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Chapter One

 "Living is really a happy thing.

"But I have been dead for thirty thousand years.

"There are only a few edges left in the memory of the past. I vaguely remember that my grandchildren cried very sadly. They used the best space metal to build a coffin and held a grand space funeral for me.

"I drifted out of the solar system, drifting aimlessly in the vastness of the universe, experiencing eternal loneliness.

"I should be dead, but my consciousness is so clear.

"I can even feel the deactivation of every cell, and the accompanying flora are dying for me. During the long and lonely journey in the universe, I didn't even have a close bacterial friend to make daily routines.

"I am so lonely, but there is no sadness or complaint. The emotions are the feedback of the body, and my body has been fester, and reason has prevailed.

"My name is Guzhou, and I am also a lonely boat floating in the universe.

"Am I still human?

"Is it a ghost? Or a god?

"But the only things that accompany me are the eternal darkness of the universe and the occasional glimpse of starlight. The stars are just gravel occasionally rolled up in the vast ocean of the universe. They are rare guests that I rarely encounter in my 30,000-year journey.

"Thirty thousand years later, even if I am rational, I still feel a little bored. I can perceive the universe through a strange perspective without any emotional color. Why can't I get any feedback from my body?

"By the way, I'm dead!

"Perhaps, I should do something to pass the endless years.

"How to come back to life?"

Guzhou fell into eternal and endless thinking, neither troubled nor painful, and only occasionally moved his thoughts to activate the eternal wisdom.

He could think about it for another 30,000 years, but it would be meaningless except waiting.

Time is the poison of life, but death is not mysterious at all. The universe is always long, vast and cold.

Thinking does not necessarily lead to results.

Guzhou's lifespan exceeds the length of civilization. Whether humans exist on earth is still open to question, and thirty thousand years is just a long thought for him.

"I transcend the dimension of reality and stand above time and space, but I still need to find some candles of life in the universe, to add some luster to my long and meaningless thinking, and to restore the absolute rational divinity.

Humanity."

"I can wait for tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, hundreds of millions of years, time is really cheap."

"The changes came so unexpectedly. My coffin was captured by a planet and circled around it for three thousand years. The earth's volcanoes melted, lava spread all over the earth's crust, and three thousand years of acid rain created a vast acidic sea."

The changes in the universe are truly amazing.

"I really want to feel it for myself, but the coffin my grandson built for me is so strong that acid rain has not corroded the cracks for three thousand years. Instead, it has become a prison."

Guzhou's rational thinking has no resentment or happiness, and is indifferent and inhumane.

Three thousand years and three thousand years.

Scarlet lightning struck the earth and the coffin wildly for three thousand years, and the powerful acid rain hurricane blew the coffin for another three thousand years. Finally, one day, the coffin deformed slightly and cracked every crack, as fine as a hair.

The love of grandchildren is too deep.

This triggered some programs in the coffin, automatically calibrated the acceleration, flew out of the orbit of the stars, and continued to accelerate, starting an eternal journey farther into deep space.

The ashes were scattered all the way through the cracks.

I vaguely remember that my grandchildren have planned for themselves a starry sky travel route for hundreds of millions of years after death.

"What a filial and good boy!"

"Fortunately, a wisp of my ashes finally leaked out from the gap in the coffin. With the roar of the wind in the stars, dancing with the acid rain, it landed on the fast lane of lightning and landed in the world."

"My ashes and cells have left me, but I still feel it so clearly."

The cells were crushed and turned into more basic macromolecules. The macromolecules were broken again and turned into smaller molecules such as amino acids, nucleotides and even bases, and then scattered in the vast ocean.

The perception becomes blurry.

Lying in a coffin and traveling far away, Guzhou felt a little bit regretful.

But for him, time is meaningless. A simple thought and a trip to encounter the stars last thousands of years. This chance encounter is only an insignificant moment for the past and the future.

One thousand years, ten thousand years, one hundred thousand years...

Or maybe in the longer future, Guzhou will suddenly be awakened from his thoughts.

The lost perceptions slowly resumed, spanning eternity of time and space, and far away from the endless stars, as if everything was close at hand.

For the first time, Guzhou felt something strange that came from outside of reason. It was a perception that he had not experienced for tens of thousands of years, a mysterious feeling caused by various complex reactions such as material collision and force feedback.

It’s touch!

The body’s real tactile feedback to all things in nature.

"What happened?"

Surprise!

Guzhou was astonished as never before and moved like an electric shock.

How many light-years away, a young and active desolate planet makes this great being drifting in the universe look down from an eternity of time and space. His eyes transcend time and space, and his thoughts span the universe.

Boom!

The bumpy sea, the hot lava, the lightning that breaks through the clouds, and the heavy rain that has fallen for thousands of years are boiling with a rough, ancient and youthful atmosphere.

Just at the edge of the ocean and the earth, in the light and darkness of the strange scene pierced by lightning, a miracle that transcends common sense was born.

Small molecular structures merged into macromolecular structures during the collision, and the macromolecular structures adapted and attracted each other during the collision to form multi-molecular structures, gradually forming a cellular life with genetic characteristics.

This cell is primitive and simple.

The genetic material in the cytosol is perfect like the scepter of God.

"Cells? My ashes gave rise to life on this planet..."

How many years!

Loneliness is endless, and the eternal universe seems endless.

During his journey of tens of thousands of years, Gu Zhou had never seen any trace of life, as if he was the only traveler in the universe. But today, he felt great joy.

This is a hymn to life!

Praise for the miracle born in desolation!

Although the cell is simple, it is the most basic unit and structure to build a multi-cellular life form. It is also the first time that Guzhou has felt the warmth of life from the universe after tens of thousands of years since his death.

"Life is derived from my ashes and my genetic material. This young and vigorous planet comes to me, saving tens of billions of years of hard work!"

"What should I do?"

"Create a me?"

"No, that makes no sense."

"Even if I wake up from the universe, it will be no different from now. Boredom and loneliness cannot relieve the eternal loneliness."

Guzhou's coffin drifts alone in the deep sky, and the consciousness examines the cold void.

He drifted for tens of thousands of years, like a desolate ghost and god overlooking the eternal years. The universe after death is long and boring.

"Maybe, I just need to chat."
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