1851 Distant Descendants
Meng Chaoâs face turned red. He knew that he had said something wrong.
Yes, his children should not become monsters, but whose child should? The children of the poor with nothing to their name or the children of rich billionaires?
âAnyway, even if you donât make the choice, human evolution is an unstoppable tide. It will soon catch up to us in a surge,â Lu Siya said lightly.
âYouâve already disclosed the truth about Picturesque Orchid Lake to all the citizens of Dragon City. I believe that there will be talks between the Dragon City civilization and Turan civilization soon. When the time comes, countless hungry fugitives who canât find a job in Dragon City will go to Picturesque Orchid Lake in desperation. The best of the Turan orcs will also come to Dragon City and live among us.
âLetâs not talk about the terrifying werewolves, tiger people, snake people, boar people, and Minotaurs. You mentioned that there were also small, petite, and cute cat people and rabbit people among the Turan orcs.
I believe that if the Turan civilizationâs leader is really as smart and rational as you say, heâll send the seemingly harmless cat people and rabbit people to act as ambassadors first.
âThe ordinary citizens have been single their entire lives in Dragon City, and theyâve watched the superhumans snatch all the members of the opposite sex away. Do you think that they wonât be smitten when they see the cute and gentle humanoid cats and rabbits?
âI remember you also said that Picturesque Orchid Lake has been suffering from intermittent famines caused by population explosions for a long time.
âItâs just as well. Dragon Cityâs civilization doesnât have much, but we have plenty of synthetic food. Although the taste isnât the best, thereâs definitely enough calories.
âEven ordinary citizens who donât have any skills can obtain synthetic food made from the fluids of low-level monsters. Thatâs enough to fill the stomachs of an entire family. I think that the Turan orcs who are experiencing famine will find this very attractive.
âSince the Turan orcs are trying to solve the famine problem, I donât think theyâll mind exporting some of the weak tribes who canât fight to Dragon City. In exchange, weâll give them necessary industrial and military materials. Itâs a perfect way to help them reduce their burden!
âWeâll be killing two birds with one stone. Itâs a deal that will make everyone happy.
âNot to mention, thereâs a wider and more fertile land to the north of Picturesque Orchid Lake. The Holy Light faction that lives there has a ten-thousand-year conflict with the Turan orcs. Once war breaks out again, weâll have no choice but to be involved in the storm.
âWar has always been the most efficient way of communication.
âIn trade or war, whether people act willingly, or theyâre forced and captured, new lives are always born after countless people are butchered.
âThose who canât find a partner in Dragon City; those who are captured by the Holy light faction; those who capture individuals from the Holy Light faction in revenge and lose their minds because they canât contain their anger; those who lose their partners in the long, cruel war and only had comrades of the opposite sex with themâŠ
âTheyâll eventually give birth to all kinds of ânew human beingsâ who appear bizarre but are full of vitality and hope. Theyâll have the potential to create the future!â
âWait a moment.â
Meng Chao frowned. âYou forgot about reproductive isolation.â
âOf course, itâs common knowledge that human beings come from Earth on the other side of the sea of stars. There should be reproductive isolation between them and the creatures of the Other World,â Lu Siya said unhurriedly.
âHowever, all signs indicate that Earthlings and the intelligent life forms in the Other World are not completely unrelated. Both developed independently, but weâre likely the creations of a more ancient super civilization. We were probably bred in the same petri dish because we breathe the same air and regard hydrogen, as well as carbon monoxide, as the source of life. We are deeply connected and are likely close relatives. You could even say that weâre both sides of the same coin.
âSo, itâs highly possible that thereâs no reproductive isolation between us and the natives of the Other World.
âEven if reproductive isolation does exist, it is by no means an insurmountable obstacle.
âThe monster civilization mastered the way to transcend reproductive isolation. The biochemical factory known as the âmonster civilizationâs ultimate lairâ managed to combine the genes of arthropods and mammals to create a new type of army that was half-spider and half-jackal.
âAnd the monster civilization is far from being the most powerful civilization in the Other World. We have reason to believe that the Turan civilization and the Holy Light faction have similar technology, such as gene fusion, cell replication, and equipment to overcome reproductive isolation.
âSo, it wonât mean a thing even if you refuse my invitation.
âThere will always be one person who will give in to temptation and mate with a foreign race. This couple will then give birth to offspring that have the blood of Earthlings and orcs.
âAs contact becomes more frequent and the intensity of the war escalates, such individuals will only multiply.
âIn the end, humans only have two paths to take: perdition or change.â
Meng Chao closed his eyes. Based on the information Lu Siya provided, he pictured the development of this future civilization.
Just as the biplane was about to arrive above the Supernatural Tower, he slowly opened his eyes.
âYouâre right. Iâve been too narrow-minded. Human beings are far from perfect. To go from monkeys living in the forest to a universal race that soars above the stars, we have to change and move forward. I also believe that weâre destined to.
âIt doesnât matter if youâre half-human, half-beast, half-human, half-machine, or even if you break away from this heavy, clumsy, and inefficient body of flesh and become a life form of pure spirit energy. As long as you acknowledge that youâre still human and remember that your ancestors came from Earth, youâll be our descendant and our continuation.
âThe question is, can we really guarantee that our offspring will still remember that theyâre human beings and that their ancestors came from Earth? After many generations, they would have gone through countless upgrades, evolutions, and mutations. Theyâll end up looking completely different from us.
âIs it possible that as their appearance, limbs, organs, cells, and even genes continue to mutate, their social structure and civilization will undergo drastic changes too? In the end, will they completely deviate from the civilization of mankind and identify with another civilization that we cannot understand at all?â
âYes, of course. But so what?â Lu Siya said.
âTrilobites, Anomalocaris, and dinosaurs have long gone extinct. Plus, we humans donât really see them as our ancestors.
âHowever, thanks to our existence and the continuous discovery and study of fossils by human archaeologists, weâve been able to illustrate trilobites, Anomalocaris, and dinosaurs, speculate on their habits and community, depict how they dominated the deep ocean and the earth, and write vivid, soul-stirring stories about them. Weâve been able to give them the meaning of life.
âBy the same logic, it doesnât matter even if our âdeformedâ offspring drift away from us after countless iterations and evolutions until they evolve into a brand-new civilization thatâs entirely different from ours.
âOne day, theyâll excavate our fossils.
âOne day, theyâll recreate our social structure.
âOne day, theyâll learn about the infinite courage that we inspired when we faced the apocalypse, as well as the tragedy and grimness of our last moments in battle.
âOne day, theyâll infer our birth, aging, sickness, and death, our love, hatred, glory, and dignity based on their discoveries. Theyâll come up with touching stories for sure.
âTheyâll treat everything about us as bedtime stories in the same way we often tell stories about dinosaurs to our children when they make a fuss and refuse to sleep.
âSo what if we never understand them?
âI believe that theyâll remember us and understand us.â
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