Fantasy Game: Infinite City

A few hours later, inside the energy room.

"Crack."

“Hiss~hiss~”

"Om~"

Garcia took some maintenance tools and debugged the machine that provided electricity. After modifying and reconnecting some lines, he said something to Han Zu who was standing by the wall.

"Okay, it should be OK now, turn on the switch and give it a try."

"Click."

"Woo hum~"

Previously, under Garcia's investigation, the two found the switch box inside the wall. Because it was placed inside the wall, the switch box was well preserved and had no damage.

The power switch was turned on, and along with the humming sound of the machines, electricity was restored to the institute. The lighting facilities were officially put into operation, and other equipment connected to the machines were also able to operate.

"Let's go, we can finish the last experiment now."

"Row."

The two quickly returned to the laboratory. At Garcia's request, Han Zu bit off one of his fingers and put it into the isolation cabin of the experimental equipment.

"Don't repair it yet. Once your body starts repairing, the original body tissue will lose its activity."

"No problem, but what are we going to study now?"

"I want to try and see if I can understand the principle of your teleportation."

Garcia soon stopped replying and concentrated on the experiment. With electricity, under the observation of the electron microscope, Garcia found that before Han Zu issued the transmission command, his cells suddenly began to perform irregular high-frequency movements, and then suddenly disappeared. Although these cells could not be seen, from the sudden appearance of Han Zu's severed finger next to him, he inferred that the disappeared cells should also appear near his body.

However, before those cells disappeared, Garcia clearly saw the brightness of the cells dim for a moment. These cells should not have disappeared out of thin air, but something happened at an extremely high speed that could not be observed by the naked eye.

"I need to do the experiment again, but this time you will be the one observing."

"Ah? I don't understand this stuff?"

"When your cells were transmitting, they did something at a speed that I couldn't observe. I think your special vision might be able to see it clearly. You just need to tell me what happened."

"Then I'll try, but I can't guarantee success. After all, I've never used this to track super-fast targets before."

The second experiment began soon. Han Zu changed his eyes and stared at the experimental equipment. Before Han Zu's cells disappeared, Han Zu did capture some information through his special eyes.

"How was it? What did you see?"

"Before the cells disappeared, the 'massless' cells you mentioned collided with each other after high-frequency movement, and then the space around other cells seemed to bend. I could observe that other normal cells seemed to become smaller and darker. That's all I could see."

"Are there any other changes? Think about it carefully."

Han Zu carefully recalled what he had just seen from the experimental equipment and thought of a point.

"Those normal cells with mass seemed to become less in number before they disappeared. The others are gone. That's all I saw. So what do you think?"

While organizing her thoughts, she recorded the inferences of the experiment on the computer next to her. After finishing the record, she told Han Zu about her inferences.

"If what you saw is correct, and assuming my inference is correct, I think I have figured out the principle of teleportation."

"tell me the story?"

"The principle of transmission may be to increase the speed of those massless cells instantly and then let them collide with each other. At the moment of collision, they regain mass, thus creating a 'channel'. By using the spatial anomalies of these channels, space can be bent, or even further, a large number of wormholes with extremely short existence time can be created. Through these wormholes, normal cells can be transmitted to other places for reorganization."

"Then why are there fewer ordinary cells? According to your reasoning, shouldn't only the cells without mass be consumed?"

Garcia thought about it carefully, combined with the information Han Zu had said before about teleportation, and gave a reasonable explanation.

"You said before that teleportation consumes your health points, which can be understood as the integrity of your body. The massless cells will not increase when you are not hurt. The decrease in ordinary cells is probably because teleportation requires a large number of massless cells, and the ratio to normal cells should not be a simple two to one. Therefore, during teleportation, you need to actively destroy some ordinary cells so that your body can produce more massless cells as a backup."

"So that's it."

"But I have no way to confirm it now. Just relying on your naked eye observation, you still can't keep up with the speed of transmission. To further confirm my inference, we need a stasis force field, or a large blocking force field. However, according to the time of this world, these two things have not yet been popularized in the civilian field. So you should not find them here."

