Chapter 069
Chapter 069
"CPR, quick! This is the first and only case in our base of someone surviving in the wild for more than 72 hours without any protective measures or oxygen supply."
Breaking the record of thirteen hours of survival in the wild without oxygen supply, which has been maintained for ten years!
His genes have begun to adapt to the planet's environment.
He is humanity's hope for conquering this planet!
In the emergency room of the Shuguang Base, a group of medical staff raced against time to save Meng Cheng'an on the operating table.
On the operating table, Meng Cheng'an was shocked.
Has it come back to this day again?
Hearing the familiar conversation, Meng Cheng'an couldn't help but curse inwardly.
To hell with hope, to hell with dawn!
"You want me to be your stud?"
In his previous life, on this very day, he was elevated to a divine status, but from this very day onward, he was imprisoned by this damn base and made a stud for decades!
"We can't stay at the base anymore..."
Without any hesitation, Meng Cheng'an immediately abandoned the pulsation of every bone, every blood vessel, and even every cell in his body.
This is his special ability: he can perfectly control any part of his body, even a single cell.
He can make any of his body's organs shut down whenever he wants.
"Oh no, his vital signs are rapidly declining."
"I feel like his bones are collapsing."
"When blood vessels are blocked, the heart cannot keep up with the blood supply."
The group of doctors were immediately thrown into a panic.
"Let's see if he can still be used there. Let's stimulate him a little, at least leave a seed of hope before he dies..."
Hearing this, Meng Chengan was not surprised; all these guys ever wanted was his genes.
Without any hesitation, Meng Cheng'an accelerated the deterioration of his body's organs, even causing his bones to shatter.
They didn't even spare that place...
In just a few moments, a person who was once alive and well was instantly reduced to a pile of rotten flesh.
At this point, the attending physician finally shook his head and said, "He has been exposed to the external environment for too long, and his various organs and even bones have been deformed by the pressure of the atmosphere."
"It's hopeless..."
"You're talking nonsense! He was perfectly fine when he was brought in!" The base's high-ranking officer, who had initially been shouting for emergency medical assistance, suddenly roared.
"It's like diving. In the past, pioneers would go out for a maximum of ten hours or so, but he stayed out for a full seventy-two hours."
If we compare this number to diving, ten hours is in shallow water and seventy-two hours is in deep water. Before he comes back, there is an essential process: decompression.
I admit it was our oversight, but no one has ever stayed outside for 72 hours before, and we hadn't made any preparations for it. This incident has served as a reminder to us.
Just because something hasn't happened doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Decompression rooms should be put on the agenda, and they must be equipped with emergency rooms and professional emergency personnel.
Otherwise, if another person like that comes along, it won't be possible to save them.
boom!
Enraged, the base leader slammed his fist into the metal wall beside him, gritting his teeth in fury.
"Such tremendous progress, ruined by such a trivial matter!"
After saying that, he looked at Meng Cheng'an on the operating table again, "Then what research value does he still have? After the autopsy, can we study the direction of his gene mutation?"
Seventy-two hours—that's a qualitative leap.
Upon hearing this, Meng Cheng'an immediately tensed up. This guy even wanted to dissect and study it, which made him even more uneasy.
It's important to know that his cell regeneration ability is almost abnormal. If there were no outsiders around, he could instantly get his cells working and his bones restored.
"It's possible, but I suggest we go somewhere else, at least not the base."
His situation is like suddenly emerging from the depths of the ocean, hundreds of meters deep; he is at risk of exploding at any moment.
Although the base is made of alloy, if he were to explode, it could potentially contaminate the entire air circulation system.
We can't survive for 72 hours in such low oxygen conditions.
Upon hearing the doctor's words, Meng Chengan was overjoyed and immediately began to swell up his belly.
"Oh no, he's going to explode!"
Upon seeing this, someone immediately shouted something.
"Quickly, throw him out, throw him outside the base..." The base's high-ranking officers hurriedly took a step back and shouted.
Reality is cruel; only those with value are humanity's hope, and those without value are worse than worthless trash.
"Prepare two sets of protective suits; I'll go myself," the attending physician said. "In any case, surviving in the wild for more than 72 hours still has some research value."
The base's high command nodded, and soon someone lifted Meng Cheng'an into a base vehicle.
Meng Chengan only breathed a sigh of relief after the attending physician drove the base vehicle out of the base.
They finally escaped.
To be honest, he was fully capable of getting up and subduing the doctor, but after thinking it over, he chose to remain still.
He always felt that the doctor was helping him.
"Imperial Jade Liquor?"
Just then, the medic who was driving the base vehicle suddenly blurted out this sentence out of the blue.
Meng Cheng'an was immediately startled and whispered, "One hundred and eighty yuan a cup?"
Nourishes...
Upon hearing this, the doctor slammed on the brakes.
"I knew I was right, you're a trial participant too!"
As the mobile medical unit came to a stop, the doctor excitedly turned around and shouted.
