The Deception (What Should I Do If This Kitty Keeps Getting Fatter from Sleeping Lately?)

While Fang Zheng was busy mass-producing troops and upgrading, Eloi and the girls continued tracking down the Shadow Kaga Tribe that was trying to awaken the machines that would destroy the world. They had also sent back quite a bit of information.

For example, they had discovered that the one controlling the Shadow Kaga Tribe from behind the scenes was an artificial AI called Hades. Like Hephaestus, it was one of the Gaia system's subprograms.

Not only that, they had learned about Eloi's origins. She was a clone of Dr. Elizabeth, the creator of the Gaia system. When the Gaia system had been attacked and all its subprograms had automatically gone offline, Gaia had used its last remaining data to create Eloi as a clone infant in order to ensure the plan could continue. It had placed her outside and entrusted her to the Nora Tribe to raise. After all, Dr. Elizabeth had been the core figure of the entire Zero's Dawn project, which was why Eloi could freely enter other sealed facilities—because, in terms of access privileges, Eloi, who had inherited Elizabeth's genes, clearly possessed the highest authority.

They had also finally uncovered the truth behind Zero's Dawn.

It was... rebirth.

Humanity's destruction had become inevitable. Therefore, in order to ensure that mankind would continue, Dr. Elizabeth had proposed the "Zero's Dawn" plan: freeze and preserve humanity's genes, then awaken them again at the appropriate time.

Simply put, everyone would die, and they could only wait for the Machine Legion to self-destruct. Once it was gone, the Gaia system would reshape Earth, restoring life and vitality to the planet that had been devoured by the Machine Legion and reduced to scorched wasteland. Then it would use genetic cloning to create infants, teach them about Earth and human history, and