Chapter 2004: Mass Extinction Event (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Subscribe!!! Please Recommend!!)

No one knows the origin and purpose of the Celestials. No one can understand what these things want to do. They are almost the origin of all life in the universe, but they are also destroyers. Not many people know about the Celestials on Earth. Even the gods only know that they have visited Earth in four different periods in the past, and each visit changed the history of the Earth. The first team of Celestials came to Earth about a million years ago and conducted genetic tests and experiments on the highest creatures on Earth, so early humans were born.

There are many speculations about them.

Some people say that they are the gardeners of the universe, and they come from the original power of the universe itself. These powerful beings not only created many planets and civilizations, but also gave the creatures in the universe the foundation for survival and development. In a sense, they are the creators of the universe. The Celestials, like gardeners, constantly take care of every corner of the universe. They pay attention to the changes of each planet and ensure the continuation of life. When faced with a crisis, they will take measures to save the universe and protect it from disasters. Their wisdom and power make them play an irreplaceable role in the universe.

Some say that they exist to maintain the order of the universe, where various forces and life intersect, sometimes causing conflict and chaos. At this time, the Celestials will intervene to maintain the order and balance of the universe. They not only supervise the rules of the universe, but also ensure the harmonious coexistence of various planets and civilizations. Their goal is to create a prosperous and stable environment for the entire universe. The existence of the Celestials brings order and inspiration to the entire universe. They are not only creators, but also guardians, providing value and meaning for every life in the universe. The depth and complexity of their characters enrich the level and depth of the entire Marvel Universe.

Some people say that they are destroyers!

The Celestials like to interfere with creatures, but in fact, they not only like to interfere with creatures, but also like to interfere with everything! The Celestials will fill the void with stars, light up the dim universe, and they will also sow the seeds of life on some barren planets to make them rejuvenated. In this respect, the Celestials are definitely positive characters. After all, they have created many wonderful worlds and created many unique creatures. After sowing the seeds of life on a planet, the Celestials will wait for it to evolve, and will come to see if these creatures are "successful" after N years. If there is no problem, the creature will continue to survive, and if it is judged as "failure", the Celestials will ruthlessly destroy them. So for those creatures that have evolved on the planet for tens of millions of years, the Celestials are definitely the villains.

Because no one knows what the judgment criteria of these things are!

What is failure? What is success?

"I know something about the Celestials and the Earth." Thoth continued to act as a storyteller.

It turns out that 4 billion years ago, the Celestials visited the Earth, but... this visit was not voluntary. 4 billion years ago, a Celestial called "Ancestor" was infected and killed by the parasite Ancestor, fell to the Earth, and died sadly and alone. He died miserably. The original formless energy was contaminated by the parasite and turned into countless biomass... The place where the Ancestor died is now the North Pole. After the death of the Ancestor, his body fluids penetrated the surface of the primitive Earth, permanently changing the evolutionary trajectory of the Earth.

It was also from that time that life began to appear on the Earth.

This was not in the plan of the Celestials, and they had not planned to sow organisms on Earth.

But Earth gave birth to life because of a simple accident!

The death of a compatriot attracted the attention of other members of the Celestials, and the first to arrive at the scene was the "Judge"!

Let's call it that, after all, the Celestials rarely communicate with other intelligent life forms, and they will not tell other life forms their names... Maybe they don't even have the concept of a so-called name.

The Judge, the leader of the Celestials. He is also the referee, who will determine the appearance or extinction of a planet, and will also examine whether a race or the life on a planet is "successful".

If he wants a race to die, he will summon the Eradicator to slaughter it. As the creator of the universe, the Celestials sowed the seeds of life on countless planets a long time ago. In order to preserve their genes well, if a dangerous race is found during this period, the Judge will summon the Eradicator without hesitation to maintain the safety and balance of the universe.

The Judge saw the death of his "ancestor" and was very sad and angry.

He wanted to destroy the Earth.

