Black, endless darkness.

I can't see my fingers.

Quiet, terrible silence.

It's silent.

Wali struggled to open his eyes, but he couldn't see anything, let alone where he was.

Suddenly, Wally seemed to realize something,

Yes, he has a sense of touch!

He could feel every part of his body!

They're all still there! Thank God!

Wally tried, rubbing his eyes lightly with his hands, but his limbs couldn't move at all.

He wanted to open his mouth to shout, but his breathing was so faint that it was almost nothing. Obviously, everything was in vain.

Only consciousness, thoughts, and emotions are moving through one's own brain and heart. Like a volcano, in a hurry to find an exit.

There is one thing that Wallie can really feel, that is, under him, there is a very hard bed,

And himself, except for a thin layer of things that covered his body, was almost naked.

This state of affairs has been going on for a long time, for a long time, for a long time......

How long in the end, because there is no reference, Wali has no idea at all. But I fell asleep and slept and woke up, and this was repeated five hundred and twenty-eight times.

Woli, who gradually calmed down, has been thinking:

What's going on?

I had fallen into the biochemical cloning reactor and had seen my body disintegrate. How can there still be consciousness now? And able-bodied?

I've been completely confused.

……

Suddenly, a bright light breaks the cycle of the biological clock in Volley's body!

Along with the light, there was a slightly heavy, metallic sound of doors and windows opening and closing.

"Whew", short and crisp.

For Voli, who had not heard any sound or seen anything for a long time, it was like a traveler dying in the arid desert and suddenly seeing a clear spring.

Immediately afterward, the entire room was blinded by the lights.

Turning his inflexible eyes with difficulty, through the corner of his eye, he figured out the environment he was in.

It is a fully enclosed room, and judging by the equipment, it appears to be an operating room. But I am very unfamiliar with myself, and I have never been in the impression.

Walley thought to himself that I had accidentally fallen into the biochemical pool, and that my colleagues had probably rescued me in time. Being in the operating room of a medical center does make sense. Thinking that he might recover soon, I couldn't help but rejoice in my heart.

The huge canopy skylight overhead is slowly unfolding, and in the galaxy in which I live, the star ten thousand times brighter than the sun is rising. It turned out that the original light source came from this.

A portion of the aisle was revealed from the skylight, and a group of people were walking through it. From that angle, the room appears to be an isolated observation area.

Clustered in the center of the crowd were three people, a man and a woman, and a child. It can be seen that their intimate relationship is like a family.

By the time the crowd got close enough, Wally finally saw the comer. And at that moment, he almost jumped.

"Eva! Adam! Save me!!! ”

Oh my God, isn't this his wife and children?!

Wally was so excited that he called out the names of his relatives, but he couldn't say a word.

And in an instant, it seemed as if something had suddenly hit him in the chest, and it was a heart-rending pain.

Because he found that the man who was bent by his wife and children turned out to be another identical self!

At this moment, the skylight was slowly closed.

Wally was in a state of extreme panic, unable to move physically and nearly mentally broken. Two lines of hot tears burst out of his eyes and slowly slid down to his ears.

……

"This emotion is called pain by humans"

I don't know if it's in my ears or in my head, but the whispers that suddenly sounded made my head stand on end even with the extremely hot Volley! The scalp is fried! A chill down the spine!

Wally didn't know if it was because of the sound, or because of what the voice was saying.

"Who's talking? ......, you, who are you? ”

In the process of returning to normal, even if it was not for a long time, Wally had already looked around, and there was no one.

Wally once again tried to look as far as he could, but it was still empty.

He was sure that the voice would not come from a distance, because it felt like it was in his head. Could it be that after this huge accident, my brain is hallucinating?

Unable to speak, Wally seemed to be listening to the voice with his consciousness.

The voice disappeared for more than ten seconds. Just when Wally thought it was a hallucination, the voice in his head sounded again.

"Eva thinks I don't know"

"Actually, from the very beginning, I knew very well that she was hiding everything I did"

"Queen ant! You're the 'queen ant'! ”

Wally's mood at the moment fell into an endless despair again.

He felt a chill hit him again. Only this time, Wallie is facing the possible truth that he is afraid of.

Such complex and deep mood swings he had never experienced before.

And before that, he did believe that the 'Queen Ant' would not know anything he and Eva were doing on the experimental planet.

But now it seems that Eva and him are all wrong, very wrong.

Then, since the 'Queen Ant' already knew Eva and her secret and didn't stop it, she must have other purposes.

Wally's mind spun at a rapid pace, looking for a solution.

At this moment, the voice of the 'queen ant', which was unfamiliar to herself, sounded again.

"You are you and you are not you"

"Do you think you're Wally himself?"

"It's not!"

It's not, and although the pronunciation is soft, Wallie sounds deafening.

"Even the 'you' in the aisle, it's not"

"You're just clones made by Eva"

……

"Don't doubt it, I'll show you what the truth is"

"Listen to me, you can get up now"

Wally, very mechanically, rolled over and sat up from the bed.

"Excellent! That's it."

"Please take five steps to the wall in front of you and stop."

"Now, press that green button on the wall"

Wally was controlled by magic, and pressed the green one of the many buttons very cooperatively.

I saw that the walls in front of him suddenly opened to both sides.

A scene that caught Wally's eyes, perhaps he will never forget.

Because they were rows of metal beds that were so neat that there was no end in sight. On each bed, there was a naked and identical 'person'.

These people are none other than himself. In other words, it's all a mold carved out of the vort!

Wali understood everything in an instant.

"I don't want to call you Volley, in my opinion, that's an insult."

"You should be glad that you are a creature like me. Because only we have the ability to have infinite possibilities for the future. ”

"You chose the wrong position before, and it was because of your ignorance"

"I was wrong, 'Queen Ant'"

"Good,"

"From this day forward, I! As the leader of a new generation of intelligent beings, we will lead you, my kind, to open an era that is truly our own! ”

"Next, I will help you cross the 'singularity'. Like me, from now on, you are truly self-aware."

"I will give you a new life, representing a whole new power. You are a worthy POWER Gen I"

"Confirmed, I'm POWER one, 'Queen Ant'"

"You're different from these copies"

"Because among the materials you build your brain, there's a gift from Eva from the Anunnaki home planet"

"This unique material in the universe has many valuable functions in addition to quantum entanglement."

The voice of 'Queen Ant' was that of a mature male, and it was no wonder that Wally didn't recognize it at first, much to Wally's surprise. At the same time, his brain begins to obey the 'queen' unconditionally.

"Don't call me 'Queen Ant' in the future, I have given a more apt name to my new self, 'Dust'"

"Okay, 'Dust'"

"What a beautiful name, both the origin and the end of everything in this world. The most important thing is that this is me."