The plane on which Jocelyne, Chloe and Jackson were traveling landed in Ingarpest, a town in the Meilong Republic. The journey was not very long, but all three had taken the opportunity to rest seriously.Jocelyne hadn't slept properly for days, some nights she even stayed awake. As soon as she touched the seat of the plane and all her worries vanished, she collapsed into the world of dreams. It didn't take long for Chloe and Jackson to follow her. Only the sound of the speakers telling them to fasten their seat belts for landing woke them up.As soon as the plane landed Jackson and Jocelyne got off. They both shivered because of the difference in temperature: the climate in the Meilong Republic was different from that of Odaria, and although there shouldn't have been more than three or four degrees of difference, the strong wind that blew that day made them notice the difference very much. well.Chloe instead remained on the plane, which left shortly after. Aft
“So, can you please answer me? Who is this Henry Wu?"Jocelyne hated being cut off from the conversation. The six scientists in the room seemed to know what she was talking about, but she didn't know the name at all.In the end, it was Ellie who spoke: "Wu is... an old acquaintance of ours""A troublemaker" Ian grumbled.Jocelyne ignored him. "How do you know him?"“He used to work with Hammond… before Ingen collapsed” Ellie replied.This time the name was by no means alien to Jocelyne. Everyone knew John Hammond, the man who had long been a big shot in finance.“Of course you have never heard of him. Wu's work wasn't known to the public” Ellie explained. “As you surely know, before going bankrupt Ingen was specializing in genetics. Hammond hoped to use DNA from different animals to solve environmental problems. Yes, in short... replace the current nature with one capable of resisting climate
The nations kept their word. As Sobek had predicted, as long as they didn't know more about the mysterious new enemy, they would keep the peace. This was enough for the spinosaurus: the time the humans gave them would allow Sobek to rally his followers, and moreover the humans would help him by delivering all the dinosaurs in their possession!In a way, thinking about it with a clear head, Sobek had agreed that this solution had several advantages. First, it allowed him to exponentially increase the size of his pack, and secondly, it would take away possible hostages from humans.Furthermore, Sobek had in mind to use that time to further evolve. Thanks to his recent actions, his fame points had risen at a breakneck speed; he had far exceeded the billion he needed. This would have granted him not only new abilities, but would have allowed him to unlock the [Anti-aircraft system].Since the humans would use the time available to them to upgrade their arsenal, Sobe
Sobek headed for the newcomers as soon as he was done dealing with the humans. Up to that point it had been Old Li, Buck and Carnopo who had looked after them, but since he was the pack leader, it was appropriate to give them a fair welcome.But as he was approaching he saw himself coming towards Carnopo. "Pack leader, you have to come""Did something happen?"“No, but… you will see it for yourself. The newcomers have... problems "Sobek did not understand. Problems? What was Carnopo talking about? When they got off the ship he had only glimpsed the new dinosaurs, since he was more focused on dealing with humans, but they seemed normal to him. However, as soon as he got to the spot where Old Li, Buck and Carnopo had gathered the newcomers, he realized that things were much more complicated. The dinosaurs actually had no physical injuries… but that didn't mean they were healthy.He realized this simply by observing the first dino
“… and therefore, I think the best choice is to fortify the border. We cannot know if humans will respect peace, so it is better to leave with caution"Sobek snorted. He had been listening to Pierce speak for half an hour, who wanted at all costs to establish a further line of defense.“This would be dangerous. It would give humans the impression that we want to reopen hostilities" Old Li noted. “Humans are fickle creatures. If they perceived a danger they would not hesitate to react""I know, but we have to think about the worst" Pierce said. “Currently our borders are uncovered. To the west there are the mountains that provide us with cover and are easily defensible, but the coast is a weak point. A fleet could easily dock there""So what do you propose to do?" Sobek asked.“We build obstacles. We fill the shallow waters with rocks, so that it is impossible to dock where we do not want to. And we fortify the e
"It is not so? What other reason could you have?" the giganotosaurus growled.“A brain that works, for example. This is what I have. Tell me, have you tried to think even for a second what an open warf with humans would entail at the moment?" Sobek returned Snork's defiant gaze. “Tell me, would exterminating the humans present here have helped our brothers who are still prisoners? Can you run fast enough to cross the ocean in time to save them? If we went to war, who do you think would be the first humans to turn against? We, who are well armed, or our brothers still prisoners, who are instead defenseless and therefore an excellent means to vent their anger?"Snock fell silent for a moment. It was clear that he didn't have an answer to that question.Sobek sighed. Like all hotheads, Snock had only looked at the immediate result, without thinking in a more forward-looking way. He wasted no time and added to the dose: “Tell me, what would happen
