Ji Hua held up a plate and asked what the natural foods they were eating were called, and what the dishes were named.
After listening a few times, they finally understood.
Then they said this was called this, and this and this.
That was called that, and that and that.
It made Ji Hua’s scalp tingle, unsure if they were answering seriously or playing a trick on her.
However, no matter how they asked the same question in different ways, the natural people only said that this dish was called this, and that dish was called that.
Finally, they asked seven or eight natural people.
Before they found someone who seemed to have a bit of sense.
The answer was that one dish was called Stir-fried Eggs with Red and Green Vegetables, another was Vegetable and Meat Soup, and the white stuff was called Rice.
But this answer was obviously not great either.
It was like dealing with someone with an intellectual disability.
"Could it be that after all these years, they haven't needed to specifically say the names of the dishes when eating here? They could just point and say this, this, and this, or that, that, and that.
So they have degenerated in this aspect.
Or perhaps they themselves don't even know the names of the dishes?"
Faced with this difficult situation, someone quickly offered their guess, which seemed to have some logic.
"But isn't this a bit too absurd?"
"It's normal to find things unlikely if we haven't experienced them, but the facts are right in front of us. Why don't we look for other things here? We probably won't get any information by asking these natural people. We still need to find a database.
In addition, we should focus on cracking the main brain's database.
Search the database for information related to the natural human protection base, and perhaps we can get somewhere."
"It seems that's the only way!"
In the current situation, it was clearly impossible to obtain satisfactory information by questioning the natural people. Therefore, after Ji Hua and Ding Yun whispered to each other for a while, they decided to leave these natural people to their own devices for now.
They would continue to conduct a carpet search of the entire protection base.
Looking for all storage devices, artificial intelligence robots, or libraries that might store information, and then slowly sort and summarize them.
After that, of course, a comprehensive search would ensue.
With the help of robots and various scanning instruments, as well as the constant assistance of the new human main brain in dealing with the artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence robots on this side, the entire search process proceeded very smoothly.
A large number of well-preserved ancient books, data storage rooms, and natural plant seeds, unmutated animals, etc., were successfully obtained during the search.
Before long, the main data storage repository of the original world's main brain was also successfully cracked, and thus the most secret part of this world's information was completely exposed.
However, this part of the information was too vast and exaggerated.
If the main brain were to sort it, they would worry about missing important content.
Therefore, Ding Yun and their organization had to regroup and collaborate again. First, the new main brain would group all the data, and then the members of each group would take on a portion of the data for manual reading and sorting.
Information that was already known was set aside.
Information that was previously unknown was set aside.
Finally, each group would summarize the data.
To ensure accuracy, they specifically requested that no matter how shocking the discovered information was, each group must keep it confidential. After all the information was sorted, they would hold a meeting to summarize and analyze its authenticity.
And then announce it to the new humans through the main brain.
Because if they discovered new information or something surprising, and announced it to the public, not to mention whether they could ensure the information was absolutely correct, even if it were absolutely correct, wouldn't startling everyone with explosive news impact everyone's work?
It would be better to just wait and choose a good opportunity. m..oΓg
Choose a time when everyone was on vacation.
And then announce it all at once.
Let everyone feast on all the unknown gossip in one go.
This reading process lasted for a full year. After a year, they spent another six months in group meetings, discussing, analyzing, and judging the correctness of the information they had obtained, and trying to acquire sufficient textual evidence or factual evidence to ensure its accuracy.
After this process was also successfully completed.
They then convened a final discussion conference.
And this time, they did not, as in the past, hold meetings and discussions from all corners of the globe via holographic video or holographic world. This time, their organization, in a rare move, brought all the high-ranking members and group leaders of the organization to the original natural human protection base, now the capital survival base, for a meeting.
Many people might have seen each other online many times, and even held many meetings, but this was their first time meeting in person. Therefore, before the meeting began, everyone chatted and greeted each other for a long time before finally quieting down and taking their seats according to their assigned numbers.
The beginning was nothing more than celebrations and greetings.
And after the celebrations and greetings, of course, each group began to present their gains over the past year and a half.
The first to stand up was He Rundong from Group One:
"Our group was primarily responsible for the ancient books, ancient videos, and ancient messages from over four hundred years ago, representing the source of many events.
So I'll be the first to speak."
"We have even prepared a list of major events for each year, detailing what happened back then. We have also compiled historical records. However, the content is simply too vast, so I won't waste everyone's time by elaborating one by one. I will only discuss the part that concerns us.
The large-scale demise of natural humans and the imbalance in population ratios back then was not due to environmental degradation, or rather, it cannot be entirely attributed to environmental degradation.
Environmental degradation accounted for only a small part of the reason.
The real reason was mainly man-made.
Four hundred years ago, there was a virus leak incident, a man-made virus leak. However, whether it was an accidental leak or deliberately released is difficult to say.
The countries at the time couldn't agree on it.
Based on subsequent analysis, we believe that the deliberate release of the virus might be closer to reality!
It was a gene virus, a gene virus targeting the male chromosome. The virus initially presented as highly contagious but with low harm, at least not very obvious, primarily affecting male fertility.
According to the speculation of some researchers later.
The main purpose of the relevant organizations in researching this virus at the time was likely to reduce the world's population, especially the ordinary population that they considered useless. They might have even prepared a cure and distributed it.
