"Rebirth in the Apocalypse" - No Rebirth (Chapter 35)...
The struggle for survival in the apocalypse made everyone get to know each other, and everyone thought it would continue like this, but unexpectedly they heard the news of separation.
Gan Man was the first to stand up: "But the outside world is so dangerous, how will you survive alone, Doctor!"
Ye Xiqing glanced at her plant-based prosthetic arm and said without hesitation, "It's precisely because I'm alone that I can survive. If I take you all with me, we'll be finished."
Everyone: ...
What to do? It seems to be true...
Everyone else is evolving, but Ye Xiqing has evolved to the point where she can evolve on her own.
If her theory about sealed jars is true, no one in the apocalypse can live better than her. Even if it's a zombie-dominated world, zombies can only serve as her supplies. She is a predator who has evolved to be even more perfect than the zombie king.
Only after casting aside unnecessary worries about Ye Xiqing did people realize that they were the ones who should be worried.
All along, under Ye Xiqing's protection, all difficulties have been easily resolved. What will happen when they lose her?
Everyone looked anxious, but Ye Xiqing remained calm: "When children grow up, they should leave their mother's embrace and explore the world."
“You’re not children. You can take care of yourselves. Being too dependent on me will only cause your brains to degenerate.”
"I will go to explore new worlds, and you also have your own worlds to explore."
"Haven't you noticed? Over the years, no one has shown any signs of aging."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then realized what was happening and looked at their own hands.
Those hands grew stronger and stronger, yet showed no signs of aging whatsoever. Even Luan Anchun's aging process began to halt, and there were even signs of recovery.
"The world has changed, and so have we. Reproduction has slowed down, but individual strength has begun to grow. Does this premise seem familiar?"
"Perhaps the world we are experiencing is not the end of the world, but a spiritual revival?"
Everyone: ...
"So, our special ability core is actually a Core Formation?"
Ye Xiqing couldn't help but laugh. Well, who could say that? After all, she also had a magical spatial bracelet.
Perhaps this world was once a world of cultivation, which is why such magical artifacts from immortals remain.
We are now in the Dharma-ending Age, when both humans and gods are perishing. Once we pass through the Dharma-ending Age, a new era will begin.
In this degenerate age, pursuing reproduction is a bit absurd, but pursuing immortality is quite appropriate.
She wasn't joking when she said at the beginning that she hoped everyone would live.
She will pursue the path to immortality, and when she returns from her world travels, she hopes that these people will not be nothing but bones.
...
Ye Xiqing left just like that, taking thirteen zombies with her.
The farewell should have been very sad, but Ye Xiqing's words made them forget their sadness.
Their leader didn't go to do anything else; she went to seek immortality!
The people at the base prepared a small truck for her, to carry some essential supplies and the thirteen zombies. The truck was modified to be driven by her superpowers, so she didn't have to worry about running out of gas on the road.
Ye Xiqing waved goodbye to everyone and embarked on her journey. The remaining people exchanged glances, determined to see the sun rise with their own eyes!
They left full of confidence, but what awaited them was humanity's darkest hour.
Ye Xiqing was right. After the apocalypse, the only thing we will face is an increasingly harsh environment and dwindling resources.
Life became increasingly difficult for the survivors, and those who could not adapt to the environment died one after another.
The remaining people huddled together tightly; their only wish was to survive!
...
One hundred years later.
The once modern city has completely lost its former glory, leaving only dark, thick vines clinging to the ruins.
As the competition for resources in the apocalypse intensifies, all living things stop pretending. Not only are mutated zombies and animals competing with humans for low-level zombie resources, but even plants are vying for them.
The once frail strangling vine has evolved to attack any living thing it sees, competing with humans for the meager zombie resources. Pandora flew low over the sky, looked at the empty surroundings, and fell silent. It might be time to migrate again.
I thought the first leader was joking when he said he would live by chasing zombies before he left home, but I didn't expect that he would actually migrate his territory because of the depletion of zombie resources.
The Huiyang Base is still called the Huiyang Base, but its address has changed twice.
The scouts sent word that some more zombies had gathered at the First Base, and they could move them back!
The first base was built the longest by the survivors and is the base with the most memories. Everyone is actually very happy to be able to return to their old home.
