My Dream Connects to 3000 Years in the Future

She felt there were too many things to roast, so many that the words got stuck in her throat and she didn’t know where to start. Finally, she gave a wry smile. ”It must be one of the powerful Ten Thousand Races... maybe a Progenitor?”

”So, what are the Ten Thousand Races? What is a Progenitor?” Chu Bamboo frowned.

”...The Ten Thousand Races.” Lin Xin Bamboo paused for a moment, choosing her words carefully. ”I had an uncle who once told me!”

”?”

”Casimir has no right to grant me a knighthood!”

”? Who the hell is this uncle of yours? Besides... didn’t you say you don’t know Warhammer? How do you know about Ark of Tomorrow?”

”Oh... I must have misremembered. Maybe what he actually said was: What you love, that is your life!”

”??? Are you losing your mind?”

”Hahaha!” A hint of cunning crept into Lin Xin Bamboo’s smile. ”Just trying to lighten the overly somber mood... After all, this matter involves...”

”...the destruction of humanity!”

Chu Bamboo’s breath caught for a moment.

”Where should I start?” Lin Xin Bamboo began softly. She walked over to Chu Bamboo’s side and crouched down as well, her gaze fixed on the lame cat.

The lame cat’s body instinctively tensed! It was obvious that she felt nothing but fear and wariness toward Lin Xin Bamboo...

Lin Xin Bamboo really, truly didn’t like cats. Although she looked like she wanted to touch it, in the end, she just gave it a tentative poke with her finger. Then, her face scrunched up, and she forcefully wiped her finger on the sole of her shoe twice, as if she’d touched something filthy.

Chu Bamboo: ”...”

’Okay, I can see that making you raise a cat would be a real challenge!’

”Hm, there’s not much to say, really. About half of the Ten Thousand Races are probably human...” Lin Xin Bamboo stated a cold truth in a light tone. ”Angels, Demons, Vampires, Elves, Snow Elves... They are all what’s become of humans who were corrupted after death. They’ve evolved into the countless beings of myth. They are cold, without a shred of humanity... Although they have developed a degree of reason and intelligence, they’re completely insane.”

”They don’t build civilizations. They are powerful, yet they only know how to crudely tear down and destroy everything...”

”They brutally devour raw flesh and unleash natural disasters on a whim... Emmm, and even though they were once human, they have no mercy for humanity! Maybe they enjoy eating humans raw? Or maybe they just ignore them? Of course, they could have other attitudes too...”

Chu Bamboo fell silent for a moment. What he thought of in that instant... was the Extraordinary Form!

It was what he’d seen for the first time... Zhang Hai, after his Angelic Transformation!

’Heh... So back then, he was actually one of the Ten Thousand Races?’

’That’s right... This explains it! This explains everything...’

Wait! Chu Bamboo suddenly thought of something else. ’The Extraordinary Form of the God Worship Sect is the Angel, isn’t it... This! That’s not right.’

”If Angels are transformed humans... is it possible that the God Worship Sect’s original cultivation method was actually a way to let people... become Angels while retaining their sanity under controlled conditions?” Chu Bamboo’s eyes gleamed.

He realized he seemed to have touched upon... the very origin of the current civilization’s Extraordinary powers!

”As for the other half...” Lin Xin Bamboo glanced at the lame cat. ”A smart guy like you should have already realized what they are, right?”

Chu Bamboo bit his lower lip and said nothing more. ’Yes, the rest must be some of the wild animals... like this cat in front of me! Its genes were clearly passed down from the orange cats among the domestic shorthairs of the previous civilization...’

A thousand years ago, she and her kind were merely humanity’s darlings.

But! A thousand years later, she has become one of the Ten Thousand Races! And one who has been designated a ’Progenitor’ at that.

So...

”What is a Progenitor?”

”A Progenitor is a being that has, in theory, evolved to an ultimate state!” Lin Xin Bamboo answered as if the answer was obvious, something she’d known all along. ”It... you could even call it a demigod. It will naturally gather a portion of beings from its own race! It holds unquestionable command over them... forming the most basic of civilizations.”

”At the same time, when those of a similar race spend time with it, they will also embark on an evolutionary path similar to the Progenitor’s... Mm, in a sense, the Progenitor is equivalent to an ’Extraordinary Technique’ for these creatures!”

”Only by forming a clan and being able to lead that clan to success... allowing their own people to grow stronger together! Only then can they be considered one of the Ten Thousand Races... Of course, there aren’t literally ten thousand races, it’s just a general term! But...”

Lin Xin Bamboo narrowed her eyes, her tone complicated. ”Without a doubt, the Progenitors of the very top races... can be called true deities!”

”They’re strong.” Lin Xin Bamboo paused, then emphasized, ”Very, very strong!”

Chu Bamboo’s expression remained unchanged. That was only to be expected. If they didn’t even have that much power, they would have been crushed long ago by Z, who possesses three Divine Positions.

But...

”...Frighteningly powerful, holy hell!”

”? Who?” Lin Xin Bamboo was baffled. Why the sudden cursing?

”...It’s nothing!” Chu Bamboo forced a smile and went back to petting the stray cat, his eyes filled with deep doubt.

In that moment, Chu Bamboo thought of... God!

Having truly witnessed a tip of the iceberg of that era, Chu Bamboo finally understood just what an incredible feat God had accomplished!

’The War of the Celestial Court... He revered Heaven, expelled the barbarians, shattered the Ten Thousand Races, and single-handedly ushered in the Era of the Celestial Court!’

Chu Bamboo had always been critical of God for bankrupting himself in the Celestial Court War, but now, he felt like he finally got it.

’Squandering all his resources was actually perfectly normal!’

’The real surprise now is... how the fuck did you win?!’

’Z has three Divine Positions, and Lin Xin Bamboo has supposedly achieved Becoming a God... Moreover, Z, who holds the Divine Positions of Machinery and Industry, most likely still has industrial production capacity—you could tell just from that fleet of drone carriers in the sky earlier! Otherwise, after all this time, how could he have amassed so many? They must have been newly built!’

’Under these circumstances, he’s still locked in a stalemate with the Ten Thousand Races... It’s even suspected that Z, having no other choice or for some other reason, stuffed all of humanity into the Virtual World...’

’And God... he was dealt such a shit hand! He only had Nuwa and some tattered, thousand-year-old remnants left behind by the previous civilization...’

’And with that shitty hand, he fought three Celestial Court Wars and actually conquered the whole damn world! He forged a world for humanity... and created his own Celestial Court era!’

How perfectly had God cleansed this world?

He’d cleansed it so thoroughly that back in the original timeline, Chu Bamboo had even felt that the so-called Ten Thousand Races were no big deal...

Only now, having come to this timeline, having heard Lin Xin Bamboo’s explanation, and having felt the terrifying pressure from the Ten Thousand Races and their Progenitors—a pressure that troubled even Z and Lin Xin Bamboo—did he finally understand what an unbelievable thing God had done!

Most importantly...

”A God this badass... is actually suspected to be dead in the end!”

Chu Bamboo couldn’t stop smiling bitterly. This dream civilization was a deep and murky pond... ’Truly, the more you think about it, the more terrifying it becomes!’