I am the Executioner Dragon, but a cute mod

So Tianyuan only watched for a while, and after not figuring out anything, she went to the side to study barrier techniques on her own. That's how she spent her thousand years.

Meanwhile, Lilith kept her eyes fixed on the small world, observing all the changes within it:

Thirty million years have passed in the small world, which is equivalent to two hours in reality. At this time, the iron in the ocean has been almost completely oxidized, and the free oxygen produced by cyanobacteria begins to enter the atmosphere, marking the beginning of the Great Oxidation Event.

A large number of anaerobic bacteria went extinct, and the survivors evolved aerobic respiratory enzymes, increasing energy utilization efficiency by dozens of times. At the same time, iron oxide on the ocean surface began to sink, and the ocean was filled with blue.

Looking at this blue ocean, Lilith couldn't help but feel a sense of pleasure, after all, from this moment on, her little world was finally filled with oxygen.

Aerobic bacteria have a higher energy efficiency and are more adaptable to the environment. However, from this point on, Lilith worried that the bacteria from reality, after evolving, would burst the small world.

So Lilith scaled down all the creatures in the small world to the same scale as Australia, giving them more space to live.

After completing this step, Lilith began to observe the evolution of the small world with great interest.

However, ever since Lilith shrunk the creatures of the small world, the entire ocean, which had been vibrant with life not long ago, suddenly became completely still. Lilith was stunned, then exclaimed in surprise:

"Could it be that it was too small to adapt to the environment and died?!"

I carefully observed everything happening in the sand table until I discovered a tiny colony of bacteria in the shallow sea at the edge of the continent, only then did I feel relieved:

"Oh, it's nothing. I was so scared, I thought he was dead."

Lilith patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief. However, with the bacteria shrinking in size, it would take more time for them to fill the ocean again.

During this time, Lilith didn't want to be idle, so she casually turned on her computer and opened an urban adventure game called "Give Him Love".

After playing for a while, Lilith became more and more addicted. The joy this game brought was something other games couldn't provide, since not all games allow for murder, arson, rape, and abduction.

Before she knew it, five hours had passed. Lilith stretched comfortably and couldn't help but praise the game's mechanics:

"With such a high degree of freedom, I'll never get tired of playing it! Once my little world is finished, I'll make it in this style, and it'll definitely be a huge hit!"

Lilith almost subconsciously began to fantasize, but at this moment, she suddenly remembered the small world that she had left behind, and cried out "Oh no!" Fearing that something might happen to the small world because of her absence, leading to a mass extinction, she quickly moved to the front of the small world to observe the changes in it.

Fortunately, 80 million years have passed in this small world, and the ozone-rich stratosphere has begun to form, enhancing its ability to shield against ultraviolet radiation. Amphibians that are born in the future will not have to worry about being killed by ultraviolet radiation.

"As long as it's okay, it'll be okay..."

Lilith was quite frightened by her own carelessness. To prevent any accidents from happening in the small world while she was away, she dared not play the game anymore and devoted herself entirely to the small world...

In the 200 millionth year of the small world, in the 17th hour of reality, an archaea devoured an aerobic bacterium, which transformed into mitochondria. From that moment on, the first eukaryotic organism was born.

Three hundred million years later, one day after Lilith initiated the acceleration of time, another devouring event occurred: a certain eukaryotic organism swallowed cyanobacteria, transformed into chloroplasts, algae appeared, photosynthetic efficiency reached a new level, and oxygen levels soared to near modern levels.

Another 300 million years passed. Two days after Lilith activated the time acceleration, sexual reproduction appeared, and gene recombination greatly accelerated evolution. Multicellular red and green algae bloomed, fungi and primitive sponges appeared, and the ocean entered the algal forest era.

Two hundred million years later, on the third day after Lilith activated time acceleration, the ozone layer was fully formed, the land was no longer deadly, mosses were the first to land, followed by lichens, and rocks began to weather at an accelerated rate.

Three hundred million years later, on the fourth day after Lilith initiated the time acceleration, vascular plants evolved vascular tissues, truly took root on land, the first forests appeared, arthropods landed, and atmospheric oxygen levels soared to over 30%, creating the era of giant insects.

Four hundred million years later, on the sixth day after Lilith activated the time acceleration, the ancestors of vertebrates [lobe-finned fish] crawled ashore with their strong paired fins, amphibians appeared, and along the coastline, plants and animals together built a lush wetland ecosystem.

Five hundred million years later, on the eighth day after Lilith initiated the time acceleration, reptiles underwent radiation and evolution, giving rise to large terrestrial behemoths resembling dinosaurs, while giant marine reptiles and ammonites flourished in the ocean.

