Chapter 912: Old and Death

Ola Freeman's retreat is not rich. Xiangshan only added some equipment, and there is no resource to make a new vehicle in a short time.

Xiangshan's destroyed vehicle cannot be replenished in a short time.

Xiangshan had to put Panike into the independent escape pod again, and then into the mouth of the whale.

This time, Xiangshan was on the road with a whale named "Hoppendman".

Hohopendman is a gray whale. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be the last gray whale in the world. In two hundred years, she, her mother, and her grandmother, this family, have replaced three generations by cloning technology. She was born from the womb of another female right whale. Her mother also gave birth to a cloned humpback whale. When one of them suddenly became ill, other whales would extend their fins in this way.

This is how the survivors of the catastrophe survived from generation to generation.

Hope Deman's body has passed its prime and started to decline. In a dozen years, Freeman will find a way to clone her next generation - or herself.

If her body's health deteriorates rapidly during the next decade and is not suitable for reproduction, Freeman will arrange other young whales to complete this task.

Hope Deman also brought a few young killer whales. The number of killer whales and several dolphins is relatively larger, and there were more surviving individuals two hundred years ago.

Also setting off from the hermitage were the dolphins Claydage and Sikasi. These two dolphins are the best dolphin leaders in the colony.

Claydage can skillfully arrange various tasks and deal with various situations. In the past ten years, Claydage has performed well. Freeman even described that he is more efficient than many humans in completing tasks.

Sikasi is Claydage's best partner.

Well, Xiangshan also heard another version of the story. It is said that Sikasi once cried loudly in the way of a dolphin and asked Claydage to take her with him. Sikasi is Paniko's best friend among the dolphins. The loyal dolphins really like the human cub.

In addition to the above members, Xiangshan has also added a new partner.

The warrior who has always refused to say his name.

The knight who originally belonged to the White Ship Yicong.

Xiangshan looked at the guy who used a fish-shaped prosthesis and swam quickly in the ocean current with interest, and said: "Brother, do you plan to come out again and do justice now?"

The man was silent for a moment, and then said: "To be honest, I haven't thought about it yet."

"Huh?"

"I stayed at first because I thought I was tired of fighting and wanted to rest temporarily. But I rested for a hundred years... A hundred years of peaceful life, I seem to have gotten used to it here."

Xiangshan nodded: "This is a good place... At least in the eyes of us humans, it is like this."

In order not to be noticed by the outside world, whales must suppress their voices for a lifetime and carefully mix their songs into the background noise of the ocean and the earth's crust. It's just that due to different senses, humans don't realize this. If Freeman hadn't reminded him, Xiangshan would have subconsciously forgotten that this was a group of victims living in silence and fear, finding joy in misery - humans would only instinctively feel that this place was very peaceful.

The warrior sighed: "I admit that I like this place very much. But I think that I will stay here not only because I like it... At the beginning, I felt tired, and I also felt that I owed those dolphins a huge favor, so at that time I had the intention of repaying the favor. Then I felt that I really liked this place."

At this point, the warrior fell silent. Xiangshan did not ask any more questions. In the silent sea, only the sound of whales swimming remained.

It was still the warrior. He couldn't help but sigh: "But I have recently begun to feel that this is simply... I can't do it. I'm old."

"It shouldn't refer to natural life span." Xiangshan looked at the warrior and said.

The warrior shook his head: "Of course not. I have used Huandan enzyme many times. From a cellular level, my brain is still very young. But... my heart, or my soul, may have aged."

"I was born in the era of the Fourth Martial God. For chivalry, I have fought for sixty years. In the past sixty years, I have been constantly honing myself and fighting. Many people in the old times said that they worked hard and struggled for a lifetime for something. However, excluding childhood and schooling, the life they really put on one thing may not be sixty years. The life span of Homo sapiens is too short... No, our life span is too long."

Xiangshan nodded.

——Every time you are reborn, you reset your mentality! So you don’t understand those of us who have lived until now! Those of us who have failed many times!

The words that Shenyuan Yanye said flashed through his consciousness again.

This is probably not because of aging, but because of "frustration".

Aging cannot take away the passion in the hearts of humans. Xiangshan heard that in Japan in the past, there was a world-renowned painter. He was the most famous artist of his time, and his work influenced many European celebrities. He claimed that he was "truly born at fifty." Even at the end of his life, the painter lamented that "if I had lived ten more years... or even five more years, I would have become a true painter."

Xiangshan always felt that it was not aging but frustration that would take away the human’s energy. And “My life is only this long, and my victory conditions will go downhill after a certain point in time, which is an insurmountable obstacle” itself is the biggest failure that humans must face.

If the human life limit is correctly lifted, humans will naturally adapt to it.

Perhaps he thought too simply.

Although humans have mastered the technology of going to heaven and earth, the human mind is still similar to the hunter-gatherers on the African land 100,000 years ago.

Perhaps the despair and frustration brought by “death” can be alleviated, and the aging at the physiological level can be reversed, but the human mind has not been completely changed after all.

The basic configuration of humans only requires humans to live for 30 or 40 years to complete the task of reproduction. All configurations such as human physical structure and mind exist for this purpose.

But human technology allows humans to live to 300 or 400 years old.

Xiangshan said: “I hope you can find the answer you want to find, my friend who doesn’t know your name.”