The bustling, majestic stone houses resembled palaces, vast and magnificent beyond sight. An enormous residential complex formed a beautiful, pristine tableau across the earth, with gigantic lifeforms occasionally walking through it.
Most of them were humanoid as well.
They had flesh and blood, but their faces were long and narrow, their skulls enormous. Some appeared stiff and eerie, like ancient primitive apes.
After all, they were the first intelligent beings. By comparison with the evolutionary history of humans on a planet, they could be called early apemen.
Yet unlike the Old Lifeforms, they had possessed sufficient intelligence from the earliest days of their civilization. They were powerful and clever.
It was difficult to imagine what they would develop into in the future.
They had been as powerful as gods from the moment they appeared.
Ring, ring, ring! The bustling yet anciently elegant bronze streets were filled with people dressed in wrinkled copper-hide clothing.
They came and went, wearing metal-cloth garments kneaded into all manner of folds, with elaborate necklaces, bells, ornaments, and bracelets hanging from their bodies.
They were adorned from head to toe.
For primitive beings like them, ordinary tribespeople seemed to have entered a long period of solitude apart from cultivation. In their spare time, they had also become fascinated with sculpting ancient bronze artifacts.
"I heard those fungi are quite interesting. A civilization of bacteria?"
"Not sure."
"Hehe, they're just weak."
"Everything is relative. When the disparity in size far exceeds the difference in energy level, what can they possibly do?"
"It's like a tiny fungus with sharp teeth. Could it hurt you? A single one of our cells is as vast to them as a continent. Destroying one of our cells would already be difficult for them; completely destroying one of your palms would be even