This trilobite was going to die soon.
Originally, it would not die so early. As one of the few overlords in the Cambrian ocean, there were few creatures larger and fiercer than it in this primitive and chaotic ocean. Even if it encountered a strong enemy, its solid shell could provide enough protection. Near the ancient corals where it lived, there were all kinds of crinoids, sponges, coelenterates, and plankton as food. It could be said to be "plentiful".
If it wanted to, it could continue to swim in the ocean comfortably and unconsciously, preying on plankton, and live the same life as billions of its kind. Its structure and the operating law of this world determined that its species could at least live peacefully in such a form for hundreds of millions of years before it died in a global extinction.
However, since three days ago, the adult, healthy, and strong trilobite had given up on food voluntarily and allowed its hard shell to drift in the seawater without doing anything.
It was as if … it was thinking, it was meditating, and it was exploring the meaning of life.
Of course, this was a very ridiculous thing.
It would take hundreds of millions of years and enough luck before the spirits of all creatures that could think for themselves were born in this world. The trilobite's extremely simple nerves could not even be called a "system". How could it possibly produce the sparks of wisdom and the brilliance of thinking?
However, through its compound eyes that were made of calcite, the brilliance of wisdom was clearly flowing out, illuminating the chaotic world and inputting and outputting infinite information to the primitive ocean.
For three days and three nights, the trilobite did not move at all.
Some brachiopods, cephalopods, and coelenterates were carefully patrolling around it. They thought that it was already dead and could not wait to devour its decayed body tissues.
Right at this moment, the ocean rippled, and the small animals fled in all directions. It turned out that it was an Anomalocaris that discovered it.
Anomalocaris was one of the largest and most ferocious carnivorous creatures in the Cambrian ocean. The largest Anomalocaris could grow more than one meter in size, which was twice as big as the trilobite.
Of course, Anomalocaris was not afraid of the trilobite, but usually, the two ocean overlords had enough food, so they rarely faced each other head-on.
However, a dying trilobite that had no power to fight back was naturally a different story.
Anomalocaris shook its peduncle, waving its huge forelimbs and sharp abdominal thorns, and rushed toward the dying trilobite.
This was supposed to be a sure-win attack, but the Anomalocaris that was so determined to win missed its target.
It turned around, and its peduncle captured a beautiful scene — in the turbid seawater behind it, the body of the trilobite gradually became crystal clear until it was completely transparent. Then, thousands of brilliant colors bloomed from the transparency into one, two, countless rainbows, and dissipated in the entire ocean and the entire world.
…
Unlike trilobites, the life of an ancient fungus could be as short as a day.
They lived to live in the depths of the ancient primitive ocean, near volcanoes with high temperature and pressure, in an extremely environment.
In just one day, they had to crazily absorb the nutrients and heat spurted out by the undersea volcanoes to create polypeptides and proteins. Then, they had to divide crazily so that they could pass on their life information and discover the most precious possibility in the endless changes.
Every second was extremely precious. Every division represented a new possibility, or even whether or not a certain brand-new species could evolve into a real 'civilization' billions of years later.
This Methanobacterium lived, thought, and meditated in such a harsh, mysterious, and sacred environment. It used every 0.1 seconds of every second to think.
Finally, when it sensed the restlessness of life, the division and spread of information, and the origin of civilization, it emitted a colorful mystic light that was even more dazzling than the eruption of the undersea volcanoes. It turned into ripples of rainbows and disappeared.
…
It was not just those worlds.
It was not just monks, generals, beggars, cavemen, trilobites, and archaea, either.
There were also many other worlds with all kinds of identities. They seemed to be attracted by certain invisible fetters. They lived, thought, meditated, trained, and ascended at the same time.
In some worlds, he was a licentious emperor who lived in a drunken stupor for decades. He did not get an epiphany and relief until the rebel army broke into the royal palace.
In some worlds, he was a tree that had stood on the mountaintop for thousands of years. He was silent for thousands of years, but he ascended in one day.
In some worlds, he was a plankton, a flower, an amphibian, a snake, a lizard, a dinosaur, a caveman, an early Homo sapiens who killed and ate the cavemen, a stone on the old street, a breeze, and a moon …
Infinite worlds and infinite rainbows soared into the sky one after another, breaking the barriers of all the worlds and ascending to a world of a higher level. There, they gathered together and reconstructed a brand-new existence that was as pure as a newborn and as powerful as a deity with their new understanding, understanding, and belief. In the jargon of the ancient Cultivators, they reconstructed a brand-new existence that was as pure as a newborn and as powerful as a deity.
Right now, there was only the last world and the last rainbow left.
It was also a world that was floating in the 'virtual data ocean' and had been deduced to the maximum, evolving to the most advanced level, and giving birth to the most developed civilization.
There were many standards to judge the evolution of a civilization.
From a macroscopic perspective, could the civilization jump out of its mother planet and march into the infinite universe?
From a microscopic perspective, could the civilization develop supercomputing tools similar to 'crystal processors' and create their own virtual worlds, even if they were just the simplest virtual games?
