Chapter 1:

Chapter 1 Maria

Cor Falsus: The great replacement


I can’t understand why I have to feed this animal that nobody is going to eat-tired of having to repeat the same routine every single day, recollect alfalfa for cows and wait for them to eat it.

Oh come on!, says Yulisa, another Huma that lives in the same village as Maria with other 30 Huma, they’re called the venator team their mission is to raise livestock for the come back the humans.

Humanoids have the mission to keep the world as the way it was before their existence, reproduce themselves and rehabilitate the planet like their predecessors.

Venator cut-off communication with the other teams since who knows when.

Maria a run of the mill huma going through her “rebellious phase”, huma are not emotionless machines, since they keep a certain range of humanity they’re capable of feeling some small impulses, however they lack the ability to dictate a moral judgment they act according to their database inside their brains.

A huma doesn’t distinguish love,jealousy or envy, they comprehend what they are but can’t feel them.

Their behavior varies from individual to other, disputes among them are more than common, every huma community was installed in a specific region so the respective teams, they were installed in former Western Europe, mainland china, North America and the lower part of South America, leaving center America,Eastern Europe and Africa completely inhabited, perhaps humans were expecting that their creations migrate to these regions and populate them again.

For now Maria has to herd cows, a activity that she’s been doing for 2 years, humanoids when they reach 97 automatically reset their brains, they don’t remember their past life starting again from zero, some archives say that the last human passed away on 2731, still nobody knows what year is.

I have to do this if not I’m not going to eat, but I don’t even have to,Maria is too impatient to direct cows, most of the time she spends her days weaving or watching over the chickens,Huma split their chores regardless of gender, since they are unable to reproduce.

Mother Carlota why do we keep doing this? Is not like anybody is going to eat all of this,Carlota is the village’s chief, she's 27 alongside Jayden of 18, he’s currently in a special cabin looking after the “newborns” he explains the reason of their existence and what they are supposed to do.

Maria, you’re just a kid, our ancestors spent centuries to master their survival skills is our obligation to conserve and show them to our descendants.

Maria doesn’t buy it, they have tried and nothing worked.

Why don’t we contact the other villages?

They perished long ago, were the only ones who remain…

You’re lying, first of all we’re not descendants of humans, we come from the machines.

Angered goes back to her cabin, lying down on her bed looks at the window, she tries to imagine a world where humanoids live more than 100 years, are capable of having kids and be happy?.