(The following is a partial eavesdropping on an interim meeting of the TPC senior executives after the incident [Mitochondrial Eve] occurred.)

"Since the TPC caught a new species made by mitochondrial Eve, what about mitochondrial Eve itself?"

"I got the residue, and it was speculated that it was about a complete body. There was a high chance that I would die in order to prepare for the birth of a new species under the pressure of human troops. Even so, its physical tissue is still alive, and it is a monster."

"I don't know that we are so strong that we can kill the mitochondrial Eve. In a sense, she is the real mother of humanity."

(A burst of laughter)

"Don't say this, you must show your strength and indomitableness."

(Some others were dissatisfied with the humming and whispered.)

"This is also a rare direct harvest. A shot of cardiosaccharide may see the possibility of human progress from mitochondrial Eve."

"Does anyone have any ideas and speculations about the suicide of the new creature created by Eve in mitochondria? Why did it commit suicide? What does the Alchemy Star think about this incident? I am very concerned about the thoughts of these teenagers."

"It's a coincidence. The insights proposed by the Alchemy Star are the most likely at present, and they believe that the new species committed suicide based on memory inheritance."

"Suicide inherited from memory? Why is this?"

(Only a young male voice is left to start narrating)

"I might as well imagine it like this. Let's talk about a human! Suppose a little boy who knows nothing has the ability to think when he is still in his mother's body, and he has inherited many memories of his mother... Well, this seems to be a great thing, and humans may be able to avoid all the learning costs (laughs).

But if his mother was not a noble and happy person, on the contrary, she was slums and climbed up in pain and grew up in slums. She saw and knew all the cruel things, and she could only do some betrayal and dirty things when she grew up... For this mother, she might have a little bit of happiness and strength in life (and maybe fear of death, he added) to support her not to commit suicide, but is it too cruel for that ignorant child? Even this child could foresee that he would be abused after he was born. Ordinary children didn't know anything, and they all struggled by a survival instinct. When they grew up a little, some found the beauty of life and were a little afraid of death, and would not commit suicide. But for this ignorant life that only experienced the fear in the memory of others... I don't think this would be the case."

"It won't be like this, why is this?"

"I mean, this ignorant new life, its fear of possible future life in genetic memory, completely overwhelmed its survival instinct. When young, it did not dare to accept such a life, so it committed suicide."

(Long silence.)

“From its words, we learn that mitochondrial Eve seems optimistic that it can replace humans.”

"But now we all know that the earth is not as big as the earth, I am too arrogant. It's just that the earth's master has never been a human being since 4.6 billion years ago. Replacing human beings does not seem to mean anything, Dr. Dark."

(There is a long silence.)

"This is not good news, Prime Minister Takamatsu Sho."

"Why...(inhale deeply) I would rather say that I do not want this conjecture to be correct, and it would be better if it died of some kind of physical collapse, Staff Percifer Wilmith Madison, said hello to me for the attacked Mr. Ralph; (pause for a few seconds) It would be great if we could get the memory of mitochondrial Eve."

"We don't have the ability to remove memories from genes."

"Yes, there is only a treasure mountain but you can't enter."

"Everyone, the mitochondrial Eve has ended here. Why not pay attention to the Prometheus mechanism that hinders this disaster. I personally suggest that the Prometheus project be thoroughly investigated and that Umbrella can no longer let it do whatever she wants..."

(Warning sound.)

"Urgent report! An abnormal object was found on the 64th Earth Atmosphere Monitoring Station! No, no, more than 70% of the monitoring stations are calling the police!"

(The temporary meeting was interrupted, and the stolen recording ended in a hurry.)

——

Any life has the qualification to survive, not to survive, but to survive. This does not require any recognition or any argument. Its legitimacy is naturally natural, and it only requires the deepest self.

Whether it is the predators, the hunters who are planning to fight back, or the terrifying shadows behind them that they have not realized, or the flowers and plants that can be seen everywhere on the ground and the micro-organisms that cannot be seen.

【Go, you have it too – 】

The dead are like this, never leaving the day and night.

This is a very rare night.

The mountains in the distance, the trees, jungles or fields in the nearest areas, even the outlines disappeared, all fell into the monotonous darkness, and there was no difference in depth.

