Chapter 1

4 . 6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

Author: Xiang Wei Xing Zhe (Phase Walker)

A cell that was born at the beginning of the life of a planet will see the rise and decline of countless civilizations, the speciation and extinction of organisms . Under the endless calamities of the world, nothing remains unchanging . Only by continuously changing oneself and evolving in the face of adversity could one achieve perfect victory .

The story starts from a little cell … …

Translator review: Another ongoing story … … if it isn’t complete, I don’t want to make a commitment to finish it because it is likely that I may not like the story later on or if the author suddenly disappears .

Some have remarked on how similar the title of this story in Chinese is similar to Evo: The Journey to Eden’s Japanese name . I’m not sure how similar the story is to the game but it is an “evolution” story . But this is more scifi and fantasy . Do not expect super accurate science and just a reminder, this will NOT be set on Earth . Things may be similar, but not Earth .

What I like about the novel is that one, it has an asexual main character . A cell does not have gender … … It is also a soothing read because the beginning is about a cell exploring and it is an “exploratory” story . So not a lot of other characters or dialogue, more descriptions and stream of consciousness of the main character cell .

Chapter One The Beginning Cells

A small figure flashed past a blue and flat ocean surface at high speed .

“Haha~ This planet doesn’t have many multi-cellular organisms but it has an ocean? So rare . I’ve spent so long search for a place like this . This time, I can enjoy being the “Creator” once ~ Even though I’m just throwing in some primitive cells native to Earth in here… …”

This figure had short golden hair and an adorable face . She looked like a young Loli . Stopping above the ocean surface, she lightly waved her hand and a large spray of what appeared to be water droplets fell into the ocean .

“And then … … adding on a bit of my knowledge to one of these cells ~ and … … consciousness~”

“Ah, right, and this . If they do not have eyes, aren’t they unable to see? Won’t that be so pitiful~ With this, even a simple cell can have normal vision . ”

“Catherine, let’s go~”

A voice suddenly came from the sky that caused the loli’s body to still .

“I know, coming!”

She replied and then looked at the sea . “I’m going now, I will come back to see you in the future . ”

“I really wonder what you will become … …?”

As she spoke, the little loli’s body slowly floated up . She then turned into a streak of light and vanished into the sky .

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“Where is this? Who am I?”

This was the first thoughts it had . It had a consciousness, and the sense of touch, but it did not have vision or smell . Through its only sense, it knew it was in a liquid .

This liquid seemed to be called water .

“I … … am called a cell?”

It did not have any brains but it knew what shape its body was . There was a thin spherical layer and the center of the sphere had a complex densely packed construct that was called the nucleus . It was due to the existence of this nucleus that it could think, move, be alive … …

However, this was the limit of its thinking . Such a small nucleus could not let it think further .

“Move … … search … …”

It controlled the think outer layer, and the layer started to ripple like waves . This movement caused it to slowly move in the water, and it searched for its own target in the endless darkness … …

Food .

Food was equivalent to energy . With energy, it could have more knowledge, and a bigger body that could allow it to think more .

Swimming forward, it suddenly felt its outer membrane come into contact with something .

Food?

It tried to figure out what this object was, but other than “soft,” there was not anything else . Then what could it to do figure out more about what this object was .

Consume it!

It used the thin membrane to surround this object and then engulfed it .

It felt this object slowly shrink inside its body and then disappear . It also felt that its body was slowly changing . The fragile and almost intangible membrane around its body was slowly being strengthened, and grew .

This activity disappeared after a short while, but this feeling of fullness caused it to know … …

That just now was food . It had to get more … … food!

It rapidly rippled its outer membrane and quickly encountered something else like the object just now . It hurriedly engulfed it .

It was a feeling just like before . The object that it engulfed slowly shrank … … this time, it thought of a term .

This was … … digestion .

After swallowing two piece of food, its body mass grew slightly larger and it had more energy . Its speed increased . This meant that it could find more food, and obtain more energy .

Engulf, engulf, engulf .

It almost swallowed all the “soft” things around it . Its body grew a whole size larger .

Yet it still wasn’t satisfied . It still swam in the water and tried to engulf more food .

When it engulfed the next piece of food, its body seemed to expand to a maximum size . When it finished digesting its food, its body did not continue to expand . It slowly tore apart staring with the nucleus as the center and then it completely divided .

In the end, it became two parts that were completely the same . They had the same spherical outer membrane, the same nucleus, it had completely divided into two .

However, its consciousness had not divided into two .

Even though it had divided into two cells, it still felt the two were a part of it . It could control both of these parts just as easily as it could control its two hands .

“What are hands?”

Its thoughts seemed to have become more varied . The doubled nucleus gave it more power to think but there were even more questions .

“Speaking of this, who am I?”

“I should have a name … …”

“And this name is … …”

“Lin . ”

For some reason, it only had this thought in its mind .

“Then I will be called this . Lin … … it feels pretty good . ”

Lin continued to swim . The two cells slowly moved in the water and continued to gather food .

This meant higher intelligence, more cells meant more energy .

Because Lin was now two cells, it found food faster . One of its cells quickly consumed enough and entered the stage of division .

When this cell finished dividing, Lin had three cells . These three identical cells represented the existence of “Lin . ”

Lin had absolute control of them . Even though the three cells were not connected together, controlling them was not harder than controlling one . It felt even easier .

Right after, Lin produced many more questions . It could think about many things and found the biggest problem of the present .

Darkness .

Yes, it was unable to detect the state of the surroundings . Even though it felt that the surroundings were liquid, it was unable anything more detailed … … because everything in the surroundings, to Lin, was endless darkness .

“Eyes … …”

This term popped out of Lin’s thoughts yet it was unable to understand the term .

In order to understand this term, Lin tried to consume more food . But it seemed as though it had eaten up most of the soft food around it . It planned on swimming further away .

The three cells, the three little cells that had the same consciousness, stepped onto its journey … …

“?”

Suddenly, Lin felt the cell at the front seemed to come into contact with something . This was different than the soft food, it felt very hard, but it was smaller than the food before .

It was unable to analyze what this was . Lin had one of the cells engulf it .

“… … it seems indigestible . ”

The hard object did not show any signs of shrinking inside one of Lin’s cells . It silently floated in the cell .

It seemed to be a useless object?

Lin did not care and continued to search for other food .

In the nearby surroundings, it found many of the soft things that it encountered before but nothing that was hard .

It still continued on its mission of eating . One of Lin’s cells once again reached its energy storage limit and divided .

This time, Lin had four cells . But it still felt that it wasn’t enough and continued … …

When the number of cells reached five, the thought that Lin had before rose up again .

It wanted to see … …

Wanted to see everything outside! I don’t want darkness!

When its thoughts reached a certain level of fierceness, the nucleus inside the cell which had consumed the hard object suddenly trembled slightly .

Something like a tentacle reached out of the nucleus and lightly touched the hard object . The tentacle slowly pushed it towards the surface of the cell membrane .

When the hard object was slightly exposed out of the cell membrane, bright light broke through the darkness and entered Lin’s consciousness .

Translator Ramblings: Someone should take my internet away . As a side-effect of being a translator, my first thoughts when I read something turns into how can I translate this into English … … Anyways, in further procrastination on my own part for World of Cultivation, more stuff from a work that is ongoing .