Fantasy Game: Infinite City

On the rock wall about four or five hundred meters away from the top of the mountain, a sturdy silhouette was moving upwards rapidly.

The rock protrusions and unclimbable areas might have been obstacles for the outline. But just as the outline approached a completely unclimbable area, it suddenly curled up and suddenly shot to the side, leaving the unclimbable area and also moving away from the mountain into the air.

"boom!"

However, just as the upward force was offset by gravity and it was about to begin to fall, a fire explosion suddenly appeared from the direction of the outline. The powerful impact force once again overcame gravity, causing the outline to rise more than ten meters out of thin air.

"boom!"

As the climb reached its apex, a second explosion of fire occurred, this time pushing the silhouette back up into the mountain.

"Keng!"

The sound of the rock wall being pierced briefly penetrated the howling of the blizzard and paused for a second. The outline once again quickly moved towards the top of the mountain above. After more than ten minutes, it arrived at a relatively flat position near the top of the mountain. The movement of the outline stopped and then split into two parts.

The silhouette flying through the rock wall in the growing blizzard is Han Zu carrying Gloria on his back. The wind pressure caused by the blizzard is getting stronger and stronger, and Han Zu can only move quickly with Gloria. Fortunately, before Gloria is affected by the extreme cold, they arrived at a location suitable for camping. It is only a few dozen meters away from the first coordinate, but Gloria's condition is not very good at the moment, and Han Zu needs to restore Gloria's body temperature first.

Rolling up his sleeves, Han Zu's big hands took off Gloria's hat and directly grabbed her skull. Red light began to glow in the muscle lines of Han Zu's arms, and the temperature rose rapidly. With this temperature, Gloria's body, which had begun to become a little stiff, gradually returned to normal. However, the blizzard was still getting bigger. Although it was not impossible to maintain this state, it was very inconvenient. So Han Zu began to use his other hand to collect large pieces of snow and make them into ice bricks to build a temporary shelter. After all, there were no caves to use in this location.

Because he needed to restore Gloria's body temperature while maintaining the temperature of her brain, Han Zu's movements were a little slower. Fortunately, before they were completely buried by the blizzard, Han Zu successfully built a small igloo, then opened Gloria's backpack, took out the sleeping bag, and stuffed the already dizzy Gloria in it.

Using flames to carefully put the small igloo into a whole, using the tentacles as ropes, Han Zu began to pull the small igloo towards the coordinates in the blizzard. To ensure safety, Han Zu used his perspective ability to carefully observe the ground buried by the snow, guarding against the appearance of cracks, but fortunately, this part of the mountain was relatively intact, and although there were some cracks, they were not enough for people to fall.

Although the remaining distance was only a few dozen meters, for safety reasons, Han Zu took nearly ten minutes to reach the coordinate location. At present, it seems that Han Zu has not found anything special at the coordinate location, but he has not found everything. There is a naturally formed rock similar to the number 7 at this location, which pulled the igloo behind him over. Using this rock, Han Zu expanded the scale of the igloo and turned it into a man-made cave.

With a campsite, it was no problem to survive the blizzard. All it took was some patience. Han Zu took out a scanner from Gloria's backpack, opened her sleeping bag, and performed a medical diagnosis on her. He found that Gloria's current condition was not optimistic.

Because the fusion was not yet complete, two-thirds of Gloria's brain had not yet been reshaped. The extreme cold just now had a significant impact on Gloria, causing part of the XIIV-969-T material near the brain to re-mineralize, which was not a good thing.

Gloria's body temperature continued to rise. The other XIIV-969-T that had completed the remodeling wanted to continue assimilating those parts that had been restored to mineralization, but for some unknown reason, the progress of this assimilation was abnormally slow.

To continue the remodeling process, Gloria's body temperature must reach the melting point of XIIV-969-T, which is 42 degrees. Although the other parts of the body that have been assimilated can withstand temperatures over 100 degrees, the two-thirds of Gloria's brain that has not been remodeled cannot. Before the assimilation continues, Gloria's brain will be permanently damaged because it cannot withstand the gradually rising body temperature. At the very least, she will become mentally retarded or even lose the ability to control her body. At the worst, she will directly become brain dead. No matter what the situation is, Han Zu will not let Gloria die here.

