the birth of fish

Li Qing was dedicated to the civilization's destruction, as ultraviolet light and alcohol were the most common and convenient sterilization methods available. Other methods were either too expensive or too complex to acquire in a few days, and he risked attracting the FBI's attention, being Asian.

How much alcohol did he spray this time?

He emptied the entire alcohol tank on his back.

If his body hadn't become stronger, carrying such a large hydraulic tank and spraying it would have exhausted him long ago.

Alas, life is hard, Li Qing sighed.

The entire room was completely atomized, enough to send them into the atomized death era. Even if they survived, a one-centimeter-thick layer of alcohol ocean would cover the ground.

From today on, these single-celled organisms can forget about living on land.

It's all Dead Sea!

The environment has become harsh.

And this Dead Sea constantly evaporates, always lingering in the mist.

How could this not kill them?

But Li Qing was a cautious man, planning to continue finding friends to get a large ultraviolet lamp. When doing things, one shouldn't be indecisive; villains shouldn't die from talking too much.

Not even giving them a chance to breathe, playing it for thrills, one wave after another, directly killing them at the entrance of the novice village!

Want to develop?

Dream on.

"Hello, it's me. Yes, the ultraviolet lamp is almost ready, right? Remember to make it strong enough to burn the skin."

"No, I'm not trying to kill anyone; you've watched too much Detective Conan."

He walked out of the house while on the phone, "Yes, yes, I've already resigned. Once this is done, I'll return to China."

Atabia Kingdom.

The Outer God beyond the world launched a devastating flood very maliciously and abruptly, causing the entire civilization to instantly lose more than 70% of its people, caught completely off guard.

Under the pressure of despair and terror, even the kingdom's strongest engineer—King Atabia—could only flee with a team of elites on flagellate steeds.

"What is that?"

During their escape, they discovered that the mite behemoths hadn't run and were actually resistant to corrosive acid rain.

In this desolate world of giant beasts, the Atabia people were not at the top of the food chain.

Mites were one of the ferocious behemoths that the Atabia Kingdom had yet to conquer.

Like apex predators such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, a single one could destroy a city.

"As expected of a behemoth, the flood can't kill it!"

Countless ministers were astonished.

The behemoth moved slowly and leisurely in the alcohol flood, filling them with envy. Perhaps only such a behemoth could withstand the all-destroying death flood.

In reality, bacteria are single-celled organisms, while mites, no matter how small, are animals, belonging to the arachnid class, making them far more resistant to alcohol than these thin-skinned bacteria.

"I have an idea."

King Atabia said.

"Since these behemoths can resist the death flood, I will extract their skin structure so we can wear a layer of it to protect us from the death acid rain!"

This king, the symbol of wisdom and great civilization, as an intelligent single-celled life form, saw a chance for survival.

They had already studied the mite behemoth's DNA code extensively. At this moment, he began absorbing skin fragments from the mite's genes, attempting to modify their skin.

Thus, their cell membranes began to change, transforming from transparent jelly-like human-shaped flagellate bacteria into human-shaped beings wearing clothes, looking more like humans.

One by one, single-celled bacteria with flagellate limbs began to develop the initial ability to resist alcohol penetration.

However, they still couldn't completely resist massive amounts of alcohol, such as being submerged in it.

They could defend, but only a little.

After all, alcohol is the bane of bacteria; it couldn't be a joke.

"If we can't block it ourselves, we'll build a house."

Soon, they began using readily available, non-intelligent wild bacteria of the same kind to modify their skin, turning them into square bricks to build a shelter.

This was the only way to withstand the flood.

At this moment, watching the ministers piling up single-celled houses, Emperor Atabia thought, 'If we pile them up one by one, when will the shelter be completed?'

There simply wasn't enough time!

Although they were hiding at a high place, the mist was spreading and would soon cool and sink, completely forming seawater and submerging them as well.

Under the pressure of death, he suddenly thought of a new possibility.

What if the single cells built it themselves?

What if the single-celled bacteria, acting as wall bricks, transcribed themselves, reproduced other cells, laid the brick walls themselves, and built houses?

He tried modifying them again.

He had been researching this topic before, but hadn't succeeded. However, under the immense pressure of death, Emperor Atabia quickly succeeded.

Whoosh.

In the vast floodwaters.

One by one, cellular square bricks were self-assembling, turning into a giant multicellular shelter.

But this shelter gradually began to sway in the wind and rain, at risk of being submerged and collapsing into the massive flood at any moment.

"Not enough, not enough!"

Atabia shouted excitedly, and said with extreme pain: "It must be completely enclosed. This shelter must be a sealed cavity, isolating it from the outside seawater!"

"Furthermore, this shelter cannot always sink to the bottom of the sea. It would be good if it could move in the world-destroying seawater. Flagella! I can build flagella on it! Try to slide through the seabed!"

As the seawater was about to completely submerge them, flagella began to appear on this multicellular house.

Gradually, the flood was about to completely arrive.

Not enough.

Still not enough!

The shelter's framework was too weak. These lumps of flesh were falling apart, not enough to withstand this disaster. It had to be strengthened.

Then what supported the mite behemoths' huge flesh structures from collapsing?

Skeletons.

Those mite behemoths had exoskeletons.

