Terra's Magnetic Field

"Wealth", "power" and "strength" - people who possess these three will all desire immortality. So in his later years, Qin Shihuang became obsessed with finding the so-called "elixir of life". Many folk doctors who claimed to be "alchemists" began to use rhetoric to gain Zulong's trust.

By then, Zulong's judgment had greatly improved.

As before, they soon believed the words of those so-called "alchemists", built luxurious palaces for them, emptied the treasury to provide them with funds to find materials for the "elixir of life". Even in the later period, the court was gradually hollowed out by the alchemists. This is probably the earliest "PUA" and "pie in the sky". Maybe the Queen Mother also fooled Her Highness Theresa in this way.

It started with pairs of crickets, then to a fruit called "Lokakaka", then to jade-colored branches, then to green spider lilies, and finally to the point where they even started using children's hearts and livers to make medicine.

I remember when I was a child, if a child was disobedient, the elders would scare them by saying, "Be careful, the emperor will catch you and make you medicine!" At that time, the children would sit down neatly and not say a word...

As time passed, the former hero became, in the eyes of the people, no different from the evil demon that wreaked havoc in the past.

III III II Phosphorus VIII Group

In order to maintain his prestige, Qin Shi Huang's methods became increasingly cruel. He burned a large number of books on history, science, and culture. In order to suppress the birth of new ideas, he ordered all those who questioned him to be buried alive. In the end, that period of history became confusing, and the culture of Yan State regressed more than a hundred years.

Appearance is determined by the heart. As his heart gradually became distorted, Qin Shihuang's appearance also became strange due to long-term drug experiments. Some people said that six pupils appeared in his two eyes, while others said that his hair turned gray overnight, his skin lost its blood color, and he became unable to withstand the light.

Some people also said that the emperor actually succeeded in the end. He listened to a certain Filin pharmacist and sacrificed his eldest son to the evil demon in the sea. In return, he obtained a tentacle full of vitality and swallowed it...

The emperor might still be alive, maybe he is walking around us now, thinking about whose heart and liver to eat tonight...

That’s all for today.

Mini-theater: [The True Appearance of Zulong]

One day, Lao Chen put up an ancient painting of a woman with a shoe-horn face in her office in Longmen. Whenever someone looked at her, she turned her face to the side and tried to match the posture of the portrait.

Most people were confused because Lao Chen usually did so many inexplicable things. He just put on a dragon robe and ran around a few days ago. Earlier he stuffed notes into the stomachs of fish in the police cafeteria and was caught imitating the howl of a fox in the middle of the night. Occasionally, he would say that he dreamed that Emperor Taizu asked her to sit on the dragon throne and asked her if she was comfortable.

The police officers looked at each other, and only Xingxiong said tactfully:

"It's so similar!"

Old Chen said proudly, "I bought this at a high price. At that time, Taizu ordered all portraits related to him to be burned, and only this one was hidden by a eunuch. Now it has come into my hands! Although there are painters in later generations who have tried to restore Taizu's true appearance based on fragmentary records, those portraits are too focused on beauty, and in the end they don't look like Taizu. Now compare it with me, it turns out that I am the orthodox of Great Yan!"

Xingxiong applauded, "After all, they are biological children and grandchildren!"

Shi Huaiya: “Ah?!” (horrified)

I thought: Chen Lao Er is going to rebel! I have to get away from him as soon as possible...

Volume 12: Chapter Chapter Immortality

"There was a huge explosion in the past. It was so powerful that it destroyed everything at that time. It was also because of that explosion that everything now came into being."

"Time and space came into being, dust condensed into planets and began to rotate, and life was born..."

"We cannot speculate what the world was like before the Big Bang. Perhaps it was not much different from what it is now. We also cannot know when our own Big Bang will come..."

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“It’s a very romantic way of saying it, isn’t it?” Kal’tsit commented on her previous soliloquy. The old lynx in front of her always seemed to say something that made people think deeply. Kal’tsit then asked:

"So there was a big explosion on this land before? But it was not as strong as the initial one, and it might have affected the entire continent. That explosion wiped out all the civilizations that existed at the time, and also caused irreversible damage to this land, making the climate and geographical conditions worse? Is that true?"

