The surrounding area was as big as a basketball court. Chen Xiao stood in the middle, looked around, and couldn't help but cough: "What... what kind of place is this?"
He remembered being knocked away by that woman, so how did he end up in this place?
Just as countless thoughts were swirling in his mind, he suddenly heard a few muffled, soft "bang" sounds, as if something had been connected to a power source.
Suddenly, the "walls" in front of them flashed with light! Soon, the entire circular room, with its 360-degree walls, lit up, as if…
It's like a 3D movie screen!
The light flowing on the screen seemed like water. Chen Xiao was so engrossed in watching it that he couldn't help but take a few steps forward, stand in front of a screen, and reach out to touch it.
Touching it with his fingers, he felt an unusual softness, and his fingers even sank in slightly. As he withdrew his fingers, the light inside rippled gently like the surface of water.
liquid crystal?
Chen Xiao couldn't help but think of that word, but then he shook his head. The "screen" in front of him was more like a "liquid" than an LCD screen! Just then, speakers, seemingly hidden somewhere in the room, began to blare from all directions simultaneously.
The sound was also three-dimensional, with even and gentle sound waves. It started as a strange electrical sound, then gradually became sharper, then sometimes high-pitched, sometimes low-pitched, and finally became a buzzing sound, like some kind of roar with no known meaning.
Finally, the sound gradually became clearer, transforming into musical notes that Chen Xiao could understand!
"Hello!"
The voice became clearer, and then uttered those two notes in perfect standard Chinese!
"Y-hello..." Chen Xiao answered subconsciously. She immediately snapped back to reality: "Who? Who's talking to me?"
"It's me." The voice was soft and pleasant, with a gentle tone: "It's me talking to you, right in front of you."
Then, the huge circular screen in front of him flickered, and gradually the light flowed and condensed into the outline of a human face, with a clear nose, eyebrows and eyes. Chen Xiao glanced at it and couldn't help but smile.
The face on the screen is clearly my own!
"To facilitate communication, I can only simulate your appearance. At the same time, I received your bio-brainwaves and converted our language into your language, which makes it easier for us to communicate."
As the sound appeared, the face on the screen gave a friendly smile.
Chen Xiao was truly stunned for a moment!
What did you mean by that just now?
He opened his mouth: "You...you mean...you're not human? You're...this screen? Ah! I know, are you some kind of intelligent computer?"
The voice paused for a moment, then seemed to carry a hint of hesitation: "According to your logic, you could probably classify me as an intelligent computer. But I am not a computer; I do not use electricity, nor am I some kind of abstract data integration instrument. I am a unique life form, but not a natural one. In your human terms, I am man-made."
Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment.
This guy keeps saying "you humans"? Then what is he? Not human?
"You...are you an alien?"
Chen Xiao found it absurd—would he encounter aliens in a place like this?
"No." The other party's answer was direct: "To be precise, I am an Earth creature. Well, Earth, is the name you use to refer to this planet that I collected from your brainwaves."
"What exactly are you? Why did you bring me here?" Chen Xiao frowned, looking around warily.
"My name, in your language, can be called: the fourth type of identifiable, non-renewable, independent organism. I was created to preserve some of the data and information that has been left behind. To be precise, you can think of me as an archivist."
What utter nonsense!
Chen Xiao felt a little dizzy.
"Language communication is only one-sided. Perhaps for creatures like you, only visual effects can provide a more intuitive understanding." After the voice finished speaking, the face on the screen disappeared. "Please read this information; perhaps you will gain a more intuitive understanding."
The giant 360-degree screen around us suddenly started flashing! Images began to appear on the screen one after another!
At first, it appeared to be a desolate desert. The land was utterly lifeless, the sky a gloomy gray, the clouds hanging very low, with strangely colored currents flickering within them…
Soon, countless flashes of lightning appeared, the massive natural discharge a breathtaking spectacle! Between heaven and earth, thousands upon thousands of electric currents surged from the sky towards the ground… Chen Xiao was utterly stunned… Even Hollywood couldn't possibly create such a breathtaking scene!
Then, the scene shifts, and a voice begins to say, "With water, life began."
The scene shifts to water, seemingly magnified countless times, where strangely shaped single-celled organisms float gently, occasionally colliding, sometimes merging, and some quickly dying...
"From the earliest inorganic small molecules to the stage of organic small molecules, it has gone through a long process. It can be said that everything is fragile in the process of nurturing life."
The scene depicts a vast ocean; this is probably... the primeval ocean?!
Soon, the underwater creatures began to change. From primitive single-celled organisms, some early multicellular organisms evolved, and then some monstrous underwater creatures began to appear.
The ocean became lively and full of life!
Finally, the screen flashed, and Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment!
"Dinosaur?"
On the screen, a giant monster raises its head in the sea and roars at the blazing sun in the sky.
Soon, on the screen, some marine creatures rapidly evolved. Some creatures that looked quite like fish had their fins evolve into forelimbs or hindlimbs, becoming reptiles, and gradually leaving the water's surface, heading towards the land...
"Life originates from water. And ultimately, it breaks away from water and moves towards a higher level... This process is still fragile."
The land also began to liven up; the ground was no longer barren, and some terrifyingly large creatures began to appear.
The screen kept flashing, showing all sorts of strange creatures that Chen Xiao had never seen before. One after another, the screen seemed to show a certain creature from several angles before moving on to the next one.
It's like... a documentary?!