CHAPTER 38: CHAPTER 36: AGE OF SAINTS, ELF ERA!

Outside the world, after casually responding with a divine oracle, Li Qing silently sensed the newly born batch of integrated consciousness lifeforms.

These artificially second Awakened beings were astonishingly similar to the naturally second Awakened Holy Dragons, able to possess and observe them secretly at any time and descend to control them at will.

"The control ability suddenly rose completely."

Li Qing felt a sense of delight.

It took him a whole week to create one second Awakened subordinate.

Now, eight thousand appeared in one go.

He could even secretly "observe" each of these wise ones, using them as his eyes, making it more convenient to observe the entire world and freely switch the perspective of subordinates, feeling extremely comfortable.

"However, the population has become sparse. Let’s see what they will do."

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At this moment.

The era truly began to advance.

In a sense, the previous eras were all incomplete and defective times.

Without a brain.

Now is the time of truly complete lives.

As second Awakened new humans, each of them possessed a neural network life fused from forty thousand brain cells, with forty thousand integrated consciousnesses, and as the primary consciousness, their computing power reached an extremely terrifying degree!

Although it wasn’t as exaggerated as a forty-thousand-fold increase in computational speed, it improved by several hundred times, and such vast computational power allowed these programmers to have a qualitative leap in compiling and scripting monotonous code.

Many programmers have such experiences:

Most of the time, it’s not a lack of intelligence, but writing strings of code is too annoying!

And now they have perfectly solved this problem.

Looking at the decaying city, outside the Church, these Holy Positions spoke:

"In the world, there is already no life left, only us. The world is too desolate, full of ruins, devoid of vitality."

"Because of us, the world was destroyed, so let us create the world."

"Yes, always studying the brain, the topics given by the Lord to our Saints on earth, researching the Elf Diagram, now it’s time to complete it."

Soon.

They found research very easy now.

"So simple!"

They laughed.

"Yes, easily compiled a large segment of genetic sequence."

This leap in life, after igniting the Holy Fire, was like turning an abacus into a calculator, seemingly truly akin to Gods, constantly creating, improving, and compiling the structures of elves.

"There are already eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, the next elf feeding method will mainly use meat as the main energy source, supplemented by radiation synthesis and photosynthesis, maximizing the absorption of solar energy, absorbing the power of sunlight and nature."

"And the body size, let’s set it to our previous human size."

"And what about reproduction?"

"How about using Tower of Babel technology?"

"Too slow, creating one by one is simply foolish."

"Instead, let them be born on the World Tree, transform the World Tree, fruit on it, turning into elves."

"Not bad."

"This World Tree is just right."

The Saints quickly stood atop the World Tree, continuously discussing and planning the future of the civilization.

If the era of building the Tower of Babel, the related biological cloning technology of Earth’s modern humans still had a trace, but now their computational power has advanced far beyond Earth humans for hundreds of years.

The civilization took off completely.

The fourth day.

The Saints finally completed the project stuck for half a month.

They created the first-generation primitive elves. Although very stiff, with skin hard like wood, they had eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

They transformed themselves into these primitive elves, no longer using consciousness waves to sense the world.

For the first time, they heard the subtle sounds of the world.

For the first time, they smelled various scents, uttered their own shouts, and saw the colors of the world!

"We have become complete beings!"

They knew this was a historic milestone!

The seventh day of the new era.

They were dissatisfied with using the mouth to spread sound as this inefficient communication method and began creating a brand-new gene transmission technology:

Gene storage.

Modern human code uses binary 0 and 1, transforming all the texts, numbers, symbols, pictures, sounds, and videos, interpreting the entire world’s information.

And they began to try using: genetic quaternary language, represented as 1, 2, 3, 4, compiled, read, stored, and transmitted information in DNA.

Another three days later.

They succeeded again.

For those proficient in gene compilation technology, transforming into code was naturally successful.

They built the simplest language decoders for their bodies. Their communication already involved lightly pointing fingers at each other, injecting a DNA strip, which the other could decode to transmit images, movies, and information.

With a gentle point, information could be transmitted.

This was already like the myths of the Saints.

"This is a capability only those with Holy Position can possess!" they communicated.

At this moment.

Their gene storage technology had matured, thoroughly surpassing modern humans.

It must be noted that in 2017, George Church, hailed as a pioneer of first and second generation gene editing technology and the Godfather of genomics, also used such a method, converting binary digital language into the four nucleotide bases of DNA storage in Escherichia coli, and after dozens of generations, extracted and recombined into an animation of a galloping horse.

At that time, it caused a huge shock and response in the scientific community.

Compared to silicon, DNA is the ideal carrier for data storage. Physical storage devices usually have a lifespan of less than 10 years, while DNA can preserve genetic information intact for over 100 years, consuming energy only a billionth of that of a flash drive.

Even more astonishing is that 1 gram of DNA can store 220 million high-definition movies.

And in 2019, Huawei announced the establishment of a strategic research institute, which included researching DNA storage technology. The goal was to leverage DNA storage to break through ultra-large storage space models and coding technology, overcoming the capacity wall.

In October 2022, just over a month ago.

A Huaxia research team also achieved a breakthrough in biological storage technology, successfully conducting DNA storage of 10 high-definition Dunhuang murals.

And now, this biotechnological civilization, from beginning research in gene storage to now, took only ten days!

And this storage is undoubtedly the foundational textual technology necessary for this biological civilization.

Outside the laboratory, Li Qing watched this scene with amazement in his heart:

"They have experienced a transitional period of metamorphosis and are beginning the second civilization explosion."

"Finally they are starting to leave the Barbaric Era, entering the information age, with various outrageous, mythical biotechnologies starting to emerge."

Written script is the foundation for the development of civilization, allowing generations of populations to accumulate wisdom, letting future generations stand on the shoulders of giants.

Humans recorded history with stone tablets, creating the initial origin of human civilization history, with over five thousand years of records.

The Earth recorded history with geological fossils, creating the initial record of biological evolution history, with 4.6 billion years of records becoming the fossil murals of historical strata.

And the civilization before us, with a quaternary language within the body, is recording history.

And this is just their beginning.

In the laboratory room, they began transforming back into fervent civilization sages, pursuing truth, exploring the laws of the world, beginning to replicate their structure, continuing to research the brain, constantly optimizing and miniaturizing the previous 1 cm embryo brain.

Regrettably.

The first version of the elf equipped with this brain still had somewhat low intelligence.

But these scholars on the tree still happily walked in this created ground world, watching each tribe, accepting the reverence of the tribe’s people, enlightening all beings.

They enjoyed the pleasures of gods.

"The Tree of Life! Nurtured us!"

"The holy creation in Heaven often walks among humans."

Some simple-minded and inarticulate elves were induced to grow up, also entered the tribal era, with incredible fervor worshipping the entire huge Tree of Life, the mother nurturing all spirits.

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