Sky Curtain: The Darwin Incident at the outset, the Declaration of the People's League

"No law in this world can deny us from the moment we are born!"

"Whether we are upper class or commoner, each of us is a unique being!"

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Mark's voice was still echoing in the sky, but the area around the lighthouse was in an uproar.

In the dust-stricken area, a middle-aged man with a face covered in dust suddenly stood up, his eyes red-rimmed, and shouted in a hoarse voice.

"Captain Mark is right! Why should the order of success and failure be decided from birth? Why?"

People around him quickly pulled him back, but many more clenched their fists, something burning in their eyes.

In the Shangmin residential area, several middle-aged men and women looked at each other in bewilderment. A woman whispered.

"What he said... makes sense. But the Three Laws have saved us for decades; can we just change them like that?"

The other person shook his head: "The laws have saved us, but they've also trapped us. How long has it been since you called your own child's name?"

Silence spread.

The dissent regarding the Three Laws has been going on for quite some time, but no one has dared to voice it.

The common people endure their mistreatment in silence because of the oppression of the upper class.

The people, too, dared not express their true feelings every day because of the three laws, and had to endure the pain of separation from their families.

Sever all moral principles and extinguish all human desires.

Over time, no one can withstand it.

When Mark on the screen said something like that, naturally, a flurry of discussion broke out below.

In the hunters' camp, the veteran members silently gazed at the sky.

Donnie gripped his weapon tightly and whispered, "Captain, you're risking your life."

Mo Cheng, unusually, didn't quip and simply nodded.

These words truly inspired the people at the lighthouse.

After a fierce struggle, they arrived at Nirvana Corporation, which was Bai Jingyu's former asset.

Here, they also discovered young Mark clones, products of organ transplantation.

Although the city lord's medicine has been found, the hunters have encountered a diverse array of mutated Devouring Beasts and are locked in a fierce battle. Almost all of the experienced hunters are stuck here.

In the end, Mark stayed behind alone and defeated the Devouring Beast.

But unexpectedly, he was betrayed and killed by user 4068.

"40...68...How could you—"

4277 looked at his companion beside him in disbelief, his eyes filled with disappointment and astonishment, his tone carrying a suppressed question.

"4277, I... I didn't do it! I didn't do anything!"

Faced with the strange look in the eyes of the girl he liked, 4068 gasped, his whole body tensed instantly, and his hands and feet turned icy cold.

To be honest, if he had actually done it, that would have been fine.

The problem is he hasn't done anything yet!

He absolutely cannot be blamed for betraying the Hunter Commander!

The crowd of people gathered around to watch the sky instantly erupted in an uproar.

A barrage of complex, disdainful, and suspicious gazes all locked onto 4068.

"Captain Mark has never distinguished between the upper and lower classes. He has always been kind to us commoners and has never mistreated the lower classes."

"A hero who fought to the death for the lighthouse, only to die at the hands of his fellow commoners? That's just too cruel."

The discussions rose and fell, and layers of subtle accusations and suspicions pressed down on 4068, making his scalp tingle.

"Captain Mark is such a good person, how could you betray him and slit his throat?"

An elderly dust dweller frowned, his tone full of disdain.

"No, that's not me, none of that has happened yet!"

4068 hurriedly waved his hands in protest, his face deathly pale, desperately trying to deny the predetermined future in the sky.

The scene on the screen was incredibly realistic, and the ending was starkly clear. In everyone's eyes, the future was already set in stone, and his pale explanation seemed utterly powerless.

4079 stood silently to the side, looking at the sky and then at his panicked friend, his eyes filled with confusion and bewilderment, unsure whether to trust his companion whom he had spent every day with.

A spinal cord parasite inhabited Mark in the final moments of his life, barely sustaining him.

Back at the lighthouse, the medical officer performed surgery on Mark, replacing his spine with a spinal cord parasite.

This action even made the spinal worm speak human language.

"The spine-worm...can speak human language?"

The content displayed on the screen truly astonished them.

As is well known, the spinal worm is a low-level parasitic organism in the Mana ecosystem. It is formed from the spine of humans after their life essence has been drained and they have been turned into "flesh and soil".