Kelucil took a deep breath and felt relieved. She finally asked the question she had wanted to ask more than a hundred years ago. As a researcher, she was once obsessed with studying artifacts from the old times. The sophisticated internal structures of those artifacts unearthed by archaeologists amazed her. Even the products produced by the most advanced countries today could not compare with them. They couldn't even figure out how to use them.

"There were more advanced civilizations before the current ones," this is the common understanding of the Terra archaeological community. They call the ancient mechanical instruments they have excavated "black history." It is said that if you are lucky, you can even dig out the remains of a giant robot.

“………………” Only this time Kal’tsit remained silent. After the atmosphere was deadlocked for more than a minute, the all-knowing Filin finally answered, “I don’t know…”, and then complained in a low voice, “How should I know…”

This answer was too vague, even making Kal'tsit doubt its authenticity. This was the first time she doubted Kal'tsit.

"Why hasn't she aged in all these years? Why does she know so many secrets? Why does she..." Although these questions usually lingered in Klushel's mind, she never realized them.

In this strong situation, the curiosity of a researcher urged her to ask:

"Then how do you think the last civilization perished?"

"Who knows? Maybe they were destroyed because of the outbreak of war? After all, humans have been arguing from ancient times to the present," Kal'tsit expressed her opinion nonchalantly.

"If the previous civilization was really as advanced as we expected, then the people at that time must have had a very high level of ideology and morality. I don't think they would have gone extinct for such an absurd reason as war..." Kal'tsit interrupted before Kal'sit finished speaking, seeming to be dissatisfied with her answer:

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"Kuluciel, you seem to overestimate humans. No matter what level they develop to, even if they rise to the space above this land, struggle is still their nature."

"As long as there is individual will, people will intensify wars due to various conflicts. It can be because of Originium disease, territory, resources, or other things we don't know. It's not that the moral level will improve as the level of technology increases. It may also be that as technology continues to advance, the scale of the battlefield will become larger and larger, and the cost of war will become higher and higher. In the end, humans will destroy everything they can reach."

“This is really pessimistic… What on earth have you been through…” Kluchil sighed.

"Let's end this topic here. There's no need to continue," Kal'tsit ruled and continued with the work at hand.

This laboratory is the place with the highest authority level in Rhodes Island. It is equipped with some of the most advanced equipment in Terra today. They are piled here in a mess. Some of Kal'tsit's personal belongings can be seen in the gaps between the equipment. There is also a folding bed in the corner of the laboratory. Kal'tsit even eats and sleeps here.

Only a few people besides Kal'tsit were allowed to enter here, and she was conducting experiments here, researching and developing drugs for Originium disease day and night. Even if others wanted to help, with their current level of knowledge, they could only lend a hand and do odd jobs like washing beakers and clearing tables.

Over time, Kal'tsit even dismissed her assistant, and her personality became more and more withdrawn with the death of someone and the sleep of someone. Once upon a time, she could still communicate normally, but with a long period of silence, her ability to express herself in words became worse and worse, and eventually she became the riddle master she is today.

But even after the current research, Originium disease is still a difficult problem that Terra's medical community has been unable to overcome. Rather than being a virus, it is more like a self-aware parasite that relies on absorbing nutrients from the host's body to proliferate and eventually completely assimilate the host. Drugs and the like cannot keep up with the speed of its evolution. Even if some specific medicine is developed, resistance to it will soon develop.

Therefore, even if the Terrans try their best, they can only use drugs to slow down the proliferation of Originium in patients with Originium disease, thereby alleviating the disease, but they cannot cure it at all.

"You have been staring at that thing since just now. What is it?" Kal'tsit pretended to be brisk and trotted from the other side of the laboratory table to Kal'tsit's side. She put her cheek close to Kal'tsit's shoulder. With her keen sense of smell, she had already smelled the bitter medicine on Kal'tsit's body. She frowned and said, "You can't take medicine indiscriminately anymore. Those stimulants are eating away at your brain nerves bit by bit."

"I don't have much time left, at least not as much as before..." As Kal'tsit spoke, Kal'tsit glanced at the Originium on her shoulder. In Kal'tsit's eyes, that thing was like a blood-sucking worm crawling on the Filin woman beside her, constantly sucking the little life left in her body.