After skillfully packing their belongings, the entire base prepared to relocate once again.
The highway before the apocalypse was almost completely destroyed, making the ride extremely bumpy, and Pandora was too lazy to take a car.
She awakened her second superpower at the age of forty: levitation.
They gained the ability to fly.
However, this ability is different from visible powered flight; she felt more like swimming in the air.
It seemed as if all the invisible pores in her body had opened, allowing her to connect with the outside air, making her body feel very light.
With a little assistance, it can glide and float in the air for a distance.
Humanity's greatest desire is to fly in the sky. Pandora's awakened superpower is the envy of many, who want her genes to have a baby who can fly.
Even though the apocalypse has progressed to this point, people are still being born because they are constantly being left behind by the giant wheel of evolution.
Whenever someone is about to die, the base plans for newborns, keeping them within a manageable range, with sufficient resources to care for the mother and raise the child. In the apocalypse, there cannot be no people, nor can there be too many people.
As humans become fully "superpowered," their lifespans become longer and longer, fewer new humans are needed to join, and the base's reproduction has almost stopped.
But there will come a day when birth restrictions will be lifted, and many people will reserve the genes they like in advance so that they can have the baby they want when birth restrictions are lifted.
Pandora's two lightning-based levitation abilities are both very popular, and many people have reserved her genes.
Being popular with her genes is probably the greatest recognition of her own strength. Pandora is very proud of this and likes to show off her levitation ability in front of others.
However, she had higher goals for the genes she had chosen, which she had never told anyone.
She'll have the best child she can have, and when the first leader returns, she'll have to have hers!
Her idea was a bit too far-fetched. Not to mention whether the leader would agree, it was also unknown whether they would survive until the leader returned.
They had no doubt that the leader had evolved into an even more incredible powerhouse, but could they still wait for the day when the light would return?
The people below struggled forward on the bumpy truck, facing their unknown journey, while Pandora fluttered in the air.
She was enjoying the pleasure of drifting when something suddenly hit the corner of her eye, making her involuntarily turn her head slightly.
After she came to her senses, she suddenly looked up.
The thick layer of dust, as always, remained suspended above the ground, but at a certain moment, it was like a punctured bag, letting through thousands of beams of light.
As a newborn in the Dark Ages, Pandora needs a moment to process what has happened.
When she realized what was happening, her eyes widened, and she swooped down, yelling, "Mom! Mom!"
Because of her extended lifespan, Pan Yunxi, who is over a hundred years old and still called "Mom" by her children, got out of the car to see what her children were calling her.
As she stopped the car and got out, a familiar and warm beam of light shone in front of her, causing her to freeze in place for a moment before looking up sharply.
Countless rays of light pierced through the thick layer of dust, cascading down to create a stunning Tyndall effect.
Pan Yunxi stared wide-eyed at the ever-extending beam of light, just like everyone else getting off the bus.
The sun! The sun is out!
...
The survivors, bathed in sunlight, were not only captured in the history of new humankind, but also on the screen, causing the audience to erupt in uncontrollable cheers.
System! Speak! System! Speak!
system:……
This instance, which was initially bound by the most worldview constraints and was touted as a battle between an entire world and one person, was utterly defeated the moment the sun rose.
In previous failures, the system was able to find various excuses to save face, but this time it really broke down.
Pinba Pinba's own shattered core managed to speak with difficulty: "Host, when exactly will you return to the main storyline?"
Ye Xiqing turned around in confusion: "Why are we going back to the main storyline? Didn't I die before I was reborn? What, are you getting angry? You want to force me to be reborn even though I didn't die?"
system:……
This is the second thing that saddens the system.
As a world where death leads to rebirth, and the main focus is on the story after rebirth, Ye Xiqing lived for a hundred years without dying or even aging. She truly turned it into a cultivation game!
She traveled the world with thirteen evolved zombies, crossing mountains and building boats wherever they encountered water. In the past few years, she even drove a truck. Later, her body ascended, and she traveled entirely by the speed of her physical body.
Upon encountering a survivor base, they forcefully joined it, implementing the mature operational methods used at the Huiyang base, and incidentally merging the genes of the humans at the new base to acquire more high-quality superpowers.
Once the base is built, we'll move on to the next goal and embark on a new journey.
