Global Evolution
Description
The Cambrian Explosion, now the largest life science puzzle…
500 million years ago,among single-celled life on Earth , there suddenly began mutations similar to evolution, a variety of gorgeous creatures were born “out of thin air”, all ancestors of today’s species appeared in that short period of time, each species were evolving at lightning speed; billion times faster than today, it was a brilliant era.
Unfortunately, the life of brilliant things are always short, after the brief “Cambrian”, life on Earth entered another 56 million years of evolutionary era at turtle speed. And humans, were also one step faster during the turtle race, and become the leader of life on Earth.
But now — a greater “second age” has come again.
During the lightning speed of evolution, humanity was kicked off of the throne on the food chain in the shortest time possible, and life on Earth, welcomed the second brilliant big bang.
The real end of the world, is no longer brainless zombies or desolate earth, but — the end of mankind, the whole earth’s paradise.
Chapter 1: Examination Results
Chapter 2: Oxblood Fog
Chapter 3: The Crowbar and The Rat
Chapter 4: Preparation
Chapter 5: Back to School
Chapter 6: The Food Chain
Chapter 7: Wild Grass
Chapter 8: Bacteria
Chapter 9: First Night
Chapter 10: Medication
Chapter 11: Microbes
Chapter 12: Strange Tree
Chapter 13: Life and Morality
Chapter 14: To Kill
Chapter 15: Danger Index
Chapter 16: Strategy
Chapter 17: Giant Maggot
Chapter 18: Hemmed
Chapter 19: To Stay or To Go
Chapter 20: Confrontation
Chapter 21: Water Bottles
Chapter 22: Disturbed
Chapter 23: Narrow-minded
Chapter 24: Hunting
Chapter 25: Waiting
Chapter 26: Slaughtering and Fleeing
Chapter 27: Wound
Chapter 28: Stench
Chapter 29: Human desires
Chapter 30: Preparation
Chapter 31: The Art of Hunting
Chapter 32: Predate
Chapter 33: Pursuit
Chapter 34: Pus
Chapter 35: Fear
Chapter 36: Roots
Chapter 37: Meat and Weapons
Chapter 38: Aroma
Chapter 39: Betrayal
Chapter 40: Deadly evolution
Chapter 41: Encephalon
Chapter 42: First cycle
Chapter 43: Bullfrog
Chapter 44: Burn
Chapter 45: Fret
Chapter 46: Super Life
Chapter 47: Imagination
Chapter 48: Carrier
Chapter 49: Share
Chapter 50: Ruthless
Chapter 51: Soft and gentle
Chapter 52: Hesitation
Chapter 53: Confession
Chapter 54: Decision
Chapter 55: Leaving
Chapter 56: The Grand World
Chapter 57: Skinnier
Chapter 58: Dodder
Chapter 59: Disguise
Chapter 60: Mantis
Chapter 61: Flower Shrub
Chapter 62: Bloody Flowers
Chapter 63: Loss
Chapter 64: He left
Chapter 65: Food web
Chapter 66: The most important person
Chapter 67: Warnings from the Voles
Chapter 68: Millipede
Chapter 69: Under the umbrella of the odor
Chapter 70: Things like this
Chapter 71: Micro
Chapter 72: Opportunities
Chapter 73: Redemption
Chapter 74: The ecology of Zhengzhou
Chapter 75: Goodbye
Chapter 76: Department of Biology and Genetic Engineering
Chapter 77: The Creator’s Waters
Chapter 78: Unlimited Possibilities
Chapter 79: Radar and Food
Chapter 80: Crystal Pea
Chapter 81: Wisdom of ordinary people
Chapter 82: Carefree Days in the Apocalypse
Chapter 83: Bizarreness
Chapter 84: The Most Desired Genes
Chapter 85: Observation
Chapter 86: The Handgun
Chapter 87: Someone From The Past
Chapter 88: Gangs
Chapter 89: We all have intentions
Chapter 90: Quadruple Kill
Chapter 91: Decisive
Chapter 92: There is No Right or Wrong
Chapter 93: The Gene Altered Soldiers
Chapter 94: Return to the Jungle
Chapter 95: Trap
Chapter 96: Battlefield
Chapter 97: Spiders and Their Silk
Chapter 98: Seeing in the Dark
Chapter 99: The Face of The Devil
Chapter 100: Barren for a Hundred Years
Chapter 101: Zhizhi He
Chapter 102: A Storm is Coming
Chapter 103: Rebellion
Chapter 104: All in all
Chapter 105: Humans and Power
Chapter 106: Captured
Chapter 107: Qing Shui and Zhuo
Chapter 108: Upset
Chapter 109: Almighty Human
Chapter 110: She is Alive
Chapter 111: Four Years
Chapter 112: Monkat
Chapter 113: Intimidation
Chapter 114: Socioecology
Chapter 115: Jing After Four Years
Chapter 116: Pangzi
Chapter 117: Qing Shui after Four Years
Chapter 118: Evil Moss
Chapter 119: Three Things to Say
Chapter 120: Chasing the Super Life
Chapter 121: Perfection
Chapter 122: Admiration
Chapter 123: Amphibia's Conspiracy
Chapter 124: Ozean
Chapter 1: Examination Results
It was a hot summer when the college entrance examination results were released.
