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Luo Fan felt his body sinking very slowly.
All around him was filthy mud, dragging his body and slowing him down.
This was a mixture of mud, rotten meat, and water. For some reason, the mixture did not settle down but was thoroughly mixed with the water.
Luo Fan’s body was heavier, so he kept sinking.
And Luo Fan did not struggle much. He just kept sinking.
This was because he had discovered that the large snake had left after seeing the swamp.
However, he could not be certain whether the large snake would return again and grab him out of the swamp.
Therefore, he wanted to sink to the bottom of the swamp and keep himself away from the large snake as much as possible.
…
Luo Fan felt that he had sunk about 20 meters and reached the bottom of the swamp.
It was pitch-black here, but Luo Fan could sense that the place he had stepped on was filled with garbage.
All kinds of garbage had lined the bottom, and even piled into a hill.
He moved about here, feeling the objects around him.
Beside garbage bags, beverage bottles, and other trash, there was also rotten food stuck to the bottom of the swamp, or the bodies of some creatures.
In this place, one could even come into contact with the skeletons of creatures which had their flesh gnawed clean.
“Without light, it’s difficult to see clearly what’s around me. I can only rely on my sense of touch.”
Luo Fan seemed to be in the darkest abyss. It was completely dark without any light.
“It’s so dark here that my physical senses are rendered useless. I can’t be running about here. If I lose my direction, I might be trapped here and die.”
He started to calm down and stopped walking.
Down in this swamp, he calmed down and started to sense.
The only sensory organ was the sense of touch.
And, Luo Fan’s cells had evolved, so his sense of touch was even more sharp.
However, in this dark environment, although he could sense his surroundings based on his sense of touch, he was still not much different from a blind person.
“I need to create a sensory organ to help me survive here.”
Luo Fan could feel the cold water around him, but he did not have the ability to sense the environment outside.
“I need a medium to receive information from the outside world so that I can still obtain information even in the dark. Here, the flashlight is no longer usable. I need to find another way.”
Luo Fan’s energy storage cells still had a lot of energy and matter stored in them, and they were now hanging behind his body like a bunch of bloated tumors.
After absorbing more than a hundred rat carcasses, a large portion of the energy had been used to evolve his cells, and he had stored a small portion of it.
Although it was only a small portion, it was still a lot of energy.
Luo Fan began to attempt to create some sensory organs.
In such a lightless condition, there were many ways to sense the surroundings.
For example, sensitive touch, sound waves, or water pressure waves could all present images of the surroundings to Luo Fan’s intelligence.
Now, supported by the level-3 eyeball cells, his intelligence had become extremely sensitive, able to process information other than images.
Luo Fan thought for a moment and decided to create a responsive sensory organ, which would be able to subtly sense the water flow around him, and also detect the changes of water flow in different places.
He began to divide the cells on his eyeballs, gathering matter and energy toward the place where the cells had divided.
Small new bumps of flesh protruded out slowly and became tangled together. They were white and tender.
Soon, the bulging flesh extended and developed in one direction.
Luo Fan continued to supply energy to the bulging flesh, which continued to extend, becoming thin whiskers of flesh.
He continued to supply the nutrients, splitting the cells on the whiskers to increase their length.
The length of the whiskers slowly increased, and Luo Fan started to do some work on these whiskers which were already half-formed.
He began to divide some other cells around these whiskers. These cells could capture the subtle vibrations of the water flow.
These cells of a different kind that had split out were numerous. They could sense the slightest vibration in the surroundings.
When a large number of these vibrations were brought together, they would form information about the outside world.
These cells divided in large numbers on this whisker and started to spread. Soon, the whole whisker was covered.
Then, the few whiskers continued to extend, and the cells on them continued to divide.
After some time, Luo Fan could feel that he had used up almost half of the matter and energy in the storage cells. Then, he stopped.
At this moment, four long slender whiskers had grown from the front of his eyeball.
The whiskers were very thin, just like the data lines of a cell phone. They were very thin compared to Luo Fan’s body.
The total length was more than a meter, slightly longer than the length of the intestines.
These whiskers moved gracefully in front of Luo Fan’s eyeball and twisted gently, sensing the fluctuations of the surrounding water.
These four sensory organs were all level-1 cells that had not evolved. There was not much energy stored in Luo Fan’s body for them to evolve.
[Sensory Organs]
[Introduction: They consist of muscle cells and sensory cells. They are an important way to receive information about the outside world.]
[Level: 1]
[Mass: 0.2 kg]
[Function: Receive and transmit information.]
These were new organs created by Luo Fan. They had the ability to receive information about the outside world in this dark and lightless state underground.
This was equivalent to having another eye in the darkness, and being able to open both eyes in the dark.
“However, this is the first time I’ve tried to process information in this form. My intellect is still not used to it. I need to try it out.”
Luo Fan could already sense information about the outside world when he created the sensory organs and put them to work.
But now the information transmitted to his intellect was still not quite complete.
He needed some time to get used to it.
Then, Luo Fan looked at his information.
[Name: Luo Fan]
[Wisdom Level: Normal human+]
[Physical mass: 7.43 kg]
[Form structure: Eyeball, intestines, energy storage tumors, spiked tails, claws, sensory organs.]
[Form Distribution:…]
In the Form Distribution, green color was dominant. Most parts were green.
The gap between the green and blue colors was relatively large, so there were very few blue areas.
Of course, there were also some white level-1 cells, including the sensory cells Luo Fan had just created. They were all level-1 cells.
7.43 kg. This was already very heavy, about as heavy as a 7 or 8-month-old baby.
At first, Luo Fan was only the size of an eyeball and only weighed very little.
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Now, he had gradually gotten stronger.
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As Luo Fan completed the creation of sensory cells, the surrounding waters slowly began to manifest their true form to him.
Although he was still unable to see some things clearly, he could at least sense their general appearance.
Luo Fan started to quiet down, and then, he sensed the flow of the water..