96: The New Human and the Prelude to the Great World

In his dream, Lu Chuan vaguely heard someone calling him.

He groggily opened his eyes and looked towards the door.

“He Jingrui?”

As his voice fell, the footsteps at the door subtly moved, followed by a knock… no, it should be a banging sound.

Thump thump thump—

The sound of banging on the door grew from barely audible to deafening.

Under the gradually increasing force, the door began to tremble, and plaster dust rustling fell.

A puzzled expression appeared on Lu Chuan’s face. He called out for the person outside to stop knocking, then got out of bed to open the door.

Suddenly, his nose caught a very fishy smell.

This smell… He surprisingly twitched his nostrils, feeling it increasingly familiar, then stared in astonishment at the water seeping in through the gap under the door.

What’s going on? An ominous premonition flashed through Lu Chuan’s mind.

But before he could figure it out, the door was suddenly blasted open by a huge force, and then he witnessed a scene that nearly scared the soul out of him.

“Ah!!!!!”

…The sky was faintly bright.

Lu Chuan suddenly opened his eyes, then sat up in bed, drenched in sweat.

He quickly looked towards the door, especially at the gap.

He found the door perfectly intact, no water stains at the gap, and no fallen plaster dust on the floor.

A hint of surprise appeared on Lu Chuan’s face, followed by a self-deprecating smile.

He patted his head, vaguely feeling that he might have been too tired lately to have such a nightmare.

At this moment, the sound of “heave-ho, heave-ho” from morning exercises suddenly echoed downstairs.

Lu Chuan was startled, then quickly got out of bed and ran downstairs with a thud.

“He Jingrui, why didn’t you wake me up again!”

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In the sterile ward, Gao Lingfeng suddenly opened his eyes, then stared blankly at the hazy white ceiling.

After a while, as if remembering something, light gradually appeared in his eyes.

【Gao Lingfeng, how are you feeling now?】

A slightly distorted voice suddenly sounded in the ward.

Gao Lingfeng used half his body to exert force, raising his hand to press on the bedboard, trying to sit up from the bed.

He only heard a tearing sound, and the hand supporting the bed instantly punched through the ten-centimeter thick rubber bedboard.

“…”

He slowly withdrew his hand, then looked at the bedboard with a large hole, a surprised expression on his face.

At this moment, the voice sounded again.

【Congratulations, you have successfully broken through the limits of the human body.】

The voice carried a hint of fanaticism.

【From this moment on, you represent humanity, stepping into the tide of evolution!】

Gao Lingfeng looked at the dazzling white ward, then listened to the voice from an unknown source, slightly dazed.

“Evolution?”

【Yes, you have completed a crucial evolution! The current you, is a New Human!】

“Me, a New Human?”

Gao Lingfeng looked at his veiny hands, repeated the words, and confusion appeared in his eyes.

He felt his mind was a mess; a simple sentence now took a long time to even slightly comprehend its meaning.

Seeing Gao Lingfeng deep in thought, the voice fell silent, no longer disturbing him.

At this moment, in the command hall of the secret research institute.

Ye Yi sat high on the platform, staring intently at Gao Lingfeng on the screen.

In the open space below him, rows of computers hummed, and data on the display screens rapidly flowed.

Hundreds of D-level researchers sat in their positions, all staring intently at the screen data, their keyboards clattering.

At the same time, graded instructions were continuously transmitted into their ears through bone-conduction headsets.

A tense, busy atmosphere constantly enveloped the hall.

Until an AI-synthesized electronic voice came through Ye Yi’s headset.

【System has completed monitoring data analysis. Subject Gao Lingfeng’s data restructuring completion: 100%.】

The screen in front of Ye Yi suddenly split into two.

The left side was still the image of Gao Lingfeng deep in thought.

The right side was now a human body perspective reconstruction model layer, covered with dense red, blue, and white lines.

Next to the perspective layer, there was also a three-dimensional brainwave spectrum.

The purple-red curve in the spectrum was currently converging towards the center in a Fibonacci spiral shape.

Ye Yi listened to the AI’s data analysis results, while also comparing them with the reconstructed model, his eyes sparkling with wonder.

After a while, he couldn’t help but exclaim,

“This is the greatest miracle in human history, bar none!”

Then, thinking that the one who created this miracle was his original self—Ye Chen.

His eyes once again showed a mix of reverence and awe.

After another moment, the AI continued to report.

【Subject Gao Lingfeng’s cell sectioning has been completed. Upon testing, the hongjun particle has been activated, mitochondria are effectively elongated, and the energy threshold has broken through its upper limit…】

【According to analysis, the current cell awakening rate has reached: 1%】

Cell awakening rate is the activity level of the hongjun particle.

This was the naming convention Ye Chen insisted on despite strong opposition at the time.

Ye Yi initially couldn’t understand why his original self was so persistent, but now listening to the AI’s report, he suddenly felt it was strangely fitting.

First came the awakening of the hongjun particle, then the evolution of human cells.

And what is evolution?

This is a question even a junior high school student can answer offhand, citing extensively from the theory of species evolution.

Because it is so classic, even many current scientific journals continue to use these outdated scientific “common sense.”

But Ye Yi, who is at the forefront of today’s top scientific research, had long since “betrayed common sense” and chosen to “go against the grain.”

He deeply knew that evolution was not that simple.

The theory of evolution, which is held as truth by the world today, actually only needs a small catalyst to be easily overturned.

Ye Yi watched Gao Lingfeng slowly stand up on the screen, knowing that this catalyst had appeared.

Humanity’s great evolutionary tide had slowly begun.

Ye Yi could almost see a brand new era arriving!

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“Killing fish, killing fish, still killing fish! Now I dream of killing fish!”

He Jingrui looked at the yard full of cleaned fish, on the verge of tears.

Lu Chuan suppressed his laughter as he cleaned and prepared over a hundred River Catfish, then began to marinate them.

Before long, a rich aroma of grilled fish spread throughout the yard.

And Lu Chuan then heard the sounds of children crying, adults scolding, and dogs barking from the surrounding neighbors.

“What a sin…”

Lu Chuan thought to himself.

In the past five days, every time he cooked grilled fish at home, he would hear the noisy commotion from nearby houses.

Especially the earth-shattering cries of the neighbor’s child, which made Lu Chuan feel very apologetic.

He clearly remembered that his most difficult period was spent with the help of his neighbors.

As a result, these past few days, he was probably making these neighbors crave his food… Although there was a reason and it wasn’t his intention, he still felt quite bad.

However, today was a rare day off, so he would deliver a grilled fish to each household to show his apology!

Thinking this, Lu Chuan sped up his fanning and adding coal.

The aroma of grilled fish was carried by the wind out of the yard, delivering it to every household.

The next moment, various noisy sounds returned even more “joyfully.”