After the Great Extinction, the Insect Ape Race was still eking out an existence, shrinking into small local tribes, not everywhere. This made it convenient for Xu Zhi to secretly remodel the sandbox terrain a second time.
He chose a spot, poured in some Cow Dung Chicken Dung, added water, mixed in some withered branches and rotten leaves, and started to turn it into fertile, decaying mud. In the future, with microbial fermentation, it would generate biogas and completely become a sticky mud swamp.
He directly put the "Evil Eye" creature in there to survive.
There was no competition here.
Even if it was weak, it could still reproduce and survive in large numbers. He had already provided the environment for its development. As for the later stages, whether it could become the first unintelligent monster on this sandbox land, becoming an Evil Eye similar to those in the Cthulhu Mythos, would depend on itself.
As for failing, Xu Zhi wouldn't lose anything. He would just treat it as if a species had appeared out of thin air on this land. In fact, if it couldn't succeed, the possibility of its extinction was extremely high.
After all, its eyeballs accounted for two-thirds of its body size, supplying so much nutrition to the eyeballs, but if they didn't function, it would naturally be eliminated by other species. Nature was incredibly cruel.
The next morning, Xu Zhi continued to cross his legs leisurely, sitting in the yard eating an apple, amusing himself by telling a one-man comedy show:
"If you ask me, a person working behind closed doors is really useless. Other people really bring me surprises, like this kind of strange species, Big Eye Monster... Sometimes, I really hate myself for not being stupid enough to seem out of place with them. It's hard for me to evolve such bizarre species."
While he was joking, he looked at the small sandbox and was surprised to find that the entire small evolution sandbox was full!
It had reached the sandbox's population limit he had set, with one hundred Spores surviving and evolving inside.
The sandbox was set with a population limit of one hundred people.
One hundred people was very few. Xu Zhi hadn't planned to bring many people in to begin with, just as a casual, niche sandbox to give him inspiration.
It wasn't really for them to play games and entertain themselves, so why make it so big? But Xu Zhi didn't expect it to be so popular. In just one day, the sandbox server was full.
He was very curious, so he searched online and found that the earliest related post, which had ignited the internet, was a single post.
The post was titled: "Black Technology! The Strongest Realistic Simulation Game, Fully Realistic Touch, the Most Hardcore Casual Sandbox Game in Chinese Game History, Spore Evolution."
At first, everyone who read the content cursed it as clickbait. Where was there such an epoch-making masterpiece? Virtual Reality VR Technology, players who understood knew that it was just a gimmick, and the technology was far from mature.
But despite the cursing, there were still people willing to try it out. One after another, people logged in, and then it completely exploded.
They came back and left messages under the post:
"It's real! It's too scary, it really has touch! What kind of alien technology is this! I'm blown away!"
A group of people cursed underneath, saying they were shills.
Then some people couldn't help but test it, and as a result, they were also captured, never to return. This cycle continued, and soon, players began to post screenshots of the game, as well as the bizarre and failed creatures they had evolved, completely igniting everyone's interest. But soon someone discovered that only one hundred internal beta accounts could be registered, and no more could log into the game.
"There are only one hundred internal testers."
Countless people were heartbroken, envious, and jealous.
A group of first-test players who had successfully logged in secretly rejoiced, extremely excited.
They had been staying up all night since last night, frantically playing this epoch-making game. Early this morning, the first Spore Evolution game guide and internal test impressions were posted and pinned to the homepage of the game forum.
"Hello everyone, I'm 'Mount Akina Speed'. I also posted the previous post. I'm very lucky. I was the first to discover this epoch-making game without any promotion. Now, I'm going to do a simple game review! First of all, the point that everyone is most concerned about, is it really a practical five senses? My answer is, yes! The realism is definitely not fake! I guarantee it with my personality. It's like truly being in a second world. I don't know what kind of Black Technology it is.
There's also pain adjustment. I adjusted it to 100%, and as a result, I found that the feeling of death was so great, so great that I twitched! In reality, when I took off the VR glasses, my whole body was covered in cold sweat and I was trembling and spasming.
I never plan to try it again in my life. This is the first terrifying aspect of this game. Players, please pay attention. I'm going to talk about a few more terrifying aspects below, and I'm going to strongly dissuade you! First of all, this game is a sandbox survival casual game. It's called casual, but it's actually extremely hardcore. When you first log into the game, there's no character customization, no race selection like other traditional online games. There's only one option: to start the life of a Spore. You might not believe it, but when you enter the game world, it's all black. You have to evolve your eyes to see the world. It's so damn real!
