BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! Volcanoes were erupting far away, and thunder was rumbling in the sky. Two gargantuan creatures weighing almost six tons crashed into each other brutally like two mountains of meat. Every crash and stomp was as powerful as a small-scale earthquake. The quakes forced the insects and reptiles in the mud to stick their heads out and watch the entanglement of the two ferocious primeval beasts in bewilderment.
It was the season when flowers were blooming in spring, when everything was revived, and vitality was blossoming.
Even the air was rippling with the strong aura of endless life. Tyrannosaurs, velociraptors, diplodocuses, brontosaurs, and all kinds of amphibians, reptiles, and insects were pushing their lives to the limit on their own level. They were trying their best to pass on their precious genes so that their wonderful lives could spread to the entire planet.
Suddenly, a deafening explosion echoed in the sky, even louder than the collision of the two tyrannosaurs.
A burning meteor tore through the atmosphere, dragging a long tail of flames behind it as it smashed toward the ground.
It was only the first meteor.
Very soon, it was the second, the third, and the hundredth. A splendid meteor shower assaulted the newborn world, bringing coldness and silence for tens of millions of years and an extinction that would sweep across the entire planet.
"This is —"
Ding Ling Dong's eyes were filled with the flames of the interconnected meteors. "The power to destroy the world!"
"Yes. The world is about to be destroyed."
Li Yao said in a low voice, "Even if it is not destroyed by the unprecedented meteor shower and the ensuing dark winter, it will still be destroyed by natural and man-made disasters countless years later. That is the ending of most virtual worlds. Perhaps destruction is the normal state of the universe. Every star and planet will die eventually, not to mention the tiny lives that live on the planets and depend on the radiation of the stars.
"Lives. Fragile lives. They are really like dust and germs.
"However …
"Even if we are going to be destroyed in the next second, we still have to do our best to continue our genes and let our genes be entangled with each other so that mysterious mutations can happen. We have to explore the endless possibilities and fight for the one in a billion chance.
"Even if our efforts fail, somebody's efforts will succeed at a certain time and a certain place. Don't you agree, honey?"
"… That's right."
Ding Lingdang closed her eyes and bit Li Yao's rough skin softly with her bloody mouth. "We can be destroyed, but 'hope' won't. Never will."
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! More and more meteors appeared in the sky. The fastest few meteors had already crashed into the ocean and the land brutally, raising tides hundreds of meters high, smoke hundreds of meters high, and blasts hundreds of kilometers long.
Countless birds and animals were killed miserably in the flames and blasts, but the remaining creatures, including the two tyrannosaurs, seemed to have been stimulated by the destruction and hugged each other even more passionately, echoing each other to their heart's content. In the meantime, the cells all over their body, especially the life seeds, had been deeply engraved with the mark of the meteor shower at the deepest part of their gene strands, mutating crazily on the microscopic level, hoping to create a certain brand-new life form that could avoid the cold and the extinction of living creatures.
Perhaps, that was evolution.
With the meteors falling from the sky, the mountains shaking, the volcanoes erupting, and the complete darkness in the sky as the curtain, Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong, the two tyrannosaurs, devoted themselves to it, swallowed, melted, collided, bombarded, continued, passed on, and created until the moment of doomsday.
…
When Ding Ling Dong regained her consciousness again, she seemed to be able to smell the intense smell of sulfur and the dust raised by the meteors.
But she was clearly no longer a tyrannosaurus rex, and her surroundings were no longer the primeval age that was scourged by meteors.
This was also a desolate continent that had not given birth to any civilization, surrounded by a boundless primitive forest. However, she was not a bird or a beast but a tree.
It was not accurate to call her a tree. She was a rarely-seen super-giant plant that was between a tree and a flower, similar to the ancestors of the Kuafu Clan in the past.
Her roots went hundreds of meters deep into the ground and could expand to several kilometers away. Within a few kilometers, all the seemingly independent towering trees, flowers, grass, and shrubs were actually part of her body.
She could clearly feel that her "roots" were absorbing water and nutrients from the depths of the earth, and she could also feel the subtle changes in sunlight, humidity, and wind. At the same time, she precisely adjusted each of her leaves to either curl, stretch, or tremble slightly to maximize the radiation of the star.
All kinds of ancient information were recorded in her cells in a mysterious way. She seemed to have lived in this world for thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years!
