After splitting into cell clusters, another dilemma arose before them—— There were so many cells, and everyone copied 8. It was impossible to tell which was the main body. Moreover, with 96 spherical cells packed together, everyone could not see where their teammates were.
Yue Xingwen simply asked loudly, “Senior brother Xu, how to control the split bodies? I can’t find where you guys are!”
Xu Yishen’s voice came from far away, “The mitosis skill I got is different from the one here, I can split to 5 replicas instantly. But the ‘mitosis’ of this course strictly adheres to the law of ‘nth power 2’ division, which means that each division is when all cells are divided in two and become multiples of 2.”
He paused, and his voice was a little helpless, “I’m also studying how to control these cells.”
2 became 4, 4 became 8, and the next split was 16. In this way, they would divide into more and more cells.
Liu Zhaoqing also said, “We are now just the first cell cluster, about 100 cells, and all of us are dizzy. If later we split into thousands, tens of thousands, or even 40 to 60 trillion cells that make up the complete human body, then won’t we become a sea of cells? Will it still be distinguishable when the time comes?”
Ke Shaobin said weakly, “I found that I can roll forward.”
Upon hearing it, everyone looked back and saw a small ball wearing glasses, gurgling and rolling forward to some distance, followed by the 7 balls that had been copied out right behind it.
Among the dense cell clusters, Ke Shaobin wearing glasses was really the most unique.
Xu Yishen’s eyes lit up as he said, “I found the pattern. Everyone’s main body is unchanged, and those replicas next to us will move with the main body. As soon as we give the command in our minds, ‘Which direction do we want to go’, our spherical bodies will roll in the specified direction.”
Yue Xingwen had previously thought that without hands and feet, all turned into balls, shouldn’t they roll around ah?
Ke Shaobin’s voice came from the front, “Not bad? It feels like walking normally ah!”
After thinking about it, Yue Xingwen said, “Then let’s all roll in different directions as well and get used to how to walk as cells first.”
Hearing this, everyone rolled forward, back, left and right.
Countless small balls rolled around in the not-so-spacious space for a while, occasionally colliding, almost turning itu a ‘ball war’, with Yue Xingwen rolling to the left and Jiang Pingce rolling to the right, their bodies colliding right into each other.
Both of their eyes were less than 1 cm apart. With his eyes open, Yue Xingwen could clearly see Jiang Pingce’s dark pupils. He froze for a moment, and then said with a smile, “It seems like we both don’t have eyelashes? Ball-shaped face, only one pair of eyes, but I can see clearly that you still have a single eyelid, haha.”
Jiang Pingce: “…”
Could your focus be normal?
The sound of ‘ah’ came from the side. Lan Yarong and Liu Zhaoqing collided together and Lan Yarong said, “Stop, stop, stop, I’m going to be knocked into a concussion!”
Liu Zhaoqnig said, “I’m also a little dizzy. Everyone be careful, the main body will be dizzy when it hits each other!”
Zhang Xiaonian asked for help, “I can’t tell the direction, I’m surrounded by my own replicas!”
Everyone: “…”
The scene was chaotic for a while.
Yue Xingwen only felt a headache, a large group of people suddenly turned into a ball, and it was hard to grasp the direction of movement. After their vision was affected, they also tended to collide with each other when they rolled. At this rate, how else were they going to cooperate in creating a child? How could they grow a liver, grow a heart when the time came with their confused state? Would they create a monster?!
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One by one, the balls turned their heads and soon found the ‘group’ of Ke Shaobin wearing glasses. Everyone could not tell which was the main body, but the 8 balls were exactly the same anyway, as long as Ke Shaobin himself could tell the difference.
Jiang Pingce said, “Now take Ke Shaobin’s direction as the front. Xin Yan and Qin Lu go to rejoin young Ke. Senior sister Manluo, Qin Miao and senior sister Lan roll backwards in reverse. Senior brother Zhou, senior brother Liu, and senior brother Xu to the right, and me, Xingwen, and Zhang Xiaonian to the left.”
