The method of replacing the microbial community was as simple and crude as the disinfection procedure. Lin Sanjiu, who had lost her Higher Consciousness, swayed from all directions, and her skin hurt. She couldn't even open her eyes. She couldn't even breathe in the water, let alone open her eyes. She was like a seagull in a storm. She couldn't even think of the question, "Why do I need to replace the microbial community?"
When she finally managed to endure for ten minutes, she was sent into a ring. She had seen a factory assembly line on TV before. When the machine pressed down, a plastic bottle cap would be placed on the bottle. Lin Sanjiu was now the bottle cap.
When the ring was lifted back up, she was wearing a grey robe.
Although it was called a robe, it was actually two pieces of coarse fabric that were sewn together. There were holes for her head and arms. Fortunately, it was loose and big, so it didn't hinder her movement.
"You are a civilized person now," Mrs. Manas said. "Why don't you try taking clothes from the card bank? There seems to be no one in this factory. It's all automated. "
"... Forget it," Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and gave up. "Just in case, I need to be as inconspicuous as possible."
This factory seemed to be connected to a few things: the whereabouts of the ordinary people in Fan Jia City, the purpose of the Shadow Temple, the relationship with the old lady, and the possibility of Magus … Compared to the truth that she might discover, it wasn't a big deal to sneak in and suffer a little.
However, she had to find a way to cover her [Pygmalion Choker].
When Lin Sanjiu was pushed onto another track, she tore off the hem of her robe and wrapped it around her neck. She pretended that she was injured during the process of disinfecting and replacing her robe. That would be a good way to make up for it.
"What's the point of replacing it with a posthuman's microbial community?" Lin Sanjiu finally found the time to ask, "Posthuman are posthuman not because of their microbial community. I don't see my ability being doubled either. If the purpose is to create posthuman, why don't we just release the apocalyptic element? "
"Besides, the one in my body didn't move," Mrs. Manas was equally clueless, "I really don't know what to do."
"Maybe the answer lies deeper inside the factory."
Lin Sanjiu's stamina was not as good as before, so she had to seize the opportunity to rest. She sat down on the tracks. As the tracks buzzed forward, the darkness around her gradually faded away. She rubbed her sore eyes, and when she put her hands down, she was stunned.
"What … is this?"
Far away in the darkness ahead, various colored lights were gradually floating, like weightless water waves, lingering in the darkness, washing towards the shore wave by wave. The destination in front of the tracks was a vast "wall".
Rows and rows of translucent cubicles were embedded in the wall. There was no end to the cubicles. It looked like a beehive that had been magnified countless times floating in the universe.
Most of the honeycomb grids were glowing with moon-white, orange-yellow, and light red, like jewels scattered on black velvet. The lights floated out of the grids, drifted into the darkness, and intertwined with each other. If it were not for the fact that there was a black figure standing in each of the brightly lit grids, it would have been a beautiful scene.
"We are about to enter," Mrs. Manas reminded.
The tracks that brought Lin Sanjiu forward were leading to a metal door in the middle of the wall. They were probably going to send her through this door. There were a few other metal doors in the distance.
The tracks seemed to be traveling through a pitch-black abyss. The two sides of the tracks seemed to be swallowing one's gaze. Lin Sanjiu squinted her eyes and looked carefully. She found that the other metal doors were also connected to tracks. They floated in the darkness in the distance. Perhaps, they were also transporting ordinary people.
Every time the door opened and closed, the positions of the cubicles would change. The lights flickered in the darkness. Lin Sanjiu looked around and understood. After the people were sent through the door, they would enter the empty cubicle. Once the person was in the cubicle, the cubicle would move away and be replaced by another cubicle.
"When I fell from the sky, I had my suspicions. Now, I am almost certain. This factory … "She looked around and said softly," It must have been made from more than one pocket dimension or Special Item. "
"Is this the final destination?"
When she stepped into a dimly lit cubicle, Lin Sanjiu's body tensed up. When she looked from the outside, she noticed that the people in the cubicles would occasionally move, which meant that they were still alive. However, if this was the final destination, it meant that she would have to remove her [Facial Hair].
Just as she looked at the small cubicle that had just lit up with a pale yellow light for her, the wall opposite her suddenly split open.
Screens, tubes, metal arms, syringes, masks, small discs, and many other things that she couldn't recognize or even name surged out from behind the wall like a tidal wave. For a moment, it was as if Medusa had poked her head out from behind the wall. Amidst the sea of snake heads, there was a small nozzle that sprayed a mist at her face.
Even though Lin Sanjiu had faster reflexes than a normal person, she still managed to get a little bit of it into her nasal cavity. She immediately felt her muscles and limbs loosen. She felt lazy and warm as she slowly leaned against the wall behind her.
"This is … such a hateful place," Mrs. Manas said softly. "If I had known this earlier, I would have stuffed my [Facial Hair] into my nose."
