Chapter 47: Commemoration
  In the 300th years of the last century, human beings were not completely extinct.
  The flood of Genesis submerged the land of mankind. Noah built an ark and finally kept the Lord’s high hopes.
  Just like the beast tide in the last century destroyed that the other side.
  The savior led the displaced people to leave their homes and finally reach the other side of the catastrophe.
  This group of humans numbered less than a thousand people. They began to build houses on the island, reclaimed wasteland, diverted water into canals, and carefully rebuilt their homes.
  Half a year later, the first sown crops became ripe.
  Humans wept with joy. Homo sapiens who learned from primitive society generally held a bonfire party, singing and dancing to celebrate the first harvest after immigration.
  Xiao Chenxi also participated in the bonfire party.
  She is already a year old. As the first child born between a human and a Xenogeneic species, she left her mother’s body ahead of time. After she was born, not only was her body not weak but also grew fatter and stronger.
  At this time, she was drinking human breast milk. She was once defined by the laboratory as a mutant of the IV generation. She watched the human dance and stretched out her hand, giggling and trying the imitate their dance.
  The face of the young child reflected the firelight, the eyes were bright and there was a faint shadow of a man.
  Mu Yechen gently hugged her daughter and kissed her gently on the forehead.
  Since then, mankind had a new home.
  They settled their food and clothing, settled their homes and began to face the ensuing problem of Homo sapiens reproduction.
  Male mutants, who make up two-thirds of the surviving population, have benefited from a transformation program to adapt to the environmental changes of the last century.
  But the remaining women are unlucky. They cannot evolve or combine with mutants. As old humans who cannot be transformed, they still face the dilemma of being eliminated from the natural environment.
  After thinking for a while, Mu Yechen ordered Luo Xiaowei to stay on the island. He left the island with Cang Jie and some of the soldiers of the advance army.
  They returned to the other side again and opened the ruins of the human evolution laboratory.
  Laboratory has ruled the other side for decades. Although its human body plan and terrorist power have been criticized by later generations, the literature and experimental results of its research are still a huge treasure for human development.
  The other side cannot do without them and neither can the humans in the ark.
  The advance troops started mining. They found real books and materials from the ruins, loaded this precious knowledge on the ark, and rebuilt the future scientific research system of mankind.
  When the excavation project was in order, he silently turned around and came to the northwest of Dongcheng by himself.
  Returning to the old place, the frost of the past has melted, the aliens have migrated away, and the land has grown messy weeds, making this place look desolate.
  There are no thrilling stories here and no lingering love.
  Mu Yechen stood in the for a long time.
  “Lin Xi.” He finally said slowly.
  No one responded to him.
  “Our child is very healthy. She just turned one year old this year and she lives happily every day.”
  “This year, I think of some of our memories one after another. By the sea, you kiss me for the first time, saying that you want to die with me.”
  He said and suddenly fell into a long silence.
  After a long time, he said again.
  “Lin Xi, this time when we returned to the other side, we met that commander again.”
  “That alien still remembers us. When it saw our team, it immediately fled far away. You said it was just a reptile species but it run faster than those wolves, we can’t catch up no matter how much we chase it.”
  The voice rambled, full of narration and thoughts.
  “We now live on that island, it’s lively and safe.”
  “If you’re still here, you’ll love it there…”
  The wind blew and the grass swayed, rustling in response.
  Mu Yechen looked at it with hope.
  However, in front of the grass, there is only desolation.
  A year has passed since then.
  The survivors began to study the laboratory books. Cang Jie found the genetic modification method from the plan of the second generation mutants in the laboratory and was determined to test the plan of the fourth generation of mutants.
  The volunteer who participated in the project this time was his wife, Lu Wan.
  “I have a child and a husband in this era, I am luckier than all women.” Lu Wan said before participating in the experiment, “Because of their sacrifices, we are now. It is because of this that we are now here, this made us possible to see the future of tomorrow.”
  She accepted Xiao Chenxi’s serum without hesitation, waiting for the judgment of fate.
  A month later, Lu Wan did not experience any changes.
  Xiao Chenxi’s powerful mixed bloodline of Xenogeneic and Human and her physiological genetic structure of women are perfectly integrated with human beings. She is like a book of revelation left to mankind by God, reopening a new chapter for Homo sapiens.
