to produce cellular creatures.
Some primitive creatures were born in this world.
These primitive creatures relied on the insufficient water in this world to slowly grow. The ancient cellular creatures slowly evolved and combined into multicellular creatures.
These multicellular creatures left the water they lived in and stepped on the dry land. They looked at the vast world with eyes that had not yet fully evolved. Their eyes were full of desire for the future.
Then they all died.
Because, a huge shadow descended from the sky. Perhaps to replenish water, or perhaps to obtain some kind of nutrition, the huge creature that had been wandering in the Void — the Void Bus — chose this place as a rest point.
When its body appeared in the sky, even if it did not attack the creatures here, its actions almost destroyed all the creatures here.
A huge tentacle in the depths of the Void Bus. It pierced into the water on the surface of this world. It absorbed the water. Or the nutrition in the water …
Because of the huge demand, a lot of water slowly dried up under its absorption, and the creatures that had just set foot on the land and had not completely gotten rid of their dependence on water were almost all extinct.
This was a relatively long process.
After the Void Bus left, it would come back again after a while. It seemed to treat this world as a long-term rest station, and every time it came, it would absorb a lot of water.
This was a great threat to the cellular creatures here.
As for those who managed to survive the crisis, they also encountered a new crisis.
Every time the Void Bus came here, it would not come alone. It did not come alone. Occasionally, it would bring other creatures with it. For example, multicellular creatures from an unknown world, and some non-multicellular creatures. They could adapt well to the environment here and reproduce here.
Perhaps it was because the Void Bus liked to travel between the Rollers in the same environment, so the creatures it carried could quickly adapt to this place.
They competed with the creatures here, and as powerful creatures that had ridden the Void Bus, they quickly gained the upper hand. Slowly, they increased their numbers.
The primitive cellular lifeforms of this world became extinct, but the primitive lifeforms of this world … But they did not go extinct.
This was because this world was different from other worlds.
Apart from the 'real' side, there was another side in the 'dream'.
From the very beginning, this world was surrounded by a huge amount of energy. This kind of energy was later called Dream Energy. It was a kind of energy that ordinary creatures could not feel.
However, it was closely related to real creatures.
In the Dream Energy, some energy had 'consciousness'. They had thoughts and could reproduce and grow like real creatures.
Because they did not need water and would not be affected by environmental disasters in the real world, they were easier to survive. These creatures were very simple at first, just like primitive cellular lifeforms. They generally wandered aimlessly, absorbing the energy around them.
Dream creatures could not directly absorb the primitive Dream Energy, just like cellular lifeforms could not eat sand. However, the Dream Energy would transform under certain circumstances and change into a different form. Usually, it would look like a luminous object. This way, they could absorb it.
This group of Dream Creatures did not know that there was such a thing as a real creature at first. Dreams were real to them, and they had no special connection with reality.
Until … in the process of evolution, real creatures produced a 'brain' structure.
The Dream Creatures could feel the information emitted by this structure. This was also the first time they had discovered the existence of real creatures.
Of course, they did not understand at that time. They were simply attracted to the 'brain', like moths attracted to a flame.
However, the brain was not dangerous to them. In some cases, the information in the brain seemed to be able to 'resonate' with the Dream Energy, transforming it into a kind of energy that was food for the Dream Creatures.
Therefore, some Dream Creatures began to follow the brain.
At first, they simply tried to obtain food. However, slowly, their forms began to change. They found that if they did certain things, the brain would produce more energy. They began to cooperate with the brain's activities.
This was the beginning of the first symbiosis.
If real creatures had a healthy and complete brain, they could provide more energy to the Dream Creatures. Therefore, the Dream Creatures tried to make them healthy.
Dream Creatures could sense changes in the surrounding environment through Dream Energy. Although it would not affect them, they found that there was a threat to the 'brain'. In the process of evolution, they slowly learned to send some signals to the brain to inform it of approaching danger.
Dream Creatures could also evolve, but unlike real creatures, their speed of change was slower. However, they could still catch up to the speed of change of real creatures.
Of course, there were also Dream Creatures that did not form a relationship with the brain. They turned to attack other Dream Creatures to obtain energy, and the first hunt began.
There were many types of Dream Creatures that lived in symbiosis with real creatures. They slowly increased their influence on the brain. In the beginning, they only sent some information. Later, they even obtained the command of the entire body of a real creature.
As for real creatures, because of the Dream Creatures' 'soul', their brains were not developed. Because there was another commander, they did not need a big brain. Therefore, they grew a body that did not match the brain. As long as they did not have a 'soul', their body would not be able to move.
Dream Creatures also had the ability to receive information from the brain of real creatures. Therefore, they could directly see the 'real world' and even treat themselves as real creatures.
Of course, they still retained the ability to sense dreams to deal with the threat of the Dream Creatures.
All of this happened after the first extinction.
Because of the Void Bus's actions, most of the evolving multicellular creatures went extinct. However, the multicellular creatures brought by the Void Bus had many brains.
At that time, the Dream Creatures and real creatures did not have a close symbiosis. They lived in symbiosis with the new species brought by the Void Bus.
Basically, the creatures that had a 'soul' were not native creatures. Instead, they evolved from the new species brought by the Void Bus and the Dream Creatures here.
However, this was not important. What was important was what happened later.
This world's water resources were extremely scarce. It was the result of the Void Bus's countless years of continuous plundering.
It was rare for the Void Bus to continuously obtain the resources of a place. Perhaps the personality of this Void Bus was a little abnormal.
The surface water had almost disappeared, leaving only endless deserts and wastelands. Later, the frequency of the Void Bus's arrival became less frequent.
The creatures here suffered a second impact. Although most of them were not native creatures, they were still threatened with extinction.
Of course, the same was true for the creatures in the Dream World.
At this time, many Dream Creatures relied too much on the brain of real creatures to provide nutrients. They no longer had the ability to find food. When the real brain died, they would die together.
In the end, under the harsh environment, only a few creatures could survive. Most of these creatures were relatively small or had strong vitality.
Some creatures turned to live in the depths of the dark underground. There was still a water source underground, but it was difficult to find.
All in all, most of the creatures that survived were small, tough, and had strong survival abilities. For example, some creatures like plants.
Some creatures did not participate in this extinction, such as non-multicellular creatures, but there were not many of them. There were also those Dream Creatures that did not have a symbiotic brain. They lived their usual lives.
However, among the creatures that were threatened with extinction because of the harsh environment, some survived in other ways.
They were also creatures with a 'soul'.
This kind of creature had … intelligence earlier than any other kind of creature.
Soul did not mean higher intelligence. Even if many creatures had souls, they lived a 'primitive' life.
However, creatures with souls would definitely develop intelligence more easily than creatures without souls. In other words, they developed intelligence earlier. They evolved to have higher intelligence much faster than the usual multicellular creatures.
However, it was mainly the 'soul' that commanded, not the brain.
This kind of creature had a considerable degree of intelligence.
They were also creatures with personalities, so they knew how to use all kinds of things as weapons.
Their bodies were mainly oval, with six limbs, and they were good at using and making things. These were all their 'souls', which was why they had such intelligence. They used this ability to survive in this environment and slowly formed … a larger community. Floating astronomy.
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