Another Simulation

Golden sunlight streamed in. Su Qi picked up his phone and checked the time. After confirming that the simulation time had refreshed, he said, "Begin the simulation!"

At your will, the simulation began once more...

'Prehistoric Civilization'... Simulation continuing!

As the prompt sounded, Su Qi's vision blurred.

Lush, leafy trees, constantly chirping birds and beasts, and Adan, Hawa, and the others praying beneath the open sky.

His body had been aching faintly every moment because of the cancer, but the sensation vanished the instant he entered the simulation.

And at that moment, he was floating in midair!

During simulations, he could descend in any form he imagined. Aside from making himself intangible so that people could not see him, things like floating were nothing difficult.

Of course, none of that changed the fact that although Adan and the others called him a god, he did not possess the power of one, so...

"I need to be careful from here on out. I absolutely cannot reveal any flaws!"

What happened afterward would definitely be turned into a movie and uploaded by the system. If he exposed anything unusual and people all over the world saw through him in the movie, he would truly be finished!

Dozens of meters above the ground, Su Qi looked down at Adan and the others, who were praying for him to descend and bless them, and frowned slightly.

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"I'm not actually a god. How could I possibly have the power to bless them?"

"Oh God... Beasts and cold assail us. Please bless us and help us. Help Your son..."

Adan shouted urgently.

Adan, the ancestor of humanity who believed himself to be a Child of God, sought the help of the Heavenly Father, the god, praying for his father as a god to help him as a son...

A prompt sounded.

Son...

Su Qi froze.

While you were distracted, Adan and the others gradually became anxious after waiting so long without you descending.

There was an altar in the center of the clearing, upon which lay several dead beasts. Adan and the others knelt before it.

Gobil, Adan and Hawa's eldest son, who knelt behind them, slowly began to look hesitant.

Though he had never seen a god, he had heard his father and mother speak of gods over the years. Influenced by what he heard and saw, he naturally felt curious about the mysterious, unquestionable god.

But after waiting so long without a response, he could not help but wonder.

Did God really exist?

His younger brother Habil, kneeling beside him, was different. His face was full of anxiety and fear.

"Because they committed sins, God is unwilling to forgive Father and Mother?"

He believed that God existed. God's failure to descend might simply have been because of the wrongs his father and mother had committed.

Time slowly passed, and despair gradually crept across Adan's face.

At that moment.

Su Qi, floating in the air, also came back to his senses. Looking at Adan, who was close to despair, he could not help shaking his head.

He had more or less thought of a solution to what Adan wanted: fire.

But how was he supposed to explain the principle of heat generated by friction to Adan?

Although his current higher-dimensional state allowed him to communicate telepathically, explaining too much would still be troublesome.

Still, looking at Adan and the others, who were about to lose all hope, Su Qi felt that he should stabilize them first and perform a little miracle.

He began imagining rays of light appearing nearby.

Hawa and the others, who had been in such despair that they thought God had abandoned them, suddenly froze, then cried out uncontrollably in unison.

Strands of holy radiance flickered across the sky overhead, mingling with the golden sunlight. Sacred and dazzling, they resembled an aurora, yet also seemed like the sun descending upon the world.

"A Divine Miracle!"

Cries of alarm rang out.

"God..." Gobil, the eldest son, was utterly stunned.

God truly existed!

Though God had not appeared, this Divine Miracle alone was enough to prove everything!

Habil was equally shocked.

Looking at the brilliant, multicolored light, he could not help fantasizing. Subconsciously, he looked toward the sun higher above.

"Could that sun be God's incarnation? Does God shine upon us and watch over us every day, giving us warmth?"

While they were still stunned, Su Qi in the sky began to worry.

How should he tell them?

You fell into distress, but it did not stump you, because you discovered that besides telepathic communication, you could also transmit information through your mind. You gradually became smug and complacent...

Su Qi: "..."

Smug and complacent, my ass!

Still, although the narration made him want to complain, it did remind him of something.

With that thought, Su Qi recalled his knowledge of heat generated by friction, as well as his memories of making fire by drilling wood and striking stones. Then, just as he had communicated telepathically, he tried transmitting the information to Adan and Hawa.

The next moment, Adan and Hawa, standing at the very front, felt as though a flash of white light had appeared in their minds. Their entire bodies seemed bathed in radiance, and they felt incomparably close to God.