As soon as he assigned it this way, the original chaotic situation immediately became orderly.
The group rolled in different directions with their replicas, and then everyone looked back to find that they had formed a large ‘ring formation’, standing in four neat rows, so that everyone could see each other’s positions!
Xu Yishen laughed and said, “It’s still Pingce who has a way, so that we won’t get dizzy and can see everyone.”
Zhang Xiaonian said, “I can finally tell the direction!”
Yue Xingwen turned his head to look at Jiang Pingce beside him, and said in his heart, Pingce’s ability to classify and organize was really strong. No matter how messy the situation was, he was able to organize it clearly.
In the front row, Ke Shaobin blinked his eyes and said, “What should we do next?”
Xu Yishen said, “We have now only completed the first step in the birth of human beings. After the cleavage, forming the cell clusters, the next step is for the cell clusters to be sent through the fallopian tube into the uterine cavity, where it adheres to the endometrium through the sticky substance.”
Liu Zhaoqing said, “The cells close to the endometrium secrete an enzyme that split the endometrium, forming a small hole and then buries it in, this is what is clinically known as ‘implantation’, do I remember correctly?”
Xu Yishen replied, “That’s right!”
Their team had a student from the Faculty of Biological Science and a student from the Faculty of Medicine, and they knew about the process of human birth.
Yue Xingwen followed closely and asked, “What about the fallopian tubes?”
Lan Yarong suddenly said, “Behind the three of us, we found a pipe-like passage, is this the right one ah?”
Xu Yishen said, “Let’s all look again, don’t go to the wrong place and turn into an ectopic pregnancy.”
The fertilized egg can’t survive outside the uterus. If left to grow, it may damage nearby organs and cause life-threatening loss of blood.
Symptoms include pelvic pain and vaginal bleeding.
To prevent complications, treatment is required. In the early stages, medication may be sufficient. Later stages require surgery.
Liu Zhaoqing said seriously, “That’s right. If the implantation position is wrong, resulting in ectopic pregnancy, our child will not be able to be born, and it might even trigger a hemorrhage from the mother.”
Everyone: “……”
At this time, everyone was located in a confined space. There were no exits in other locations except for a tubular passage found behind Lan Yarong, Lin Manluo and Qin Miao.
A mechanical voice sounded in everyone’s ears: “Cell cluster division complete, please prepare for implantation.”
Xu Yishen said, “Looks like that’s where senior sister Lan said it was!”
Jiang Pingce gave a command, “Everyone stay calm and line up to go in.”
Lan Yarong said, “I’m a liberal arts student, and it’s completely different from embryonic development. Xu Yishen, you can lead the way.”
Xu Yishen nodded and said, “Okay, everyone don’t move, I’ll go first. Senior brother Liu and Zhuo Feng follow me.”
Jiang Pingce arranged. “Senior sister Lan, you’re the second group, Ke Shaobin is the third, and I’ll go over last with Xingwen and Zhang Xiaonian. Once we reach our destination, we continue to line up in order, each with their own replicas standing in a row, don’t mess up.”
He divided the 12 people into 4 small groups, so that groups of 3 would move in sequence and there would be no chaos.
Otherwise, if they rushed up, they would bump into each other and get dizzy.
Lan Yarong and her group consciously gave way to the passageway, then they watched Xu Yishen, whose pupils were obviously lighter than the others, rolling over with 7 replicas, followed closely by Liu Zhaoqing and Zhuo Feng…
It was not easy to tell who was who from the eyes only!
After a row of balls rolled through the ‘fallopian tube’, Lan Yarong, Lin Manluo and Qin Miao immediately followed suit.
Qin Miao and Qin Lu were twins who looked exactly the same when they turned into cells, and it was impossible to tell them apart by their clothes or hairstyles. Yue Xingwen gave a reminder, “Ke Shabon goes first, Qin Lu goes last, don’t mix with your sister!”
Qin Lu: “… Okay.”
Another row of cells rolled over, with Yue Xingwen’s group going in last.
