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Chapter 2 eldest son

3001 A Space Odyssey 阿瑟·克拉克 1162Words 2018-03-14
Let's just call them "eldest sons".Although it doesn't have the slightest human appearance, it is still a body of flesh and blood.They are equally awed, bewildered, and alone as they look into the depths of space.Once they have acquired enough abilities, they begin to search for companions among the stars. In the process of searching, they encountered all kinds of life; in thousands of worlds, they saw the power of evolution.They are also used to seeing the fleeting glimmer of wisdom disappearing into the night of the universe. They feel that in this galaxy, "mind" should be the most precious; so no matter where they go, they try their best to assist the germination of mind.They became farmers in the Star Field, busy sowing seeds, and occasionally had a chance to harvest.

Sometimes, though, they have to pull out weeds in cold blood. By the time their starship entered the solar system, the gigantic dinosaurs had long since disappeared.The dinosaur's hope for the dawn was shattered by an accidental impact in outer space.The starship flies past the frozen planet and pauses above the dying Martian desert, looking down on Earth. What they saw unfolding beneath the starship was a world teeming with life.They have spent many years researching, collecting and cataloging.Once you understand the situation to the best of your ability, you start working on making changes.Some adjustments have been made to the fate of many species, including those that crawl on land and those that swim in water.However, it is impossible for them to know which experiment will bear fruit without waiting for a million years.

Although they are patient, they are not immortal.There is so much to do in this universe of hundreds of billions of stars, and other worlds are calling for them.They set off towards the deep universe again, knowing that they would never come in this direction again.In fact, there is no need to come again, the servants they left behind will do the rest. On the earth, glaciers come and go; the moon, like a constant in the sky, still guards the secrets entrusted by the stars.At a slower pace than the ebb and flow of polar ice, the tide of civilization recedes and flows across the entire galaxy.Weird, beautiful, and awful empires rose and fell, passing knowledge on to their successors.

And among the stars, evolution is moving toward new goals.The first explorers who arrived on the earth had already faced the extreme of flesh and blood.Once they've built machines better than their own bodies, it's time to move.First brains, then thoughts, they moved into new homes gleaming with metal and gems, and roamed the galaxy in new bodies.They no longer build spaceships because they are spaceships themselves. However, the days of mechanical entities passed quickly.From sleepless experiments, they have learned to store knowledge in the space structure; keep their thoughts in the frozen light grid for a long time.

In order to enter the form of pure energy, they changed themselves again.And in a thousand worlds, those empty shells they abandoned danced the unconscious dance of death, trembling briefly, and then crumbling into dust. Now they are the masters of the galaxy.You can wander among the stars at will; or, like an unpredictable twilight, dissolve into the cracks of the universe.Although they finally got rid of the controlling power of material tyranny, they did not forget that the source of their lives originated from those warm and sticky oceans that have now disappeared.The wondrous instruments they built continue to function, guarding experiments that began long, long ago.

But even those machines no longer always obey the mission given to them by their creators.Like all matter, they are inescapable from the influence of the God of Time, not to mention his patient, restless servant, Die. Sometimes, they also find some new targets for themselves.
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