Chapter 1: Go Home and Die
"Pancreatic cancer is advanced, and it's the hardest cancer to detect, with less than five percent of the world's survival rate for five years. The cancer cells are developing so fast that the current medical conditions can only delay for a few months, do you still want to continue to receive chemotherapy?"
"Is it delayed from three months to six months?"
Yang Shou raised his head and looked at his attending doctor.
Now he has thinning hair, pale complexion on his face, and chapped lips, all of which are the sequelae of a month of chemotherapy.
Pancreatic cancer, as the most difficult cancer to detect, is too fast to change, and the mortality rate is extremely high, the probability of surviving for six months after diagnosis is less than 4 in 1,000, and the average survival time is only three months.
Moreover, pancreatic cancer is the most painful and dangerous of all cancers with chemotherapy and surgery, and the mortality rate is extremely high.
Yang Shou is a small operation supervisor of a Fortune 500 company, graduated from college for three years, and climbed to this position on his own, and his ability is not bad.
Originally, life was not good or bad, but he didn't expect fate to suddenly play such a joke on him.
In just one month, he spent half of the hundreds of thousands of dollars he had saved for four or five years, do you want to continue treatment?
There is no need for treatment.
Yang Shou thought silently in his heart, from the disbelief, dazed, and fearful when he was diagnosed at the beginning, to the indifference and casualness now, his mentality has changed greatly.
"Let me do what I want to do in the last three months of my life. ”
Dragging his suitcase and buying a train ticket, Yang Shou left the hospital full of the smell of Western medicine.
Back to his hometown, Shoucheng, a city that has given birth to many longevity celebrities in history.
Ironically, his name is Yang Shou, but his life is short, and he can only go back to the hometown of this famous longevity to die.
"Wait for death, wait for death, anyway, there are three months to live. ”
After packing up his things, in his yard, Yang Shou looked down at his girlfriend, oh no, it was a "token of broken love" given to him by his ex-girlfriend.
A watch.
The one with a faint silver rim, I don't know which brand of watch it is.
This is the watch he picked up by the reservoir when he was a child, and the strange thing is that this watch is still walking even when he is in college, and there is no error after ten years.
But Yang Shou checked all the brands, but he didn't find which watch this was, as if it wasn't a product on earth.
The material is very light, in college, he met Zhang Yutong, and after falling in love, he gave her this watch, and after the pancreatic cancer was detected, she broke up with him after only a month of chemotherapy.
Heartache?
That's for sure, but let the family follow their own people who will not have a long life?
Yang Shou also wanted to mention breaking up, but the other party mentioned it first, and it was even more ruthless.
"Now you are the only one with me, and in three months you will have to turn 2,160 times the hour hand, 129,600 times the minute hand, and 7,776,000 times the second hand. ”
In other words, after 7,776,000 strokes, it will be the end of his life.
Staring at the second hand, every beat of the second hand is irreversible, and time is slowly passing.
"Hey, what's that?"
Yang Shou was lying on the old chair basking in the sun, staring at the second hand for an hour, and suddenly found that the world in front of him was a little blurry, the silver edges around the bezel were shining, and a few words that he couldn't read emerged.
It wasn't any known writing on Earth, but he understood what it meant.
"Time Turner. ”
What is this?
What shocked Yang Shou even more was still behind, the silver edge slowly flowed, showing more words, and the ghost painting was confused, but he recognized it at a glance.
"Ordinary civilization genes, not plastic, do not have development potential, some organs of the living body are seriously diseased, and the remaining life expectancy is 89 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes. ”
Yang Shou took a deep breath and endured the shock in his heart, can this watch still count his lifespan?
In addition, the rotatable handle, which used to only adjust the hour and minute hands, suddenly had an additional handle.
Yang Shou hesitated for a moment and chose to turn the new watch handle.
While turning, Yang Shou's mind was spinning, only to feel that the world in front of him was gradually blurred, replaced by a desolate world full of barren land without the slightest vitality.
The sea and the land are simple and distinct, but not even a single plant or animal can be seen.
"Time accelerates. ”
On the watch worn by Yang Shou, four small words appeared, and then, the world in front of Yang Shou underwent earth-shaking changes.
The hour hand was circling wildly, and at a speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye, Yang Shou felt that the speed of time in this world had increased to an incredible degree.
I don't know how long it has been evolving, but suddenly there are a few more microorganisms in the ocean.
Almost in the two breathing worlds, these microorganisms are born and die, from generation to generation, between life and death, they actually evolve.
In order to survive better and live longer, they produce a film to protect themselves, and inside the film, is a fragile core that gathers all their energy.
