Chance is a major feature of this universe, it is born unexpectedly, and at the same time it is limited to reason, it seems absurd and ridiculous, but once you dig deeper, you can't find any irrationality at all.

It is also said that it is an inevitability, that chance does not exist at all, that it is an event that is inevitable based on countless inevitable events, but it is just outside the scope of people's expectations.

When a die rolls a six, is it an accident? Or is it inevitable?

The snow and ice that spread all over the world gradually melted with the cooperation of the hive and rhizome system dominated by Hogu, and the north and south poles, although not arranged, were also more or less affected.

One by one, the towering glaciers fall off and disintegrate, becoming part of the sea.

And it was at this time that some inconspicuous individuals also woke up from the bitter cold and fell into the ocean with the scattered large ice crystals.

Compared to sub-zero ice, liquid sea water above zero is extremely warm.

In the dark, it seems that all life will ask itself the question, which appears in the mind of the little individual: Who am I?

Some humans who like to turn the horns of the bull have been searching for the answer to this question all their lives, but the little individual is different from those people, and it already has its own answer.

[Your kind is different from 'Hu', although the appearance is similar, but there is a difference in nature, there should be a new name......]

【…… You were originally designed to collect enough organic material, so from today onwards, you will be called 'Gatherers'. 】

It's a memory that's engraved in the genes, and it's not something that can be forgotten so easily.

Before the small individual could observe the surrounding environment, the huge memories in the genes were like a tidal wave of shocks against its still rudimentary mental structure.

[Go to the vicinity of Volcano No. 4 to collect materials, and be careful to avoid the smoke column rising from the volcano......]

[Very good, your collection experience has reached the passing standard, and you can be included in the collection team......]

……

[The collection efficiency of the large army form has decreased, in view of this situation, the large army is divided into countless squads, which are distinguished by numbers, and now your squad is No. 74634......]

[There is a team of collectors No. 96564 trapped by rocks near the one hundred and eighty-second submarine volcano, No. 74634, you are the closest, go to the rescue ...... immediately]

[There was a storm in the crater of No. 63, and the collector team in the nearby sea area immediately evacuated......]

[The water area near the No. 32 submarine volcano has an abnormal flow direction, which is a precursor to the appearance of a tornado column, and immediately dives to the bottom of the sea to avoid the disaster......]

[Crater 265 Collection, Large-scale Thunder Occurs on the Water Surface, Volcanic Activity Tends to Frequent ......]

[The enemy has noticed you, it seems that the goal of the team is still too conspicuous, and in the future, you will act individually to avoid gathering......]

……

[The collection of materials is almost complete, and there is only seven percent of the movable space left in the giant underground cavern, and it seems that soon, this busy day will be over......]

【… It would be terrible if the other party found out before the octahedron was formed, although with the current intelligence, the other party could not detect the actual situation underground, but he was not afraid of 10,000 in case, and he needed an opportunity to temporarily divert the other party's attention......]

[Gatherers, you form large groups and go to the waters 20,000 kilometers away from here to collect organic materials on a large scale......]

【…… Don't blame me, gatherers, only the victors are qualified to talk about mercy, as long as they can live, they can give up whatever they want. 】

……

The memory information stored in the genes is in waves after waves, which continue the three day and night changes of the planet, and it is not until noon on the fourth day of the planet that it is over.

In this process, the gatherer remained motionless, and the gourd-like figure floated up and down in the sea, like a dead thing.

Aking up from a huge amount of memory information, the gatherer finally has the ability to observe this new world that has been frozen and thawed again.

The water temperature is not as good as before, but it is much better than sub-zero temperatures......

The water is full of various types of microorganisms, which also means that the amount of organic material collected is huge......

To sum up, the collectors prefer the current environment, because the environment is more stable than it was during the Plutozoic period, there are no bad volcanoes, they don't fall into craters without paying attention while swimming, and the wind and waves are not as big as before.

The gatherer allowed himself to enter the current, and he himself actively encouraged the drainage chamber to increase the thrust in the water, which its memory told it would make it move faster in the water.

After traveling nearly four or five hundred kilometers, the collector has no memory of how many rounds of day and night it has experienced, its brain capacity does not allow it to do so, and genetic memory does not record information other than this kind of knowledge.

Finally, it entered the temperate zone of the planet, where the life field and the life field covering the planet's vast system converged.

We lose—so the gatherer thinks, because it can no longer feel the supreme will over the whole.

After the Great War, the supreme will disappears, so isn't the answer obvious?

However, this information does not affect its thinking, for the simple reason that its brain capacity is too small.

As in the Paleozoic period, organic materials are collected and distributed to the rhizomes in order to obtain a special supply of amino acids that can be fully absorbed.

Although this long distance is barely survived by relying on special amino acids collected from the ocean, the density of this amino acid in the sea is too small, and the supply exceeds the demand, and the physical condition of the collector is deteriorating, and in fact it has reached its limit.

Now, the ordeal is finally over—the gatherers thought.

However, the reality was that the rhizome did not react, and working cells that could combine organic materials were born, so that Hogu no longer needed to eliminate microorganisms from the ocean to obtain organic materials.

After all, this kind of behavior, once the time is extended to a 10,000-year scale, may affect the evolution of species.

Moreover, Hogu, who did not feel the presence of the gatherers at the time, mistakenly thought that they were all extinct, so after solving the supply and demand for organic materials, it took the initiative to cut off the rhizome from this mechanism that was no longer in demand.

The gatherer's brain is too small for it to understand why the rhizome doesn't give it food, and it can only repeat the futile futile effort of delivering organic material to the rhizome, again and again.

The danger of death looms, and the electrical signals of hunger swirl in the mind.

Finally, the increasingly weak gatherer crouched on its massive rhizome, opening and closing its mouth in vain......

It all seemed to end like this.

The closer you get to death, the more you feel the preciousness of life, and then the fear that comes with it, and the more you want to live, and this emotion is called 'desire to live'.

It doesn't matter if it's a miracle of life, or if it's an accident.

The shackles that imprison the gatherers...... It broke free.