Chapter 1421 The Past Billions of Years Ago

Thousands of tons of meaty and succulent animals wandered in the lush grasslands and endless dense forests. The rich products were not only beyond their ability to control, but also far beyond their imagination.

However, they were in abundance, but eventually died of starvation.

...

On a towering cliff.

Looking at the fertile blackened land tens of meters away, as well as the lush pastures and giant trees tens of meters high in the distance, Lu Zhou, who was sitting on the edge of the cliff, looked up at the sky and couldn't help squinting his eyes .

Everything in front of me is full of the feeling of virgin forest, making people wonder whether they have returned to hundreds of millions of years ago.

"...Don't tell me, I traveled to Mars billions of years ago."

The sun in the sky is very small, only a little bigger than a thumb. The light is not particularly dazzling, but bright enough.

The temperature nearby is very comfortable. It doesn't feel cold at all. It even feels like a spring afternoon. People can't help but want to lie under the shade of the trees and take a lazy nap.

Lu Zhou speculated that the reason why this place can maintain such a comfortable temperature is mostly due to the thickness of the atmosphere and the type of soil here. The thick atmosphere is like a quilt, locking most of the heat from the sun.

At this time, a familiar voice came from the ear.

"Time is irreversible, this is the law written into truth."

"Oh, so it's a memory?"

A blue light beam slowly appeared beside Lu Zhou, and a blue upright humanoid creature walked out of the light and sat next to him.

Looking at the slowly moving biome in the sky, General Reinhardt said in a calm voice with a hint of approval.

"Smart, no wonder observers value you so much."

Lu Zhou curled his lips and said nothing.

In fact, there is nothing difficult to guess.

Before entering the hibernation cabin, he learned that the existence of General Reinhardt was a memory.

Since he can remember his own name and perfectly play the role of "Reinhardt" to communicate normally with himself, it is obvious that this memory can be written with new things.

For example, about something that happened billions of years ago.

"What did you bring me here for?"

"Anyway, you have no hope of waking up in decades, don't you want to find something to pass the time?"

Hearing the ridicule in that voice, Lu Zhou returned him with a speechless expression.

"For me, decades are just a blink of an eye."

If you don't think about other things...

Indeed.

"That's what it says, but don't you want to know what's going on here?"

Hearing this sentence, a look of interest appeared in Lu Zhou's eyes.

"What happened here?"

General Reinhardt smiled faintly, and did not answer the question immediately, but stood up from the ground, and patted the dirt on his pants.

"Come with me."

"You'll find out soon enough."

After finishing speaking, he didn't care whether Lu Zhou followed him or not, so he turned and walked down the mountain.

Staring at his back, Lu Zhou hesitated for two seconds, thinking that he was idle anyway, so he stood up and followed General Reinhardt down the mountain.

"In your culture, the concept closest to the prehistoric ecological appearance of Mars is probably the 'Gaia hypothesis' proposed by your scholars, the entire planet is almost like a complete life, since it completed the initial ecosystem Evolution begins in almost perpetual equilibrium."

"There is almost no concept of the South Pole and the North Pole here. Creatures at any latitude can equally feel the most comfortable state. This is like a paradise, and if there is no accident, it will remain so."

After stepping on the footsteps of General Reinhardt, Lu Zhou answered casually.

"However, there have been variables."

"Yes."

"What the hell is causing—"

"it's me."

Just as they were talking, the two of them had come to the side of a cave.

When Lu Zhou saw the huge insect next to the cave, he almost retched.

It was the first time he had seen a cockroach as high as his knee when he was so big.

The pair of tentacles, about two meters long and covered with fluff, swayed up and down, as if hesitating for something.

"Do you feel disgusted?"

"Yes."

"This is normal. There are natural differences in aesthetics between mammals and arthropods. They are beautiful with many legs, slender tentacles, and complex textures, while the focus of mammals cannot be reflected on them...About aesthetics I don't want to discuss too much with you, your civilization is still too young, it may be more appropriate for us to discuss these things when you have a little more experience."

While talking, the Xiaoqiang not far away seemed to have finally made up his mind and began to explore the interior of the cave.

And it was General Reinhardt who also waved to Lu Zhou, made a "follow me" gesture, and then led him into the cave.

The light in the cave is very dark, which can be described as being blind.

Before going in, Lu Zhou still hesitated. After all, he really didn't want to stay in the same space with such a big bug, even though he knew that everything in front of him was just an old memory.

However, after seeing General Reinhardt walking in as if nothing had happened, he finally gritted his teeth, overcame the discomfort in his heart, and followed.

