The Third Mass Extinction

The enormous flood poured down like a grand white waterfall from the peak of the ten-thousand-foot firmament, surging and submerging mountains, rivers, and the earth.

"What terrifying power."

"In an instant, it brings down a Great Flood that destroys the world."

On the deck, countless merchants, nobles, commoners, and slaves sighed and were shaken.

They were the kindest, most harmonious people, and the gods sent down the flood to cleanse the sinful land. The barbaric, the tyrannical, the guilty, and the impolite would all be submerged in the flood.

This day, the Great Flood destroyed the world and was called Disaster Day. Utanapishtim, the last remnant of the Sumerian Civilization, led the remaining Sumerians on the ark, boarding the last Noah's Ark to escape the Great Flood.

In a deserted corner of the ship, the Historian, appointed to record the Sumerian Civilization, paused slightly. Holding a quill pen, he sat on the deck in extreme disarray, still immersed in the figure of the great god.

"Our world, with its round sky and square earth, our world was created by the gods in just seven days. What magnificent power is this!"

Akad trembled, his old eyes clouded with tears.

He began to silently complete the seven days of God's creation with his own thoughts, picked up his pen, and wrote the final part of the Sumerian Civilization epic Genesis, the record of the seven days of God's creation:

On the first day, God said, 'Let there be light,'

and there was light. God separated light from darkness, calling light day and darkness night.

On the second day, God said, 'Let there be air to separate the waters,' and there was sky.

On the third day, God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, and let dry ground appear.'

And the water and dry ground were separated. God called the dry ground land, and the gathered waters he called seas.

On the fourth day, God said, 'Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night.'

And there was the sun and the moon alternating in cycles, fifty years of day and fifty years of night in this world.

Fifth day. Sixth day. Seventh day. All things in heaven and earth were complete, and God rested, and on this day blessed the previous six days.

In later days, people took the Historian's conjecture as truth. During the Great Flood of that year, it was as if the Creator God had truly explained the seven days of his creation in detail before mortals.

But how could a god lower himself to explain in detail to humble humans how he created the world? Yet people were more willing to believe the story in Genesis that recorded the seven days of God's creation.

In the story, God rested on the seventh day of creation, and people called this legendary day the day of rest, the holy day. Thus, the custom of this land was formed, and people would also choose to rest on this day.

Boom! The Great Flood descended from the sky.

Buildings were washed away, collapsing like block fortresses, and the traces of the Sumerian Civilization were washed into the ocean.

Xu Zhi flushed for a while, and after confirming that nothing was missed, he stopped the High-Pressure Water Gun, silently turned off the switch, put away the High-Pressure Water Gun, and put it back in the utility room, stacked on the wooden shelf.

In this way, it was a new clearing again.

The Insect Apes' endless slaughter and excessive reproduction led to the near collapse of the sandbox. Now, with each species leaving a pair in the entire sandbox, it will eventually return to its former ecosystem.

He hoped that after this time, they would be vigilant and not be too cruel, barbaric, or over-reproduce.

The Insect Nest Sub-Brain said from the side, "Even if you don't destroy them, they will destroy themselves, eating and destroying all species, and then self-destructing. By then, the sandbox will only suffer huge losses. It's better to usher in a new life now."

Xu Zhi stretched out a long breath, "I'm not as fragile as you think, I don't need comfort, I'm just a little sad."

The Sub-Brain continued: As an Insect Nest Queen, breeding countless people and races, you are a great creator, you should be accustomed to the rise and extinction of countless races, and not sigh for them.

Veins popped on Xu Zhi's forehead, and he corrected, "I'm a man, not an Insect Nest Queen."

"No need to say more, they are all spores bred by you one by one." The Insect Nest Sub-Brain was about to defend its point of view.

"Stop!!" In short, family planning for the Insect Apes is very important." Xu Zhi immediately interrupted it, sat on the chair in front of the courtyard gate, and silently gnawed on the fruit he had just peeled, taking a bite every now and then. "Tomorrow, I'll go to the town to buy two pounds of fruit. I have stomach cancer, so I have to be good to my stomach."

He picked up the black notebook that he hadn't used in a long time and recorded something on it.

"This is the age of giant beasts. I originally wanted to call this era the Beast Cretaceous Period, corresponding to the Cretaceous dinosaur era, full of giant animals and beasts. However, since the Sumerians used Genesis to record it, then simply... this era will also be called Genesis."

On the Earth's timeline, the horizontally compared era is the "Late Cretaceous Extinction," a meteorite falling from the sky, destroying the dinosaurs.

And here, it is a flood from the sky, destroying giant beasts and Insect Apes. In my history of evolution, it will be called the "End of Genesis Extinction."

He sorted out his thoughts, and after the Dark Martial Era, Light Martial Era, and Newborn Era, he opened the fourth page, on which he wrote the fourth era, the three words Genesis, and only briefly described this period of history: [ Genesis, the emergence of intelligent species, the Zhis Ape race developed tribal city-state civilizations, drove out giant beasts, and became the overlord of this era, but they were cruel and violent, and the heavens could not tolerate it. A Great Flood descended from the sky, destroying all living beings, and the third biological extinction began to break out, wiping out ninety-nine percent of living beings. ]

After recording the third biological extinction, Xu Zhi went to sleep.

The next morning, he got up to wash his face and brush his teeth, feeling a terrifying and boiling power spreading throughout his body. He was immediately shocked and quickly put down what he was doing to study his body structure.

"This power is..."

Xu Zhi looked at himself in the mirror.

His original height had increased by several centimeters out of nowhere, reaching a full 1.83 meters. Moreover, the contours of his face had become gentle and handsome, with a kind of elegant and profound temperament.

His physique was strong and sturdy, resembling the perfect physique in Greek sculptures, a model figure. Yet, when he put on clothes, he didn't look like a muscular man.

"Shredded with clothes off, slim with clothes on."

Xu Zhi felt that his physique, the full and streamlined muscles all over his body, was comparable to that perfect hero-king, an epic hero.

Too perfect.

"Is this the power fed back to me by the third Great Flood? Compared to the previous two times, it's countless times stronger... It feels like I'm already comparable to some top athletes."

Xu Zhi clenched his fist, feeling the bursting power, and couldn't help but whisper, "My physical fitness has improved far too much."