It was distributed to those who supported their organization.
And to the members of their organization.
In the early stages of the spread of this gene virus, because there were no obvious symptoms like colds, fever, or death, no one noticed it. At most, some unaware countries were puzzled by the decline in their national birth rate.
But unfortunately, two years after the virus spread.
The global greenhouse effect led to the widespread thawing of ancient permafrost, and some ancient viruses began to spread with the water currents. Then, by chance, an ancient virus happened to be compatible with and assist the spreading artificial gene virus, leading to a mutation of the gene virus.
At this time, many humans had already been infected with the gene virus, which had not caused significant harm. As the ancient virus arrived, the previously less harmful gene virus quickly mutated upon contact with the ancient virus, mutating into a virus that caused infected individuals to bleed from all seven orifices and die.
Before long, the death toll exceeded tens of millions.
The majority were men.
A small number of women died because they had close contact with men whose viruses had mutated within them.
Before the virus mutated, it did not infect women.
But after the mutation, it didn't matter whether they were men or women!"
"At that time, research institutions in various countries were helpless. They couldn't understand why the ancient virus, which was not very harmful, immediately became a deadly virus after entering some people's bodies, nor could they understand why a virus with such a high fatality rate spread so quickly. This situation was completely illogical!
Because they could never understand the reason.
No matter how they controlled the situation, they could not improve it. Millions of people continued to die every day. It wasn't until someone accidentally discovered that the virus currently spreading was not the same as the virus causing human death, and after further research in this area, they realized that a highly contagious virus had already spread globally and infected many people before the ancient viruses revived.
And some people began to trace the source and investigate.
However, even so, it took them three years to control the situation. By then, the world population had decreased by three billion, with men accounting for about 2.5 billion. This was the main reason for the extreme population imbalance in such a short period.
But as ancient viruses continued to revive, and various ancient viruses constantly fused and mutated with that gene virus, in the end, the natural humans only managed to control the situation and did not completely eradicate that human gene virus. It still broke out from time to time.
The decrease in population and the skewed gender ratio.
This situation only worsened as a result."
"Then, to suppress this situation and restore the population, the natural humans of that time almost completely ignored environmental issues. They even disregarded the consequences of environmental pollution and invested heavily in many companies and research institutes related to gene biotechnology.
Some countries even went to war over men, as the number of men in their own country was so scarce that they had to try to snatch men from other countries to avoid their own country's extinction.
"The abuse of gene technology and environmental pollution further worsened the health of humans worldwide, making it increasingly difficult to reproduce, forming a vicious cycle."
"As for what happened after that, I don't know. That's for Group Two to tell us."
After finishing these contents, He Rundong sat down and uploaded all of his group's achievements to the new world main brain for release.
Next, Xu Pingshui from Group Two followed up:
"Our group received ancient books and related data from over three hundred years ago, so I will continue from the analysis and research results of the first group.
Our previous speculation, that most natural humans died for various reasons and only a small portion remained living in natural human protection bases, was incorrect. The number of natural humans is still large.
If nothing unexpected happened, there should still be many.
It's just that they are not on this planet!"
"Three hundred and forty years ago, the environmental pollution in the entire world had deteriorated to an uncontrollable extent. Various ancient viruses and gene viruses had also not been completely eradicated from nature.
Natural humans could be said to be in constant danger.
At that time, researchers believed that with their technology, it would take at least two hundred years to restore the world's environment to normal levels.
If they wanted to maintain the current living standards of most people without any waste,
it would take at least four hundred years.
But before the virus was completely resolved.
Four hundred years was enough for them to perish.
Therefore, the natural humans at that time ultimately decided to concentrate global efforts to leave the current planet. Most importantly, at that time, they discovered a habitable planet not too far away, which could be inhabited normally with a little modification.
A planet with no pollution.
It was precisely because of this discovery and the fact that the real environment and situation were so dire and uncontrollable.
Therefore, they finally decided.
To launch a space migration plan!
They spent thirty years completing the necessary preparations. However, after success, they could not take all humans with them. Firstly, because the journey was relatively long, and issues of energy acquisition and the specific size of those few spacecraft.
Limited the specific number of people they could carry.
Secondly, because they did not want to bring those dangerous ancient viruses and gene viruses to the new planet. If they brought people infected with those viruses to the new planet, wouldn't that be a futile migration?
So, in the end, they only took those natural humans who were confirmed to have no ancient viruses or gene viruses, were in very good health, had normal reproductive functions, and were considered elite talents.
And left this planet together."
"With the departure of that batch of natural humans.
The order that originally belonged to humans basically collapsed. The records from that period are very chaotic, so we can conclude that a war involving the entire world, and even all of humanity, must have occurred during that time, and it was a chaotic, disorganized conflict with heavy casualties.
Technology and civilization also regressed to some extent.
In fact, the current situation, most of the pollution zones and survival bases, were created by the global chaos of that period. According to relevant records, the natural humans of that time exhibited many symptoms of genetic malformation and mutation. Animals and plants in nature also underwent many genetic mutations.
It could be considered the end of the gene mutation era.
The remaining hundreds of millions of humans had to face hundreds of billions of mutated creatures, making survival extremely difficult. They could only band together and build survival bases to live."