Kal'tsit's complexion was also paler than it had been a hundred years ago.

"How about..." Lucille found it hard to speak, "Let's... invite the doctor back..."

Kal'tsit finally stopped what she was doing, her fingers and body trembling slightly. She said with a little sadness, "Even you are beginning to lose trust in me? Instead of counting on me, why not invite that annoying guy back?"

Perhaps she realized that her words just now were too decisive, or perhaps Kluchil's question reminded her of things in the past, so she changed her tone to a slightly more gentle one, "It's up to you. I abstain from this matter. I know that even Amiya hopes that guy will come back. She may think that everything can change with that guy. Young people are always like this..."

“But I don’t hate it.”

"Speaking of which... have you heard about that? Recently someone posted a thread on the Rhodes Island network, making all sorts of quibbles based on what happened here. It's quite interesting. The operators are all discussing who posted it."

"I don't know. I don't use the Internet much," Kal'tsit's straightforward answer disappointed Kal'tsit. Kal'tsit continued with the work at hand, her eyes close to the microscope under her, while adjusting the magnification little by little, taking a deep breath of air to try to keep herself calm.

"What on earth is this? It looks like..." Klucie looked at the red tray under the microscope. As a blood demon, she should be very familiar with the contents. "Blood?"

When joining the company, Rhodes Island operators will provide a small amount of their own blood as a sample to analyze the content of Originium crystals in the body, which is used to facilitate disease control and prevention. At the same time, the dormitories of infected and non-infected operators are separated, because some non-infected operators may instinctively reject the infected.

Kelsey said "hmm" softly.

Agree with this answer.

"Whose blood is this?" Kluchil asked again. She straightened her bent back and crossed her arms across her chest, looking a little serious. "Is the illness serious?"

Kal'tsit had rarely seen this expression on her face. The only time was when she learned about the assassination of Her Highness Theresa. She couldn't help but wonder what could have made this guy so obsessed. Her expression was completely stunned.

"This is a blood sample from a non-infected person. The number of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and the content of Originium crystals are all completely normal. It can be said that there is nothing unusual..."

"Then why..." Kluchil wondered.

"But those 'normal' are only limited to the normal state. Without any external stimulation, the cells in the blood are completely in a normal state!" Kalhi was a little excited and raised his voice a bit.

"What if we stimulate them artificially? What changes will occur in the cells?"

"I learned this when I was conducting a drug experiment to test the newcomers' adaptability to drugs. However, because I was not in the right state of mind at the time, I accidentally injected too much force when injecting the drug... A large amount of drugs and blood merged together, and the content was about ten times that of normal experiments!"

"If this is a normal situation, all the cells must be dead, right? Thinking of this, I put my eyes close to it and saw through the microscope..."

Kal'tsit remained silent. Kal's interest was aroused and she quickly asked:

"What on earth happened?! Tell me now! That's what's so annoying about you, you always say half the words!"

Kal'tsit swallowed and said slowly and heavily:

"The drug used in the experiment at that time is extremely toxic to humans at ten times the amount. Whether it is Vaifan, Draco, Sakota, Sarkaz... these powerful races will die without exception, but the cells in the blood sample actually survived! And..."

"The amount is even greater than before the drug test! It's like you're mocking me!"

"Kal'tsit, your medicine doesn't work at all, give me more!" Kal'tsit was incoherent, "My dignity and authority as a pharmacist have been challenged by this group of cells, this is absolutely intolerable..."

"So what did you do? What did you do to those cells?!" Kal'tsit gritted her teeth and suppressed the shock in her heart. She had never heard of such a thing before. Even Kal'tsit was shocked.

"Electric shock, salt, strong acid, high temperature, freezing, vacuum, pure oxygen... almost all the means of destruction were used, but those cells were extremely rebellious. The more extreme the situation, the faster they multiplied... The more we wanted to kill them, the louder they screamed."

“It’s just like Originium… Could it be that you?!”, Koluchil thought of something, it was really ridiculous!