Along the way, she no longer limited herself to absorbing only human genes, but also began to absorb the genes of mutated animals.
They no longer limited themselves to taming mutated zombies, but began to tame various mutated animals.
Who could imagine that while survivors in other parts of the world were still struggling to fight mutated zombies using primitive methods, she was already riding a mutated tiger, following a mutated eagle, and leading a group of zombie kings on a hunting expedition to the east and west.
This is also why Ye Xiqing later abandoned the truck. There are more convenient means of transportation that don't need to be fueled or fed with special abilities; they can find their own food.
However, maintaining such a mutated army is too costly. Ye Xiqing usually doesn't stay in one place for long to prevent devouring too many zombies and leaving the survivors without zombies to replenish the food chain.
If you encounter a deserted area with many corpses, that's paradise.
Not only can you feed your subordinates without any worries, but you can also recruit new mutated zombies, mutated plants and animals.
After so many years of working together, even the mutated animals and zombies under her command, who had rather low intelligence, had been tamed and developed some triggered "humanity," and the team was progressing very smoothly.
Wandering around and around, I arrived at the other side of the ocean, the place where my dream began.
When that asteroid landed, it fell on the far side of the Earth. What used to be a continent is now completely submerged by seawater.
Because it was the direct impact point of the asteroid, the dust and haze were thicker, and due to the time difference, the sunlight had not yet penetrated the area. Ye Xiqing was unaware that hope had already arrived in a place she did not know.
But she and her men didn't come here seeking hope; they came seeking a breakthrough.
Over the course of a century, Ye Xiqing and the corpse-transformed Song Yiqing have completely broken through their mortal bodies, no longer relying on devouring to obtain energy, and have achieved direct energy conversion with the outside world.
According to the cultivation path, after forming the core, one should transform into an infant.
Breaking through realms definitely requires a lot of energy, so let's evolve in the Ancestral Land where the energy is strongest.
...
Ye Xiqing was so engrossed in cultivating immortality that she couldn't extricate herself. She was incredibly resilient, but as time went on, the plot became monotonous, and both the system and the audience grew tired of it, so she resorted to the Time-Traveling Technique.
The moment the data was unpacked, everyone was eager to see how far Ye Xiqing had progressed in his cultivation.
But when the screen opened, no one was visible.
Where are they?
In the picture, there is only one towering tree that seems to stretch endlessly, and you have to keep scrolling the screen to see the whole tree.
It was a very special giant tree, without branches or leaves, with only countless red lantern-like fruits hanging from its ends, radiating golden light, looking like a dream.
The fruits, shimmering with light, resemble countless sparks fallen from the branches when viewed from a distance; up close, each fruit is so large that one could not encircle it with their own arms.
With transparent wings on their backs, their bodies like fish in water, gills open, floating with the air, these winged beings hold up fruits and drift in the air, as light and agile as a leaf.
The giant tree is made up of countless interconnected straight stems, but in some places, it twists and turns into the shape of a treehouse, thus naturally forming thousands of huge treehouses.
Various kinds of alien humans scurried back and forth between the interconnected treehouses, like ants on a giant tree.
The viewers in front of their screens were stunned. Had they clicked on the wrong live stream?
People tried to find Ye Xiqing among the crowds who were working and playing, but they could only see all sorts of strange new races.
At one point, the joyful crowd suddenly stopped what they were doing and looked in one direction, as if listening to something.
The once calm sea surface was as if it were boiling, and marine life came ashore and came to the tree island. One by one, they transformed into human shapes, and only then did the audience realize that these were actually people!
Amidst the surging waves, a wall of flesh rose from the sea, creating towering waves.
After an unknown amount of time, they finally saw the truth behind the wall of flesh: it was actually a giant, black python churning in the sea, with no end in sight.
The giant python's enormous body completely surrounded the huge tree island, creating a breathtaking scene that defies description.
After an unknown amount of time, the giant python's massive body completely contracted, and a familiar face appeared before it.
Ye Xiqing arrived through the air, looking at her newly grown right hand. After many years, her body was finally whole again.
She was not sensitive to time when she absorbed energy to evolve at the bottom of the sea, but her symbiotic companion, who had evolved into the World Tree, was very good at it.
Reach out your hand to receive information from the giant tree.
In the blink of an eye, eight hundred years have passed.
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