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"My name is Long Yuan, the captain of the frontline troops."

"The armed forces responsible for commanding the warships."

The third-level dragon slowly opened his mouth and introduced himself.

Lin Feng then asked the question that had been buried in his heart for a long time:

"Why did you leave Blue Star in the first place?"

Captain Long Yuan looked at the human in front of him and sighed.

Its evolution level is only the early third stage. Although it is already top-notch on this battleship, it is still not good enough in the entire Blue Star or this expedition fleet.

After all, this creature in front of us, as the descendant of mammals on Blue Star, according to the report of the Dragon Lizard Squadron, is a species called human...

Not only is its strength not weak, but it has already possessed fourth-order cosmic life forms.

This is somewhat different from the report of the Dragon Lizard Team. For example, according to their observations...

The humans who originally ruled the blue planet saw through a sky-high telescope at the center of the cosmic route 5,000 light years away from the dinosaurs and discovered that intelligent species had just been born.

Civilization had only just entered the primitive age of slavery.

Even if what they received at that time was only the light information sent from the Blue Star five thousand years ago...

But five thousand years is just a flash of lightning in the scale of cosmic civilization, just a blink of an eye for a generation of dragons.

The Blue Star calendar time they used, a Blue Star year of 365 days, was only equivalent to a moment.

According to the Orion Eternals’ calendar…

The Milky Way's rotation period of 2.5 million years is one era, years is one year, and years is one month.

And five thousand years is only equivalent to half a moon.

For a second-stage evolved life form with a lifespan of only a thousand years, five thousand years is indeed a bit long. But for a third-stage high-level life form with a lifespan of ten thousand years, five thousand years is only the first half of its life.

Only cosmic life forms at level four and above can easily have a lifespan of hundreds of thousands or millions of years. For them, a thousand years is just a short journey in their lives.

It's like a year or a month in a hundred years of human life, not worth mentioning.

If five thousand years are placed on the scale of civilization, it is just like a flash of light, passing by in a hurry.

Take the dragon race, an intelligent civilization on Blue Planet, for example. It was not until the mass extinction of the synapsids before the Permian period that they found the opportunity to ascend to the throne of the food chain on Blue Planet and become the overlord of Blue Planet...

They evolved from four-legged crawling lizard-like egg-laying animals, only a dozen centimeters or several dozen centimeters in size, to become the rulers of the blue planet.

The Permian period 300 million years ago was the last era of the Paleozoic Era and lasted for 50 million years. This period also marked the end of the old era and the beginning of a new era.

Starting with individual reptiles from the order Sauropoda...

The dragon clan began its billion-year growth plan.

During the 50 million years from the Permian to the Triassic, their primitive reptilian life evolved into large dinosaurs and various reptile branches...

Including crocodiles, snakes, turtles, as well as the mosasaurs and plesiosaurs in the ocean.

Reptiles occupied the upper and top positions in all ecological niches until the next era.

After 50 million years of evolution and development, reptiles finally occupied the entire blue planet and completed their initial evolution. Many group leaders of reptile races evolved to the first stage, and there were even second stage, giant reptiles with huge size and powerful strength.

They are also called patriarch-level behemoths, and with their powerful second-level strength, they lead the clan to grow and continue.

The ultimate result of high evolution is naturally the development of the intellectual brain that comes later to make up for the loss.

Because although reptiles have maxed out their talents in terms of physique, their physical functions are second only to those of arthropods, and they are also highly adaptable...

Compared with the first generation landing in the initial era, reptiles chose to make a balance between physical and mental directions, using a certain level of mental intelligence to ensure their adaptability to the environment.

When the environment deteriorates, they will go out to seek new suitable habitats, instead of living in one area for generations like the original arthropods, using a set of physiological structures to adapt to the environment.

But once the environment changes suddenly, they will die in large numbers until the population becomes extinct.

Today, they have become the true bottom of the food chain.

At the end of the Paleozoic Era before the Permian period, when the synapsids emerged, reptiles relied on preying on arthropods at the bottom of the hierarchy. Now, 50 million years have passed, and the synapsids that have fallen to the bottom still rely on preying on arthropods, insects, etc. for a living.

