Raising Humanity
Chapter 19

Leisurely Daily Life in the Yard

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"My orchard finally has modern appliances."

Xu Zhi sat in the yard of his orchard. The washing machine next to him stopped with a thud. He silently took out the clothes, hung them one by one on the nearby rope, then sat back in the chair at the door, took out an apple, and began to peel it with a knife.

"Insect Nest Sub-Brain, are you saying that someone has already started entering the sandbox?" Xu Zhi looked at the small pond in front of him, the water clear.

Even if they came in, Xu Zhi couldn't see them, after all, they were still in the form of spores, single-celled organisms.

In this sandbox, countless spores would begin to evolve simultaneously, and the players would become one of those spores, competing with other naturally evolving spore species, with the fittest surviving.

"What if they quit the game midway?" Xu Zhi asked.

The Insect Nest Sub-Brain explained, "The spores will evolve autonomously, but without the influence of the player's consciousness. When they return to the game, they may no longer recognize themselves, because they are evolving every second."

Xu Zhi didn't care.

It was just a casual sandbox game anyway.

It was only natural to go AFK or quit the game if something came up.

After all, if one game went wrong, they could always play another. Controlling what species they evolved into, wasn't that fun?

In reality, two or three days for a game was for hardcore players.

The average player would probably go extinct in a few hours. After all, without a relatively hardcore knowledge of biological evolution theory, they probably wouldn't evolve into a normal species and would be eliminated by other evolving species in nature.

"Wait for them to breed unique potential species, then plagiarize their species achievements."

Xu Zhi smiled triumphantly, acting like a backstage profiteer, and then said, "I think the Insect Apes I created will be stronger than most species. Their species shouldn't be stronger than mine."

The Insect Nest Sub-Brain said, "Man-made genetic creatures don't have as high potential as species that evolve naturally."

Meaning, they might be better than me? Xu Zhi was stunned, then exhaled, "Then we'll wait and see. I hope these players can create new species and throw them into the big sandbox to compete with the Insect Ape race I created."

Come on, new species! Xu Zhi was full of anticipation.

He studied it for a while and found that the player wasn't making any big moves and was still exploring, which was a bit disappointing. He could only look at the development of the big sandbox.

In fact, after the third great flood extinction, it was still in a state of disrepair. It would be difficult to recover in less than two or three hundred years, and there wasn't much change.

After the fall of the Sumerian Civilization, Utanapishtim was a benevolent leader. He took over the fate of the fallen country and led the people to reproduce on the land that had been flooded.

He rebuilt the tribe on the old site of Mesopotamia.

A day passed, and it was already more than a hundred years later. His grandson, named Ishbi-Erra, this new leader began to possess the ambition and talent of a leader, and named his tribe: the Babylon Tribe.

Babylon.

This tribe name had extremely far-reaching significance in later generations.

The era of the Sumerians had passed, that was a fleeting ancient and brilliant civilization led by the epic hero Gilgamesh, and in the future, it would belong to the everlasting glory of the ancient Babylon wizard kingdom.

In the room.

Chen Wenshan had already discovered the horror of this game.

He died countless times, reproduced generation after generation, and finally evolved eyes, and then grew a mouth and began to eat plankton, but soon went extinct.

Because the eyes he evolved were too weak, he often couldn't see the enemy and was ambushed and eaten to extinction.

"This is too hardcore!"

He opened his mouth wide, silently put down the VR glasses, and couldn't help but try several more times, but he cooled down halfway through the evolution.

But the realistic tactile sensation, the fully virtual black technology screen, and the infinite possibilities of biological evolution forced him to keep playing. It was too interesting, too fun.

"Extinct again! Eyes, it must be that my eyes are too small! I don't believe I can't evolve beautiful big eyes!"

He was very angry, and a surge of anger welled up in his heart.

To this end, he even went to the school library to look for biological materials. Fortunately, his English was good, and he opened a very hardcore foreign book on evolutionary biology.

The people around the dormitory were very strange.

This Chen Wenshan was a rich game otaku who had a high-end computer worth 17,000 yuan in the dormitory to play games like crazy. Why did he suddenly fall in love with learning, and the most profound biological genetics?

Half a day later, Chen Wenshan studied the basic theory of evolution, and after falling several times, he successfully evolved a species that could barely survive.

In order to better grab food, he grew countless disgusting and sticky tentacles. In order to satisfy his wish, he specially evolved a super-large Evil Eye.

His appearance was that of countless viscous tentacles surrounding a giant single eye, with a cherry-like mouth filled with sharp fangs below.

"Hahaha, I finally succeeded, such a big eyeball, hahaha!"

Chen Wenshan was filled with a sense of accomplishment as he controlled his tentacled, strange creature to climb ashore, instantly overwhelmed by shock. "This is, such beautiful mountains and rivers, such a vast and real land! I have finally become an amphibian! 70-plus G, this scene is indeed worth the price, so beautiful! I will control my race to explore the land and dominate the world! The world is mine!!"

On the other side.

Xu Zhi sat at the entrance of the courtyard, munching on an apple, basking in the sun in a rocking chair, watching the bizarre creature climbing ashore in the distance, and was immediately dumbfounded.

"What kind of freakish species is this? Are you kidding me? A naturally evolved species could never evolve into something so strangely shaped. The eye is terrifyingly large, taking up two-thirds of its body. How deep is his resentment towards growing eyes? How much does it desire to see the world?"

According to the theory of evolution, a species that chooses to spend most of its nutrition to evolve a useless eyeball that takes up two-thirds of its body will definitely be eliminated by nature. This is a failed species that doesn't conform to the theory of evolution! "I knew it was unreliable."

Xu Zhi chuckled and took another bite of the apple. "A big eyeball, surrounded by viscous tentacles, truly a bizarre species, ugly as hell, basically a defective product made for fun... Wait, this shape, doesn't it look like the Evil Eye of the monsters in mythology?"

He suddenly found it very interesting.

"Hey!"

At this moment, a "dong, dong, dong" sound came from the door. It was the girl Chen Xi. "Open the door, I'm here to deliver food."

"Opening the door now."

He was enjoying watching other people evolve their species when he came back to his senses, stood up, and quickly walked to the door, accidentally stepping on the Evil Eye monster.

Pa-ta! It turned into a pile of mush.

"Hesitation leads to defeat."

In Chen Wenshan's eyes, the words "Failure" appeared again. "You have exited the game, please try again."

???

He was instantly dumbfounded! I was evolving so well, finally becoming a decent species, leaving the ocean of the origin of species, just climbed ashore to rule the world, and now I'm suddenly gone? I was actually stepped on and killed?

Hey!!

You dog of a game planner, get out here!

"Oh, you're here again." At this time, Xu Zhi opened the door and found that the girl Chen Xi had brought delicious meals and food again.

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