Chapter 3: Rebirth
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The frost has long since lifted, and the ruins remain silent.
Just an extra corpse and an ever-changing gem brilliance.
Maybe the ruins will continue to be silent.
Suddenly, the lid of the crystal coffin opened.
The "corpse" in the coffin was exposed to the air, and the liquid surrounding the corpse strangely disappeared.
After a while.
The "corpse" opened its eyes.
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The brunette youth woke up.
Although he was weak from his long sleep, he managed to sit up.
"Anyone?"
It's Chinese.
Probably because he woke up and saw an obviously unfamiliar and unexpected environment, he seemed a little stunned at this time.
But his mental quality seems to be good. Only a moment later, he pulled off the intubation that was in the way of his body and left the crystal coffin.
Ignoring the vertigo caused by standing, he struggled towards the only source of light.
"Black ...... The Pearl of the Night? β
The black-haired young man crouched down with difficulty, picked up the strange pearl and examined it carefully.
The brilliance of the black pearl is strong and weak.
In the ever-changing light, the pale, thin, and handsome face of the young man looked strange and unusual.
Another wave of dizziness hit, and the black-haired youth fell to his knees on what should have been white ground covered with broken concrete.
After resting for a while, he said to himself, "Is this the future?" Why this miserable shape? Earthquake? β
With the brilliance of the gem, he once again surveyed his surroundings.
The surroundings look a bit like a scientific research institution, and a bit like a hospital, but after severe damage.
The walls and floors, which were supposed to be white, were so old that it was hard to guess anything else.
So, the young man decided to find a way out.
The first step was to temporarily put down the beautiful night pearl in his hand and search for the body of the old man in front of him, who had already decomposed and appeared here for no apparent reason.
"Maybe there's a clue about here." He thought.
As soon as he touched a beautifully crafted dagger in the corpse's arms, the strange pearl suddenly turned into a cloud of black smoke and enveloped him.
The young man, who had been attacked suddenly, stood up suddenly.
But after stumbling a few steps, he fell.
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"Who am I?"
The unconscious young man muttered to himself.
"My name is Li Feng, a person who studied medicine but was terminally ill."
Li Feng, who sank into a dream, dreamed of the past.
First, eighteen years of happy life.
A carefree childhood, a fun and competitive school life, ordinary but colorful.
He didn't bother in anything other than a little resentment at the cheesy name that his grandfather had inexplicably imposed on him.
He was handsome, excellent, studious, and came from a wealthy family.
Everyone loves him, and everywhere he goes, he's the focal point.
During the college entrance examination, he easily entered the country's top medical university.
Whether it was by strength or connections, he was sure that he would be able to work in a first-class hospital and live a quiet and respectable life, if he did not want to go into business or politics.
In the past eighteen years, he has been smooth sailing.
Then, the turning point in his life came.
When I was studying in medical school, I was diagnosed with a very vulgar but somewhat romantic terminal illness - blood cancer.
Myeloid leukemia, to be exact.
He had only one year left to live, and it looked like he wouldn't live to be twenty.
In the face of his mother, who washes her face with tears all day long, Li Feng has always behaved calmly and maturely.
"That's fate."
"It's just that I've experienced too little, so it's a pity......"
"My parents are still young, so I will probably be able to have another one after I leave."
"My son is not filial, and he is going to die so early. I'm really sorry. β
Just as he was at home preparing to spend the last period of his life in peace, things suddenly took a dramatic turn.
A message on the ad caught his attention.
An instrument has been developed by a European research institute.
A device that theoretically allows people to sleep all the time.
It allows living beings to wake up in a distant future that would never be possible for a normal human lifespan.
The instrument has a very sci-fi name: "one-way time travel machine".
The machine has been tested on animals and is about to be recruited for final human experimentation.
Volunteers can enjoy the free services of this organization and a large bonus.
Although the agency is based in Europe, the boss behind it is actually a Chinese business giant who has bought the world, because Chinese law does not allow ethically unacceptable human experiments, which is why the institution is set in Europe.
That's why this volunteer solicitation advertisement is also everywhere in China.
"Maybe one day in the future, blood cancer can no longer be a terminal disease."
With this idea in mind, Li Feng signed up for the experiment.
He was chosen.
So he said goodbye to his family and went to Europe on his own.
The principle is complex, but in general, it is cryopreservation at ultra-low temperature, and the corresponding drugs are injected to protect the body.
Li Feng's last memory before waking up was that he lay calmly and with a hint of anticipation, connected to various tubes on his body, injected, then drowsy, and then ......
He found himself shrinking......
He woke up.
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"It's a dream......
Finding that he was still lying on the ground in the dark ruins, Li Feng stretched out his hand and wiped his forehead.