Apart from using huge sample size changes to gamble on the existence of species that can survive, they are also unwilling to improve brain structure, enhance individual intelligence, and develop their population from primitive life to civilization.

After 50 million years of evolution, reptiles became the dominant species on the blue planet, arriving in the Triassic period 250 million years ago, the early beginning of the Mesozoic Era.

The reptiles at that time, like the previous two overlords who had occupied the entire blue planet, faced a major choice.

Should they be like the arthropods, content with the status quo and enjoy the advancement of the population, stagnating in their evolution; or should they be like the synapsids, the overlords of the previous era, and rush forward without looking back on the path of physical improvement?

Ultimately reptiles chose two lines of development.

One is to continue to rush forward on the path of physical enhancement like the Synapsids, to ensure that the external physical strength continues to increase, to ensure that their own race can gain an advantage among the reptiles on Blue Star and will not be eliminated by the internal circulation within the major racial categories.

The other is to focus on spiritual wisdom...

and the awakening of what is called self-awareness.

As a backup plan left by reptiles.

At the same time, the evolution and development of the entire ethnic group, after occupying the dominant position through the rapid improvement of physical fitness, gradually shifted to the compensation and improvement of spiritual attributes.

As the physical system continued to develop, it evolved into the largest terrestrial life form in the history of the blue planet, the dinosaurs that gradually emerged in the late Triassic period.

Among them are the herbivorous Diplodocus and the carnivorous Tyrannosaurus Rex, both of which are the most perfect evolutionary creations in the entire history of life on the blue planet.

On the other hand, the seeds planted in the early Triassic period, the reptiles with spiritual wisdom as the core of development, another branch, successfully evolved into the first civilization in the history of the blue planet during the Jurassic period.

An advanced reptilian civilization composed mainly of reptilian lizardmen and dragon lizardmen.

They have been lying dormant for years for this moment.

Because the body structure of reptiles is much stronger in terms of physical fitness than in spiritual attributes, and also in order to take advantage of the mass extinction of organisms that began in the Permian period, the drastic changes in the environment caused by alternating cold and hot...

They have evolved the ability to adapt to changes in temperature, and can adjust their body temperature in hot and cold environments.

They grow very fast in high temperature environments, increasing several times in size within a few months. They hibernate in low temperature environments, reducing their body functions to the lowest level, with their heart rate even slowing down to once every five minutes.

This is to help them survive the long winter or dry season.

Even on the blue planet 60 million years later, many reptile descendants, including crocodiles, turtles, and snakes, still retain this genetic ability. Because of their strong ability to adapt to the environment, reptiles are also called cold-blooded animals, but later mammals, humans, prefer to call them cold-blooded animals.

It has something to do with the reptile's vicious and sinister appearance.

Although cold-blooded is just a literal meaning, there are still many humans who think that reptiles are cold-blooded killers without any intelligence and ungrateful people who can never be tamed.

In fact, they also have some individuals with outstanding intelligence.

Especially for crocodiles, a masterpiece of evolution over hundreds of millions of years, some individuals in their population have quite high mental IQ.

And their overall intelligence is actually better than that of most mammals.

Therefore, they are still the best in their respective ecological chains, second only to humans.

Especially in the Philippines, crocodiles can still prey on mammals for a living, and can be called one of the overlords of the grassland.

And it is precisely in order to better adapt to the harsh environment that reptiles' talent for temperature change has also become a limitation on the development of their spiritual wisdom.

In order to adapt to the temperature, a large amount of energy and evolutionary strengthening direction in the body must be supplied to the entire body tissue, especially the torso below the head.

In order to develop spiritual wisdom and the degree of brain evolution, at least 40% of the nutritional energy must be supplied to the brain tissue...

But if this happens, reptiles will definitely be weaker in other aspects!
It may even cause a certain degree of damage to the original body tissue structure.

To be honest, no race would make disruptive changes and innovations on a mature body that has been proven to be suitable for changes in the usage environment.

At that time, this branch of the research team encountered opposition from various reptile races, including some clan leaders who had evolved to the second stage...