The fallopian tubes were quite long, and everyone lined up to roll all the way forward, feeling like riding a slide as a child.
After a few moments, it opened up in front of them, and everyone appeared in a strangely shaped space, which was wide in front and narrow at the back, like an inverted triangle.
Liu Zhaoqing’s voice came from the front and said, “Here, it should be the mother’s womb, right?”
Xu Yishen said, “Look at the shape, it’s right! Where are we going to implant?”
Liu Zhaoqing asked, “The sidewall is more stable, right? If it gets too close to the cervical os, it’s easy to form placenta previa, and it will be too dangerous for the mother to give birth.”
Xu Yishen was at the front of the queue and could clearly see the wide ‘room’ around him, which had villi on the walls, apparently simulating the mucous membrane of the uterus.
According to the shape of the ‘room’, different locations within the uterus could be distinguished. The implantation was generally after the front, back, and side walls of the uterus. Xu Yishen chose the right wall and said, “Everyone follow me.”,
He rolled through first, and one by one, the others came to the right side collectively.
Xu Yishen said, “Everyone sticks to the top of the sidewalls through the sticky substance on the surface of the cells.”
Everyone did as they were told.
They lined up and clung to the furry ‘walls’.
From their field of view, this room was particularly large, and there was a layer of endometrium on the wall. But in fact, this was the library’s simulation of the mother’s uterus, and they were now in the ‘mother’s womb’, needing the mother’s nourishment to develop into a tiny baby.
At present, it was still too far away from the birth of their child, who was only a clump of cells and even the heart had not formed yet.
Ke Shaobin said curiously, “I found that after the back was glued on, I couldn’t move.”
Liu Zhaoqing spat, “Of course you can’t run around after the cell clusters are implanted. Won’t it cause miscarriage if you round around?”
Ke Shaobin: “…”
Xu Yishen laughed and said, “Don’t move, wait for the next instructions.”
The crowd dutifully glued their backs to the wall of the womb not daring to move. Although none of the students present had any experience with childbirth, this time, they were going to experience the process of fetal pregnancy. Although it was a little strange, no one dared to be careless.
If they were not careful, their child was going to miscarry or die young.
Gradually, everyone noticed a change in the endometrium behind them. The membrane seemed to be elastic, gently wrapping them. Everyone stared curiously at the scene before them, and after an unknown amount of time, they seemed to change into another relatively narrow space, and there seemed to be a transparent film protecting them outside.
Xu Yishen said, “Has the implantation successfully been established and has the placenta formed?”
Liu Zhaoqing carefully observed the surrounding and said, “It should be, the fetal blood circulation is established all over the chorionic membrane, and these thin tubes you see are the placental blood vessels.”
They looked forward and sure enough, they saw some thin red pipes on the membrane.
Xu Yishen sighed deeply and said, “This course has accelerated the growth of the fetus dozens of times. Normally speaking, the formation of the placenta takes two weeks after pregnancy, and we have less than 2 hours.”
The library was quite benevolent and did not let them stay here for 9 months, otherwise, if they survived for 9 months rolling around in their cell form, everyone would have probably had a nervous breakdown.
At this moment, Ke Shaobin suddenly whispered, “We don’t need to eat next, right? Will blood circulation automatically deliver nutrients to us?”
Xu Yishen said, “That’s right.”
As a foodie, Ke Shaobin suddenly felt some regrets.
Yue Xingwen asked, “What’s next?”
Xu Yishen thought for a while and said, “It should be divided into three embryonic layers. Let’s divide the work. Who will go to the ectoderm, who will go to the mesoderm and who will go to the endoderm?”
Everyone: “…”
They really broke their heart for the sake of their son-to-be-born baby!
My brain is already dying… and it’s only the second part of this chapter laugh cries in pain
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O, now it’s 9 months! Pregnant is really complicated and gently process
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So, are they like the child or the parents of the child they’re trying to form 😂
The cells bumping onto each other is really chaotic hahaha but it’s the cutest ah!