Chapter 1850 - 1850 The New “Lucy”
1850 The New “Lucy”
‘The deep integration of human civilization and monster civilization…’
Meng Chao shuddered. “If a new life form is created this way, is it still considered a human?”
“That depends on your definition of ‘human,’” Lu Siya said calmly.
“In 1974 AD, the archaeologist, Donald Johnson, found some broken bone fossils in a valley in Ethiopia. After restoration and reconstruction, they obtained the skull of an ancient human being. Through pota.s.sium-argon dating, they determined that she was from three million years ago.
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“It was the first skull of an ancient human discovered by human archaeologists. They named the owner of the skull ‘Lucy’ and declared her ‘the first human in the world.’
“However, did you know that Ms. Lucy, the mother of all mankind, looked completely different from modern people? Thanks to precise restoration work later on, scientists managed to roughly simulate her appearance. She had a low forehead, a protruding jaw, canine teeth, and molars that were larger than that of modern humans. On top of a smaller brain capacity, her body was shorter and much more pet.i.te. She was also covered in thick and coa.r.s.e hair.
“Rather than calling her the mother of all mankind, it’d be more suitable to say that she was the accidental product of a gorilla and monkey’s liaison.
“If Ms. Lucy transmigrated to the present and appeared before us, I’m afraid no one would see her as human.
“After Ms. Lucy fell from a tree, she unfortunately died. She then turned into a fossil, and for three million years, human beings continued to evolve and change their form many times.
“Those who carved stone tools and painted cave murals were humans.
“Those who ate raw meat, drank blood, and practiced slash-and-burn cultivation1 were humans.
“Those who had dark skin, curly hair, as well as slender limbs, would chase leopards under the hot sun. They were also humans.
“Those who advanced toward vast snowfields in extremely cold weather were bigger in size. Eventually, they evolved to become blonde, blue-eyed humans with white skin.
“Those who sailed far away but got trapped on isolated islands shrank in size. Adults would only be 1.2 or 1.3 meters tall.
“The Amazon jungle was a.s.sociated with venomous snakes, as well as piranhas, and those who lived there were humans skilled in using blow darts.
“Those who studied science, built machinery, and finally landed on the moon on rockets were also humans.
“Not too long ago, we transmigrated to an alien world. Many people lost their limbs and organs in battle, so they had to turn themselves into half-flesh, half-machine beings. They wear artificial limbs with carved runes, but the entire race sees them as humans, and they see themselves in the same way too.
“In the future, Dragon City’s civilization will face countless challenges, and we may encounter numerous alien races. These alien races will either be our mortal enemies or close friends and allies. Whether they’re friend or foe, we’ll have in-depth conversations regarding war and trade with them. We’ll be directly or indirectly affected by them. In the end, we’ll continue to evolve, change, adapt, and conquer a new environment just as our ancestors have been doing for the past three million years. We’ll grow into a new version of the most superior beings.
“So, what’s the problem?”
“This is different.”
Meng Chao frowned and said, “When it comes to Lucy or the different races on Earth, our cell structure and gene strands are pretty much the same. There’s no reproductive isolation, so of course we’re all humans at the end of the day.
“But, monsters…”
“So, you believe that human genes are sacred and inviolable because they’re G.o.d’s creation?” Lu Siya asked.
“Or do you think that humans in their current form have already reached an extreme stage of evolution, therefore, they’re perfect enough to deal with every danger and prevent the apocalypse?
“Just admit it… Compared to the brilliant fire of wisdom born from our developed brains, our bodies are too clumsy and weak. To some extent, we have spiritually evolved too fast and left our fleshly bodies far behind on the path of evolution.
“From our tonsils to our appendix, to our spine that isn’t adapted to long periods of standing, to our internal organs that are constantly failing, to our short lifespan of a few decades, and our dying brain cells, nature’s ancient hand of evolution hasn’t been keeping up with the pace of human self-improvement. As a result, human beings have become prisoners trapped in their own bodies. For a long time, we’ve only been able to watch the Apocalyptic Beast’s majestic build with extreme fear and envy.
“However, with what the monster civilization has left behind, with rapid advancement of genetic technology, and the continuous expansion of spirit energy cultivation theories, all of this will change.
“Through this genetic optimization project, we’ll help each other combine the most powerful genes in Dragon City. We’ll inject a huge amount of cultivation resources when our offspring are still embryos. When they’re born, the leap in evolution from Lucy to the modern human will be recreated. However, we have ways to confidently compress the long evolution of the past three million years into a few decades or even a few years. This is the only way we can rekindle hope for a new civilization!”
“I understand the logic.”
Meng Chao had experienced the apocalypse numerous times in his nightmares. He knew better than anyone else that a human’s current form was made for hunting creatures. Using sharp javelins, humans would capture their prey across the jungles and plains of Earth.
Humans were not suited for working long hours at the desk in the modern metropolis of skysc.r.a.pers. In the twenty-second century, humans faced countless glittering screens and accessed a tremendous amount of data.
It was even less suitable for humans to come to the Other World where spirit energy was abundant. They had to compete for living s.p.a.ce with a bunch of freaks who had the power to destroy the world, and they could meet their end at any moment on the cruel battlefield.
If the usual path led to a dead end, change was necessary.
If humans wanted to survive, they would have to undergo a profound and intense transformation from the inside out. Everything from their genes to their organs, their spirit to their thoughts, and individual form to social form had to change.
Meng Chao was definitely not someone who would remain stagnant.
With his memories of the apocalypse, he was far more open, subversive, and unorthodox than an ordinary person.
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Nevertheless…
“These are my children.”
Meng Chao sighed. “How could I turn my children into a bunch of monsters?”
Lu Siya caught the hole in Meng Chao’s argument.
“Ah, so you admit that for the civilization of mankind to continue, it has to become a ‘monster’ in a sense. Also, you don’t object to such monsters being around as long as they’re not your children?”
Lu Siya smiled and said, “Then tell me, whose children should become a group of monsters?”