Ideas for Constructing an Auxiliary Sandbox

With his handsome features and perfect proportions, he already resembled a flawless Nordic God. However, instead of feeling smug about this transformation, Xu Zhi felt a headache coming on. If he suddenly looked like this, Chen Xi that girl would probably go crazy, right?

She'd definitely scold me for buying a cheat for photo editing.

"Crap, I'm going to be studied. Can I modify my genes?" Xu Zhi suddenly asked the Mother Nest, "Modify these outstanding genes that are so outwardly visible."

He felt that this perfect appearance, like a face out of mythology, was too exaggerated and conspicuous. Walking down the street, countless people would scream, as if a fantasy mythological figure had stepped out of myths, anime, and books.

He wanted to revert to his previous appearance.

To be honest, he was already quite satisfied with his previous appearance, which was already eye-catching and still had the contours of his old face. It was already difficult for Chen Xi and the village's gossiping aunties to accept that, and saying he had become more handsome was a barely plausible explanation.

But with this transformation, he was afraid they would become completely suspicious.

"Integrate Zerg cells?"

The Mother Nest asked, "Creator, possessing the natural ability to unlock the Gene Lock, is a Zerg Hero, capable of modifying gene fragments and their own genes."

I'm already a Zerg Hero? Does that mean countless Zerg are trying to transcend, unlock the Gene Lock, and become Zerg Heroes, while I'm already one?

In fact, Xu Zhi was previously too weak to accept the transformation. Now that his physique was strong, he could accept Zerg cells and become a glorious member of the Zerg.

He didn't hesitate long on the choice of whether to remain human. He was going to die anyway, silently waiting for cancer to kill him? Being a normal person wasn't fun at all! Being a Zerg was much more interesting.

So, he silently said, "Integrate Zerg cells!"

"Fusion commencing!"

A mechanical voice echoed.

Instantly, a tearing pain from the depths of his soul surged through him. His entire body broke out in dense goosebumps and cold sweat. He collapsed on the bed, howling in pain, and then fainted.

When Xu Zhi regained consciousness, three hours had passed. He slowly got out of bed and found himself covered in blackish-gray grime, as if he had been soaking in mud. He quickly took a shower, changed his clothes, and then returned to examine himself.

He felt that his body had become somewhat different.

It had become infinitely potential.

"I'm a real Zerg now! I possess the Zerg's racial suicide talent—ultra-fast cell accelerated division. As long as I want, I can easily commit suicide at any time, aging myself to death!" He silently clenched his fist, feeling that his body could freely regulate genes.

He slightly closed his eyes.

In the black space, he saw a twisted double helix DNA.

A person's genes are composed of large, complex, disordered, meaningless, and even a large number of hidden disease genes.

Xu Zhi saw that his human genes, large useless junk information fragments, had been cleared and optimized, retaining only the essence. Now, most of his gene chain was blank.

1. Human genes (cancer cells)
2. Empty
3. Empty
4. Empty
5. Empty

Xu Zhi frowned slightly, "Remove the cancer cells from the human genes."

"Fundamental genetic components cannot be removed," the Insect Nest Sub-Brain transmitted in a mechanical voice.

Xu Zhi was stunned, taking a deep breath. "There's no way? I can't remove the human genes, I can only find a way to cure it..."

He could only give up on that idea.

At this time, he could choose to integrate other genes, but he had no intention of doing so now.

Because in his current evolutionary species, the evolutionary gene pool only contained two genes.

Ant Ape Gene (Gilgamesh improved version) and Insect Ape Gene.

He could choose to become as strong as the Hero King, but he didn't feel like it. He didn't like either of these genes, and he was too lazy to integrate them. After all, he was just a farmer tilling the fields, with no life-threatening dangers, so why rush to get life-saving measures?

He was going to die anyway. The most important thing was to find a way to cure the cancer. Saving his life was the priority, and becoming powerful could wait.

He silently sensed his body.

"Wait, I already have late-stage stomach cancer?" Xu Zhi's face instantly turned pale. "How could it be so fast? I just got diagnosed with mid-stage stomach cancer a few days ago."

