Chapter 326 Early Changes

After observing for a long time...the observed creatures have also undergone significant changes.

They were initially creatures that took a long time to move. They did not eat or reproduce, but only lived for countless short moments and then died.

Slowly...the types of these creatures became more complex.

The main thing is that the activity time started to get longer.

Some creatures became able to store more "energy", and these energy particles were later called "active things", which were things that could move in the static void.

In fact, it discovered that there are many things that can move while being still, not just the original "energy", but the earliest organisms all collected "energy".

As time went on, they began to be able to collect more and more 'moving things'.

After a long period of time, some of these organisms have emerged as species that can remain active for a long time.

Keep yourself from becoming stagnant by continually collecting things that keep you moving.

These creatures generally spend their lives collecting things non-stop until they are no longer able to collect anything moving... and that is when their death comes.

At first they would not attack each other, but gradually some creatures began to obtain their activities by attacking other creatures.

After they began to attack each other, the 'evolution' speed of these creatures became much faster than before.

Most start out as simple attacks, but some complex ones emerge.

For example, some creatures will stop the movement of their prey by inactivating moving objects, while others will create fake moving objects that other creatures will mistakenly think are real. After eating them, they will excrete the real moving objects stored in their bodies.

Some creatures will create their own 'territory'. They can create an activity range of a certain size, and all creatures within this range can move freely.

Generally speaking, this kind of activity area can attract many creatures to visit, and the creatures in the manufacturing area... will harvest these attracted creatures at the appropriate time.

This creature may be some early space creature.

Of course, these creatures will also gradually eat, that is, dismantle other creatures to repair themselves, rather than just taking living things.

Later, these creatures developed more and more complex, and basically developed around "stillness", so it was quite interesting to observe.

Granular organisms have never been able to understand how they were born and how they evolved. They can only observe the internal structure of some organisms, and even if they observe many organisms, they cannot understand them clearly, so it is difficult for them to understand how these organisms develop.

In short, the process of their development... is very long.

After a long time, it discovered intelligent life.

This group of intelligent creatures appeared on the tumbler it was observing... but in fact, the tumbler was no longer a tumbler at that time.

It is split into many pieces, which is what happened when various organisms developed.

This group of intelligent creatures was born on a floating boulder, and the way they live is... quite unique.

They are also the first organisms observed to produce offspring.

They built their own villages and towns on the ground, collecting moving objects in various ways to maintain their lives. At the same time, the lower-level residents needed to hand over part of the moving materials to the rulers.

The rulers will use this part of active matter to construct a sufficiently large "activity field", and these residents will place their offspring in this field to let them grow.

The way they construct their offspring is not ordinary reproduction, but by capturing some small animals and draining the active parts of their bodies. Then, like making a statue, they transform the animal into a shape similar to themselves, and finally put a small part of the active parts in their bodies into the created statue.

Then put this thing into the activity field, it will move and slowly grow into a creature identical to its creator.

Because of this special reproduction pattern, this group of intelligent creatures are always in civil war.

Because every resident tries to create more offspring, but their own reserves of moving objects are always limited, so they cannot create many. So they use various methods to obtain more moving objects and create more offspring.

When an individual has too many offspring, it will arouse the disgust of other individuals and thus besiege them.

Even so, they are constantly trying to find ways to create more offspring, or raising their offspring not in public activity areas, but instead in territories created by wild animals outside.

To put it simply, every individual in this group of creatures wants to have more offspring, but at the same time they don't like other species having offspring. They even don't like their own offspring to have offspring. They only like to be surrounded by their own first generation.

Once they see more and more offspring of the same kind around them, they will become more and more uncomfortable and finally attack it.

Although these creatures began to gather into a group, they found it difficult to develop because of this characteristic.

Soon, the group of creatures collapsed.

But they did not die out? Instead, they switched to another way of life. They began to try to produce offspring with lower intelligence? And who could not produce offspring...

In fact, what they created can no longer be considered offspring, but only a kind of "servants".

They attack their original kind by creating a large number of these servants? Because everyone does this? So the place where they are is also plunged into war.

This may have been the first large-scale war that the granular creatures had ever seen.

These intelligent creatures fought for a long time? Until they died one by one and finally perished completely.

After this, the granular creatures saw the birth of more and more creatures.

However, the intelligent creatures here rarely form large groups; they prefer to live alone.

For example, creatures that create their own "territory" or are able to construct offspring have a higher chance of having higher intelligence.

They do not develop together, but constantly construct and strengthen their own areas.

And research and create various "servants" to expand their own...power.

Granular organisms discovered that many organisms begin by producing offspring, that is, individuals exactly the same as themselves.

But slowly, these creatures changed their ways. They tried to create various things that were far less intelligent than themselves but very loyal to serve them.

In the earliest times, it seemed that Midgard was also this kind of creature.