Then, in an instant, a jumble of inexplicable images and knowledge flooded into their minds.

"This is..."

The two merely glanced through the memories before they were instantly stunned by the knowledge within.

Friction between objects could produce heat?

Making fire by drilling wood?

Making fire by striking stones?

Fire?

As they examined the image-memories concerning fire, the two became increasingly shocked.

A divine object!

This was absolutely a divine object!

A divine object bestowed upon humanity by God!

Adan and Hawa were deeply moved.

Gobil and the others looked utterly confused. They stared at their excited father and mother, unable to understand what had happened or why they had become so emotional.

At that moment, the radiance in the sky gradually faded away, as though God had departed.

Only after waiting for quite a while did everyone rise.

"Father, Mother, what happened?" Gobil, the eldest son, hurriedly asked.

Hawa and Adan exchanged a glance and smiled together. Then, beneath everyone's puzzled gazes, they began searching the mountain for things.

Relying on the knowledge in their minds, they found some flint on the mountain, as well as leaves and other flammable materials. Then, under their children's puzzled stares, they began striking two stones together.

Bang! Bang!

Sparks flew everywhere!

"Ah..." The sight startled Gobil and the others.

The sparks fell onto the leaves, immediately scorching several black spots into them as faint wisps of smoke emerged.

As they continued striking the flint, more and more sparks fell. Thick smoke gradually rose, and then a cluster of orange-red flames flared up.

Gobil and the others repeatedly backed away, their faces filled with terror.

"Father, Mother, what is that?" Habil asked in panic.

"This is fire!" Hawa's face was full of reverence. Then she explained, "This is the divine object God bestowed upon us during the ritual just now..."

The more she explained, the more astonished Gobil and the others became. Especially after personally experiencing fire, they were utterly shocked.

Adan, Hawa, and their children all believed that this was something God had specifically bestowed upon humanity. Otherwise, how could such a wondrous, flickering thing that brought light and heat exist in the world, much less be mastered by humans?

They believed that God had taken pity on them, which was why fire had appeared in the world.

Listening to the prompt, Su Qi's mouth twitched slightly as he marveled at their imagination.

Darkness shrouded the land, and night soon arrived.

Because of the cold and the beasts, everyone had long since crowded into the cave. Now, they stared in shock toward the cave entrance.

A fire burned at the entrance. Its light drove away the darkness and made the fierce beasts with their glowing green eyes lurking in the dark hesitate to approach.

Rustling sounds continued to ring out, but they simply did not dare come closer.

"Is this God's power?" Habil murmured.

At that moment, nothing remained on his face but reverence.

He was not the only one. The others were no better off, all of them wearing expressions of shock and worship.

The image of God as omnipotent began to take shape in their hearts.

Even the fire God had bestowed possessed such power. It was difficult to imagine just how mighty God himself was.

The prompt continued.

Fire drove away the cold and the beasts. While bringing warmth to humanity, it also allowed them to eat cooked food.

An animal that died in the fire allowed Adan and the others to discover the deliciousness of cooked food.

Before long, the scenery flashed past rapidly once more.

Another hundred years passed. The cave gradually could no longer hold them all, and they began moving away.

Su Qi watched Adan and the others leave the cave. With fire and the stone tools they had invented, they settled across a large area of the mountain.

During this process, they also learned how to build houses.

Once their lives had become somewhat stable, Adan suddenly smiled and said to his sons, "To show our reverence for God, why don't we build a tall altar on the mountaintop?"

"What should it look like?" Habil asked doubtfully.

"Let me think..." Adan fell into deep thought.

Not only did he wish to express reverence for God, but he also felt a certain yearning toward him. So he thought for a long time, only coming up with a satisfactory answer at noon three days later.

That day, he gathered his sons and said to them, "Since God lives upon a high mountain, and there are four rivers on that mountain, then to commemorate God, let us build an altar shaped like a high mountain, with four sides!"

Naturally, Hawa, Gobil, and the others had no objections. They were all filled with reverence for God and naturally did not mind doing more for him.

They began building the altar atop the mountain.

Su Qi found the sight somewhat amusing. He shook his head and did not pay much attention to it.

Yet as the structure gradually took shape, he froze.

It was square, rising upward layer by layer...

It was actually a Pyramid!

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