The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Chapter 2 A Humanoid Beauty, an Everlasting Lover

The place where Yu Qing escaped from the First Paradise was the huge sewage outlet of Shenghua Pavilion.

This place connects to a large river.

He struggled to climb to the other side of the outer wall of the First Paradise.

From here, you can see several telescopes peering into the park's interior within the first two hundred meters.

This indicates that the new humans were active there back then, and there must have been transportation routes to the town.

He decided to get ashore there. So he went back into the water and swam vigorously towards it.

It certainly took him a lot of effort to climb up to that place.

He succeeded by chiseling out the steps one by one with a dagger.

When he reached the small platform, he was drenched in sweat, hungry and thirsty, and collapsed to the ground.

After resting for a while, he still struggled to get up.

Just as he expected, there was a road ahead.
Like the First Paradise, when these roads were built, there was already technology that prevented a single blade of grass from growing on either side of the roads for two hundred years.

However, he found it strange that despite the thick dust covering the road, there wasn't a single dead leaf.

Do all those beautiful trees around here never shed their leaves?
He walked along the winding road.

Hunger forced him to walk and stop frequently to see if there were any edible plants along the way.

Finally, he spotted a patch of wild chives. This is edible!

He lunged forward, grabbed a handful, and without thinking, stuffed it into his mouth and began to chew.

But he quickly realized something was wrong. This stuff was some kind of man-made fiber!

He started chiseling at the tree with a dagger, but the tree was man-made, or some kind of completely unfamiliar, non-native species.

He guessed that the scenery in this area was all artificial, and that finding food here would be harder than climbing to heaven.

This should be the hottest time of day; the helmet shows an outside temperature of 47.6℃.

However, the data he had showed that the temperature around the First Paradise in January 2000 was usually below 17°C.

The temperature in the First Paradise is regulated by a system and is kept between 18°C ​​and 26°C all year round.

The thick protective suit was very uncomfortable to wear.

His clothes were tattered and hanging in the sewage ditch, and were later washed away by the water.

At this point, the protective suit was rubbing so hard against my skin that it was almost chafing it raw.

So he simply took it off and walked around naked, carrying all the things he had brought from the First Paradise on his shoulder with his Particle Gun.

He muttered to himself, "This is so much cooler! The crotch of the protective suit is way too wide, it makes me look so slouchy!"

Now he can only entertain himself to distract himself from his hunger.

He slapped his own buttocks hard, then laughed and said:
"Look at the world today, whose face is smoother than my buttocks?"

However, he only walked around naked for a short while before stopping.

I was being very impolite and uncivilized.

What if we really encounter our relatives, dear new humans, or Yu Zi?
After thinking for a moment, he went to the tree by the roadside, cut off some branches and leaves with his dagger, and then pulled some grass to weave an artificial plant apron and tie it around his waist.

"Am I going to go back millions of years and retrace the path of human evolution?" he muttered to himself.

Although he was so hungry that he was dizzy and his legs felt like they were rowing, he felt a strange sense of ease and joy.

The road ahead now extends into a mountain valley, where two buildings can be seen nestled among colorful flowers and trees.

After walking for another ten minutes or so, a grand archway came into view, with several large characters written on it:
"An eco-friendly leisure and sightseeing hotel for humans."

It seems that the new humans have turned the First Paradise into a panda enclosure for early humans, providing it for their visits and entertainment.

Are we really being treated like monsters by the new humans?

Even though the new generation's antioxidant technology was quite advanced when the hotel was built, the archway still looks rusty.

Perhaps this place has been abandoned for a considerable period of time, enduring over a hundred years of trials and tribulations.

As he approached the archway, he saw a line of indistinct words carved on the bottom right pillar, which read:

"Zhang Daoming and Ma Jiayun of Tianjing Bay visited here."

You were once praised as a magnificent sight, but today you have faded into oblivion, left to be buried by the dust.

Inscribed on April 14, 2B33 AD.

Judging from the text, the hotel was abandoned before April 14, 2B33.

This immediately turned his joy into worry. Naturally, there was no food left by previous generations in the ancient ruins dating back over a hundred years.

Suddenly, he saw a woman sitting on a chair not far inside the archway!
Her jet-black hair was swaying gently in the breeze.

He stopped involuntarily, then jogged back a dozen steps.

He hurriedly tore off his grass skirt, but put the sweltering protective suit back on.

He had only glanced at the woman's profile, but he already knew she must be an exceptionally beautiful woman.

Her graceful posture alone was enough to make her the most beautiful woman in the world. At least, Ya Ya and the others couldn't compare to her at all.

