Long-Ago Events (End-of-Month Monthly Ticket Bonus Chapter)

After exchanging data with Xu Zhuming in the laboratory, Xi Xiu and A Xian walked back toward the camp.

A Xian had been silent the entire time.

This silence differed from her usual dislike of talking. She was lost in her own thoughts now, completely unwilling to speak.

Not even to Xi Xiu.

She seemed deeply upset.

Xi Xiu could sense it. Since meeting A Xian, she had never seen her like this.

Thinking back on what A Xian and Xu Zhuming had said, she caught a glimpse of the truth.

Those six unidentified genes were connected to Anvile and shared the same origin as A Xian's people.

Xi Xiu had never heard that Anvile had another branch. The Central Brain had no record of it, and no one had ever told her.

So Xi Xiu had assumed that the six genes in those creatures belonged to Anvile ancestors.

But A Xian's words overturned that conclusion.

When they were halfway back, A Xian seemed to have organized her thoughts. In her ethereal voice, she recounted a story from the distant past.

It was from the time when this star region had only just stabilized, when the ancestors of the Anvile People had only just been born.

After life emerged in the Anweier Star System, a fierce war had once erupted among them.

Only then did Xi Xiu learn that Anvile, too, had once gone through an extremely dark period.

"Sister A Xian, where did those people go after they were defeated by the Anvile ancestors?" Xi Xiu asked nervously after hearing the story.

A Xian raised her head to look at the sky. "Like the exiled members of the Merfolk, they once lived in the star systems surrounding Anvile."

Xi Xiu desperately wanted to ask what happened next, but there