Chapter One
"Advanced pancreatic cancer is the most difficult cancer to detect. The survival rate of five years in the world is less than 5%. Cancer cells develop too fast, and current medical conditions can only delay it for a few months.
Do you want to continue receiving chemotherapy?"
"Delay from three months to six months?"
Yang Shou raised his head and looked at his attending doctor.
Now, he has thinning hair, pale complexion on his face, and chapped lips. These are all the sequelae of long-term chemotherapy.
Pancreatic cancer, as the most difficult cancer to detect, changes too quickly and has an extremely high fatality rate. The probability of surviving six months after diagnosis is less than 4 in 1,000, and the average survival time is only three months.
Moreover, pancreatic cancer has the most painful and dangerous chemotherapy and surgery among all cancers, and the mortality rate from surgery is extremely high.
Yang Shou is a junior operations manager of a Fortune 500 company. He climbed to this position all by himself three years after graduating from college. Although his ability is not outstanding, it is definitely not bad.
Originally, his life was pretty good, but he didn't expect that fate would suddenly play such a joke on him.
In just a few months, all the savings he had worked hard for over the past few years were spent. Should he continue to receive treatment?
There is no need for treatment at all.
Yang Shou thought silently in his heart. From the disbelief, confusion, and fear when he was first diagnosed, to the indifference and casualness now, his mentality has changed tremendously.
"Just let me do what I want to do in the last three months of my life."
Dragging his suitcase and buying a train ticket, Yang Shou left the hospital that smelled like Western medicine.
Return to my hometown, a small county town, Shoucheng, a city where many longevity celebrities were born in history.
Ironically, his name was Yang Shou, but he was not going to die soon. He could only return to this famous hometown of longevity people to wait for death.
"Just wait to die. Anyway, you still have three months to live."
After packing up his things, Yang Shou looked down at his girlfriend in his yard, oh no, it was a "break-up token" given back to him by his ex-girlfriend.
A watch.
It's a watch with a light silver rim. I don't know which brand it is.
He picked this up by the reservoir when he was a child. What is strange is that this watch is still running even in college, and the time has not changed at all after ten years.
But Yang Shou checked all the brands and could not find which watch it was. It seemed that it was not a product on earth.
The material is very light. When he was in college, he met Zhang Yutong and gave this watch to her after they fell in love. However, after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, she broke up with him after just one month of chemotherapy.
Heartache?
That's for sure, but to let others follow you as a person whose life is short-lived?
Yang Shou originally wanted to break up, but the other party did so first and in an even more ruthless manner.
"Now you are the only one with me. In three months, your hour hand will rotate 2,160 times, your minute hand will rotate 129,600 times, and your second hand will rotate 7,776,000 times."
Down."
In other words, after 7,776,000 blows, it will be the end of his life.
Staring at the second hand, every beat of it is irreversible and time is passing slowly.
"Hey, what's this word?"
Yang Shou was lying on the old man's chair basking in the sun and staring at the second hand for an hour. Suddenly he found that the world in front of him was a little blurry. The silver edge around the bezel shone brightly, and several words that he could not read emerged.
It was obviously not any written word known on earth, but he happened to understand its meaning.
"Time turner."
What is this?
What shocked Yang Shou even more was what was happening behind him. The silver edge slowly moved around, revealing more words. The writing was confusing, but he recognized it at a glance.
"The genes of ordinary civilized species do not have plasticity and development potential. Some organs of the living body are seriously diseased. The remaining life span is 89 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes."
Yang Shou took a deep breath and endured the shock in his heart. Can this watch still calculate his lifespan?
Moreover, there was originally only a rotatable crown for adjusting the hour and minute hands, but suddenly there was an extra crown.
Yang Shou hesitated for a moment and chose to turn the newly added crown.
While turning, Yang Shou's mind was spinning, and he felt that the world in front of him was gradually blurring, and was replaced by a desolate world filled with desolation and without any vitality.
The ocean and land are simple and clear, but not even a plant or animal can be seen.
"Time accelerates."
Four small characters appeared on the watch that Yang Shou was wearing. Immediately afterwards, the world in front of Yang Shou changed dramatically, and the world changed dramatically.
The hour hand was spinning in a crazy circle, at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye. Yang Shou felt that the flow of time in this world had increased to an incredible level.
I don’t know how long it has been evolving, but suddenly there are a few microorganisms drifting with the tide in the ocean.
Almost in two breathing worlds, these microorganisms evolved from generation to generation, from birth to death.
In order to survive better and live longer, they produce a film to protect themselves. Inside the film is a fragile core that gathers all their energy.
"Live longer."
Yang Shou can clearly feel that if these most primitive creatures were born and died 30 million times with one breath before, then now they are only born and died 25 million times with one breath...
