First came the light.
Soft light filtered through his eyelids and reached his eyes, a warm shade of red.
Then came the warmth.
Warm liquid surrounded him, as though he were in his mother's amniotic fluid, making his entire body feel comfortable.
"Who am I? Where am I..." Kuafu tried to open his eyes, but his eyelids felt as though they had been glued shut. His whole body was sluggish, seemingly devoid of even a trace of strength.
Memories surged through his mind like a tide, reminding him of who he was, where he had come from, and where he was going.
He was a Silicon-Based Half-Brained Ape from the Stone Statue Apocalypse, a product of human biological science. He and his race could not reproduce offspring with high intelligence and could only give birth to ordinary ape offspring.
The wisdom of the Brain Ape race would be like a flower in the mist, vanishing in an instant amid the torrent of time, as though it had never existed at all.
Until they encountered that human boy and gained a brand-new opportunity.
An opportunity to transform their race.
A brain transplant operation—or perhaps more accurately, a body transplant operation.
After the operation, they Brain Apes would possess human bodies. From then on, they could live as humans.
Everything that belonged to the Brain Apes would cease to exist, but they would be able to have perfect human descendants.
Perhaps after enough years had passed, their descendants would only know that they were human and would never understand that their ancestors had been Brain Apes.
But what did that matter?
For primates, Homo sapiens could be said to be an existence envied by all primates.
Being able to live on as humans was already more than enough for the Brain Ape