In the process of the sisters' discussion, Xu Liang was not fully engaged. More of his attention was drawn to the middle room.

Let's start with the structure of the entire villa: it is divided into two floors. The first floor is larger, the second floor is smaller, and there is an attic on top. At this time, all three were on the first floor and had stayed for quite some time.

The first layer is the "Hui" glyph structure. Duanqing and Duanhan have been circling around the four for a long time, but Xu Liang is distracted and observing the small room in the middle.

The small room in the middle is completely enclosed, and you can't see anything inside. Xu Liang circled around it, and an inconspicuous groove caught his attention.

This groove is similar to the groove he used to put the key when he opened the villa from the outside, and the shape is similar.

One key to open two locks?

For a professional expert like Lao Xu, this is very funny. However, the devil sent the gods, and he still put the key in his hand.

A perfect match.

At this time, Duan Qing's words continued: "The advantage is that we can build super technological creations perfectly, but we don't know how to ......"

Duanqing's tone was steady, but in Xu Liang's ears, her voice became smaller and smaller, more and more ethereal.

His hand rested on the groove and felt like everything around him was unreal. Only that groove is becoming more and more real, occupying an increasingly important position in the space of his five senses, up to the end.

Xu Liang had never had this experience.

The moment he put the key down, he felt as if he had fallen asleep instantly.

In the eyes of the Duanqing and Duanhan sisters, Xu Liang's changes were extremely amazing.

He's gone!

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……

Xu Liang felt that he should have been sucked into that groove. But he wasn't sure.

As his hand touched the groove, a swirl of black appeared in front of his eyes, darker than pure black coffee. The vortex expanded, eating away at his vision—yes, he was sure, it was his vision and nothing else. The objects around him, the villa, the floor, the tech tree, the snake, the sunny and cold, all of these are there.

But he couldn't see it.

His eyes were still there, but his vision was gone.

Just when the key and the groove become one.

Not only the sight, but also all the other senses that are devoured at the same time.

The black vortex gradually expanded, and at the same time, Duanqing's voice became gradually ethereal, and then disappeared.

The sensation of air movement becomes gentle and fades away.

The most terrifying thing is that he feels that his body is gradually disappearing!

Even the sense of touch, the "sense of touch" of one's own body, is disappearing!

It's an amazing feeling. At the level of consciousness, he clearly knew that his body was still there, but he couldn't feel it!

Nerves can't connect toes, thighs, arms. It's not cold, it's not weak, it's just not feeling.

At this moment, he felt like he had only one brain left. Or rather, only "consciousness" remains.

At this moment, two lines of words suddenly appeared in my consciousness:

[Arena, opened]

[Goal: Become a creature]

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"What about Xu Liangren?" As Duan Qing spoke, he suddenly found that his main backbone, Lao Xu, was gone, and his expression changed very quickly. The room was very empty, and there was no way to hide people.

Duan Han looked around and listened to the position where Xu Liang had just suddenly disappeared: "The key is here." ”

Duan Qing leaned in. I saw that the key was embedded in a groove, similar to the situation when the door was opened outside, but at this time it was more stable, and the 13 parts on the key were still shining, and it seemed that some program was running.

Duan Han said suddenly, "Do you remember the name of this place...... Civilization Arena. ”

Duan Qing: "Yes." ”

Duan Han: "We haven't found anything special since we entered the villa for so long, especially because it has nothing to do with the word 'competition'. Lao Xu should be going to compete, right? ”

She looked at the completely enclosed room in the middle and said.

……

If a person loses his five senses, can his consciousness still exist?

……

Xu Liang felt that he was in a very magical state at this time. Even the word "feeling" is a bit far-fetched. It was mysterious, in short, he didn't feel anything.

It's not dead silence, it's not gray, it's not desert...... It cannot be described by the various interpretations of "death" in ancient and modern times. Because the words are so poetic.

He is simply innocent and cannot feel anything.

It's much scarier than a little dark house.

The so-called little dark room is just not visible and inaudible. But you can still feel the flow of air, and you can feel your body. But at this time, Xu Liang couldn't even feel his body.

He could only feel his own consciousness.

There is no light, no color, no sound, no touch, and it cannot be perceived.

Xu Liang couldn't shout, couldn't move, couldn't blink.

Because there is no at all.

It suddenly occurred to him that this might be the ...... Die?

But he can clearly think.

I can still clearly "remember" the two lines of words that just appeared in front of me:

【Arena, entered】

[Goal: Become a creature]

Xu Liang pondered silently: Any creature, no matter what kind of organism, always has to perceive changes in the outside world in order to be called a biological, right? But the way he is now, he has no perception at all, only his own consciousness, that is, he is not a creature at all?

