The End of the Simulation and the Unidentified Flying Object

Looking at his crying children and grandchildren, Adan spoke weakly. "I foresaw this day long ago. I am not afraid, and neither should you be sad."

"But Grandfather, we don't want you to die!" a little girl said as she wiped away her tears.

"That's right, Father. Without you, what are we supposed to do from now on?"

Cries rose one after another.

"Who in this world does not die?" Adan sighed at them.

Over the years, he had observed countless plants, animals, and people in the tribe. He had long discovered the truth that life would one day wither and die, and he knew that he too would eventually die.

His lips moved as he began to mutter, as though speaking to the others, yet also as though speaking to himself.

"Everything in this world has a beginning and an end. This is ordained by God. No one can escape it..."

All crying stopped. Every face showed fear to some extent—the fear of death.

By the end, Adan murmured absentmindedly, "Other than God, who can live forever?"

As he spoke, his expression grew dazed and his consciousness became muddled. His life flashed rapidly before his eyes.

He thought of the dead Habil.

He thought of Gobil, who had been driven out of the tribe.

"Is this God's punishment for me?"

In his daze, a scene from a very distant, hazy memory flashed past—the moment they had secretly eaten the Divine Fruit.

Hawa had picked the Divine Fruit with a smile on her face, while he had stood nervously and fearfully to one side.

Everything had begun there, and it would end there...

At the very end, he wondered whether Habil would not have died if he had not eaten the Divine Fruit.

Would the conflict, slaughter, and sin that later appeared in the tribe never have emerged?

"God..."

With that final cry, Adan's bright eyes closed forever.

"Adan!"

"Grandfather!"

"Father!"

"No!"

Crying rose and fell all around.

Hawa raised her wrinkled hand and wiped the corner of her eye. Looking at Adan's motionless body, she stood there in a daze.

The smile had vanished from her face. A deathly aura seemed to shroud her.

A sigh seemed to echo through the void.

Su Qi watched silently. Seeing Adan, who had accompanied him for a time, die, he felt the fragility of life.

Just then, the scene before his eyes blurred again, and crying continued to sound in his ears—both familiar and strange.

The same room, the same wooden bed.

Only this time, the person on it had changed...

Hawa lay on the wooden bed and slowly closed her eyes.

At the final moment, a faint smile appeared on her face. It was joyful and relieved, as though she had seen someone coming to take her away...

That same year, Hawa, the mother of all living beings and ancestor of humankind, passed away as well...

Su Qi watched quietly.

The last person connected to him had also vanished, leaving his emotions complicated for a time.

Another six years passed...

The scenery before his eyes shifted, and below appeared a small city built from mud and stone.

Three hundred years ago, Gobil had come here and built a city.

Looking at the people moving about throughout the small city, Su Qi was somewhat surprised.

Suddenly, on a small hill outside the city, he saw someone who looked somewhat familiar.

"Father, where are you going?"

Gobil looked at the son chasing after him, his expression incomparably complicated.

He touched his wrinkled face, looked up at the sky, and muttered, "Yidelis, after all these years, I have thought about many things."

Yidelis looked at his father in confusion, not knowing what he meant.

Gobil murmured, "I should never have done that back then..."

Perhaps because he sensed that he did not have much time left to live, he had come to see many things clearly.

"I have wronged Habil and wronged Father. All these years, I have gained nothing but pain..."

"...I do not even dare to offer sacrifices to God..."

"God will surely never forgive the sins I committed..."

When he spoke of God at last, his face was filled with regret.

"Father, where are you going?"

Seeing his father start walking again, Yidelis had no time to think and hurriedly called out.

"Do not follow me. I am an exiled man. I am going where I should go..."

There was a faint madness in Gobil's expression.

Yidelis hesitated, uncertain whether he should follow.

He felt that his father had been somewhat strange lately, as though there was something wrong with his mind.

As Gobil walked, his aged and failing mind was also occupied with thoughts.

Suddenly, he thought of something, and a bitter smile gradually appeared on his face.

All those sacrifices to God that had received no response made him realize something.

Perhaps God only cared about Father and Mother, who were Children of God. The rest of them had never been in God's eyes at all.

God's response that time must have been because of the wrong he had done, right?!

He walked farther and farther away, until only his back remained in Yidelis's eyes.

Yidelis was still hesitating, but he did not know that after this day, he would never see his father again.

Su Qi quietly watched Gobil's departing figure, just as he had watched him being driven away all those years ago.

At this moment, the notification continued.

After this day, Gobil disappeared and never appeared again...

Watching familiar people die or disappear one after another, Su Qi's expression was somewhat complicated.

The scene before him returned to normal. After sighing, Su Qi returned alone to the mountaintop of the Garden of Eden.

Time passed swiftly, and soon fifteen hundred years had gone by.

Humankind multiplied in great numbers and spread across the earth...

Humans already reproduced quickly, and their long lifespans caused their population to explode.

At the mountaintop of the Garden of Eden.

Looking at the masses of people in the image created by the system, Su Qi's mouth twitched.

There were probably millions, perhaps even tens of millions, right?

But he could not be bothered with that now, because a notification sounded in his ear.

The current simulation is about to end. Would you like to save it?

"Wait!"

Su Qi was startled and hurriedly began picking the fruits from the Tree of Life and the Wisdom Tree.

Ten Life Fruits that resembled suns, along with thirteen pink Wisdom Fruits that resembled apples, fell one by one into an invisible hand conjured by Su Qi.

After packing away all the fruits, Su Qi calmly said, "Mm, all right. Save it."

Saving...

Just as the simulation was about to end, an unexpected situation occurred!

Su Qi frowned.

At that moment, an image appeared before his eyes.

In space beyond the atmosphere, a long, pitch-black Unidentified Flying Object appeared.

It slowly hovered in the outer layer of the atmosphere.

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