"Next, I will introduce you to the experimental program."
"The location you are in now is a virtual space that we have set up. You can think of it as real space. It's not that different. It follows all the rules of the universe."
"Of course, it is not a real space."
"The purpose of the experiment is to check if the program is developing on the right path as well as to repair the main program."
"The way the experiment is conducted is that the civilizations represented by the different development programs are fused, and eventually only one civilization can be left in the two virtual spaces, and the eliminated civilization will be considered worthless by the program and destroyed by the guide."
"Your civilizations are all programmed by us, and we have the right to take them back."
"The duration of the experiment is three hundred years."
"Three hundred years?" Joseph's eyelids jumped.
Three hundred years is such a long time, only Joseph would have died long ago. Of course, he had already died, and he did not know what state he was in today.
"No need to worry," the guide knew what Joseph was thinking, "we grant the sample the right to create an infinite life force and the ability to inject the original program."
"In virtual space 3427743, you are God, and can create as much as you want in the program."
"Please believe that our program has endless possibilities."
"In addition, it is worth reminding that three hundred years refers to the outside universe, in the virtual space, the time you need to spend, is three hundred million years."
"Three hundred million years!"
"Yes, this is a rather long time, but you have the right to speed up the flow of time. If you want, you can instantly reach three hundred million years later just by sending instructions to the guide. Of course, the same you will also instantly face the fusion and the subsequent extinction."
"The Guides will disappear after the fusion, and you don't have to hope to rely on the Guides to help you survive the first fusion."
Therefore, as a guide, it is necessary for me to warn that the flow of time is used with caution. If I were you, I would spend these 300 million years slowly. In your civilization, immortality seems to be something extraordinarily worth pursuing, doesn't it?
One last question, why me? "There are many people in our human civilization who are more intelligent than I am in existence.
The collection of samples is completely random; whether excellent individuals are collected or inferior individuals, we do not care. We only need to be able to represent the overall... luck, but also an important criterion of whether a civilization can continue. As you said, excellent individuals can indeed survive longer in the experimental program.
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Even so, 300 million years is too long.
"You have no doubt that the long 300 million years are about to begin."
After a sudden "beep", the Guiding Light Group merged into Joseph's body, and Joseph regained his ability to move at that moment.
The Guide 51623 has withdrawn from the Guide. The Guide is at your service. The current experienced time: 0 years, 0 months, 0 days, the current time flow rate: 1:1, the current life: none.
"Please sample to issue commands."
"The guide seems to have left?" Joseph thought darkly.
When the guide was integrated into Joseph's body, he learned what God's power meant.
The guide was like his second brain; he was flying freely, instantaneously, and was able to appear anywhere in this infinite dark space and illuminate the darkness with just a thought.
"Build a life form!" Joseph's first thought was, naturally, to construct his wife, Rosalind.
"Unable to proceed! The program cannot edit life. Please sample evolution from the beginning of the program! "
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God is not omnipotent, or at least he cannot construct life out of thin air.
Joseph sighed and reordered, "Construct the universe!"
In Joseph's mind, since evolution was needed, it started with the Big Bang.
"Command successful, estimated time of 100 million billion billion years! Now start building! "
"Wait," Joseph hastily stopped, "If it was one hundred million billion billion years, I'm afraid that the fusion would be carried out before the successful construction, he re-instructed, "Build the solar system."
"Command successful; expected to take 100 million years."
The guide's capabilities are limited here. At least building the universe is not a simple task for it. Even just creating the sun, which is one third of the trillion billion billion billionth of the observable universe in the outside world, will take 100 million years.
Perhaps only the construction of the Earth alone, the time spent will be much less, but that may not be able to give birth to Joseph's understanding of life, or even the birth of life at all.
That kind of Earth is just an empty shell in space, without the slightest meaning.
Having a solar system is at least one of the conditions for the birth of life, and even if Joseph is now able to give life programs, basic life is needed.
.......
As the continuation of the civilization's fire, Joseph thought for three months before finally deciding to guide his civilization towards the path of another system. It was not that Joseph was unwilling to believe in the technology of human civilization, but the words vaguely revealed by the guide were also indicating the inferiority of technological civilization.
"Command, time acceleration!"
"Command successful!"
In the outside universe, the solar system was born about 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called the Solar Nebula.
This is the prototype of the solar system.
Joseph witnessed the birth of the solar system.
The Guide created a vast expanse of the Solar Nebula—which gradually expanded over a long period of time and eventually reached its extreme.
Joseph completely lost the concept of time, and he learned, only after the guide's reminder, that the creation of this solar nebula alone consumed 10 million years of time.
Of course, virtual space is not exactly the same as the outside universe.
The solar nebula began to rotate under the control of the guide, and because of the time flow, the rotation speed was faster than Joseph's imagination, and the cloud began to slowly collapse and clump together.
As the solar nebula continued to collapse and rotate faster, collisions between nebula particles caused the nebula to flatten and become a disk, and the primordial sun in the central region began to take shape.
When dust particles and icy particles collide at low speeds during rotation, they stick together, and after a long period of time, these particles grow into starlets.
These starlets, under gravity, become the seeds of planet formation. Once a starchild reaches a diameter of several kilometers, it has a strong enough gravitational force to attract more and more matter on the fly.
Many starlets come together to form larger objects, which are called protoplanets.
Then later, the protoplanets undergo a series of violent collisions, gradually forming rocky solid planets, such as Earth and Venus, as well as the cores of gas giants, which is the original Jupiter and Saturn.
Due to the control of the guide, the formation of the solar system in virtual space did not consume too much time.
In Joseph's eyes, the whole solar system took shape after half a day, and the huge and shining sun in the middle, emitting light and heat, began to form in the universe.
Venus, Mercury's prototype...
Twenty million years after the Sun was born, the prototype of the Earth began to be born, and it took another 20 million years for the Earth to form a sphere.
It is still very young now.
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