Interlude Reality 02: Reason and Matter Chapter 8 Possible Worlds
"These things look really strange..."
Looking at the special images and rune patterns marked one after another on the image, the little girl's brows became more and more tightly furrowed, almost forming a straight line.
Although the Darwin Mine is a tourist attraction, not many people actually go there for tourism because of transportation reasons. It often takes a lot of unnecessary time to get some of the fun that you can get in the game. For many people, this is completely not worth it.
Although the trophies can be used as a filler for the mentality, the real possibility for humans to fight for these things that they are not interested in is completely zero. In addition to a few public laboratories and tourist tracks, there are actually too many unknown things in the entire Darwin Crater to humans. It can even be said that it is difficult to say whether even one percent of the places have been truly explored.
Because compared to the entire human race, they want to explore too many things. For example, just an ordinary cosmic problem often requires countless human and material resources, and for something that has reached the end of biology, it is obvious that there is not much attention. Except for a few biological laboratories that are still persisting, Darwin Pit is a completely undeveloped virgin land of ecological disasters. Zhang Lingmeng had planned to find something extraordinary in it a long time ago. However, when she really saw these things, she was still not fully prepared mentally.
At least the little girl couldn't understand why there were so many strange patterns within three kilometers of the entire engineering structure she developed. Those regular patterns were obviously not made by humans out of mischief, because they were really too crude.
"These things are unlikely to be artificially made. They seem to have been made with such low precision..."
Zhang Lingmeng frowned as he looked at the bloodstained background wall. He didn't seem to care about the vaguely disgusting parts on it at all. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and analyzed professionally:
"Humans have already completed the reform of basic genes. When it comes to the evolution and drawing of graphics and space, we are completely on a different level from the ancients. We can use a series of methods to perfectly draw what we want, but this thing is completely different. It does not have the straight lines, circles or other spatial graphics that normal people can draw instinctively. Instead, it has an uncontrollable physiological tremor."
"They have no way to eliminate the tremors in their palms. This is almost impossible. And the instrument will not show this kind of tremor caused by muscle tremors or vibrations or other reasons. It can only mean that the creature who drew this pattern seems to have considerable intelligence, but lacks the corresponding control."
"The being who drew this figure is definitely not a human. I can conclude this with certainty."
Because humans would never create something so ugly.
Looking at the series of symbols and graphics filled with irregular patterns and images, Zhang Lingmeng frowned deeply, feeling as if he had discovered something.
It is also possible to say that modern humans and ancient humans are two different species, so even if humans want to deliberately draw things that are trembling or look hideous, they will instinctively eliminate the trembling around them and turn the entire image into a relatively understandable structure and pattern.
"Not only are these things not defibrillated, the paint on them is mainly composed of blood and other biological tissues. Generally speaking, such a large amount of paintings will leave a considerable amount of residue on the human body and machinery. Even if it is analyzed through technical means, it will be recorded in the corresponding archives. However, I have investigated all the technical resources of the entire Darwin Pit and found no record of anyone having paintings."
"Is it possible that someone deliberately left these pranks? Just to make people think this way?"
"Impossible. If it was a prank, the cost of making such a thing would be too high. I applied for an AI investigation record and confirmed that there was no such prank. No one would joke with their own social records. Leaving such a pattern in a place like this without filing it will be recorded as vandalism of ancient monuments."
"In other words, these things may not have been drawn by humans?"
“…”
Looking at those seemingly regular dark red patterns and the residues left on the cave walls and steel plate structures, the expressions of both of them changed.
"Then according to the scientific process of elimination, the option that remains at the end is often the most likely one, even if it is the most unlikely one. In other words, these traces are very likely not man-made. Although they have regularity and record-keeping properties, they are not left by humans."
"Well, this is the inference I just wanted to make."
Looking at the regular patterns smeared by the dark red blood on the wall, Li Lin nodded somewhat dully.
"It should be that the creatures here have developed a sociological system similar to writing over time. They don't seem to be able to use smell or other things to record and pass on, because there is an AI inside that is constantly cleaning and summarizing. The creatures here may have mutated into this kind of wisdom through experiments or other inducements, and then used blood as a pigment to paint on the steel plates, so as to serve as a warning or fable... Maybe that's it."
"…Even though I think this is unlikely emotionally, in ancient times, there were also cases where creatures that mutated due to radiation in specific environments had similar writing and social relationship reconstruction systems…I think this type of creature should be worth studying."
With his head down, he seemed to be calculating something with his own thinking circuits. Zhang Lingmeng lowered his head and pondered for a while, then suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Lin who was sitting next to him.
"Brother, I want to ask you something."
Looking at Li Lin, who was sitting aside and a little confused about Zhang Lingmeng's feelings, the little girl came over and said in a serious voice:
"Although it may sound a little inappropriate, I still want to ask, big brother, do you want to witness a moment that may change the history of human experiments?"
