On Tuesday 22nd May 2018, Daniel Wang and the rest of the workers & scientists of Beijerinck Labs stood at the centre of a large lab room, with both of their hands placed on top of their heads. They were held at gun point.
All huddled together in one large group, like a small school of fishes. As numerous guns of all range and sizes were steadily pointing in their direction.
"How could you, Sam?!!" Daniel Wang spoke with such fury and anger within his tone of voice. All directed at a single person.
A hint of puzzlement and confusion could be seen hidden behind his untold anger, as Daniel Wang then tries his best to find some sort of a reason for his best-friend and work colleague's betrayal. "Why did you betray us, Sam? Answer us..."
'You literally sold us out for nothing more than personal gains, huh.' Daniel Wang first thought, but quickly dismissed the idea as it does not make a lot of sense.
'If he just wanted to make some profit and a little bit of cash, then he could just steal some vials of Beijerinck Lab's developing viruses, and sold them to some shady researching pharmaceutical company, the black-market, or on the deep web...'
'Not by temporarily disabling the Beijerinck lab's security and defenses, then letting a group of armed terrorist into the lab and building. So what is their goal... data theft? Sabotaging our research sample? Destroying the Beijerinck Researching Pharmaceutical Company?' Thoughts keep on running through Daniel Wang's head and exiting, as he then glares intently at his 'so-called' best-friend and work colleague's back.
With his back facing towards the group of hostages, the person that is named Sam then breathes a depressing sigh of resignation.
Sigh!
The sound of breathing. (SFX)
Sam's voice was visibly trembling, his hands were shaking uncontrollably, as he speaks unabled to look at his friends in the eye. "My only biological child & the wife that I loved and married is being held as a ransom and a hostage for the Terrorist Organisation. In exchange for their safety and wellbeing, I am willing to do anything for them."
"So long as the two of them is safe and sound, well and alive, and I could see then again. I am willing to sell out my friends and colleagues in exchange for their safety and well-being." Sam spoke.
Even though, Daniel Wang and the others could not currently see the faces that which Sam is currently making. They all genuinely felt the true and inexplicit emotions that are being carried and convey through Sam's words.
'Samuel. Is your wife and daughter's life really that much more important than the lives of your colleagues and co-workers. Two important people that you truly cherished within your life or the lives of your colleagues and the friends that you made along the way.' Daniel Wang instinctively thought, as he heard Samuel's answer.
Daniel Wang then immediately think to himself. 'That is the reason why Sam was acting strange for the past week or two. He was definitely not acting like his usual self and behaving like he used to. So his wife and child was kidnapped, huh.'
However, tears has started to form underneath Samuel's eyes, as he then turns his head on over towards Daniel Wang's particular direction.
They then locked their eyes for a quick second, before Samuel then immediately cuts eye contact with Daniel Wang. However, there was only extreme sadness, blended with grief and regret that lay within his eyes, almost like he had already known or the expected outcome of this terrorising incident already.
'What? What is this terrible feeling that I'm currently feeling...' Daniel Wang thought, as he instinctively felt a terrible sense of dread rising, as he then assumes for the worst.
Samuel then immediately turns to face towards what assumes to be is the leader of the terrorist organisation group that invaded the Beijerinck Lab.
The leader of the terrorist organisation's face and facial features were hidden behind a tactical combat helmet. As they all wore bulletproof militarised armour and heavy armed gear. Rather than being in an army, they are more like private militarised mercenaries.
"I regretfully did as you've instructed me to. So now I want you to keep your end of the deal and promised to release my daughter and wife that is being held captive by your terrorist organisation." Samuel spoke with a very determined look, despite his rising anxiety of the possibility that the leader of the terrorist organisation group may not have necessarily keep the end of the deal and free his family.
"Hahaha..." The sounds of chuckle and laughter could be heard underneath the tactical combat helmet, but it is slightly distorted due to being blocked by the thick inner layering of the helmet.
With the hostages and Daniel Wang being held at gun point, everyone is curiously looking upon the leader of the terrorist organisation group with intense exasperation.
The leader of the terrorist organisation group then looked Samuel in the eye, from underneath his tactical combat helmet, and said. "I am a man of my word. I will surely released your family from captive if you managed to successfully complete all of my task."
"Then is my family safe. Have I managed to complete all of my tasks, well." Samuel asked the leader of the terrorist organisation group with a nervous voice.