The Queen Zerg replied, "Cancer cells are the body's rebellious cells. The stronger the person, the stronger the cancer cells."

Xu Zhi: "..."

Does that mean that the stronger I become, the stronger the cancer cells also become, multiplying wildly in my body? Does that mean that if I absorb a little more power from this species extinction event, and I become even stronger, I might die directly?

He couldn't help but be startled.

This was a disaster! "I can't accept the power feedback from a fourth species extinction in a short period of time." Xu Zhi took a deep breath. Although it was still far away, if the ecosystem hadn't lost its balance, he wouldn't have reset the sandbox. Flourishing, with generations slowly dying and being reborn, was what he hoped to see.

But he remained vigilant.

"So, even if they run wild and act tyrannically on this land in the short term, I can't just wipe them out on a large scale and reshuffle everything?" Xu Zhi felt a headache coming on, but with his terminal cancer, he was pretty much done for.

Xu Zhi hadn't expected things to change so quickly.

He recalled Gilgamesh's madness and struggle before death last night, which also brought him a sense of terror and immense awe towards death.

Death is the most feared thing for any living being, and he couldn't help but sigh with complexity, "Can I really survive?"

Xu Zhi felt death approaching, and like Gilgamesh, he became fearful.

He stood up and walked towards the courtyard gate.

"Terminal cancer, I don't have much time left... I must develop racial civilizations and extraordinary powers in the next era, in the sandbox, as soon as possible, and find the ability to improve and fight cancer cells in the extraordinary!"

Xu Zhi looked at the scene in the sandbox.

Everything was withering, with almost no vitality left.

A night had passed, which was equivalent to forty or fifty years for them, but they still hadn't fully recovered.

They had only brought a pair of each species, and they were slowly repopulating.

Moreover, they had begun to heed the warnings of "God," who said that all beings are equal. Therefore, apart from the necessary food, they reduced unnecessary barbaric killings and even helped propagate some species to expand their populations.

However, at the same time, after a great extinction, various new species vaguely emerged again and began to reproduce, bizarre and strange, like a new sprout after the apocalypse.

Xu Zhi watched for a while, sitting in the sunny courtyard, eating the farm breakfast brought by Chen Xi.

"It has stabilized and started to redevelop, but it's still too slow. My illness won't last long..."

Xu Zhi sighed.

"Should I open a second sandbox and create another Genesis?"

He wanted to open a new world sandbox.

To carry out evolution, let the civilizations inside develop, and even boldly deduce a vast and advanced world like Xuanhuan or Xianxia, but obviously, it was a bit unrealistic.

After all, this sandbox had only just sprouted a little bit of extraordinary power. Chewing too much would only make it hard to digest, so it was better to wait for this sandbox to give him hope.

For a time, he gave up the idea of building a new sandbox and could only look for other ways to promote the emergence of extraordinary species in the sandbox after the Great Flood.

"But, it's not like I can make it appear just because I want it to." He sat on the wooden chair in front of the courtyard and thought for a while, suddenly recalling the previous sentence: "Wisdom is impermanent and will be born with it, many places that do not conform to the theory of evolution."

"Since wisdom is impermanent, perhaps I should borrow the wisdom of others. After all, it's too limiting for me to bury myself in thinking about evolution alone. It's better to brainstorm... Why not drag a group of people into the water?" A bold idea suddenly surged into Xu Zhi's mind.

That's right, this time, he wanted to make a big bet! It was too slow for him to evolve species and evolve spores alone.

It would be better to bring in others to help him deduce the evolution of spores! He remembered a sandbox game he used to play called Spore, where the player starts as a spore and begins to evolve and reproduce, eventually turning into various strange creatures... Xu Zhi asked the Insect Nest Sub-Brain: "I'm making a miniature sandbox. Can it be made into an online game where other people's souls can enter the yard and treat the sandbox as a game? Help me evolve new species?"

Seeing Chapter 17, asking for recommendations and collections, it's not too much, right? Also, the sandbox world will not become an online game of fighting monsters and upgrading, it will be like the previous style.

It's just that other players' brains will help create various new species. After all, it's impossible for the protagonist to create countless new races by himself, that's too exaggerated (^▽^)