Abnormal crossing

Chapter 230 A Time for Civilizational Choice (Part 1)
"Yeah, that's right."

Upon hearing Qiao Kewen's guess.

Jin didn't keep them in suspense any longer, and simply nodded, explaining:
"The problem that life could not evolve in the primordial universe was first discovered or first taken seriously 10,000 years ago. After realizing this situation, Entropy Technology spent a lot of manpower and resources to tackle the problem, but no progress was made."

"So five hundred years ago, a scholar named Guo Yaohui proposed an idea: could we introduce life forms or even races from this universe and let them reproduce naturally in the primordial universe?"

"Perhaps after introducing such an external factor, life will naturally evolve in the primordial universe?"

As Jin said.

After the primordial universe was created, the academic community initially focused on the expansion of the universe and the study of various early celestial phenomena.

Examples include primordial black holes, primordial gravitational waves, and the merging of dust in primordial galaxies.
Although the evolution of life is a very important topic, it is not ranked very high – the newly born universe did not have the ability to evolve life, did it?
According to a group of top scholars.

Only after the primordial universe stabilizes will the evolution of life be formally regarded as a subject of study.

So for the first ten thousand years, generations of scholars worked tirelessly to extract all sorts of data.

As they continued to exploit the system, one day someone discovered a problem:
Huh, so much time has passed, why hasn't life emerged in the primordial universe yet?

Intelligent life may not yet meet the conditions for its emergence, and humanoid life is out of the question, but surely basic life forms such as single-celled organisms or other forms should at least make a budding appearance?

After realizing this, the scholars at Entropy Interdisciplinary Engineering began a considerable period of observation and ultimately reached a conclusion:
The primordial universe was infertile.
The entire primordial universe was like a ghost town. Housing had been built, roads and bridges had been laid, and medical and educational facilities were all available, but there were no residents to be seen.

Stars, planets, and even black holes born in the universe have become lonely, operating facilities in the ghost town.

Only then did the entire academic community awaken from its dream and begin to conduct research on inducing reproduction in response to the infertility of the primordial universe.

But nearly ten thousand years later...

Generation after generation of scholars have tried various methods, but still have not been able to solve the problem that life could not evolve naturally in the primordial universe.

The discussions have even extended beyond the realm of astrophysics, with scholars from many other industries participating—some are genuinely insightful cross-disciplinary experts, others are finance or legal bloggers jumping on the bandwagon, and a large number of amateur scientists who like to shout on internet platforms that no one recognizes their knowledge.

Against this backdrop, a scholar named Guo Yaohui proposed a theory that sparked considerable discussion in academic circles.

This person belongs to the Deep Light Advanced Institute, one of the six major institutions in the Star Sea. He is a renowned medical authority, and his thoughts are as follows:
In the medical field, there is a method for treating pseudomembranous colitis that involves regurgitating fecal matter from a healthy person into the patient's body, allowing the healthy gut flora to guide the patient's recovery—although it sounds disgusting, it is indeed a treatment method.

If we consider the primordial universe as a human body...
So if we introduce some healthy life forms to reproduce in the primordial universe, is it possible that through some kind of connection, the universe might naturally evolve life one day?
"Um, isn't this a bit too mystical?" After listening to Jin's explanation, Gu Wei couldn't help but interject, "Life evolution can be induced by introducing variables?"

“Yes, it’s a bit mystical,” Jin rarely agreed with Gu Wei’s opinion. “There is no theory in the current physical framework that can support Guo Yaohui’s idea, so this conjecture has caused quite a lot of controversy after it was proposed.”

"Some people think that medical scientists shouldn't get involved in such interdisciplinary matters, while others think that this conjecture has some merit. For example, one school of thought believes that the information entropy carried by life in this universe will permeate one-way through the boundary of the primordial universe. In order to maintain its own entropy balance, the primordial universe will spontaneously generate negative feedback life - that is, to offset the external entropy input by evolving primordial life, similar to the manifestation of Le Chatelier's principle on a cosmic scale."

"However, Guo Yaohui himself still had some influence in the academic community, and the research on the evolution of life in the primordial universe had indeed reached a dead end at that time, so the Entropy Institute eventually started small-scale experiments."

Qiao Kewen listened quietly to the whole process, then asked with a mixture of worry and curiosity, "And what was the result?"

Although he was considered a top student among ordinary people in the Star Sea and had heard all sorts of gossip about how life couldn't evolve in the primordial universe, he knew nothing about the specific progress.

Just like the sixth-generation fighter jet before Gu Wei's time travel, everyone knew it was under development, but the specific progress was a closely guarded secret.

“It’s not a success, but it’s not a complete failure either,” Jin glanced at Qiao Kewen and gave an ambiguous reply: “Seventy years ago, Entropy Engineering discovered a sample that was not life but was close to life on an uninhabited planet.”

"Not life, but close to life?" Gu Wei stroked his chin, pondering, "Something like RNA or a prion?"

“We’re close, but the form is a little different from what you imagined,” Jin nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and then projected another set of images in front of Gu Wei and Qiao Kewen: “Entropy Engineering discovered a kind of ‘life-like crystal’ on that planet.”

"They can absorb energy from the environment, perform limited self-replication, and even 'mutate' under certain conditions, but they lack a true metabolic system and genetic information transmission mechanism."

"These crystals are like a stuck link in the process of life's evolution; they are neither completely inorganic matter nor true life."

Gu Wei followed Jin's gaze to the projection.

A hexagonal stone, pale purple in color, floated in the projection. Its edges were not sharp, and its surface was covered with fine honeycomb-like patterns, resembling the veins of some biological tissue. At some angles, several dark red filamentous structures could be faintly seen.

As for the dimensions, it is marked with the words 0.07 in length, 0.02 in width, and 0.01 in height, in centimeters.

See here.

Gu Wei blinked quickly: "So Guo Yaohui's conjecture might be partially correct? The introduction of extraterrestrial life did indeed trigger some kind of 'feedback'?"

“At present, we can only say it is a correlation, not a causal relationship.” Jin’s tone remained cautious: “But this discovery led Entropy Technology to decide to expand the scale of the experiment—they began to systematically migrate the entire ecosystem to the primordial universe, which included some primitive civilizations.”

(End of this chapter)