April 9, 2019, 22 pm.

West Coast of the American Federation, belonging to the NW Foundation, Collin Research Center.

Before the revival of the aura, the Collinlun Research Center was often visited by the citizens who visited the surrounding area as a zoo. This is not a strange thing, because the open research center is green all year round and looks very suitable for outings, and its breeding house does contain samples of most of the living things around the world.

Recovering research funds by selling admission tickets is also an operation method of the Collin Research Center. There is even a mobile ice cream truck specially provided for tourists inside the center, which is open for 365 days all year round, among which the hazelnut chocolate flavor is the most popular.

After the revival of spiritual energy, due to the impact of animal protection organizations, the Collin Research Center was forced to close the part of the exhibition. Although many citizens lamented that they lacked a scenic spot that they could take their children to visit in their spare time, this still cannot change its essence.

It is one of the best biotechnology research centers in the United States and even the world.

The Collin Research Center was silent at night and looked empty. Although most of the living samples were sent to other areas, released or fostered to the zoo, many on-duty personnel were working in the underground non-public areas, and a small number of rare experimental individuals were left here, requiring constant care and data recording.

NW Foundation President, Normuy was walking side by side with a 'human' with long black and silver hair all over the body.

From the Kingdom of the Galaxy, the ambassador of the Serastian civilization, the guardian of the Holy Land, Tain Prophet had already imitated his communication with humans very perfectly with biological ports. He now looks like a standard exotic human beauty.

But now, the handsome man looked serious and frowned at the moment, obviously quite surprised by what he saw in front of him.

Giant lizard.

A giant lizard that has obviously been genetically and mechanized, is wrapped in silver-gray metal all over, and the color of wisdom is revealed in its eyes.

After more than half a year of life on earth, Prophet Tain has already gained a considerable understanding of the legendary "Black Domain Forbidden Zone Civilization". He even knew that the former subject of this civilization, the group of spiritual immortals named the Immortal and God Civilization, had already broken through the barrier of the great rift before the Silent Age and went to other different universes and worlds to take refuge.

However, humans who remained in their "ancestral land" have also developed quite developed civilizations. Although the current earth civilization has slightly defects in cosmic travel, it still has considerable strength in various psychic skills - and combining psychic technology with their very good technology is also a way for them to accelerate their development.

As the ambassador of the Serastian civilization, Prophet Tain is often invited by officials and even major forces around the world to visit each region and share the technology of the Earth and the Serastian civilization. Although Tain is not a professional technician, as the Serastian Exploration Park, which can drive the exploration ship alone, his knowledge is still quite good, enough to be competent for this job.

Now, the Prophet Tain, who accepted the invitation from the NW Foundation and came to the Collinlun Research Center on the West Coast, couldn't help but fall into doubt.

[This giant lizard...] He and the giant lizard with most of its body in front of him were mechanically transformed and had agile eyes looked at each other for a moment, then turned his head and looked at the president of the NW Foundation, Nolmui, who was beside him: [It is wise?]

"I have a name."

At this time, the giant lizard spoke. His tone was easy-going, with a hint of laziness: "My name is Basilisk, a strange poisonous snake in mythology. Of course, I have to say that the researcher who was responsible for naming me is really terrible. Even if I call me "Little Gray" or "Spots" it is better than this name, at least it is closer."

The giant lizard's voice was clear and although it was a bit weird, the translator above his head was indeed a human voice with clear logic and smooth tone.

He even has his own name and aesthetics.

This is indeed very strange.

The giant lizard, an ancient reptile creature, generally has a body length of more than half a meter to one meter. It is the smartest family in the subclass of the Scale Dragon. The smartest giant lizard even has an IQ comparable to that of cats and dogs in mammals. It knows how to use tactics and sound to attack the east and west, and understands some instructions.

However, this modified giant lizard has a body length of more than 1.5 meters. It is extremely large and has a larger brain than a normal proportion of giant lizards. There are other ordinary giant lizards around this mechanical giant lizard, which are probably used as controls. They are all resting at this moment, or awakening under the stimulation of the light, ready to forage.

Talkable lizards are actually not uncommon. Just a while ago, Prophet Tain met with the current Dragon King of the South China Sea named Jiuming (at the age of fifteen) in the Zhengguo side.

