Beneath Deep Space

Time passed day by day, humans trained lizards, excavated cultural relics, and basically did not do any of the work they should do.

People are learning more and more about the ancient lost civilization "Nix Civilization", and finally sorted out all the truth about it...

Of course, everything has to start from the beginning, from the beginning...

"The first 'Great Sage' of the Nyx civilization was an individual named 'Qi'. He drew the starry sky in the primitive era, invented writing and the hourglass, proposed the concept of time, and created the Nyx The era of wisdom of civilization..."

"The second 'Great Sage', named 'Fao', tried to use the hot magma to increase the energy available to civilization. He created various tools and risked his life to try to salvage the magma from the volcanic belt... …”

This is a large-scale historical report conference, and basically anyone with a certain status will be invited to participate in this important conference.

The history of the Nix civilization is not only a reference for mankind, but also has a huge warning effect.

Especially...this civilization has become extinct.

Humanity must not repeat their old ways...

Of course, Yu Yifeng was very interested in this kind of thing, and he happily sat in the first row.

The "great sages" in the Nix civilization are actually equivalent to the greatest group of scientists in mankind, basically at the level of Newton and Einstein.

As long as you understand the achievements of the "Great Sage", you can basically judge the technological trend of the entire civilization, especially... How did a civilization without fire develop and perish?

"No oxygen means no fire. Without fire, there is no metal. Without metal, how can we talk about a higher level of civilization?"

asked Heigl, a sociologist of the universe and moderator of the conference.

This is also an issue that people are most concerned about.

"There is only magma." Yu Yifeng thought to himself.

"The great sages of previous generations are all in the most primitive stage. Since there is no fire, they can only make fuss around magma. Magma is the only energy source they can utilize..."

really! There is never a lack of life in this universe, and life can always evolve to the maximum extent to adapt to the environment of its parent star.

And "wisdom" is essentially a manifestation of environmental adaptability.

If the environment of the planet is enough to evolve large multi-cellular life, and "intelligence" can indeed help increase survivability, then the success rate of "intelligence" will be greatly improved.

This is the revised result obtained by space sociologists after observing Nix's life.

According to this theory, the emergence of "wisdom" is the result of natural selection.

Its appearance actually has a certain degree of inevitability, which explains to a certain extent that "there is no lack of intelligence in the universe", which is another promotion of the "doctrine of natural selection".

The greater the diversity of life on the planet, the higher the probability of intelligence being born.

"But 'intelligence' generally does not appear at the top of the planet's food chain."

For creatures at the top of the food chain, the attribute "wisdom" is far less important than "strength" in terms of survival bonus.

For example, tigers are at the top of the food chain and can hunt almost any creature, so they are becoming more and more "strong".

Under the same body size, the stronger and more agile the animal, the more likely it is to increase the success rate of hunting and obtain more food.

"Attention, they are of the same body size! It does not mean that the bigger the body, the stronger the better! If the Tyrannosaurus rex is placed on the African grassland, it will definitely starve to death!" Professor Heigl's words caused a burst of laughter.

"Natural selection, survival of the fittest, and elimination of the unfit" applies not only to the earth, but also to various terrestrial planets or wider areas.

So, monkeys are creatures that are neither in the world nor on the earth. They somehow added attribute points to "wisdom", and then through various coincidences, humans evolved.

"...Various coincidences are small-probability times in the early stages, but as time evolves over millions or tens of millions of years, the probability of occurrence will greatly increase. Therefore, it explains to a certain extent the universality of civilization in the universe."

According to this reasoning, such an intelligent species would not be the strongest creature on the planet. It must have stronger natural enemies to fight against and a certain amount of pressure to survive.

Of course, it won't be the weakest species, so that it can have room to increase its "wisdom".

Not just humans, for example, the indigenous lizard civilization.

Nor are these lizards originally at the top of the food chain. There are more powerful species that bring pressure to their survival, but they are not the weakest species either...

The Nyx were similar. They were not the most powerful species at the time. They also had natural enemies and their living environment was extremely harsh. Moreover, they don’t have something as omnipotent as fire to drive away natural enemies.

In this case, they have either evolved to be stronger, or better at agility and stealth,

Although the attribute "wisdom" is very powerful, the initial bonus is still too low.

However, the powerful Nix civilization, under the leadership of the first generation of great sages, encountered a small probability event and took the path of "wisdom" forcibly.

In the early days, they used hard rocks corroded by black insect acid as tools to dig into volcanic rock walls.

This kind of gray-black stone has a very high melting point and hardness, and is very difficult to process... However, after they are smashed, their cross-sections are like shells, which are very sharp and are the best tools at the beginning of civilization.

The process of historical changes is equivalent to the Stone Age of mankind. They are also primitive tribes formed by blood relations as a bond.

They began to use tools to dig out caves manually as their homes. Because it is close to the volcano, it is like a furnace inside, warm and comfortable.

Artificially digging "volcanic caves" is indeed an amazing invention, although other underground creatures also have this instinct. But the former is subjective thinking that controls action, and the latter is just survival instinct. There is an essential difference between the two.

Then, they used magma to forge metal, transitioning to the Bronze Age...

"Carbon can reduce copper oxide to simple copper at high temperatures. Oxygen is not required during this process, as long as the temperature is sufficient. Therefore, some metal simple substances may be born in the magma. This phenomenon was discovered and exploited by the Knicks."

"They want to use magma to smelt copper."

This project is also extremely dangerous. After all, it requires close contact with magma to obtain sufficient temperature.

Although Nyx people have very high heat resistance, they are only carbonyl organisms after all and have their own inherent limits.

Smelting metals is likely to cost one's life, as body fluids boil due to excessive body temperature.

Smelting metal is not a difficult task for humans. But for the Nix civilization, behind every piece of metal equipment is the exchange of lives of equal quality. This statement is not an exaggeration.

Generations of great sages have done their best to improve the living environment of civilization.

The environment is so bad that even the strongest individuals cannot fight against nature.

In this case, wisdom gradually became worshiped and began to be carried forward from generation to generation.

In any case, no matter how many people die, metal still appears. This is a big progress. Since the arrival of metal, the Knicks have begun to get rid of the troubles of natural enemies and gradually reached the top of the planet's food chain.

But they won't be satisfied...

In the following years, they even carved canals underground!

"Of course, what is contained in it is not water, but...magma!"

They first completed the excavation of the river channel, and then opened up the volcanic rock wall, allowing the rolling magma to flow in the canal... The development of this large magma river finally brought a large amount of energy, fed a large population, and created an unprecedented prosperous age. !

It is also the masterpiece of the eleventh great sage "Carlisle"!

"Of course, this kind of work is extremely dangerous. It lasted for more than sixty years. If you are not careful, you will lose your life. Most of the projects were done by slaves... countless people died from exhaustion."

"Wars often occur between tribes, and the purpose is to grab territory and slaves... The population that the entire volcanic belt can feed is limited, and the population can only be consumed through wars."

"Or there may be some large-scale population migration, crossing the surface and relocating to other volcanic belts... countless people will freeze to death."

“The entire slave era was full of blood and killing, and we can only glimpse it through a few words...

"But even so, civilization grew step by step from blood and magma." Professor Heigl sighed.

I'm stuck, sorry.