"You mean... my native cells are also a kind of fusion cell?"
As he looked at the six elderly scholars before him who had told him what they believed, Chiba's eyes widened slightly. His voice carried undisguised astonishment as he spoke.
"Yes. Although there is no conclusive research data to support it, we believe that your native cells may have already undergone something like this once before. Based on the available research data, we can make an incomplete deduction. From the moment the foreign cells invaded your body, your cells reacted with extraordinary speed—at a rate comparable to an immune response with antibodies resisting a viral invasion. The only explanation we can speculate is that your cells may have previously experienced an invasion by foreign cells and developed some sort of resistance mechanism. Judging from how native cells engulf foreign cells to produce fusion cells, after which the fusion cells divide stably, before long all the native cells and foreign cells in your body will gradually engulf and transform into fusion cells. In the end, every cell in your body will be replaced by fusion cells. Based on these two points, we believe that the native cells in your body were very likely replaced once already—by fusion cells produced when your original native cells and another invading type of cell engulfed one another."
Upon hearing Chiba's words, the elderly scholars exchanged glances. One of them spoke.
In fact, after they had each arrived at Madara's place that morning, they had discussed the retained materials. This had originally been nothing more than a hypothesis.
As for whether it was accurate or correct, they had no way to prove it.
They simply felt it was highly likely.
Otherwise, the cells in Chiba's body should not have been like this, and there should