4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution
Chapter 4663 Servants
The process by which a sufficiently ancient and powerful creature ...... is born is usually not simple.
The same is true of this creature .......
In the observations of the Pelletotrophs, many organisms were born on fragmented tumbler land masses, and they lived diverse lives that required frequent contact with each other.
Particulate organisms found that many of them slowly began to reproduce.
They reproduce in a variety of ways, the more common of which is to use other organisms to reproduce. ...... The process involves killing a creature and gutting it of various things, and then injecting some 'substance' into the remaining carcass.
This substance is necessary for reproduction and varies from creature to creature, with some creatures just putting in bits and pieces, and others putting in their own limbs or internal organs.
Generally, this type of reproduction is only used by prey that is much smaller than itself, and usually after these steps, the carcass grows into a new organism.
It is interesting to note that this type of reproduction did not 'evolve', and the origin of this group of creatures remains a mystery, as they seem to have appeared out of nowhere.
Because the granular creature cannot look everywhere all the time, it only has to go without looking for a while before new creatures appear.
And the method of reproduction was first discovered by certain organisms.
While they were trying to reproduce in this way, there were other organisms around that were doing it.
Some organisms will produce individuals that look exactly like themselves, much like ordinary reproduction.
There are also some organisms that prefer to create creatures that are much weaker than themselves, but that do their bidding.
Whether or not the created creatures meet the maker's requirements is highly dependent on the maker's skill.
Particulate organisms have found that even creatures of low intelligence can produce offspring that are close to their own.
Of course, they will not be identical, but there will always be small differences that may lead to better or weaker offspring, similar to the 'evolution' of cellular organisms.
Particulate organisms have been observed to enter into 'reincarnation' mode, which means that they create offspring, and when the offspring grows up, they demand that the offspring kill itself and create its own body as the offspring of the ...... offspring.
When each individual does this to their offspring, and their offspring continue to do this to their offspring, they are in an endless cycle of reincarnation, and even less intelligent creatures do this, and the granular creatures don't understand why they do it.
The ones that make servants are usually the ones with higher intelligence.
They need all sorts of research, ratios and tweaks to the materials used to make them, and so on, to make the perfect servant that won't 'betray' them.
This is often complicated, and if they fail they create not servants, but a new species.
These servant lovers generally do not have a 'race', they are just themselves, and although they occasionally create offspring, most of the time it is just themselves and a group of servants.
Other creatures are more peculiar, and they devote themselves to researching ...... to create powerful creatures.
They will try to hunt down creatures that are bigger than themselves, and then use these huge bodies to make something far more powerful than themselves from .......
Of course, they are also essentially making 'servants', or protectors, in a similar way.
They try to create powerful creatures that they can control, but this is much more risky than creating weak servants.
If they don't obey, these powerful creatures may kill themselves.
Even so, they try to create powerful creatures to protect themselves.
At first, they would only follow the shape of other creatures, but gradually they started to try to build different things.
For example, to build a living building to protect themselves and resist foreign enemies.
And they began to use more than just biological shells for construction; they studied other substances and investigated the differences between them and living things.
Slowly they were able to add non-living things to the process of creating new creatures.
This allowed this group of creatures ...... to create more kinds of things, and they became very powerful, and they also built up villages and towns on the broken land again.
When they became powerful, they were vulnerable to attack by other creatures.
Especially those creatures that like to create small servants, they began to attack the existing villages and towns.
Thus, this group of civilized creatures also began to fight against the foreign invasion, and a new round of war began.
This war lasted a bit longer, and involved quite a few creatures, most of which were initially attacking the civilized creatures.
The civilized creatures were powerful, but they were unable to fight against the masses, so they began to try to make more powerful creatures to help them as they retreated, and their opponents tried to make more powerful creatures to help them fight.
Their opponents therefore tried to make more and stronger servants, and they also discovered that civilized creatures could make troops from many non-living substances, so they tried to do the same.
The war made the already broken land masses even more fragmented as they continued to dig up the surface for various materials.
Many organisms also perished in the war.
Most of the creatures perished mainly because they were captured for materials, whether it was their entrails or their shells that were used to make creatures.
After all, many of the creators were alone, and they could not make large numbers of troops from their own entrails alone ...... but they also found that they could replace them with other creatures.
In short, with the right adjustments, they can create loyal servants even without using any of their own parts.
Most of the 'wild animals' that had nothing to do with war suffered, and were captured in large numbers for use as materials.
However, not every part of these creatures was used as material, and many of them had only a part of their body structure taken away and the rest thrown away.
These mutilated corpses are spread all over the ground, and since all the moving parts have been removed from their bodies, they are still and do not decompose or anything, except for a few that are eaten by scavengers.
Of course the scavengers were also taken for materials, so there were not many.
The besieged civilized creatures, at this time, developed an ultimate weapon.
This weapon could be called the 'Light of Eternal Motion'.
The creatures here rely heavily on stillness, and they use it to store materials and food, but the most important thing is that the process of creating a creature must be in stillness.
In other words, the process of putting materials into the body, if it is in motion, no creature can be created.
Only after the material is completely in place can the carapace be put into an active state so that it will begin to grow into a creature.
The civilized creatures decided to completely isolate the entire world, the tumbler patch where they live, from the effects of the stillness.
This way nothing can be built at .......