"Rebirth in the Apocalypse" - No Rebirth (Chapter 36)...
Eight hundred years of profound changes have transformed the world.
The new humans no longer refer to the catastrophe caused by the asteroid hitting Earth as the apocalypse, but instead call it the Dark Ages.
Having passed through the dark ages, we are now ushering in a new era of light.
The re-emergence of the sun means that their home planet has once again resumed communication within the solar system.
When the sun rises again, the seeds buried beneath the dark soil awaken from their slumber and stretch out their branches once more.
The merciless slaughter of flesh and blood creatures, ironically, became a favorable condition for the rise of these plants.
Without the interference of humans and various herbivores, the entire planet was instantly covered with greenery.
Human civilization, once flourishing, has been completely buried beneath the ever-growing greenery.
But those who have traversed the old world are still alive and well, and seem to be living better than before.
With the advent of the new era, humanity is no longer the dominant species in the world, but individual lifespans have broken through the limits of life.
The average human lifespan has reached three hundred years. If one "cultivates to perfection," one can remain as youthful as the First Mother eight hundred years later.
The change in lifespan limits has fundamentally altered the rules governing the operation of human society.
The zombies that saved humanity during the Dark Ages, but also threatened it, were completely eliminated from the stage of history with the arrival of the Age of Light.
The hordes of zombies were difficult for humans to eradicate, but after giant fungi and carnivorous plants regained dominance of the world, they naturally turned into fertilizer.
The flesh and blood bodies that were once nourished by plants have now turned into nutrients and are rotting at the feet of the plants.
As the plants welcomed the light, the zombies began to quietly retreat.
However, leaving the stage does not mean disappearing. Low-level zombies rot into mud under the consumption of fungi and plants, while the evolved zombies gradually develop intelligence.
A massive zombie horde of hundreds of millions ultimately produced only three hundred intelligent zombies.
With the arrival of the new century, they, having retired from the stage of history, followed the thirteen Corpse Ancestors to the frozen polar regions in search of a new home.
Following them were the women from the former Giant Shark Base.
The Dark Ages have ended, and life is everywhere. The survivors no longer need to focus solely on survival; they can choose their own lives and choose to stay with their former companions.
When the midnight sun arrives, humans, who love sunlight, enjoy the sun's bounty and protect the ice fields.
When night falls, the cold companions awaken from the darkness to protect the candlelight of humanity in the darkness.
Life on the icy plains is both lonely and interesting. Qi Ke weaves countless beautiful dreams on this icy plain. She is a person who loves to share and sends her dreams to all parts of the world.
The trials of those arduous times have made it a standard practice for everyone to project their inner strength outwards; people can grasp the dreams floating in the air and incorporate them into their consciousness.
The magnificent polar scenery drifts into everyone's dreams.
As the Dark Ages ended, people scattered to the places they longed for, and they also had a strong desire to share the beautiful sights they saw with their former companions.
However, while ordinary people can engage in mental communication, the advanced technique of creating dreams can only be performed by individuals with advanced mental abilities.
Upon receiving the request, the three original dream weavers collaborated once again.
Luan Anchun is responsible for connecting the spirits of people scattered in various places, Qi Ke is responsible for producing the Empty Dream Group, and Ye Xiqing's vast and unreasonable spiritual power covers the whole world and is used as a public spiritual power for anyone to use.
With this foundation, ordinary people can also create and fabricate dreams. While the transmission of material goods is limited by geographical location, the transmission of the spirit can roam the globe.
Countless ordinary people have joined this united dream realm, including not only the original Radiant Sun Base, but also new tribes that Ye Xiqing encountered by chance while traveling the world.
The United Dream Realm is like a network before the Dark Ages, disregarding geographical boundaries and uniting everyone together.
It satisfies people's need for communication without actually having to gather together, and it immediately became popular with everyone.
The enthusiasm of the people for building the joint dream realm was no less than that for building the real world. With everyone's combined efforts and ideas, the dream realm quickly became a paradise even happier than the real world.
Here, people can not only make friends across time and space regardless of location and anonymously, but also experience the surreal and ultimate experience brought by dreams.
The human spirit is always more creative than the body. Soon, people in the new era will be just as addicted to dreams as people in the old era were to the internet.
The Infinite Dream Realm brought about unlimited alliances, yet people's physical bodies were separated by great distances.
In the new century, humanity's territory has expanded, but the system of shared ownership remains unchanged, with everyone sharing the resources of the new world.
Everyone still works on a temporary basis, taking breaks as needed, with no hierarchy, it's all unpaid work.
The Resource Coordination Department calls on everyone to explore the world together, map the total amount of resources, and then, through scientific calculations, determine how many people the existing resources are suitable to support.
Human numbers must not exceed the capacity for sustainable resource supply, ensuring that everyone has access to adequate resources.
Land is the most abundant resource after the apocalypse. Even after the Dark Ages, the old humans who were used to living in dormitories formed groups that were far apart.
Even if you can detect someone with your mental power, you absolutely cannot hear a single sound from your neighbor, no matter how close they are.
With such abundant resources, we can begin to increase our population, and large-scale birth quotas will be opened up in batches.
Male humans ultimately could not escape the ruthlessness of the Dark Ages and became completely extinct. Sexual reproduction withdrew from the historical stage, ushering in the era of bisexual reproduction.
Women who have been granted birth quotas can go to the nearest biotechnology department for assisted reproduction.
The Department of Biotechnology has collected all the gene samples of living organisms. Women who are allowed to have children can go there to select a satisfactory sample and leave new gene samples for themselves and their children.
