You cut yourself just to watch us drop our little pearls?

He walked on the deserted street, and the group of "shells" were trembling with fear because of his huge body, and they all fled.

But Wen Chun's target is not them.

He is planning, he is searching.

Looking for something, looking for new hope.

"On the first day of the new era, they were very afraid of me. I didn't find anything useful, nor did I find any hope. I was like a headless fly...

I need to calm down, or...I need to take a break."

He leaned his huge body against a tall building, with his back against the building, as if he were a human.

He raised his electronic eyes and looked at the fake sky. His heart felt very empty.

There was no one in his cockpit.

It was like his body had lost a heart.

Dejected...

Lost...

confused……

He didn't know what to do...

In this way, he remained silent here for many days.

False sunlight and moonlight alternately passed over his body. He did not feel a trace of warmth. He would never feel that warmth again.

He looks like he's dead...

The group of bodies seemed to have sensed his lifelessness. They appeared and launched a tentative attack on Wen Chun.

The heavy stones hit his body without leaving a mark.

But Wen Chun was not moved.

His thoughts were trapped, and the person who trapped him was himself.

He seemed to be a bystander of everything. He watched everything develop. He saw those bodies relying on their instincts to survive. They fought for the few foods in the city, but they also... protected their children...

child... child...

His electronic eyes moved, and he looked at the child in the body's arms... He also had no soul, but he knew that child...

Like many other children, he stretched out his tender hands and touched his fingers. He witnessed his birth.

He... is this child's "adoptive father". He witnessed this child being given a soul... But now, he can only see those empty eyes, grinning at him.

"Child... child..."

He repeated these two words.

“Although the body has no soul, the child born from the body without a soul has a soul from the moment it is born.”

"Children! Newborn children have souls!"

Wen Chun, who had been silent, suddenly found his direction!

He grasped the most crucial point!

"Children! Hope! Soul!"

"boom!!!"

The huge body slowly stood up from the ground, and the stones on his body fell to the ground sparsely with his movements, splashing up a cloud of dust.

Those bodies were frightened, and they all moved away from Wen Chun who had "resurrected from the dead", and Wen Chun...

I also found "hope" among them.

The human soul, starting from scratch...

Chapter 27 The Rebirth of Human Civilization

Wen Chun's memo.

“I found hope, and it is in the child, and even though it is inhumane… it is for the human soul.

I will feed those corpses and let them give birth to offspring, and then... I will ruthlessly take their children away and teach them.

I might become their devil, or...

□”

Most of the food in the cave is directly synthesized. The space underground is limited, and it is impossible to have a large amount of arable land to grow food like in the past. Therefore, most of the food eaten by people in the cave is directly synthesized.

And there are a lot of substances that can synthesize food in the cave...

He could have directly provided for these bodies and their children.

So, the first step he has to take.

Create food, distribute food, and don't let those bodies starve to death.

This step is simple, but also difficult.

Wen Chun's huge body sometimes only brings him some burden. He is too big to perform some delicate operations.

However, what makes humans human is that they can use tools.

He held a stick he had picked up from somewhere between two fingers like an embroidery needle. With his sophisticated control system and ultra-high-definition vision, he could accurately activate the synthetic device.

Once it is started and the plan is set up, he won't have to do anything afterwards, it's all fully automated.

"Buzzing..."

The silent synthesizer gradually lit up and began automated production according to the assembly line.

Wen Chun only needs to keep adding raw materials into it and ensure the power supply of this guy.

When he came down, he had checked the base's power supply system, and the energy in it could probably last him another fifty years.

If nothing unexpected happens...

In just half an hour, the other end of the production line was filled with all kinds of delicious food...

Protein chunks.

I hope those bodies still have some feeding instincts and can treat this thing as food...

After packing the protein blocks in batches, Wen Chun carried the boxes of protein blocks and slowly walked out of the base.

He placed these protein blocks at various crossroads in the underground city. In order to prevent the bodies from being afraid of him, after placing the protein blocks, he returned to the base and checked the specific situation through the surveillance probes in the base.

