"Director Yang, have you ever considered that evolution might be entirely wrong, or at least incomplete?"
"The evolution of humans and animals is not accidental, but rather a product of natural will intervention."
At the dinner table, Dr. Hammond's sudden pronouncements left Yang Lin dumbfounded. It was the first time he had ever seen someone actively overturn the words of their ancestors.
More importantly, after centuries of research, while evolution might not be entirely correct, most of its content had been recognized by the entire scientific community. For Dr. Hammond to suddenly declare evolution wrong was akin to a non-believer telling a devout follower that God did not exist.
Of course, despite his shock, Yang Lin did not take his words too seriously, as the correctness of evolution had little bearing on him.
Perhaps sensing Yang Lin's lack of interest in the topic, Dr. Hammond quickly had his assistant bring over a series of documents.
"It took us humans 4 million years to evolve from Australopithecus to modern humans."
"During this process, there was a phased evolution every tens to millions of years, and each evolution brought a qualitative improvement in human capabilities. However, this progression gradually slowed down after the Homo sapiens stage."
As he spoke, Dr. Hammond displayed a comparative diagram of human brain sizes at different stages. It was clear that the difference in brain capacity between modern humans and late Homo sapiens was negligible.
"According to our predictions, humanity's next evolutionary node will be in sixty thousand years, at which point new humans will emerge on the Blue Star."
Hearing this, Yang Lin still did not quite understand what Dr. Hammond was trying to convey. However, he recalled the animals influenced by the giant beasts earlier, which were affected by all animals except humans.
"Could there be a connection between these two things?"
As Yang Lin hesitated, Dr. Hammond added, "Compared to humans, the evolutionary process of animals is slightly faster. Of course, this does not mean their genes are superior. In my opinion, this is all a program already set by the Blue Star's natural will."
"Because only by evolving faster can animals achieve balance with the human species."
"And those giant beasts act as patches in this process. When they appear, the rate of animal evolution further increases, and after they disappear, the evolutionary progress of animals slows down."
Hearing this, Yang Lin couldn't help but interject.
"Are you saying that those giant beasts are regulators produced by the planet itself, intended to control the planet's balance?"
"It's something like that, but their existence isn't to control the planet's balance, but to fix bugs that arise during the planet's development."
"Bugs?"
Upon hearing the word, Yang Lin paused for a moment, then immediately understood.
"When you say 'bugs,' you're not referring to us humans, are you?"
As soon as he asked this question, Dr. Hammond nodded.
"Exactly. If development proceeded normally, the predetermined program of the Blue Star would not have issues. But the problem arises because every so often, a batch of exceptionally brilliant individuals appears among humans."
"Under the intervention of these brilliant individuals, human technology and civilization develop explosively, completing in a matter of decades or centuries what should have taken thousands of years. This is how the bugs are generated."
Hearing Dr. Hammond's astonishing statement, Yang Lin again recalled the Qinling incident. If the rampant wild boars in Qinling were a bug in ecological development, then his act of introducing tigers to control the boar population was correcting that bug. The existence of giant beasts was undoubtedly like those tigers used to control wild boar populations and ensure the reproduction of downstream species, while humans were the rampant wild boars.
"Oh no, I've become a wild boar."
Realizing this, Yang Lin felt utterly dispirited. In essence, the Blue Star did not tolerate the existence of overly powerful entities. Whoever became too powerful would be dealt with by the Blue Star's natural will. Perhaps the dinosaurs of the past were wiped out by giant beasts.
Before Yang Lin could fully digest this bombshell, Dr. Hammond opened a screen beside him. As the screen lit up, a complete flat map of the Blue Star appeared. Accompanying it were seventeen large red dots. These red dots were distributed across both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, some in the oceans, others on land.
Initially, Yang Lin was unsure of the map's meaning until he saw one of the red dots appear in Diannan, China. Seeing this familiar location, he immediately thought of Mothra, which had recently appeared.
"Holy crap, this map must be a distribution map of the Blue Star's giant beasts."
Before he could confirm this speculation, Dr. Serizawa next to him could no longer contain himself. With a look of shock, he pulled out the notebook he had earlier and began to make comparisons.
"Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, MUTOs, Leviathan..."
Yang Lin knew without needing to be told that these were the names he had given to those giant beasts, names derived from local legends or from his own imagination.
" this map was calculated by our organization over decades. Now that Mothra has appeared, and Rodan and MUTOs have successively emerged, other giant beasts will also revive in various forms according to this progress."
"Other creatures on the Blue Star will evolve at an extraordinary speed, and humanity's evolutionary progress will be left far behind."
"At that time, the geopolitical landscape of the Blue Star will change once again. Whether humanity can maintain its current dominant position will depend on you two."
At this point, Yang Lin finally understood the true intentions of Dr. Hammond and his Monarch organization. He had initially assumed that the members of Monarch would be a group of conspirators dedicated to destroying humanity on the Blue Star. Now it seemed they were clearly a group of benevolent individuals striving to save humanity's future. Of course, this was all according to Dr. Hammond's one-sided account, and Yang Lin was not foolish enough to believe him entirely.
"Then you found us, not to ask us to help you kill those giant beasts, right? We can't do that."
"Director Yang, you jest. Humans cannot completely kill giant beasts. Even if they are killed at extreme cost, they will revive in other forms."
"Decades ago, General Eisenhower of the United States killed a sleeping giant beast with nuclear bombs at Bikini Atoll, but the result was the birth of two new giant beasts."
As he spoke, Dr. Hammond showed a hint of a wry smile, but it quickly vanished.
"Although humans cannot kill giant beasts, giant beasts can kill giant beasts. If we can find and control one giant beast..."
At this point, the ultimate goal of the Monarch organization was fully revealed.