Because they emerge from the back of fleshy soil, there are many of these creatures in areas with abundant fleshy soil. They like to live in groups and can release hallucinogenic pheromones. They are classic guides for the Devouring Beasts.

In the eyes of the Lighthouse People, this thing is a mindless monster that only knows how to kill and cannot communicate.

Now it's been revealed that it can talk...

too frightening.

Could there be remnants of human consciousness inside?

But not long after, Mark's heart stopped beating.

With tears in their eyes and a sense of helplessness, people cremated Mark's body, but after activating his active state, Mark underwent a mutation, transforming into a monster called the Devouring Beast.

It took considerable effort to trap it at the lighthouse.

Ran Bing endured whipping to plead for Mark's life.

Charles outwardly agreed to let Mark and Ranbing travel together, but after Mark endured the humiliation inflicted by the people, Charles went back on his word and decided to burn Mark at the stake.

To quell the impending rampage of Mark, Ran Bing sacrificed herself, having her life essence drained.

[Ran Bing turned into flesh and dust, and Mark regained a sliver of his consciousness, but a single shot from the city guards beside Charles shattered Ran Bing's flesh and dust.]

In a fit of rage, Mark chopped off Charles's arm, gouged out one of his eyes, and then fell from the lighthouse to the ground. He was later found and taken away by Bai Yuekui and others, and began cupping therapy.

[Dustman 4068 saved Charles's life at the last moment, was given the name Follower, and appointed as the new commander of the Wilderness Hunters. Charles replaced his father as the new city lord.]

[However, due to being attacked by Mark, who was known as the Devouring Beast, the Blood Essence began to slowly take away his life.]

This is Charles's just desserts; if Mark had been allowed to travel far away, he wouldn't have contracted the toxic substance that led to his death.

"This……"

The city defense soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment.

Viktor's mechanical arm creaked, but he didn't utter a single word.

Here at the Wilderness Hunters' place, the atmosphere was as oppressive as the rumble of thunder before a storm.

Donnie stared at Charles, who stood in front of the firelight and sneered, on the sky.

"So in the end, the lighthouse will be taken over by people like this?"

Mo Cheng sneered, "He won't live much longer. Tianmu said he'll be dragged down to death by Xinghongsu."

"He deserved it."

Another veteran spat.

The Hunters, the City Defense Forces, and the Light and Shadow Society are the three most powerful forces on the Lighthouse, and there has always been considerable friction between them.

However, because they were also fighting for the lighthouse, the hunters kept their ground at bay, ignoring the city defense forces' provocations.

Now, their discontent has reached its peak.

Meanwhile, the followers of the Light and Shadow Society were whispering among themselves in the shadows.

"As expected, the leader is the one chosen by the Lord of Light and Shadow. Even Mark was defeated by him."

"But he'll die from the poison... then will he still be considered chosen?"

Having escaped the other mortals, 4068 ran to a secret place, where he curled up alone in a corner, staring at his future self reflected in the sky.

The "shadow" wearing the uniform of a hunter commander was imposing, yet seemed like someone from another world.

That's not you.

The voice of 4277 came from above.

4068 looked up and saw her standing in front of him; his eyes finally regained some of their former determination.

"That's the you before it happened. You still have a choice."

4277 reached out his hand.

After hesitating for a long time, 4068 finally grasped it.

[And then comes the beginning of the second part]

After being rescued, Mark arrived at Bai Yuekui's Dragon Bone Village.

From a fundamental perspective, this place is quite similar to the description of the Heluo Kingdom, one of the four major nations of the former Coastal Alliance. The villagers here have done considerable research on the life essence, which has awakened the existence of "essence potential" and made them "awakened".

[After becoming an Awakened One, you will possess very unique superpowers.]

After being rescued, Mark, who resembled a Devouring Beast, was considered key to combating the Mana ecosystem.

[Longgu Village defines him as an "ecological chimera"]

After a period of adaptation, his appearance became more human-like.

Like the lighthouse, Dragonbone Village is also a place to uncover the secrets of Mark.

However, an accident occurred during the attempt to activate Mark's potential.

His body structure is too complex.

At this moment, atop the lighthouse, the former 4068, now the Hunter Commander, is about to lead a team to the surface to capture Mark alive.