I Really Didn’t Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World

Chapter 950: Chapter 586: Noah’s Ark and Nuwa_1

The judgment of the elderly ancient apes initially saved the lives of their tribe, avoiding being washed away by floods or submerged in mudslides by timely hiding on the rocky mountain. However, at the same time, it cut off their escape route.

Evacuation became a distant dream.

The ancient apes at that time simply did not possess the knowledge to build boats.

Tie themselves to driftwood and float along the waves, leaving everything to chance, to see where they could go?

Such an idea seemed beautiful, but in reality, there were many problems.

First, there were no ropes at that time, only vines. Vines were suitable for dragging objects but not for binding people securely, as they could easily slip off.

Second, there weren’t enough vines to rescue many people.

Third, this was a barren rocky mountain without much wood.

Fourth, in the raging floodwaters, even if a person clung to a tree trunk, they were still prone to drowning.

In conclusion, this idea had a very low feasibility and chance of survival.

Even if a few people were lucky enough to survive, the tribe itself would cease to exist.

Stranded ancient apes venturing into the wilderness held no hope of survival.

Even with Harrison Clark’s intelligence and modern insights, he couldn’t figure out how the primitive humans stuck on the mountain could possibly escape.

Therefore, although the surviving ancient apes knew they could only wait for death on the mountain, they had no other choice but to take it one day at a time.

The virtual history before Harrison Clark’s eyes began to accelerate.

As each day passed and food became increasingly scarce, the ancient apes’ habits and physical appearances began to change under the extreme conditions.

First, the ancient apes tightly controlled their diet and adjusted their bodies to adapt to the scarcity of food resources.

Oddly enough, although the ancient apes seemed to become weaker and thinner, this emaciated state and severe malnutrition did not quickly defeat those who managed to survive the first month.

They were still agile, and their lighter weight and smaller size meant they consumed much less energy when moving about.

The changes in adult ancient apes were obvious, but the changes in the young and adolescent apes were even more remarkable.

In order to conserve energy while moving short distances, these children gradually attempted to walk upright on two feet, relying on their better-developed cerebellum for balance.

When moving the same distance at the same slow speed, an animal walking upright consumed less ATP if its balance control was good enough compared to an animal walking on all fours. This higher viewpoint made the upright walking children much more efficient at searching for food or wood on the rocky mountain.

Not only that, but the children who should have been protected began to learn to swim without instruction, demonstrating excellent aquatic abilities and greatly increasing their chances of successfully foraging and returning.

The children even learned to dive and fish in the floodwaters.

In the process, the ancient ape children began to lose their body hair at an astonishing rate, helping them move faster and more efficiently in the water.

Although they didn’t immediately or completely transform into modern humans, their body fur did become significantly shorter, and the hair became less water-absorbing. It quickly became covered in a layer of secreted keratin, forming tiny hydrophobic scales and increasingly resembling modern human hair and eyelashes.

Witnessing the changes before him, Harrison Clark was stunned.

So the change in human body shape during ancient times could happen so quickly.

It didn’t require generations—just one person could rapidly change in response to the demands of the external environment.

Harrison Clark also discovered that human gene expression had such enormous potential.

Scientists have made many different assumptions about the process of human evolution.

Even in the technologically advanced future, when humans can synthesize new species using genes and even transform themselves into new species using implant technology, there are still many theories and conjectures about how humans gradually became their final form millions of years ago.

The vast majority of people believe that human body shape evolved slowly under constant natural selection.

But in reality, once humans acquired wisdom and became Homo sapiens, nature’s selection of sapiens dramatically decreased.

Still, the process of human body hair loss did not stop but continued to progress.

It couldn’t be that aesthetic changes led to a natural selection bias during reproduction.

Who knows what the aesthetic views of ancient humans were like—perhaps the more hair, the more popular.

The changes in body hair during human evolution have puzzled many paleontologists, leading them to make various conjectures.

Now Harrison Clark knew the reason.

In the history of human species evolution, there was a period when survival depended on swimming.

Perhaps after this generation survived, body hair would return to its original state due to the need for hunting and warmth, but the memory of having less hair to cope with complex environments would be permanently ingrained in human memory and passed down eternally. One day, when human wisdom reached a certain level and productivity could meet the demand for clothing and warmth, the tendency for hair reduction would re-express itself strongly and eventually become the norm.The rapid evolution of the children allowed the population to catch a brief respite, slightly alleviating the food shortage.

However, if the rain continued, the population would still have no chance of expanding, and the population would continue to decline due to the worsening external environment, either through natural death or disease.

In short, the population would continue to decline, just at a slower rate than the first month.

The real turning point occurred five months after the start of the downpour.

The five months of torrential rain had reacted Earth’s oxygen and hydrogen quickly, generating more and more water. The heavy rainfall had caused the sea level to steadily rise, eventually shaping the Earth’s surface as we know it.

The Ancient Ape tribe’s perseverance had finally reached its limit.

The Ancient Apes were sick and injured from old to young.

No one could go out to find food anymore.

The tribe was truly in dire straits.

On this day, a huge biological submarine approached the rocky mountain.

In a sense, it couldn’t be considered a submarine, as there was no air inside.

A female Fish Star Person, with an upper body similar to the Ancient Apes and a fish tail below, emerged from the submarine and popped her head out of the water.

She was very tall, eight meters in length.

She barely managed a smile and waved in a friendly manner like the Ancient Apes greeting each other.

Then, a ladder extended from the top of the submarine, reaching the entrance of the cave.

The top of the massive submarine began to grow buildings like plants, something the Ancient Apes had never imagined before.

The submarine had transformed into a small floating island.

The remaining eighty-seven Ancient Apes helped each other on board, bewildered and nervous.

Here, the Ancient Apes were introduced to cooked food – roasted fish – for the first time.

They also encountered medicine for the first time.

Harrison Clark suddenly realized the origin of the Western mythological story of Noah’s Ark and the Chinese myth of Nuwa repairing the sky and saving the world from the flood.

Stacked memories had been hidden in the hearts of men through fish food and eventually became mythological stories.

The Ancient Apes settled on the floating island, and another seven months passed.

By the third month, the heavy rain had gradually subsided, but the sky was still overcast with occasional drizzle, and floods continued to wreak havoc outside.

More than seven months later, the warm sun finally returned, and the ground began to dry up.

At this time, the Ancient Apes arrived on the African continent on the Fish Star People’s submarine, disembarking from the floating island, waving goodbye and beginning their new proliferation.

The scene in front of Harrison Clark came to an abrupt end.

He had witnessed a true historical event.

Harrison Clark fell silent.

This was just one of the many things the Fish Star People had done for the Earthlings.

Perhaps this part of history was more important, so the Fish Star People hid it deep within the stacked memories and encrypted it, ultimately presenting it to Harrison Clark.

But why did it have to be this part of history?

And not something else?

Harrison Clark soon discovered why the Fish Star People had encrypted it.

It turns out that within this memory, there was another huge secret.

During the Ancient Apes’ 200-day stay on the surface of the submarine, they received medical assistance from the Fish Star People and had their DNA information deeply sequenced as well.

Within the DNA information of the Ancient Apes, there was a secret that Harrison Clark never expected.

It turns out that human evolution had actually stagnated seven to eight million years ago.

Subsequent so-called evolution was merely the pseudo-evolution of directed trait expression and small variations generated when different regional populations exchanged bloodlines.

The essence of human genes, however, had never changed.