The first thousand three hundred and forty-nine chapters of the original story
At the beginning of the story, it was an ordinary world, an ordinary planet, and an ordinary beginning.
It is a small dot in the endless starry sky, a speck of dust in the universe. Like every planet that gave birth to life, luck favored this solid planet composed of rocks, metals, and sulfur-rich minerals.
After the storm blew over the earth, charged particles and strong magnetic fields penetrated the surface rock layers, and the first silicon-sulfur macromolecule with the ability to self-replicate was assembled by coincidence from the hot springs in the shallow layer of the planet's surface. This silicon-sulfur macromolecule became
It became the most complex compound ever discovered on the planet and became the beginning of the whole story - it was lucky enough to survive the material changes in the hot springs, it was lucky enough to complete its first replication accurately, and it was lucky enough to remain intact despite the temperature changes in the hot springs.
Its own stability. In the slow and purely luck-based "reproduction", it took tens of millions of years for it to cover the rock bottom of the hot springs, and then slowly spread outward. It gradually aggregated, mutated, and interacted with other surrounding substances or
Other mutated macromolecules merged, symbiotically, fought, and compromised, and the seeds of life took root and sprouted. After hundreds of millions of years of simple replication, the first organism that could be called a "cell" emerged from these continuously replicating silicon-sulfur concentrations.
Evolved in the soup.
The original biosphere of the home planet began underground.
It took hundreds of millions of years for this cell, whose outer shell was made of polymer sulfide, to slowly "learn" how to unite with other cells to form a more complex organism that was more suitable for survival and migration, and for the first time it was able to move freely.
Wander in the dark geothermal soup.
The original underground hot springs have been on the verge of disappearing over time, but the underground "water" system of the home planet has a network structure, and ancient creatures that have learned to move freely swim from the exhausted hot spring to another nutrient-rich hot spring.
, and slowly approached a shallow underground river leading to the surface. Finally, these ignorant little beings settled in an ancient open-air lake, began the next stage of complexity, and prepared for that fateful day.
- Stepping onto the surface - making preparations they are not aware of.
The first things that ran around on the mother planet were small creatures that crawled on the ground. Maybe they looked a bit like squashed lizards. Maybe they had tails that were degenerated from tail fins, or maybe they even had sharp little nails for scratching.
Living on smooth hot spring rock beds - even the ancestors can only rely on guesswork and remains restoration to imagine what these ancient little creatures looked like. They guessed that these earliest home planet creatures would have blue-white scaly skin, and silica made up their skeletons.
Their soft guts are made of fibrous sulfide. They have not yet evolved eyes, because such organs are not needed in dark hot springs and lake bottoms. These blind reptiles once left the ancient geothermal source and left with increasingly scarce nutrients.
underground river, and now they have left the unchanging lake: an epic adventure legend. They carefully grasped the dry surface rocks with their fragile limbs and climbed to the ground. The thick atmosphere of the original mother star rolled up the cold wind.
On the still moist skin of these little creatures - some timid individuals may have retreated, but thankfully, the brave ones among them raised their heads to welcome this unprecedented dry airflow. At this moment, they were no closer to sowing life on their mother planet.
Two billion years have passed since that solar storm.
When these small creatures were running around the vast and desolate land of the original mother star, and gradually multiplied and spread to a considerable scale, a decisive turning point occurred: Ancesus, the ancestor, called this turning point the Great Storm Annals.
The original home planet of the Xiling people was a huge planet. According to the data provided by the ancestors, it may have been three times the size of the Earth and had a powerful liquid core. The violent geological activities in ancient times caused its surface to be covered with
There are mountains and rift valleys on an extremely large scale that are unimaginable on Earth: these mountains and rift valleys are continuous, winding across the entire crust, almost cutting the entire planet into several parts like corrugated paper in a partitioned breeding box.
