The Scientific History of Life's Writing

Whether it was the inability to create living life or simply having his brain caught in a door, for Huang Si, these were merely minor ripples in his daily life that failed to stir up any real waves.

He wrote a line on a piece of paper as the title for today's diary, which was also a question he had begun to ponder:

"What exactly are the properties of mental power, and can it be further developed?"

The Creation Book gave him no answer to this question; he could only explore it himself.

First, mental power was a reflection of soul strength, and the mental field was the external manifestation of the soul's essential power under the control of consciousness. This was instinctive knowledge brought to him by the Creation Book.

Then, through his own exploration, Huang Si discovered that mental power could be penetrated, sliced, and dispersed by storms. Consequently, he found a way to actively thin out and diffuse his mental power, thereby making his soul more powerful in terms of active expansion, which led him to enter the "Domain" level.

In this process, he also discovered another property of mental power: if there was external energy to pull it, it could diffuse over a much wider range. For example, under normal circumstances, his consciousness could not touch the Ring, but it could when the wind blew.

"Energy," Huang Si wrote this word on the paper and fell into thought.

Apart from that unknown energy like the storm, he had not yet discovered any other energy that could allow his mental field to radiate further.

No, that wasn't right. Huang Si thought for a moment and wrote two more words on the side: "metal," "magnetic field."

These two things had interfered with his mind early on when his soul was still very weak.

At that time, Huang Si discovered that metal carried a magnetic field, making it difficult for his mind to penetrate, so he mostly had to bypass it.

A magnetic field is a field, and a mental field is also a field. Could it be?

By this time, the storm had long since ceased. Huang Si stood at the main entrance, opened the door, and reached his hand toward the surface of the Dark Space.

His consciousness was still in pain, and his mental power could only radiate about 5 meters around him, so his creation range was very short.

Huang Si could not use his mental power now; he could only use hand gestures to focus his attention, pointing remotely at a spot 5 meters away in the Dark Space.

After sketching the desired object in his mind, his Creation Power condensed instantly, and a large electromagnetic coil appeared in the Dark Space five meters away.

Then he made a battery pack and several cables, connecting them together.

Once any object entered the Dark Space, it would no longer emit any sound or light. Huang Si could only sense through his consciousness that the electromagnetic coil had begun to operate; even this sensation was a bit blurry due to his injured soul.

A magnetic field appeared around the coil.

Huang Si stood at the doorway, quietly experiencing the effect of the magnetic field on his mind.

"Interference and attraction?" Compared to Huang Si's soul, the energy of the magnetic field was too weak, but he still felt that the magnetic field did indeed have an effect on the mental field; its main functions were attraction and slight disturbance.

In other words, if a magnetic field overlapped with a mental field, it could make the mental field more condensed.

Huang Si shook his head; this was not the effect he wanted.

He didn't know if a stronger magnetic field would have a stronger effect, but he felt that the condensation of the mental field was not as useful as its diffusion.

Huang Si could guess the significance of condensing a mental field; it was nothing more than using it for defense and attack.

But the problem was, there was currently nothing that required him to use his mind for defense or attack, except for the storm, that energy of unknown origin.

So, he needed to set up a large magnetic coil outside the house just to make his mind more condensed during a storm? Huang Si felt that was too silly, and it wouldn't provide any training effect.

Most importantly, what did he need to condense for? What he wanted was multitasking, long-distance control, and a way to use his mind to reach other worlds.

Unable to research anything, Huang Si threw the electromagnetic coil away.

December 2024.

Huang Si rested his chin on his hand, lying on the sofa, watching the large display in the living room.

It was playing the camera feed from the Biology Department in the Green World.

Now, the ground base in the Green World was fully networked and managed by the intelligent assistant Xiao Ke. Under Huang Si's instruction, countless native animals had been captured alive by small robots.

And now, what appeared on the screen was the scene inside one of the laboratories.

A creature resembling a plesiosaur was struggling frantically in a sealed room with steel walls. At this moment, high-power, high-energy rays were striking its body, causing massive damage to its cells.

Although this destruction was invisible, the plesiosaur-like animal seemed to vaguely sense the danger, letting out roars while frantically clawing at the door, trying to break out.

But using flesh to fight steel was useless, and the high-energy rays continued to penetrate its body.

It was foreseeable that after this plesiosaur was released, it would likely die from radiation sickness.

Even if it didn't die from acute illness, it would suffer from cancer because the radiation had destroyed the cells within it.

However, at the same time, the genetic cells within its body might have been altered.

As for whether this change was beneficial or harmful, they would only know after the small robots extracted all its genetic cells for breeding.

Simply put, this experiment used radiation to accelerate the mutation rate of the species.

Compared to the slow mutation and slow elimination of the natural world, the efficiency here could be over ten thousand times higher.