Sure enough, after he left, many bodies quietly emerged from nearby high-rise buildings and shops. After making sure that he was gone, they began to fight for food with each other.

They have no souls and only the instinct to survive. They do not know how to distribute and can only fight for food.

But fortunately, although the competition between them was a bit fierce, Wen Chun achieved his goal.

From then on, Wen Chun began this action day after day. He distributed food twice a day and observed the condition of the bodies.

A month later.

Wen Chun walked on the street with food. The group of shells seemed to have known that Wen Chun was here to distribute food to them, so they had been waiting at fixed locations early.

When he saw Wen Chun's huge body, he was no longer afraid, but full of anticipation.

But... Wen Chun didn't see what he wanted in them. They were just following their survival instinct. He didn't see anything related to the soul.

And just like that... another four months passed.

In the fifth month, Wen Chun accidentally discovered that something was wrong with one of the "shells". Her abdomen was swollen and her movements were slow.

Wen Chun quickly realized the situation of the body, and on the next day, he used unmanned equipment to locate the body and began to monitor it closely.

And so, another month passed...

“Wow! Wow!!!”

In the dilapidated house, the sound of a baby crying resounded throughout the room. A brand new soul appeared in the world with brand new hope...

The new hope of mankind begins today...

……

Wen Chun's Memo

"I found the child and exchanged food for him when he was one year old. His mother did not resist at all, but ate the food with relish.

And in the eyes of that one-year-old child, I could see confusion... and the most important emotion, reluctance.

I'm sorry, but for the future of humanity, you can't stay there.

Next, I will find more children, raise them, teach them knowledge and culture, and let them know about human history... and the truth."

……

Ten years later...

Wen Chun's Memo

"The children have grown up, they have grown up well, the first batch of children have successfully graduated from primary school, ah... my definition of primary school.

Although it is a bit too heavy for some ten-year-old children to bear this knowledge, they shoulder the future of mankind. Only when they grow up first can mankind have hope of revival!"

"Teacher! Teacher! I found this in the book!"

A little girl with twin ponytails and wearing pink clothes, who looked very cute, ran towards Wen Chun who was standing not far away excitedly, as if she had discovered a new world.

"Oh? Xiaoyou, what did you find?"

Wen Chun slowly squatted down his huge body and spoke in a very gentle voice to the little girl named Xiaoyou.

"Look! I found this in a book!"

Xiaoyou opened the book, took out an intact photo that was sandwiched between the pages, and showed the contents of the photo to Wen Chun!

It was a little boy who looked very excited, and next to the little boy stood a soul mecha.

This is a photo taken a long time ago, at least... more than ten years ago.

"Xiaoyou, do you want to take a picture? The same one as his."

"May I?"

Xiaoyou's eyes are full of anticipation!

"Of course, but you have to get everyone here so we can take a group photo, how about that?"

"Good~"

A few minutes later, Xiaoyou called all the students in the "school" over. Thousands of children gathered around Wen Chun, their faces full of excitement and smiles!

"Is everyone ready?"

Xiaoyou, who had prepared the camera, spoke loudly to the other children.

"Ready!"

The childish voices responded to her in unison.

"Then I'll take a photo!"

After switching the camera to time-lapse shooting mode, Xiaoyou hurried to the front of the team and gave a big smile to the camera!

"eggplant!"

Chapter 28 The Continuation of Human Civilization

Wen Chun's Memo

“It’s been fifteen years… I’ve been in this world… It’s been twenty-six years, right?

As the children grow up, they gradually realize the burden they bear. The hope of human revival lies in these children...

I am their only parent, but all I can do...is help them grow up. After that, they have to do everything else by themselves.

They have to rely on their own hands to gradually form a civilization that belongs to mankind. I started to let them take practical classes and teach them practical knowledge in addition to theory. I taught them how to identify various plants so that they could live in the wild. At the same time, I also taught them the foundation of human industrial civilization.

They need to slowly inherit what their predecessors left behind. Their numbers are still too small to reproduce the miracle of human industrial civilization. I can only... let them start from the most basic and interfere with them. "