, where the entire earth's crust is depressed, mountains and rift valleys cannot continue, but are blocked by huge oceans. In this way, the original mother planet is naturally divided into several regions. The natural environment of each region is completely different, and the biggest difference is
The place is even like two planets - this high surface difference will cause the atmosphere to accumulate too much turbulence. Coupled with the overly active sun next to the parent star, this will cause violent events on the parent star every once in a while.
Climate changes, as well as various large-scale meteorological events that are unimaginable on the earth. The scale and intensity of typhoons on the original parent star are several times that on the earth, and a high convective wind can even spread to four-fifths of the planet - although
The period between each occurrence of this phenomenon is very long, but every time it occurs, it causes the planet to turn upside down.
But this time, an unprecedented storm was brewing on the home star: a storm larger than any in the history of the planet and since then - it swept across the world, triggering worldwide rainfall and hurricane weather, and the largest storm ocean on the home star.
The central part dropped tens of meters, triggering an impact tsunami that devastated the surrounding continents. Floods surged into the sky and rushed inland. Destiny seemed to be planning to give this earth-shaking planet a kick, so it was in the place with the most mountains in the northern hemisphere.
It triggered a large-scale crustal collision: cracks appeared in the towering mountains, floods from coastal areas drove in, and combined with hurricanes and heavy rainfall, this major reshuffle-like meteorological event lasted for nearly half the year of the home planet.
The primitive biosphere suffered heavy losses in this reshuffle, but it did not completely die out - miraculously, this became one of the reasons for the completely different civilization structure of the Xiling people later: primitive organisms were sent to all corners of the planet, and
Evolution began anew in those environments that were so different that they were almost alien planets. Silicon-sulfur-based life has strong adaptability, and its tolerance to temperature and humidity is often dozens or even hundreds of times that of carbon-based life.
Every corner of the home planet survived tenaciously, and eventually more than ten incredible life systems evolved.
The differences between each life system are almost like alien creatures!
Then there is the story of the Xiling people - due to the previous "Great Storm Annals", global creatures have evolved more than a dozen almost completely isolated lineages, and half of the lineages have successively produced intelligent life. This is the original Xiling people.
Spirit Man: Yes, the Xiling Man is not a single human race. They evolved independently in the strange environment of their home planet. What was born were several essentially different creatures. Although they all have human shapes and walk upright, they are
It is the result of being disturbed by star field information. If you study two Xiling people who belong to different tribes in their home planet era together, you will definitely think that they are aliens from two planets!
This may also be an ancient inducement for today's Xiling apostles to create "branch clans".
Xiling civilization is a relatively rare "multi-species hybrid civilization", that is, multiple completely different intelligent species originated on the same planet and reached the civilized stage one after another, eventually forming a mixed civilized civilization. They are compatriots and the same people.
Brothers and sisters in a civilization. But their life forms have reached the point where they think each other is an alien - it's such an exaggeration.
This kind of "multi-species hybrid civilization" may be very novel in the conventional world view of people on earth, but to me, this concept is not the first time it has appeared. Just look at the species composition of the Salvation Army: they are from the same planet.
This is the case with the Xiling people on the planet. They are composed of several completely different intelligent species - these intelligent species are also the origin templates for future Xiling apostles.
Like many ordinary races, the major races on the original home planet also had wars when they first came into contact. And due to the fundamental differences in life forms, these wars were extremely cruel - the ancestor Anseth talked about this period of history
I kept mentioning some names: Scorpio, Safa, Storm - these were all groups from the home planet in ancient times. Before the Xiling civilization formed a unified whole, the planet was divided by several equally civilized species.
Occupy, its divisions and antagonisms are far greater than even the most chaotic eras on earth.
But just like those ordinary races that persisted until the age of the universe. After experiencing the initial war and fusion, the Xiling people successfully transformed from opposing ethnic groups into a unified civilization and began to explore their universe.