"Then can you make it?"

"No, my research area is living tissue research. I only know a little bit about other aspects."

"So the experiment is over?"

"Almost. We're fine now."

“Kala…”

"Would you like one?"

Han Zu's fingers grew out quickly. He took out a cigar and handed it to Garcia. Garcia took the cigar, picked up Han Zu's previous severed finger, examined it briefly, and found something interesting.

"After you are repaired, the original body fragments will suddenly become toxic and radioactive, and then after a few seconds..."

Garcia held up Han Zu's previously severed finger and handed it to Han Zu. Han Zu held the finger and heard some subtle sounds.

"call."

The severed finger suddenly began to spontaneously combust without any warning from the wound site, burning with black flames. Using the burning severed finger, Han Zu lit the cigar in Garcia's hand.

"Huh... irreversible spontaneous combustion, interesting."

"There have been cases of limb loss before, but I haven't seen any spontaneous combustion like this."

"Those are not within my scope of research. They may involve philosophy or theology. But what I can tell you is that these body fragments will only undergo this kind of change when you start repairing your body."

Taking the cigar from Garcia, Han Zu took a puff and expressed his thoughts.

"That means, even if someone else gets a piece of my body tissue, they won't be able to study it?"

"Yes, and there is one more thing. Before your body starts to repair itself, the activity of these body fragments will not decrease at all. You can directly put the fragments back. Theoretically, you can even control them, but I don't know how far you can control them."

"Really? Let me try!"

"Click it."

Putting the cigar back into Garcia's mouth, Han Zu casually broke his left hand at the wrist, pulled it off, and placed it on the experimental table beside him, deliberately controlling his body to pause the repair.

He tried to communicate with the severed hand on the lab table, and it successfully moved, but it was still a little stiff.

"Interesting, really... huh?"

"What's happening here?"

Under the gaze of Han Zu and Garcia, the severed hand on Han Zu's experimental table suddenly began to wriggle at the wound, and then, in less than a second, the wound healed. However, a great change had occurred. The original irregular notch turned into a rough depression, from which grew several tiny black tentacles, wriggling slowly and irregularly.

"The same thing happened to your arm."

Garcia held Han Zu's arm, and the wound on his arm also showed the same changes as the broken hand. Some black tentacles of different sizes appeared at the end of the arm, wriggling slowly.

Garcia stretched out his fingers and touched the black tentacles.

"It feels... strange to the touch, rougher and drier than I expected, and very tough. How do you feel about it?"

"The feeling from the tentacles is no different from ordinary skin, just like you are touching my hand."

"Take control of that severed hand and see what you can do."

"it is good."

Han Zu tried to give instructions to the severed hand, and the severed hand on the experimental table next to him was able to perfectly execute the orders given by Han Zu, and the previous stiffness also disappeared. There was almost no delay between giving the order and the severed hand starting to execute the order, as if the arm was still connected to Han Zu's arm.

"How's it going? How do you feel?"

"It's... strange, but it also feels good. Three positions that can be controlled appeared in my mind: the severed hand, the tentacles on the severed hand, and the tentacles on the arm."

"Try to test the control distance and see what the limit is."

Garcia began to record the data on the computer. In order to test the range of this unique ability, Han Zu called out a drone from the swarm.

Controlling the severed hand to grab the drone, Han Zu gave instructions to the drone and quickly flew away from the research institute with the severed hand to conduct a distance test. The results surprised both Han Zu and Garcia.

"The range of the effect is surprisingly similar to your bee swarm. Is there any difference in the control delay?"

"No, I didn't notice it anyway."

"interesting..."

While Garcia was recording the time on the computer, Han Zu controlled the drone to send the severed hand back, and controlled it to climb up his arm like a strange arthropod. The tentacles on both sides entangled together, and the arm quickly pulled the severed hand back, and it returned to its original state in an instant, as if it had never changed.

“This is really…”

Garcia touched Han Zu's moving arms and palms. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, no one would believe what this hand had just done.

"There is no change in the data, as if nothing happened just now. This ability of yours may scare your enemies half to death at some point."