The examination results of 2014 weren’t very different from previous years. Chang Liu checked his grade online the moment it was released—519. A grade like that would only get him into an average college. In a small town in northern China, such a standing was neither good nor bad. It wasn’t worthy to show off, but it wouldn’t be made fun of either. It was ordinary, just like he was.
Seeing the result, Chang wasn’t pleased nor saddened. He quietly clicked the cross on the upper right corner of the web browser, and then subsequently threw himself onto his bed.
Ring ring ring ...
The phone rang. Chang didn’t set any fancy ringtones like his peers would usually do; he was just a person as boring as his ringtone.
He saw that the call was from his mother as he answered.
"Hey son, I heard that the results come out today. I just saw Wang’s son from the convenience store. He got a score of…….”
"519." Chang didn't wait for his mother to finish the sentence. He emotionlessly reported his score, interrupting his mother's lecturing. Then, he casually said a few words, and then hung up. Without a second thought, he turned off his phone.
July and August were the hottest months of the year, and even though the room cooled down by the air conditioning, the heat seemed impossible to drive away. Tossing and turning on his bed, Chang couldn’t fall asleep, so he got up and turned on his computer to watch a movie….
It seemed like nothing could excite him; even the movie that he used to enjoy was now a tedious task for him to watch. “My life is
monotonous and passionless,” he thought. He muted the computer and stared at the stained ceiling. For a moment, he couldn’t tell whether he was tired or just bored, and slowly, he fell asleep.
The sky was slightly dark when Chang was awakened by someone’s footstep. During the summer, there were more hours of daylight, so the slight darkness in the sky meant it was just past 7 o’clock.
His parent came home from work. This meant that a family meeting was about to begin.
On the table.
“It won’t be a problem for you to go to an average college with this grade, but what you can do in the future after graduating from there?” Apparently, Hua Wu–Chang’s mother–was very attentive toward her son’s education and knew the cutoff line for the renowned universities before anyone else in the family.
“Your dad and I…we respect your decision. Tell us what you are thinking. Do you want to just go to an average college and be an ordinary person for the rest of your life, or do you want to repeat a year in high school to improve your grade so that you can go to a prestigious university?”
“Any college is fine.” Chang took a bite of broccoli, and then put down his chopsticks.
“Think about it carefully.” Hui Liu, Chang’s father, waved his hand, and with that the meeting ended in silence.
Three days later.
"You know, our family has always been democratic. We never thought of interfering with your decisions and we respect your choice. But knowing the pressure and competition in finding employment, if you’re a graduate from an average college, I know you can imagine the difficulty of finding a job. Your dad and I aren’t resourceful either….”
Hua kept mumbling, “Tell me, which one you would rather do, repeat a year or go to any college that accepts you?”
“I told you, any college is…”
His mother interrupted him, “Think about it again.”
......
Two days later.
“The fact is, you have nothing to be afraid of when you’re young; few people are successful in their first attempt. You know that kid from our neighborhood? He’s 5 years older than you and didn’t get a good grade on his first try, so he repeated a year and ended up in a famous university. Now that he has graduated, jobs are hunting for him. What I mean is that the reality of this society is cruel, and having a diploma from a famous college will gain you access to everything. Think about it again, whether you want to repeat a year or go to a random college to…”
“I’ll go to any college.”
“Think about it again,” his mother sighed.
......
The day after.
"Son, you may think that I’m being annoying, but sometimes a decision you make will determine your life. Whether it’s heaven or hell is a very thin line…”
"Mom, I want to repeat a year of high school!" Chang clenched his teeth, ending his mother's rant.
"Well, well, well, this is what you said; we didn’t force you!" As if she didn’t understand her son’s current mood, Hua finally cracked a smile.
"You know, our family has always been democratic. Since you chose you own path, you need to study hard this year. In order to support your choice, we have contacted a boarding school for you. There are fewer students in each grade, so it’ll be less chaotic. We figure that the time you wasted on commuting to school could’ve been used to study. Since you chose to pursue this path, every second is important. Some students who’ve repeated high school already have a head start...”
......
The next day, Chang packed his luggage, grabbed some utensils and a few sets of clothes and arrived in Xing Zhi, a small boarding school. As all the students there had repeated high school, their motivation to study was erased by the summer heat. After just 3 days, old habits were restored.
Three days were enough for the boarding students to get to know each other. After night class, Chang took a shower and laid on his bunk bed, chatting with his roommates.
“Hey, did you guys choose to repeat a year?” Chang said as he looked at the other three.
One man wore glasses and seemed like he never cared about his hygiene. His hair was always greasy. Most of the time, he held a thick book. Judging from his appearance, it looked like he was a hard working student, but apparently he went in the wrong direction – the book he read wasn’t a textbook. So obviously, he didn’t choose to come here.