"Yes." The leader of the terrorist organisation group then gave an immediate short answer and nodded his in confirmation.
The leader of the terrorist organisation group then gave Samuel some precised instructions to follow. "Dr. Samuel Wilson. You should return home and get some rest, and in three days we will then released your wife and daughter. Safe and sound. So that they could returned back to you relatively unharmed."
"I-I..." Samuel Wilson was starting stutter withinside his speech.
"I want to hear the sound of my wife and child. So that I would know that they are alive and well." Samuel Wilson said so towards the leader of the terrorist organisation group.
The smile that was hidden beneath the leader of the terrorist organisation group's tactical combat helmet has vanish, as he said so annoyingly towards Samuel Wilson. "Do not make me repeat myself. I said to go back home and rest, and in three days we will DEFINITELY release your wife and daughter from our captive."
"If you were to make me repeat myself again, then I would certainly not guaranteed that your wife and child would definitely come out of this incident unscathed, much less alive." The leader of the terrorist organisation group spoke to Samuel Wilson in an annoying threatening tone.
The leader of the terrorist organisation group's words alone is enough to determine the fate of Samuel Wilson's family. It's like a cold steel knife has been held up to Samuel Wilson's neck, and a mere simple words of annoyance could easily caused the cold steel knife to sink deeply into the skin of Samuel Wilson's neck, and kill him.
"Alright then." Samuel Wilson reluctantly take a step back, as he instinctively know the boundaries of where his position lie.
The Leader of the terrorist organisation group then spoke with somewhat of an annoyed tone of voice. "Someone please escort the 'Important' Dr. Wilson off of Beijerinck Lab's property." He said so directed towards one of his nearby underlying.
"Roger that!" One of the Leader of the terrorist organisation group underlings then spoke up, as they then proceeded to escort Dr. Samuel Wilson off of Beijerinck Lab's facility.
One of the Leader of the terrorist organisation group's right hand man then spoke up. "Shouldn't we also eliminate Dr. Samuel Wilson off as well in order to not leave any potential witnesses."
"No, Jaune. We need an important scapegoat to drive the attention of the government and the international police force's attention after this fiasco." The Leader of the terrorist organisation group immediately shut down his right hand man Jaune's proposal.
He then said something to Jaune which certainly aroused his curiosity. "Dr. Samuel Wilson will then become the prime suspect for this whole murder incident. Our scapegoat and prime suspect for the case. He and his family will become internationally wanted criminal by the police and so on."
"Oh. I see." Jaune responded, with a hidden undertone sinister smile behind his tactical combat helmet.
'Murder Incident.' Daniel Wang thought.
Daniel Wang immediately revealed a surprised expression having caught and eavesdrop onto the two conversation, and soon coming to an important realisation of what the fates of all the hostages are.
Similarly, many of the other hostages, the workers, researchers, and scientists of Beijerinck Labs having already caught onto this ordeal, as they all revealed dark devasted looking facial expressions.
And one of the Beijerinck lab's researcher and hostage couldn't handle the tense atmosphere anymore, feeling absolutely desperate, and fearful for her own life.
She then broke down into tears and begged the Leader of the terrorist organisation group to spare her life. "Please spare me. Please let me go. I've got kids waiting for me at home to look after them. Please..."
Like a domino effect, after seeing the female Beijerinck Lab's researcher falling down onto her knees and begging the Leader of the terrorist organisation group for her life. People then began to copy and imitate her. Begging desperately, resolving to any lengths just to save their own lives.
However, this only serves to further infuriate the Leader of the terrorist organisation group even more, by bothering him with some useless pointless stuff, which was quite annoying.
With a dead pan look within his eyes, the Leader of the terrorist organisation group then issued out a single order in a deep voice. "Kill them!"
Like a raging storm, in which it only took a few seconds after the Leader of the terrorist organisation group has issued out the order to shoot to kill, to kill the following captured hostages that the sounds of gun fire is heard.
The sounds of guns firing one after another, unloading a heap of lead bullets into the bodies of the captured hostages and emptied brass bullet shell is constantly flung everywhere.
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It was like watching a firework gun show, as numerous guns were steadily being fired upon his direction in a blaze of glory.
It all happened in an instant, a sharp pain had quickly pierced through his chest. Fresh blood then started to flow out from the open gun wound, dying his white lab coat and clothes red within his own blood.
'I'm dying...' Dr. Daniel Wang thought so to himself, as he unconsciously tried to look down at the spot of where he got.
