DPM Chapter 52-The Truth About Saer Part 2
Translated by Snowfall77
The two men were sitting on either side of the fire, each with their back against the cave’s stone walls, Ye Fan keeping in mind Wu Xingyun’s prohibition of not coming closer than five meters. The sky had gradually darkened to night and their clothes still weren’t dry. Meanwhile, a chill wind began to stream in.
“What did Uncle Luo leave in his notebook?” Ye Fan asked.
Wu Xingyun took out the notebook and shook his head: “I can’t understand it.” He tossed it over to Ye Fan, “Why don’t you take a look?”
Catching the notebook, Ye Fan turned over a couple of pages, then gave Wu Xingyun a doubtful, appraising look.
The handwriting was sloppy, but the content was plain enough. Why would Wu Xingyun say he couldn’t make sense of it? Mulling it over for a minute, Ye Fan said: “Come over and we can look at it together. I’ll read it to you.”
Wu Xingyun didn’t move, so Ye Fan looked at the book by himself.
The notebook was a diary, the writing scrawling and water stained. Luo Guo had kept it against his chest though, therefore it’d escaped most damage.
Ye Fan read out loud, watching the quietly listening Wu Xingyun with one eye.
But in the end, they were both shocked by the notebook’s details. Especially Wu Xingyun, who could hardly believe what he was hearing.
“What?! The mutations weren’t caused by a natural disaster……They’re man-made?” Wu Xingyun sat up straight, this new information toppling what he’d believed for years.
Rescanning the pages, Ye Fan confirmed: “That’s what Uncle Luo wrote. In the last year, the space station discovered an substance in deep space. They called it, mmm…….Saer.”
Finding it too incredible, Wu Xingyun stood up and stepped over to Ye Fan’s side of the fire. “Then……What you just read, that the global mutations were because of a lab explosion, and that caused the Saer substance to leak out. Where is it?”
Ye Fan pointed out the sentences to Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun, staring at the practically illegible writing that had messily recorded such things, found it difficult to recognize even a few of the characters.
“Then……They brought this substance back from outer space, purely to make money? And they stored it?”
Indicting the words with his finger again, Ye Fan said: “Well, Uncle Luo says they could extract high energy matter from the Saer, instead of relying on oil.”
Wu Xingyun turned a few pages. The text, including some foreign terms, remained largely unreadable to him. Wu Xingyun indicted a passage and asked: “What about this section? What’s this section say?”
Sensing Wu Xingyun’s emotional turmoil, a slightly astonished Ye Fan stole a sidelong glance at the soldier. Wu Xingyun didn’t seem completely illiterate, however there many words he didn’t know.
Ye Fan slowly explained: “This section here says that the lab studied the mutation-causing substance for a long time. City C’s lizards, the rats, the weird squirrels, the mastiffs, they were all a result of a lab leak of that Saer stuff. It was an accident……An almost global accident.”
His lips quivering a little, Wu Xingyun contemplated Luo Guo’s notebook that told a completely different story than what Wu Xingyun had learned from his history books.
Even the cause had changed.
Wu Xingyun had been taught that the cause of the Great Nirvana, the mutation of life on Earth, had abruptly happened during a night of great lightning and thunder. When, in fact……It hadn’t been created by abnormal weather at all. Instead, it was because of a strangely dense nebula that had appeared in outer space.
Last year, the sun had been shrouded by the high-density nebula, so countries had sent their scientific researchers out to space to get samples.
Scientists extracted some of the thick fog of Saer and begin to conduct research. Then, this past summer, research institutes worldwide began to have ‘mishaps.’ But the Saer substance offered considerable economic and military potential, therefore the risky research continued.
In the end, catastrophic accidents were almost inevitable. The greater part of the research institutes exploded, and dreadful creatures emerged, everything eventually spiraling out of control.
Within the pages of his notebook, Luo Guo predicted that the orbiting Saer fog would ultimately encase the earth, estimating it would happen by September of next year. When that moment came, humans would undoubtedly die in great numbers, while plants and other low-tier organisms would gain strength. Due to the filtration of seawater, marine life would evolve to higher levels, leaving the whole world without edible food.
Put more simply, ten months into the future, the Earth would become entirely unfit for human survival. The future world would be a dreadful, disturbing world.
At the very end of his notes, Luo Guo wrote: “If it weren’t for humanity’s greediness, most of the labs studying Saer would have been used for making spacecraft. At least ten times more people could have escaped from Earth before the Saer fog descends.”
Closing the notebook, Wu Xingyun stared blankly at the worn cover. After a while, he shook his head. “It can’t be like this……No one knows what’s coming. It’s going to get so much worse.”
Then he fell silent again.
He needed to calm down.
What he known before was that humans would die en masse all over the world, nuclear weapons would be deployed, and then, realizing the hopelessness of the situation, a spaceship would be built.
By the time the ship was ready, out of more than three billion people on the planet, only one hundred thousand were left. Most left on ‘Noah’s Ark’, while the remainder died or formed the Demon Army.
Now it seemed that was all wrong. That hadn’t been the case at all.
The Federation ancestors who left Earth knew the whole time what was going on. From the beginning, they abandoned the majority of humanity, fleeing for their lives alone.
Confusion rattling Wu Xingyun’s brain, he gazed mutely into the flickering campfire for a long time.