But the searcher stopped him.

The searcher, his ability is the most special and the most important in the Celestials. He has the ability to search for life forms in the universe. The life forms he found have the potential to be improved by the Celestials. His mission is to find those life forms with potential and improve them. He plays a vital role in the Celestials.

He discovered that life appeared on Earth.

Even if it is just a simple microorganism, there is no doubt that these lives are just starting. They have the potential to develop, which is related to the sacrifice of a compatriot, so they cannot be simply destroyed. They need to be observed.

So the searcher found the collector.

The Collector's purpose is to find and collect samples of life forms on each planet that can be used for research. This is also his only mission. He can transform life forms into "biological seeds" and store them in the form of capsules in his own body. on the scepter. This powerful ability transforms the creature into a static state, and then transforms the creature into its original form when needed. It is very magical.

He asked the collectors to collect biological samples, naturally.

Then the earth became the laboratory of the Celestials!

This is the first time the Celestials have visited Earth.

The second one, about 440 million years ago, is what scientists call the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event (also known as the Ordovician mass extinction). The Ordovician Period is the second period of the Paleozoic Era, which began about 500 million years ago and lasted about 65 million years. The Ordovician period is divided into three periods: early, middle and late. The Ordovician was one of the most extensive periods of marine transgression in geological history, and marine strata were widely distributed in many areas of the world. In the platform area inside the plate, seawater is widely distributed, showing the widespread development of littoral shallow-marine carbonate rocks. In the active geosynclinal area at the edge of the plate, it is a deeper water environment, forming thick shallow-sea and deep-sea clastic sediments. and volcanic eruption deposits. A large-scale ice age occurred at the end of the Ordovician, and its distribution range included Africa (especially North Africa), Argentina and Bolivia in South America, and Spain and southern France in Europe. The Ordovician had a mild climate and widespread shallow seas. Many areas of the world (including most parts of my country) were covered by shallow seas. Marine life developed unprecedentedly and was more prosperous than in the Cambrian. In the vast oceans of the Ordovician, marine invertebrates flourished unprecedentedly, and a large number of invertebrates of various categories lived. In addition to the taxa that began to flourish in the Cambrian, some other taxa have also been further developed, including graptolites, corals, brachiopods, crinoids, bryozoans and molluscs.

After the Celestials came to Earth, they were very dissatisfied with life on Earth.

Then the mass extinction came, and academic circles generally believed that this species extinction was caused by global climate cooling. About 440 million years ago, the land where the Sahara is located was located in the Antarctic. When the land gathered near the pole, it was easy to cause thick ice accumulation, which was the case in the Ordovician. Large glaciers cooled the ocean currents and atmospheric circulation. The temperature of the entire earth dropped. The glaciers locked water and the sea level also lowered. The original rich coastal biosphere was destroyed. In addition, more than 400 million years ago, the British There were also three large-scale 8-level volcanic eruptions in the region, which may have caused global cooling and killed a large number of organisms, eventually leading to the extinction of 85% of species. Another view is that a celestial body 10 kilometers to 12 kilometers in size may have hit the earth at that time. Its power was equivalent to the explosion of 10 billion Hiroshima atomic bombs. Huge dust and smoke enveloped the earth, causing the earth to enter the Great Ice Age of the Early Paleozoic Era. Many invertebrates Unable to adapt to the environment and become extinct on a large scale. According to a 2005 joint study by scientists from NASA and the University of Kansas, the Earth's Ordovician-Silurian extinction event 445 million years ago may have been the result of gamma rays released by an extreme supernova. Caused by a violent storm, the process lasted about ten seconds and destroyed about half of the earth's ozone layer, causing the ultraviolet rays released by the sun to attack the earth, causing the death of a large number of organisms on the ground and near the sea, thus destroying the food chain and causing famine. At the same time, air molecules disrupted by gamma ray bursts reorganized into toxic gases. These gases blocked the heat in the sun, causing the earth to be temporarily lifeless.