And just before he could consciously finish that last train of thought, a stray bullet from one of the guns that were steadily being fired by the terrorist organisation group members had fortunately struck Dr. Daniel Wang in the head, almost instantly killing him, instead of slowly bleeding to death like the other dying held captive hostages.
Within seconds, Dr. Daniel Wang's field of vision then immediately darkens, slowly fading into a boundless sea of deep blackness. None that he has ever felt before.
A sensation of drowsiness and sleepiness then washes over him, as his consciousness is constantly phasing in and out of his body before completely dissappearing, in which Dr. Daniel Wang is now finally pronounced dead by the world.
Death is only legally pronounced when there is no signal or any signs of activity withinside the brain.
The human brain can survive up to ten minutes or more after the host body has died, and the heart has stopped beating and working to pump the blood around. Afterwards, brain death would then immediately began to occur, as brain cells are rapidly dying due to lack of oxygen, blood, and so on.
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The last thing that Dr. Daniel Wang could instinctively remember was getting shot by the armed terrorist organisation group members and being betrayed by his trusted work colleague and best friend for many years at medical school.
This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.
'Wait a minute! Didn't I just die? So how am I alive right now?' Dr. Daniel Wang consciously thought upon first regaining conciousness.
However, he quickly finds out that he couldn't move his body properly, or to be more exact, his familiar pairs of limbs that he when he was still a human. A hand, some fingers, toes, a foot, arms, and legs, etc. Any sort of limbs and body part that an average ordinary 'human' person has.
Submerged by a boundless sea of neverending darkness. His body felt cold, slowly drifting in a large body of open water, almost completely immobilized from the bottom up. He has no choice, but to let the natural direction of the waves carry him.
The next thing that he knew, Dr. Daniel Wang was then immediately blinded by an intensely bright light, and blue interface screen panel then appears in front of him.
You have been successfully reincarnated into the world of Parabalus!
The Universal Evolutionis Guided System has been successfully installed upon the user's account! Difficulty level has been set to 7.9! Now selecting an appropriate lifeform to fit the user's taste, preference, and background! Proctista Cell has been selected...
'What the...' To Dr. Daniel Wang's utter surprised, he has been reincarnated into an another world that possesses a system of guidance, measurement, and information gathering that is quite similar in format to traditional MMORPG games.
If Dr. Daniel Wang were to still have his own face right now, his lips would then curved up into a mischievous smile or smirk, as he couldn't help but tried to contain his own excitement.
Dr. Daniel Wang thought so to himself. 'I'm an avid light novel and manga reader during my younger days and teen years. I still read some web novel whenever I have the spare free time or on my break or holiday.'
'To think that my childhood dream and the most craziest fantasies of wanting to be isekai-ed to another world would become true.' Dr. Daniel Wang thought.
You have been reborn as a Lv 1 Stage One Unicellular Proctista Cell! Unallocated Stats Attribute points will be locked until the user reaches the Evolitionary Stage Four of Single Cell Stage! The user's preset stats and allocated skills has been set to match the balance of the organisms and the lifeforms that lives withinside the single cell stage to prevent unnecessary cheats and unfair advantages! Help: To open up the user's own personal status screen, please recite the keyword 'Status' withinside the user's head or say it out loud!
'Status!' Dr. Daniel Wang then recited the keyword out loud withinside his head, and a blue screen interface panel then immediately appears in front of him, displaying his own personal status screen.
Status Screen Name: N/A {Daniel Wang} Age: 1 min Gender: Neutral Race: Proctista Cell Evolutionary Stage: Stage 1 of Single Cell Stage Cell Classification: Eukaryotic Race Level: 1/10 0/100 experience point required for the next level No. of DNA points: 0 [Locked] Titles: Reincarnator, Sentient Single Cell Organism Stats/Attributes Health Points: 0.005238/0.005238 Magical Points: 0.02717544/0.02717544 Stamina Points: 0.003/0.003 Hunger Points: 0.0029/0.003 Strength: 0.0002 Intelligence: 0.0042 Agility: 0.0005 Wisdom: 0.0096 Defence: 0.0004 Willpower: 0.0072 Endurance: 0.0006 Perception: 0.0056 Dexterity: 0.0005 Soul: 1.8577 Vitality: 0.0008 Charisma: 0.0003 Physique: 1.746 Luck: 1.7438 Unallocated stats points [Locked]
Skill List {Cilium} Sensory Touch Lv.1|Cell Devision Lv.1|Devour Lv.1|Absorbtion Lv.1| {Flagellum} Swimming Lv.1|Respiration Lv.1 {Mitochondria} | {Food Vacuole} Storage Lv.1
Dr. Daniel Wang was certainly surprised at how actual simplistic and slightly detailed the informative status screen is.
