Inside the vast space, made entirely of steel, countless enormous iron chains intertwined, resembling a spider's nest.
Dozens of oversized lights shine directly onto the platform of the central steel column.
On the platform, a white-haired girl is kneeling, and countless iron chains are firmly fixing her in place with her at the center.
Several long nails were driven through the girl's bones in her legs, firmly pinning her to the platform and preventing her from moving an inch.
His hands, shoulders, and spine were mercilessly pierced by iron chains, held tightly like a lifeless marionette.
The girl was like a soulless puppet, without any expression, not even indifference, just a blank stare.
Beneath the steel pillars of the platform, more than ten armed men took turns guarding the area, along with four cold, heavy machine guns, their dark muzzles pointed at the girl.
On the steel wall directly opposite the girl, there is a window made of special tempered glass that stands out abruptly.
Behind the window were a dozen or so researchers in white lab coats and a middle-aged man in a suit whose eyes were fixed on the girl.
His eyes were fixed on the girl, revealing not a trace of sympathy, but only endless solemnity and anger.
"A 'supernatural' class mutant, [HeLa Cell]!" A deep, booming voice boomed, filling the entire space.
"Two years ago, they slaughtered all 1 million people in City C! Not long ago, they indirectly caused the deaths of almost all the members of the special investigation team!" The middle-aged man in the suit gripped the microphone so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
The girl's still blank eyes trembled slightly after hearing his words.
"You are about to face the first interrogation by the Great Xia Kingdom! You must tell the truth!"
At that moment, the armed men at the bottom also pointed their guns at the girl. The researcher behind the man in the suit sighed softly and placed his hand on a blood-red button, ready to press it at any time.
The girl seemed to have heard what the man in the suit said, and slowly raised her blank face.
"Gah, crack crackâ"
The girl's movements were very light, but they still pulled on the huge iron chains around her body, and the sound of bones breaking came from her petite body.
The girl's expression remained unchanged, as if she felt no pain; she simply stared blankly at the man in the suit who was separated from her by a pane of glass.
"Now! Tell me everything about your past, your experiences, and everything you know!" A deep voice came from the cold broadcast.
The girl's lips moved, and then she slowly opened her mouth.
"I... just emerged... from... cells... have... similar... beings." The girl's throat was also pierced by chains, so her syllables sounded very strange and intermittent.
A female researcher wearing an earring, standing next to the man in the suit, immediately recorded every word the girl said.
The girl continued speaking with difficulty.
"Learn to... breathe... and survive."
As the girl spoke each word clearly, her memories were slowly drawn back to the time two years ago, to the time when she was just born.
My memories of when I was just born are very vague. It's not that I can't remember them, but I didn't even have a sense of touch back then, which is why my memories are so vague.
[HeLa Cells] I only remember that a few seconds after I was born, my life began to slip away.
It didn't know why, nor did it want to know why; it just wanted to survive, without knowing the reason why.
A 'mouth' appears on the surface of the HeLa cell. It uses this 'mouth' to draw in water and nutrients, and then releases them, thus completing the cycle.
It survived, but only for less than half a minute before its life began to slip away again.
It began to breathe heavily, trying to prolong its life in this way.
But suddenly it had a strange feeling, as if its 'mouth' was blocked.
But it didn't care about that and sucked the blocked thing in as well.
By a twist of fate, it survived again and felt that it had changed. It seemed to have become bigger than before and had some strange feelings.
It seemed to sense its surroundings. Around it were many cells just like itself, but they were born only a few seconds before slowly dying, only to be born again, as if leaving nothing behind for the world.
But HeLa cells don't care about all that; they only know to absorb and eat other cells so they can continue to live.
Looking back now, it's truly pathetic. She ate her own kind to survive, but... it seems she's still doing that now.
HeLa cells continuously absorb their own kind into their bodies and convert them into energy, until they become so large that simply eating their brothers and sisters is no longer enough.
Then the HeLa cells began to move, not knowing what they were supposed to do, only that they would die if they didn't do something.
It moved slowly like that, until it seemed to bump into something and was forced to stop.
It looked like a wall, a wall made of cells.
HeLa cells discovered that they could also eat the cells on this wall, and there were plenty of them.
It stopped eating and kept eating.
It kept eating until it broke the 'wall' before it stopped.
It was at this moment that HeLa cells discovered that they were no longer a single cell, but rather a black, fleshy mass composed of many cells.
What he perceived as a wall was merely a piece of seaweed.
It was about to eat the rest of the seaweed, but before it had even eaten half of it, a wave blew it away and washed it ashore.
At first, the HeLa cell couldn't move at all on the shore. It wasn't until it learned to wriggle that it was able to move on its own, albeit with difficulty.
But before it could take two steps, it encountered the first land creature it had ever seen.
It was a very large ant. After seeing the HeLa cells, it bit the ant twice, almost killing it.
[HeLa Cell] tried to escape, but its slow movement was no different from that of a non-moving ant.
The ant seemed to think that HeLa cells didn't taste good either, and then turned and left.
HeLa cells, sensing the other's departure, ceased their wriggling and began their first thought.
The thought process was very simple; it was essentially about thinking about ants. As I was thinking, my HeLa cells underwent a change.
It slowly turned into a black liquid, then gradually took shape, growing ant limbs and mouthparts, until finally becoming a complete ant.
It was just that it was much smaller than the one that had bitten it earlier.
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