Chapter 202: Who I am (2)
It was only natural that I had assumed I was the only Earthling in this world.
Even when I introduced inventions that should have shaken the very foundations of this society, no one reacted as if they recognized their significance. And despite my personal investigations, I had never encountered anyone who could be called an Earthling.
I had combed through not just contemporary records but historical records dating back over a hundred years. Yet, I found nothing.
But after hearing Mr. Clear’s words, I understood why.
"The first Adam appeared millions of years ago... around twenty thousand years after this world first started functioning."
"The second came about twenty thousand years after that..."
"The last Adam? That was roughly a million years ago. The intervals keep getting longer."
The last Earthling before me had appeared a million years ago.
Not a hundred. Not a thousand. A million.
At that distance, any traces would have long since vanished. Even if something had survived, it would be nothing more than relics, indecipherable remnants of the past.
In other words, as far as this world was concerned, those Earthlings had never existed.
"So that’s why... That’s why this world still had alphabets."