Chapter 1 The Mysterious Prison
Sewage flows across the board and plaques scatter.
Deep in an abandoned prison...
Bang!
A mass of cells wrapped in plasma membrane separated from the surface of a corpse.
The cell group is only the size of a human index finger, and the macro appearance is like a white snot.
This cell mass seems to have independent thinking and action abilities.
However, due to the imperfection of the nervous system, there are no five senses.
However, when the cell mass comes into contact with external objects, the basic information of substances can be obtained through special means of "intercellular signal transmission".
The isolated cells did not stay for too long and began to move.
Transcription and translation.
Actin production.
This group of cells, the size of a finger, began to undergo extremely slow "migration movement", which was about the same speed as the snail's movement.
"No...not perfect, not what I want."
The cell mass seemed to have taken the initiative to abandon this seemingly complete and strong body and continued to search in the prison...
If there is currently a torch to provide lighting.
You will find that in this giant cell, there are hundreds of bodies abandoned by the cell mass.
…………
Cell clusters do not form autonomously.
It has its own name - Han Dong.
Overseas Chinese, an associate professor at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Florence, Italy, was exactly 31 years old before he became this group of cell condensate.
On July 21, 2018, he died of lung cancer in the hospital bed of the Florence Central Hospital.
The ward was filled with flowers, but these flowers came from his students, not his family.
At the moment of death, the pain of illness was gone, and Han Dong felt relieved.
He did not ascend to heaven or fall into hell, nor did he drink Mengpo soup, walked up to Naihe Bridge, and experienced the so-called reincarnation.
All that greets him is endless darkness.
However, his consciousness always exists in this process.
"Are I dead?! After a person dies, his brain will continue to be active for five minutes...but I've been dead for an hour, right?"
Han Dong had a very strong sense of time. He was so aware that he knew very well how long he had been 'dead'.
Han Dong slowly tried to perceive the "body", but unexpectedly, the image of a cell mass appeared in his consciousness.
There are only two things that can be done.
First, it can sense the detailed information of the items being contacted through intercellular signal transmission.
Second, the motor ability is generated by the production of actin.
Just when Han Dong first synthesized actin in the cell and carried out related activities, a systematic sound of prompt echoed in his mind.
"Please select the 'suitable' body in the prison. The current maximum weight load value is [100].
If you are not satisfied with the selected body, you can send the body to the treatment room for cell separation.
In non-cellular form, other prisoners' bodies cannot be moved or transferred.
The prompt ends.
Another floor plan of the prison was generated at Han Dong's consciousness level.
Single-layer structure
A total of 204 prison cells.
The floor plan also marks the corresponding prisoners in each cell through light spots and notes, and the words "dead" are annotated.
In addition, a red marked room is displayed in the middle area of the prison, called [Management Room] and is locked.
The room where Han Dong is currently located is [processing room].
"A prison abroad? Reborn after death? What exactly is I?"
These problems did not bother Han Dong for too long.
He has been at the forefront of science for a long time and has a strong ability to accept new things.
I realized in a short time that I was an independent cell group with a protective membrane, and although I didn’t know how a cluster of cells could survive independently and carry consciousness.
Cells are the basic unit of life activities, which is enough to prove that they are not dead yet.
"The so-called death traveling happened to me? And it also traveled into a cluster of cells? It's really ironic."
Han Dong devoted his life to cell biology research and published an article in the top international journal Cell half a year ago, "The role of activating and controlling cell regulation through gene coding means."
Han Dong, who was named an associate professor for this article, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer during a physical examination by teachers across the school... and suffered ruthless erosion of cancer cells, and his future was completely broken.
He, who should have died completely, was reborn as a cell mass of life.
…………
There was no too much hesitation. Considering that the cell mass also needed energy replenishment to move normally, the most urgent task was to find the 'suitable' body according to the mysterious system's instructions.
Follow the instructions on the map.
Han Dong went to the nearest cell through an extremely slow "crawl".
The almost identical migration movement as the snail took him a full day.
Paired with the map in consciousness, the small light spots symbolizing "self", they moved to the next cell with the shortest path, and for the first time they came into contact with the prisoner's body in the prison.
"Fortunately there is a map instruction, otherwise it would be really troublesome if the five senses are completely lost..."
The moment you touch the corpse.
Han Dong's consciousness level immediately shows a complete human section view, and is also equipped with detailed text annotations, which can be viewed at the consciousness level.
Campbell Frank (was an underground black boxer during his lifetime)
【Head】Inferiority, weight-bearing requirements: 5
【Left arm】Normal, weight bearing requirements: 11
【Right Arm】High quality, with "quick punch" skill, weight bearing requirement: 23
【Trunk】Normal, weight-bearing requirements: 13
【Left foot】On average, weight bearing requirement: 11
【Right Foot】Normal, weight-bearing requirements: 14
A series of data information is fed back to Han Dong's consciousness level.
“The prisoner seemed to have undergone ‘special treatment’ before his death, so that the body would not decay and could be occupied and controlled by me.
As mentioned in the previous tip, if you are not satisfied with the body, you can give it up in the [processing room] and select it again.
There are many more flesh to choose from, and it is necessary to use one of them to understand the current situation.”
『Please confirm whether you want to obtain all the body of "Campbell Frank"? The required weight value is 77.』
"yes!"
In a blink of an eye.
The cell mass enters the body through the "hole" on the surface of the prisoner's body, activates the whole body in a short time, and restores vitality.
First, a tinnitus echoed in my mind.
Immediately afterwards, the cold stone touch came from all parts of the body... indicating that the nervous system was connected.
A simple cell composed of black rock and steel bars comes into view and visually restores.
Just when Han Dong planned to investigate and analyze the mysterious prison, infer why he was reborn and what kind of secrets he was hidden in the mysterious prison.
Buzz! The whole person suddenly became stunned.
Han Dong supported the wall with one hand, gritted his teeth and let out an angry roar!
"Wow... this guy is mentally retarded!"
After completely occupying [Campbell Frank], Han Dong felt very uncomfortable.
As the five senses recovered, the surrounding environmental information was obtained. When he further planned to perform complex data processing through his brain, a big problem occurred!
Han Dong, the consciousness body, is the youngest associate professor in the School of Life Sciences of a well-known university and an academic master.
But consciousness is consciousness. When consciousness collects data through the senses, and draws up relevant processing formulas, it makes a big problem when it wants to hand it over to the brain for processing!
It's like buying a graphics card with the Eye of the Bible 2080ti, but such a top-level graphics card is installed in a host computer with a CPU that is only an old i3 processor.
What's even bigger is that the processor has water in it!!
Due to the introduction of a large amount of data, the system almost collapsed.
Han Dong could only close his eyes and recite the Great Compassion Mantra silently in his mouth, minimizing the intake of external information as much as possible and emptying his thoughts as much as possible!
Chapter completed!