"That would be too ugly."
Lin Sanjiu was still conscious, so she didn't feel uncomfortable. Instead, she felt a little dizzy and relaxed like a person who had soaked in a bath for too long. Perhaps it was because she only had 6% of her acute intuition left, but she didn't sense any danger. She looked at the small nozzles that were stuck to her head, temples, and chest. They were cold, and she couldn't resist them.
Piece after piece of equipment was attached to her body. Even her face was covered. There was an unknown object that knocked against the collar around her neck a few times, but it didn't manage to break through. After that, it found another place to rest. The screen lit up, and many numbers, images, and jumping curves appeared. Lin Sanjiu stared at the screen for a while. "Ah!" she said softly in her mind. "Is this a physical examination for me?"
"Is there such a good thing?"
"That double helix structure … Doesn't it look like DNA?"
Lin Sanjiu also felt that her conversation with Mrs. Manas was slow, relaxed, and a little vague. Apart from the fact that she didn't want to laugh, it was just like how people in movies would react when they had a hard time.
Fortunately, she didn't inhale much, so the effect disappeared quickly. Lin Sanjiu felt that she was gradually "falling" down. The whole process seemed to last for a few seconds before she returned to her tense, anxious, and clear state.
Apparently, the cubicle did not expect this to happen. It was preparing for the main event. A syringe filled with blue liquid was aimed at her arm.
"Stay away from me," Lin Sanjiu quickly turned around. Her back was drenched in cold sweat. The syringe missed its target, but it didn't give up. It turned half a circle in the air and aimed at her arm again. Lin Sanjiu racked her brains to dodge the syringe. She regretted not summoning her shoe just now. There were still countless tubes and wires attached to her body. She couldn't dodge the syringe anymore. Suddenly, an idea came to her mind. She used her hand to block the syringe.
The syringe pierced through the space between her fingers. As if it thought that the resistance was a barrier created by human skin and muscles, the syringe finally spat out a thin stream of blue liquid. The blue liquid flowed down her hand and dripped onto the floor.
Fortunately, she still had the eyesight and speed of a posthuman, so she could catch the syringe accurately with her fingers. If she was an ordinary person, she would have been injected with a full syringe of unknown liquid.
"Testing program commencing," the same electronic voice rang out.
"Let's just call it a physical examination," Lin Sanjiu thought to herself as she stared at the screen through the opening of her mask.
Most of the images, words, and numbers on the screen were like the Bible to her. She could barely make out that there was a carbon dioxide test. She could only recognize a few molecular structures on the screen. Of course, that was as far as her understanding went.
Lin Sanjiu waited nervously for a while. Other than the screen constantly analyzing and recording her biological information, there was no other activity in the cubicle.
It seemed to be a long process to dissect a person's biological information. Moreover, she was a posthuman, so it must be much more complicated than an ordinary person. She even felt a little bored as she waited.
"Can I see through the frosted glass walls and see the other cubicles?"
Lin Sanjiu craned her neck, but she could only see the blurry light and shadows outside. She couldn't see or hear the other ordinary people. Even though they were captured in large groups, they were separated by the factory after they came in. The factory probably didn't want ordinary people to gather together and cause unnecessary trouble.
"Should I summon a card to protect myself while I have the time?"
She had to try summoning a card almost a hundred times, so she could only summon one card. However, she didn't know what would happen next, so she couldn't decide which card to summon.
Perhaps it was because Lin Sanjiu was too focused on the item in her mind, or maybe it was because the mask on her face blocked most of her vision, it was already too late when she realized that there was an extra person in the cubicle.
From the depths of the opened wall, the equipment, pipes, and wires that had spilled out suddenly moved. Then, from the darkness, a white head floated up — an old woman was slowly crawling out of it.
A pair of old-fashioned black cloth shoes stepped into the cubicle. She stood still with her hands tucked in her sleeves.
The old woman was the same as the one in the city. Her face was lowered, and there was no expression on her face. She stared at Lin Sanjiu from under her wrinkled eyelids.
There was a faint, almost translucent line of words in the air beside her — [Concept Mishmash].
Lin Sanjiu was all too familiar with this scene. She clenched her teeth, and her heart raced.
"When you listen to the instructions," the old woman didn't seem to care about Lin Sanjiu at all. She opened her catfish-like mouth as if she was chewing something, "... you will temporarily obtain an Evolved Ability."
"What?"
Lin Sanjiu was still rooted to the spot. She almost doubted her ears. When the old woman took a step back and crouched down, she disappeared into the depths of the wall and the equipment. Suddenly, the electronic voice rang again.
"Testing complete. Please select an Evolved Ability that you like on the screen."
"The Qidian system is still drawing, so I'll just send the main text today. Speaking of which, I usually have a lot of nonsense to say in the main text, but when I send the main text, my mind is blank... "
(End of this chapter)
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