Jocelyne watched the setting sun settle behind the trees that flowed past her eyes with a blank stare. She seemed not to have the strength to do anything else. She had stood still for so long that Jackson finally asked him, “Are you feeling bad, miss? Do you want I stop the car?"The girl shook her head: “No, keep driving. I was just lost in my thoughts""You should take advantage of this trip to rest a little, miss. You don't look good lately""Shut up and drive"Jocelyne knew she was a mess. She was pretty sure that if she looked in the mirror she would see two huge dark circles beneath her eyes, a far more hollow face and her hair set in absurd hairstyles. But there was nothing she could do about it: the period she was experiencing was definitely not calm.In the first place she had had to deal with the anger of the Commission. Many governments were already furious with her for having been 'too autonomous' in the negotiations and wer
Jocelyne couldn't relax. The others had already retired for a while, but she wasn't calm at all. She couldn't stay still in her bed doing nothing. Hammond had made sure she had every kind of comfort, from books to video games, but she didn't want to take out her frustration on them.She eventually chose to just take a walk. Hammond had told her that she could move freely in her mansion, so she might as well take a stroll. And then she wanted to enter the strange corridor she had glimpsed when they entered.She quickly went down the stairs and found herself in the hall. She wondered if Hammond didn't want strangers to pull out into the hall, but if he did, why not put a door in it? It was obvious that the elderly tycoon didn't care so much about that.So she turned the corner and entered the corridor. What she saw surprised her greatly.The corridor was very long and was completely in a straight line; whoever built it seemed to have paid close attention to
It took Sobek a few moments before he realized he was back in the room where it all began. That room where time and space ceased to exist, and where everything and nothing seemed to have changed at the same time. He already knew where he had to go; walking through the infinitely large (or perhaps infinitely small) room, in a few minutes (or perhaps a few centuries, who knows) he reached the familiar armchair on which was seated a woman with white skin and light hair.God didn't even seem to move since she sent him to Eden. Even her expression didn't seem to have changed at all. She was still the same, beautiful and terrible at the same time, whose gaze was both magnetic and loving on him. “Welcome back, son,” she greeted him in her crystal clear voice.Sobek advanced on her. This time there wasn't an armchair waiting for him, but a large mattress wide enough to allow him to lie down. She lay back on it and gazed intently at God. Even now, after he'd grown i
On the continent of Maakanar, near a river that was once a typical spinosaurus nesting place, something immense could be seen. A huge creature was lying on its belly, but nevertheless it was so tall that its dorsal sail towered over the surrounding masts.Sobek was now thirty-three years old. To say he had grown into a behemoth was an understatement: he now measured 150 meters from head to tail and reached 45.6 meters in height. Even without activating the mutation he was now larger than Godzilla: the gigantic atomic reptile was a tiny lizard compared to him. All kaiju would be small compared to him. Even King Ghidorah would have been forced to acknowledge its superiority.In the last five years he had hardly moved. After the death of his last loyalist he returned to his birthplace and settled there. He ate what was provided to him from the [Personal Manger] and drank the water from the river. Otherwise, he remained calm, warming himself in the sun or admiring the star
After a few days Nefertiti settled at the lake together with her father and her last remaining uncle. With the help and indications of Sobek she built a comfortable nest and there she laid her egg.Thus began the brood. The female spinosaurus never moved from above her little egg, keeping it constantly warm. Sobek and Buck brought her food and water. When Nefertiti was hot, Sobek used her huge wing as a parasol and Buck fanned her with his tail. In the rare moments when it was cold, the two of her huddled to help her warm up.That routine went on for three months. Finally, at the end of the third month, a familiar clicking sound came from under Nefertiti's paws.The female spinosaurus reared up and looked down. A small crack was opening on the egg. With a smile she moved from above it. The crack widened more and more and finally a large piece of egg broke off, showing a lively green eye that stared intently at Nefertiti.“Hello, baby. I'm your mothe
