Ediacara
When Yoshida and Crane went to Newton's box, Newton and Lee were assembling a mysterious device. Something like a projector was lined up. "What are you doing?" "This is a 3D controller. Recently been developed for the game. Input and output are done in 3D. Before it has been done by goggles, this machine can input and output in real-time in this hologram projector and motion capture." Newton "Hey, it looks useful, but for what? Do you play games?" "No. It looks like PICAE has evolved considerably. We can see them directly in the computer in three dimensions instead of on the monitor." "Has it evolved so much?" "Look at the monitor" Yoshida looked into the monitor. There are ups and downs, such as the sea floor in the most dark screen, and small white amorphous objects were visible here and there. To Yoshida, it seemed like lichens on the rock surface. "What is that?" "The inside of the computer is virtually displayed in three dimensions. In fact, yesterday there was a tremendous progress. Until now, PICAE was a small individual. It was a simple individual with the information and the functions needed to maintain and replicate itself. Although it is the simplest, the internal structure is extremely complicated. It is much larger and more complex than any artificial life ever developed. It absorbed the energy and materials in the virtual space, grew and split, and scattered its own reproductions. Of course, it's a copy of himself with little mutations. Mating is done only with mutations that are close to you. And, of course, they are divided into innumerable different species and compete with each other for survival. That condition lasted for about 3 days. There wasn't much change, so I was wondering if this had stopped the evolution. Suddenly, it didn't separate the split units and continued to grow while sticking to them. " "Maybe it's a multicellular organism? " "Yeah, It has not gone that far yet. It's just the same thing that doesn't separate and sticks together. But it's still a pretty progress. It's close to Volvox, if not sponges. When the units divide their roles and begin to differentiate their functions, it will finally resemble a multicellular animal. " "Hey," Yoshida and Crane were impressed and stared at a white object on the screen. "It looks interesting. I want to see it." "Well, so let's take a look directly at this controller." "Show me" "Me too" Yoshida and Crane begged. "Then let's go with three people. Lee, look at the device." "Okay, please go." Lee turned on the controller. Immediately, a black cube with a side of about 2M appeared in the middle of the room. "What is this?" Yoshida stared at the eerie cube with anxiety. "This is the controller space. Enter." Yoshida put his finger on the surface of the black cube. His fingertips went inside and he didn't feel anything at all. "Enter Quickly!" Newton pushed Yoshida's back. Yoshida disappeared in a black cube.
The inside was completely dark. Suddenly the floor disappeared and Yoshida lost his balance and fell while swinging his limbs. "Ah ah ah!" Immediately he hit the hard ground. It was like in the shallow sea. Light was pouring from above in the blue sea. Yoshida stood like a rocky seabed. The black undulating seabed was covered with white sand. There was no feeling of water and he was able to move freely. There was a sound, so when Yoshida turned around, Newton and Crane had arrived. "It's like in the sea," Crane was looking around. "look" Newton pointed at his feet. Something like a smooth white fan was stuck on the rock. When they looked around, there were countless numbers here and there. It was rolling like an amorphous cushion. "Hey, is this the wreck of Pika?" Yoshida crouched down beside the nearest one and poked with his finger. He felt it was soft. Then it shrank as if he was trying to avoid it. "Oh, it moved" The cushion-like-organism was slowly moving. Crane asked Newton. "Is this the only one?" "No, there are many types. The colors are different." Three walked slowly on the seabed. There were various shapes such as an amorphous cushion, a round one, and a slightly elongated one. The water in the sea seemed to flicker a little. It seemed like something small was wriggling. "Is there something in the water?" "It's still a single cell. It's about 1mm in diameter. It absorbs energy that mimics sunlight and is actively split in water. And cushion-like-organism takes up this single-celled one from the skin and is growing. " "Are they not going to die?" "Of course, they will die if they are taken in by another guy or at the end of their life. And it is disassembled into just a material. In other words, it becomes a mass of converted energy and a mass of information. Another organism will take it in again. " "I understand energy, but in what form is information?" "It's the one-dimensional form of information that makes up these organisms. Although it is invisible in this pseudo-three-dimensional space, it stores information in its one-dimensional form. The one who eats can take it in and put it in his information box. Furthermore, the information that constitutes this pseudo space itself is constantly flowing in this seawater. It is also possible to capture it. " "Can these organisms all be considered animals? That is, it eats other organisms and takes in energy. " Crane "All the multicellular organisms here are. It's all single-celled organisms who directly take in the energy that flows in the form of light. " "Here? Then, is there anything else?" "This is block 1. There are 5 blocks in total. However, it is not yet a predator here. Just by taking in the corpses of unicellular organisms, they maintain a peaceful relationship with each other. " Two cushion-like creatures were slowly approaching in front of Yoshida and others. When they thought they would have a head-on collision, 2 creatures reached out to each other and played rock-paper-scissors. And the loser gave way. "Oh, it's peaceful." Crane said.
