The first modification?
What modification?
What had been modified?
Countless questions flashed through Lü Yongchang's mind in an instant.
Before he could think them through, his consciousness left the Technology Tree Space entirely and returned to the real world.
The next second, he quickly noticed that something was slightly wrong with his body.
It seemed...
The side effects of that so-called first modification hadn't been completely eliminated?
He struggled to focus his gaze on the people before him.
The sluggish flow of time gradually returned to normal, and the cheers and applause of the Academicians began to reach his ears.
Since the flow of time had not yet fully recovered, those cheers and claps were drawn out, sounding particularly eerie.
His dizziness was intensifying at an alarming rate.
He instinctively raised a hand, trying to grab something to steady himself.
But...
Apart from the intangible azure Holographic Image, he caught nothing.
Amid a chorus of startled cries, the world before his eyes plunged into darkness.
Inside the Medical Center.
Lü Yongchang lay quietly in an angular Medical Pod, his eyes tightly closed.
This was the latest model of Medical Pod developed by the Academy of Sciences, capable of treating the vast majority of diseases that had appeared throughout human history.
Yet Lü Yongchang showed no response whatsoever. He simply lay still inside it, as though he had been injected with hibernatin.
Fang Xu anxiously watched Doctor Wen, who stood before him with her brow furrowed, and asked in a lowered voice, "Doctor Wen, what's going on?"
"Ah..."
Doctor Wen sighed and shook her head slightly. "Professor Lü's condition is complicated. I'm not sure how to explain it."
"An unknown disease?"
Mao Zhengzhi leaned closer from beside them and asked gravely, "Do you mean some unusual, unknown disease?"
Doctor Wen