Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“Are you sure you want to fill out this ‘Informed Consent Form for Organ Donation’?”
Beside the bed, a doctor in a white coat asked softly.
Luo Fan nodded as there was not a single good part of his body left; his flesh had become completely putrefied and he was about to die.
“Actually, your situation is still salvageable. You can be transplanted with the egg of a worm and still have a chance to survive.”
“No, such a mutilated body is no different from death.”
After the transplant of a worm’s egg, Luo Fan might survive, but he could only be a half-worm, half-human creature for the rest of his life.
He was reluctant to live in a human society in such a form.
Luo Fan still shook his head, and then put his signature on the ‘Informed Consent Form for Organ Transplant’.
“Mr. Luo, after your death, your eyes will continue to appreciate the beauty and splendor of this world.”
“Thank you!”
Luo Fan died of cancer in July 2018, at the age of 28.
His eyes were removed. They were beautiful eyes.
…
“Is this Hell?”
It was a stretch of ruins. Collapsed buildings were everywhere. Large amounts of dust and smoke had filled the area.
It was burning with fire here, and there was even a rumbling sound in the distance.
In the ruins, there was a large number of mechanical debris, as well as some corpses. It was unclear what kind of creatures they belonged to.
The body of a warrior was lying on the ground. He was wearing a damaged bio-exoskeleton device, and there was a bloody hole on his waist which had bored through the warrior’s body. This could be the cause of death.
After the war, the battlefield had fallen silent.
Suddenly, the eyelids of the warrior’s corpse moved. It was as if some kind of worms were rolling around inside.
As they rolled violently, the eyes snapped open.
A round eyeball was moving inside uninhibited. It seemed to have been inhabited by parasites.
The eyeball swept around, observing the dilapidated scene in the surroundings.
“Is this not my body? Where is this?”
The eyeball could not sense anything else but could see the surrounding scene, even though the brain connected to this eyeball was not his original brain.
But the ability to process information about the external scene seemed to be fully accomplished by the eyeball.
“My name is Luo Fan. I should be dead. This…”
As he regained consciousness, the eyeball gradually realized that he could have been reborn into the eyeball.
“I have become an eye!”
“I have donated my eyes before I died, and my consciousness could have awakened in my eye.”
“Why did I wake up?”
At this moment, Luo Fan suddenly felt a pain; it was as if something was drilling into his body.
His eye scanned around and he immediately found the culprit.
Above the corpse were large numbers of flies and insects. Maggot-like creatures had also filled the corpse from within.
The pain Luo Fan had felt came from the maggots which were burrowing in and out of his eyeball.
A long, thin maggot burrowed out from the side of his eyeball, and then went back in, bringing out the tissues and fluid in his eye. Yellow pus oozed from the socket.
If he were to allow the maggots and worms to burrow all over his body, the eyeball would soon turn into a puddle of pus.
“Damn!”
Luo Fan cursed. He finally understood why he felt pain.
Right now, he only had this eyeball left. Fortunately, his consciousness had woken up early. If he were to wake up a day later, this eyeball would have been completely ingested.
It might not even take a day. In a few hours, the eyeball might become a mass of scattered matter.
“What should I do? I have to take action, but I only have my consciousness that is awake.”
Currently, Luo Fan only had one eyeball left, and it was a disintegrating eyeball.
Apart from this eyeball, no other part of the corpse had belonged to Luo Fan.
Because of this, he had no other choice but to roll the eyeball.
“If I had my hands, I would be able to pull these worms out too.”
He sighed. “I didn’t expect that creatures that used to be mere ordinary worms to me are about to kill me at this point. Do I have to die again after having died once?”
Just as Luo Fan was at his wits’ end, he suddenly received a message in his mind.
[Cell evolution activated. Scanning the cells of the host.]
Immediately after, Luo Fan felt as if an electric current had swept across the entire eyeball.
[Host has 70 million cells left, 35 million joules of energy remaining.]
[Cell upgrade activated. Host, please upgrade on your own.]
At this moment, the initiative had been handed over to Luo Fan’s hands, and some new information was implanted into his intellect.
“Upgrade?”
Luo Fan quickly checked the information that had just entered his intellect.
[Name: Luo Fan]
[Intellect Level: Ordinary human]
[Physical mass: 4.9 grams]
[Form structure: Eyeball (Mainframe that carries consciousness)]
[Form distribution:…]
The form distribution was a full-body view. In this view, it was as if he was looking at his own body from the view of God.
The entire body structure was clearly visible, and marked with colors.
[All of them are white, representing level-1.]
[All are level-1 cells, which are physical cells of ordinary people.”
Luo Fan quickly mobilized the information in his intellect again to check the requirements for upgrading to level-2.
After the cell evolution had been initialized, he realized that the physical body managed by his consciousness had a path to a higher level.
[Cell evolution. To evolve from a level-1 cell to a level-2 cell, the requirement is 1 joule of heat]
“Evolving one cell by one level requires 1 joule of heat. It would take at least tens of millions of joules of heat to evolve all my cells.”
Luo Fan was worried. “Even so, I don’t know if the upgraded cells can stop the ingestion by these maggots.”
“However, there is no other way at the moment. I can only give it a try.”
Next, Luo Fan mobilized the remaining energy in his body and began to strengthen the cells in his body.
The remaining energy in his body was 35 million joules. He wanted to mobilize all of this energy to evolve his cells.
At this moment, Luo Fan suddenly received a message that his mobilization had failed.
Luo Fan was confused for a moment, but he quickly understood.
“I can’t mobilize all the energy. This energy is the basis for the survival of the cells. At most, only ten million joules of heat can be mobilized.”
“Only ten million cells can evolve. But that’s good. I’ll try it first.”
Immediately afterward, the energy in the eyeball began to flow. It flowed into a region that Luo Fan had chosen and flowed into the cells there.
With the irrigation by the energy, in less than ten minutes, the cells were all upgraded.
“They had become level-2 cells.”
The cells that had been upgraded looked bigger and more energetic.
Luo Fan could also feel the special energy in these evolved cells.
“The effect seems to be better than I thought.”
At this moment, the cells had just finished evolving.
A maggot was burrowing out from under the eyeball and gnawing away the flesh along the side wall. It had gnawed apart the flesh near the eyeball and then continued to burrow inward.
The eyeball was Luo Fan’s body. At this moment, his body was crawling with worms.
The maggot was advancing. Without incident, it would be able to create another hole in Luo Fan’s body, causing his body to disintegrate further.
However, at this moment, the maggot had stopped advancing; it had stopped in front of the evolved cells.
The maggot seemed to have hit a wall. It slowly turned around and started gnawing at another spot.
“It worked!”
Luo Fan was delighted, “The evolved cells can indeed survive and resist the attacks of these worms.”
Before Luo Fan could rejoice, another alarm sounded in his body.
[As the host’s consciousness resides in the eyeball, and 50% of the eyeball has been damaged, if the damage reaches 70%, the host’s consciousness will dissipate.]
“What!”
Luo Fan hurriedly looked at his own body, which was already riddled with holes and on the verge of collapse.
“No, I need more energy to strengthen myself..”