Gloria's body temperature had risen to 39 degrees. Han Zu immediately used a scanner to examine Gloria's brain. Her condition was still deteriorating, and there was no professional medical equipment at hand. If he wanted to save Gloria's life, there was a way, but Han Zu was not sure whether that method should be used at this time, and whether Gloria could survive it.

"You are in a very bad condition now. To put it simply, you are going to die soon. I am going to use a method now to see if I can save your life. However, this method is simple and crude. I am not sure if you can withstand it. What do you think?"

Gloria's current condition is very grim, and she can't even speak. Although she also heard the scanner's diagnosis of her physical condition, her intuition told her that although the method Han Zu said should be effective, it is definitely not that simple, and she shouldn't make a decision easily.

"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as your consent. Come on, oh yeah, it might sting a little."

"wait...!!!!!!!"

However, Han Zuke didn't like to waste time. He stretched out his big hand and grabbed Gloria's face directly. At this moment, Gloria, who had not yet closed her eyes, suddenly found that something had penetrated her eyeballs and pierced deeply into her brain. At this moment, Gloria did not react at all except that she found that she could not see.

However, the unbearable pain, like being thrown into a meat grinder alive, immediately followed. The strong instinct for survival made Gloria's body struggle violently. At this moment, Gloria really wanted to push away Han Zu's hand that was holding her head. She used all her strength to punch and kick Han Zu, trying to break free.

Are you kidding? That's impossible.

With just one hand, Gloria had no strength to resist. Even moving a finger was a problem, let alone pushing it away. Not to mention that Han Zu held down her legs with his other hand to prevent Gloria from kicking down the igloo he had built. Gloria could only passively endure the severe pain and struggle like a fish thrown onto the shore.

“Ahh… Oooooh!”

Soon, perhaps Han Zu's method was effective, Gloria's body regained some vitality, and the unbearable pain made Gloria scream out a howl that was loud enough to pierce through the snowstorm. However, as soon as she made a sound, Han Zu stuffed a frozen chocolate energy bar into Gloria's mouth to prevent her from making any sound.

If people didn't know that Han Zu was saving people, and only looked at Gloria's condition and Han Zu's inexplicable smile, if they saw this scene, they would definitely think that this was a pervert who was plotting against Gloria.

After struggling for half an hour, Han Zu's expression suddenly became serious. He used his ability of X-ray vision to carefully observe Gloria's brain. Gloria was now out of strength, and Han Zu didn't even need to hold her down anymore. Gloria's sleeping bag had been torn into pieces. In order to avoid all possible factors that might have an impact, Han Zu held her in his arms, but for safety reasons, he still didn't move his hand away from Gloria's head.

Through observation, Han Zu saw that Gloria's brain was wriggling, as if it had an independent life, but Gloria was now like a robot with low power, and except for the occasional twitch, she did not move at all.

The method Han Zu is currently using is the first time he has performed this operation on a living person (referring to Gloria's brain). The basic principle of this method is that Han Zu uses contact to erase the original activity of part of his own body tissue samples, just like bone marrow replacement, replacing the mineralized XIIV-969-T in Gloria's body.

Because this substance has many similarities with Han Zu's body tissues, theoretically, as long as Han Zu erases the "biological imprints" of his own body tissues, they can become the native tissues of the new subject and heal any injuries. If all goes well, these new tissues will gradually devour and assimilate XIIV-969-T and Gloria's remaining original brain, thereby turning Gloria's body tissues into the same thing as her own. Maybe she won't be as powerful as Han Zu, but she won't be much different.

The reason why Han Zu was staring at the actions of these organizations very seriously was because Han Zu was not sure whether these organizations would be too overbearing and directly devour Gloria's brain, turning her into an artificial person. In this way, although she could survive, she would lose her original memory and become a new person, if you can say so. After all, according to Han Zu's understanding of himself, his body tissue's ability to devour other biomass is not a trivial matter.

Fortunately, Gloria's brain soon stabilized. According to Han Zu's observation using his ability of clairvoyance, Gloria's brain was not devoured by the new cells, but these cells were integrated into Gloria's brain. So from the current point of view, Han Zu's method should be effective.

"Gloria?"

"...Um...."

"What is 1+1 equal to?"

"...16..."

"Fuck, I'm done. I've become an idiot. Looks like I have to start all over again."

"Don't! I'm fine! It equals 2, it equals 2!"

"Really? I don't believe it. Let's do it again."