There is no moon, no stars, no wind, no sound of birds and beasts.

Only strange objects marked E00 seem to be fluorescent.

At night, all staff members had been withdrawn from the isolation line, and only the unmanned machines were still monitoring the mysterious visitors outside the sky. As for the ordinary small and large animals, they were removed as early as the day E00 arrived.

An unfortunate one fell in this large isolation area.

It was a tennis ball-shaped thing as a nail, with dense brittle hairs, perhaps a spore that humans had not found. After landing on the ground, it bounced a few times, and then a snake or slug-like thing jumped out of it. It could creep on the ground with its long and slippery body, and if it could jump up from a high place, glide for a distance and land smoothly without hurting itself.

In addition to its athletic ability, there are hard brims on its head. With these brims, it seems that it can sensitively sense the surrounding creatures.

Then it froze.

There is only one source of life within a radius of one kilometer.

But that source seems to be different from the Earth's carbon-based organisms in its genetic memory. Before it was indeed parasitic, it did not have a stronger ability to think.

It has no other choice.

What's more, that existence is indeed a suitable intelligent life near humans.

After selecting the target, it began to move forward quickly and flew around the treetops for a long distance, easily throwing away the weak insects and leaving a leaf rustling.

Then it came to the front of that thing.

It is several times larger than the intelligent target pursued by instinctively, and more than dozens of times, like a giant in mythology and legends.

That is a living, sleeping existence.

It climbs along the "skin" of that thing, searching for holes or gaps that can enter in blooming flowers. It has become very exhausted and must be parasitic as soon as possible.

Fortunately, it quickly found a small mouth. Entering from the mouth, it was extremely narrow, some small machinery that humans had used to detect seemed to be melting, scattered beside it, squeezing the few spaces.

After walking dozens of steps, I suddenly realized.

It finds something soft that can enter, and lets itself sink into it and seizes the spiral principle of wise creatures.

From the depths of the darkness, strange memories emerged like a trembling.

It was a gas giant far and far away from the earth, surrounding the aging sun.

The distorted world, the deep ocean, the thunder, the rapids, the changes, have gone through a long and long time, and finally the miracle of life was born.

Hexagonal crystals form infinitely long spirals in clusters.

That's living metal.

Crossing the vast sea of ​​stars,

A brilliant thing.

Its body continues to penetrate deeper in the flow of biological metal, approaching the core through the illusion of the outer layer. Its body begins to deform and lengthen, bonding with these countless metals to form a columnar, synaptic-like scene.

It is not a one-way parasite, but a two-way understanding.

Its intelligence began to develop in a leap, and the word suddenly jumped in its faint consciousness.

understand.

It turns out that this is the understanding.

——I am melting.

Can't that just disappear?

He can no longer maintain his original appearance, nor does he parasiticly swallow the other person's appearance, but he is swallowed up by the eternity that is approaching infinite.

A full 4.6 billion years of memory.

——But it turns out that disappearance is not the end, but a new beginning.

In this short moment, its thinking continued to expand, like a philosopher on the Aegean Sea pondered about life and the universe, ending and rebirth, a thousand years ago.

First, all kinds of wonderful and childish arbitrary decisions, then they move towards experience and deduction, as well as various complex logical arguments, and then they all disappear.

Through the maze on the outside and reaching the truth on the inside, a brand new spiral unfolds its inner infinite step by step.

That is the species it should be parasitic.

It turned out to be hidden there.

But it is no longer aware of it.

Once the Sichuan water enters the sea, it is no longer fresh water, but salty and bitter.

"Something comes, in a flash."

In the darkness, a cold and clear voice sounded.

Awakened by the outside, the new boy stretched out his hands and gently put the thing in his palm.

So everything was silent.

When they broke up again, the rheological metal quickly fell back to the cabin.

At the same time, various lights began to light up in the cockpit.

Then the panoramic view of the empty fields and blockade lines in the outside world came into his eyes.

"When we were thrown out of the universe, Nono seemed to want to hold us...and..."

He fell into a coma.

I just vaguely felt like I was struggling like a drowning person in a huge vortex on the endless sea.
To be continued...