"Let's go to the second block" Newton twisted the button on the device that he had in his hand. The scene changed in a blink of an eye. It was a similar seabed. However, the rocky area on the seabed did not have that cushion-like-organism, and countless large leaves grew between the sands and swayed. There were various shapes such as large leaves, thin strings growing in bundles, and innumerable thin branches. "It's completely different from the previous one." "What grows here is similar to a primitive plant. Instead of taking up single cells in water, that phyllodes structure takes in energy directly. " There were various shapes of the growing plants, and their colors were also colorful. The red, green, and blue Yoshida felt like they were in a primary color flower field. However, there were no fish other than the suspicious flowers swaying in the waves, and neither the crabs nor the shrimp moved. It was a quiet world as if it were dead. "Why doesn't that cushion-like-creature come here?" "They haven't evolved the ability to move freely between the computer net world yet. I think they will eventually gain the ability to move. " A coral-like finely branched plant was growing near Yoshida. It was swaying quietly in the waves, but suddenly it stopped moving as if it were stiff. And the whole was covered with a faint blue light. And while they were looking at it, it cracked finely and fell apart. As soon as it fell to the bottom of the sea, it decomposed into fine shining sand grains and shined as a mass of sand for a while, but the light disappeared quietly. Only sand remained behind. A nearby seagrass creature sadly blew a funeral march with a trumpet. "This creature has reached the end of its life and has been disassembled." "What are the other blocks?" "There are still only single cells in the remaining 3 blocks."
Yoshida asked to Newton over a cup of coffee in the dinning room. "I want you to explain more about the one we saw earlier. Does that mean that you made a computer that looks exactly like this 3D world and bred Pika? " "No, I happened to do the evaluation function in three dimensions, so it looks like that. It has nothing to do with our world. It just looks like that sea condition so that you can see it visually. If you use the four-dimensional evaluation function, you can construct and view the four-dimensional world. However, we cannot grasp the 4th dimension very much. " "It's not that weird creatures crawl out of there, I am glad." Crane was relieved. "You said they were taking in energy and information, but what exactly is it? Aside from information, I don't really understand energy. " Yoshida said. "In our world, energy is the energetic material that needs to do anything, such as food, fuel, and so on. But in the computer world with Pika, energy is the allocation of computer processing time. In other words, it's about their metabolism, growth and proliferation, and they are eating the time allotted to do it. " "Allotted time? I don't understand" Yoshida said. "Well, it's quite different from our world, but visually we simulated it with the sun shining down from above. For information, we simulated it with the seawater that's always flowing around. "Did you understand with this? " "I'd like to ask you one question, but what if that cushion is now online?" "Well, it's going to be a pretty big worm. Even a normal virus is smaller than a single cell that you saw in the seawater. It grows slowly, has nothing like intelligence other than reflexes, and won't have much of an impact. " "I'm relieved, so I think we can use it with confidence." "It's still early to be relieved. I have to find out how much it will evolve from there in the future."
The next morning, when Yoshida yawned and came to work, Newton was already clinging to the monitor. He had a blue face and a black dark circle under his eyes. He was hitting the keyboard without noticing that Yoshida had arrived. "Good morning, it's so early" Newton finally noticed Yoshida and raised his face. "I've been here since last night." "Well, have you been here all night?" "There has been a lot of progress since last night." "How?" "The creatures in Block 1 and Block 2 have come to and from each other. The two groups of organisms were mixed. And in a blink of an eye, various forms of creatures appeared. Explosively. It's like a mad mess. " Yoshida looked into the monitor. It was a white wire display on a black background, and he could see countless strange forms of creatures wandering around. "Oh" Crane was looking into it from behind Yoshida. "It's species explosion. It's similar to the Cambrian explosion hundreds of millions of years ago. It seems to correspond to the era of the early animal design experiment site. It looks amazing. I want to see it in 3D as soon as possible. " "It's just a Cambrian explosion. I have no idea what will happen in the future. Maybe something like a fish will appear, becomes a reptile, becomes a mammal, and finally humanity may appear. " "No way" "It might be better to show this to Director Nelson." Crane stared at Yoshida and thoughtfully said so.
After breakfast, Yoshida returned to work after the boys went to school. Lee and Vergil were sitting side by side in Pika's box. "What? Virgil, what about school?" Virgil turned around and showed his red tongue. "I have a stomachache, let me rest today." "Stomachache? Aren't an android?" Yoshida stared at Virgil. "Ehehehe," Virgil put his hand on his head and laughed shyly. "What are you doing?" Yoshida looked into the monitor, they were just playing a game. "I'm stopping Pika right now. Until director Nelson and others get together." Lee said while playing the game. "What about Isaac?" "He is taking a nap in his room." "Then I'll take a rest for a while," Yoshida said and left the work room.