“Yes,” Kal’tsit nodded and confirmed Kal’s guess. “I extracted the cells and combined them with Originium to simulate the situation where the host was infected with Originium disease. Originium is also a substance with great vitality. In the process of the confrontation between the cells and Originium, I was finally able to see the truth of its immortality…”

"It would be a discovery of Genesis, from a few drops of blood from an ordinary person."

"If he continues to live an ordinary life, he may never discover his potential until he dies of old age. He is not afraid of the most terrifying lightning, ice, and fire in the world, but he will be killed by the most common [ordinariness]."

"How ironic... So what is the truth? What happened to that cell?" Kal'tsit pressed on. She stared at Kal'tsit's pale lips and watched them slowly open and let out a sound.

"At first, the cells were completely normal, but just before they were completely covered by the Originium crystals, the remaining cells mutated rapidly and turned into a completely new form that I had never seen before. Perhaps they actively changed to adapt to the Originium crystals. The cells that successfully mutated eventually completely devoured the Originium crystals and then returned to their normal state. The whole process took only a minute..."

Klushier said, "Unbelievable..." She couldn't find any other words to describe it.

In other words, the cell solved the world's most difficult problem in just one minute.

"If that cell is like this... then what will happen to its main body? If it is struck by lightning, burned by fire, or frozen by extreme cold, will it also change? What will it become? Will it start from the outside or from the inside?"

"And..." Kluchil hesitated, "If that's true, can the cell's owner still be called a [human]?"

That’s all for today.

Postscript: This is just like a demi-human who does not know that he is a demi-human until he dies. Some demi-humans may live an ordinary and smooth life, but they will have no connection with daily life from the moment they die for the first time.

The essence of Geta is evolution!

Volume 14: Chapter Chapter Return to the Sheath

The origin of the code name "Guishao" is unknown. It was just randomly given to the protagonist of the story to deal with the Human Resources Department. He might have felt that this code name was like himself, low-key but dangerous, so we will use "Guishao" to refer to the protagonist of the story.

Gui Shao had a near-death experience when he was young. At that time, he had just heard that he had an older brother who died young because he fell off a telephone pole while climbing it. That incident shocked the young him greatly, and he made a plan in his mind:

"I want to try it too!"

It is impossible for adults to understand the thoughts of children. Even though many adults were once children, they cannot understand the thoughts of young people as they grow older. Gui Shao wanted to climb the electric pole to prove that he was better than his brother, or he simply wanted to test his ability. All of these are possible.

Gui Jiao still failed. Halfway through his climb, the nine-year-old boy subconsciously looked down. The guardrail next to the dilapidated electric pole had been almost eroded by wind and rain, and suddenly broke under the pull of Gui Jiao's body. Before he could react quickly, he found himself falling to the ground.

It wasn't as painful as described in novels or movies. He didn't even feel anything. He just felt a dull pain in his chest. He looked up and saw a large cut on his left arm. The flesh cut by the protruding metal sheet of the electric pole guardrail began to ooze red blood, and hurried footsteps were heard nearby. Adults ran out of their homes one after another.

Gui Shao was not panicked, he even found it interesting. He was a little confused as to why the adults usually ignored him because of their own affairs, but now they were so active in running towards him? Maybe the adults wanted to get to the "crime scene" as soon as possible so that they could brag to others later, just like they talked about their eldest brother's watermelon head.

Gui Shao's consciousness gradually blurred as his blood was lost. He deeply felt what it felt like to be "dead". His heartbeat slowly slowed down, his pulse became weaker and weaker, the buzzing sound in his ears stopped, and it was extremely quiet. The last bit of blurry vision was swallowed up by the darkness.

There is no heaven or hell after death, only endless darkness, as if sinking to the deep seabed with countless huge monsters swimming around.

It was a week later when Gui Shao opened his eyes again. He saw glucose water and other medicines he couldn't name hanging on the iron rack beside him. The doctor said that he was injected with 5000ml of blood and his wound was sutured. In addition, his left foot was slightly fractured and he could not run for about half a year.

Moreover, he continued to have a high fever for a week after the blood injection, so he only regained consciousness now. It may be that his body was adapting to the newly added blood.