"not bad!"

With the new test project, Garcia was busy for half a day. With the support of electricity, this experiment went smoothly. Although there are still some mysteries to be solved, the data obtained so far is already very impressive.

"Now I can say that all the experiments are over. Although I haven't found a way to leave here, I am very satisfied with the results."

"I didn't expect that as a researcher you are so easily satisfied."

"What's next? What are we going to do? Are you going to continue to find a way out through the Infinite City?"

"That's not a rush. I'm going to go find a charger first."

Han Zu picked up something from the table next to him and shook it. It was a mobile phone that he had found in a drawer of an office in the research institute.

"A charger? The principle of that thing is very simple. I can make you a biological battery with a higher power level. There are enough materials in the laboratory."

"Okay!"

It didn't take long for Garcia to use the materials in the laboratory to make a small biological battery and installed it on the mobile phone. The phone was turned on successfully, but there was no signal.

"It seems that we can't contact your original world. We have to find other ways."

"Contact the original world? You're right... right."

"Wait, you don't mean to..."

"Uh, yeah."

"...Your train of thought is really special."

"Boom."

The rain outside hadn't stopped yet, and thunder could still be heard occasionally. Garcia and Han Zu, who had nothing to do for the time being, returned to the lounge. In the messy lounge, Han Zu picked up the sofa that had fallen to the ground and sat on it.

"Give."

"Thanks."

Garcia took out a can of coffee from the refrigerator where power had been restored and threw it to Han Zu. He then leaned against Han Zu with a bag of snacks.

“Chew, chew, chew…”

"I didn't realize you like eating this. I thought that as a researcher, especially one in the biological field, you would choose a healthier diet."

"I can't help it. These snacks are just too delicious. Besides, my physical condition is now such that I don't need to eat to get energy. Thanks to you, I can finally eat junk food without any burden."

"It's just a small matter, why are you being so polite?"

"You know, theoretically speaking, you are no longer considered a human being. Are you really not curious about what happened? What happened to Infinite City and Infinite Company is obviously a huge conspiracy?"

"I'm not curious. The more I know, the more troubles I have. I don't want to be walking down the street and suddenly a traitor jumps out and tells me some bullshit like "the greater the power, the greater the responsibility". Besides, aren't you the same now? You're not a human anymore, are you?"

"That's true. Chew, chew, chew..."

Garcia leaned on Han Zu like a hamster and ate snacks. Han Zu drank iced coffee and looked at the heavy rain outside through the window.

"So when are you going to put your clothes on?"

"Chew, chew, chew... I finally have a chance to relax, and no one else will see me. Why rush?"

"Gulp...Gulp...Then why don't you let me put on my clothes?"

Garcia stretched out a hand, grabbed Han Zu's muscles twice, and finally patted him a few times.

"Is it pleasing to the eyes? What a great body you have. You need to be more confident and show it to me more often... No, show it off."

"Garcia, your saliva is flowing."

"Oh, sorry."

The rain outside has not subsided yet. It seems that this rain may last a little longer.

"what is that?"

Garcia inadvertently looked out the window and saw that in an open space outside the institute, the raindrops were blocked by something before falling to the ground, changing the direction of their falling.

"Over there, on the right side of that clearing."

Garcia reached out and turned Han Zu's head, pointing outside. Han Zu looked at that location and saw the outline of something.

Han Zu's eyes changed as he stared at the thing. It was a blurry black shadow, motionless. Han Zu could be sure that the thing had just appeared there. When they came to the research institute before, there was nothing in that direction.

Using the swarm of bees, Han Zu wanted to observe the thing from all angles. However, from the swarm's perspective, he could only see the outline formed by the changed rain, but could not see the black shadow.

"The swarm can't detect it, but I can see it as a blurry black shadow."

"Monster? Or enemy?"

"It's hard to say, but it's very unusual. Be prepared."

He just turned around and exchanged a few words with Garcia. When Han Zu looked back again, the black shadow disappeared.

"Where did you go?"

From the perspective of the swarm of bees, Han Zu couldn't find the outline of the black shadow. The black shadow seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.