In the beginning of time, who passed on the Way?

Chapter 151 In the beginning of time, who passed on the Way?

Transforming a small world into a game is neither particularly difficult nor particularly easy. After all, the size of the small world is limited, and simply reenacting the story according to its background would be far from sufficient.

But this does not affect Lilith's ability to build her backstory.

In order to reflect the grandeur of the background, the small world cannot be at the center of the background story. In the setting, the small world is just a fragment of a large world, belonging to a remote place in the background story.

Lilith then only needs to keep hinting in the small world that there is a larger world outside the small world, and everything in this world is insignificant. As long as the players who enter this world believe it, the world with a truly grand background and setting will eventually appear.

With this thought in mind, Lilith eagerly began her plan, which started by transmitting information about "fire, civilization, and faith" into the mind of a trembling ape-man in a cave.

In the sand table, after three billion years of evolution, the world is no longer as monotonous as it was at the beginning. Terrains such as mountains, rivers, plains, and hills now cover the entire continent.

For ease of reference, Lilith refers to the continents in the small world as the Pancontinent. In the western part of the Pancontinent, due to the plains, the ape-men were the first to learn to walk upright, freeing their hands.

Even with their hands freed, these small, skinny monkeys, averaging 1.3 meters in height, were powerless against predators such as the saber-toothed cat, giant spotted hyenas, crocodiles, and giant eagles.

In addition, the presence of a large amount of body hair resulted in extremely low heat dissipation efficiency, which also led to poor endurance. Therefore, throughout history, when faced with predators, the ape-man species could only hide in trees or caves, trembling with fear.

This situation was supposed to continue for millions of years until the brain capacity of ape-men increased further and they began to make tools.

But Lilith didn't want to let the apes develop freely. Her goal was to make the small world a microcosm of a grand story. To achieve this, she deliberately chose a young ape from a certain ape tribe on a stormy day.

Sleeve constructed a spiritual space with a starry sky as its backdrop and veiled its own image with a black curtain to increase its mystique. Only after doing all this did it truly begin its actions.

That night, the sky was pitch black, dark clouds obscured all the starlight, and torrential rain pounded on the branches and leaves of the trees, making a continuous crackling and rustling sound.

A young ape-man and his tribe hid in a cave. Perhaps because the sound of rain masked the terrifying roars of wild beasts that usually filled the air, he simply huddled together with his companions, and his breathing quickly calmed down; he had fallen asleep.

That night, he had a dream. He dreamt of endless wild fruits and many beautiful apes sticking their butts out at him. He didn't need to think about anything, didn't need to worry about wild beasts, and didn't need to worry about hunger. He only needed to eat wild fruits and reproduce.

However, just as he was cuddling with the beautiful ape and eating wild fruit, the dream world suddenly underwent a dramatic change.

At first, it was just a tiny, inconspicuous patch of black on the horizon. A few seconds later, the darkness surged in like a raging flood, engulfing the forest, wild fruits, and beautiful apes.

Upon witnessing this incomprehensible scene, the young ape-man was horrified. He abandoned the beautiful ape and the wild fruit, and fled in a panic in the opposite direction of the darkness.

But he was too slow. In the blink of an eye, darkness completely enveloped him and everything in front of him. The young ape-man was so frightened that he curled up on the ground, making a whimpering sound like a small animal.

The young ape-man was completely unable to comprehend what was happening. For him, the unknown was almost synonymous with danger. Just as he was struggling to await pain and death, what came first was the starlight that gradually brightened in the darkness.

The originally pitch-black space was gradually illuminated by starlight, and a large number of stars began to emerge, forming a magnificent galaxy.

In the Milky Way, a huge black shadow appeared. Its body was taller than the stars and darker than black. It lowered its head and looked down at the small, skinny monkey huddled together.

—What is this thing doing?

Seeing the little skinny monkey trembling, Lilith was a little puzzled, but none of that mattered. With just a thought, the little skinny monkey stood up uncontrollably and forced its head to look directly at Lilith.

Meeting the little skinny monkey's questioning, uneasy, surprised, and fearful gaze, Lilith didn't find anything amiss. Instead, she began reciting her prepared script: "The law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak, is the first law that God inscribed within all things. Civilization is the soil that allows the weak to survive. I will bestow upon you the spark of civilization. A thousand years from now, you will be history; ten thousand years from now, you will be a myth—"

Lilith spoke calmly, and a series of complex information was precisely engraved in the mind of the young ape-man before her.

He was not worried about whether the young ape-man understood, because under His words, the young ape-man's originally uneasy eyes gradually calmed down, and a glimmer of wisdom even flashed in his turbid eyes.

[It's done!]

Lilith's eyes lit up. This meant that, after Xiu's speech, the young ape had finally begun to think about things other than survival. For apes who thought about eating and reproduction all day long, this was a milestone.

After stuffing all the uses of fire and concepts of civilization into the young ape-man's mind, Lilith kicked him out of the mental space.

He himself opened his eyes and, in front of a sand table the size of four square meters, watched the changes that this ape-man had brought to the world.

After Lilith pulled him out of the mental space, the ape-man woke up immediately. He sat there blankly, and all the information Lilith had given him was presented in a way that he could understand.

He looked around at his tribesmen lying haphazardly on the ground, his heart filled with confusion and helplessness.

He didn't know why he felt this way, but he felt that he and his people shouldn't live in such a place, possessing knowledge that didn't belong to this era. He felt that he had to do something, whether for himself or for his people.

Just as the young ape-man made up his mind, a flash of white light suddenly appeared at the cave entrance, followed by a huge rumble.

Rumble—

The terrifying thunder instantly woke the sleeping ape-men. They let out a few frightened cries and huddled together, trembling, as if some monster was roaring.

But the young ape chosen by Lilith didn't think so. After witnessing Lilith's existence, his curiosity, suppressed by his survival instinct, surged up unconsciously. He looked at the cave entrance, wanting to know where the white light and loud noise just now came from.

Where are you going?

While the younger ape-man was moving, a slightly older ape-man called out in ape language.

The young ape-man didn't turn around: "I want to go out and see."

The older ape said, "It's dangerous outside, you'll die!"

The young ape-man ignored this statement, thinking that if you don't do certain things because you're afraid of dying, what's the difference between that and being dead?