Chapter 1182

Approximately 320,000 years ago, the ancestors of our Wondrous Arm Civilization first walked from water onto land.

Because of a high-temperature climate lasting ten thousand years, the oceans began to evaporate; at that time we had no choice but to move onto land for survival.

That was a very painful experience.

In the fossil records we have found, the Wondrous Arm people who first walked onto land must have been organisms at the very bottom of the food chain of that era.

In the long process of evolution, in order to ensure the survival of our species, we evolved a powerful reproductive capacity and an extremely rapid growth rate.

Among ten thousand Wondrous Arm individuals, if just one survives, our lineage can continue.

Listening to A Rui Er's eloquent narration, Lin An hesitated for a moment and did not choose to interrupt.

He could tell that each individual of the Heaven's Eye... no, the Wondrous Arm people before him had decent intelligence. Starting from the beginning, there must be some important information.

Strong reproductive capacity...?

Thinking of that group of Heaven's Eye people on the surface, Lin An felt a slight stir.

As it turns out, this ability had already evolved this early.

Seeing that Lin An did not interrupt, A Rui Er's eyes flashed with a hint of gratitude, and A Rui Er continued the narration:

"Two hundred thousand years ago, relying on our strong reproductive capacity, our ancestors began to gradually occupy the continent. Although individual survival skills were poor, we would unite!"

"When the first group of Wondrous Arm people hiding in the jungle evolved the ability to grasp branches in order to escape, a miracle occurred!"

"We learned to throw stones! We learned to make weapons!"

"When the first stone was thrown from our ancestors' hands, we were no longer at the bottom of the food chain!"

"Stone throwing, bows and arrows, spears, leather armor!"

"Ten Wondrous Arm people with simple weapons could hunt a forest wolf; thirty Wondrous Arm people with bows and arrows could kill a double-headed elephant; one hundred Wondrous Arm people Equipment leather gear could contend with the former overlord, the sky lizard!"

"Civilization began to develop rapidly!"

"In a forest fire ignited by lightning, we learned to use fire!"

"After the first time we ate a giant deer completely and buried it in the soil, we learned to sow seeds!"

"When we first gazed up at the starry sky, we learned divination and star observation!"

"When we first clung to ironwood while being swept into a flood, we learned to build ships!"

As A Rui Er's narration unfolded, Lin An seemed to witness an epic of civilization.

Just like humans on Earth.

The same path, a similar civilization.

From knotted cords for record-keeping to characters carved on animal bones, from primitive society to feudal empire.

In the span of three hundred thousand years, the Heaven's Eye people ultimately evolved into modern civilization.

In the passionate and stirring narration, A Rui Er calmed the excited emotions and turned somewhat sombre:

"Your Excellency, the Perfect One."

"What follows is our modern history. It is also the core of all problems."

"After developing electricity and being able to utilize fossil energy, our civilization developed rapidly, and the population also grew wildly."

"At its peak, the Wondrous Arm people on the entire planet numbered as high as 1,730,000,000,000!"

"Can you imagine how enormous this number is?"

"On land, in the ocean... any land that was suitable or unsuitable for habitation, we turned it into cities."

"Overcrowding and the rapid consumption of resources ultimately triggered a war that lasted six hundred years."

"That was the darkest period of our civilization."

"Six hundred years ago, between our nations there erupted three hundred and twenty billion‑scale world wars."

"Our strong reproductive capacity made us the overlords of this planet; likewise, it also made us completely indifferent to life."

"Every corner of the entire planet was like a meat grinder."

"Every minute, every second, over a million people died."

"Often, a newly adult (two‑year‑old) Wondrous Arm person would be sent to the battlefield, and the Rear would give birth to another."

"When life became the cheapest consumable, our wars grew even more frenzied."

"All the focus of our civilization was poured into the military; we destroyed all art and literature."

"Born to fight; from the moment a Wondrous Arm person is born, they are a warrior!"