Although it is difficult to prove whether Jiuming's body is an echinoderm or a reptile, in general, it is not surprising that animals can speak in this era of spiritual revival.

But the strange thing is that this giant lizard, called Basilisk, has no spiritual reaction on it.

He doesn't even have a soul.

"I'm a new visitor again. I'm going to sleep now. If I have something to do, I can wake me up - although I don't think it's usually useful."

After answering the question of Tain Prophet, Basilisk closed his eyelids and continued to rest.

He was just visited, and he had long been used to this kind of thing. Anyway, there were foods delivered to his door every day, so he didn't care whether he was living in the breeding garden or a free but dangerous mountain jungle.

Because of understanding human culture, Basilisk realized that his state was a state of "eating and waiting for death" that many ordinary humans could not get. It was a beautiful state.

And the Prophet Tain stared at the giant lizard that was sleeping deeply.

After pondering for a while, he turned his head and looked at Normui who was chuckling: [So, through biotechnology cultivation and electronic brain transformation, you have created a giant lizard with nearly fifteen-year-old human intelligence?]

[Not using psychic energy, no promotion of Kaihui, just using biotechnology to create a lizard that can communicate normally?]

“That’s true.”

In response, the old president with a gray hair nodded with a smile. He touched his beard with a smile on his tone: "After multiple generations of optimization and cultivation and the transformation of related cyber technology, we can already improve the wisdom of most animals to a level comparable to that of ordinary humans - they can even learn knowledge related to humans online and learn human language and thinking patterns."

"The giant lizard ‘Basilisk’ of the Collin Research Center is a successful example, and the dolphin ‘Leviathan’ located in the coastal cultivation garden is the same - Leviathan’s intelligence even surpasses that of ordinary humans. She can even understand the practice and start practicing from scratch independently."

When he said this, Nolmu turned his head seriously and looked at the Prophet Tain, who was also solemn, stressed: "It is not that he was first enlightened by the spiritual energy, but after gaining wisdom, he spontaneously absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to sublimate himself."

"But start from scratch, understand the practice with simple wisdom, and then motivate the spiritual energy to enter the body, and practice like most humans."

【…What is the significance?】

Taking a deep breath, the aliens from Serastia muttered to themselves incomprehensible. The Serastia people were not unable to do this technology. After all, as the most powerful galaxy civilization in the observable universe, they can even create biological spacecraft that can be produced like plants, which can be planted and sowed by themselves. It is only a matter of time before they can be made.

But, why?

[To be honest, with such technology, there is no need for the lizard's brain to be optimized and transformed. You can create AI that is comparable to human wisdom out of thin air, right?]

This is the most real doubt.

It's as weird as if there are clear rivers and lakes around the village, but you have to work hard to dig wells in the rocks next to it - since they can already make animals look like humans, wouldn't it be easy to create intelligent AI that looks more like humans?

What the Serastians cannot understand is not technology, but the ideas of the earthlings.

"AI doesn't matter, that's another problem."

In response to this, the Earthling Nolmui just chuckled, and he looked at the giant lizard in front of him and said, "The difference between humans and animals is only in wisdom. If animals have reliable wisdom that can be continued and passed on after being transformed by biological systems, what is the essential difference between them and humans?"

"If a human who was originally smart undergoes similar modification surgery, then what is the essential difference between the modified human and the original human?"

Speaking everything calmly, Normui's eyes became a little confused: "What matters is the definition of humanity."

——When an animal becomes a human, that person becomes a god.

"A human being who has undergone a complete set of 'superhuman transformation surgery' will have a leap in intelligence and thinking ability - Basilisk regards his own kind as if the immortals and gods are staring at mortals, and the transformed human beings will also obtain some elements of the wisdom of the immortals and gods before they get the power of the immortals and gods."

"You can browse all your memories and never forget anything. You have extremely rich association capabilities. You use big data to summarize all information and use the most efficient algorithm... If everyone has experienced this transformation surgery, everyone has the same power and thinking as immortals and gods... Can this show that humans have surpassed themselves with their own wisdom and become a new and powerful species?"

