Deep within the extreme cold sea domain, at the underwater Doomsday Shelter.
"Pollution levels reduced to standard values, radiation reduced to safe levels, environmental standards met, awakening pods initiating, dormant life revival program activated!"
As this mechanical voice sounded.
The countless hibernation pods buried deep within the underwater Doomsday Shelter instantly lit up. After approximately ten hours, these pods began to open one by one.
Just as frozen meat needs time to thaw before softening, the revival of frozen humans is even more so.
It is normal for it to take a longer time.
"So, three hundred years have passed, and all the data has returned to normal. It seems the wars outside have finally ceased. After all, during times of war, no one cares about environmental pollution. There must have been a long period of peace and prosperity for the environment to be cleaned up!"
As his body revived and he stepped out of the hibernation pod, Ma Debiao had quickly checked the time and mused.
More than three hundred years ago, a group of people had migrated via spaceship to a habitable planet they had discovered. However, only those who were not infected with ancient viruses or gene viruses, and who were either immensely wealthy or played a significant role in social civilization, could board the spaceship.
As for the remaining influential individuals who had merely been unfortunate enough to be infected with ancient viruses or gene viruses.
Although the viruses were no longer lethal.
They were unwilling to accept their fate.
Coupled with environmental degradation, an increase in mutated flora and fauna, and global instability, they ultimately made a collective decision to build a Doomsday Shelter and go into hibernation.
They would then revive when the environment improved or the situation stabilized, to avoid further suffering or hardship.
To this end, they had left two revival preparations.
One was to specifically instruct certain subordinates, or their descendants, to awaken them when the global situation stabilized and the outside was no longer dangerous.
And to prevent this inheritance from being accidentally severed.
When building the Doomsday Shelter, they had deliberately added a failsafe: the Doomsday Shelter would automatically awaken them when it detected that external pollution and radiation had decreased to a certain level.
Because, in their view, during times of chaos, no one would have the time or inclination to deal with pollution; it would be good enough not to create more. Therefore, once the environment recovered to a habitable standard, it would inevitably signify that the world had regained peace, and might even have entered an era of prosperity.
Such a situation was undoubtedly ideal for them to revive and continue enjoying their lives using the resources they had stored.
Before going into hibernation, they had hoarded a considerable amount of resources.
Gold, silver, jewels, antiques, curiosities, and even precious minerals, they had hidden quite a lot. These, in a prosperous era, would be enough for them to continue living as they had before.
As more people revived, they quickly gathered together and activated the network communication functions within the Doomsday Shelter, attempting to connect to the outside network.
To obtain relevant information and understand the detailed situation.
However, the result was a failure.
When they went into hibernation, network communication was still in the era of quantum communication. But now, over a hundred years into the era of photon communication, all the original quantum communication equipment had been retired. The mediums for both communication methods were different, so how could they connect?
In this situation, they could only emerge from the Doomsday Shelter in a state of confusion, trying to find ways to explore the world.
This led to the situation described earlier.
That is, photon satellites detected a large number of life forms in the extreme cold sea domain, as well as many natural humans emerging.
As soon as the new World Mainbrain discovered this situation.
It immediately notified the new World Management Agency.
This was the new management agency established by the organization that originally belonged to Ding Yun and his group, after they had overthrown the former World Mainbrain.
Because of the principle of information transparency.
After a brief consultation, Ji Hua and others dispatched many people to the extreme cold sea domain to communicate and exchange with those people, to understand their situation.
They had already disseminated the relevant information.
Therefore, before the specific details had returned, many people were already discussing on the holographic network, debating where these natural humans had come from.
"Where did these natural humans come from? I've read many historical records published three years ago, and there's no mention of them. Are the books wrong?"
"I used to think natural humans were quite pathetic, almost regressing into idiots and on the verge of extinction. But now, it seems I'm the one who's foolish. These natural humans are truly adept at hiding. Some escaped the planet, and others have hidden God knows where. I wouldn't be surprised if more natural human tribes were dug up next!"
"They truly have many hidden depths."
"How could such a thing become extinct?"
"I think we need to conduct a comprehensive search of this planet, preferably finding all those natural humans. Otherwise, we'll be digging up a few here and a few there, like hunting for mice in their burrows."
"Is it possible to determine which era these natural humans are from? If they hibernated before the large-scale extermination of natural humans by artificial humans, then it's one thing. But if it was after, then they have a blood feud with us, and we absolutely cannot allow them to live."
"Could these natural humans carry viruses from many years ago, posing a danger to us?"
...
While many netizens were enthusiastically discussing on the holographic network, the personnel dispatched by the new World Management Agency had successfully met with that group of natural humans.
And began to communicate and interact with them.
After only a few sentences, they could basically confirm that these natural humans must have hibernated quite early, because they had no knowledge of the existence of artificial humans or new humans. They continued to regard the people they met as their own kind, and indirectly inquired about the current situation and whether gold, silver, and antiques were valuable.
In response, Ji Hua and his colleagues discussed internally.
They decided to tell the truth.
At the same time, they stated that they did not discriminate against natural humans, but for the time being, they could not allow natural humans to live alongside new humans. They could only allocate a survival base for them to reside in.
For this, they would have to pay a price.
After all, a survival base could not be given to them for free. In addition, they would have to abide by the laws they established.
Towards natural humans, they would not be overly discriminatory.
But clearly, they could not expect any special treatment either.
As Ma Debiao and others heard this news, they were all somewhat bewildered. They had never imagined that after hibernating for several hundred years and reawakening, it wouldn't be akin to a dynastic change, but rather that even the dominant species on the planet had changed, becoming new humans.
Becoming a new species they had never heard of.
But fortunately, their appearance had not changed; they still looked human. So, after a moment of bewilderment, they nodded in agreement to the terms, realizing they couldn't fight against the tide.
They intended to first find a way to integrate into this society, understand what had happened in the past, and then consider other matters.