After confirming that Yoshida had gone out, Vergil asked. "Hey, Lee" "What?" "Why can you take a break from school whenever you want?" "I got permission from my teacher. And I don't want to go to elementary school. " "You are smart" Lee nodded. "Can I ask one?" "Okay, what?" "Why do you sometimes sneak into my dad's bedroom at night?" Lee suddenly stopped playing the game. His cheeks turned a little red. Then he slowly turned to Virgil. "Sneak in?" "You'll be in my dad's room with a big pillow, and you'll come out at dawn and sneak back into your room." "It's okay. I and your dad are engaged." "What is engagement?" "Promise to get married." "Yeah, are you getting married?" Lee turned his eyes back to the monitor. "What are you two doing in the bedroom?" Lee put his head on the desk. "Hmm, I think You Know It Well." Lee's face was red. A smile came to his face on Virgil. "Of course I know it well. I just made fun of you because I was made for that." "You're an android for sex. So you did it with your dad?" When Lee asked, Vergil closed his eyes and shook his head. "Not yet. Even if I invite my dad, he won't do it." "I know that your saliva has a powerful aphrodisiac effect? What if you kiss your dad? " "If I kiss a man,his sexual libido increases to the max, and that libido doesn't subside until he ejaculates in the boy's body." Lee rounded his eyes. "I'll kiss my dad someday." "Please don't kiss me." "Mufufufuh, I want to see where you and my dad are doing sex." "What do you do when you see it?" "For reference" "What reference?" "Of course, reference for how to do anal sex" Lee's face blushed again. "It hurts a lot." "Hmm, is there a way to make it painless?" "No, but it's a little easier if you put it in from behind. Put your head on the floor, raise your hips as high as possible, and spread your legs wide." "What's that, it looks like a frog." "In that position, the hole in the butt and the tube expands to the fullest. So it's a little easier. And man's penis goes all the way in." "Thank you, I'll use it as a reference. By the way, what would you be like if you married my dad?" "Uhhhh, maybe I'm your mom" Virgil opened his eyes wide and looked at Lee. "Wow, that's right, you're my mom ..." Virgil suddenly opened the chest of Lee's shirt. Lee's chest appeared. "Wow! What are you doing!" Virgil stared at two small red nipples on Lee's chest. "... You have poor breasts. Well, okay" With that said, Vergil put his mouth to Lee's nipple. "Chuba, Chuba, Chuba" "Oh Oh Oh Oh!" Lee wide-opened his eyes. Virgil let go Lee's nipple. And he mocked his lips. "Your milk doesn't come out" "You idiot!" Lee closed her chest.
As Yoshida and others were waiting at work, Director Nelson came into the room. And there was another person behind it. "Hi," Bush raised his hand and greeted them. "Oh, President!" Crane sitting in the chair jumped up and stiffened. "Well, Don't be nervous, just take it easy." Bush "President of Gaia, Mr. Bush, who is also the chairman of the Union, wants to see your work in person. Take care not to be impolite." Nelson said rubbing his hands. Bush looked towards Crane. "Are you Newton?" "No, I'm Crane. Mr. Newton is over there." Crane turned forward and pointed at Newton, still stiff. "Oh, I'm glad to see you, Newton." Bush reached out to Newton and shook hands. Then he turned to Joe. "Are you Yoshida?" Joe shook his head silently and pointed to Yoshida. "Oh, It's you who give Union something wonderful for free." "Free?" While shaking hands with Bush, Yoshida glanced at Nelson. Nelson was whistling towards the other side. "So what about the boys?" Bush crouched over Lee and Vergil. "Lee" "Oh, that genius boy ----- what about you?" "I am Vergil, Yoshida's wife," Vergil told Bush. "Wife?" Bush wide-opened his eyes. Lee hit Virgil's head. Virgil sticks out his tongue.
Virgil looked up at Bush. "Mister, do you live in the White House?" "that's right" "What kind of place is it?" Bush smiled and stroked Virgil's head. "It's white"
A black cube appeared in the middle of the box. "Really, President, do you get inside?" Nelson anxiously asked Bush. "Of course. I want to see the cutting-edge technology of science with my own eyes." "Is it okay?" Nelson worriedly asked to Newton. "It is set so that it does not interfere with the creatures inside. It is not 100% safe, but about 95% is safe." "What about the other 5%?" "I want you to be prepared for some thrills." "He's saying that." Nelson said to Bush, turning a little pale. "Thrill ... I like it. I haven't tasted it recently. Please let me taste it." Newton smiled with a creepy smile. "Well, let's go. Come in quickly." Newton urged. Bush slipped into the black cube. "Oh! Wait! President!" Nelson hurriedly chased. Then followed by Crane. When Yoshida tried to enter with Lee, Virgil was firmly attached. Lee shouted. "What are you doing! Virgil!" "No, take me too." With that said, Vergil clung to Yoshida with both hands and feet. Yoshida sighed and entered the cube, with Virgil clinging to him. All that was left behind was Newton and Joe. Newton asked to Joe. "Can you operate computer?" "I'm very well." "Then look at the monitor. Don't let anyone touch it. If anything happens, I will contact you from inside. The letters will be displayed, so follow them." With that said, Newton quickly entered the cube. Joe sat in front of the monitor as he was told and stared in the monitor.