Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 480 - 86: An Outlier Among the Orderly (Second Update)

Song Que's breathing quickened slightly. "Could it be that even my father, the lord, doesn't know these things?"

To be so candid about these matters, Xi He surprised Song Que a bit.

Could it have something to do with me being a Ten-Talent individual?

"I'm listening, continue," Song Que said.

"Don't rush. Before you officially join us, we will tell you everything you are permitted to know. This is our sincerity."

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Xi He continued:

"Talent genes, by their very nature, are also a type of gene, with certain hereditary limits. Even though the Prophet implanted talent genes in everyone back in the day, not everyone could use them. And even among those who could, not all of their descendants necessarily would.

Even the offspring of two talent individuals have a high likelihood of being non-talents.

Because it's a matter of genetics, there will always be those who fit and those who don't.

This is also the disparity between talent individuals and non-talents.

Realizing that non-talents couldn't be completely isolated, the Prophet had to establish a societal system first."

"A societal system where talent individuals rule over non-talents?"

"Of course, survival of the fittest, nothing to fuss over."

"But do you know..." Song Que stopped himself as the words reached his lips.

Xi He smiled:

"You want to say non-talents can survive in the mines, right?"

Song Que was astonished.

"No need for surprise. I knew before you did, but the reason you didn't tell humanity and even the reason the Prophet fashioned this lie were all for the sake of preserving the seeds of life."

"Preserving the seeds of life?" Song Que didn't accept this explanation.

"The innate impulse of living beings is to expand and reproduce. This instinct leads to arrogance in powerful species and caution in the weaker ones.

Humans are a paradoxical creature; inherently frail, yet they expand rapidly, which makes them weak and yet arrogant.

And the mines are a terribly hostile world. Settling there too early would only lead humanity to its doom."

Song Que was dumbfounded. This explanation felt fraught with problems, yet on closer thought, he couldn't quite pinpoint what was wrong.

"In the world of the mines, humanity's greatest tool—technology—is stripped away. Without technology, how could humans compete with the multitude of beasts?

The tyrants and the Chosen who can ignite their talent genes are only a minority.

While our experiments are attempting to replicate these few cases, it's clear there's still a long road ahead.

If we tell humanity now, informing the weakest non-talents that they can survive in the mines long-term, do you think they would survive?"

Song Que had no response.

Xi He stated calmly:

"Think about it carefully. When it comes to exploring the mines, non-talents have absolutely no advantage over talents. The early explorations of the mines have proven this thoroughly, with the survival rate of non-talents being just a fraction of a thousandth of that of talents.

Aside from the Stele clues we left behind, how much do you think the non-talents have contributed to exploring the mines?

They have no grasp of data and acquire almost no intelligence.

In other words, both in terms of survival rate and contribution, non-talents are the ones being selected out.

All life forms yearn to evolve, and natural evolution takes a long process of time.

But the essence of evolution is the DNA becoming more adapted to the world.

In the world of the mines, humans are actually at the bottom of the evolutionary chain.

Although they possess intelligence, in that world, due to the influence of the Eden Tribe, many creatures have become sentient, beginning to display wisdom not inferior to humans.

The mines force humans to fight against all creation with brute strength, while talent individuals have inherited the evolution granted by the Prophet.

In comparison, what's the weight of the seven-day limit against an absolute survival rate?"

Xi He's words were devoid of emotion, as if stating a truth that was beyond doubt.

Song Que, having experienced the Pit incident, felt a deep pain for the forsaken people in the pit.

He began to believe that what was called "talent" was not truly talent, but rather a shackle given to humanity by the Orderers.

Like livestock wearing collars, even if they strayed, they would be retrieved after seven days.

But now, he could not refute Xi He's statements.

Indeed, in the face of an absolute survival rate, what were those seemingly insignificant restrictions?

Without talent, people would hardly be able to survive in the mines.

And with the ability of humans to stay nearly seven days there, only needing ten hours of rest to return once again, that restriction indeed seems trivial compared to the thousandfold increase in survival rate.

Xi He, watching Song Que deep in thought, did not rush him, but simply added:

"So far, humanity has ten kinds of talents. However, only those who truly possess all ten can fully inherit the powers of the talent genes.

Which means igniting the talents.

Your talents vanished because of this reason, although my subordinates still don't know and think you are the first human whose talent disappeared. But I know, in one battle, you comprehended another consumptive use of talent.

This is impressive; bodies capable of this are historically no more than five.

Your abilities go far beyond, however. Those who can perfectly match the talent genes can be implanted with even more talents.

I can show you many different messages and even allow you in this world to have the vision akin to that in the mines."