"Fuck you..."

"Okay, we're just kidding. It seems like you still have a strong will."

After questioning, Gloria was able to mock Han Zu. It seemed that this method was very successful. Han Zu withdrew his tentacles that pierced Gloria's eyeballs and his palm that was pressing on her head.

Gloria's current condition has returned to safety, but although the devouring and assimilation of the new tissue has been completed in the head, it is still in progress for other parts of the body. So although Gloria's body is not weak, it feels heavy as if she is drunk. She is temporarily unable to move and can only collapse in Han Zu's arms.

However, the influence of the cold was disappearing quickly, and Gloria no longer felt cold. After resting for a while, the eyeball that had been pierced recovered and Gloria could see things again. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but Gloria felt that everything she saw now was clearer than before.

"I thought I was going blind..."

"How do you feel? Does anything feel wrong?"

Han Zu put away his giggling expression and asked Gloria seriously.

"It's OK, but I feel weak all over now, and it itches a lot, like something is crawling on my bones, and I can't scratch it."

“Crack…Crack…”

The sounds coming from all parts of her body alerted Gloria. She struggled and rubbed it, but to no avail.

"What's wrong with me? Why don't I feel right?"

Gloria collapsed in Han Zu's arms, leaning on his chest. Because her body was evolving, she couldn't move very well, so Gloria turned her eyes and looked at her limbs, and found that there seemed to be something in her body, wriggling under her skin.

"You don't really think of me as a guinea pig, do you?"

Gloria found it a little difficult to accept the abnormal state of her body, but fortunately, it was not a bad thing.

"This is normal. It's your body...how do I say, evolving?"

"I can still maintain my human form, right?"

"Theoretically, it should be."

"What do you mean by theoretically?!"

“Ka-la-la…”

“Hmm…”

Gloria noticed that the movements of her body had become much faster, and it seemed to be growing a second time. Gloria saw with her own eyes that her body seemed to have grown proportionally larger. Her original height of about 1.6 meters had now become about 1.8 meters.

Half an hour later, Gloria's body returned to normal and no longer changed. The clothes on her body had been torn apart by her enlarged body and turned into beggar's clothes. However, Gloria regained control of her body, and she also found that she was no longer affected by the cold. Her body temperature seemed to automatically adjust with the temperature difference, and she did not feel any discomfort at all.

"So do you plan to lie down for a while? Or get up and try walking around?"

Gloria's body had just recovered, and she still felt a little dizzy when she stood up suddenly. However, it was not because of blood pressure problems, but because she was not used to the change in line of sight height. After taking a break, Gloria walked a few steps in the igloo and found that her steps were lighter and stronger at the same time, just like a person carrying a heavy burden who suddenly threw away all the burdens. A feeling of relief continued to appear.

"It's like... I've been in a wheelchair my whole life, and now I can suddenly stand up."

"Your metaphor is quite novel."

"How did you come up with this approach?"

"I thought of this when I was making those super soldiers, but it never worked on them. It might be because they were made from XIIV-969-T, not living people. To be honest, I never thought about whether it would work on living people."

"So I am patient zero?"

"Well... it seems so. After all, there is someone else who has experienced something similar, but..."

"You mean the... what's her name? Garcia, right?"

"Yes, but her body has not completely evolved. As for you, I am not sure what you can do at the moment. So, to know whose physical fitness is better, we need to go back and do some experiments to compare the data... What are you doing?"

Gloria walked around twice, returned to Han Zu, and sat on his lap.

"Rest. My sleeping bag has become pieces of cloth. I don't really want to sleep on the ground. After all, my clothes are torn."

"Don't you have other clothes in your bag? And we are at the first coordinates now. The exact coordinates are outside the door of the igloo."

"In this kind of weather, even the devil can't see clearly. Let's wait until the blizzard is less severe tomorrow."

"How long this snowstorm will last varies..."

"Shh... shut up."

"I think you just want my body, huh!"

"You're such a big guy, the way you hold it is really disgusting."

"Then why don't you take your hands out of my clothes first?"

"No."

The consumption of reshaping the body was indeed not small for Gloria. After a while, she leaned on Han Zu's arms and fell asleep. Han Zu took out clothes from his backpack to cover her, and began to use the scanning equipment to detect the surrounding terrain. At the exact coordinate location, it seemed that he had indeed found something.

"It seems to be down there."