"This brutal history of internal civilizational slaughter... lasted a full six hundred years."

"We once thought that people could never be killed off..."

"But as vast farmlands and oceans were polluted and destroyed, the world began to edge toward collapse."

"At that point, everyone realized."

"Either one side would emerge victorious and win the final victory, or we would continue destroying until the last piece of land was gone..."

"By the later stage, in order to replenish troops and secure victory, even nine‑month‑old Wondrous Arm individuals were sent to the battlefield—even if they could only consume a single enemy bullet."

"To replenish troops, we even built breeding factories..."

"Without concealment, revealing the shameful past of their own civilization, A Rui Er's face turned somewhat pale as they spoke of this."

"Do you know what a breeding factory is?"

".. We gathered all female Wondrous Arm people together, placing them on the assembly line like pallets."

"Above them were the male Wondrous Arm people, who acted like the hammer strikes that process parts, dropping once every twelve seconds to complete a reproductive cycle..."

"Assembly‑line production, batch hatching..."

"We transformed our own kind into breeding machines; from birth, each individual was continuously injected with growth hormone, subjected to twenty‑one hours of strong light each day, solely to keep eating and stimulate development."

"Upon hearing this, Lin An could not help but feel a jolt in his heart."

"A Rui Er's description was actually not unlike a chicken farm on Earth."

Meat chickens raised industrially can be ready for market in as little as 27 days.

Just this description alone, Lin An could imagine how insane that period of history was.

A long sigh.

Ariel glanced at the equally silent Heavenly Eye committee member, gave a bitter laugh:

"Of course, in the end we ended this war."

"But when we were preparing to rebuild civilization amidst the cheers, we desperately discovered that we had no civilization left to speak of."

"All art, literature, morality, human relations, society... were completely destroyed by us."

"A large number of surviving miraculous-armed people cannot live normal lives; many, in peacetime, have become unable to adapt."

"After batch after batch of miraculous-armed people suffered mental breakdowns and chose suicide, the remaining miraculous-armed people, in a desolate world, began to rebuild our spiritual world."

"It is precisely from then that the surviving miraculous-armed people realized we must never let this happen again!"

"Miraculous-armed people can no longer have war!"

"This shameful history must never be repeated!"

"After enduring the dark age, we finally entered the renaissance era!"

"No war, no suspicion, no lies! We love nature, refuse to develop any weapons! Refuse all violence and killing!"

"United in friendship, every individual possesses near-perfect morality! That was a great era! That was the pinnacle of our civilization!"

"We created a global hive network to oversee civilization; all management and processes were handed over to the supercomputer for processing! Absolute justice!"

"We began to enjoy life; each miraculous-armed person, from birth, can choose whatever they want to do. They can become an artist, a poet, an athlete. As long as they do not violate the rules set by the supercomputer's core, they can fully love the whole world!"

"Technology advanced rapidly; we even mastered almost limitless energy: nuclear fusion! We are ready to explore the stars and the sea!"

"But.."

"His words trailed off abruptly."

"Ariel trembled all over, as if recalling something he most did not want to remember."

"But what?"

"Has the Apocalypse erupted?"

"Lin An frowned slightly and asked softly."

"As expected, after Ariel struggled to calm his emotions, he gave a bitter laugh:"

"That's right."

"The Apocalypse has descended."

"A large number of Heavenly Eye people suddenly turned into man-eating monsters! And there are incomprehensible mutants!"

"Upon hearing this, Lin An suddenly froze."

"Your Apocalypse crisis isn't those insects, is it?!"

"Seeing Lin An's immediate counter-question, Ariel lightly shook his head, his face even bearing a strange expression."

"Your Excellency the Perfect One, how could you think those insects could destroy us?"

"No, they are merely the \"pets\" we cultivated, a kind of weapon.."

"Didn't you hear that?"

"In the long war, we have already run out of food."

"So, we once ate many, many people..."

"After hundreds of years, the sins we once committed were triggered by the system..."