'Hmmm...' He thought so to himself.
A cilium, or cilia, are small short vibrating hair-like microscopic structures that are found mostly in large numbers on the surface of a particular types of cells, like a Eukaryotic cell or other protozoans.
They are primarily responsible for locomotion, either of the cell itself, or of other substances and fluids on the cell surface.
The cilia can also help to remove contaminants, bacteria, dust, and small microscopic debris from entering into the human organs or tissue lining by helping to move fluids over the cell. The lining of the nasopharynx, the top part of the throat, and the trachea are covered in cilia.
Since the tiny Proctista Cells don't actually have eyes, so they can't visually see things in clear picture ahead of them, but they quite often used the tiny slender protuberance structure as a sensory organelle to detect the surrounding obstructions and the movements of water.
Cell Devision like its name implies, it consumes actual dna points of the host in order to create an accurate identical copy of the host main cell.
Devour is a skill that which many single cell stage organisms typically have, as it would certainly allow the host body cell to devour the other living cells and potentially usurped the target stats, skill, traits, or ability.
Absorbtion is just basically the assimilation of another living organism and trying to make the assimilated body part or organelle a part of oneself. The higher the skill level, the less chance of facing total rejection of when absorbing another organisms' body part or organ.
The Mitochondria, or mitochondrion is a organelles, or body part of a typical eukaryote cell. They are often within the cytoplasm, not the nucleus. They make most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a molecule that cells use as a source of energy. Their main job is to convert energy.
Aerobic Respiration is taken place withinside the Mitochondria part of the cell, in which oxygen + glucose is used up to produce energy to power the cell, carbon dioxide and water is a by product of aerobic respiration itself.
A flagellum is a hairlike appendage that protrudes from certain plant and mammalian sperm cells, and from a wide range of micro-organisms to provide mobility in waters. And many protistas with flagella are termed as flagellates. A microorganism may have ranging from one to as many flagellas.
The food vacuole, or the digestive vacuole, is an organelle found in simple eukaryotes cells such as a protista. This organelle is essentially a living stomach for a microscopic single cell organism as it not only digest and process food, but also stores it as well. The higher the skill level, the more size and the amount of food that can be stored withinside the food vacuole would improve.
After going through the processed information that was steadily being displayed upon his own personal status screen for a minute or two, Dr. Daniel Wang eventually started to get used to his new body.
Though, it was by far more less complex than his actual human body, when he was still alive and was back Earth.
The single cell stage one Proctista Cell body was quite simple to use and far too easy to maneuver within open waters, as all you have to do is wiggle the flagellum tail back and forth to create a strong forward propulsion to push the host body cell forwards, and using the many cilia hair-like tubes as a guide to change directions.
'Though, I am physically blind. The many long cilias hair-like structures that covered around my cell structure, acts like a blind man walking stick in order to detect any incoming obstacles in my way.' Dr. Daniel Wang thought so to himself, as he grimaced, unconsciously encountering a foreign obstacle within his way.
Despite being visually blind, and his field of vision is covered in everlasting darkness, but when his numerous many cilias had detected an flowing obstacle within his way.
A light flash then appears momentarily withinside his field of vision. The bigger the size of the obstacle, the more intensely bright the instantaneous flash is. Its not actual visual light that Dr. Daniel Wang is currently seeing, when the numerous cilias upon his cell body has detected an obstacle, but its the way how information is perceived and processed by the simple brain of a single cell organism.
'Well, fascinating.' Dr. Daniel Wang instantly thought, as a vague visual image of a person wearing a white lab coat then appears withinside his head, performing a thinking gesture.
Considering the size of the instantaneous flash, and the way that the obstacle is constantly moving. So it must be a living single microscopic organism.
'Hmmm...' Dr. Daniel Wang thought.
His instincts had deemed this unidentified single cell organism as not an immediate danger, or a posable danger looming down the line.
However, a curious little thought then immediately pops up withinside his head, and a visual light bulb then lights up withinside his head. 'If I remember correctly withinside the Spore game. You would either need to eat plant matter, meat chunks, or other single cell organisms withinside the cell stage in order to grow strong and possibly mutate to slowly evolve into a multicellular creature withinside the creature stage.' Dr. Daniel Wang thought.
