Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
[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.]
When this message appeared, Luo Fan was shocked to discover that his body had been damaged to such an extent.
It was almost impossible to tell that the eyeball was an eyeball. It looked more like a round transparent container wrapped in maggots.
“Right now, the most important thing I should do is to upgrade the cells in my body to keep more than 30% of my body intact.”
Luo Fan thought anxiously. His body was already 50% damaged.
Before long, his body would be 70% damaged, causing his consciousness to perish.
“To upgrade the cells in my body, I still need a large amount of energy, and what I lack now is energy.”
“The energy in my body can no longer allow me to continue evolving, so I will need to think of ways to obtain some energy from the outside world.”
Luo Fan knew exactly what the situation was at this time. He had to get the energy to evolve his body as soon as possible.
Then, he looked at the corpse that was connected to his eyeball.
As the internal tissues of the eyeball had been destroyed, the angle of rotation of Luo Fan’s eyeball had also increased.
He rotated his eyeball and saw a part of the corpse he was in.
An arm had already turned blue, and a shoulder had revealed white bones.
“It seems that this corpse has also rotted to this extent.”
It is a situation of crisis!
The way the eyeball got its energy was from the blood which the main body would transport to the eyeball through blood vessels, bringing it nutrients and energy.
But the main body had been dead for an unknown period of time, so how could it send transport to Luo Fan?
What should he do?
“I can’t just die here without doing anything, can I?”
Luo Fan became anxious. Suddenly, he thought,
“Since I can’t actively transport it, I’ll have to actively get it.”
Luo Fan observed himself and found that the area around the eyeball was covered by yellowish-white matter that had been dug out by the maggots that looked like human vomit.
There were some maggots squirming inside, stirring the yellowish-white matter.
Perhaps it looked disgusting, but these yellowish-white matter contained the nutrients and energy that Luo Fan needed.
“Absorb!”
He ordered the cells close to the yellowish-white matter to try to absorb those matter.
This was just an attempt, and Luo Fan didn’t know if it would work.
He kept his attention on the cells that clung to these yellowish-white matter.
As Luo Fan gave the order, some weak matter was devoured by those cells.
There was some effect!
Luo Fan was delighted, but then fell silent.
The effect was minimal!
It did not achieve Luo Fan’s desired outcome. This absorption speed was very slow.
He had already evolved ten million cells. According to the ideal figure, he still needed eleven million more cells to preserve his intellect.
At this rate, it would take him half a day to store enough energy.
In less than half a day, his eyeball would become those disgusting yellowish-white matter.
“There must be another way…”
Luo Fan’s mind was in turmoil as he tried to think of a way to resolve the current situation to survive.
At this moment, a maggot burrowed out from the middle of Luo Fan’s eyeball; the integrity of the middle part of the eyeball had also been destroyed.
This was not a good sign; it indicated that Luo Fan’s crisis was getting worse.
“Perhaps my consciousness will dissipate in less than an hour.”
Luo Fan’s heart ached as he thought about it. After all, this was his own flesh!
That maggot had bored a hole in the eyeball. It came out from the middle of the eyeball because it had run into the evolved cells and could not advance further.
At this moment, some of the yellowish-white matter flowed into the hole which the maggot had made.
“Eh?”
Luo Fan’s attention had been focused on the hole that the maggot had just crawled out from. Naturally, he saw the yellowish-white matter flowing into the hole.
Immediately after, the yellowish-white matter came into contact with the evolved cells.
An eagerness had transmitted into Luo Fan’s intellect.
“Level-2 cells are able to absorb these matter!”
Luo Fan reacted and quickly gave the order.
“Absorb!”
The evolved cells received the command and burst out with an aura that ordinary cells did not have. Each of them seemed to have become a small motor.
They quickly absorbed the matter.
Luo Fan observed himself and realized that the energy in his body was rising rapidly.
“This rate of absorption and conversion is really fast!”
He was also a little surprised. He had thought he would die here and had not expected that the maggots would bring him hope.
The energy increased rapidly. In the blink of an eye, several hundred joules of heat entered his body.
“Upgrade!”
Luo Fan did not dare to be careless. He quickly used the newly absorbed energy to evolve the cells in his body.
This time, he was more meticulous with the evolution. He began to evolve around the yellowish-white matter, starting with the cells closest to these matter.
He let the newly evolved cells participate in the absorption and evolution.
Energy was continuously poured into Luo Fan’s body, and the energy that was poured in was used by Luo Fan to upgrade his cells.
The upgraded cells then added to the absorbed energy, providing energy for Luo Fan again.
This was repeated over and over again.
However, Luo Fan’s body was also gradually breaking down, slowly increasing from the 50% degree of damage.
51%
52%
53%
54%
…
He was racing against time. He had to evolve enough cells before his body became 70% damaged, cells that could maintain his body form.
More than half an hour passed.
“Phew!”
Luo Fan breathed a sigh of relief. The race was over.
He had won.
When his body was 68% damaged, he managed to successfully preserve the remaining 32% of his body.
It was no longer possible to tell that it was part of an eyeball. It was like the core left of a chewed apple.
However, the rest of the body was all evolved cells.
Luo Fan opened up the Form Distribution and could see that his entire body had changed into a different color; it had turned green.
[All are level-2 cells.]
However, this body had already broken beyond recognition. Only less than half an eyeball was lying in the turbid purulent fluid.
The body was covered in rotting flesh.
“Regardless, he has survived.”
Luo Fan heaved a sigh of relief. He no longer had to worry about the threat that he might die any moment.
“But I’m also blind now.”
As most of the eyeball had turned into pus, the small piece that remained no longer had the ability to see.
His only sense had been taken away.
Initially, he could not hear or speak. Now, he was also blind and not able to see.
He could only feel the fluid around him through his cells.
Only the cells around the eyeball were feeding Luo Fan with some information through absorbing matter.
“However, why is the amount of surrounding matter decreasing so rapidly?”
At this moment, Luo Fan discovered a problem. Under his absorption, there was the absorption by the maggots and worms. Most of the tissues in the eye socket had been consumed.
“I guess I’ll have to store as much energy as I can.”
He thought.
“Otherwise, when all the matter here has been completely absorbed, I will also die.”
Just like fish in a swamp that had dried up, if the nutrients around him were all depleted, it would be impossible for him to survive.
“Detached from this eye socket, I can only survive for a day or two in the outside world before I die.”
“The best way is to absorb energy and store it now so that I can have the means to survive in the outside world before the resources here dry up..”