65 million years ago, at the edge of the Solar System, X Power Station
Tesla and Maria's consciousnesses had fused together. More precisely, the two of them were sharing Maria's brain.
Ultimately, language was just a "simulated" signal. Only when two consciousnesses were "entangled" could they truly communicate without barriers.
The first thing they thought of was still how to preserve the Venusians' genetic material.
With its two 180,000-kilometer-long cables crossing one another, X Power Station could absorb the energy of incoming superluminal waves and convert the resulting heat into electricity.
The station's electricity supply was virtually inexhaustible. Preserving the genetic material and keeping it active for a relatively long time shouldn't be a problem.
It would take ten million years for Earth's oxygen levels to recover to above 20 percent. Maria couldn't wait that long. Who could help the Venusians "come back to life" by then?
Tesla and Maria's plan was called "Rebirth Across the Ages"!
Even if the Venusians' genetic material could be preserved for tens of millions of years, there would be no way to bring it back to Earth and clone them one by one, as if matching each person to a corresponding slot.
According to Maria's earlier calculations, after the explosive proliferation of mammals on Earth, the odds of advanced intelligent life evolving naturally were infinitesimal.
Maria had studied how the Venusians came into being. At first, she had believed the evolutionary hypothesis proposed by Venus's leading biologist. But as her genetic research advanced, she came to realize that biological evolution was the transmission and alteration of genotypes from one generation to the next, not the gradual changes caused by adapting to the environment described by evolutionary theory.
Put simply, ape genes could only produce apes. The transformation of apes into Homo sapiens was caused