"Honey! Honey! "
Then she heard Li Yao's excited cry.
She had thought that Li Yao would become another tree beside her.
But she had underestimated Li Yao.
Li Yao had turned into a swarm of bees, or rather, he looked like a mixture of bees and butterflies, and the product of excessive radiation and mutation.
"Although the fleshly body of human beings is the most perfect form of carbon-based intelligent life, it does not mean that there is nothing worth learning from other life forms."
Li Yao was like a large swarm of deformed bees that had a "colony consciousness", dancing around Ding Ling Dong. "Imagine that in a certain world, plants, instead of animals, were the first to embark on the path of evolution. What interesting things would happen? Come on, experience the harmony between a towering tree and everything in the world!"
For a long time in the following days, Ding Ling Dong indeed experienced a brand-new … mode of genetic inheritance and mutation.
The tree that she had transformed into was not an ordinary plant. It was more like a brand-new life form that combined the characteristics of plants and animals. She and Li Yao's bee colony alone were enough to form a complete, self-sufficient, and endless ecosystem.
Li Yao harvested from her body and brought her food from afar. She helped Li Yao shelter from the sun and rain, and provided a tree hole as a nest for the bee colony. They exchanged materials, energy, genes, and insights in a way that had never been heard of before. Until a long, long time later, Ding Ling Dong's big tree had expanded to the entire continent, and even extended countless roots that were as thick as tentacles into the ocean. Li Yao's bee colony gradually grew into a quasi-intelligent life form with a high degree of social awareness.
Perhaps, this meant that their crystallization, a "civilization", was about to be born?
In the following time, they experienced the fusion and harmony of countless kinds of life forms in countless illusory spaces.
They turned into two pieces of ore that were pressed together under the high temperature and pressure deep inside the earth. The tens of thousands of elements that they contained leaked into each other's body and gradually melted into each other.
They turned into nautiluses and trilobites in the primitive ocean, and even the ancient fungi in the craters of undersea volcanoes.
Of course, they also experienced love and hate as different identities in different historical phases of the civilization of mankind in the form of human beings.
After seven days and a hundred reincarnations, their souls received the deepest resonance and the purest harmony. Under the impact of Li Yao's billions of times, Ding Ling Dong's soul was more condensed than ever, too.
Finally —
Countless dreams were dancing like butterflies. After a hundred reincarnations, they dispersed like fireflies in the sky. They returned to the shuttle at the edge of the Empyreal Terminus Sector in the Pangu universe in the material world.
The two of them were still sitting cross-legged in the same posture as seven days ago.
But something deep inside their eyes was completely different from seven days ago.
Leaning against Li Yao's arms, Ding Ling Dong did not have the slightest anger of "Blazing Tyrannosaur" anymore. Instead, she was like a contented red cat that had just had a good night's sleep.
"The mysteries of life are truly infinite."
Ding Ling Dong mumbled lazily, "I suddenly feel that this life is too little. I wish that the so-called 'reincarnation' does exist so that I can experience ten thousand worlds and ten thousand different wonders. Am — Am I too greedy?"
"You are not greedy. That's what I think, too. Maybe reincarnation does exist."
Li Yao paused for a moment and hugged Ding Ling Dong even more tightly. "One day, we will find a way to surpass reincarnation!"
"Yes, as long as you say it, I'll believe you!"
Ding Ling Dong raised her head and looked at Li Yao with her big, watery eyes. "Honey …"
Li Yao had a bad feeling. "What — What's wrong?"
"Nothing. I just feel that the past seven days and seven nights have been too wonderful and too hasty. I feel that I've swallowed everything without appreciating the wonders of life."
Ding Ling Dong said shyly, "Why don't we continue for another seven days and seven nights?"
"Huh?"
Li Yao's face changed, but he pretended to be calm and said, "Okay … Of course, that's great. In fact, I — I feel that it's not enough, either. Well, truth be told, I've only performed thirty percent of my strength. There are — there are many ultimate skills that I haven't performed yet. It's — it's not enough.
It's just … "While he was trying to find an excuse, their portable crystal processors suddenly buzzed at the same time.
Li Yao raised his wrist and looked at it. There was a hint of relief in his eyes, but he slapped his thigh and frowned. "Look. Look at those guys. They're bothering us with boring things like saving the world and benefiting the universe again. Seriously. Can't they last ten days or half a month without us?
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