Cold and dead.
It felt like being immersed in absolute-zero liquid nitrogen, every inch of consciousness being frantically torn apart by a monster called "nothingness."
Gu Yuan forced his eyes open.
His field of vision revealed no familiar ceiling, but rather a dead, dark red nebula, and distant, faint shooting stars occasionally cutting through the darkness.
No, those were not nebulae.
Gu Yuan's consciousness rapidly elevated, his grand perception instantly covering an area of several light-years around him. He was shocked to find that the dead "nebula" was merely a scar on his own chest.
And those shooting stars were nothing more than a bit of psionic afterglow he had leaked into the universe.
I've transmigrated...
Memories rushed in like a tide. Gu Yuan, the young man from Earth in his past life, was gone, replaced by an ancient deity floating at the edge of the universe, one nearly extinct in this era—a Chaos Titan.
His true body was unimaginably colossal. If Earth were placed before him, probably even a speck of dust on his fingertip wouldn't compare. The flow of his blood was a surging star river, and his breath was a cosmic storm.
Possessing such a magnificent body, he should have been an invincible entity capable of sweeping across all realms and plucking stars from the sky with bare hands.
Yet reality dealt Gu Yuan a heavy blow.
Bone-piercing agony came from every corner of his body.
Gu Yuan tried to raise his right hand, only to find that this finger, heavy enough to crush a star, weighed a thousand tons and could not move at all.
He could only use his weak divine sense to look inward at his body, and this look made his scalp tingle.
The [Pulmonary Star Domain], which had originally been as brilliant as a golden kingdom, was now shrouded by clusters of turbid black mist. Those mists were not dead things, but hundreds of millions of dust-sized yet hideous-looking [Void Locust]s. They frantically gnawed away at the psionic crystal walls on the lung leaves, every bite bringing Gu Yuan a burning sensation akin to suffocation.
--This was bilateral pneumonia caused by a severe bacterial infection.
Following the dried-up blood vessels downward, at the entrance of the [Intestinal Abyss], a dark purple magic dragon tens of thousands of kilometers long coiled within. It possessed thousands of tooth-filled mouths, stuck deep into the intestinal wall like straws, greedily sucking out Gu Yuan's last remaining life essence.
--That was a cosmic-level parasite, the [Void Ascaris Dragon].
What was even more terrifying was the [Left Arm Frontier]. That place had completely turned into a gray, withered wasteland, countless twisted granulation tissues proliferating madly in an attempt to counterattack the heart citadel.
--That was necrotizing fasciitis, and it might have even transformed into some kind of divine mutation.
Are you kidding me... Despair surged in Gu Yuan's heart. Such a huge guy, and yet it's a sickly invalid?
The evil gods who had once besieged this Titan body had long since departed, but the curses, toxins, and alien creatures they left behind had taken root and sprouted within this massive divine body, forming a terrifying "pathological ecosystem."
If no external force intervened, in at most another three cosmic hours, this great Titan divine body would completely perish and turn into cosmic dust.
[Warning! Vital signs are extremely weak!]
[Warning! Immune system has completely collapsed! Leukocyte Legion completely wiped out! Macrophage Guard completely wiped out!]
[Warning! Heart Core Shield durability is below 0.01%! Once the heart core is breached by parasites, the host will die completely!]
A cold mechanical voice suddenly exploded in the depths of Gu Yuan's soul.
Gu Yuan's spirit jolted. System?
As a transmigrator, he naturally knew what this was.
[Divine Body Reconstruction System is activating... Activation successful.]
[Host: Gu Yuan]
[Race: Chaos Titan (Juvenile/Dying)]
[Life Rank: Tenth Rank (Formerly Twelfth Rank)]
[Current Status: Multi-organ failure, severe infection, parasite erosion, canceration spreading.]
[Remaining Survival Time: 72 hours (Earth time).]
Only three days?
Gu Yuan looked at the bright red countdown, his heart turning cold. System, can you directly repair the body?
[Insufficient energy. Repairing the divine body requires massive high-dimensional energy, and the host's current energy is depleted.]
Then I can only wait to die? Gu Yuan watched those few [Void Ascaris Dragon]s swimming toward the heart area, his heart filled with unwillingness.
[Detected that the host possesses the unique talent: Dimensional Link.]
[Scenario deduction in progress...]
[Best scenario generated: Fourth Calamity Project.]
[Description: The host's own immune system has collapsed and cannot resist the invasion. The system suggests crossing dimensions, linking to the low-dimensional world "Blue Sea", summoning "spiritual bodies" to descend, and reshaping the immune defense line within the host's body.]
Gu Yuan was stunned, then immediately reacted. You mean... find Earthlings to act as my cells and help me kill germs?
[Precisely.]
[Although low-dimensional creatures are weak, their souls possess extremely strong plasticity and immortality (revivible). As long as suitable "biological carriers" are constructed for them, they will be the most perfect mercenaries.]
[Open the Dimensional Link?]
Gu Yuan watched the black poisonous mist getting closer and closer, his gaze gradually turning fierce.
This body was now a purgatory full of monsters.
Since his own cells were dead, he would recruit "mercenaries" from the outside!
As long as he could survive, not to mention Earth players, he would dare to use even demons!
"Open!" Gu Yuan said in a deep voice, "Connect to the Blue Star network immediately!"
[Command confirmed.] [Anchoring Blue Star coordinates... Anchoring successful.] [Building virtual server...] [Digitizing host's internal environment...] [Generating game official website...]
Gu Yuan's divine sense was instantly pulled into a strange space.
He watched as the system scanned and modeled his battered and broken body at an extremely fast speed.
Damaged blood vessels became the "Scarlet Corridor";
lungs filled with poisonous gas became the "Storm Poison Domain";
the intestines infested with parasites became the "Abyssal Dragon Nest".
[Please name this game for the host.]
Gu Yuan looked at this magnificent and desperate internal world and was silent for a moment.
To Earth players, this was a game.
But to him, this was a Genesis war concerning life and death.
"Call it... Titan: Genesis."
[Naming successful.]
[First closed beta player limit set: 1,000 people.]
[Official website has been released to major gaming platforms and social media on Blue Star.]
[Promotional slogan generating: 100% realistic holographic online game, a cross-era evolutionary journey, are you ready to become a god?]
At the same time, on Blue Star.
Countless people browsing web pages and scrolling through short videos suddenly found an uncloseable pitch-black pop-up window appearing on their screens.
There were no flashy special effects, only a line of text flowing with dark gold luster, and the sound of a huge heartbeat in the background that seemed capable of devouring souls.
"Thump... thump... thump..."
Every beat seemed to strike deep into everyone's souls.
A line of words slowly emerged:
[Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?]
(System automatically crosses out)
[Ahem, got it wrong.]
The screen flickered and changed to new copy:
[The world's first 100% immersive holographic online game Titan: Genesis first closed beta begins.]
[This is not a game, this is an opportunity for evolution.]
[Click to pre-register and descend instantly.]
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