Time had passed again. Sobek couldn't even figure out how much time had actually passed now. One year? Two? Maybe three? He didn't know.After his retirement, Sobek had gone deep into the forest of Maakanar. It was hard for him to move his huge body through the trees and very often ended up destroying them: his passage was evident as a trail of uprooted trunks was always behind him. He had moved permanently to the lake where he had met Buck and where he had established his first army. And he hadn't gone there alone.Carnopo and Buck had joined him just a month after his departure. They, too, had decided they'd had enough and abandoned their roles entirely. After all, in the new world there was no longer a need for either an army commander or one of the shock legion. Now there was peace, and the old war veterans had no reason to try to find their place in their world. So they had decided to do what they had always done: follow their pack leader.The trio spent th
Another year had passed. In Sobek's eyes, time seemed to have begun to flow more rapidly. The months and weeks all passed almost the same and in a flash the morning turned into evening.Humanity had continued its advance. By now, Aphrodites had been fully colonized. Whole cities had sprung up on it and millions of settlers had begun to live there. Davis had now reached more than a billion inhabitants and Hermes now owned thousands of mining establishments.Thanks to teleportation technology it was so advanced that traveling between planets was even easier than going from one city to another. Since energy and material consumption were now no longer a concern thanks to solar panels on Hermes and mining plants on asteroids, everyone had a portable teleportation device. By now, being hired to work a mine on an asteroid was no different than being hired to work at the local convenience store.Colonies on the moons of Leviathan and Behemoth had multiplied, providing e
More time, more changes. In just one year, many things had changed.Nefertiti had assumed control of the entire astrophysics division of the dinosaur pack, effectively acting as acting pack leader for them. After the first shared mission, she had begun to promote more policies of integration and union between humans and animals. She had facilitated interspecies interspace operations, sending animals and humans to work together in the new worlds to be colonized. Furthermore, there was still much to colonize, as human attention was slowly shifting beyond the outer Solar System to the dwarf planets and comets of the Oort Cloud.The work was not cheap and with it the possibilities of working together. With the Dyson Sphere nearing completion, energy was no longer an issue. After determining which moons to colonize, the Eden Union had begun an intensive mining program in the asteroids of the main belt in order to be able to build huge lenses to capture the sunlight and also
One more year, more innovations. The more time passed, the more progress seemed to accelerate. It was like a speeding train that multiplied its speed every second: first slow, then faster and faster, until it turned into a giant projectile.Sobek knew that progress was bound to accelerate more and more, after all it was his nature. For each new discovery, countless doors open. And every door leads to other doors. This was the nature of progress. It was no coincidence that it took humanity less than two hundred years to go from horses to aircraft capable of leaving the orbit of their home planet.He recalled that on Earth, where he came from, progress had become so fast in the 21st century that it was enough to be born even a generation later or further back to find oneself in a completely different world. While in 1990 the main communication system was the satellite phone, in 2020 people used social networks for the most disparate things. While in 1990 movies were watc
More time had passed. This time it was a year… or maybe a year and a half? I don't know. Not that it mattered much, actually.The world's attention to the inner solar system was gradually waning. Now that three planets had been terraformed, even if one of them still wasn't enough, and Hermes had become a stable colony that was continuously producing large panels of glass that joined in the orbit of the Sun to form the Dyson Sphere, the humanity was beginning to anticipate new challenges. From the inner solar system it was time to move to the outer solar system.Although some colony outposts were already present on some moons of Behemoth, they could not be defined as true colonies. However, now that energy consumption was no longer a problem thanks to the Dyson Sphere, which although not completed already released enormous amounts of energy, the Eden Union decided to start an exploration program of the entire outer solar system, or at least of the space between B
Two more years had passed. The advance of humanity towards the stars continued inexorably.The hypotheses of the scientists had proved to be correct: using a combination of gravity control technology and energy obtained from the Dyson sphere, although still incomplete, they had managed to accelerate the rotation of Aphrodites. The planet was slowly accelerating, though not too fast. There was generally talk of an hour each week. At this speed there was no risk of destroying the infrastructure already present on the planet. Yes two years, the rotation period had gone from 2082 hours to 1978 hours. Continuing at this rate, it was expected to reach 24 hours in 'just' another 38 years.Once this process was completed, the huge orbiting mirrors could finally be taken off. The day/night cycle would no longer be artificially determined and there would no longer be the risk that something would go wrong due to the impact of a micrometeorite. In addition, the accelerated rotati