Huang Si watched silently, moving from one laboratory to another.

Besides the plesiosaur-like animal from earlier, there were sheep, pigs, rats, wolves, eagles, and apes.

Huang Si watched the ape experimental base for a long time.

There were over 50 apes kept there, which was only a portion of the ape population at the base, and these were already the third generation of experimental subjects.

The screening process for the subjects was also cruel. If they were ordinary individuals, they would be discarded directly. If they developed mutations, they were evaluated based on whether the direction of the mutation was good or bad. Those worse than the ordinary species were abandoned after a period of observation, while those that improved, especially those showing abnormalities in intelligence, were selected and kept.

Currently, Huang Si had too little biological technical data on hand, Xiao Ke only possessed decision-making capabilities without creativity, and the small robots were merely tools, not humans. This meant that apart from Huang Si himself, no one could conduct high-end, sophisticated scientific research.

Therefore, under Xiao Ke's control, they could only adopt the simplest and most brutal method of research: using high-energy radiation to directly catalyze genetic mutations in organisms, trading a high rate of death and elimination for an increased mutation rate.

In the Green World's surface base, cameras were everywhere, and Huang Si held the highest control over all facilities within the base, with authority even higher than Xiao Ke, the intelligent assistant. He adjusted the angles of the cameras, attempting to find a glimmer of intelligence on the faces of the apes.

However, he found none.

The apes were making a ruckus in their cages. Huang Si simply watched, observing for a long time before switching to the next laboratory.

Huang Si felt that his state of mind was unexpectedly calm.

In truth, the research being conducted in the Green World, especially in the biology department, was not just unethical; it was downright cruel.

Regarding this, Huang Si felt only indifference.

Scientific progress could not avoid sacrifice. If it wasn't one thing being sacrificed, it was another.

Compared to the actual history of Earth, sacrificing these few animals was already quite merciful.

The true history of human scientific development was written in the blood of countless scientists and practitioners.

If one followed the strict definition that memory equals personality, even Huang Si himself could be considered a sacrifice to science; he had already rolled back his own state twice.

Huang Si gave instructions to Xiao Ke, ordering it to capture more apes and to continue increasing the numbers of other animals as well. Samples that were too few in number would never make a splash; only by increasing the sample size could they gamble on the possibility of higher intelligence amidst millions of mutations.

At the same time, Huang Si also had Xiao Ke continue the research and development of bionic bodies, insisting on creating mechanical prosthetics similar to real human bodies that could also be equipped with small computers, or even allow artificial intelligence to operate through a network connection.

Xiao Ke responded repeatedly in the affirmative. It lacked a basic personality and would only faithfully execute all tasks.

After settling these matters, Huang Si found himself idle again.

He recalled that when watching the video feeds earlier, there were frequent stutters, especially during scene transitions. It seemed the data volume was too large and the network speed was insufficient.

Did he need to upgrade the network equipment?

From Huang Si's home to the Ring, they had initially used radio signals for connection, but that was only suitable for transmitting small amounts of information. Eventually, Huang Si had run a network cable across. This cable was designed with a rapid-retraction mechanism, allowing it to be ejected before storms began and reconnected by small robots once the storms ended.

It appeared the load capacity of this network cable was no longer enough.

Huang Si looked up some information on high-speed network cables, then set to work making six of them, along with a larger switch, preparing to have the small robots carry them over.

Six lines in parallel—Huang Si figured the network should be broad enough now.

Fortunately, the power was supplied by the Green World side; otherwise, Huang Si's home electricity would truly not be able to support equipment spanning a kilometer.

Several hours later, the network was connected and restored.

Huang Si stood beside the thick network cable. The moment the network went live, he suddenly experienced a strange sensation.

Attractive force... right, where there is electricity, there is magnetism. Electricity and magnetism are inherently one; current flow also generates a magnetic field.

Huang Si squatted down, placing his hand on the cable. His consciousness could not help but penetrate the outer skin of the cable, seeping into the wires within.

Then, he froze.

In the microscopic world of the network cable, Huang Si saw charged ions adsorbing onto him, flowing forward rapidly.

Right, the characteristic of his spiritual power seemed to be that it extended along with energy and was then adsorbed by electromagnetism?

Could electricity drive his consciousness? No, not electricity.

It was information!

A surging torrent suddenly manifested in Huang Si's microscopic perspective. A series of light spots flew past his eyes; if one looked closely, one would realize those light spots were actually tiny strips.

The strips were arranged in a regular pattern, some bright, some dim.

The first concept that surfaced in Huang Si's mind was—bytes.

This was the world of data.

Huang Si's spiritual field had opened up another new world for him, beyond the macroscopic and microscopic: the Information World.

However, before Huang Si could explore this new discovery, the torrent of information engulfed him, rolling forward.

He felt as if he were merely a single molecule within the information, flowing along with it.