A cockroach and two people just walked in the cave like this, advancing about one or two hundred meters.

At this time, the little strong walking in front suddenly seemed to have a premonition of some danger, and the wings attached to its back made a dangerous buzzing sound.

"What is he doing?"

"hunting."

"hunting?"

"That's right, in the early days of civilization, or before they formed civilization, these cockroaches mainly fed on the young of a reptile creature in the cave. This creature is also very characteristic, and the larvae also have the ability to reproduce. You'll see these cockroaches are clever enough to domesticate them into livestock as a source of protein."

"Aphids like ants?"

"clever."

While talking, in the shadows, a long-legged spider with fangs inlaid on its face, about one meter high, approached aggressively while making a low growl.

The strangely colored fluff looked tingling, and Lu Zhou subconsciously took a step back.

And almost at the same time, Xiaoqiang, who was in front of him with a prostrate figure and trembling wings, suddenly moved.

The wings on his carapace suddenly made a loud noise, and then the pillow cockroach shot forward like a bullet.

This hunting method of shooting himself out like a cannonball really shocked Lu Zhou.

He originally thought that this kind of creature would only hide in the gutter, gnaw on the rotten food, and had no offensive ability at all, but he didn't expect that the cockroach on Mars in front of him had such a ferocious hunting ability!

Apparently not only he didn't expect it, but the spider didn't seem to expect the "little guy" in front of him to be so fierce, he was caught off guard when he met him, and rolled to the side.

The two insects fell into hand-to-hand combat and fought together. With the advantage of its small size, the Xiaoqiang was lucky enough to hang on the spider's stomach, and actually gnawed off half of the spider's face.

The winner has already been decided.

After thumping subconsciously for a while, the spider curled up into a ball and lay on the ground without moving.

The little strong let out an "excited" roar, cut off the spider's fangs, tied it to the top of its head with a pair of forelimbs, and then quickly rushed into the lair behind the cave.

Inside the nest, fat larvae squirmed on the carpet-like pile of fluff, looking curiously at the entrance of the nest.

Obviously they don't know that they are already in disaster...

"Being able to kill adult Martian spiders is equivalent to the supreme glory for these Martians. Because under normal circumstances, those Martian spiders usually hunt giant insects more than two meters high, and those monsters are These Martians are almost irresistible."

Feeling sick to the title of Martian, Lu Zhou said with an ugly expression.

"I think . . . we'd better not call them Martians."

Reinhardt smiled faintly, and said teasingly, "Why, didn't you come up with this name?"

Lu Zhou: "..."

"Actually, it doesn't matter. The name is just a symbol. Even if you call me a Jialan man, won't I be angry? What's more, the little guys in front of you will learn to walk upright, make tools, and even develop A civilization that is several times more prosperous than your current Earth...Look, he seems to have found a treasure."

Looking in the direction of General Reinhardt, Xiaoqiang, who was collecting the white fluff from local materials and binding the larvae in, suddenly stopped his movements.

The larvae seemed to realize that this person was not their mother, and they began to feel uneasy, making babbling calls.

However, Xiao Qiang seemed to have not heard it, shaking the tentacles on the top of his head, and crawled to the side of the stone wall with small steps.

Unlike the jagged rocks next to it, the flat rock mass is like a stone tablet, firmly embedded in the stone wall.

Not only that, on the mirror-like stele, there are still rows of strange marks.

Although it doesn't understand what these marks mean to itself, it always feels that there is a certain soul-stirring attraction in those symbols.

And this attraction, very miraculously, does not come from the instinct of eating...

"Curiosity is the beginning of everything. You can't imagine how turbulent my heart was when I found this ugly little guy stopping in front of this stele."

"This is..." There was a look of disbelief in his eyes, Lu Zhou's pupils shrank slightly, and he whispered, "The text of the Jialan Empire?"

"Yes."

General Reinhardt nodded.

"These words were engraved to commemorate something when I first came to this planet...or this universe."

While the two were talking, that Xiaoqiang had already approached the stele, curiously beating the strange lines with his tentacles.

Judging from its movements, the little guy seemed to want to move this thing away, but after several efforts, he finally gave up on this unrealistic idea.

Trapped by the inexplicable attraction, it couldn't bear to leave like this. It stared at the stele for a long time, and rubbed its forelimbs on the ground, as if imitating the symbols on the stele. strokes.

At this moment, the Xiaoqiang standing in front of the stele would not realize that just because he took one more look at the stele in front of him, he completely changed the fate of a group of people.

It also completely changed the future of a planet...