"Come on, let's take a closer look at the ecosystem here, and check out those little things while we're at it."
Watching the Aliens control the spaceship without pressing anything, the netizens were astonished.
"A mind-controlled spaceship?" Professor Chen exclaimed in surprise.
His gaze instinctively shifted to the things worn on the Aliens' heads.
Then, the netizens watched them fly toward Earth's landmass, while every word they said came through clearly.
"Gold?"
"These people came to Earth for gold?"
They were puzzled and suspicious.
A netizen named 316 asked, "It's just gold. Is it really that rare?"
"You don't understand. Gold is practically a nonrenewable resource. I heard it can only be produced by neutron star explosions. Even Earth's gold wasn't formed naturally," a middle-aged man commented.
"But I heard gold can be artificially transmuted and manufactured, right?"
"It can, but producing even a tiny amount of gold consumes an astronomical amount of energy. It's simply not worth it. Why bother when mining it is practically free and so much easier?" the middle-aged man replied.
Old Wang Next Door retorted, "With Alien technology, could they really be unable to make it?"
Seeing that Old Wang Next Door, the habitual contrarian, had appeared, Goody-Goody Rabbit immediately replied disdainfully, "How do you know their technology didn't develop in the wrong direction? Just because we can do something, does that mean they definitely can too?"
"Besides, the cost of manufacturing gold is enormous. Judging by their situation, they definitely need no small amount of it. How do you know they wouldn't lose money?"
"There's so much gold on Earth. They can just dig some up. Wouldn't that be simpler?"
"Hmph!" Old Wang Next Door snorted dismissively, convinced that this was nothing but twisted logic.
As they argued, the footage continued.
Those people landed beside a barren mountain. After getting off the spaceship, they actually...
Flew!
"What kind of technology is that?"
Looking at the belts worn by the Aliens, everyone could not help but be shocked.
The ability to fly through the air? Antigravity technology?
The netizens speculated endlessly.
The footage continued. The Aliens arrived at the barren mountain, and after confirming that it contained a gold mine, they sent out a large number of robots to dig.
As they dug, Farouk said, "How about we enslave those inferior creatures and have them mine for us?"
"That's a good idea!"
"Sure!"
The viewers were completely stunned.
Afterward, the Aliens arrived at the entrance of a tribe of a thousand people. With lofty, superior attitudes, they admired the prehistoric humans. After a conflict broke out between the two sides, they actually took out an Energy Weapon and easily subdued the tribe.
Watching the Aliens drive the prehistoric humans to mine, the intense immersion created by the incredibly realistic footage made the netizens uncomfortable.
"Isn't this going too far?"
After seeing this, Brave Niu Niu replied, "The weak get beaten. Isn't that a truth that has held since ancient times? Didn't we go through the same thing before?"
Brave Niu Niu's words immediately shook the netizens, and some even fell into deep thought.
"If modern-day us ever encountered Aliens, our fate probably wouldn't be much better."
"We could only hope they had a sudden attack of kindness, or that they were weaker than us. Otherwise, it would be just like the scene in this footage—perhaps with an even worse ending!" Brave Niu Niu commented.
Hearing this, everyone immediately felt powerless.
If something like this happened in the real world, what could they do?
They felt fortunate that the Aliens had not appeared in the real world. Otherwise...
The footage continued. At noon, in the tribe, Natalie calmly asked Meng, "How long has your tribe been developing here?"
"Over two hundred years, I suppose. I remember that back then, the chief and the others and I migrated here from a plain."
A female Alien with a gentler-looking face asked, "How old are you?"
"Almost three hundred, I think."
"What did you say? Three hundred?"
Startled voices rang out one after another.
Seeing these Aliens, who had always been so proud, now reveal shocked expressions, the netizens felt secretly delighted.
"The Tree of Life's fruit is awesome! Hahaha..."
"The Aliens have finally seen something they don't have. Now they're shocked, huh?"
The feeling of gaining an advantage over these lofty Aliens filled them with secret satisfaction.
Of course, they also knew that it was all thanks to the divine tree.
At the same time, they were also filled with longing for that divine tree that could increase one's lifespan.
"If only the Tree of Life existed in reality," someone sighed.
"Are you dreaming up there? How could something that unscientific possibly exist in real life? Hahaha..."
"Uh, you're right..."
At that moment, the alien Tim asked, "How old is your oldest person?"
Meng replied, thinking his answer was perfectly reasonable, "Over eight hundred years old, I guess."
Natalie screamed, "Impossible! Even with technology as advanced as ours, we can only live five or six hundred years at most. How could you live that long?"
The netizens were stunned again.
Aside from being shocked that they could live for five or six hundred years, they realized something else.
"Looks like the Tree of Life is even more broken than we thought."
Everyone sighed.
After some argument, Natalie took Meng's blood and entered the laboratory with the others.
A dozen or so minutes later, cries of alarm reached the netizens' ears.
"Something's wrong!"
"Meng wasn't lying?" Natalie's face darkened. "The theoretical lifespan of those lowly creatures really is over eight hundred years?"
As she spoke, her face was full of unwillingness.
Driven by that unwillingness, they began comparing him with other animals. While they busied themselves, the netizens also began discussing something.
"Has anyone noticed that prehistoric humans' lifespans seem to have become a bit shorter?"
"You mean...?"
"Based on Meng's account and these aliens' experiments, if it isn't just a coincidence, I suspect the Divine Fruit's effects may have weakened with each generation!"
"This..."
Everyone was rather surprised upon hearing that.
At that moment, Natalie said excitedly, "Why can they live even longer than us? This isn't normal! They're just lowly creatures—how could they compare to us!"
Countless people watched with secret delight.
Farouk said, "Since we can't discover anything new through research, why don't we go to that native tribe and look for clues? Maybe we'll find something."
"You're right."
"Alright..."
The same place, the same people.
The netizens watched as they questioned Meng about his ancestors, and in the end, Meng spoke words that left them astonished.
An astonishing legend about God.
Meng slowly explained.
"In our tribe's ancient legends, at the very beginning of the world, there was only emptiness. Within that emptiness, only the one true God existed."
"No one knew how long passed, but the omnipotent God, who knew everything, was not satisfied with the status quo, so He created all things."
"After creating all things, God felt that the world was somewhat too quiet, so He created the ancestors of mankind, Adan and Hawa!"
As Meng explained, the more than one billion netizens were left utterly dumbfounded.
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