"Then do they count as a civilization?"
As the former Defense Force member, now a logistics worker, spoke, he could still recall the emotions he had felt upon seeing those records.
That sense of shock and lingering fear.
Because they had discovered that the Execution Department affiliated with Yi Gui Company did not consist solely of humans.
Some of those Contract Anomalists were members of other races.
And no one within the organization mocked, ridiculed, or looked down on them simply because they were outsiders.
That alone showed the organization's attitude.
"The premise of what you're saying is that animals can evolve intelligence."
He Yi was frightened after hearing this as well, but fear aside, once he calmed down, he knew that evolving intelligence was not so simple.
And humans today were not helpless either. How could they possibly allow a newly evolved intelligent species to surpass them?
Unless humanity itself was already too overwhelmed to care.
Wait...
If the Contract Anomalists had not intervened, then with the current development of the supernatural world, a massive war would definitely break out in the end.
After all, superhumans were becoming increasingly uncontrollable. Those high-level superhumans also craved greater power and status, and some even wanted to carve out their own domains and restore the old monarchies.
At that time, it probably would not just be a war between factions within the supernatural world. There would also be war between the supernatural world and the mundane world.
Then, while they fought one another to the death, another species on Earth would quietly awaken to intelligence and evolve a civilization even stronger than humanity's...
But that didn't seem right either.
Humanity had fought step by step for countless years to reach its current position.
What race could surpass, or even overtake them, in