A Guide to Collecting Prehistoric Creatures

wb@ Deep Sea Scalpel. Check out my completed works, Death Spiral and Shock! The Great Typewriter Author Is Actually an Alien Tentacle Monster!, and my upcoming work, Defeat the Supernatural with Science! Blurb: An accident causes an energy shock to send the spaceship carrying Ulala into an abnormal jump, bringing him to a mysterious, unknown planet. Preliminary measurements indicate that the planet's natural evolution is still in prehistoric times. Ulala: Great! A prehistoric civilization. I'll build one! Scavenge the shore, mine, tame prehistoric beasts, influence the evolution of species... The future of the race is mine to create! Humanity, let's climb back to the top of the food chain! But full of confidence and armed with a guide to farming and leveling up, Ulala steps out of the ecology pod, looks up, and quickly realizes there are two problems: 1. The sea before him isn't a sea! In this primordial abyss of chaos... there isn't even any organic matter! 2. The only golden finger he can count on is the System AI built into the ecology pod. But this so-called artificial intelligence's most frequent response is: "Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying." On a primordial planet 4.5 billion years ago, white lightning split the eternal night, sparking the first organic matter in an inorganic ocean. In the Cambrian Period, 500 million years ago, trilobites opened their eyes after the great explosion of species. Their calcite-crystal lenses reflected the blue waters of the shallows for the first time. Human history spans only two million years, the blink of an eye in the history of evolution. Countless times waking. Countless times sleeping deeply. Countless acts of witnessing and creating. For the umpteenth time, Ulala steps out of the ecology pod. In the first rays of the rising sun, he drives away the beasts lurking outside the cave, then bends down with a smile to the ancient apes trembling in its depths. "Hello there, Lucy." "It's been a while, humanity." #When the mountains are in the right place, the terrifying upright ape will awaken and rule the world!# Bonus scene: When he first arrived on the prehistoric planet, Ulala's first thought was: Good thing he still had his spaceship. The ship could produce nutritional supplements, so with those and the hibernation pod, he could lie around like a salted fish until humanity evolved. ...Then he discovered: The nutritional supplements were way, way, way too disgusting! After a few days of drinking them, Ulala's mouth was so bland he could practically taste the Archaeopteryx. Sniffling, he went outside and scooped up a handful: Great, seafood everywhere! Ulala's eyes lit up. He was about to cook it when he cracked one open... Help! The seafood was all too primitive! Just shells, no meat! How was he supposed to eat this stuff? Ulala went into hibernation in tears for millions of years, hoping evolution would take off a little more. When he came out again, well, the seafood had certainly grown. It had grown bigger than his spaceship. #The seafood is so huge, it won't fit in one pot!# #Thanks for nature's generous gift, but please, as the seafood gets bigger and tastier, could you not make every last one of them evolve into a ferocious deep-sea predator!# A lighthearted, no-romance, silly (?), farming-and-leveling-up story with a male lead. All the leveling up comes from nature's generous gifts. Important: This is entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! Entirely fictional! The story takes place on another planet in a remote corner of the galaxy. The species, periods, and evolutionary paths mentioned use real-world academic terminology for ease of understanding. I didn't invent a whole set of species and terminology because... the author couldn't come up with that many names! It would also make it harder to get immersed and more difficult to read... SO... It's just for fun, don't take it seriously! Also: The phrase "When the mountains are in the right place" pays homage to the Cthulhu mythos line, "When the stars are in the right place, Cthulhu will rise again and rule the world." The little figure on the cover was inspired by The Little Prince and the protagonist, Kid, from the game I Wanna. Thanks to the artist for their work! The prehistoric creatures on the cover, from top to bottom, are Dunkleosteus, a jellyfish on the left, an orthocone nautiloid on the right, a trilobite, an ammonite on the left, and an anomalocaris on the right. The protagonist's name, Ulala, is inspired by the French expression "ohlàlà," an interjection meaning "Oh my!" Please check out my upcoming work, Defeat the Supernatural with Science! Blurb: Cheng Wu is a dirt-poor office drone with no car, no home, and barely a coin to his name. Unable to pay rent, he gets kicked out. With nowhere to go, he suddenly spots a rental ad posted by the roadside. The location is great, the neighborhood is nice, and most importantly, the rent is incredibly cheap. The landlord's only requirements are that the place be rented to a man, and that he not bring any girls home. Cheng Wu: Hilarious. That's totally me. I'm so broke I don't dare date anyone. Cheng Wu contacts the landlord without hesitation. . On his first day in the old apartment building, Cheng Wu discovers that almost all the residents have moved out. He's the only one left on his floor. Cheng Wu: Now I get the public bathroom at the end of the hall all to myself. Great! The next day, the door to the vacant apartment next door swings open by itself. The newly replaced light bulb flickers with a sinister red glow. Cheng Wu: It's an old building, I can put up with it... On the third day, the door stops moving and the light stops flickering. But then a pale, handsome man with a sinister air appears in his dreams. With a cold expression, he tells Cheng Wu: Get out. . When Cheng Wu's friend hears about it, he looks horrified. "A haunted house! That's definitely a haunted house!" Cheng Wu calmly reassures him. "What are you talking about? I must be having nightmares because work's been exhausting. Damn those capitalists!" . Cheng Wu refuses to admit it's a haunted house for one simple reason: he's already paid six months' rent. There's no way he's moving out! So it absolutely cannot be a haunted house. . The door opens by itself because the latch is loose. The light flickers because the voltage is unstable. With an engineering background, Cheng Wu rolls up his sleeves and gets to work, swiftly replacing the latch and fixing the wiring. . As for the handsome man who keeps appearing in his dreams, whose icy ghostly aura creeps up from his ankles, along his calves, and gradually coils around his waist... Sitting up in bed and holding his aching back, Cheng Wu thinks in despair: . I must be so exhausted from work that it's drained me dry. Kidney deficiency, heart palpitations... I'm even having erotic dreams! Damn those capitalists! They should be strung up from lampposts! . #The haunted house is fake, the haunting is fake, but office drones being exploited by capitalists is real# #What nonsense. How could ghosts possibly exist? You should watch more Science Approaches!# Theme: Appreciate nature's incredible artistry and experience the wondrous grandeur of evolution.