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Next came the Devonian mass extinction. About 100 million years later, 365 to 355 million years ago, the Late Devonian extinction event (also known as the Late Devonian extinction event or the Late Devonian extinction event) event, Devonian mass extinction), the Devonian period, the name of the geological era, the fourth period of the Paleozoic era, started about 405 million years ago, ended 350 million years ago, and lasted about 50 million years. The Devonian is divided into early, middle and late epochs, and the stratigraphy is divided into lower, middle and upper epochs accordingly. The Devonian paleogeography has undergone tremendous changes from the earlier Paleozoic. It is manifested in the expansion of land area, the development of continental strata, and the appearance of the biological world has also undergone tremendous changes. Terrestrial plants and fish-shaped animals developed unprecedentedly, amphibians began to appear, and the composition of invertebrates also changed significantly.

The Devonian Period was a period of rapid development of vertebrates. Fish were the most advanced creatures at that time and were quite prosperous. They were naturally the rulers of the oceans at that time. Various types of fish appeared, so the Devonian Period was called "fish." "The Era of Kindness". Most importantly it shows the emergence of primitive reptiles - tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) - which evolved from lobofins.

However, the Celestial Team was still not satisfied.

The mass extinction has come again, but the Celestials seem to be happy to create different forms of disasters. One day 377 million years ago, the earth suddenly began to shake violently. At the same time, a large amount of high-temperature gas spewed out from the cracks in the seabed in the Siberian region, which caused the nearby seawater to boil and killed a large number of organisms. Then, 300 billion cubic kilometers of magma gushed out. The rolling rocks quickly destroyed all the nearby coral reefs and other organisms. The magma not only greatly increased the temperature of the seawater, scalding thousands of organisms to death, but also polluted the seawater. The toxic substances in the magma reacted chemically with the seawater, acidifying the seawater, and a large number of animals died because they could not breathe. 5,000 years after the disaster, pollutants in the seawater spread into the atmosphere, most of which were greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide. This caused the global temperature to rise rapidly to 30 degrees Celsius, and the ocean currents stopped moving. In the equatorial region, the seawater temperature rose from 20 degrees Celsius to 32 degrees Celsius, which destroyed more corals because they could not survive in high temperatures. 100,000 years after the disaster, the magma continued to erupt, and a new killer appeared: plants. Previously, there was no soil on the land, but soil appeared due to the decay of dead branches and leaves of plants. Rainwater washed a lot of soil into the ocean, which became a good nutrient for seaweed. The prosperity of seaweed consumed a lot of oxygen, suffocating animals to death, thus accelerating the extinction of animals. 750,000 years after the disaster, water vapor in the sky reacted chemically with sulfur dioxide to form acid rain. The continuous flooding of acid rain for tens of thousands of years further reduced the number of plants and acidified the soil.

1.3 million years after the super mantle plume broke through the seabed, a new disaster occurred. Previous volcanic eruptions occurred in the ocean, but this time it happened on land. 376 million years ago, in the western region of China, the earth began to tremble violently, and 200,000 cubic kilometers of magma gushed out from a crater with a diameter of 8 kilometers. The magma flooded all places within a radius of 50 kilometers and killed all creatures within this range. The volcano also erupted a lot of volcanic ash and toxic gases, which covered the sky and completely blocked the sunlight, and the earth fell into a long night of 2 million years.

Next came the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event, and the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event!

They seemed to be happy to launch disasters and then observe the evolution of life.

From this point of view, the earth is actually very unlucky, because most of the time, the gods will not be so "intensively cultivated". They are not so patient in the past. They just sow the seeds of life and let them grow wantonly. If they succeed, they will succeed, and if they fail, they will be destroyed.

It won't take so long at all.

"They are doing it on purpose. They are selecting and using disasters to eliminate the fittest!" Thoth said so.

Then it was the last coming.

Humans and gods appeared.