Gui Shao felt his body warm, as if he had been reborn. The blood of someone he had never met was flowing in his body. It was a wonderful feeling.

The first time I noticed something was wrong with my body was four months after I fully recovered. At that time, the ten-year-old Gui Shao had already entered the fourth grade of elementary school. Even in that place, the class concept of the Yan people was deeply rooted. On the first day of school, the children began to discuss their parents. Of course, the children of real high-ranking officials would not enter such a low-level institution, but even the children of the lowest-class families would be divided into high and low, and differentiated again and again.

The rag pickers look down on the dung carriers, the people who serve tea and water to the masters in the government look down on the people who work for the landlords, and even the petty thieves look down on those who molest women and children...

As a fatherless child, Gui Qiao was definitely at the bottom of the contempt chain. His father ran off with an unknown woman when he was five years old, and his mother raised him only because she was afraid of gossip from the neighbors. The Yan people attached great importance to "chastity", and it was difficult for a woman who was abandoned by her husband to remarry.

Therefore, Gui Shao has been in a state of extreme depression and panic since he was old enough to understand. On the one hand, he is afraid that he will be abandoned by his mother, but he does hate his parents. However, he dare not let his mother die, because once his mother dies, no one will raise him. It is very contradictory.

From this we can see that he actually has no humanity since childhood and does not understand family affection. For him, maintaining "family affection" with his mother is just a means of survival.

Therefore, he had been trying like crazy to please his mother since he was old enough to understand. That was his only way to survive at that time. No matter what the situation was, he would always praise himself. But his mother most of the time just thought that her child was annoying, and those words of praise were like farts in her eyes.

This kind of person is extremely sad...

In this way, Gui Shao developed a character of pleasing others. His favorite things to do were to "obey adults" and "amuse his peers". He was conscientious in front of adults and acted stupid in front of his peers.

But he seems to have some arrogance in his bones. Unlike the truly submissive clown, when he tries to please adults, he doesn't really think they are worthy of his respect. At the same time, he also sees the filthiness and ugliness of those adults. When he plays dumb in front of his peers, he only thinks that the children who are amused by him are really fools.

This kind of character also destined Gui Shao to become the target of bullying in the primary school class where the strong prey on the weak. As more and more people made fun of him or even touched him, Gui Shao found that the old tricks were no longer effective. These children did not have the sense of propriety of adults and their methods were much more cruel, just because they were simple-minded and did not think about the consequences.

Starting with the cicada nailed to the desk, then the frog urinating in the cup, then the ink bottle sealed with glue, the classmates' bullying methods became more and more excessive. He also knew that it would be useless even if he reported it to the teacher. He knew better than anyone that the adults in the school were the most useless and hypocritical. Such people could only survive in a place like elementary school and did not even dare to step into the adult world.

Gui Shao did not dare to tell his mother about this, because his mother would surely scold him for being useless and tell him not to cause trouble, and would not say a word of encouragement to him.

On the last day of the first semester, several well-behaved students in the class asked Gui Shao to go out and play at the lake. Those bad little bastards had been looking for fun from the beginning, and Gui Shao was aware of this, but he could not refuse. If he refused, he would no longer be able to survive in the class.

Gui Shao may have thought that no matter how cruel these children were, they would not do anything to harm lives, but he underestimated the evil of human nature.

One of the kids heard from somewhere that Gui Jiao couldn't swim, so he decided to try it himself. When the boat they stole from the fisherman reached the center of the lake, they threw Gui Jiao off the boat and mocked him for calling for help, "Look, he looks like a drowned dog."

They had planned to rescue Gui Qiao when he was about to drown, and they were sure that Gui Qiao would not dare to tell anyone about this. This way they would get a good reputation for "being brave and righteous". Maybe the principal would even praise them in front of all the students in the school and award them "Three Good Students" certificates!

But what Gui Shao said while struggling in the water angered them, "I will never let you go!!", his eyes were full of unyielding spirit. When several children saw the wolf-like eyes flashing in the eyes of their drowning peer, they were instinctively afraid.

Gui Shao was extremely disappointed, both with human nature and himself. He used to more or less believe that people were inherently kind. This incident completely interrupted his longing for noble character and shattered his fantasy of a better future.