Escape from the Interstellar Rare Beast Park

[1. Warning: bottomless pit ahead. Read at your own risk.]

[2. For now, I’ll mainly update the story next door. This one is for getting back into the groove.]

When a whale falls, all things flourish. The planet mutated, and humanity’s civilization and intelligence were wiped out, paving the way for other species to rise.

Meng Xiaoruan woke up one day ten thousand years in the future. Humans had gone extinct in the natural world, and thanks to the Interstellar Federation’s Ancient Species Revival Research Program, she had become a clone created from ancient DNA extracted from permafrost.

Ten thousand years in the future, clones’ intelligence had regressed to that of apes. They could only control their brain functions with built-in chips, and worked tirelessly livestreaming for an interstellar exotic animal park.

As the only clone to survive for more than six years and reach adulthood, Meng Xiaoruan had immense entertainment and breeding value. She also had a top-tier peacock-type caretaker and luxurious, high-end enrichment equipment...

Over the years, she single-handedly made the biotech company and the interstellar exotic animal park famous throughout the stars. By clowning around and acting cute, she became the park’s treasured star, adored by countless interstellar fans.

Beastfolk across all the star systems watched her daily livestreams while they ate.

Every star system wanted to buy the same high-end biotech chips made by Blue Star Chip Company.

Until the day she came of age...

Under the Star Alliance’s Minor Protection Act, the interstellar exotic animal park turned off the lights and ended its livestream for the day. The chip issued a breeding command, ordering the rare adult clone to reproduce with a male ape and produce the next generation.

With a snap, the lights came on:

But the room was full of mechanical wreckage, and on the floor lay the bloody biological control chip left behind by the rare clone who had disappeared.

At last, the beastfolk of all the star systems remembered: that species had once been the overlord of civilization, the spark of intelligence...

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