As he said this, Normuy looked at the Prophet Tain, the NW (NewWorld) suitor, waiting for the answers from other civilized members.

"How do the Serastians who have surpassed our many biotechnology and who may have walked this long ago view this process?"

This is why Normui invited the Prophet Tain to visit here.

Because the road to follow is an unknown road for humans on earth, which has never been taken before, is a dark place, and it is not known what the end is, and how bumpy the road is, so he wanted to ask the opinions of pioneers in this regard.

【Is this very important?】

The Serastian asked in confusion: [No matter what transformation has been done, as long as it is the son of the earth derived from the spirit of the planet, it is the Serastians - whether they are smart, stupid, wise, or like wild beasts, they are all our fellow citizens.]

[Not all Serastians have wisdom in the usual sense - the atmosphere that envelops our "living planet". They are essentially also a son of a planet with basic wisdom and enlightenment. In other words, they are also a Serastian. It is just because they are too huge, so they cannot have wisdom like us.]

[For us, wisdom cannot be used as an element to distinguish race.]

Ultimately, the Serastians and humans are different from their roots, which are two intelligent races with completely different origins.

"So that's it, I probably understand..."

Upon hearing this, Normui couldn't help but sigh: "But for humans, this is very important."

Humans.

Homo sapiens.

Primates with strong wisdom have language and labor, social and class nature. The obvious difference between this species and other primates lies in their brain capacity, that is, in terms of intelligence.

With intelligence, humans invented tools and created a civilization system and a cultivation system. With the almost unique innate wisdom on the earth, humans defeated the numerous primitive spiritual beasts and divine beasts that needed spiritual energy to gain wisdom, and created the glorious immortal and god civilization of the past.

Everything is based on this.

But what if this foundation changes?

"If humans can create species that are similar to themselves and surpass themselves, humans can extract their own genes and create biochemical people who are closer to themselves at the genetic level than their children and can better inherit their genes - and such biochemical people have held the best genes, the best thinking modes and algorithms since they were born, and have all the big data databases of previous generations as basis for analysis and judgment, and can be connected to the Internet to directly inherit the technology of the entire human civilization... Isn't such an existence more human than humans?"

"Since that's the case, what's the meaning of reproduction? What's the meaning of natural nurturing offspring?"

"Can the 'human' created like that really be considered a human? Are we creating our own substitute?"

This narrates the imagined future, the old man's tone is a bit heavy... and a little yearning.

He could vaguely see a future - all human beings are connected through the Internet, sharing their spirit and computing power through big data algorithms, sharing knowledge and thinking. Every human individual has a much stronger thinking hardware than before. They are connected through consensus algorithms, overcome difficulties together, share sadness and joy together, and pursue a higher level of practice together.

At that time, one person breaks through, which means all mankind will break through, and one person becomes an immortal god, and everyone can become an immortal god.

In this future, humans transcend humans themselves and become higher-level species, creating a new world picture - that is exactly the wish of the NW Foundation

However, the creature in that future also made him feel a little fear while yearning for it.

"Superhumanization surgery, even other transformations, or the emergence of high-level anthropomorphic AI, will make most ordinary people lose their meaning of existence. The value they create may not be as good as a high-level supercomputer or transformer... and their thinking and wisdom may not even be as powerful as an AI."

"These powerful human creatures, and those powerful people, their will will become a torrent of guiding the human mind network and transforming other weak people."

Such a future will become a paradise for the strong.

It will also become a hell for the weak.

Just like the immortal and god civilization in the past.

In the civilization of immortals and gods, powerful practitioners stood out from the human cluster and became noble gods and gods.

They lead mankind and rule mankind, regard the human race as farmland, cultivate, cultivate their own kind, and constantly strengthen their own group, a group of immortals called the God Realm and the Heavenly Court.

Immortals and gods are existences that transcend humans and do not regard themselves and humans as their kind. They do love humans and are full of expectations, but most of that love is high above them.

Moreover, most importantly, for the immortals and gods, the vast majority of the human population is meaningless - what is meaningful is just those individuals with endless potential and can become immortals and immortals, and most of their love is devoted to these individuals, and other humans are just a population base.
To be continued...