4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

"You ... want to find that legendary world?"

"The world that you call the 'third world'?"

"You know, there has never been a third world."

"What you can find ... only countless imitations ... they are all imitations!"

This is a legend a long time ago.

There is a legend about some kind of creature wandering in the void.

This creature's body shape is like a flower, they have always lived in ... the void tunnel.

They move in the void tunnel in a similar way to plankton, living a life of drifting and collecting food.

They have never had any special things to do, nor have they wanted to do anything special.

But they are so special in nature, that is, this flower-like creature, it is said that they have a huge ecology.

But they are not huge in themselves.

This flower-shaped creature has a maximum diameter of only a few tens of meters, because the lifestyle is ... youza, so these creatures are usually not noticed by other creatures.

But among the creatures for a long time, some kind of creature noticed them and began to ... observe them.

The most special aspect of the 'flower creatures' themselves lies in their ecology.

They have an extremely complex environment on their bodies of tens of meters in size. On each of their 'petals', there are more than ten million kinds of creatures, and these creatures host smaller creatures.

They form a very complex ecological relationship with each other, and the biological ecology on each petal is 'independent'. These creatures rarely intersect with the other petals.

Mainly because the interval between each petal of the petal creature is actually their ... eating organ.

This feeder function produces a strong 'energy', which makes it difficult for species between each petal to contact another species.

And why they have such a complicated ecological form is a mystery, and it may have been generated by accident.

But this is very special. Although it is said that there are always many creatures living on various drifting lifestyles, there are not as many as flowers.

Perhaps only as large as the Stellar Bus will have so many creatures living on the surface.

For a long time, only flower creatures themselves knew that they had this kind of ecology, and they didn't care.

Until sometime.

Occasionally, a creature noticed the condition of the flower. It may have captured a flower initially, and soon it was attracted by the complex ecology on the skin of the flower.

"This is a miracle. Is this a miracle that happened by chance?"

It is said that this was the idea of ​​the creature at that time.

Then, it began to study flower organisms all the time, and its research goal was to find the source of the complex ecology of flowers.

By observing the usual way of life of flowers, and where they go, etc., this creature came to a conclusion.

That is 'impossible'.

Although flowers are drifting creatures, they are still active within a certain range.

No matter how it is calculated, the flower itself is impossible to "naturally" produce such a complex ecology, there must be other factors.

So it investigates the details of the flowers more deeply.

This includes the various structures within the flower, as well as the details of each species on it.

Then it came to a conclusion.

That is, the flower is a 'shrinker', that is, the flower used to be a very huge creature.

They have experienced something that has caused them to shrink to the size they are today, and when they were huge, they lived with many creatures, and these creatures have experienced some reason to shrink with them to the size they are now.

Although it is not known how it came to this conclusion, this creature believes that its conclusion must be correct.

So it came up with an idea to restore the flowers to their original huge form.

Then ... it began to torture the flowers for a long time.

This creature is very simple to do, it is trying to make the flowers bigger in various ways.

For example, adding layers of shells to them, or stuffing them with a lot of fillers and so on ... These methods that have almost no effect have been tried.

Why it can make such a detailed study, but just use that ... naive methods are not known.

Later, this creature left because of something else, and it could not continue to study the flowers.

But they have left something that can continue to study flowers instead of it, that is ... a kind of monster called "burst swallow" ...

The name "burst swallow" is because its main function is to eat flowers.

From the moment it appeared, it continually hunted every flower it encountered, then ate it and ... decomposed in the body.

This is also the last thought of the creature before leaving.

It may think that if there is no way to increase the size of the flowers in a simple way, then they are all crushed and concentrated, and this will become bigger and bigger.

As long as you eat all the flowers, the "burst swallow" will become quite huge, which can be regarded as the restoration of the flower's past shape.

In the face of the 'burst swallowing' that constantly kills flowers, the flowers were initially unable to resist.

The shape of 'Burst Swallow' itself is like a shark with a length of hundreds of meters. It can move at high speed in the void tunnel environment and has the ability to quickly find flowers.

It is itself a kind of creature that is designed to grow infinitely by swallowing flowers.

This also makes the creature that makes "swallowing" look even more wonderful ... Why did it start to use this kind of thing ... naive way?

In short, there is no way to stop the attacking flower of the "burst swallow".

The flowers themselves are not aggressive, and although they are intelligent enough and know to escape, they still have little meaning.

But "Blast Swallow" did not finish its creature that engulfed all the flowers in the end.

This is mainly because of the flowers ... some species in the complex ecology of the body ended it.

The species on the flower are no more than a millimeter, and more are all micro-species like cells or smaller than cells.

But even in such a small species, some are aware of the truth of the world.

Simply put, what kind of existence is the world they live in, and developed some stronger capabilities.

These creatures are about the size of cells.

Of course they are not cell creatures, but they are the few creatures that can cross the petal interval and even talk to the same kind on different flowers.

They noticed ... the world on which they lived disappeared one by one.