(Inner thoughts: When I saw this scene, I already realized that this free sandbox game, which claims to be the first choice for casual players, is not simple.) In the game, we are a Spore, the leader of a race, and we can control the evolution of our race. But if the "king" we control dies, it doesn't matter how many members there are in the race, we will exit the game.
It's worth mentioning that the virtual reality of this game is very terrifying. Whatever creature you evolve into, you will have the real feelings of that creature. For example, if you become an insect, you will have all the feelings of an insect!
The first species I evolved into was a Big Eye Monster, with super big eyes. I found that my perspective was also very big, the super big kind. The second time, I evolved compound eyes, eight pairs of eyes. Guess what I saw? The world of compound eyes! It's so damn real!
It's just too awesome!
In this game, we can completely experience the world and perception of other species. I think if I can evolve into a Dragon, I will definitely be able to fly and experience the joy of becoming a Dragon, soaring through the clouds.
But the longest I've lasted so far is only evolving into an amphibian, a strange Big Eye Monster that left the ocean, and didn't even last five hours of game time.
And, once you die in this game, you can only create a new account.
Yes! This is the second hardcore dissuasion point!
Unlike other games, where death has a respawn point, you only have one life. Death can only create a new account and be reborn! You turn back into a Spore, and all the 'levels' and 'structures' you evolved before are gone! It's too damn hardcore. It doesn't even have the traditional setting of loading a save to start over! It goes its own way and doesn't consider the player's attrition rate at all!"
The third hardcore aspect is that this game has no so-called strategy guides at all!
Don't expect me to write a strategy guide either. I once tried to evolve into a Big Eye Monster again according to the previous method, but I evolved into other species, which is the one with compound eyes—this completely conforms to the view of evolution, that the appearance of any life in evolutionary history is a unique miracle.
"Even if you follow the exact same environment and process, a slight butterfly effect might lead to a completely different species. Although I don't know how it's designed, this game really feels like a real evolutionary world, with real materials and infinite possibilities!"
"Moreover, this game's setting is quite interesting. Beside the mountains, rivers, and oceans where we spores live, there dwells a vast, immeasurable giant shrouded in hazy divine light. We evolve at the entrance to the giant's courtyard. He often sits on a wooden chair in front of a huge house, peeling fruit and quietly reading. We evolving spore creatures can even sneak close to him, even climb on him. Once, I was a Big Eye Monster and wanted to get close to look at him, but he stepped on my 'king' and I was forced out of the game. A bunch of my Big Eye Monster subordinates were left there. Without my control, they should be extinct now.
I personally guess that he is probably a background character in the sandbox game!
Maybe he's invincible in the setting, or maybe he's a BOSS. We can evolve into the strongest species and challenge him later. Anyway, it's especially interesting. We're like insects evolving in the giant's courtyard. In conclusion, this game is the most hardcore in history! All kinds of hardcore! It's too off-putting! But it's also too fun!
High degree of freedom, infinite possibilities, 100% virtual tactile sensation, it feels like a real world, so fun it's bursting! I'm directly hyping it up!
Honestly, my current goal is to survive for a long time, escape the fate of constant death and re-rolling, evolve into a powerful species that can completely stand firm in the entire ecosystem, and even evolve into a overlord at the top of the food chain! Then I want to evolve into the legendary Dragon, develop into the Dragon Race, isn't that every Chinese person's dream! So exciting, and then I'll fly to the person peeling apples in that courtyard and poop on his head!! So exciting, I feel like I've reached the peak of my life! As for walkthroughs, there really aren't any, brothers! If you want to play, go read more Origin of Species, all kinds of professional books, knowledge is power! I was able to evolve various organs after reading them. Students studying related biological majors, you're amazing in this Spore Evolution game! I won't say more, I just played a game for too long and got a headache, so I came out to write a walkthrough. Now I'm going in to play another round. This time, I'll definitely live a little longer, it's addictive!"
Poop on my head? Xu Zhi smiled slightly when he saw this. Do you know what pitiful end those species who dared to provoke me like that and called me bald are in now?! Xu Zhi silently noted this debt in his little notebook. This brother, we'll settle this account later. He completely forgot that he had just mocked people for being mentally retarded, this is at most a matter of reciprocity.
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