"Multi-species hybrid civilization" has a unique advantage, that is, they develop faster in the fields of scientific research and exploration. Therefore, the Xiling people have mastered superb aerospace technology in a short period of time, and have been exposed to the limits of the material world.
Then they began to study how to escape from their universe - and it was at this time that disaster suddenly struck.
The abyss that erupted in an inland colony almost instantly destroyed this promising civilization, and in a short time it surpassed the final defense line of the parent star.
This abyssal explosion was also the original source of the Xiling Apostle's "Original Hatred".
Although the Xiling people resisted tenaciously, their strength was not ready to compete with an enemy like the Abyss. Coupled with the huge scale of the abyssal power faced by the original home star at that time, the Xiling people finally had to accept an
Fact: Their universe is slowly collapsing, and any fleet and artillery are ineffective against such an indescribable enemy.
The Xiling people used their last resources and the time they fought hard to build an ark that could cross the void. On the day when the original home star was completely covered by the abyss, they began to escape from their home universe: this was the first time the Xiling civilization had ever faced the abyss.
The first and last time the entire clan fled, and the birth of the Xiling Apostle happened not long after that.
"We have been retreating steadily in the battle against the abyss. It is an 'enemy' that cannot be explained by common sense. It is intangible and cannot be analyzed." It took Ansers a long time to put together the first half of the history of the home planet.
After finishing speaking, he finally talked about the Abyss War and the birth stage of Xiling Apostle, "We don't even know whether it is some kind of clear evil enemy, or it is just an irresistible natural phenomenon in the universe. We only know that everything will eventually become
The enemy: The longer we fight against the abyss, the more powerful the hostile force we have to face becomes stronger. This is a battle that is impossible to win from the beginning. In the end, the coalition government has to decide to abandon its homeland and jump out of the universe."
"This must have been a very risky move back then." Sandora nodded and said.
"Yes, adventure, extreme adventure," Anseth breathed, "We have not fully mastered the technology of jumping out of the world - the precise model of the multiverse, the indescribable dangerous environment between the multiverse, and
How to controllable navigation between worlds, these technologies are all in the exploratory stage. We have just learned that there is a wider space outside our own world, and we have just learned how to use mathematical rate equipment to generate a space that can allow us to navigate in a void environment.
In the order field of survival, the war against the abyss has reached the stage where it has to flee.
There was no news after the first batch of Arks set off. The high-power communication antenna we equipped them with lasted in the void for a short time before malfunctioning. The second batch of Arks used new discontinuous communication technology. After leaving their hometown, they
The base maintained a connection for a period of time. But the news was soon lost - it seemed that trying to jump out of the universe was tantamount to suicide, but there was no other way. We had to keep launching the ark. There was no time to study a safe navigation plan, and there was no
There are enough resources to launch more unmanned test ships, and the coalition government has long given up on the defense circle of the home planet. In the last period of time, the entire Xiling family huddled in the last colonial area on the other side of the galaxy, looking at the entire universe.
Slowly collapsing in front of our own eyes, the starlight returned by the deep space probe is getting dimmer day by day, and the light and shadow between the nebulae are getting more and more distorted and crazy day by day. In this environment, we build an ark with everything we have. No matter these simple things
Whether things can persist in the void until they reach the next safe world, they must run out without hesitation..."
"The home world may be located at the dividing point of the Void Quadrant," Sandora suddenly whispered, "The only difference between sailing within the quadrant and sailing across the quadrant is the communication method. The communication system of the first batch of arks must be for the purpose of 'continuous
It is designed to work in the void, so after crossing the quadrant, those arks disappeared... Don't worry about this, please continue."
Ansers nodded, knowing that he probably couldn't understand Sandora's explanation: "The situation finally improved - the pressure of genocide can make mortals collapse and go crazy, and it can also give us the explosive power to survive desperate situations.
