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

Human civilization... is as vast as the sea... Their mission is to reproduce!

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, they had feelings for each other, but for safety reasons, Wen Chun still expressly prohibited them from doing certain things and stipulated that they could only do them after they became adults.

Just like that... Another ten years passed...

Humans with souls gradually began to have their own offspring, and those bodies were gradually controlled by young humans.

This is a very cruel process, so cruel that Wen Chun even wants to bear the consequences himself.

But he was rejected. The children's reason was that he had already done a lot for mankind, and the next step should be left to mankind themselves...

In this way, the bodies were sent to the area planned by the children themselves. The humans with souls and the bodies divided the dungeon into two parts. One part was inhabited by people with souls, and the other part was where the bodies crowded together.

Human civilization...seems to be showing signs of recovery.

But Wen Chun knew that this was not enough.

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Five years later……

"Is it really okay for us to do this? Will the teacher agree to let us go to the ground?"

Several students who had just reached adulthood looked at each other, seemingly disagreeing with the idea of ​​the person in front of them.

"Do you want to stay underground forever? Have you ever seen the real sky? Have you ever seen real forests and grasslands? And those animals...

I don’t want to just read about this in books, I want to go out and see it!”

The student had a resolute face and light in his eyes.

There is a glow of soul in his body, which is the consciousness of yearning for freedom.

"..."

"Okay, we agree to go up with you, but we have to plan it carefully..."

After thinking for a moment, the students who were still hesitating agreed to the man's request and joined the expedition team heading to the ground.

They thought they could sneak up to the ground without Wen Chun's knowledge, but in fact, their every move was under Wen Chun's control.

He had been waiting for this moment for thirty years... That was the human soul yearning for freedom... He hadn't seen it for more than thirty years.

Looking at the group of students who didn't know where to find the map, Wen Chun was secretly paving a way for them.

The door that they couldn't pass through was opened by Wen Chun remotely, and the elevator that they didn't know how to use was also placed in front of them under Wen Chun's indirect instructions.

Finally, after going through numerous obstacles and difficulties, they finally reached the ground!

They greedily breathed in the fresh air of the grassland, and curiously gazed at the marmots running through the grass and the birds flying across the sky...

They stayed on the ground for three hours and then returned to the cave along the same route.

As expected, after they returned to the dungeon, they began to spread their experiences to more people. They described the beauty of the world above and denounced the darkness and loneliness underground.

They should live in a broader world and... own a bigger world!

Human ambition is also an important part of the human soul.

But there is a being pressing on them, who feeds them, teaches them knowledge, and makes them understand the world.

After correctly understanding human history, they also realized the important role Wen Chun played in the continuation of mankind.

If Wen Chun hadn't existed, these "souled" humans would have needed to live in this cave for at least a thousand years before they could develop a civilization...

He is the human mentor of the new era, so if they want to go to the ground, they need to pass Wen Chun.

So, everyone who was attracted by freedom and a wider world found Wen Chun and told him why they were there.

Wen Chun looked at this group of "kids" and naturally knew what their purpose was.

But he did not speak first, but waited for them to speak.

"Teacher...we want to live on the ground."

The young man who had previously proposed to go to the ground took the initiative to stand in front and said to Wen Chun with a firm look in his eyes.

“It’s very dangerous up there. If you go up there, you’ll have to create everything by yourself.

You must build your own houses, grow your own food, and guard against attacks by wild beasts."

"We are not afraid! We want freedom!"

His expression is so firm, his eyes are so persistent, and his soul is so dazzling!

He is well suited to be a leader.

"You can leave, but all you can take with you is your wisdom. Can you do that?"

Wen Chun asked them not to take anything away from the underground cave. This was an excessive but reasonable request.

"we agree!"

He did not hesitate, along with the people behind him.

Their souls are still pure and not contaminated by anything worldly.

They have a very strong belief, and each of them is pure white...

"It will be very painful, and it may cost your life!"

"We are not afraid!"

"Okay... then I promise you."

Wen Chun compromised. Rather than saying it was a compromise, it would be more accurate to say that mankind had already taken that step according to his plan, and he was... very relieved.

He personally sent these children out of the dungeon. Some of them still looked at Wen Chun with reluctance, but most of them were shocked by the real world outside!

Wen Chun asked them to promise that if they settled down outside, they would never return to the underground. At the same time, they had to accept their compatriots who came out of the underground later.

They accepted it with pleasure.

Just like that...the first batch of humans of the new era embarked on their journey on the ground.

Chapter 29: Tomb of the Old Times

They left, carrying with them the hopes of the others in the crypt who had not left.

They left, carrying the flame of humanity and began to move deeper into the unknown outside world.

Wen Chun went back. He wanted to continue to provide more flames for the continuation of mankind until those flames could gather together and ignite the fire that symbolizes civilization.

Those students who didn't leave could help him teach the children who came later, and he could relax a little, plan out paths for human development, and find the best solution.

The flame of human civilization will be continued in the hands of a mecha.

And the name of this mecha... is Wen Chun.

In this way, time came to fifty years after the "new era" of mankind.