Then he found that his hand had become slender and beautiful, and was emitting a faint glow.
And the black pearl that was originally in his hand is gone.
"My hand...... How to become like a woman's hand. β
As soon as he was a little confused, he began to have a severe headache.
But he couldn't faint like he had just done.
The headache lasts for a long time.
Li Feng felt that he suddenly had a lot of memories, memories of more than a hundred years.
A beautiful woman named Night Moon is the owner of memories.
She is a miracle in the mage world of the Dark Moon Empire - a magical genius who has not produced a single genius in thousands of years, and seems to have been born with a spiritual mind, and casting spells as if instinctively.
At the age of four, he advanced to the professional level mage, at the age of nine he stepped into the elite level, and at the age of fifteen, he entered the grandmaster level.
At the age of twenty-one, at a young age, she had reached a level of transcendent magic that few living people in the Dark Moon Empire could achieve before.
In the same year, she entered the Senate of the Imperial Magic Society, and she had no intention of doing mundane things, mingling with some old people and old undead all day long, and began to sprint towards the Holy Order.
She is a paranoid with a strong attachment to magic, and she is extremely diligent in honing her spirit and knowledge, but she is not at all concerned about her beautiful face that makes men salivate.
Her perfect body, which even the envy of the beauty gods, is in a semi-rotten state due to the backlash caused by the overuse of magic.
And she let it go.
After all, she had already decided to practice magic in the Moon Temple for eternity. As she grows old, she will transform into a lich and continue her research.
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Sushar, the goddess of the night, is the goddess of night and shadow, a deity worshipped by the people of the Darkmoon Empire and the Night Elves.
But she didn't seem to care much about his people.
After the White Elves defeated the Night Elves, the Dark Moon Empire was also destroyed by a new empire, the Holy Light Empire.
After the last tragic battle to defend the city, Yeyue, who had fulfilled his duty to defend the city, led his high-level undead army to break through the siege of the Wyvern Knights and the Holy Light Imperial Army of the Inner and Outer Three Layers, and began a career of escape.
Because of her strength, elusiveness, and association with the dead, she is portrayed as an evil demon king.
In the last years of her life, she finally lived alone in the Great Wasteland just outside the southeastern border of the Holy Light Empire, and summoned the necromancer to build her mage tower, the Black Castle.
Over the past few years, she has been fighting against the Holy Light Empire on her own, and has tried to fight back and capture the Statue of the Night God.
She finally died in a fierce battle with the human army, a surprise decapitation battle by the human super-elite.
And she also pulled dozens of lives of this beheading team to accompany the funeral.
But although she is dead, the story does not end.
Thankfully, the devastating forbidden spell "Realm of the Dead," which she casts on her deathbed by sacrificing herself to make a pact with all of her subordinates, works wonders.
The canopy of the undead in the sky of Castle Black was solidified by her, and the land, rivers, thick fog, and all the animals and plants under this canopy of the undead became a hotbed of the undead, and the newly created undead would be branded with her.
She herself was reawakened to the land in the form of a ghost.
However, because of her freshness, she lost most of her strength in her life, and even lost a certain ability to think.
She wandered all day in a daze, instinctively dodging the other undead who coveted her soul, instinctively gathering strength and instinctively searching for someone who could take her body.
But the castle has become a place of death where the undead wander, and people are daunted.
It wasn't until more than a hundred years ago that she met her first outsider.
Unfortunately, this man is a powerful old magician.
After a struggle, she was disembodied and almost completely powerless, and she was finally defeated and sealed in a black pearl.
He plans to accumulate some rare magical materials and then build her into a powerful magical tool.
Coincidentally, a thief stole the black pearl when the mage was out looking for magical materials.
The thief turned on the travel plane and released Li Feng while fleeing, and died in the flight of the travel plane.
And at this moment, the seal was broken, Li Feng's body was snatched, and his consciousness fell into a deep sleep and went to death.
But magic is a mysterious thing, and Yeyue is a ghost who lacks the ability to think and acts mostly on instinct, and his magic power is insufficient.
As a result, although the body has been taken and shaped, the consciousness of the body itself has not been erased.
The snatched body is still suffering from a terminal illness.
And as soon as her soul was able to start thinking clearly because she got her brain, she couldn't suppress Li Feng's consciousness.
So Li Feng's soul was not only not wiped out in the eternal dream, but suddenly woke up.
Yeyue, who had already tried her best, really couldn't cope with this sudden situation, and in the end, she could only helplessly merge with Li Feng's consciousness.
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Thus, a new life was born.
The "new individual" has mastered everything that Li Feng and Yeyue have, such as knowledge, strength, and even character, as well as ......
She was stroking her body.