In the end, it was the dinosaurs, the new overlords that emerged in the food chain at that time, who strongly supported the research process of spiritual intelligence.

Want to pave the way for the dragon clan in advance!

In fact, the reason why this idea was able to gain strong support among the dinosaur clan was mainly because the power and status of the reptile clan were controlled by the original old tribe.

For example, the crocodile clan occupies all rivers and the coastal area.

Their leader has evolved to the late second stage, with a body length of an astonishing fifty meters, making him the strongest amphibious creature in history.

But I can't find the next direction of evolution.

They can only occupy the top of the ecological niche and then maintain their own power and status by being complacent.

For the new generation of dinosaurs, this is an obstacle to their rise to power.

On the other hand, supporting research on spiritual wisdom is to suppress those old-school people who pretend to be profound and rely on their seniority.

They are unwilling to give up their own interests and hand them over to the new generation.

Fortunately, the research on spiritual wisdom was able to continue, and finally, after another 50 million years...

In the next era of the Triassic period, at the junction of the Jurassic period, the Lizardmen finally developed the technology of awakening, which can enable most first-order and second-order reptiles to directly awaken their own consciousness. While having self-awareness, they can also form the cornerstone of civilization...

The dinosaurs, who had been the runner-up for thousands of years and had been supporting the research of spiritual wisdom, had also been sleeping on straw and eating bitter food for 50 million years...

Finally, 150 million years after the rise of reptiles, the dawn of the race's peak came.

By virtue of the transformation of their spiritual attributes, most of the first- and second-order dinosaur tribes have awakened their self-awareness, and their intelligence levels have been improved to the point where they can learn independently and understand the world.

At one time, dinosaurs of different species within the tribe decided to unite and form the first unified large tribe in the history of Blue Planet. They were also the ones that later gave birth to a large number of fourth-order cosmic life forms, the great dragon tribe.

Since its birth, the dragon clan has begun to work together to develop its own civilization, enhance its understanding of the world, and develop many scientific technologies.

Among them, the dragon people are the representative. Their technology has reached the stage of mining and iron smelting, and they are about to enter the feudal civilization.

At this time, some of the leaders of the dinosaur clan also obtained a way to advance to the third stage through research on the evolution of the dragon bloodline...

One hundred and fifty million years after the dragons reached the pinnacle of reptiles, they led the life on Blue Planet into the third stage for the first time, and led the Zerg to become the pride of the world at that time.

And quickly seized the power and position of the old faction.

Let the dragon clan become the leader of the reptile clan.

From then on, it occupied an absolute position.

The remaining reptiles, including the ancestral lizards at the beginning of evolution, also underwent surgical transformation and gradually developed their own third-level existence.

It’s just that the dragon clan has always been dominant.

In the following 50 million years, the dragon civilization underwent several changes, but the level of development of civilization has never declined.

Because of the stable climate development period and their absolute dominance on Blue Star, the dragon clan safely passed through the evolution of civilization.

From the initial feudal society, to the rise of capital brought about by technological progress, and finally to the stable and harmonious society where strength and bloodline are respected.

As for five years ago, when the Jurassic entered the Cretaceous period...

The 200 million years of development of the dragon race...

Right before my eyes, a living third-order dragon...

The ten-meter-tall Captain Long Yuan said:

"The Cretaceous was the peak period for the dinosaurs, and also a period of rebirth and destruction for reptiles."

"During this period, our dragon race gave birth to fourth-order cosmic life, and led its tribes to break free from the constraints of the blue planet and head towards outer space and the solar system."

"Driving a giant spaceship and a ship-destroying machine, he roams the space with impunity."

"For a time, the development of civilization was like riding a rocket. In just 10 or 20 million years, seven or eight fourth-order reptilian evolutionary beings were born..."

"Among them, there was an ancestor who was about to be promoted to the sixth level. Unfortunately, everything changed later."

As he said this, Captain Long Yuan sighed.

Looking at the two humans in front of him, his tone was deep:

"The reason why the dragon race was forced to leave the Blue Planet where they had been operating for hundreds of millions of years was because of this..."

"It is because of what I mentioned before, that the Milky Way has been rotating for 250 million years..."

(End of this chapter)