had existed for five thousand years. You also jailed them in their own lands, causing most of the population to perish. Your empire decimated nearly half of the population on the lands it ruled and integrated its own population. Those who are from the blood of Genghis Khan form one-fourth of the living population today. It’s impossible to fully comprehend the Khan’s influence on the world’s genetic map.”
“ Okay, okay, I understand, but why did it all happen? What’s the purpose?”
“ Think of wheat, sir. When it was first grown in Mesopotamia, it was of a tiny grass variety, insignificant and weak. Even its seeds were impossible to see. However, the grasses with high nutritional value and those with coarse grains grew taller while others were destroyed. Over time, the coarse grasses adapted to people’s tastes, and in return, people planted them all over the world and destroyed their rivals. The products with useful mutations were allowed to develop. As a result, a very different plant that had nothing to do with its first form was developed.”
“ What do you mean? Is this a process like breeding? Do you mean breeding the desired human race, and eliminating those who aren’t desired? Do you expect me to believe this? Men waited for their fate like sheep, and we selected the useful ones and shut our eyes to the deaths of others. And I—we—slaughtered them. Is this what you mean?”
“ Have you ever seen a sheep that doesn’t produce milk and whose meat is not eaten, sir? Have you ever heard of taming such a thing and making an effort to continue its blood line? Have you ever worked for the survival of a living being that would do you no good?”
“ Dogs were the first animals that were tamed, right? I had a wolf, and it was loyal to me. It always protected me. And I didn’t eat its flesh, although it was rumored that it breastfed me when I was a baby. But no one would breed a dog for its milk.”
“ Sir, there are sheep dogs around flocks of sheep to protect them. They serve the shepherd.”
“ But the wolf...”
“ The wolf was always around you, protecting you. Let’s say it prevented you from dangers you weren’t aware of.”
“ This is too much for me to digest. You’re a computer program, so if you tell me that I’m hanging out in space, I’ll believe it. But it’s too much.”
“ Sir, have you ever noticed the common history of the Turks and Mongols? The same story is always told. A race was locked somewhere behind the iron and a bluish wolf fell down from the sky and led them as they passed through the iron and spread their rule all over the world.”
“ That is just a legend, right?” I asked.
“ Truth exists under everything. The sequence is beyond coincidence, sir.”
“ Is it something like my father’s name, Temüjin? ‘The one of iron.’ And my name, Cuci, ‘The one from outside?’”
“ It is more than this, sir. As you may know, there is a story similarly told in the major holy books. Judaism and Christianity have Gog and Magog. Islam has Yecüc and Mecüc: beings that passed over high walls, attacked all of humanity, and flooded and wiped out everyone. It was unknown where they came from nor what they wanted. They would kill and destroy. They passed over the walls of iron that the prophet Zulkareyn Ilyas had built. It is more than just a coincidence that the same tale has been told in every civilization and in most legends.”
“ So, were Gog and Magog mentioned in the ancient beliefs of the Mongolians?”
“ Sir, at the first stage, you were overloaded with too much information, and this stressed you a little bit. You partly perceive things, and I assure you that you will understand everything as you grow into your old abilities and reacquire old knowledge. But in order to digest the recent stages and move to the next one, you need to calm down and keep quiet.”
“ Who will I be in the next stage? What will I experience?” I asked,