Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 52: Space Station Second Floor

Seeing that Li Xiu was so sure, Xie Shen didn't say anything nonsense. He just calmed his mind and silently felt the changes in the spiritual power in his body.

Lean less.

He nodded and said, "There is indeed an increase, but it is not much, probably less than one percent of the total."

"Yeah." Li Xiu responded, "That's normal. After all, I just had a small cut on my arm, so it didn't cause much pain."

Xie was deeply inspired and asked, "You mean: the more pain a person suffers, the more black mist will be produced?"

"good."

Maybe I feel a little uncomfortable after wearing glasses.

Li Xiu subconsciously adjusted his glasses on his nose again.

He suggested: "Why don't you come with me to the second floor? I'll show you some experiments related to the black mist."

"Can I go to the second floor?" Xie Shen was stunned when he heard that.

"Yes, I have the authority now." Li Xiu suddenly looked at the man in a suit beside him and said to him, "Why don't you come along too?"

After saying that, he took the lead and walked towards the second floor of the space station.

The rest of the researchers followed closely behind.

In the corridor.

Xie Shen and the man in the suit looked at each other, and without saying much, they quickly followed the main group.

...

Compared with the first floor, the second floor of the Tiangong Space Station is obviously much smaller.

As Xie Shen walked, he could see countless prisons with bunker doors installed on both sides of the corridor.

Out of curiosity, he looked into one of the prisons.

A young man was imprisoned in the prison.

He neither made any noise nor made any noise. He just squatted there in a daze, so quiet that it seemed a little eerie.

“This is a fake person.”

Seeing Xie Shen looking into the prison, Li Xiu introduced from the side: "He has been imprisoned here for more than 120 years."

"So long?" Xie Shen asked in surprise, "Won't he die of old age?"

"No." Li Xiu explained: "Inside the body of the pseudo-human, there are many cancer cells that can divide infinitely."

"And these cancer cells are controllable."

"They can differentiate into various tissue cells in the human body just like stem cells."

"And because they are essentially cancer cells, they can defy the Hayflick limit."

"So pseudo-people never age."

Li Xiu pushed his glasses on his nose out of habit.

He continued, "And it was precisely because of this that the top management of the space station spent a lot of money to send cyborgs to the surface to catch one."

"Unfortunately"

"After 120 years, the space station has not been able to learn anything from this fake person."

In the corridor on the second floor of the space station.

While listening to Li Xiu's story, Xie Shen looked into other nearby prisons.

But in the prison next to the pseudo-man, there was a creature on all fours, with its entire body covered with black shell.

Xie Shen is familiar with this thing.

This is a thalamic sentinel.

Their individual combat power is not that strong, but their advantage is that their numbers are almost endless, which is quite a headache.

Just keep going forward.

Xie Shen was in a prison again, and saw a strange creature that was blood red all over and looked like a huge tumor.

At first glance, it seems.
It's like the indescribable thing in the Cthulhu mythology.

"do not think too much."

Li Xiu, who was standing by, seemed to have seen through Xie Shen's thoughts. He explained, "That huge tumor was cultivated using cells from domestic pigs and thalamic sentinels. This monster only looks scary, but it actually doesn't even have the basic ability to move."

Xie Shen was curious when he heard this: "This tumor, as well as the previous pseudo-human and thalamus sentinel, what do you usually feed them?"

"Nothing to feed them." Li Xiu said expressionlessly, "These unknown life forms can survive even without eating anything."

"This..." Xie Shen asked in confusion, "Wouldn't that make it a perpetual motion machine?"

"Strictly speaking, no." Li Xiu replied, "Just like you practitioners can absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. These unknown life forms also have ways to obtain energy, but with our current level of technology, we humans have not been able to research it yet."

During the conversation, Xie Shen followed Li Xiu to a laboratory filled with various instruments and equipment.

This laboratory is a bit like the "Stinging Jellyfish Laboratory" on the Europa Space Station: at its center, there is also an extremely large glass cube.

The cube is also engraved with strange geometric patterns that are specifically used to resurrect humans.

Li Xiu walked straight to the glass cube.

Without even turning his head, he said to Xie Shen behind him, "Watch carefully. I'll show you how the black mist affects people."

As he spoke, he began to fiddle with the terminal outside the glass cube.

Under Li Xiu's control, an electronic synthesized sound was heard inside the cube.

The voice said.

【被复活者，姓名：乌鲁嘛，生于公元前31982年2月21日1时3分。】

next second.

An ancient man, completely naked and with thicker body hair than a normal human, appeared out of nowhere in the glass cube.

"Is this an ape-man?" Xie Shen asked after observing for a few seconds.

"No."

Li Xiu corrected: "Ape-men are also called Homo habilis and Homo erectus. They are still somewhat different from modern humans."

“Modern humans are also called Homo sapiens.”

"And what you have here is Homo sapiens living about 3 years ago."

"From a biological point of view, Homo sapiens who lived more than 3 years ago were almost indistinguishable from us modern humans."

In the laboratory.

Li Xiu used his right index finger to touch his glasses and said indifferently, "Originally, I was planning to use modern humans for the experiment."

"I don't care."

"But doing so will bring psychological pressure to other researchers."

“They can’t live with it on a moral level.”

"So, I used Homo sapiens who lived in ancient times instead."

The intelligence of ancient people was not much different from that of modern humans.

Inside the glass cube.

The ancient man who came back to life first looked around with an expression of curiosity and surprise.

After a few seconds.

The ancient man found himself imprisoned in a glass petri dish, and he began to become irritable and restless.

He pounded the tempered glass around him frantically and roared from time to time.

Li Xiu didn't care about this and just continued to operate the terminal outside the glass cube.

Accompanied by its movements.

A transparent glass tube filled with black mist slowly extended down from the ceiling of the laboratory.

When Xie Shen saw this, he immediately thought, "Are those the black mists produced when people are tortured?"

"Ah."

Li Xiu pointed at the glasses on his face.

He explained: "The transparent glass tube and the 'black fog glasses' we wear are mixed with a certain amount of metal zirconium, which allows us to see the black fog directly with our naked eyes."

(End of this chapter)