"Lived longer. ”
Yang Shou could clearly feel that if these most primitive creatures had previously been born and died 30 million times with one breath, then now they had only been born and destroyed 25 million times with one breath......
This is the evolution of life, natural selection, survival of the fittest.
The first criterion written into the genes of any life is survival. In order to survive, do whatever it takes.
As time passed, and I don't know how long, these small microorganisms, protected by thin films and cores, began to explore the surrounding seas.
The extension of their life gives them more time to recognize their surroundings, and they feed on small organic molecules in seawater, gradually growing their populations.
With countless lives and deaths, they gradually dominated the entire ocean.
But because there are so many of them, there are fewer and fewer organic molecules in the seawater, and they are facing a racial crisis of extinction due to lack of food.
Finally, under their unrestrained development, the entire race collapsed and began to die in large numbers.
Their corpses floated all over the ocean, making the sea water suddenly look extremely turbid.
"Mass extinctions. ”
Yang Shou witnessed this strange scene and was shocked in his heart.
Is it an illusion? But why is it so real?
Time went backwards, and the world swirled again, and his consciousness detached from that world and returned to the courtyard.
For the first time, Yang Shou looked down at his watch and found that it was still at 4:03 in the afternoon, the sun was still warm, and only ten minutes had passed.
But in that world, tens of thousands of years have passed.
"Wouldn't it? Life expectancy reduced by twenty minutes?"
Yang Shou looked at the remaining life displayed on the watch, your life balance is insufficient, please recharge in time.
It used to be 89 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes, but now it has become 89 days, 10 hours and 3 minutes.
"Time Converter, don't you say?"
Yang Shou silently guessed in his heart, whether the time conversion was to convert his hour into the time of those microorganisms just now.
Because they are so weak, ten minutes by themselves is equal to tens of thousands of years for them?
1,576,800,000 times!
How terrifying is the difference in life levels?
Yang Shou suppressed the excitement in his heart and had a crazy idea in his heart.
I still have 89 days and 10 hours left, that is, 2146 hours, which consumes twice as much time, because time is also lost while evolving, that is, they can evolve for 1073 hours, and the converted time is about 190 million years.
In 190 million years, can intelligent species appear? It took 3.2 billion years for species to evolve on earth before the ancient intelligent species, apes, was born.
If I intervene humanly, will intelligent species be born within 100 million years?
And let them study for me how to treat pancreatic cancer? Can it be saved?
Can they solve this problem that modern medicine cannot solve for themselves, especially the king of cancer, pancreatic cancer.
Thinking of this, Yang Shou's heart is hot, at the end of his life, he will turn the tables against the sky?
Just do it, Yang Shou thought carefully about the tools needed to evolve a new civilization.
Must-haves: petri dishes, as well as all kinds of organic and inorganic substances.
The others didn't expect it for the time being, Yang Shou returned to the house and brought out an ant petri dish with a length of 40 centimeters, a rockery, a small pond, and a dozen or so small ants he raised.
"You're free. ”
Yang Shou released them in the yard, which was one of the few activities he had since he was diagnosed with cancer, and looking at the little ants in the petri dish, he felt the preciousness of life even more.
The original ant environment has been artificially modified, and the ponds, that is, small puddles, have been expanded, and the area of the sea and land is now seven to three, simulating the earth's environment.
Immediately afterward, he went to the county's garbage disposal center......
That's right, it's a garbage disposal center, the basis of life is organic matter, organic matter composed of hydrocarbons, and the most place, Yang Shou feels that it is the garbage dump.
After manually excavating a part of the garbage dump with more than 10 years of sedimented soil, Yang Shou threw it near a small puddle, half on land and half in water.
"Next, time is speeding up, I hope it can be, an hour of life. ”
Yang Shou took a deep breath, an hour was nothing to others. But for him, the current days are counted by the second, and it is a huge fortune.
"It's just an investment, otherwise you can only wait at home and die. Time, accelerate!"
Yang Shou put the watch on the petri dish and twisted the handle.
No response.
Fake? Was it an illusion just now? Yang Shou rubbed his eyes a few times, looked at the petri dish that did not react in the slightest, and kept staring without giving up.
But ten minutes passed, and there was still no response from the petri dish.
"Oh yes, the microbes are too small to be seen with the naked eye. ”
Yang Shou reacted suddenly, took out a high-powered microscope from the bedroom, adjusted the magnification to the petri dish, and re-observed.
Don't ask why there is a microscope, he is an undergraduate who graduated from archaeology and bought a microscope at the university, which is not too much.
Later, because it was too difficult to find a job in archaeology, I changed careers and became an operator. People are forced out.
In the world of petri dishes, through the microscope, Yang Shou saw a bizarre scene.
"Damn, it's moving!"