"I'm not sure, I didn’t even pass the examination. I wanted to go to an engineering school or something, but my dad disagreed." The man wearing glasses responded; his gaze never left his book.
"Hey kid, what do you read every day then?" A voice came from the upper bed. Pang Zi was a chubby man and also a fan of web fiction, but he didn’t like whatever that man was reading.
“Apocalyptic fiction."
"Come on, let me take a look," Pang Zi took the book away swiftly. Within a few glances he said, “Zombies again? Why does all apocalyptic fiction mention zombies? It’s such a joke!”
Pang Zi returned the glasses man’s book while ranting.
“It’s been more than 10 years since the release of the Resident Evil series, yet everyone still thinks that zombies are a key element of apocalyptic fiction. They have no creativity at all! If viruses aren’t transmittable through the air, then zombies can’t be considered a threat to humans.”
"Breathing heavily, walking slowly, mental retardation and those stupid ‘ah, ah’ sounds they make. For any normal human, it’s impossible to be bitten by such a creature. Think of our ancestors from ancient times. Facing all kind of predators who were way stronger and more flexible than humans, humankind still managed to thrive.”
"I’m not bragging, but even if all the students in our school turned into zombies one day, I could still run out of here safe and sound, if you know what I mean."
Pang Zi shook his belly while talking.
The last person in the dorm interrupted Pang Zi’s lecture as he became arrogant.
"In fact, the zombie theme didn’t originate from Resident Evil series, but rather from European Medieval Literature. In 1968, the American movie ‘Night of the Living Dead’ set the tone for apocalyptic novels and movies. The concept of killing zombies by shooting their heads and viruses being contagious through zombie bites…that movie basically proposed everything we know about zombies today.”
Tao explained calmly. Within the four of them, he was the only one with a good academic standing. Tao was really close to getting into Peking University, which was one of the best universities in the country. Unsurprisingly, not only was he good at studying, but he also had extensive knowledge in different disciplines. From time to time, Tao loved to show off his mastery of all kinds of knowledge.
“Hence, the zombie theme has been boring ever since it was popularized four or five decades ago. And Pang Zi, your opinion is correct; we don’t need to fear zombies. As long as they aren’t intelligent, their chances of being a threat to humans is infinitely close to zero.”
"Hey, I was asking whether or not you came here voluntarily. Stop changing the topic." Chang interrupted the “good student” and brought the conversation back on track.
"Obviously no one came here voluntarily aside from me," Tao concluded everything with a single sentence.
"Ah, these days, we never really get to make our own choices, even though our parents insist that they respect our decisions. From my viewpoint, it’d be better for me if they just said things straightforwardly.” Chang laid on the bed and recalled what happened a few days ago.
Right after he spoke, the door opened and a teacher wearing a pair of rimless glasses came in.
“Stop chitchatting and go to sleep, you have classes early in the morning.” He shut the door upon leaving the command, but his last statement snuck through the door, “In the history of evolution, small and medium sized predators who made heavy footsteps became extinct, not to mention those who moved slowly. There’s no significance in discussing this issue, so go sleep!”
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Chang Liu - Chang means fast, fluent, carefree.
Chapter 2: Oxblood Fog
The boarding students’ morning began with no surprises. Since morning attendance was already recorded, some students arrived to class at 6:30 AM.
Chang’s eyes were droopy as he woke up at dawn. He woke up the snoring Pangzi and glasses-man who stayed up all night reading his novel. He slowly moved to to the bathroom with his toiletries to wash up.
Being a good student, Tao had left before the rest of them had even woken up. After putting on his school uniform, Chang left the dorm and stood in front of the gate. The hazy sky was reflected in his eyes.
It was usually never foggy in summer mornings, but over the past two years, the fog had become a normal occurrence. What was stranger was that the fog had a constant pink tinge.
However, if anything strange lasted for a long time, no one would pay attention to it after a while. The weather forecast said it was a normal “cloud condensation” phenomenon. If the fog was harmless, normal people wouldn’t care about it. They were more worried about how to squish onto the crowded buses.
Walking across the campus, Chang’s back disappeared in the fog, and his mouth and nose were overwhelmed with the sweet scent in the fog.
He began studying when he arrived at the classroom.
He was drowsy and groggy.
As morning passed, Chang didn’t remember what he read, despite him reading aloud. He felt that the life he was living was tedious and repetitive. Anyone living a monotonous life like his would feel as it if were the same as living the life of the walking dead.
Deep down in Chang’s heart, he craved for change. He looked out the window and saw the pink fog as he finished his breakfast in a daze.
After breakfast, the first class began. It was biology class.
Starting from last year, Biology had become a mandatory course in high school, regardless of the degree, whether it be art or science. The oddest part was that it became a primary course, because the portion that this subject covered in the entrance examination was insanely large.
No one would’ve ever anticipated it, but the sudden policy change made Biology a particularly important subject. Fortunately, Chang enjoyed studying Biology, so he paid extra attention to the first class.