"What an incredible creation!"
The Chief Scientist of the Immortality medical team straightened up and exclaimed once again what he had repeated countless times before.
Incredible. Truly incredible!
"These blood cells are waking up."
He rubbed his eye sockets, then applied two Super Tranquilizer Patches to himself.
It was a super tranquilizer designed to be absorbed through the skin and mucous membranes. It was relatively safe—relatively speaking.
But to him, this stuff was practically no different from being harmless. Aside from being a little expensive, it was almost the perfect choice for relieving stress. There was simply no alternative.
He stuck the two tranquilizer patches onto both forearms. A strange force quickly began passing through his cells, sending a signal to his brain.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyelashes trembling continuously. After quite some time, his mental state seemed to improve considerably.
He took a hot towel from his assistant, wiped his face, then put it back. "If you observe this blood carefully, you'll find that most of it is still in a strange dormant state."
"But as time passes and the temperature rises—especially once oxygen is introduced—it gradually begins to awaken."
He adjusted the optical microscope, and the microscopic world was magnified on the display screen.
Some strange cells had already begun moving, but the vast majority remained completely still.
"That's why they were able to survive for thousands or even tens of thousands of years on the Moon, exposed to the vacuum of space."
"They were like someone had pressed the pause button on them. Everything instantly entered a state of absolute suspension, and even their energy consumption could be reduced to practically zero."
"We still have some flesh that wasn't burned to ash. There isn't much, but it's enough for our research."
"The cells in its