In this world, the intelligent lives that called themselves the 'Heavenly Ocean Civilization' had basically analyzed the mysteries of the stars and tried their best to explore the universe with the energy of the stars. They had also developed a supercomputing tool that was known as a 'super brain', which could calculate tremendous data and information and perform simple virtual deductions.
"Wan Xiaotian, you're here again. Are you kidding me? It's impossible to jump through four-dimensional space. Get the hell out of here!"
In the stellar research institute of the 'Heavenly Ocean University', the most famous university of the 'Heavenly Ocean Civilization', a young man with disheveled hair was kicked out of the office by his tutor and fell to the ground.
Then, the paper that he had spent half a year writing about the hyperspace jump formula was also thrown out. It scattered all over the floor.
BAM!
The door of the leading star researcher of the Heavenly Ocean Civilization was slammed shut in front of him. He had been given the cold shoulder.
The Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters in the corridor pointed at him with mocking expressions on their faces.
"He's Wan Xiaotian, the little lunatic who does nothing but think about transcending space all day long!"
"I heard that he was originally a top student in the department. He published seven formulas on the composition and operation of stars in a row before he was twenty years old. He was a sensational genius and was specially recruited to our cutting-edge stellar research institute. I didn't expect that he would give up on the promising star research and study the hyperspace. He failed his tutor's expectations and abandoned his career. He is almost a useless person now."
"He has failed the assessment of the institute for three months in a row. According to the rules, he is not qualified to continue to stay. His tutor kindly gave him one last chance, but he still gave up on himself and was obsessed with the 'hyperspace formula', wasting countless precious resources. He is really pitiful and hateful. Now, he can only pack up and leave!"
The academic circle was not pure. For funds, resources, and laboratory use time, all researchers had to compete with each other. Wan Xiaotian was too bright to begin with, and recently, he had been doing things his own way. Naturally, he was not popular.
However, ever since he made up his mind to explore the mysteries beyond space and even the universe, he had come to a realization. He did not take the sarcasm to heart. Instead, he bit his lips hard and picked up his papers and calculations in silence.
At this time, a pair of rough hands reached over and helped him pick up the papers.
Of course, it was not his senior brothers and sisters or tutors who wanted him to leave immediately.
It was Old Li, the janitor of the stellar research institute.
As he cleaned up, he gave him an innocent and honest smile, and even looked at his paper with great interest. Old Li, the cleaner, acted as if he could really understand it.
The laughter around him was louder and louder. Everyone couldn't help but laugh.
Because this janitor, Old Li, had a round head and a fat body. He was born with a stupid face. He was a disabled person with mild mental retardation.
"Look, Old Li can understand Wan Xiaotian's calculations. They are bosom friends!"
No one knew who said this, but it led to a burst of light laughter, which relieved the tremendous pressure of the researchers in the vast world of computing.
Wan Xiaotian frowned. He was not afraid of being embarrassed, but he did not want Old Li to be ridiculed. Perhaps everyone in the stellar research institute looked down on Old Li, or even "couldn't see" Old Li. They only treated Old Li as a toilet. But he was different. He was an orphan. In the orphanage where he grew up, there were many children with various disabilities like Old Li. They were all his relatives.
When he saw Old Li, he thought of his brothers and sisters.
To some extent, he and Old Li were the same kind of people who did not fit in at all in the stellar research institute.
"Old Li, let's go."
Wan Xiaotian packed up his calculations and papers as fast as he could. Under the ridicule of the crowd, he pushed Old Li out of the corridor.
Out of the corridor, there was nowhere to go. He was at a loss. Old Li dragged him into the toilet.
At the end of the toilet, there was a small tool room. It was Old Li's "office".
Other people despised Old Li for being dirty, but Wan Xiaotian had seen all kinds of dirty scenes in the orphanage, so he didn't care about it. Occasionally, when he saw Old Li taking pity on him, he was willing to come here and talk to him.
"Old Li, I'm leaving tomorrow!"
Seeing that Old Li was smiling like a two-hundred-pound child without any worries, Wan Xiaotian was both envious and distressed. He sighed and said, "I'm afraid I won't have a chance to come back to see you in the future. They won't let me in."
"Why, why?"
Old Li held a leather bag and asked with a lisp, "Why do you want to leave?"
"It's because of my calculations. They can't understand it. They all say it's rubbish."
Wan Xiaotian shivered and then smiled, "Forget it. You won't understand even if I tell you. Let's not talk about it."
"I understand. It's true. Your calculations are rubbish in the first place."
Old Li was still smiling, but his voice suddenly became clear. "You want to infer the existence of the entire universe with the superstring theory so that you can find the gap between the three-dimensional universe and the four-dimensional universe. That's not wrong, but you mistakenly chose the 'density cloud algorithm' that is used to calculate the structure and the law of motion of stars as the basis of the superstring theory. It's like counting all the sand in the desert one by one. It's impossible. You are indeed wasting your time and the resources of the institute. What is it if it's not rubbish?
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