Among them, the speed of birth and death is extremely fast. His naked eyes cannot keep up with the speed of species evolution, but perhaps because of the strange watch, he is surprisingly able to perceive the general outline.
This is the evolution of life, natural selection, and survival of the fittest.
The first principle written into the genes of any life is survival.
Do anything you can to survive.
As time went by, I don’t know how long it took, these tiny microorganisms protected by the film and the core began to explore the surrounding sea area.
The extension of their lives gives them more time to recognize their surrounding environment. They feed on small organic molecules in the seawater, gradually expanding their population.
With countless births and deaths, they gradually occupied the entire ocean.
But because there are so many of them, the organic molecular substances in the seawater are getting less and less, and they are facing a racial crisis of extinction due to lack of food.
Finally, under their uncontrolled development, the entire race collapsed and began to die in large numbers.
Their corpses were floating all over the ocean, making the water suddenly look extremely turbid.
"Mass extinction."
Yang Shou witnessed this strange scene and was shocked.
Is it an illusion? But why does it appear so real?
Time turned back, and the world spun again. His consciousness broke away from that world and returned to the yard.
At the first moment, Yang Shou lowered his head to check his watch and found that it was still 4:03 in the afternoon, the sun was still shining warmly, and only ten minutes had passed.
But in that world, literally tens of thousands of years passed.
"No way? The life span is reduced by twenty minutes?"
Yang Shou looked at the remaining life displayed on the watch. Your life balance is insufficient. Please recharge in time.
What used to be 89 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes has now become 89 days, 10 hours and 3 minutes.
"Time turner, could you say?"
Yang Shou silently guessed in his heart that the time conversion was to convert his hour into the time of those microorganisms just now.
Because they are too weak, ten minutes for themselves is equal to tens of thousands of years for them? What is the time velocity ratio?
1,576.8 million times!
How terrifying is the difference in life levels?
Yang Shou suppressed the excitement in his heart, and suddenly, a crazy idea came to his mind.
I have 89 days and 10 hours left, which is 2146 hours, and the time consumed is twice as much, because time is also lost while evolving, which means that I can evolve them for 1073 hours, and the converted time is about 190 million years.
Will intelligent species appear in 190 million years?
The species life on earth was born in ancient times, but it took a full 3.2 billion years of evolution before the ancient intelligent species, apes, were born.
If I intervene artificially, can intelligent species be born within 100 million years?
Let them study how to treat pancreatic cancer for me? Can it be saved?
Can they overcome this problem that modern medicine cannot solve for themselves, especially the king of cancers, pancreatic cancer.
Thinking of this, Yang Shou felt hot in his heart. At the end of his life, which was about to reach, would he make a comeback?
Just go ahead and do it, Yang Shou carefully thought about the tools needed to evolve a new civilization.
He needs to prepare a petri dish, as well as various organic and inorganic substances.
Unexpectedly, Yang Shou returned to the house and brought out an ant petri dish that was forty centimeters long, wide and high. There was a rockery, a small pond, and about a dozen little ants he had raised.
"You are free."
Yang Shou released them in the yard. This was one of his few hobbies after he was diagnosed with cancer. Looking at the little ants in the petri dish, he felt more and more the preciousness of life.
The original ant environment has been artificially transformed, and the pond has been expanded, which is a small puddle. The ocean and land areas are now seven to three, simulating the earth's environment.
Immediately afterwards, he went to the garbage disposal center in the county...
That's right, it's a garbage disposal center. The basis of life is organic matter, organic matter composed of hydrocarbon elements. And the place with the most of them, Yang Shou thinks, is the garbage dump.
Yang Shou manually excavated part of the soil that had accumulated for more than ten years from the garbage dump, and threw it near a small puddle, half on land and half in water.
"The next step is to speed up time. I hope it can lead to a one-hour life span."
Yang Shou took a deep breath. To others, an hour is nothing. But to him, days are counted in seconds, which is a huge fortune.
"Consider it an investment, otherwise you will have to wait at home to die. Time, speed up!"
Yang Shou attached the watch to the petri dish and twisted the watch handle.
no response.
Fake? Was what just now an illusion? Yang Shou rubbed his eyes several times and stared at the petri dish that showed no reaction at all.
But ten minutes have passed, and there is still no reaction from the petri dish.
"Oh, by the way, microorganisms are too small to be observed with the naked eye."
Yang Shou suddenly reacted, took out a high-power microscope from the bedroom, adjusted the magnification of the petri dish, and started observing again.
Don't ask why he has a microscope. He is an undergraduate student who graduated in archeology. He spent his own money to buy a microscope in college. This is not too much.
Later, because it was too difficult to find a job in archeology, I switched to operations.
People are all forced out.
In the world of petri dishes, a world of vicissitudes, through the microscope, Yang Shou saw scenes of bizarre scenes.
Chapter completed!