Which life form possessed greater intelligence: black, white, or green?
Wenren Sheng looked at the other judges.
"I think the Black People were smarter. Look, they were the first to master fire."
"The white ones had more potential, because they fought against the sea."
"The green ones were the worst. They'd probably end up following the path of modern apes. Forests were too easy to survive in, with little competition and less pressure from natural selection."
Before long, everyone's attention focused on the war between black and white.
Inside a cave amid ice and snow.
A group of White People were processing a beached giant whale.
It would be their food for the entire winter.
They were lucky.
It was winter now, so the whale would not rot for several months.
The ice and snow on the ground also provided convenient slides, allowing them to drag the beast from the exposed beach to the vicinity of a hidden cave.
In other seasons, they could only process a small portion of it, then helplessly watch the beasts eat it. Most of it would simply rot away.
Everyone was laughing, because this meant they would not have to eat their own people for the entire winter.
A few more children might survive as well.
Using crude stone flakes, they tried to cut through the whale's skin.
The thick hide blocked the stone flakes, and with the freezing cold, it was practically as tough as steel.
They had no choice but to soften a patch with fire first, burning through the skin in hopes of exposing the soft blubber beneath.
But in the next moment, Fate's cruelty revealed itself.
Once the skin burned through, the immense pressure within the whale found a breach.
Bang!
The whale exploded.
Sharp chunks of ice, like