Evolution Failure

"Then when are you free?" Tang Er asked in return. Although he didn't know who this Yan Yanran was, since she was a beauty, he absolutely could not offend her; after all, he didn't know if she was the Matriarch's crush.

"How about this Friday at noon?" Yan Yanran replied after biting her nail in thought for a moment.

"Got it, see you Friday, don't be late." After sending the reply, Tang Er closed WeChat.

Lying on the bed and currently in the middle of evolution, Tang Shizhe was completely unaware that his two Splitters had simultaneously asked two different girls out to dinner on his behalf.

Right now, Tang Shizhe was immersed in memories inherited through his genes.

In these memories, after the alien organism merged with the scholar, although it could not activate all its abilities due to severe injuries, it still modified the scholar's body.

Not only was the scholar's memory improved, but his physical fitness also surpassed that of an ordinary person.

However, the price for this was: the more powerful the organism, the weaker its reproductive capacity.

Although the modified scholar passed the imperial examinations to become a high-ranking official and took many wives and concubines, he only had one son and one daughter in his entire life!

One must realize he had married at least eighteen women! Two children out of eighteen—what a terrifying probability, especially in ancient times without any contraceptive measures.

Moreover, for some reason, the genes of this alien organism were only preserved in the male chromosomes.

If it were a girl, she would not inherit this alien gene at all!

These were the only new memories that had appeared; they were a portion of memories that the alien genes had reorganized and completed after finishing the modification of his body. Originally, these memories had been saved in fragmented pieces within his gene chain.

In addition to the ancient memories, Tang Shizhe also discovered that his brain had automatically reconstructed quite a bit of biotechnology.

As long as he had the Splitters fill in some basic knowledge, he would be able to bring these biotechnologies into reality.

The information regarding this memory consisted of a damaged video and some textual data, but Tang Shizhe was able to discern some things from the video.

It was a barren planet covered in magma and gray rock, with an atmosphere filled with various toxic substances.

In some basins, oceans had begun to take shape, and the planet was dotted with hundreds of thousands of lakes hidden within crater basins.

One by one, spaceships with outer shells made of bone landed on the planet.

Hideous-looking insects crawled out of the ships and scattered green spheres into the lakes on the planet's surface.

Not long after, patches of green, spherical, algae-like plants floated up from these lakes.

Then, the air on the planet began to turn pure; the harmful substances in the air were absorbed by this spherical algae and transformed into hard, solid spheres stored in the center of the algal bodies.

Next, the insectoid race would come to harvest all these spherical plants into their ships. After extracting the hard spheres from the core of the plants, the algae were thrown back onto the planet.

Tang Shizhe pondered that this green spherical algae might be a type of plant capable of adsorbing harmful substances from the air.

Furthermore, it could purify the adsorbed harmful substances and condense them into spheres for the user to collect.

However, due to a lack of technical data, the algae-like plants produced using the biotechnology Tang Shizhe had acquired could only adsorb particulate matter from the air and excrete it at the roots.

It had no purification function at all.

But this was already enough! Whether it was industrial cities in developed countries, the Ganges Nation, or the Xia Kingdom, the world was plagued by air pollution.

Although existing technology could manufacture air purifiers, the high price, expensive replacement costs, high energy consumption during use, and ineffective purification efficiency were all problems with current air purifiers, not to mention they could not be used on a large, widespread scale.

But his spherical algae were different; as long as there was water and light, their air purification efficiency was far beyond what current technology could compare to.

After all, their original designers had intended them to purify the air of an entire planet!

Soon, the joy of acquiring new technology vanished, because Tang Shizhe discovered he was trapped in his mental world!

No matter what he did, he could not leave; he seemed to have lost control of his body as well!

He even began to feel the energy in his body rapidly draining away. If it continued at this rate, it wouldn't be long before he was sucked dry into a husk!

The energy he had stored had already been exhausted during the evolution!

"Save me!" Tang Shizhe continuously sent out distress signals through the Mental Network.

This special signal, originating from a mysterious region of his brain, was even capable of penetrating the distance of space!

However, it seemed that the shell wrapping him was able to completely isolate his distress signal. No matter how he tried, he received no feedback!

Yet at this moment, Tang Er outside suddenly noticed that the cocoon around Tang Shizhe's body had suddenly tightened, and the hole used for the IV tube had also clamped shut.

Although he didn't know what was happening, his body clearly sensed danger, and he hurriedly called Tang Yi and the others over from the factory floor.

"Something's wrong! I can feel the energy inside the Matriarch draining away; this rate of loss is terrifying!" Tang Yi's hand, which was touching the black cocoon shell, recoiled sharply, and his face turned dark.

"We must break this shell open! If the energy continues to drain at this rate, the Matriarch might be in danger!" Tang Yi decisively grabbed several large surgical scalpels from a nearby shelf.

Tang Er and the others took the scalpels and carefully inserted them into the cocoon shell wrapping Tang Shizhe's body.

Following their movements, the cocoon shell began to be cut open, revealing Tang Shizhe's naked body inside.

Tang Yi was quick-witted and scooped Tang Shizhe out, while Tang Er and the others instantly used their scalpels to sever the flesh-tendrils that had been connecting Tang Shizhe to the meat-cocoon.

"That was close. Looks like the upgrade failed?" Tang Yi placed Tang Shizhe onto a sofa that had been pushed over, carefully covered him with a thin blanket, and then turned back to look at the red cocoon shell with a slight frown.

"No, it didn't fail. Do not touch this cocoon shell!" Tang Shizhe suddenly sat up, shouting at Tang Yi and the others like a dying man experiencing a final burst of clarity, before fainting once more.

Hearing Tang Shizhe say this, Tang Yi and the others breathed a sigh of relief; as long as it wasn't a failed upgrade, that was fine.

As for what this cocoon actually was, Tang Shizhe would naturally tell them once he woke up.

Tang Yi and Tang Er moved Tang Shizhe's body back onto the cleaned bed, while moving the cocoon into a box on the side.

This box had originally been an incubator for breeding, but after being modified by Tang Yi and the others, it could be used to store items requiring a special environment.

After adjusting the temperature to thirty-seven degrees, Tang Yi left two people in charge of watching over Tang Shizhe, while the rest returned to the factory to continue producing new viruses.