74: Extreme greed

It was quiet where Ye Feng and Lucy were. He also transmitted the relevant data to the blood wolf, allowing Ali, Chen Duo, and Rui Rui to study and research it.

Although Rui Rui was still very young, she was already capable of conducting low-level technological research.

The entire family were research fanatics.

Even Chen Duo was influenced by this atmosphere, becoming completely engrossed in learning knowledge.

However, in the outside world, the entire parallel world was undergoing an unprecedented catastrophe; the symphony of nuclear weapons played out between heaven and earth, and sudden war erupted!

It turned out that the cause of everything was the USB drive containing all the information Lucy had observed.

This USB drive was acquired by the Gauls.

As a result, Gaul quickly treated it as a top secret.

The technological power of this country saw a massive improvement in a short period, rising rapidly as if traveling by plane.

But things can never be kept hidden forever.

Various countries quickly discovered that Gaul's rise was due to this mysterious USB drive, and that Lucy, who was connected to the drive, might already be an immortal, god-like, terrifying existence.

What did a god represent? It represented the eternal life that the world had always craved!

Technology and wealth were very attractive and enough to start a war, but not enough to trigger a terrifying nuclear war.

But this particular USB drive was different; it might represent the hope of eternal life.

Humanity's nature is a contradiction filled with both good and evil!

The terrifying thing was human greed. Facing the opportunity for eternal life, humanity erupted in intense avarice, losing all final rationality.

The coalition of nations launched an attack on Gaul—a full-scale assault across sea, land, air, and space.

To defend the opportunity for eternal life, Gaul also launched nuclear weapons without hesitation. Consequently, the Dead Hand Systems of various countries were activated, and the most devastating nuclear war erupted across the entire world.

Once nuclear weapons were deployed, the entire world descended into total nuclear annihilation.

However, the aristocratic elite of Gaul, who had triggered everything, quickly retreated to the West African Region with the crucial USB drive before the operation began.

This was Gaul's traditional sphere of influence and the area least affected by the nuclear war.

This was because nuclear weapons were almost entirely aimed at developed nations.

After the nuclear annihilation began, only Africa and South America—regions full of poor countries with no attack value—were largely preserved.

Their plan was clever, but there were so many powerful and influential figures in the world who also wanted eternal life and were eyeing that USB drive.

The nuclear war was merely a smokescreen to conceal their gain, yet the powerful figures in other countries tacitly allowed all of this to happen.

This was because nuclear weapons would attract the attention of most people and destroy countless competitors who might vie with them for the chance at eternal life.

Those in power are always concerned with their own interests.

The deaths of others, or even the destruction of nations and humanity, were not as important as their opportunity for eternal life.

They understood one thing very clearly.

They would all die sooner or later, so why not stake everything on seizing the possibility of eternal life?

Dying early or late was still dying, so it was better to gamble their lives on the chance for eternal life.

Do not underestimate the ability of these individuals to fight desperately; they would do anything for profit, let alone for eternal life.

Thus, a group of crazy world leaders collectively initiated the prelude to global destruction, then hid together in safe locations, escaping the great annihilation.

What unfolded next was the battle to seize this USB drive!

The mysterious USB drive was personally created by Lucy, making it the most durable substance in the world; no amount of fighting could destroy it.

It changed hands repeatedly, contested by countless people, and nearly half of Africa was riddled with holes.

But in the end, none of them managed to seize it.

This was because Lucy finally emerged from her state of contemplation. The time when she was deeply considering her future coincided exactly with the outbreak of the nuclear war.

Lucy noticed everything that was happening on this parallel Earth.

She returned to the past, observed all the historical information, and realized that what she had left behind was not a blessing for humanity's technological explosion, but the switch for destruction, the Gate of Hell for Satan.

Most importantly, her mother and her relatives were all destroyed by the impact of the nuclear weapons.

The object she had personally created destroyed her family.

In her anger, Lucy retrieved the USB drive and destroyed it.

Humanity's various behaviors during the great annihilation made her extremely disappointed.

She even became somewhat darkened.

Humans were never the darlings of the world; they were merely temporary lucky beneficiaries in biological evolution.

An enraged Lucy immediately initiated the evolution of marine life.

During this process, Ye Feng provided the genetic secrets of the Trigon, leading to the emergence of a New Intelligent Race in the oceans of this world—a marine intelligent race created by Lucy.

The Sea Race!

Ye Feng felt that this matter was extremely interesting.

So he collaborated with Lucy and created the Beast Race, evolved from wild animals.

These included the gentle Minotaurs and Goat-Headed People, as well as the brutal Bear Kin, Tiger Kin, Wolf Kin, Lion Kin, and so on.

Ye Feng also used the Angel genes he had collected to create the Feathered Race!

The Feathered Race closely resembled Angels.

Regardless of which race, these newly emerged races all possessed a trace of the genes of Adam and Lilith, and all had the potential to awaken superpowers that utilized dark energy.

They were called the New Intelligent Races, the New Transcendent Races.

Because Lucy came to hate humanity, she added genetic information expressing aversion toward the Human Race into the genes of these races.

After the major intelligent races appeared, they all held strong hostility toward the Human Race.

Humanity, conversely, became the common enemy of the many intelligent lifeforms during their rise.

Fortunately, Lucy did not interfere excessively afterward, allowing humanity to continue existing while surrounded by enemies.

However, the survival capability of humanity was also terrifying.

The mad scientists among them began studying the genes of these new races and conducting random fusion experiments.

Ninety-nine percent of the human test subjects among them failed.

But there were still successes; the successful individuals fused the new genes, sensed the presence of dark energy, and were able to control it.

Gradually, through bloody and cruel experiments, humanity surprisingly managed to find a chance for future survival.

They also acquired Transcendent Power.

Later, the post-nuclear war world began to show a unique situation where all races coexisted.

All of this lasted for a full thousand years, and Ye Feng observed it for a thousand years.

Yet the actual time in the outside world was only two years.

This was because Ye Feng, after all of this began, consciously used this world as an experimental ground for genetic lifeforms.

He set up an ultra-large Time Acceleration Device for the entire Solar System, achieving a Super Time Acceleration where one year became a thousand years throughout the Solar System.

Furthermore, the Time Rule mastered by Lucy also contributed to the occurrence of this time acceleration.

Later, she also participated in this massive experiment using the entire living planet as the experimental ground.

Because within it, she also saw her path toward becoming a true Four-Dimensional Lifeform!