High-level martial arts: Starting with a heart of steel, stats crush everything.

After successfully confirming that his situation wasn't so difficult, Chen Mo's mindset calmed down considerably.

He also had the interest to observe this empty, isolated island called Eden.

Chen Mo saw many familiar technologies on this isolated island, such as the energy furnace in Black Cloud City and the worker bees he saw on Zero Sky Island.

The only difference is that the energy furnaces here have been miniaturized, and each household has its own energy furnace.

Through his sixth sense, Chen Mo could clearly feel the life essence, or rather, the life energy waves, flowing into the largest energy furnace located in the very center core area.

After processing, the particles are sent through particle portals to each household's small furnace.

The worker bees did different things than those on Sky Island Zero; these worker bees were only responsible for cleaning and maintenance of the Garden of Eden.

The inhabitants of Eden did not need to do any work; they were like piglets kept in a pen.

However, unlike piglets that are raised to adulthood and then slaughtered, they are allowed to live.

Chen Mo's sixth sense couldn't reach the source of the tree roots, but he wasn't in a hurry now.

After landing back in Eden, Chen Mo went directly to the central core area.

A figure stood not far from Chen Mo; it was Chu Huating, who had helped him register for his personal terminal.

"You are different from us."

Chu Huating seemed to have figured something out, or perhaps she realized something after seeing Chen Mo easily leave Eden without dying.

"You don't belong here. You don't fit in with anything here."

"Chen Mo...right?"

"You must be looking for something, which is why you came to the core area."

"How did you know?" Chen Mo looked Chu Huating up and down. He felt that there was something different about this girl.

"Or rather, who are you?"

"Of course, I am Chu Huayue, and Chu Huating is my older sister."

Chu Huating, or rather her other personality Chu Huayue, smiled and said.

"My sister is a bit slow to notice anything different about you; she just thinks she's made a new friend."

"But I'm different; I can feel your energy and vitality."

"Moreover, I have only heard of that rich blood and energy in historical records."

"Before all of humanity implanted the Abyss Adaptation Gene in order to survive, it was these warriors with rich blood and spirit who protected the human race."

"I never imagined that someone like you still exists in the outside world these days."

"Did the World Tree successfully purify the outside world?"

It was obvious that Chu Huayue knew more, but she was still completely unaware of the outside world.

"No, the World Tree has been assimilated by the Abyss; it is now called the Abyss Mother Tree."

Chen Mo didn't hide anything; he would see it for himself once he got out.

"As expected, it failed. Grandfather's backup plan was correct."

Chu Huayue nodded, not surprised by the result.

"Placing the future in a replica of a 'god' is a very unrealistic plan."

"So, it seems you are descendants of those pioneers who left their original world?"

"No, I can't explain it clearly, but I'm sure we're not."

Chen Mo shook his head. There was also an old man named Chu Tianhua on Blue Star. He wondered if he was the same person as the grandfather she was talking about.

"That's really strange..."

Chu Huayue frowned her pretty little brows and pinched her earlobe with some annoyance.

As if remembering something, Chu Huayue's eyes widened suddenly, but she quickly dismissed the idea.

"I'm probably overthinking it. Don't worry about it."

"Tell me, what do you want to know?"

Chen Mo didn't notice the change in Chu Huayue's expression; he was staring blankly at the Möbius strip sign on the core area gate.

"I want to know what exactly the Garden of Eden was?"

"This is not a utopia, at least not in my opinion."

"This place is more like a livestock farm."

Chu Huayue didn't speak. She waved to Chen Mo and led him into the core area.

"I am the only person in Eden with the authority to enter the core area."

"Come with me. Actually, this truth isn't surprising. You probably already guessed some of it."

Led by Chu Huayue, the two soon entered a very retro-style library.

Ignoring the remarkably well-preserved books, Chu Huayue walked directly to the innermost podium.

After the identity was verified, the podium slowly lowered, and a delicate hard drive slowly rose up.

"This is an antique, but if it's preserved properly, the information inside can be retained indefinitely."

After inserting the hard drive into the reader, Chu Huayue opened the only file on the hard drive.

Project Fire: Eden

Project Spark: Trailblazers

"Spark Project: Adaptive Genes"

Project Fire: God World

Project Fire: ......

"As you can see, my grandfather, or rather, the human race before the Great Cataclysm, made a great deal of effort to continue their existence."

Chu Huayue casually brought over two chairs and politely gestured for Chen Mo to sit down.

"I don't know much about the God World and the Pioneer Project; these are projects that my great-uncle was mainly in charge of."

"Since you came in from the outside, you should have seen the products of adaptive genes."

"Those half-human, half-beast beings were actually our compatriots before. The side effects of adaptive genes appeared when the Abyss completely assimilated our world."

"Insufficient energy accumulation in the body can lead to adaptive genes crowding out the original human genes, which has resulted in some tragedies."

Chu Huayue paused, her expression somewhat forlorn.

"What I know most about is the Eden Project. To be precise, the Eden Project was actually a byproduct of God's world."

"Because the existence of the Garden of Eden depended on this man-made deity called the World Tree."

"Get to the point, don't tell me stories."

Chen Mo frowned. He wasn't a researcher; he could just take these things back and give them to Chu Tianhua.

"My grandfather, while preparing himself for the abyss, also left humanity a way out so that it would not become extinct."

"That is to place us, the genetic composites of humanity, in the Garden of Eden."

"If one day someone is able to enter Eden from the outside, it means that the outside world has become suitable for human survival again."

"But now... the situation seems quite different from what Grandfather predicted?"