He calmed himself down, trying his best to appear composed, and walked back towards the archway. He deliberately made a noise, hoping to attract the beautiful woman's attention.

He hoped the beautiful woman would turn around and greet him.

"Do I still look handsome and dashing in the eyes of the new humans?" he wondered.

However, the beautiful woman only seemed to shake her head slightly and did not make any further statement.

Maybe she just had a fight with someone and is still angry. Or maybe she's just being reserved.

Even so, he was still very happy.

Judging from her beautiful appearance, it shows that today's new humans, or Yu Zi, have not yet abandoned their original human form.

In that case, if he walks among them, he won't be seen as an oddball, right?

He strode over and stopped about two meters away from the beautiful woman, then said softly:
"I'm sorry to bother you, may I ask...?"

The beautiful woman remained motionless.

He felt a little embarrassed; people were too lazy to pay attention to him.

But soon they realized something was wrong:
This beautiful woman shows no signs of breathing! She may already be dead.

He instinctively took a step back in fright, then observed her for a moment. It seemed she really was dead.

Actually, he should have noticed something was wrong a long time ago. Look at her tattered clothes. He was only staring at her face. How pathetic.

Suddenly, he realized that this was not right either.

If she has been dead for many days, why hasn't she decomposed? Does this mean that people today can prevent their bodies from decaying?
"Oh dear, I was so eager to see my own kind that I forgot this might just be a man-made model!"

He snapped out of his daze and boldly walked over to pinch the model's cheek.

It felt even more comfortable and soft than real skin.

It may have been here for over a hundred years, but it remains as good as new and still retains its original luster.

Never fading is one of the goals pursued by the new generation.

He carefully tore off the tattered clothes and discovered that there was text carved above the model's navel:
"Eternal Love, proudly presented by Shengtian Manufacturing Co., Ltd."

Manufacturing date: July 3, 2B24.

"Electrify her for three minutes, and she'll make you the happiest king in the world for a year."

It seems that this is not just an ordinary model, but the "humanoid beauty" who swept the world back then!
There are records of this in the time capsule, and his father also told him about it.

The emergence of humanoid beauties has completely overturned the marriage and love ecosystem of the new humans.

Besides childbirth, it possesses all the functions and excellent qualities of a woman, and it can be deeply customized, with super wisdom and learning ability.

It can serve you 24 hours a day, being both your lover and your assistant, servant, and unconditionally obeying your commands.

It can read your expressions and get to know your preferences better. It can play the role you like at any time, sometimes throwing itself into your arms, sometimes pretending to refuse, sometimes acting pitiful, and sometimes acting as if it's angry or resentful.

Two years later, the "humanoid man" was also born, and it quickly became the love of women all over the world.

Some women even have more than five hundred humanoid men.

From then on, the men and women of the new generation looked down on each other, and the marriage rate dropped to less than one in a thousand.

In response, the government at the time began to levy a "single tax," with the tax rate once rising to an absurd 97 percent.

As a result, sham marriages have become popular again, with couples registered in name only, but in reality, they still lead separate lives.

Some fake couples have even come up with new tricks, having their humanoid selves fall in love and get married.

At that time, humanoid girls and humanoid boys were everywhere in scenic spots, beach hotels, and other tourist attractions.

Some new humans go out with a dozen or twenty humanoid girls or boys. Because they look similar to new humans, they are often confused with each other.

I heard that they were eventually granted "second citizen" status, and each humanoid girl and humanoid boy had their own special ID card.

Those who kill others, whether they are humanoid men or humanoid women, will also face six months in prison.

Yu Qing felt he had been disappointed; it seemed this place had been completely abandoned.

Furthermore, since the plants here are all artificial and cannot provide food for herbivores, no herbivores will visit this place.

Carnivores that depend on herbivores will also not come.

In fact, you can't see a single mosquito here.

There was no moss, no mushrooms, no signs of life, only remnants of advanced scientific and technological achievements.

Realizing there was no hope of getting food from here, the energy he had been holding on for just moments before vanished instantly.

At this point, he resorted to finding a drink of water, as he had sweated so much that he was probably dehydrated.

At that moment, he noticed that there was still some rainwater left in the humanoid girl's slightly open mouth.

He took off his helmet and then desperately hugged its head and began to suck on it until he could suck out no more water.

Finally, he inexplicably burst into tears, as if the humanoid girl could hear his voice.

He saw Ya Ya and the others waving at him from ahead.

He collapsed into the arms of the humanoid beauty, and vaguely heard himself say, "Farewell, I curse your ancestors."

(End of this chapter)