The biotechnology department's supercomputer is responsible for recording all gene selection information in a database to prevent inbreeding.
Except for homologous genes, genes from any other race can be obtained.
The genetic selection phase is arguably the most beloved stage for expectant mothers, as their child's future talents depend entirely on the choices made at this time.
Do you want an elemental baby, a body-enhancing baby, or simply an immortal baby?
We need to plan for our children's future now.
Among all racial genes, the most popular are the Floating Wings, the Sea Creatures, and the Undead.
The Winged Race are the chosen ones of the heavens, and the Sea Race are the darlings of the sea. Humans have a natural yearning for the mysterious sky and the sea, and these two races are the two most fashionable races.
The appeal of the Arctic undead is more straightforward; the mere fact that they are immortal is enough to draw people in.
However, the Undead are a special race that evolved from zombies. They can obtain energy from the outside world to maintain their immortality, but they cannot reproduce and pass on their immortal genes.
Even if others use their genes to conceive offspring, they can only obtain "pseudo-immortality," with a lifespan longer than that of ordinary people and a stronger recovery ability than ordinary people. However, they do not have such extreme immortality, nor such extreme infertility. Their lifespan is about the same when they cultivate to the extreme.
The long and short lengths cancel each other out, making the Undead gene a popular choice, but without monopolizing it.
Among the trendy and popular genes, there is also a versatile gene that is both noble and inexpensive, namely the ancestral gene from Ye Xiqing.
Initially, due to people's worship of the first leader of the alliance, Ye Xiqing's genes were very noble.
But as she fully transformed into a beast, she sank to the bottom of the sea in pursuit of ultimate evolution.
Each major evolutionary change is like a snake shedding a layer of skin, revealing highly active, heritable cells.
The sea creatures living around her saw her molt and sent the complete snake skin to Tree Island for the Department of Biotechnology to study.
Sometimes they molt once every few hundred years, sometimes once every few decades. The massive amount of cell samples is more than enough, simply not enough.
At first, people had some ancestor worship, but later, faced with endless snake molts and inexhaustible cells, they became numb.
Other races' genes need to consider kinship issues, but ancestral genes don't need to at all.
Ye Xiqing's initial ability was gene fusion; the cells in her body possessed the world's most complete gene pool.
If other races are considered to have evolved to the point where one X contains 10,000 genes, then her X contains 100,000 genes.
How much water a wooden bucket can hold depends on its shortest plank. Even if you combine 10,000 genes using the ancestral gene, there will still be 90,000 unused planks.
Choosing the progenitor gene means having no idea which genes from her gene pool she's fusing with are included. Other races are counted in the kinship pool and cross-breeding is prohibited, so the progenitor gene is completely unnecessary.
Two second-generation newborns who use the same ancestral gene can be completely unrelated.
Because of this, prospective mothers who dislike uncertainty will choose genes from a specific race. When the genes of the two individuals are combined, the child will not necessarily exhibit any particular traits, but at least there will be a direction.
For those with a big heart and difficulty making choices, just choose the ancestral gene blind box and express whatever you like.
The ancestral gene has a low lower limit and a high upper limit. Sometimes it is just an ordinary superpower, and sometimes it can reveal a hidden version. The most it has ever revealed is a nine-element superpower in one body.
On the Dream Domain's novel channel, choosing the ancestral gene and awakening the ancestral bloodline is also a very common theme in "爽文" (a genre of Chinese fantasy novels).
Because life expectancy is longer, people have plenty of time to do whatever they want, and the pace of life is getting slower and slower. Sometimes, even though they know that cultivation determines lifespan, they are still too lazy to cultivate diligently and instead find great energy in studying useless things every day.
The various forms of entertainment in the Dream Realm are extremely popular, and because dreams can achieve a very realistic and immersive experience, many people are unwilling to leave the Dream Realm.
Those with even more leisure time began to study how to land on the moon and how to live comfortably on it.
Everyone is living their own rich and colorful life, until the sea is disturbed, and only then do they turn their attention in one direction.
The spiritual network has spread across the globe, and everyone has received the message, focusing their attention on the legendary figure.
Those born after the Dark Ages were seeing their ancestral grandmother for the first time, and immediately took a picture to commemorate the occasion.
Ye Xiqing looked at everyone. Although the human lifespan had been broken through, eight hundred years had also caused many people to leave. Only a few people were still waiting for her in the same place.
Luan Anchun looked at her, still smiling as always: "What brings the Ancestor out of seclusion this time?"
Hearing the term "ancestor" come out of her mouth always made people laugh, and Ye Xiqing did indeed laugh.
Turning to look at the parasitic plant that had been with me the longest and had now become a tree island, I gently patted its body to say goodbye.
"I came out this time to tell you that I am about to attain enlightenment and ascend to heaven, and I will break through the void."
This bombshell news would normally cause a huge shock to everyone, as you can imagine.
Can one truly break through the void and ascend to higher dimensions by cultivating to the ultimate level?
Everyone was overjoyed and wanted to talk to her more.
But mortals cannot fathom the ways of Heaven, and her future is beyond the comprehension of people in this world.
...
The sounds around me were near and far, indistinct and unclear.
[According to observations by the Astronomical Bureau, a rogue celestial body has been discovered 100 million kilometers above the Earth and is expected to approach Earth's vicinity in thirty days.]
Our planet Earth, as a member of the universe, frequently welcomes such cosmic visitors.
[We don't know what these visitors from outside will bring to Earth. Perhaps it will be a romantic meteor shower, or perhaps—]
Rebirth.
Ye Xiqing slowly opened her eyes, looked at the system, and smiled.
"Do I really have to go through this world all over again?"
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