The girl's eyes welled with tears.
She had no living relatives left.
When Phyllis had learned this news in the past, her first reaction had been indescribable sorrow, followed by profound helplessness.
But now, as she watched the flowing ocean current analysis on the screen,
she understood.
Some things had never truly left.
A person experienced three deaths in life.
The first came when the heart stopped beating and breathing vanished, when a person was declared biologically dead.
The second came at burial, when people dressed in black attended the funeral and declared that the buried person no longer existed in society, having quietly departed.
The third came when the last person in the world who remembered them forgot them. Then, they truly died, and the entire universe would no longer have anything to do with them.
But—
because of this research,
Anthony-Eleanor's name would remain forever in the Civilization Chronicle.
Signs of extraordinary awakening detected Sublimation Lineage detected: Recorder Extraordinary Characteristic "Sprouting State" detected: Storm Watch
Ten o'clock at night.
Pure white memorial lights around the coastal research institute lit up one after another.
At the same time,
Su Wen looked toward the light outside the window.
Only then could he see clearly.
They were solemn gravestones.
Phyllis-Eleanor explained,
"Beneath every gravestone lies a former administrator of the Samoa Islands Storm Observatory.
Among them
is my father."
Just then,
with the help of the roadside lights,
Su Wen saw mutated figures hidden in the forest farther beyond the graveyard, their faces covered in deep blue scales.
Their eyes had become vertical pupils like those of lizards.
Appraisal: Tidal Sect mutant. A genetically contaminated organism created through the fusion and sublimation of Deep Sea Syndrome and Abyssal Contamination. Phase Task changed: Eliminate Tidal Sect mutants
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