I Am the Swarm
Chapter 69

Humanity's Mystery

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Zhang Fan struggled to accept Buffett's words. The claim that humans had been designed was hard for him to swallow.

"You mean..."

Seeing Zhang Fan's puzzled expression, Buffett led him up to a mountain peak. Just then, a bee-sized member of the Insect Race flew over to them.

"What is this?"

Buffett smiled. "This is an Image Bee, developed by Hu Baili by combining the genes of Venom Bees and shadow essence. It makes observing human activity easier."

A white light flashed in the bee-sized Image Bee's eyes, and an image of a human male wearing leather armor and carrying a bow and arrows appeared in midair.

Buffett continued, "We never taught humans how to make weapons, yet in just ten years, they invented bows, arrows, and stone axes. In the last few years, they have even begun smelting metal."

Zhang Fan said in stunned disbelief, "That's impossible. In the history I know, humans only learned those things after thousands, even tens of thousands of years of development."

"Yes. Not just Earthlings, but almost every creature in the universe needs hundreds or thousands of years to advance from primitive intelligence to basic intelligence. Yet the evidence is right before us. The humans of Second Earth are developing their intelligence at an astonishing speed."

In the projected image, the human hunter killed a fierce beast twice his size after a struggle, though he was badly wounded himself.

He found a vine and tied it around the bleeding area, then searched for plants, chewed them, and gently applied them to his wound...

Buffett looked at Zhang Fan and said, "This is another remarkable thing about humans. To let them develop independently, neither we nor the Liruwara People have ever left any traces behind. Their understanding of medicine seems to be something they

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