My name is Lei. In fact, we are all called Lei. I am the
only human left in this planet. I am not sure at what point in time I stopped
being what I used to be or whether I have changed so much that I am now a new
species, yet all my different forms are one, are Lei. When you left Earth, 1.5 billion
years ago, there were so many different types of people, so many different
species. Today, it is just me, Lei, and the other 355 million copies of myself. Do not be puzzled friend, as a
species, our way of reproduction has changed. My children are usually identical
to me, but once in a while, errors do happen. The oldest isolated Lei today
live in a remote island. There, I have been physically isolated from the rest
of myself for more than 400 million years. If you saw me there, you would not
recognize me, but rest assured, it is me. There, I am diminutive, furry, and
nocturnal. For complex animals like us, asexual reproduction used to be disadvantageous
in a constantly changing world, but that is no longer a problem. This world
does not change as it used to change. I am the sole master of geological
cycles. I choose when continents move, or how fast mountains rise,
or how much ice there is at the South and the North pole at any given time. So,
I can evolve slowly: parts of me have changed, but I am still the same. The
reason we are clones is because the mixing of genomes between two different
individuals, like in you and in other archaic humans, would have quickly destroyed
the genetic structures required to achieve a unified mind. Do you understand? I
had to sacrifice all of Earth’s diversity to achieve infinite dominion over
time and space.
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