Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1620 Geological History of Two-Dimensional Planets 2
Plant-like beings occupy the top ecological niche, absorbing the first rays of sunlight from space, while their abundant branches and leaves also prevent other life forms at the bottom from obtaining sufficient energy.

Thus, relying on their advantages, they eventually ruled the entire planet and became the undisputed planetary overlords of that era.

To get more sunlight, they grow bigger and taller.

However, as their bodies grow larger, their mass also increases, thus requiring more energy. The more energy they need, the more they need to stretch their branches and leaves to become taller and more lush.
This cycle repeats over and over again.

The evolution of vegetative state patients seems to have entered a vicious cycle; they grow bigger and bigger, each one resembling a towering tree, or even a moving towering tree.

Of course, not all plant-based people evolve into towering trees. Some plants still occupy the bottom ecological niche and live on the meager rays of sunlight that leak through.

Moreover, the plant beings did not keep growing indefinitely because of the existence of two-dimensional gravity, and the "cells" that make them up know when to stop.

Similarly, while gigantification granted them a higher ecological niche, increased mass ultimately slowed their movements.

Their slow movement, however, delayed their demise. Because they moved slowly, they spread slowly, and because they spread slowly, they were able to occupy the entire horizon of the planet more slowly.

And so, the plant people of the Congestion Era spent nearly 300 million years evolving from tiny plant people into towering tree plant people, eventually occupying the entire planet's horizon.

And so, their end came.

There was no more space left for them to land on the horizon, but the instincts of these plant-people still drove them to reproduce and multiply.

As a result, the entire planet's ecosystem entered an era of massive congestion.

Countless vegetative patients crowded together, vying for sunlight. Unable to move, they instinctively pushed over other vegetative patients blocking their way, and the entire vegetative patient empire collapsed like dominoes.

But that alone is not enough to make them history.

In the late Congestion Period, which coincided with the beginning of the Rolling Period, a unique group of organisms quietly completed the symmetrical evolution of their upper and lower structures in the two-dimensional sea. This body structure was more advanced than that of the Congestion Period life forms. Their activities were more rapid, and due to their birth environment, they no longer relied on absorbing sunlight to survive, but instead relied on various microorganisms to obtain energy.

Because of the prevalence of vegetative state patients in that era, they were essentially creatures living in the shadows of the lower class, and had no right to enjoy the sunlight.

But it is precisely because they cannot enjoy the sunlight and live in deep caves all day long that they have evolved another set of survival skills.

Just as the peak traffic jam arrived, giant plant-people fell to the ground, and the long-awaited sunshine shone brightly on the earth. A large number of microorganisms experienced an explosive growth, providing a rich food source for symmetrical organisms.

Thus, the symmetrical organisms that had already completed their own physical evolution seized the historical window of opportunity, resulting in various forms of evolution, and eventually even set foot on land from the ocean.

This marked the beginning of the Rolling Age. The creatures of the Rolling Age looked at the tall but slow-moving beings and, relying on their rapid movement and the sharp fangs honed over countless millions of years in the shadows, they devoured the plants that could not escape them.

This marked the end of the era of giant vegetative state patients.

This planet entered the tumbling era.

It must be said that the records of the Calabash People are quite accurate. Scientists from various civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization also saw the geological stratification of this two-dimensional planet in different eras from a three-dimensional perspective. Below the horizon, there were indeed many plant-human bodies that resembled towering trees, but due to the long passage of time, they had turned into substances similar to fossil fuels.

These things are still being extracted from the ground by the people of Hulu and used as chemical fuel!
In fact, due to the three-dimensional perspective, when scientists from various civilizations first observed this two-dimensional planet, they had already discovered what was buried below the horizon. However, they all thought it was a plant, but they never expected it to be the so-called vegetative corpse of the Congestion Era.

After the two-dimensional planet entered the Rolling Age, the planet's environment happened to warm up overall, so the creatures of the Congestion Age who were not adapted to the environment were completely buried by history.

At the same time, the organisms of the Rolling Age also experienced a major explosion.

In the geological history recorded by the Hulu people, that era also has another name: the Tumble Period Biogeocratic Explosion, which is also the second biogeocratic explosion recorded by the Hulu people.

The first major outbreak occurred before the Congestion Era and is known as the Horizontal Flight Era.

As its name suggests, the Horizontal Flying Chronicles are a group of creatures that are different from the creatures we know today, ruling over the entire two-dimensional planet. They are horizontally growing creatures, and their original form was a group of linear life forms that could twist their bodies. Later, as they twisted and twisted, they learned to swim horizontally quickly in the water.

Later, they also landed, but it wasn't exactly a landing, because they went directly from the sea into the sky. Relying on their horizontally developed body structure, they further evolved the propulsion organs that had evolved in the water, turning them into wings.

So they became a group of flying two-dimensional beings, and the key point is that their bodies, which have undergone countless billions of years of evolution, still meet the aerodynamic requirements of a two-dimensional planet.

The flying creatures on this planet today are mostly evolved from surviving species of that era. They are not large, and those flying in the sky now are mostly them.

Like the creatures of the Rolling Age, they are among the few life forms that do not possess the ability of quantum macro-tunneling.

In the eyes of the modern-day gourd people, they are animals without intelligence.

Although these flying animals can fly around everywhere, it does not affect the daily lives of the gourd people, because they can rely on their instincts, namely quantum macro-tunneling, to avoid these flying creatures.

Coincidentally, the quantum macro-tunneling ability also laid the foundation for the new-era beings to eventually become the masters of this two-dimensional planet, and the intelligent gourd-shaped beings that evolved on this basis are undoubtedly the protagonists of this two-dimensional planet.

The reason why the gourd people were able to develop intelligence is actually closely related to the fact that the entire biosphere of that era possessed quantum macro-tunneling capabilities.

Because only when almost all organisms in the biosphere possess this ability can the entire two-dimensional planet transform from a single evolutionary path to diversified evolution, and only through diversified evolution can organisms in nature find the successful path through continuous trial and error.

Because of quantum macrotunneling capabilities, the creatures of the new era are no longer afraid of crowds or collisions, but can smoothly avoid each other. Their actions have become more convenient, and their behavior has become more complex.

Complex behaviors, in turn, drive the development of thought structures, which in turn become increasingly complex over time, eventually igniting a ray of wisdom.

Scientists from various civilizations were deeply moved after reading about the geological history of the two-dimensional gourd-shaped people.

They now finally understand why life could appear on this planet in such a short time: quantum macro-tunneling greatly shortened the time it took for the light of wisdom to appear, making what was originally impossible possible.

Having a good foundation is an advantage.

(End of this chapter)