Meng Cheng'an didn't speak, but quickly induced cell division and bone regeneration. Almost instantly, he sat up and asked, "Why did you help me?"
If he still doesn't realize by this point that the doctor is intentionally helping him, then he has truly wasted his two lives.
"What you're saying is ridiculous. We're all trial participants, not people from this world. In the end, we all have the same goal: to clear the level and get the rewards."
How's it going? Teamwork to clear the level?
As you know, there are no clues to pass this trial. If you fight alone, who knows how long it will take to pass?
Cooperation and information sharing.
As he spoke, he extended his hand.
"Aren't you afraid I'll sell you out? You know, the trial participants are also competitors." Meng Cheng'an looked at the doctor in front of him with some curiosity.
Although he knew from the beginning that the doctor was a woman, he didn't expect her to be so bold.
"You think you can go back?" The female doctor smiled brightly. "Believe it or not, as soon as news of your survival gets back to the base, they will spare no expense to send people to capture you."
The best outcome would be to become a ruthless pile driver in the base; the worst outcome, however, is not impossible—to dissect and study it.
Given your control over your body, if you were to expose yourself, countless people would want to eat your flesh and drink your blood.
You are now far more desirable than Tang Sanzang's flesh.
So many high-ranking officials in the base are worried about how their genes will mutate...
Do you think they don't want to leave the base?
Ultimately, they simply don't dare.
So now you only have two choices: either kill me here, but if I die, your secret probably won't be able to stay hidden anyway; or cooperate with me.
I believe that with your abilities, you will definitely be able to find clues to pass the level.
My identity allows me to provide you with intelligence and also offer you a great deal of covert assistance.
Meng Cheng'an didn't refute, but asked curiously, "Aren't you curious about the changes in my body?"
"What's so curious about?" the female doctor retorted. "You don't actually think of yourself as a second-generation pioneer, do you?"
Wake up! This is just a trial game for us!
Isn't it normal for games to have special abilities?
Otherwise, how would you beat such a ridiculously difficult game? You don't think you're the only one with some special abilities, do you?
Friend, you are not the only protagonist!
In short, are you in?
As she spoke, she stretched out her hand again.
"It's a pleasure to cooperate." This time, Meng Cheng'an didn't hesitate. After reaching an agreement, Meng Cheng'an asked, "You're a base doctor, so you should know some things I don't, right?"
Meng Shisan is a very quick learner, which is evident from his previous performance.
The fact that it could still send chills down his spine at this moment speaks volumes.
Did I hear that right?
With these doubts in mind, Meng Shisan raised his hand and brought it close to his ear.
In an instant, he became serious.
What did he hear?
He could hear the rushing of blood in his veins!
I could also hear my own bones cracking!
I could even hear the cells in my arm breathing!
Meng Shisan was especially calm at this moment.
He knew that in an absolutely quiet environment, a person could hear the sound of blood flowing through their veins.
But his isolation room was by no means absolutely quiet.
Moreover, he could even hear the cells breathing. Cells, let alone breathing, how quiet would they be if they were shouting?
"Huh, your genes are starting to revert to their ancestral state."
Just then, a blue light screen suddenly shot out, floating in mid-air and slowly condensing into a humanoid shape the size of a basketball.
"No, where did you come from?" Meng Shisan was also extremely surprised to see this little thing.
"You scumbag, I'm your AI, Xiaoqi."
"Little Seven?" Meng Shisan was genuinely stunned for a moment. "You transmigrated here too?"
Xiao Qi touched his non-existent head and said blankly, "Time travel? I don't know. A string of code suddenly entered my program. That code said that this is a trial game."
Once you complete the game, you can return to the real world.
"I've been transported into the game?" Upon hearing this, Meng Shisan understood.
After all, he had previously suspected that he possessed inexplicable primordial memories of this world after his transmigration.
But if it's a game, then it's easy to understand; it's just a matter of a piece of code.
"By the way, what did you mean when you said my genes were atavistic?" Meng Shisan thought of this question.
I forgot to ask just now.
"This is also what that code records, saying it's what life originally looks like. That code is too complicated, I can't fully analyze it yet, and they won't let me see many things."
Xiaoqi said with a dejected look on her face, her aggrieved expression somewhat human-like.
Genetic atavism?
Meng Shisan muttered to himself, "This shouldn't be a bad thing." Thinking this, he looked at Xiao Qi with a look of disdain and said, "What use are you? You don't know anything."
"How can it not work?" Xiaoqi immediately protested, hands on her hips. "If I could parse other low-level code, I could parse that string of code too."
Hearing this, Meng Shisan was about to ask how to parse other codes, but then a question suddenly occurred to him, and he immediately asked, "You have your own consciousness?"
"What is consciousness?" Xiaoqi asked, scratching her head.
"Is it just my own opinion?"
Xiaoqi continued, "What's your idea?"
"I remember you're artificial intelligence, not artificial stupidity!" Meng Shisan said irritably. "Just tell me, what do you want to do most right now?"
