Trapped in the Cube
Chapter 55

Tracing the Source

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Where did humanity's ancestors come from?

How did cells come into being?

This question had troubled humans in two different worlds for a long time, and it had also been tormenting Liang Zhi.

Especially after he realized that he might be the only person who knew two kinds of cells existed.

A sense of mission arose within him.

Or perhaps it was merely curiosity born from the depths of life itself.

He began searching for the creature he had hypothesized—the Origin Cell.

The common ancestor of both kinds of cells, and also the common ancestor of humanity in both worlds.

Liang Zhi believed that this cell was highly likely to appear at the boundary between the two forms of life, near the Great Tree Cave.

So he began constantly exploring the Great Tree Cave, gradually establishing himself and making a life in this world.

He also came to know a group of companions from this world.

During his interactions with the humans of this world, Liang Zhi increasingly felt that there was no real difference between the two forms of life.

Finally, after one routine exploration, he discovered Strange Eggs filled with Transparent Liquid underground near the Great Tree Cave.

He felt that the liquid inside these Strange Eggs matched his judgment of the Origin Cell.

But near these Strange Eggs was a region capable of accelerating the evolution of Theseus Cells, and that region made it impossible for him to advance even a step.

He also discovered that, due to the stability of normal cells, these Strange Eggs could not affect normal cells.

In other words, as long as he found a human with normal cells, he could obtain the liquid inside the Strange Eggs.

But Liang Zhi did not choose to do that. Having spent so long in

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