Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?
These three abstract questions are generally referred to as the three questions of life.
But for the mycelial life in front of us, it might be more appropriate to replace all the "I"s with "we".
In this regard, humans have actually done a good job. Although they have hidden and tampered with the true history, general education courses will make human boys with these three questions immediately think of the standard answers:
Who am I? A human being.
Where do I come from? From the old times.
Where will I go? I will defeat the mycelium and take back the planet that belongs to mankind.
But they don't have such an idea for mycelium.
Assimilating or using humans does not bring them all benefits, some of the problems that belong to humans are also inherited.
Even at this moment, these hyphae may also want to know where they come from and where they are going.
But they are not human. Even if they have assimilated part of human thinking, they cannot truly bring themselves into it. They are caught in a paradox as if they have self-cognitive disorders.
The class passed quickly, and the mycelial life forms disguised as humans left the classroom one after another, and they seemed to be a group of college students.
In the corners that Professor Lu couldn't see, they disappeared directly into the dream to avoid causing extra burden to this precious brain.
The timeline is constantly advancing. Lin Qingliu sees that Professor Lu has done a good job of psychological preparation for his family, and sees him board the spacecraft with his family, bidding farewell to friends and other relatives.
Contrary to what most people imagine, it is not right and impossible to just lie down in the hibernation capsule and sleep for the upcoming hundreds of years of hibernation.
Only the human race can enter hibernation, and all other life must be eliminated.
Obviously, if you don't want to get a super-large giant or a pool of indescribable liquid after opening the hibernation capsule, the large number of bacteria in the human digestive system must be completely eliminated.
So after having the last meal of the old era, thousands of crew members drank a potion that promoted "emptying" together.
The next three days were extremely painful. The fifty-year-old Professor Lu felt that he had never been so clean.
His old bones had been put through a severe test and had been thoroughly cleansed both outside and inside.
All personal belongings were confiscated, all crew members changed into uniform sterile clothing, and the spacecraft cabin where the hibernation capsule was located was completely transformed into a sterile area.
In the end, thousands of people, exhausted both physically and mentally, finally lay down in the hibernation capsule. Under the effect of the hypnotic gas, they quickly lost consciousness, and the signal in front of Lin Qingliu was completely interrupted.
It was like watching an immersive movie. When the picture in front of Lin Qingliu's eyes lit up again, everything seemed wrong.
On the observation window with integrated display function, the red exclamation mark in the yellow triangle frame is constantly flashing, and the words "body damaged" are jumping, like a hammer constantly hitting the heart of a person who has just awakened.
He heard the hissing sound of air leakage and the sharp sound of alarms, and vaguely saw some shadows of wreckage and dust rising into the sky.
It was under such circumstances that Professor Lu woke up.
The sudden awakening made him feel a palpitation. He instinctively raised his withered wrist and found that the direction of gravity did not seem to be directly downwards, or the hibernation capsule had deviated from its proper horizontal state.
Although he was not a staff member on the spacecraft, Professor Lu also received a period of training and had a general understanding of the current situation.
Something must have happened.
His body woke up from a deep sleep, and the feeling of weakness brought by hundreds of years of hibernation surged up, as if his seemingly bulging muscles had been eaten away by insects and turned into hollow shells.
Forcing his brain to stay awake, Professor Lu moved his muscles for a short time, then planned to verify his identity and open the hibernation capsule from the inside.
At this moment, after a "pop" sound, something seemed to hit the hibernation capsule. A milky white gelatinous substance moved in the corner of the observation window. Although there was no organ similar to the eye, it made Professor Lu feel a chill.
Amid the rustling sounds, he seemed to be able to feel something crawling outside the hibernation capsule.
The plan to open the hibernation chamber was temporarily shelved.
But the problem is far from solved.
The human body that has awakened from hibernation has entered a normal working state, but in this state, humans can only survive for three days at most without food or water.
For Professor Lu, who performed an emptying operation before hibernation hundreds of years ago, this time may be even shorter.
The inertia of thinking brought about by decades of rational thinking forced him to calm down at this moment, and Professor Lu began to think about how to break through the current predicament.
The unknown creature was still crawling outside, and he was simply judging the other party's life form and senses based on the glance he just took.
That kind of thing is undoubtedly not a creature from the human home planet. Even the octopus with the highest intelligence and color-changing ability cannot do this.
Just as he forced himself to think calmly, a "click" sound suddenly came from outside the hibernation capsule.
It was like someone had unscrewed the nut from a bolt and thrown it nearby.
This...is this instinct or intelligence?
Also, where did the nut come from?
Professor Lu felt the direction of the current gravity and determined his own position. His whole body was now leaning forward, which meant that the entire hibernation capsule was leaning forward.
This direction is not friendly to the spacecraft...
His hibernation capsule was currently hanging upside down on the tilted ground.
Professor Lu recalled the content of the training he received:
The hibernation capsule is installed in a fixed position using an electromagnetic adsorption device, and bolts are also used at the four corners to avoid accidents.
“Patta, patta…”
The sound of the nut falling was heard again. Professor Lu said to himself that something was wrong, and then he felt a sense of weightlessness.
The hibernation capsule fell straight down. Although there were many functional problems, the airbags under the outermost shell could still be triggered normally.
Amid the loud crash and the sound of the airbag inflating, Professor Lu felt himself rolling over.
A sharp piece of spacecraft wreckage pierced the airbag that wrapped the hibernation capsule, creating a crack in the specially hardened observation window.
Just when Professor Lu was knocked unconscious, he saw the unknown creature again.
The milky white creature came to the outside of the observation window and rolled up its spider-like body bit by bit, like a piece of freshly kneaded dough.
Then, it moved little by little to the center of the radioactive crack.
Mercury flows across the ground, penetrating every hole.
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