"Of course it's parsing other code," Xiao Qi said. "You're getting dumber and dumber. I already told you, once I parse other code, I can parse that string of code. It's like leveling up. That string of code is at a higher level than me, so I can't parse it completely yet."
Meng Shisan fell silent.
He was certain that this guy had truly developed his own consciousness.
The world has gone so mad that he no longer recognizes it.
He accepted the idea of being transported to a game world.
He even accepted the idea of genetic atavism.
Nowadays, even artificial intelligence is beginning to develop its own consciousness.
"Wait a minute, you said that the code string is at a higher level than you, so you can't parse it. Could it then parse you instead?" Meng Shisan suddenly realized a very serious problem.
He can accept that Xiaoqi is conscious.
After all, they've been arguing for so many years.
But he couldn't accept the possibility that Xiao Qi would be replaced after being analyzed.
"No way?" Xiaoqi tilted her head and thought for a moment. "It's incomplete and has no analytical capabilities at all."
"That's good." Hearing him say that, Meng Shisan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way, since you said this is a game, how do you beat it?"
Xiaoqi scratched her head: "I don't know much either, but that string of code kept repeating a few words intermittently."
"What word?"
"Intrigue, pioneering, genes, domestication, deserters, creation," Xiaoqi said earnestly. "Just these few, repeating themselves on and off."
"Reclaiming wasteland should be related to the pioneers, and their genes may be related to what you call genetic atavism."
What is a deserter? What is domestication...?
Meng Shisan shook his head.
This world is becoming more and more interesting.
"By the way, your genes have reverted to their ancestral state, so you can control your body now."
"Control the body?" Meng Shisan looked at Xiao Qi in confusion.
"Yes, that's how life is supposed to be. All cells, bones, and blood vessels are under your command."
You make them behave like… wait, someone's coming.”
After Xiao Qi finished speaking, he disappeared without a trace. Only Meng Shisan knew that this guy had hidden inside his body.
However, he couldn't care less about that at the moment. When he heard Xiao Qi remind him that someone was coming, he heard footsteps approaching from afar.
Soon, the door to the isolation room was pushed open.
Upon seeing the person who arrived, Meng Shisan was taken aback.
He recognized her; she was Xu Xin, the deputy director of the medical center, a well-known aloof beauty at the base.
The reason for the surprise is that this aloof beauty, who is always focused on her work, was wearing a super short bodycon skirt with a V-neck t-shirt today, which is quite unusual.
With her figure and looks, who wouldn't be confused?
The key point is that this woman has never dressed like this before.
In Meng Shisan's memory, the first time he saw this woman, she was wearing a white coat. What had triggered this today?
"How are you feeling?" As soon as she entered the room, Xu Xin walked straight over to Meng Shisan. Seeing him in a daze, she casually told him to sit back on the bed.
"Don't move, I'm going to do a routine check-up."
As she spoke, Xu Xin lowered her head and used her fingers to pry open Meng Shisan's eyes.
Meng Shisan was incredibly embarrassed, thinking to himself, "I originally intended to stay out of sight, but you've forced me to..."
After examining her for about ten minutes, Xu Xin asked, "How have you been feeling lately?"
"It's alright, at least I haven't felt any obvious physical discomfort yet," Meng Shisan said, turning his head away somewhat embarrassedly.
"Alright, I'll take you somewhere." Xu Xin didn't mind and immediately led Meng Shisan out of the isolation room.
Because the entire base has only one medical center, it occupies a large area.
Even though Meng Shisan had been here before, he was still confused.
"Director Xu, how is he?"
Someone asked in front of a gate.
Xu Xin said without any change in expression, "The function is still available, but whether it will actually work is still uncertain."
After saying that, she gestured for Meng Shisan to follow her inside.
After Meng Shisan went inside, the previously closed space suddenly opened up.
What comes into view is a huge auditorium.
Inside the auditorium, hundreds of people were either sitting or walking, creating a lively atmosphere.
The walls around the auditorium were covered with large screens.
The content on the screen was also simple and straightforward, with a dazzling array of beautiful women on display.
"Where is this?" Meng Shisan asked curiously.
"A man's paradise," Xu Xin said bluntly. "See those screens around us?"
Meng Shisan nodded; this truly lived up to the name "a paradise for men."
"These screens, there are thirteen layers in total, and each layer has eight hundred screens."
Each screen displays images of women of marriageable and childbearing age at the base.
And all of these are prepared for you pioneers.
Of course, not every pioneer has this qualification.
The top level allows you to survive outside the base for five hours.
Six hours, seven hours... in sequence
Of course, you're not in that category. You can pick any of the women on the screen you want, as many as you like.
The meaning of "base" is that the more the better.
Moreover, besides them, you can have any of the other women in the base you fancy.
It's like if you take a fancy to someone right now, she'll be waiting for you in her room, beaming with joy, within an hour.
"What if I take a liking to you?" Meng Shisan suddenly turned his head and asked curiously.
Upon hearing this, Xu Xin was not angry: "I may not be that happy, but I will definitely make you like it."
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