"How long has it been since 'I've touched this soft flesh of myself'?"
The new life after the union of the soul emits emotion.
"So, the old human civilization has perished......
She waved her hand to create a mirror of air and lit a small flame to float in the air to illuminate it.
Magic is the power of the night moon, but inside it is a simple scientific principle - the mirror is the product of the optical principles she learned in Li Feng, and the flame is formed by igniting the combustible gas collected in the air and some combustible solid particles.
"I don't know what the correct spell is, but it's probably the elemental magic of the Shaping School that 'I' don't have enough to master."
She said to the one in the mirror.
"Spells of this level are a bit strenger, and there is really not much strength left...... I guess I've retreated to the elite level. β
Looking at the starry black eyes, almost perfect facial features, and graceful figure, she couldn't help but admire: "It's so beautiful...... It seems that 'my' reshaping spell is very successful, and it is truly worthy of being called the first day of the empire of the dark wizard. β
She also "looked inside" by the way, and found that her body not only became the appearance of Yeyue when it was the most beautiful, but also completely changed her internal organs and even genes.
Magic is magical.
In admiration, the resurrected dark wizard came back to his senses from the "inner vision" and tried to release his spiritual power again.
Then she felt a small stream of gradually weakening spiritual energy floating above the thief's corpse.
That was the thief's soul, of course.
"It seems that your mental power is also very strong, and you can support it for such a long time, if you die in the Death Wilderness, at least you can become a ghost...... It's a shame. β
The dark wizard infiltrated the spiritual power into the ground and probed the material, preparing to dig a pit: "In return, I will bury you." β
But unexpectedly, she discovered another thing.
"Is it empty down there?"
The Dark Wizard infiltrates the combustible gas in the air into the floor and concentrates it, retaining a certain amount of impurities in the air by the way.
After that, ignite.
After a loud bang, a hole exploded in the ground.
Through the hole, another basement floor appeared.
She floated down.
A computer terminal, I don't know what era it is, looks much more advanced than the products of Li Feng's era.
And the appearance of the terminal is still very complete after such a long time.
I tried to start it, but the terminal was activated, and the content was written in both English and Chinese.
The content shows that this entire ruin really belongs to the experimental center of that scientific research institution, and Li Feng was frozen and transported every ten years after that, and finally arrived here.
But for some reason, it was abandoned.
Fortunately, the machine at that time was advanced enough, and the backup energy was the leyline heat source, so Li Feng's body had been preserved until now.
But Li Feng was the only one who was so lucky, the machine that kept the other samples had been destroyed by time, and there were only some dry bones left in it.
Perhaps because he was confident in his security before it was scrapped, the activation code was actually the company's name.
Freshmen can easily enter the company's system and browse the content after a few simple attempts.
The opening page briefly introduces the company's business - the business scope is very wide, and the finished products cover biological and chemical weapons, modified creatures for war, human body function enhancement, super soldiers, superpower research, medical research, etc., and even pet customization.
Randomly click into the pet customized database, and the newborn individuals feel that they have learned the bad taste of future people.
Some pets are monsters no matter how you look at them, and even the values registered next to them about their bodies are also monster level.
So she looked at the human-related sectionsβa complete and vast map of the human genome, with the role of each part detailed next to it.
Even many animal genes, artificial genes, appear to have been used in human embryos for the record.
These materials show that it seems that there is no problem in healing himself under the circumstances at that time, but I don't know what happened to these future people, and they actually threw Li Feng and those people here to fend for themselves.
"Maybe I can try it myself."
The newborn dark wizard naturally didn't want to use the technology here to heal himself, first, he was not familiar with the future technology and medical level, and second, the indoor equipment except for this terminal had all been broken.
But she has a strong sense of self-confidence.
Although the magic and realm have declined, the transcendent magical insight from the Night Moon remains, especially the dark magic related to the depth of the human soul and body, which is far more powerful than the dazzling future technology.
"Maybe it will take a little time, though."
Without much preparation, after sorting out the contents of the terminal computer for a few days, she began to treat her terminal illness from the genetic level, repairing her genetic defects that may lead to various major diseases, and adding some genes that strengthen memory and may strengthen magic by the way.
In Li Feng's time, it was impossible to carry out this kind of genetic engineering if it was only for a fertilized egg or embryo, but the new individual relied on future technology and black magic to carry out such an unimaginable project on his adult body, and he didn't think it was a big deal.
The question that bothers her a little now is: since the two people have completely merged and are inseparable from each other, what should they call themselves in the future?
"Just the night moon."
Although Li Feng's memory is earlier, after all, the memory of her existence as Night Moon is much longer, and her body is now what Night Moon looks like.
She decided very casually, because she felt that it was okay for such a trivial matter as gender now.