We finally figured out the key to sailing in the void, and made a crude navigation device - sounds ridiculous, right? The first Ark launched did not even have a navigation device, just like the one made by primitive people, including a rudder and sails
It's like a canoe that doesn't exist. It can only drift forward in the void. This is the primitive ark."
After the new technology comes out, it immediately becomes a manned spacecraft: As mentioned just now, we do not have the time and resources to conduct unmanned experiments. The abyss is approaching step by step. Once any new technology appears, it must be immediately transformed into a physical object, and then a new technology must be transformed into a physical object.
A group of brave volunteers were sent out. At that time, we could not grasp the laws of abyss propagation. Its non-linear propagation meant that every day could be a disaster. Therefore, we could only send people out at every opportunity to prevent
The last 'safety window' was missed. Finally, we felt that the final moment had arrived. The destructive force was only half a light-year away from the final barrier, and there was no time to develop new navigation technologies or build new ships - the coalition government decided to launch
All the spaceships built jumped into the void with everyone they could carry."
With the experience gained by the pioneers with their lives, the last batch of arks reluctantly moved forward in the void. We even made contact with several spacecraft launched earlier and successfully merged with them, but there is still no news about more early spacecraft
Nothing - they are like floating balls thrown into the turbulent flow to detect the water potential, they have long been swept away by the void."
From that day on, the era of Xiling's hometown came to an end, and the coalition government announced its reorganization. With the approval of the whole people, we gave up the moderate federal and parliamentary systems, and the entire civilization turned into an imperial system - the Xiling Empire was established on the Ark.
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In order to survive, we decided to give up our individual interests and arm our wandering civilization with absolute efficiency, obedience, unity, loyalty and bravery. Everyone knows very well that as a wandering civilization that may capsize at any time, only this
Only by adopting an inhumane way can one survive."
Despite escaping from their home planet, the Xiling people's rage for revenge has never subsided. We remember the tragic history of the destruction of our homeland, and have been trying to find out the truth of that disaster - scientists firmly believe that it was not a natural phenomenon that caused the collapse of the universe.
, the home world was destroyed by something abnormal and not belonging to our universe. After a long period of research, they finally determined that this thing came from outside the world, from the depths of the void, and encountered it in the Ark Fleet.
After looking at some fragments of the universe, they determined that more than one world had been destroyed by this force. This last point is important: we thought that the destructive force disappeared with it after destroying the home world, but it still exists, and it is
It is a common phenomenon in the multiverse, which allows Xiling people to have a continuous motivation in their difficult exile: revenge."
Eventually, scientists decided to call this force: the abyss."
No one still knows the properties of the abyss, or whether the patterns attached to the two-dimensional plane are matter, energy, or something else, but at least the target of revenge has become clearer than ever before. Something else happened at this time.
, we find that our many shortcomings as mortals will cause us to be unable to persist in exile for too long. We will be afraid, we will shrink, and we will lose our fighting spirit as time goes by. Most people cannot be 100% honest with other people.
It is difficult to absolutely trust others, and these shortcomings become more and more obvious as the exile continues. In this way, the combination of the characterization of the abyss and the facing up to its own shortcomings finally made the new government decide: to create a new
Input all the information of Xiling Civilization into these new life forms and let them take over the fire."
"Actually, the plan of the original body has already started in the home world." Anther paused and mentioned more secrets. "It was when we were fighting against the abyss in the home world. We found that the abyss is more likely to infect people with weak wills.
Ordinary people, so someone once proposed to create a ruthless combat weapon to replace ordinary soldiers in fighting the abyss. The name of the original body was also mentioned at that time, so it can be considered that the 'primary body' was proposed in the hometown era.
Project. However, due to the rapid deterioration of the war situation, we finally failed to create this ideal life. In the early days of exile, because survival was above all else, this plan was temporarily shelved. It was not until later that we had a chance to breathe and created
The Primarch's plans were then restarted."
"This is the origin of Xiling Apostle." Anseth exhaled and said a little tiredly.
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