So, this civilization arena gave him a task to become a creature?

I don't know how long it has been, I don't know how far he has traveled in the dark, and he doesn't even have any concept of "time" or "distance". All of a sudden! He felt what seemed to be a mass in front of him! Hindering him!

Feel!

The sudden appearance of the feeling greatly stimulated him!

It's a breakthrough from scratch!

It was still dark and lightless, still silent, but he already knew that there was something ahead, in that direction!

He had no hands or feet, but with a strong grip on his own consciousness, or rather, his intuition that he had been unable to explain, he leaned into the "obstacle".

Xu Liang infiltrated the past.

Then, he felt it!

It's something like a hollow solid triangle with a center of mass in the middle and 4 vertices around it, forming a common solid triangle.

At the same time, he felt the two lines around him about to move. At each end of the two segments, there is a centroid each. The line segment was inside him, but as he got closer to the solid triangle, the two lines were closer to the center of mass.

Then, the two segments merge with the three-dimensional triangle, and the three geometries mix and stir together, gradually forming three other substances.

The reaction is over.

Xu Liang felt that he had gained energy and became stronger.

He tried it and it seemed to ......

Seem......

He was already able to "feel" the presence of his own body.

As the changes around him continued to appear, he also felt that he had become more powerful! Finally, when the same reaction happened again, he "felt" all over his body.

It was still dark, still silent, but he had a feeling.

There were no hands, no feet, no torso, but he already felt something.

A clump of objects.

Gelatinous with a membrane around it.

In the colloid, there are some macromolecular fragments, which are changed after the reaction just now, and these molecular fragments seem to have no regularity, but there seem to be some regularity.

His consciousness swirled around in this membrane, unable to get out.

Although he still has no sense of sight or hearing, he can already tell that he has become a mess.

Moreover, through the tactile sense of the film to the outside world, he also knew that the outside world was also a pulp, but the concentration was thinner than that in the film.

In that mess of the outside world, there is a source of energy, and there are also things that make him feel uncomfortable.

Xu Liang carefully perceived inside and outside the body.

Although he learned the textbook very poorly, he also had a rough guess about the situation at this time-

He became a cell.

At the same time, two lines flashed through my mind:

[Goal (1/4): Become a creature, complete.] 】

[New Objective (2/4): Survival]

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……

Xu Liang didn't seem to understand, but he seemed to understand something.

At this time, he felt seriously again:

Slimy, clumpy.

In the body, there are some larger molecular clusters, which are more viscous; In vitro, it is relatively sparse. A thin film is spaced in between. He felt that inside this membrane was his body. The inside of his body is like a pot of porridge with preserved eggs and lean meat. The porridge was cooked by the black-hearted boss, although it was very expensive for 30 yuan a bowl, but there was only a small strip of meat and a small piece of preserved egg in it, and the rest was all salt and monosodium glutamate...... However, this is still preserved egg and lean porridge.

That's it inside him, almost empty, but there's still something.

Maybe these things are what make him different from the outside world? It's the same as the prompt just now, "Mission accomplished, already a creature?" ”

It seems that the arena of civilization believes that "feeling" itself represents becoming a living being.

Or rather, in human terms, he crosses as a cell.

What about (2/4) survival?

Xu Liang was puzzled for a moment, and then he quickly understood.

He's dying.

The body he was controlling was still swimming naturally in the water, and suddenly it swam into a piece of salt water. The surroundings became very viscous, like a pot of porridge that was about to be boiled dry. He was almost unable to move.

Xu Liang originally thought that being unable to act was the biggest pressure he faced, but he soon found out. The more viscous stuff around him was seeping into his body!

His cell membranes were constantly expanding, trying to maintain their own balance, but to no avail. The homeostasis in the body is still a mess by what has infiltrated from the outside world.

Xu Liang's body was still passively expanding infinitely. The radius has been tripled compared to before, and his volume has been nearly 30 times larger than before.

It looks like a balloon that is about to burst.

If this continues, he will explode with a thud and be melted by the dense brine around him, eventually returning to the liquid.

If he can't solve this problem, then [Task 1: Become a Creature] that he completed before will no longer exist. In other words, mission 2 is a mission that either you move forward or you die.

He thought of a solution.

Xu Liang mobilized all his senses, in fact, only the sense of touch, and he found that he was not only drifting with the flow in the environment, but also able to control his movement trajectory a little.

The outer side of his cell, just now, grows a small tail.

The tail can swing, fluctuate the current, and control the direction of travel.

Like a small tadpole.

Xu Liang felt that he was saved.

