Rebirth in the apocalypse: You can mess it up, I will open the book directly

The sixteenth year of Yong'an.

The awakening rate of supernatural beings has been rising year by year, and the supernatural force has become quite large and well-trained, capable of quickly resolving the puppet uprisings that break out in various places.

The convenience of transportation at that time could not be compared with that of modern times. Therefore, after the outbreak of the wooden puppets, it often spread very quickly within the same village or town, while the speed of its spread outside the village or town was relatively slow.

The outbreak of the wooden puppets was like an epidemic, and the way to deal with its spread was naturally the same as dealing with an epidemic, which was mostly to first mobilize local troops to surround and "isolate the area".

The infected were centrally controlled, and once the situation stabilized, medical personnel were sent to research appropriate drugs and attempt a "cure." When the medical personnel were helpless and time could no longer be delayed, all the wooden puppets were disposed of in a concentrated manner.

Initially, the army's mobilization was limited, and by the time the unrest was completely brought under control, the entire village was doomed.

As the system became more and more perfect, local troops were stationed in various places, the speed of intelligence transmission was faster, the speed of the Extraordinary Army in dealing with turmoil also doubled, and the number of survivors that could be saved was also increasing.

At the same time, methods for preventing and dealing with "wooden puppets" were also made as widely as possible.

If the villages and towns themselves are vigilant and immediately eliminate or isolate those infected, the number of casualties can often be significantly reduced.

However, even though everyone has done their best to minimize the losses, the intervals between the "wooden golem" outbreaks are getting shorter and shorter.

The destruction or demise of one village after another inevitably caused fear to spread among a small number of people.

Fortunately, two years of intelligence gathering, capability assessment, and multi-faceted research have finally provided some clues about the origin of the "wooden puppet."

When Li Zhao reached a conclusion and provided evidence, everyone's first reaction was that it was absurd.

She said that the energy of the "wooden puppet" is very similar to that of the supernatural being, and they are of the same origin.

In other words, those "wooden puppets" are alien beings who have failed in their evolution.

This conclusion left everyone speechless.

Before this, people genuinely believed that the power of extraordinary individuals was a blessing from the gods.

How could a blessing from the gods turn a person into a monster?

However, when the facts are too hard to accept, people are often good at finding reasons to rationalize them.

Soon, everyone was at peace with themselves again.

As the story spread among the people, the cause and effect of this matter became: "Those who cannot receive blessings will be punished by the gods."

Ultimately, it evolved into: "Those who are morally deficient are not worthy of being blessed by the gods as extraordinary individuals; and those who attempt to deceive and blaspheme the gods will be punished by the gods and reduced to walking corpses and monsters."

Since people who become wooden puppets cannot speak or argue, people began to use "extraordinary people" and "wooden puppets" as standards for judging whether a person's life was good or bad.

Such a conclusion is arbitrary, foolish, and disrespectful and unjust to the deceased.

However, this conclusion is widely accepted.

Because people always need some reason to convince themselves: "Those wooden puppets deserved their punishment, they were punished by the gods, so I cut them down to rid the people of a scourge."

Otherwise, how could anyone bring themselves to behead someone who was once a close friend, relative, or someone they spent every day with?

Today, the reputation and honor of the deceased are no longer important; what matters is that those who have survived must continue to live.

People need reasons to live with a clear conscience.

Humans are inherently selfish, and therefore, human nature is uncontrollable.

However, this epidemic was briefly brought under control under this distorted viewpoint.

Everyone shared a common hatred for the "wooden puppet".

But anyone with a clear mind knows that this peace is fleeting, a mirage that could vanish at any moment, a bubble that could burst at any time.

Starting that year, Qin Zheng and the other prodigies began to travel and work tirelessly, joining the Extraordinary Warriors Army to quell unrest in various parts of the country in order to find a way to break the deadlock.

......

The eighteenth year of Yong'an.

As the "wooden puppet" outbreaks become more frequent and the number of mutants increases, the pressure on the Mutant Army surges.

The people are no longer at peace. Although there is no widespread panic, occasional disturbances are inevitable.

When the "wooden puppet" uprising broke out simultaneously in 13 villages in the early autumn of that year, people finally realized that relying solely on top geniuses to save the world was far from enough.

Lack of separation.

Qin Zheng naturally realized much earlier that individual strength is ultimately exhausted. With such a vast country and a large population, even if she had the ability to leap through the air, she would ultimately be unable to take care of all the people at the same time.

Worse still, Meng Shuyao travels through time, bringing back devastating news from the future: a hundred years later, the dynasty has fallen and humanity has perished.

The situation deteriorated even faster than expected, and the prodigies were extremely anxious, each searching for a way out of the predicament day and night, using every means at their disposal.

Chu Yan traveled to distant lands many times, trying to find a pure land or a place to live.

Li Zhao worked day and night, trying to find the answer in countless simulations of the past and future.

......

The nineteenth year of Yong'an.

at last.

After repeated psychic encounters, Lingwei obtained a crucial piece of information that once again astonished everyone:

The fundamental reason why humans fail to evolve and become "wooden puppets" is that their "soul power is insufficient."

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In the beginning, heaven and earth were created, and all things were in a state of primordial chaos.

Living things have souls, which distinguish them from inanimate objects.

The birth of humankind is a result of the gathering of the energy of heaven and earth and the spirituality of all things.

As humanity multiplied, the power of their souls grew increasingly weak, eventually becoming unable to withstand gravity...

Simply put, it takes time for a soul to be conceived in this world, just as it takes time for life to be conceived in a water source, and for microorganisms to evolve into various aquatic organisms.

Similar to the theory of evolution, except that evolution focuses on the body and intelligence, while Lingwei's theory of the soul emphasizes the "soul".

In addition to the physical body, the soul also needs to be constantly enriched and strengthened in the cycle of reincarnation in order to become more complete.

Animals undergo many reincarnations, and only when their souls are sufficiently rich will they be reunited as "humans".

It took a long time for the "human race" to be born in the primordial world.

Humans, with their unparalleled intelligence, developed and multiplied at an astonishing pace.

In ancient times or during times of war, the souls that participated in reincarnation were enough to fill the bodies of newborn infants.

But in times of peace, without war, people were able to die of natural causes. And at the beginning of this dynasty, many died of old age.

The death rate is far less than the birth rate, and the souls cannot make up the difference.

Therefore, as a temporary measure, a portion of the rich and complete soul was split in two by the power of the Azure Dao, and reincarnated as two infants.

After that, the soul was even divided into multiple parts, which were then integrated into more physical bodies in an incomplete form.

The cruel reality is that the world's progress is in line with the pace of the "strongest," not the pace of the "weakest."

Just as apes evolved into "humans" at a certain period, unevolved apes remained apes, while humans continued to evolve rapidly.

Therefore, when the soul power of a human expert is strong enough, Cangdao will activate the racial evolution mode in this cycle.

Thus, "extraordinary people" came into being.

Those souls that were divided into multiple parts to balance the birth rate were too weak to bear the power of evolution. Under the immense pressure, they collapsed and turned into mindless and thoughtless "wooden puppets".