In the past few years, there have been a constant stream of students sent out by Wen Chun into the dungeon. Some of them are reluctant to leave, while others are full of yearning for a new life in the future.

They walked in all directions with the dungeon as the center.

As they wandered across the land, human footprints began to reappear on the land, and the seeds of civilization began to take root and sprout again on the land.

Wen Chun has always been closely concerned about the children who have left "home". Each of them is Wen Chun's student. He naturally does not want these students to encounter any accidents, but... if they really encounter any accidents or setbacks, he will not be able to help.

Because setbacks and failures are an important part of the development of a civilization.

Nothing develops smoothly.

Fortunately, his students are relatively reliable. Perhaps it is because of their unpolluted souls, or the essential spirit of human beings. The students observed by Wen Chun have already found settlements suitable for them to live in and have begun to build their own homes.

The knowledge in their minds allowed them to develop rapidly in the wilderness.

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In the first two years, they were still in the Stone Age, but with the influence of modern knowledge, they soon successfully entered the Bronze and Iron Age through digging and smelting metals. With more convenient and sturdy tools, they could climb step by step towards the tree of technology in their minds.

This may take hundreds of years, because they need to build a human civilization from scratch, but compared to the hundreds of thousands of years of exploration by humans themselves, they have been experiencing a technological explosion since they stepped out of the underground.

Today, their town has taken shape. Based on what they have learned, they have built houses suitable for the local environment, constructed fences, and started planting and breeding using seeds and livestock found in the wild.

But since everything is just starting out, the number of children born among them is still relatively rare.

Because everyone is an independent individual, everyone has his or her own expertise, and for the sake of human development, they rarely have free time to talk about love.

After being influenced by modern knowledge, they also know how much it costs to have a child, so they are very cautious in their union.

This... was somewhat beyond Wen Chun's expectations.

I didn't expect that his scientific philosophy would lead to this situation.

As time went by, the bodies of those "shells" began to age, they gradually lost their ability to reproduce, and the number of newborns in the underground began to decrease.

The number of people remaining in the crypts also began to decrease gradually, and the crypts were no longer a place for the output of human flames...

And the hope of mankind was transferred to the human groups scattered around the world.

They are the real hope for the expansion of mankind!

And Wen Chun... will stay here forever.

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Wen Chun's Memo

"Today is the 100th year of the new era, which means... I have been in this world for more than 110 years? Haha... I am already an old man... Oh, an old mecha.

Fortunately, my parts are not broken, and I still have a lot of backups. It’s just that I wrote too many memos and they have filled up many hard drives.

But these are all irrelevant. Now... Xiao Yingying and I are the only ones left in the crypt..."

Looking at the graceful little girl in the hibernation chamber, Wenchun's electronic eyes were full of kindness.

Although the hibernation chamber can significantly slow down the growth period of humans, Xiao Yingying's growth is inevitable over a span of one hundred years.

Most of those bodies had died of natural causes within sixty or seventy years of the new era. Wen Chun collected their bodies and erected a tombstone for them in the center of the underground city.

The words "Tomb of Humankind in the Old Times" are engraved on the monument.

Of course, Xiao Yingying also came from the old era, but he didn't want Xiao Yingying to have anything to do with that dark old era. As Wei Ya said, she hoped that Xiao Yingying could live a healthy and happy life, rather than die in the old era like her parents.

Even Wen Chun lives in the old times.

He is waiting, waiting for human civilization to develop to a certain level, then he will wake up Xiao Yingying, teach her knowledge, and let her live in a human gathering place.

Let her experience human emotions among humans, find what she loves, feel everything about humanity, and live a simple, fulfilling and happy life.

In the old times... this was something that no one dared to even think about, but in the new era, the new people are working hard to develop in this direction. They have officially entered the agricultural society and are gradually developing towards the industrial society.

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In a house built of bricks and tiles, an old man with gray hair and a wrinkled face slowly opened his eyes.

He slowly and stiffly turned his head and looked at the painting hanging on the wall...

A group of children were gathered around a huge mecha, smiling happily...

"Ancestor? Ancestor! Ancestor is awake!"

The woman who had just walked into the house saw the old man lying on the bed open his eyes, and immediately ran out of the door, shouting excitedly outside the yard.

The woman's voice attracted many people. They all came because they heard the news that the ancestor had woken up. Some of them even ran over barefoot without even putting on their shoes.

"The ancestor has woken up? That's great! Holy Father, may you bless me! Holy Father, may you bless me..."

After someone heard the news that the ancestor had woken up, he immediately knelt on the ground devoutly, muttering something.

"Yes, when the ancestor woke up, his eyes were always looking at the painting of the Holy Father! It must be the Holy Father who brought the ancestor back to life!"

The woman also looked pious, kneeling on the ground and bowing towards the distance.

"Holy Father, bless you!"

The voices of the crowd rose one after another...

Chapter 30 The Father

The man called "Ancestor" by everyone was the first one to lead everyone out of the underground and set foot on land.

At this time, he was already ninety years old. His organs were gradually failing and his life was gradually coming to an end. His soul, which had always symbolized freedom, was finally about to be freed from that body.