  Since then, more women have successively received Lu Wan’s serum transformation.
  Twelve months later, the child of the first female mutant was born from the mother’s womb. He had no mammalian tail, no bony gills, and no reptile scales. He retained all the physical characteristics of human beings and completed the relay of biological racial inheritance.
  The human ark finally came ashore.
  They no longer have to worry about genocide, the new mutants form families. More advance troops are living on the right track and already have their own offspring.
  However, Mu Yechen was still alone.
  He watched the life of human beings become more stable but the thoughts in his heart were like a flood that burst an embankment, flooding endlessly.
  The commander started a new journey.
  The island is tens of thousands of miles away from the other side. He takes a month every year to entrust Xiao Chenxi to Cang Jie and his wife to take care of her,going back and forth alone, visiting his lover.
  Later, Xiao Chenxi learned to walk independently and soon followed her father across the sea and mountains to observe the hometown of human civilization.
  On the way, they felt the rumbling earthquake. The girl followed the direction and saw dense clouds in the distance, floating marine life, flying birds and insects, slowly moving one after another from the horizon.
  “Ouu–“
  “Ouu–” The chorus in the sky made a long, distant century-old sound.
  Kun Whales, colorful birds and long deer, rhinoceros and horses form the most colorful and magnificent team in the desert. They chase food, live and die, and the day and night follow each other and are colorful.
  The girl watched and couldn’t help but to make the cries of a kun whale.
  “Woo-woo–” She imitated in a childish voice, pulling her father’s palm happily.
  “Dad, it’s so beautiful!” She looked at the passing beast tide with shining eyes.
  “They are so beautiful!”
  She shouted happily, chasing the beast tide.
  Mu Yechen took Xiao Chenxi’s hand.
  The daughter looked back at him expectantly.
  Mu Yechen looked at those sparkling eyes. He suddenly reached out and rubbed the top of the child’s hair, lifted her onto his shoulders.
  The girl cheered and sat on the shoulders of her father.
  Under the leadership of her father, she is also walking with those colorful beings and joining them into the long river.
  The rain fell along with the beast tide, the blood and rotten bones merged into the desert to nourish the abandoned soil.
  Every inch of land on the continent is repairing itself.
  Nature quietly radiates new life.
  The abandoned human city has also changed with the passage of time. Plants have taken root in the soil, where moss, ferns, and shrubs grow. There are also trees that open up the canopy, linking this place into pieces of tranquility.
  When Mu Yechen arrived there, he pushed aside the thorns, hugged the child to avoid them and came to a familiar forest.
  There are weeds in the woods.
  There is a wooden tablet among the weeds.
  On the wooden tablet is engraved the name of his lover.
  Xiao Chenxi learned about the sacrifice of human beings and carefully brushed the leaves for the wooden tablet.
  “Dad, who is he?”
  “He is also your father.”
  “But my uncles and aunts say that my father is a great savior.”
  “Yes, he is too.” Mu Yechen replied.
  “He is the greatest savior.”
  The girl listened and traced the name in front of her with her hands.
  – Lin Xi.
  “Dad.” she called proudly.
  Something moved rustlingly, as if responding to the child’s call.
  The girl looked at it with curiosity, she saw nothing but a tree in her eyes.
  Mu Yechen accompanies the wooden tablet for half a month on the other side and once again takes the child on the annual return journey.
  In the dense forest, a mutant salamander passed by.
  It suddenly stopped and found a human being. The creature’s eyes were staring at the direction the man and the child were leaving, reflecting the backs of the two moving away.
  At this moment, a shadow slowly appeared on the wooden tablet touched by the child.
  The salamander didn’t notice it, it stretched its feet forward, its gills made a membranous drum call.
  “Goo, goo-“
  But it only called twice.
  The third voice was not heard, a shadow as fast as swift stretched out from the darkness and suddenly rolled over the body of this alien.
  The alien struggled and kicked desperately.
  The shadow dragged the prey back into the darkness recklessly, the sound of the salamander kicking, the fission of the archaea, and the decomposition of the enzyme liquid continued to sound from the darkness.
  After a while, the place where the wooden tablet was located slowly returned to calm.
  The sun is offset, falling into the shadows with the wind.
  A straight tree grew an inch taller and its vines that were hung down, slowly rippled in the wind of the new world.
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Edited: 7/23/22
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