"Uh..."
Hearing Halsey's explanation, William couldn't help sighing. "Could it be that the Ancient Humans were like those experimental pigeons?
"Or...
"Could it be that the Ancient Humans had received gifts from a higher civilization, and thus worshiped those 'gods'?"
"Possibly." Halsey shrugged indifferently.
She continued, "Skinner selected the hardest-working pigeon out of the eight for individual observation.
"He extended the interval between food drops to one minute, and something interesting happened.
"That hardworking pigeon actually created a specific dance to worship the 'god' created by Skinner.
"Since it could create something, Skinner wanted to try destroying something as well, to see how long the pigeon would continue its worship.
"So, no matter how hard the pigeon worked, Skinner stopped feeding it.
"In the end, the pigeon repeated the dance more than ten thousand times before finally giving up on the meaningless action.
"'Superstition' had been broken.
"It abandoned its reverence for that god."
"Hmm..."
William raised a hand to rub his chin and speculated, "It feels like the Ancient Humans always maintained reverence for the gods.
"Yet in modern times, people gradually began to believe that gods were merely fictional creations."
"Hehe~" Halsey smiled faintly and said,
"Of course, Skinner's experiment was merely meant to prove that human behavior could be controlled.
"Compared to gods, I agree more with what you just said about higher civilizations, Boss.
"They might be civilizations that developed rapidly on Earth, or they might have come from other planets.
"After all, based on current technology, the universe has existed for fourteen billion years, while the Solar System is merely a 'youngster' at four-point-six billion years old.
"The universe is vast and boundless.
"So humans cannot foolishly assume that they are the only existence.
"Besides, I also believe that NASA's Pioneer and Voyager programs will