Chapter 855: Chapter 100: Homo sapiens Hero [Part 1]
Spring, 2072, the countryside of Manitoba Province.
Lin Yu rode an electric bike along a muddy rural path. The slightly fishy sll of the soil surrounded her.
This brought a sense of comfort to the exhausted Lin Yu.
It’s still more comfortable here…
Lin Yu had just returned from the city center of Manitoba. There, she continued to deliver her speech on “the potential control over the gene modification and cyberization of Benchmark n.”
As the representative of “The World’s Last Homo sapiens.”
Naturally, she was mocked. In an era where humans widely benefit from standardization and cyberization, this kind of advocacy is seen by most as “having sothing wrong with the brain”—even though twenty years ago, Lin Yu’s views were mainstream.
Of course, occasionally, journalists ca to cover her. But this was not because many people believed her words, but because of her parents’ identities.
Lin Yu’s parents were among the first mbers of the Superhuman Enterprise.
Lin Yu took her mother’s surna. Her parents had decided from the beginning that if they had a daughter, she would take the mother’s surna. Her father, surnad Chen, was even one of the core researchers in the human augntation movent. It’s said that the standard process of standardization surgery also involved her father.
Moreover, Lin Yu has another identity.
“The daughter of the first failed standardization surgery case in the world.”
Chen Feng’s wife, Lin Xiaoxiao, was the eighty-fourth volunteer for the world’s first standardization modification surgery and also the first failure case.
Her father was the eighty-third volunteer for the standardization modification surgery.
Volunteers numbered 80 to 120 were all core researchers of the Superman Enterprise. Their common trait was being older, a demographic “on the risk line of surgery” given the technical conditions at the ti. These individuals were the most confident and eager about the surgery.
Chen Feng and his wife had been together since their school years. Their ages were the sa, and having lived together for long, their physical states were similar as well. It was a very unfortunate event as the surgery caused total failure in Mrs. Lin Xiaoxiao.
Chen Feng was unwilling to accept this fact for a long ti. And Lin Yu felt she had lost both her parents simultaneously.
She did not undergo the standardization modification surgery. When she ca to her senses, Homo sapiens had beco a minority in society.
Currently, Lin Yu lives as the community leader of the “Last Homo sapiens” communal farm. There are also so people worldwide who, for various reasons, are unwilling or unable to undergo the standardization modification surgery.
For instance, those who had once suffered from cancer but later healed are unable to survive the “immune destruction” phase due to having a higher proportion of cancerous cells in their body compared to normal people, resulting in a lower surgery success rate. Additionally, those carrying certain special genes are refused surgery due to risk concerns.
So people naturally fear things dominated by big corporations, especially gene modification surgery and prosthetics.
It’s not just the elderly; many young people feel this way too.
They have beco the planet’s last Homo sapiens.
In this era, being Homo sapiens is not so easy. Benchmark n can be powered by electricity, requiring only minimal nutritional supplentation for their bodies. Many people have chosen to undergo surgery to reduce the size of their digestive organs to eliminate the feeling of hunger, consuming daily nutritional supplents and small amounts of food. Massive reforestation and land reclamation are happening worldwide.
Hardly any farrs are growing food for Homo sapiens. To obtain food, Homo sapiens must endure the high prices caused by transportation costs.
Yet, the physical functions of Benchmark n are indeed too exceptional.
The remaining Homo sapiens have no choice but to band together for survival. They began farming for themselves, becoming self-sufficient.
This is the origin of this communal farm.
Years ago, Lin Yu took so money from her father to buy land here. To her father, that money perhaps felt like “pocket change.” He spent much more on his gaming hobby. Initially, Lin Yu had planned to seek help from Uncle Xiang. Uncle Xiang seed capable of persuading any local governnt to allocate land as a private plot for Homo sapiens. But her father, using the reasoning “how can I trouble Uncle Xiang,” gave her the money anyway.
At first, Lin Yu did feel her father was rely finding an excuse to compensate her. But after years of managing the communal farm, she realized her previous notion, “asking Uncle Xiang would reduce my debts a bit by not needing to ask for money outright” was too naive.
When choosing the site for the communal farm, Lin Yu’s standard was “vast land with few people and little managent.” As an agricultural province in North Arica, Manitoba’s climate is suitable and the population is not high. It’s also close to developed areas, making it easy to acquire agricultural machinery and fertilizers. Though many people in the farm have always resisted chemical fertilizers, not a few are welcoming them.
When Lin Yu returned ho, her husband should have been in the fields. Her daughter was about to go out. The little girl was at a rebellious age. Seeing her mother, she wrinkled her nose.
“ngying?” Lin Yu called out.
“Hmm.” The girl responded and skipped away.
Lin Yu felt a headache.
But now…
She had more important things to do.
Lin Yu walked into the warehouse where she stored farming tools. Inside, humanoid robots were lying together with tractors, appearing to be so kind of agricultural machinery. The people of the communal farm indeed had seen this thing working in Lin Yu’s fields.
Fortunately, there are no fervent military enthusiasts here. Otherwise, people would be surprised to discover that the specifications of the hands and feet of this agricultural machinery are surprisingly close to military-grade prosthetics.
Lin Yu whispered: “Uncle Xiang?”
“Yes, I’m listening,” Xiang Shan said.
This was the base of early heroes.
Years ago, Xiang Shan rescued Chen Feng—or rather, Chen Feng escaped the attacks of Superman Enterprise, and his first action was to find a way to reach here to ensure the safety of his daughter.
Examing the environnt here, Xiang Shan felt it was an ideal place to serve as a base. Just like with Bernard, the Usurpers had overlooked the Homo sapiens abandoned by the tis. They arrogantly assud that Homo sapiens were destined to be eliminated by the era.
Yet, they completely forgot they were once Homo sapiens themselves.
Xiang Shan couldn’t even comprehend what they had to be so proud of. There should only be differences in physical abilities and neural reflex speeds between Benchmark n and Homo sapiens, and Benchmark n have potential for further developnt. But there is no essential difference in personalities between the two.
But thanks to this arrogance, this place beca a blind spot for the Usurpers’ supervision.
Everyone here had not used prosthetics with backdoors, and their genes had not been tampered with.
Lin Yu beca the first Homo sapiens “Hero” developed by Xiang Shan.
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