Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“I need the ability to survive after being detached from this body.”
As Luo Fan considered this, he became anxious.
Firstly, the area of the socket surrounding his eyeball was severely rotten and there was no tissue left to hold his eyeball in place.
Secondly, the corpse he was in was also slowly rotting. Once it had completely rotted, Luo Fan would really become a fish without water.
Thirdly, he did not have any autonomy at the moment and could not survive on his own. He could die if there was the slightest disaster in the outside world.
“So what I need to do now is to work hard to absorb energy and get my body up.”
Then, Luo Fan continued to increase his strength, letting the level-2 cells that could come into contact with the rotten flesh and pus start working hard at absorbing the energy.
The energy was increasing little by little, and the surrounding pus was also decreasing.
After about half an hour, Luo Fan thought, “This won’t do. With the sun in the sky and those maggots gnawing away. Sooner or later, all the rotten flesh that my cells can come into contact with will be absorbed clean. I need to use other methods to absorb matter.”
Luo Fan thought for a while and said, “The organs that absorb matter in the human body are the intestines and the stomach. The stomach is so big and inconvenient to carry to the eyeball. I might as well evolve a few pieces of intestines.”
With that thought in mind, he made the cells below the eyeball start to divide.
The cells that had evolved to level-2 had another function, which was that they could be used as low-grade stem cells.
Although it was an eyeball cell, the cells that split out could also differentiate into intestinal cells after two cycles.
Next, all the nutrients and energy that had been absorbed by Luo Fan, he slowly transported them all to the cells below the eyeball.
Very quickly, small lumps of tissues started to grow gradually.
“Quick! Quick!”
Luo Fan urged as he increased his strength.
He had to split that intestine out before the rotten flesh and pus around him disappeared.
Otherwise, he would really become the only piece of flesh in this eye socket. His body could not move, he could not go somewhere else to absorb energy. Sooner or later, he would die here.
Therefore, he had to create the “intestine” in his plan before the resources ran out.
The little lumps of tissue behind the eyeball grew longer and longer. When they had reached a certain length, they began to expand sideways.
Immediately following that, the lumps of tissues connected together, forming a tube-like tissue.
“It worked!”
Luo Fan was delighted. Although he couldn’t see the surrounding scene, he could see the condition of his body.
[Name: Luo Fan]
[Intellect Level: Ordinary human]
[Physical mass: 2.2 grams]
[Form structure: Eyeball (Mainframe that carries consciousness), intestines (absorb matter and convert matter)]
[Form distribution:…]
Due to the losses of his body, his current mass was only 2.2 grams.
There was an added component to his body structure, which was the intestine that he had just created. It could be used to absorb matter and convert matter.
However, the length of the intestine was only two millimeters. It was very small.
“Although it is still very weak, the prototype has been created. The next step is to divide and lengthen the intestine.”
Luo Fan then channeled the nutrients and energy in his body to the intestine.
Large amounts of nutrients and energy circulated between the cells and finally converged on the intestine, gradually growing it little by little.
As time passed, Luo Fan’s intestine grew longer and longer.
After a long time had elapsed.
“Ha! Finally, I can finally reach my brain.”
Luo Fan stopped channeling nutrients and energy into that intestine, which had been successfully created.
“At the moment, this length should be enough.”
The nominal length of the intestine was only two centimeters long and it was as thick as a wire. It had inserted deeply into the brain of the corpse along the back of the eyeball.
The brain matter was absorbed by the intestine and slowly being digested inside it.
“Fortunately, this brain is soft. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been so smoothly absorbed.”
After he had inserted the intestine into the brain, the rotten flesh around the eyeball was also being slowly sucked clean.
The maggots which had gathered here initially shifted their positions and began to follow the eye and burrow into the head of the corpse.
They continued to compete with Luo Fan for nourishment.
…
This was a stretch of ruins, flames were burning here.
Dead bodies and wrecked vehicles littered the ground, along with the collapsed building.
It was as if a major disaster had struck here. Everyone in the city had died here.
In the ruins, a corpse lay silent near the riverbank.
His body had not been pecked by the vultures that dared venture here, and it remained very much in an intact form.
However, the only surprising thing was, the head of this corpse only had an eyeball hanging in the eye socket, and what connected the eyeball to the corpse were what appeared to be several long, thin wires.
If this was night, it would have been a horrifying sight.
“The intestine has already split into five, but they are all level-1 cells. It’s time to repair the eye.”
Luo Fan spent a day to create another four more intestines and also inserted them in the same manner into the brain to absorb energy.
Including the one he had made at the beginning, there were five in total. All five intestines were only level-1 cells.
The cells split out from level-2 cells were not level-2 cells. They would also become level-1 cells, ordinary cells.
“I need to upgrade them, but I’m still short of energy. I need a lot of matter and energy to repair this eye.”
Luo Fan felt a sense of urgency as the brain matter of this corpse was also depleting rapidly.
Those disgusting maggots were crawling into the skull from all directions to suck the brain matter and soft tissues inside.
“Damn!”
At this moment, Luo Fan suddenly sensed that his intestines seemed to be unable to reach his brain.
“What happened?”
Luo Fan’s intestines swung from left to right, but they could only touch the edges of the brain and could not absorb it at all.
“Has it already been fully absorbed by me?”
He was puzzled. At this moment, his intestines encountered a soft creature.
Luo Fan recognized the creature immediately. “Aren’t these the fly larvae that had been wreaking havoc near him—maggots?”
“Damn! It’s these fellows again!”
The fact that the intestines he had created had no matter to absorb must have something to do with these fellows.
“Nature is indeed cruel. It is a constant state of competition.”
He was quite emotional, but at the same time, he felt a surge of anger.
After he had awakened, the biggest obstacle was these fly larvae.
From the beginning, they had been devouring his body, and now they were competing with him for resources.
“What a bunch of disgusting fellows!”
Luo Fan was a little angry. He was still lacking a lot of energy to repair his eyeball and upgrade his intestinal cells.
Furthermore, he did not have the ability to survive in the outside world by himself.
“Since you guys want to compete with me, I’ll eat you all!”
Luo Fan made up his mind and decided that since he could not reach the brain, he would prey on these fly larvae around him.
They were also energy that could be converted anyway..