Chapter 17.1
Adam . . .
What was his childhood like?
Standing in a prison, watching the outside from behind metal fences as men dressed in white looked at him with terrified yet expectant gazes . . .
Anesthetized and placed on the operating table . His body cut open for instruments to be stuck inside or parts of his organs to be taken out . . .
Countless books were forcefully instilled in his brain . Not learning it within the stipulated time would reward him with an electric shock . He felt like he was rather similar to those chimpanzees being trained to eat bananas in the data . They were locked up, researched, then electrocuted . . .
Kill these people? Nonono, kill all people, as long as they were a human… It would be better to kill all of them if there was the power . . .
And that genetic subject Chu Xuan . Why were his genes stolen to this country? Why were the genes imitated and optimised? He wasn't Chu Xuan, so he had feelings, taste, smell and pain…
It was weak .
But, they were there .
The only thing he didn't have was that legendary intelligence . Is that why he was treated like this? Why he was considered a failed product? No, nonono, it isn't . . .
He found the chance . He obtained the self destruct code for the base . All that was left were the logical arrangements . Arranging his escape route and future . A new identity, one that could achieve a goal… Extinction of humanity . Kill them all, as long as they were a living thing called a human . These hideous… these vile… these . . .
Goodbye, my childhood .
Right, a name . The beginning of everything, whether a human’s identity or body . He had to stand above them all, and exterminate them . Why not Adam, the first human?
It would be the last human too .
Adam activated his Light of the Soul . A gentle light formed around him . For some reason, all of his memories thus far appeared in his mind, especially the ones before destroying the base . Those things that had been buried deep, deep down . Had he not forgotten them yet? He hadn't thought of it for so, so long .
“Are these the memories that flash past before a human dies? The one that’s about to die is humanity, but human memories exist despite that . The part of me that's human will die soon . All that will be left is that which is the ultimate lifeform . Isn't that great?” Various memories flashed past Adam's mind, until his Light of the Soul reached the alchemical formation . It all only took a few seconds .
All the surrounding people saw were him hesitating momentarily before putting his hands back .
In those seconds, the bodies of several around gave a violent shudder . Then, their bodies split apart, and countless tiny tentacles sprouted out from within…
Yes . These people had long since been infected silently and soundlessly by the super virus . At this moment, the weakest amongst them began to mutate .
Adam had just began the final phase of the Human Instrumentality Project . Although he noticed their abnormalities, he wasn't able to divert his attention to consider anything . All he did was to wrap the Spear of Longinus in his Light of the Soul, and point the speartip at his chest . As people began to tremble around him, the spear slowly entered his chest . A feeling that wasn't pain enveloped him . It was like the feeling of entering something . It couldn't be said clearly, but if it must be described, it was the feeling of entering a new world, god’s domain, the tier of a higher lifeform, or… Dao!
“So that's how it is . The world we’re in and all the various forms of life are just… The lifeform currently creating these worlds… Very soon, we’re going to meet . ”
The Spear of Longinus had completely penetrated Adam . His original Light of the Soul turned into strands of light, floating behind him similar to ten pairs of wings . The strands of light didn’t randomly float around . They instead drifted towards the over ten people with high mental capacity . The first person wasn't able to block it and ended up entangled within . He began to shout immediately, and fluctuations like Light of the Soul began to flow out of his body . The fluctuations were sent to Adam through the threads . At the same time, the alchemical formation began to shine, while becoming three dimensional and expanding . A three dimensional formation of light enveloped the warehouse . From the outside, an enormous formation of light faintly appeared at the top of the warehouse, which was becoming more obvious by the moment .
“That light…”
The people hidden outside the warehouse naturally immediately noticed the formation of light that was increasing in size and brightness . It had numerous and complicated runes and diagrams . The most obvious were thirteen diagrams that looked like an eye . Every eye had their own unique runes . There was also an obvious pair of wings behind the eyes . Apart from the circular diagrams these eyes took up, there was an incomparably enormous circle above . The entire formation was structured like the roots of a tree . At the bottom part, it diverged many times, each ending at the eye . And every root led up to a trunk . The giant circle was the center of the trunk .
All this, was the Tree of Life .
“This world… The first thing is to construct a setting when it comes to creating a world . Then, power levels, then the setup of living things . The most important thing is the history . Errr, an ordinary universe . The living things inside are slightly different from real life . The earliest lifeforms from the earliest days of Earth possesed great power . It was even earlier than the dinosaurs, even earlier than the giant insects . They were very powerful, but gradually vanished due to Earth’s environment changing . The rest either fell into a slumber or evolved . That’s for the most powerful lifeforms . The ordinary ones have a similar evolution to real life . Right, evolution… I’ll change the power levels slightly and make evolution the main power . The first stage, the second stage, for a total of sixth stages . The fifth is the peak, while the sixth… We’ll set this level as something that can never be reached . It can still attract readers and let them imagine and speculate . The setting, the sixth stage can break through the cage that is the world . As for where it goes… I haven't decided yet . ”
“Then history . The strongest lifeforms all vanished, slept, evolved or devolved . Like that, the world entered the era of the dinosaurs . Err, then, the first humans appeared . That was during the early to middle time period…”
These words appeared very abruptly, as if they had always been in every person’s mind . There was no sound, only meaning . Everyone all heard these words in an instant . But that was all . When the words got to ‘early to middle time period’, it vanished, as if everyone had somehow started hearing things in the instant before .
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