Were Brain Apes apes or humans?
How exactly should human civilization be defined?
When Homo sapiens who left Africa slaughtered the Neanderthals to extinction, then underwent an extremely limited degree of assimilation with them, did Homo sapiens become complete humans in the modern sense?
When the Aryans moved south and established a new nation in India, were they Aryans or Indians?
When tribal Jurchens ruled what had once been Ming, were they Jurchens or Chinese?
When Brain Apes inherited part of civilization amid the ruins of human civilization, were they physiologically apes or culturally humans?
Questions like these had troubled Kuafu all this time, immersing him in a sea of philosophical books.
He had read nearly every book on philosophy and history in the libraries scattered throughout the ruins of Yancheng, hoping to find answers in humanity's vanished history.
Yet even when the Savior appeared again, he had failed to find the answer he sought.
When he heard his clansmen's reminder that the Savior's doorway had appeared once more, Kuafu instead felt relieved.
What humans or apes, what answers or no answers—
Survival came first.
They had no other choice.
If they wanted to survive, they had to live as humans!
Besides, there was nothing much worth clinging to about being apes. What they truly remembered were merely the shade of trees, fruit, and those days spent in the trees.
But after gaining extraordinary intelligence, what truly captivated them was that brilliant, splendid civilization.
Kuafu had understood all this when Shen Feng first proposed changing their human identities. Now, he was merely becoming even more resolute.
Soon, under Kuafu's leadership, the Brain Apes swiftly packed their belongings. Some even mounted their warhorses, fully armed, passed through the spatial wormhole, and appeared in the vast underground space beneath Abu Kamal.
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