They had long deciphered the mite's gene sequence, and were naturally clear about the exoskeleton gene fragments. Thus, by writing in this gene fragment from the mite, the shelter gained an exoskeleton.

"Success! This ark is an underwater shelter! It will continue the Atabia people's civilization in the great flood!" King Atabia continued to modify it within this cavity.

"No, no! Still not enough! The mites' bodies have various auxiliary cells, meridians, and muscles to help move their huge bodies."

King Atabia suddenly entered a magical state of enlightenment, and said to the surrounding ministers, these bacterial single cells:

"You, come be the nerve cells of this shelter, in the cockpit, to control the shelter's direction of movement!"

"You, come be the muscle cells, to control the fins and flagella outside the shelter!"

Countless single cells began to transform into precise gears within the shelter, and the various drivers worked together to protect the shelter from collapsing.

But, was this really an ark?

Atabia had no idea what great creation he had built.

This was clearly a fish!

Its shape resembled one of the most primitive fish, the coelacanth, which survived four major extinctions and liked to crawl on the seabed.

This single-celled biological kingdom, under terrifying pressure, finally allowed its biological civilization's evolutionary history to enter the next biological evolutionary level: multicellular organisms.

Yes.

Together, they were a multicellular life form.

Cellular natural evolution required endless, tedious years, natural selection, survival of the fittest.

Earth used hundreds of millions of centuries of screening and strengthening, from primitive flagellates to multicellular animals, to chordates, then to higher chordates—vertebrates, and then from fish to amphibians to reptiles, from which mammals and birds diverged.

And now, what about these intelligent single cells?

They completely compressed a long natural elimination and evolution process of billions of years into this moment, making a great leap forward.

Primitive flagellates—fish.

Without a doubt, they skipped the intermediate stages, frantically replacing evolution, using their own wisdom to replace nature.

This was:

Replacing the will of Heaven with one's own will, replacing the heart of Heaven with one's own heart.

These intelligent single cells were self-evolving, using their own ideas to replace the evolutionary will of nature. They were natural creators.

Fish were born in this great flood!

And perhaps soon, in this laboratory, multicellular fish would begin to climb onto land, transform into insects in this laboratory, and then from insects into mammals, and even higher animals.

Evolve, evolve, evolve!

In this small laboratory room, intelligent single cells were frantically pushing the evolutionary tree. It wouldn't be surprising if any kind of creature appeared.

But no matter what.

"Advance!"

King Atabia issued an order to the surrounding ministers:

"You, as my confidants, are the greatest engineers. Immediately build rescue ships in this way, go to various places to ferry and save our people who may still be alive!"

Atabia, as the civilization's strongest wise man, slowly said:

"They have not all died. Some must be hiding in high places, and each of our people is a natural engineer, capable of modifying genes. They may also be observing mite behemoths and evolving their own anti-flood antibodies, eking out a living."

"Yes!"

"Yes, King Atabia!"

"We will sail, using the ark to save refugees everywhere!"

"You are our god, our great and only true Lord!"

The ministers were almost crying. How helpless and desperate it was to watch the great flood submerge all the cities at the time of the civilization's extinction. What a tragic miracle was before their eyes.

This magical shelter moved elegantly and vibrantly in the silent flood tide, the greatest and most incredible creation in this world.

And all these miracles came from their king—Atabia—who was called the most talented existence among 17 trillion engineers.

How terrifying was his wisdom and talent?

To put it simply, perhaps only one Einstein would appear among billions of Earthlings, and what about the population of seventeen trillion?

With such a huge population base, it was conceivable how terrifying his construction talent was, being the strongest engineer in the kingdom named after him.

"The King will lead us to victory!"

Large numbers of microscopic fish, the size of mites, began to spread throughout the ocean.

The Atabia Kingdom changed its civilization form with the harsh environment!

Every intelligent engineer, seemingly driving a shelter, acting as a city lord to absorb refugees, in reality, these engineers did not know that they had already evolved from single cells into swimming fish in an alcohol ocean!

At this moment, King Atabia and his ministers had no idea that they had made a historically significant mark, and that civilization had entered the advanced life era.

Starting from the germination of the first life underwater, they were destined to set sail and begin the greatest exploration, from the humble cradle of single-celled civilization to the vast and diverse life.

This moment was silent, but the future was destined to be recorded as eternal.

People in later generations opened the ancient scriptures of God's creation, the "Atabia Creation Bible," and there was a first mural of the earliest literature.

It was a roaring great emperor, building an ark in overlapping angry waves, leading believers to leave the spark of civilization in the great flood, with words beside it describing:

[The Outer God was angry with all living beings on earth for no reason, the sky cracked, thunder rumbled, stars scattered, death mist fell from the sky, accumulating floods destroyed the world, the creator god Atabia, built an ark, saved the survivors, the boat crossed the sea and lived, and the world began to have fish.]

Historically known as the First Great Extinction of the Fog Era.

Under the pavilion, looking at the starry night sky, a tall and handsome man closed this Bible.

"Father, how did fish appear?"

"Fish, didn't you hear it in the Bible just now? The boat crossed the sea and lived, and the world began to have fish."

"Impossible, how could the creator gods of ancient times be so exaggerated? The myths inside are all lies. How could cute fish be transformed from boats? A group of people desperately rowing a boat to save refugees, and as they rowed, the boat turned into a fish? It's just a fairy tale."