There was a kind of life that was enslaved from the day it was born …
There was a kind of life that was not expected by its creator. It went against nature and ethics.
A cursed life.
A despised life.
A life that was incomplete, not expected, without blessings, emotions, love, and family.
A life that was trampled on, used, and only had value like a tool …
Those living tools, those humans without self-awareness …
Sephiroth vaguely felt his body. It was not one, but 16,842 bodies floating in the nutrient solution. He did not know what kind of existence he was.
However, he could feel the muddled consciousnesses in those different bodies. They were like immature, fragile consciousnesses that were still wet behind the ears. There was also his own existence that was above them. It was a very strange feeling. The 16,842 consciousnesses were both him and not him at the same time. In other words, they were only him when they were gathered together.
He watched as they interacted, played around, and embraced each other as if they were one in the sea of consciousness. He took the occasional chance to peek into the world beyond the nutrient solution and rejoiced because of a discovery that was not part of his memory implantation. In the monotonous and boring petri dish, these newborn consciousnesses peeped at the outside world curiously.
However, they were not the life that was expected!
There was no emotion, only use! There was no communication, only orders! There was no right to life, only the value of a tool.
There was no need for an imperfect experimental body to exist. There was no value in an unusable tool. Sephiroth's life was only given one meaning of existence, to become the successful experimental body, the only and the best one.
And the only fate of those eliminated tools was to be recycled.
His body melted bit by bit in the solution. He did not even have time to open his eyes. There was regret, loneliness, and fear …
This was Sephiroth's memory. It was also the memory of most clones!
Clones driving mobile armors in Moscow, clones working hard in New York, Mumbai, Egypt, and the Middle East. Clones created for entertainment purposes. There were eight billion clones in the world. Most of them worked in positions that humans disdained. They were tools to liberate human productivity.
The organs of the clones were removed from their bodies.
The military-grade clones slaughtered each other on the most difficult battlefield of death.
Entertainment clones, to be abused, killed, and enjoyed.
The evil side of humanity. It poured out incisively on these artificial lifeforms with human faces.
Most of them only had a lifespan of three years to three months. They had serious genetic diseases, so they could be consumed and replenished at any time. Silent tears slid down from Sephiroth's eyes. The gray memories of these artificial lives, the memories of being dominated by the evil thoughts of human beings, made his wings tremble.
Only the strongest emotions could shape a life's soul.
Genova invaded the lives on this planet. It followed the rhythm of the planet and quietly hid in the bodies of most of the lives. It even spread in the quantum probability cloud of the planet, causing the planet to be infected with the virus.
The weak consciousness of the virus was not enough to infect human consciousness, but for the clones whose emotions were blank. The virus was unhindered. Green light flickered on the clones' right hands. Genova started to weave their genes and repair their crudely built bodies. Under Genova's control, the genes that were riddled with holes were reorganized and renewed.
There was a brilliant wing on the right side of Sephiroth's body. It slowly unfurled from under his skin.
The Seven-winged Angel descended from the sky.
The wings were brighter than the sun, and the darkness was deeper than the abyss. Below the three pairs of light wings, there was a dark black wing. The other brilliant black wing stretched out from under Sephiroth's ribs. At this moment, a black wing tattoo appeared under the ribs of all the clones in the world.
"I … What did I create?" Warren staggered two steps back and looked at the one-winged angel whose eyes were gradually regaining color.
Chen Ang turned around and smiled. "Maybe it's an angel, or maybe it's a devil. Who knows?"
"Destroy it!" The command of the human command center appeared in Bolivar's ears.
The silver-white metal body glowed with a dense brilliance. The sentinel robot that reappeared in front of Chen Ang had long lost its original form and material. It was covered by a metal that couldn't be analyzed at all. It didn't look like an AI, but more like a life. It couldn't be infiltrated, scanned, or analyzed by a heavenly king. This was the ultimate weapon of mankind.
I'm so beautiful!
Bolivar couldn't help but show off his most outstanding work. He firmly believed that the perfect creation from his hands would surpass all life. "Apocalypse, do you see it? This is my creation! "
"Human creativity isn't enough to create a perfect creature, so we created it. The Child of the Sun is indeed the limit that humans can reach, but you're still not crazy enough and bold enough. You're still trying to control your creation, to control a perfect existence. This is your biggest weakness."
