Is It a Kind of Evolution?

"Chief, Dean Dai, you should remember the first time we encountered the Awakeners. Awakeners told us why they were called Awakeners. Could this be related?" Yi Kai chimed in.

Yi Kai no longer looks like a man in his sixties. He looks much younger than before, all thanks to genetic modification. The only thing that is similar to before is his white hair.

Gray hair can actually be changed through gene editing, but Yi Kai seems to like his white hair, saying it makes him look more like a learned person.

Of course, this is just his own obsession. Nowadays, human society no longer equates having a full head of white hair and wearing glasses with being learned. After all, humans live a long time now, and even after thousands of years, many people still look handsome and dashing.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were all handsome men and beautiful women; only the older generation has this peculiar preference. Actually, Yue Yuan is one of them; he always likes to keep a short stubble.

Yi Kai's words made Yue Yuan and Dai De exchange a glance, and then they both looked at Yi Kai at the same time.

"You mean awaken?!"

"Right!"

Wake!

Wake!

Wake!

Yue Yuan frowned, muttered a few words to himself, and then shook his head, saying, "That's not right. The Awakeners said that they should be Fallen Civilization. We've only just stepped onto the Level 4 Civilization, and our civilization is in a period of positive progress and vigorous development, not some Fallen Civilization!"

If it's not Fallen Civilization, why does it need to be awakened?

Could it really be some kind of guidance? But what could it be?

Most scientists now agree that it was the work of the Awakeners, and Yue Yuan also believes so. However, what puzzles him is why the Awakeners doesn't just come out and say so, since saying something would have avoided a lot of trouble.

Perhaps saying it has no effect?

Yue Yuan himself acted as a great Confucian scholar, debating the classics for the Awakeners.

"In my opinion," Yi Kai said, stroking his beard, "This kind of power that can make all of humanity dream is beyond our current understanding. Let's try our best to study it! If it really is the work of the Awakeners, then it shouldn't be a bad thing for us. As for the outcome, we'll only know when the Awakeners comes out, or when our dream comes to a conclusion."

"I think so too." Dai De stood up and paced around the room, saying, "Since the Chief has already experienced a dream advancement, the others will probably be close to it, just like before. And I want to emphasize that this is definitely some kind of guidance made by the Awakeners for us humans, because no other races in this star system have experienced this, which is the best proof."

It seems that Dai De is absolutely convinced that this was the work of the Awakeners. Indeed, if this happened somewhere in the Great Universe, he might have suspected that it was caused by some unknown mysterious object, mysterious phenomenon, or the Advanced Civilization Ruins. But this space was truly isolated from the Great Universe by the Awakeners, which means that other factors can be ruled out.

Now, these scientists have no better solutions than to try their best to study the situation and wait for the results. As Level Six Civilization, the Awakeners' technology is far too advanced for humanity. To understand the cause of dreams, humanity really has no good way to do anything except for the Awakeners themselves to come forward and explain.

And to put it bluntly, even if the Awakeners were to come out and clearly explain the principles behind the dreams we've been experiencing lately, we probably wouldn't understand the underlying reasons or the scientific principles involved.

Indeed, even among people today, there are still some who believe that the recent phenomenon of widespread dreaming is not a product of science!

The idea that everyone is having a dream is indeed a bit far-fetched; you could call it a fantasy nightmare, but it has absolutely nothing to do with magic or cultivation.

Yue Yuan, Yi Kai, Dai De then discussed the advancement of dreams for a while. Yue Yuan also inquired about the possible role of Life Science in this process, which was a discussion within their respective fields of expertise. After that, the conversation ended.

After the two left, Yue Yuan, now alone, didn't do anything and simply lay back down to rest. Meanwhile, under the control of the Strong Artificial Intelligence, soothing music began to play in the room.

Yue Yuan lay there with his eyes closed, resting.

Strangely enough, although he felt very tired, he didn't feel sleepy at all.

Time passed slowly, and after an unknown amount of time, Yue Yuan finally drifted off to sleep to the sound of soft music, but this time he did not dream.

After a rare dreamless night, Yue Yuan felt refreshed and full of energy when he woke up.

This situation also confirmed Yue Yuan's conjecture: dreams are related to mental state. The advanced dream the night before last was a great mental drain, and after the mind is severely depleted, one will stop dreaming.

Sure enough, after spending a day full of energy, he dreamed again that night. This time, the dream was about the universe, the starry sky, warships, spaceships, and that wonderful third-person 360-degree panoramic view.

After having such a dream, Yue Yuan's spirit was severely depleted again. However, this time he did not faint, but he was listless when he woke up the next day.

A few days after Yue Yuan experienced this, others began to experience the same thing. However, their performance seemed to be much worse than Yue Yuan's. Yue Yuan only fainted once, while the others would faint again after having the same dream, but the duration of each fainting spell was getting shorter and shorter.

This is similar to what happened in Yue Yuan's subsequent dreams.

Yue Yuan seemed to have surpassed all of humanity. Oh, and there was one other person in a similar situation to Yue Yuan: Lu Xiaofen. She was one of the people who, like Yue Yuan, inhaled that Red Gas on Callisto. Like Yue Yuan, she recovered from mental exhaustion extremely quickly, and she was the only one besides Yue Yuan who only fainted once in this dream.

This discovery excited the experts at the Academy of Academy of Life Sciences for quite some time, because now humans can basically confirm that the alien spaceship that crashed on Callisto was a creation of a Level 4 Civilization. However, judging from Yue Yuan and Lu Xiaofen's current dream, the Red Mist seems to be seriously incompatible with the technology of Level 4 Civilization.

The two individuals' performances were so striking; they recovered their Mental Power much faster than other humans, and their dream responses were almost identical, making it understandable that one might associate them with the Red Gas on Callisto.

In other words, the Red Gas that spaceship was likely not a creation of that civilization itself. It either came from an Interstellar Transaction Market or from the Civilization Ruins.

The idea that a Level 4 Civilization spaceship carrying artifacts from some Unknown Civilization crashed on Callisto makes one wonder, "A man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime." Perhaps there's an untold story behind that spaceship.

As time passed, the human dream continued, and Yue Yuan soon discovered that he was becoming more and more adept in this new dream. In fact, as time went on, he felt less and less tired after waking up.

The feeling was too obvious. Now Yue Yuan was 100% certain that the continuous dreams he had experienced recently were the work of the Awakeners, and that the Awakeners was helping humanity complete some kind of evolution. This evolution was achieved through dreams, and it seemed that this evolution was still ongoing. As for how long it would last, to what extent it would end, and what humanity would become after it ended, no one knew.

But it's not a bad thing no matter what.

At the same time, many people speculate that the reason why humanity has reached Level 4 Civilization but has not yet found the exit from space may be due to the Awakeners, and that reaching Level 4 Civilization is the condition left by the Awakeners that makes humanity dream.

Perhaps once the dream realm has evolved and humans possess certain abilities, they will naturally find a way out.