Such a great master lived to be eighty years old, spending forty years exploring science, and the other forty years astonishingly obsessed with theology. Newton used many "very scientific phenomena" to prove the existence of God, and even when studying the age of the Earth, he actually used the Bible to calculate it as 6,000 years. Such a stark contrast makes it hard for people to associate these things with this scientific giant. Later generations generally believed that Newton lost his way in his later years, straying from materialism into idealism.

It wasn't until after the Great Cataclysm that a certain voice emerged around the world: perhaps Newton was right.

It's just that the mind of this legendary giant with an IQ of 290 was too far ahead of his time, and ordinary people simply couldn't comprehend his world of thought.

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The three thousand pillars of light sparked all kinds of speculation, but did not change the daily lives of most people.

As long as you didn't step into the range of the pillars, ordinary folks went about their lives as usual.

In Huaguo, people went to work as usual, went to school as usual, hooked up as usual. The world in the evening news was still so beautiful, city management officers everywhere were still so irritable, demolition teams were still forcibly tearing things down with swagger... In their spare time, people would discuss those mysterious rainbow pillars, guessing whether those who entered the pillars were dead or alive.

On January 1, 2014, in Zhonghai City, Huaguo, a young man was running frantically toward the rainbow pillar in the city center.

Beside the young man, a black dog was also sprinting at full speed.

This tall, athletic, and handsome sunny boy was named James Carter, a third-year student at Zhonghai University’s School of Physical Education. At Zhonghai University, James Carter was something of a legend, nicknamed William Carter.

He was the captain of the university basketball team, with freakish athleticism, able to play both guard positions and small forward, and had once brutally dunked over a two-meter-tall center. He was a well-known swingman in the national college league. In his freshman year, James Carter had already reached the peak of his life, winning the league’s Rookie of the Year award, and was quite the ladies’ man, with a campus beauty as his girlfriend.

In the past season, as a sophomore, James Carter won the MVP, caught the eye of professional clubs, and his life was getting better and better. Today, he went out to walk his dog and buy a small gift for his girlfriend, only to unfortunately run into a tragedy.

In a dark alley, he saw something he shouldn’t have seen and heard a secret he shouldn’t have heard.

Heaven knows, James Carter never dreamed he’d get caught up in something like this—he was just an innocent bystander.

Behind him, two men in sunglasses were chasing him like mad.

James Carter unleashed his 100-meter dash speed of 10.8 seconds, running even faster, because he knew those two men in black with sunglasses looked like killers and were carrying silenced pistols. He didn’t seek help from the police, because one of the culprits in the bloody case he stumbled upon was a cop.

“Stop, or I’ll shoot!”

The officer with a sinister face drew his gun and fired a warning shot with a bang, scaring the nearby pedestrians.

James Carter turned a deaf ear, using the cover of passersby and obstacles to run for his life.

A deadly sense of crisis filled his heart, giving him an intuition: whether he fell into the hands of the men in sunglasses or the police, he would not escape death.

Unknowingly, he ran near the rainbow pillar.

Within a hundred meters of the pillar, there was not a soul in sight.

Rainbow pillars all over the world were like this—ordinary people didn’t want to get close, and would detour when passing by. James Carter himself had no interest in the rainbow pillar; as someone who failed high school physics, he hadn’t even grasped the basics, let alone had time to explore the frontiers of physics. His dream was to graduate, become a professional athlete, and then marry his girlfriend Emily and have children.

But now, James Carter couldn’t care about any of that.

He had caused a commotion, and many patrol officers were converging from all directions.

“Screw it!”

James Carter, with no way out, lowered his head and charged into the rainbow pillar.

The big black dog, who was very close to him, followed him in.

The moment he ran into the pillar, James Carter heard gunshots.

The powerful bullets hit the pillar, but it was like a clay ox entering the sea—no ripple at all.

James Carter didn’t have time to check if he’d been shot; he just felt the world go dark before his eyes, with no sun or moon.

A vast and boundless will thundered in his mind like a heavenly roar:

“Welcome to the world of evolution, weak creature. Begin your path of evolution!”

Chapter 2: The Primitive World

Giant trees that would take ten people to encircle towered into the sky, their branches and leaves blocking out the sun.

Such trees were everywhere, forming a boundless, primeval forest.

In an inconspicuous corner of the jungle, James Carter looked completely bewildered.

“Does this count as traveling to another world?”

James Carter panted heavily, his eyes darting around.

He had parents, friends, and a campus beauty girlfriend, so he couldn’t accept the idea of transmigrating.

Thinking back carefully to how he felt when he entered the pillar, James Carter had a strange feeling—it must have been some kind of spatial teleportation. According to posts online, over a hundred million people worldwide had entered the rainbow pillars. If this was transmigration, wasn’t that a bit too much? Could there really be such a massive group transmigration?

“If you can teleport here, maybe you can teleport back? Maybe this is some kind of two-dimensional space.”