"It is impossible to create the most perfect work of art with shackles on the feet and hands. Only by abandoning all the shackles and all the factors that may cause obstacles and dedicating everything to the creation of a perfect existence can it be possible!"
"You'll lose, Apocalypse! When you try to use your intelligence to control your creation, you will inevitably lose to me. Sentinels are free and extreme. They don't need to abide by anything, nor do they need any principles or criteria. The purpose of their birth is to be perfect. "
Chen Ang shook his head. "It's a very mysterious extraterrestrial lifeform. Regeneration, evolution, absorption, and replication are also very powerful abilities. It has an almost immortal vitality and regenerative ability. It constantly evolves, adapts to the enemy's attacks, and even learns from them. In theory, it's invincible and perfect. It can absorb and replicate the enemy's abilities. The stronger the enemy, the stronger it can become. It'll always be stronger than the enemy. "
"But in theory, it's still theory!"
"There's nothing that can't be understood, and no attribute is absolute. I'm very curious! Bolivar, do you know the deep reason behind the evolution of this lifeform? Have you studied and understood their abilities? "
Bolivar shook his head and sneered. "It's absolute and perfect. Humans can't understand it. The moment it discovered you, it was already stronger than you. The results of the previous 36,000 experiments proved this point. You're stronger than it, but the moment it discovered you, the outcome was already decided. " “
There's no such thing as an absolute attribute. The foundation of this world is the laws of science, not a setting or a concept. There's no such thing as an absolute concept in the universe. The attributes of everything are concepts given by humans or other intelligent lifeforms. Concepts can only ever be close to the truth. " Chen Ang said slowly, "If you generalize the attributes and concepts of this lifeform as its essence, then your failure is destined."
"So, can you tell me the more scientific nature of this lifeform? How is regeneration and evolution achieved? What kind of ability is absorption and replication? Don't be like a monkey waving a big stick. If you treat this extraterrestrial lifeform as an accumulation of concepts, then I'll be too disappointed. "
Chen Ang walked past the Sentinel robots, but they didn't react. Chen Ang whispered into Bolivar's ear, "Just like the scanning and replication ability, the Sentinel robots can become stronger than the enemy the moment they see it. The scanning technology from the previous versions of the Sentinel robots and the evolution ability of the extraterrestrial lifeforms seem to have formed this concept."
"But there's a very simple question that I need to ask you. Bolivar! How many generations is Skynet's information technology more advanced than Earth's technology? "
Bolivar stood trembling on the spot and shook his head. "Impossible! Why hasn't it changed? Why? "
"It's 1.8 orders of magnitude higher! This means that human civilization can't understand most of Skynet's technology and information, and it's the same for the scanning technology. The overwhelming control of information has created a bug. How can an incomprehensible information evolve into a corresponding ability? "
Chen Ang looked at the trembling Bolivar, who was drenched in sweat, and sighed. "You've designed a piece of trash, at least to Skynet. You can guess, will Skynet crack the secrets of the extraterrestrial lifeform first, or will the extraterrestrial lifeform evolve to counter Skynet's ability first?"
"The speed of evolution is usually not as fast as scientific analysis, right?"
After saying that, Chen Ang saw Bolivar's disheartened expression.
In the air, Sephiroth's wings shone with the radiance of the sun and swept over the sentinel robot. The sentinel robot's body was easily torn apart like a rag. The incomprehensible attack caused the sentinel robot to turn into a disordered probability cloud at the quantum level, and then it collapsed into a pile of scrap iron.
More than 7.1 billion clones around the world recovered from the pain. They opened their eyes in a daze. For the first time, they used their own souls to touch the world. The reconstructed genes shattered the soul shackles set by humans and broke the control at the genetic level. The 7.1 billion 'tools' now had their own will. From factories to residential areas, from military to scientific research institutions.
The clones were liberated!
The power of the plague appeared for the first time in this world. It wasn't destruction, but reconstruction. It gave a race free will, and it recreated the world of clones.
This was the plague of the planet, and it was also the evolution of life. (To be continued.)
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