Two billion years have passed, and still no intelligent life has emerged in the small world. Lilith looks at the various behemoths that dominate the small world, and her heart is filled with distress:

"This thing is so big and physically powerful that it doesn't need to think at all. It's impossible for it to develop intelligence no matter how long it takes. What should we do?"

To find a solution, Lilith searched on a certain search platform and discovered that the end of the Age of Giants originated from an asteroid impact. Otherwise, mammals, including human ancestors, would never have had a chance to emerge.

Upon learning that the creation of intelligent life required destroying the giant beasts with an asteroid, Lilith felt a pang of regret. She had watched these beasts grow up, and she was reluctant to let them go.

"But for the sake of humanity, how can we not abandon mere behemoths?"

Lilith murmured, as if she had made some kind of awakening, and a stone the size of a grain of rice appeared in her hand, which she threw into the small world.

Although the asteroid was only the size of a grain of rice, its impact on the continent immediately triggered a mass extinction event. Dust blocked out the sun, photosynthesis plummeted, the era of giant beasts ended, and surviving cave-dwelling, omnivorous small mammals were reborn.

Eight hundred million years later, on the tenth day after Lilith activated the time acceleration, the primate ancestors in the forest evolved stereoscopic vision, grasping ability, and complex social behavior, and their brain capacity began to increase rapidly.

Seeing the birth of human ancestors, Lilith felt a great sense of relief. It took a full ten days, or three billion years in the small world, for intelligent life to finally emerge in the small world.

In other words, the game framework has already been built; all that's needed is to add the background story and gameplay.

Chapter 148: In the beginning of time, who passed on the Dao?

Transforming a small world into a game is neither particularly difficult nor particularly easy. After all, the size of the small world is limited, and simply reenacting the story according to its background would be far from sufficient.

But this does not affect Lilith's ability to build her backstory.

In order to reflect the grandeur of the background, the small world cannot be at the center of the background story. In the setting, the small world is just a fragment of a large world, belonging to a remote place in the background story.

Lilith then only needs to keep hinting in the small world that there is a larger world outside the small world, and everything in this world is insignificant. As long as the players who enter this world believe it, the world with a truly grand background and setting will eventually appear.

With this thought in mind, Lilith couldn't wait to begin her plan, which started by transmitting information about "fire, civilization, and faith" into the mind of a trembling ape-man in a cave...

In the sand table, after three billion years of evolution, the world is no longer as monotonous as it was at the beginning. Terrains such as mountains, rivers, plains, and hills now cover the entire continent.

For ease of reference, Lilith refers to the continents in the small world as the Pancontinent. In the western part of the Pancontinent, due to the plains, the ape-men were the first to learn to walk upright, freeing their hands.

Even with their hands freed, these small, skinny monkeys, averaging 1.3 meters in height, were powerless against predators such as the saber-toothed cat, giant spotted hyenas, crocodiles, and giant eagles.

In addition, the presence of a large amount of body hair resulted in extremely low heat dissipation efficiency, which also led to poor endurance. Therefore, throughout history, when faced with predators, the ape-man species could only hide in trees or caves, trembling with fear.

This situation was supposed to continue for millions of years until the brain capacity of ape-men increased further and they began to make tools.

But Lilith didn't want to let the apes develop freely. Her goal was to make the small world a microcosm of a grand story. To achieve this, she deliberately chose a young ape from a certain ape tribe during a thunderstorm.

He constructed a mental space with a starry sky as its backdrop and veiled his image with a black curtain to increase its mystique. Only after doing all this did he truly begin his actions...

That night, the sky was pitch black, dark clouds obscured all the starlight, and torrential rain pounded on the branches and leaves of the trees, making a continuous crackling sound.

A young ape-man and his tribe hid in a cave. Perhaps because the sound of rain masked the terrifying roars of wild beasts that usually filled the air, he simply huddled together with his companions, and his breathing quickly calmed down; he had fallen asleep.

That night, he had a dream. He dreamt of endless wild fruits and many beautiful apes sticking their butts out at him. He didn't need to think about anything, didn't need to worry about wild beasts, and didn't need to worry about hunger. He only needed to eat wild fruits and reproduce.

However, just as he was cuddling with the beautiful ape and eating wild fruit, the dream world suddenly underwent a dramatic change.

At first, it was just a tiny, inconspicuous patch of black on the horizon. A few seconds later, the darkness surged in like a raging flood, engulfing the forest, wild fruits, and beautiful apes.

Upon witnessing this incomprehensible scene, the young ape-man was horrified. He abandoned the beautiful ape and the wild fruit, and fled in a panic in the opposite direction of the darkness.

But he was too slow. In just a breath, darkness completely enveloped him, covering everything in front of him. The young ape-man was so frightened that he curled up on the ground, whimpering like a small animal.

