"Have you gone mad, Darwin?!"
A CANC member roared, thoroughly frightened by Darwin's madness.
"Why? Why did you use your own children for these experiments? Turning them into apes, making them constantly regress, even turning them into millimeter-sized bugs?"
"Your sons and daughters are here. They all died because of you!"
Facing such accusations, Darwin solemnly said, "Science requires sacrifice. Would you rather I did this to people completely unrelated to me?"
"Even vagrants wouldn't want to become bugs. Whether friends, family, passersby, or enemies, isn't every life equally precious?"
"If the sacrifice wasn't my own children, then who do you think I should have used for this great exploration?"
Hearing Darwin's righteous words, everyone froze.
They truly did not know what to say about him. He had actually started preaching the values of equality among all living beings!
"So that's your reason for experimenting on your own children?"
Darwin said in a low voice, "This is nature's punishment for me, its judgment upon me for peering into the truth... My children were plagued by illness. Mary was dying just twenty days after birth, Charlie contracted scarlet fever at a year and a half old, and Annie was tormented by tuberculosis before she was even ten. I believe that rather than dying in agony, they would rather dedicate themselves to science..."
"Annie, you agreed, didn't you? I promised I would cure your tuberculosis. I succeeded..."
Darwin reached out to stroke the Black Ape, but she violently struck him away, rattling the cage with her blows.
Lan Mu and Adonis looked at each other. Yes, Darwin had cured his daughter's tuberculosis—by turning her into an ape...
With logic like that, no wonder all his descendants suffered from mental illness...
The two exchanged glances and nodded, reaching an agreement.
Adonis had originally