Chapter 33 Anti-Cell World
If no one had told Mo Ling about telocyte cells, he would not have noticed such a subtle detail.
The most difficult thing for Mo Ling to face has appeared—humans converted by telocyte cells.
Before reinforcements arrived, Mo Ling quickly manipulated the cube to accelerate away from this soldier.
He still harbored a glimmer of hope.
But the more he moved along the high wall, the more his hope faded.
The perimeter was filled with telocyte cells!
Mo Ling even scaled the high wall and circled around outside.
All life was living normally, with birds chirping and flowers blossoming, but without exception, they were all telocyte cells.
Mo Ling returned inside the wall and cautiously approached the outpost.
Looking through the ground, he saw the taxi soldiers working methodically inside, with the layout no different from what Mo Ling had seen before.
But that was the scariest thing.
Thinking back to what the soldier he had just seen said, Mo Ling confirmed his suspicions:
This is a world of telocyte cells!
In this world, normal cells are called anti-cells.
That’s why this area has been isolated, and no traces of telocyte cells can be found.
Mo Ling had also thought about what it would be like if a world were entirely replaced by telocyte cells.
He thought the people in that world would be miserable.
But he never imagined that the concept would completely flip.
The minority would be called anomalies!
The soldiers in the outpost were living beings, born with telocyte cells all over their bodies, with no concept of replacement.
These living telocyte humans grew and died normally.
Perhaps in their biology, telocyte cells were the basic units that make up their bodies.
As Mo Ling was observing these soldiers, someone noticed him.
“That cube ran to the outpost! Stop it!”
A squad caught up.
Mo Ling could have acted to resolve the situation, but looking at these telocyte human soldiers, he felt strange.
“It should be a relic with autonomy, I don’t know how it ended up in the restricted area.”
“Has anyone reported a missing relic recently?”
“No, and neither has the monitoring station.”
“I checked, it seems to be an undiscovered relic.”
“Alright, let’s attempt to communicate, its abilities come with a cost, and for now, it doesn’t seem to pose a threat.”
Are they different from ordinary humans?
Mo Ling’s teleport frame targeted the heads of these soldiers.
Swiftly moving downwards, all the weapons of these soldiers were turned into pieces.
Mo Ling controlled the cube to float upwards, quickly leaving the outpost.
He still couldn’t bring himself to act.
In no time, Mo Ling returned to the large tree hollow.
Controlling the cube to a platform, Mo Ling leaned against a metal wall, gasping for breath incessantly.
Just the outpost had already made Mo Ling feel suppressed.
Thinking back on everything behind it, the monitoring station, the Abyss, and Dawn City, he no longer dared to continue exploring.
“Let’s go back, I’m too hungry.”
One of the reasons Mo Ling went to the outpost of this world was to find something to eat.
But seeing the eerie scene at the outpost, he knew that even if there was food, it was likely made from telocyte cells, perhaps a transparent substance.
Although it was all protein with energy, Mo Ling felt disgusted.
“If the peculiar tree tribe knew their sacred objects just wanted to eat, wouldn’t that be ridiculous?” Mo Ling mocked himself.
Resting for a while, Mo Ling controlled the cube to slowly descend into the large tree hollow.
The descent was slow, aided by the fluorescence of glowing mushrooms, Mo Ling finally saw the bottom of the big tree hollow.
It was a glowing algae-filled pool, with the deep roots of the big tree twisting down to the bottom of the pool.
The cavities between the roots extended far into the distance, supporting a vast and empty space.
Some small organisms covered by glowing algae live peacefully in this space.
Despite being deep underground, damp and decaying, there was no sense of lifelessness.
Looking at this peaceful scene, Mo Ling’s soul, impacted by the telocyte cell world, calmed slightly.
Continuing the descent.
When Mo Ling was about to fall into the pool, the glowing water extended upwards like tentacles.
Mo Ling quickly stopped the cube in mid-air.
The tentacles swayed in the air, extending a few more small tentacles, continuously trying to grab under the cube.
Mo Ling tried to place the cube on top of the tentacles, and the glowing tentacles that touched the cube quickly adhered along the metal wall.
The water emitting a faint glow climbed the vertical surface, engulfing the entire cube.
The thin layer of water gently pulled the cube into the pool.
After some thought, Mo Ling released the control, letting the cube fall into the water like a stone under the force of gravity.
At the moment of falling into the water, the familiar gravity reversal occurred again.
Mo Ling felt the cube passing through a curtain of water, flipping the entire world.
The cube burst out of the curtain of water and landed on the surface of a pool.
Water splashed everywhere.
Mo Ling inside the cube landed with his hands on the ground, narrowly avoiding hitting his head again.
“Thank goodness the fall height wasn’t high this time.”
Once Mo Ling sat up, he noticed a vigilant figure next to the cube.
The figure’s hair and clothes were wet from the water splashed by the cube, and drops of water, whether from the pond water or sweat, slid down his smooth cheeks.
It was Li Luo!
Her expression gradually shifted from vigilance to relief as she walked over and patted the cube, asking, “Where did you run off to?”
She then remembered something and took out an electronic screen from her bag, placing it on the cube.
Mo Ling transferred the electronic screen into the cube and, holding the screen, found himself at a loss for words on how to describe his experience.
“The concept of the telocyte cell world seems too terrifying for the people here.”
After a moment of thought, Mo Ling wrote three big words on the electronic screen:
“I don’t know.”
Mo Ling really didn’t know what kind of place it was.
What if it was another dream?
If it were a dream, that would be a good thing.
Upon seeing the response, Li Luo didn’t get angry, just moved to the cube and turned it a few times, checking for any damage.
She wiped the mud off the cube, saying, “Ever since the voice of the gods disappeared two days ago, I’ve been looking for you.”
That’s when Mo Ling noticed the dark circles under Li Luo’s eyes.
Turns out, she had been worried about him.
Mo Ling continued to ask with the electronic screen, “Has the voice of the gods really disappeared? When did it happen?”
After hearing Li Luo’s response, Mo Ling carefully calculated and found that the disappearance of the voice of the gods happened right when the leader of the tree tribe lay down their spine.
What connection could there be?
Mo Ling also learned that Li Luo had almost explored the entire bottom of the big tree hollow.
Inside was a huge cavity, with nothing besides a vast shallow pool.
Although there were telocyte-transformed creatures attacking each other inside, after the disappearance of the voice of the gods, the creatures gradually returned to normal.
Li Luo had been able to search the bottom of the hollow because of this.
“Is there really nothing else?” Mo Ling confirmed multiple times, and the answers he got were always the same.
Mo Ling skeptically investigated further.
Under the shallow pool, there was only murky mud.
There were no water curtains traversing worlds…
[End of Chapter 33]