He concentrated all the energy in his body and used all the supply to the vicinity of this tail, swinging the little tail desperately away from this sticky water. During this period, he also discovered that although the environment had a great impact on his survival, the source of energy had also increased.

The reactants that appeared during the completion of the previous task to supply him with energy also increased in concentration. He had more energy to control himself out of the waters.

Finally, he succeeded.

After returning to the water area with a lower concentration, Xu Liang's volume shrank back to normal. Not only that, but he felt like he had a lot more in his body.

These things make his cell body stronger. He felt that he could control his body more flexibly, swim faster, absorb the surrounding molecules more smoothly, and produce abundant energy. His cell membranes have also become tougher, and he may be able to live better if he goes through the crisis he just experienced again.

No, I should be able to live even better than I am now!

At this moment, two lines of words rose again in Xu Liang's consciousness:

[Goal (2/4): Survive, complete.] 】

[New Goal (3/4): Evolve (80% Completion), Remaining Progress (20%)]

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……

This time, Xu Liang has already made some preparations for the font that suddenly appeared in his consciousness. Moreover, he already understands the current situation a little.

Now, he has completed two tasks. The third task has been miraculously completed by 80%. What would happen if he could complete all four tasks?

So let's not think about this for the time being, let's talk about the third task: evolution, which has been 80% completed...... Does this mean, I have an evolution that has already been completed? That's what it means...... A more flexible body, more organelles, more adaptability?

So how do you get the remaining 20% done?

Xu Liang has been swaying back and forth in this body of water, and a long time has passed, and the level of evolution is still stuck at 80%, and there is no change.

Xu Liang manipulated this cell to venture back to the sticky waters, but he still found nothing. Now, he has been able to adapt to the viscous concentration of the area, and there are no more changes in his body.

Could it be that this task is just so incomplete?

While wandering back and forth in this large body of water, Xu Liang suddenly realized a serious problem - he had lost his purpose.

Not the goal given by the system, but his own goal - he didn't know where he was, how he got in, how to get back, what was the point of completing such a task here.

It's important to know what's out there.

So...... I want to see!

Through the eyes, through the vision, intuitively explore what the environment is like now!

Nowadays, only the sense of touch can only perceive the distance of a few microns around the body, and the information obtained is limited to the density of the surrounding aqueous solution, and only by looking can we know what is in the farther places.

Being in this world, he had a strong desire!

If you want to see your surroundings, you have to have eyes.

No, the eye is too complicated, it's an organ that only advanced animals can have, I don't have anything now, the eye can't evolve anyway. But I can make it simpler, and make a photosensitive component made of photosensitive molecules.

Well, there is no need for a color display, black and white can be, you only need to perceive the presence and absence of light, the intensity and weakness, and there is no need to distinguish a finer spectrum at this stage.

Well, in this way, the idea is determined. In order to achieve this goal, I need to go to the area with a higher concentration of solution in front of me and find more materials to make this light-sensitive little organ!

The plan was confirmed, Xu Liang re-controlled the little tail and swam forward. Leave the comfortable waters and head to the sticky waters, and then back to ...... It's the waters of terror!

It's not water anymore, it's a solution of pretty large molecules, and there's all sorts of strange molecules in it. Some molecules are only inhaled in one or two, which requires Xu Liang to expend a lot of energy to strip them out, while others appear harmless and can be quietly stored in the membrane.

In the process, Xu Liang sensed danger several times. A few times he was even on the verge of death, but after he survived, he was relieved to find that he did have some good things in his cells.

This way, this way, and then this way...... Seems like it's fine?

With a strong desire to see the outside world and efficient energy utilization, various molecules in the cell are frantically dismantling and recombining. The vast majority of the combinations were rejected at the beginning of their appearance, and the few useful parts remained. In this way, after countless random combinations, a tube protruding upwards appeared in Xu Liang's cells.

The tube stretches higher and higher, breaks through the cell membrane, touches the solution outside, and continues upwards, upwards. All the way without stopping! If you can look at it from the outside, it's like a large octopus sticking out a long tentacle, or a spider spitting out long silk. The filament is getting longer and longer, but it is not broken, and it is still connected to the cell itself as the water fluctuates.

I don't know how long it took.

It pierced the water.

The head of the filament felt a burst of refreshment, and there was also a gust of wind.

The sensation of air.

Then, it unfolds a number of light-sensitive molecules inside, which are transmitted through filaments. Finally, Xu Liang's consciousness, which was reunited in the cell, finally "saw" the outside world.

Finally got it.

It turned out that this was a palm-sized petri dish that was common when doing biological experiments.

He's in it.

And outside the petri dish, a huge eye stared at him. Interesting.

[Goal (3/4): Evolve, complete.] 】

[New Goal (4/4): Reproduction]