The young ape-man was completely unable to comprehend what was happening. For him, the unknown was almost synonymous with danger. Just as he was struggling to await pain and death, what came first was the starlight that gradually brightened in the darkness.

The originally pitch-black space was gradually illuminated by starlight, and a large number of stars began to emerge, forming a magnificent galaxy.

In the Milky Way, a huge black shadow appeared, its body taller than the stars and blacker than the stars themselves. It lowered its head and cast its gaze down at the small, thin monkey huddled together below.

...What is this thing doing?

Seeing the little skinny monkey trembling, Lilith was a little puzzled, but none of that mattered. With just a thought, the little skinny monkey stood up uncontrollably and forced its head to look directly at Lilith.

Meeting the little skinny monkey's questioning, uneasy, surprised, and fearful gaze, Lilith didn't see anything wrong. Instead, she began reciting the prepared script to herself:

"The law of the jungle, where the strong prey on the weak, is the first law that God inscribed within all things. Civilization, on the other hand, is the soil that allows the weak to survive. I will bestow upon you the spark of civilization. A thousand years from now, you will be history; ten thousand years from now, you will be a legend..."

Lilith spoke calmly, and a series of complex information was precisely engraved in the mind of the young ape-man before her.

There was no worry about whether the young ape-man understood, because under the guidance of the words, the young ape-man's originally uneasy eyes gradually calmed down, and a glimmer of wisdom even flashed in his turbid eyes.

[It's done!]

Lilith's eyes lit up. This meant that the young ape had finally begun to think about things other than survival after his speech. For an ape who thought about eating and reproducing all day long, this was a milestone.

After stuffing all the uses of fire and concepts of civilization into the young ape-man's mind, Lilith kicked him out of the mental space.

I opened my eyes and stood in front of a four-square-meter sand table, watching the changes this ape-man brought to the world.

After Lilith pulled him out of the mental space, the ape-man woke up immediately. He sat there blankly, and all the information Lilith had given him was presented in a way that he could understand.

He looked around at his tribesmen lying haphazardly on the ground, his heart filled with confusion and helplessness.

He didn't know why he felt this way, but he felt that he and his people shouldn't live in such a place and possess knowledge that didn't belong to this era. He felt that he had to do something, whether for himself or for his people.

Just as the young ape-man made up his mind, a flash of white light suddenly appeared at the cave entrance, followed by a huge rumble.

Rumble

The terrifying thunder instantly roused the sleeping ape-men, who let out a few frightened cries and huddled together, trembling, as if some monster was roaring.

But the young ape chosen by Lilith didn't think so. After witnessing Lilith's existence, his curiosity, suppressed by his survival instinct, surged up unconsciously. He looked at the cave entrance, wanting to know where the white light and loud noise just now came from.

Where are you going?

While the younger ape-man was moving, a slightly older ape-man called out in ape language.

The young ape-man did not turn around:

"I want to go out and see the world."

The older ape-man, however, said:

"It's dangerous outside, you'll die!"

The young ape-man ignored this statement, thinking that if you don't do certain things because you're afraid of dying, what's the difference between that and being dead?

Chapter 149: Civilization and the Spark

Upon reaching the cave entrance, raindrops splashed onto their bodies after hitting the ground, and a cold wind blew, making the young ape-man feel the biting cold.

He shuddered and looked around. All he could see was darkness, and the flash of white light he had seen not long ago was nowhere to be seen.

[What exactly is that thing?]

The ape-man began to think, but such things cannot be answered by thinking alone. Just as the ape-man was about to return to the cave after failing to reach an answer, a dazzling white light suddenly appeared in the sky.

The young ape-man quickly looked up and saw a lightning serpent winding its way down into the forest not far away, followed by a deafening clap of thunder.

Rumble

The young ape-man was startled by the scene and instinctively tried to escape back to his cave, but when he saw the lightning strike the forest and create a bright orange light, his legs wouldn't obey him.

Although this was the first time he had ever seen this thing, information about it automatically popped into his mind: it was fire, which could cook food and drive away wild beasts, and it was also the "spark of civilization" that the majestic being in his dream had mentioned.

The young ape-man was taken aback. As knowledge surfaced in his mind, he knew the importance of fire. Even though it was pitch black at night, he gritted his teeth and braved the torrential rain to retrieve some embers before the fire went out.

After all, with fire, they were no longer afraid of wild animals at night, and eating meat cooked over a fire and water boiled with fire greatly reduced the risk of disease...

The young ape-men were gone for several hours. The rain gradually stopped, and even the sky began to lighten with the first light of dawn. Only then did the ape-men dare to come to the cave entrance.

They carefully observed their surroundings and only stepped out of the cave after confirming that there were no wild animals around.