"If I wanted to save the world... how would I do it?"
"Save the world? That depends on what you want to achieve."
Ning Jing seemed like a very clever person. She was also very logical when she spoke.
"Hmm... I suppose I'd want to restore life to the way it was before the apocalypse?"
"Impossible..."
Ning Jing replied calmly as she took out her gun and began cleaning it.
"Oh? Why?"
"Restoring things to how they were before the apocalypse is impossible. Even if humanity wanted to, we couldn't do it—not unless you could destroy
the entire natural world. Otherwise,
the various creatures that have evolved by now have already begun to settle into a stable balance. If even one link in the chain breaks, the natural food chain—which still hasn't
stabilized—will collapse in an instant.
That will be when Earth gets formatted."
As Ning Jing spoke, she disassembled her pistol and wiped the barrel.
"Hmm... What you're saying makes a lot of sense, but you haven't offered any useful advice..."
"Useful?"
Ning Jing glanced at me hesitantly.
"Then preserve as much of humanity as possible and build a huge human settlement. We have electromagnetic nets now, don't we? We can use them to gradually
expand the areas where people live. Of course, restoring life to how it was before the apocalypse would probably take at least hundreds, if not thousands, of years of growth and reproduction."
That was true. Even though humans had become physically stronger after evolving, their ability to reproduce probably hadn't changed much.
If we wanted to return to the relaxed way of life we'd had before the apocalypse,
it would probably take several hundred years at least.
"Ning Jing... you've given me an idea."
Exactly... We could build a huge human settlement, gradually take