He then immediately thinks to himself, 'The chances of me surviving withinside the cell stage as a stage one single cell organism is quite low. So I must take any chance or fortunate lucky encounters to further improve myself if I want to stay constantly alive in the long run.'
Having made up his mind and decision on the spot, Dr. Daniel Wang then immediately wiggles his flagellum hair-like microscopic tail, back and forth, to propel his cell-like body forwards towards the unidentified single cell organism.
And within seconds, Dr. Daniel Wang's protista cell body had made a full frontal head on collision with the unidentified single cell organism.
Dr. Daniel Wang's numerous cilias vibrating hair-like structures, on the surface of his cell body, had actually managed to wrapped itself around the unidentified single cell organism's main body; interlocking with the two long flagellum tails, and keeping the unidentified single cell organism trapped and locked in place, thereby preventing it from escaping.
Long before the poor unidentified single cell organism had managed to caught onto the slight presence of his cell body moving withinside the large body of open water. It didn't immediately react, as there was not a strong enough negative stimulus, to cause it to make an immediate decision on the spot.
The unidentified single cell organism is kind of like a preprogrammed software. It runs through simple coding, programming, and information until it is met with an unnatural error withinside its software.
When a single cell organism is met with an untold danger withinside the microscopic world. It would either give up willing, letting itself be eaten by a much bigger or stronger single cell/multicellular organism, or fight back by putting up as much resistance as possible by either creating a protein that is resistant to attacks when under stress or a strong chemical defence to deter the invading entity.
However, Dr. Daniel Wang's methods of attacking is quite peculiar, rather than directly attacking the unidentified single cell organism by latching itself onto it and slowly devour the contents withinside the cell body itself.
Dr. Daniel Wang's numerous hair-like vibrating microscopic protuberance structures had actually pierced through the cell walls of the unidentified single cell organism, thereby causing the contents withinside the unidentified single cell organism to leak out.
In a matter of seconds, killing the unidentified single cell organism by the forceful method of artificially causing the unidentified single cell organism to implode upon itself.
You have successfully killed a Stage 1 Unicellular Mezapholin Algae Cell! 27 experience points has been awarded for dealing the final killing blow!
'Sweet!' Dr. Daniel Wang loudly thought. 'I've managed to successfully kill the Stage 1 Unicellular Mezapholin Algae Cell in one go.'
Afterwhich, by instinct Dr. Daniel Wang had instinctively activated his Devour ability, on a short notice, without consciously thinking on his own part.
It's like a vacuum cleaner sucking up all of the dirty stuff, waste, and dust in. As the leaked contents of the dead Mezapholin Algae Cell is then immediately sucked into Dr. Daniel Wang's Protista cell body.
A blue screen displayed panel then appears in front of him, showcasing his possible gains and slight progress in evolution.
You have consumed the following contents of the Mezapholin Algae's cell structure: Cell Wall, Cell Membrane, Centriole, Golgi Apparatus, Ribosome, Starch Vacuole, Starch Grain, Mitochondrion, Cytoplasm, Chloroplast, Nucleus, Nucleolus, Flagellum Converting waste organic material and organelle parts into DNA points. You have acquired 57 DNA points. By consuming a dead Stage 1 Unicellular Mezapholin Algae Cell, you have obtained 1.27% of the Mezapholin Algae Cell's DNA and genetic mapping... By the activation of the user's Devour ability, you successfully managed to steal the target's Cell Devision Lv.1, Swimming Lv.1, Respiration Lv.1, Storage Lv.1 skill! The acquired skill has fused with the overall skill that is already withinside the user's arsenal, thereby increasing the skill level and skill proficiency!
'To think that I would certainly gained so much from simply killing a lone Stage 1 Unicellular Mezapholin Algae Cell, when compared to myself as a Stage 1 Unicellular Proctista Cell. The Mezapholin Algae Cell is far more complex as a single cell organism, with its numerous other organelle that which I don't have.' Dr. Daniel Wang thought so to himself, as he made a steady comparison towards himself and the recently deceased Stage 1 Unicellular Mezapholin Algae Cell.
Dr. Daniel Wang then shrug it off and thought to himself. 'If I were to have activated my Absorbtion ability instead of Devour, I could have literally absorbed the Mezapholin Algae Cell's organelles, and steadily make it my own and a part of myself.'