DPM Chapter 52-The Truth About Saer Part 2
Translated by Snowfall77
The two men were sitting on either side of the fire, each with their back against the cave’s stone walls, Ye Fan keeping in mind Wu Xingyun’s prohibition of not coming closer than five meters. The sky had gradually darkened to night and their clothes still weren’t dry. Meanwhile, a chill wind began to stream in.
“What did Uncle Luo leave in his notebook?” Ye Fan asked.
Wu Xingyun took out the notebook and shook his head: “I can’t understand it.” He tossed it over to Ye Fan, “Why don’t you take a look?”
Catching the notebook, Ye Fan turned over a couple of pages, then gave Wu Xingyun a doubtful, appraising look.
The handwriting was sloppy, but the content was plain enough. Why would Wu Xingyun say he couldn’t make sense of it? Mulling it over for a minute, Ye Fan said: “Come over and we can look at it together. I’ll read it to you.”
Wu Xingyun didn’t move, so Ye Fan looked at the book by himself.
The notebook was a diary, the writing scrawling and water stained. Luo Guo had kept it against his chest though, therefore it’d escaped most damage.
Ye Fan read out loud, watching the quietly listening Wu Xingyun with one eye.
But in the end, they were both shocked by the notebook’s details. Especially Wu Xingyun, who could hardly believe what he was hearing.
“What?! The mutations weren’t caused by a natural disaster……They’re man-made?” Wu Xingyun sat up straight, this new information toppling what he’d believed for years.
Rescanning the pages, Ye Fan confirmed: “That’s what Uncle Luo wrote. In the last year, the space station discovered an substance in deep space. They called it, mmm…….Saer.”
Finding it too incredible, Wu Xingyun stood up and stepped over to Ye Fan’s side of the fire. “Then……What you just read, that the global mutations were because of a lab explosion, and that caused the Saer substance to leak out. Where is it?”
Ye Fan pointed out the sentences to Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun, staring at the practically illegible writing that had messily recorded such things, found it difficult to recognize even a few of the characters.
“Then……They brought this substance back from outer space, purely to make money? And they stored it?”
Indicting the words with his finger again, Ye Fan said: “Well, Uncle Luo says they could extract high energy matter from the Saer, instead of relying on oil.”
Wu Xingyun turned a few pages. The text, including some foreign terms, remained largely unreadable to him. Wu Xingyun indicted a passage and asked: “What about this section? What’s this section say?”
Sensing Wu Xingyun’s emotional turmoil, a slightly astonished Ye Fan stole a sidelong glance at the soldier. Wu Xingyun didn’t seem completely illiterate, however there many words he didn’t know.
Ye Fan slowly explained: “This section here says that the lab studied the mutation-causing substance for a long time. City C’s lizards, the rats, the weird squirrels, the mastiffs, they were all a result of a lab leak of that Saer stuff. It was an accident……An almost global accident.”
His lips quivering a little, Wu Xingyun contemplated Luo Guo’s notebook that told a completely different story than what Wu Xingyun had learned from his history books.
Even the cause had changed.
Wu Xingyun had been taught that the cause of the Great Nirvana, the mutation of life on Earth, had abruptly happened during a night of great lightning and thunder. When, in fact……It hadn’t been created by abnormal weather at all. Instead, it was because of a strangely dense nebula that had appeared in outer space.
Last year, the sun had been shrouded by the high-density nebula, so countries had sent their scientific researchers out to space to get samples.
Scientists extracted some of the thick fog of Saer and begin to conduct research. Then, this past summer, research institutes worldwide began to have ‘mishaps.’ But the Saer substance offered considerable economic and military potential, therefore the risky research continued.
In the end, catastrophic accidents were almost inevitable. The greater part of the research institutes exploded, and dreadful creatures emerged, everything eventually spiraling out of control.
Within the pages of his notebook, Luo Guo predicted that the orbiting Saer fog would ultimately encase the earth, estimating it would happen by September of next year. When that moment came, humans would undoubtedly die in great numbers, while plants and other low-tier organisms would gain strength. Due to the filtration of seawater, marine life would evolve to higher levels, leaving the whole world without edible food.
Put more simply, ten months into the future, the Earth would become entirely unfit for human survival. The future world would be a dreadful, disturbing world.
At the very end of his notes, Luo Guo wrote: “If it weren’t for humanity’s greediness, most of the labs studying Saer would have been used for making spacecraft. At least ten times more people could have escaped from Earth before the Saer fog descends.”
Closing the notebook, Wu Xingyun stared blankly at the worn cover. After a while, he shook his head. “It can’t be like this……No one knows what’s coming. It’s going to get so much worse.”
Then he fell silent again.
He needed to calm down.
What he known before was that humans would die en masse all over the world, nuclear weapons would be deployed, and then, realizing the hopelessness of the situation, a spaceship would be built.
By the time the ship was ready, out of more than three billion people on the planet, only one hundred thousand were left. Most left on ‘Noah’s Ark’, while the remainder died or formed the Demon Army.
Now it seemed that was all wrong. That hadn’t been the case at all.
The Federation ancestors who left Earth knew the whole time what was going on. From the beginning, they abandoned the majority of humanity, fleeing for their lives alone.
Confusion rattling Wu Xingyun’s brain, he gazed mutely into the flickering campfire for a long time.
