(Please do not link with reality, the story takes place in a parallel universe, any similarity is purely coincidental.)
A vast continent is quietly floating in space.
Vast planes, high mountains, towering trees, endless ocean, river, lakes making the scenery magnificent and beautiful.
Somewhere in the center of this vast continent, a big battle is on stage.
"FIRE!"
A battleship's main energy cannon spouting blue light melting everything in front of it.
"BOOM!"
A battleship exploded, not even one of the crew escape.
"ROAR!"
Huge beast spouting fire, scorching everything it passes.
"KILL!"
People wielding swords killing each other, every swing of the sword can divide a mountain.
"AH!"
Tragic cries rang everywhere, black clouds scattered on the battlefield, buzzing like bees, devouring everything it passes, nanobots a weapon of mass destruction showing its destructive power on the battlefield.
There is a big pit everywhere and cracks appear on the ground, space shattered, space fragments scattered all over the place.
The most eye-catching is the nine biggest battleships encircling the battlefield with streamlined shapes, sharp edges, with countless cannon, aiming at the golden ball of light as big as two clenched fist the treasure that ignites this war, ready to fire at any time not letting anyone take it under their noses.
Nine mighty figure is fighting with each other competing for the treasure in the center of the battlefield.
They know that they already paid too much they can not stop now.
The aftermath of their battle is so great, even some battleships have been destroyed by the shockwaves of the fight, so the others keep a distance from them.
Somewhere outside the battlefield, someone is observing the golden ball of light, waiting for the right time to snatch it.
"The time is ripe." with a thought he disappeared.
A golden ball of light is quietly floating in the center of the battlefield, suddenly space ripple, and a rickety old man with long white hair and a thin body with no flesh only bones and skin suddenly appears near it preparing to grab it. The old man was just about to grab the treasure, but the nine big battleships quickly fired at the same time, he did not even have a chance to touch it.
Like a stone thrown into calm lake water, and ripples start to emerge on the whole battlefield.
"BUZZ"
A black hole was formed, enveloping the battlefield.
"What!"
The rickety old man was terrified, he was about to escape but he discovered that he can not even escape, his space power can not be activated in the center of the black hole.
In the distance, figures standing above the battleships with different injuries slowly healing, watching the black hole with terrified eyes, even the nine mighty figure are among them, they already escaped earlier after receiving the warning of their subordinate, they are really terrified if one step late they were also buried here.
"crack"
"crack"
"crack"
Bone breaks, hearing this making everyone scalp numb.
"AH!"
The old man shouted miserably with endless despair. The old man's body slowly envelops the golden ball of light with the fragments on the battlefield, outside the battlefield many people hiding in the void watching this also felt terrified.
All the debris of the battle quickly gathering and enveloping the golden ball of light as the core forming a sphere, like a planet, even nanobots on the battlefield was not spared by the black hole and envelop the sphere.
"Damn it! sneaky old undead."
One of the mighty figures shouted, he was so angry watching a peerless treasure slip out of their hands, he was not the only one, all of them are so angry staring at the black hole with bloodshot eyes.
A huge sphere like a planet was attracted by the powerful gravity, plunged into the black hole, and disappeared without a trace. The black hole slowly disappeared leaving a huge crater filled up with water.
...
2020, New York City, USA, Blue Planet
The whole city was illuminated.
Looking up at the sky few stars can be seen, because of all the light produced from the buildings, it is close to impossible to see any stars in the sky unless there is a citywide blackout.
Jackie Chen(English Name), Chen Mo(Chinese Name) 25 yrs old 1.85 meters tall, slightly long black hair, not so handsome face but comfortable to look, slightly thin body because of overwork, has a positive outlook on life.
Out of the restaurant, after celebrating with the research team.
"HAHAHAHA!"
Chen Mo can not endure his excitement.
Looking around, seeing people looking at him with ridicule Chen Mo ignored it and keeps walking.
"Idiot!"
Some pedestrians can not help but ridicule Chen Mo, some pedestrians keeping a distance from him.
"I feel comfortable today, one last step away from one of my goals."
Ignoring the pedestrians around. Feeling the burden on his shoulder is much lighter his face is full of smiles.
Chen Mo is walking with a happy and excited face because today they successfully finished research of anticancer medicine, waiting for the last step, clinical trials which are harder than developing a new drug usually have 3 phases take 6-7 yrs to finish.
Chen Mo is excited because her younger sister Chen YuYan 18 yrs old, diagnosed positive with leukemia 5 yrs ago, one of the reasons the whole family decided to immigrate to the US after selling all their remaining properties in China, and the other is his father still in a coma for almost eight years.
Chen Mo is the president and founder of Hope Pharmaceutical Company specializes in researching medicine for terminal illness with a valuation of 1 billion US dollars. Focus on researching for a possible cure for cancer patients. Now he sees hope for her younger sister's illness that troubled their family for five years.
"I am sure they will be happy after hearing this news, especially Xiaoyu."
Thinking of the happy face of the family, he quickens his pace.
Walking with big strides listening to the bustling crowds and cars, he quickly arrived at the parking spot. He was just about to open the car door.
"HELP!" hearing a shout coming from the alley.
" huh hoo.. hoo..!" struggling woman crying.
"HELP!"
"Is it true or false?"
Because of the dangers in New York at night, many criminals used this to trick passersby. Using people as an accomplice shouting "help" to attract the attention of their target.
Just as Chen Mo hesitates to help, some vague feeling came into his heart, he felt that if he did not go he will regret it all his life. This vague feeling appeared many times in his life he called it a "sixth sense" when he was a freshman college student he saved a senior sister from a gangster and successfully hug a beautiful woman home and make his college life colorful although, in the end, he leaves China without explaining to the senior sister.
And he also saved his sister from being crushed by a car when they go to the antique market.
"HELP!" hearing it again he did not hesitate, he runs fast to the alley.
In front of him, a 30+ or so old woman with thick makeup, and not so beautiful body. Behind the woman is a man with a black cap and black clothes, a face mask, with a pair of motorcycle gloves on both hands holding a swiss army knife with his right hand sticking it to the right side abdomen of the woman, left hand covering the woman's mouth.
Seeing this situation Chen Mo did not dare to stimulate the face mask man, he was afraid that the face mask man would panic and stab the woman. Seeing someone came, the man behind the woman looks at the face of the newcomer as if confirming something.
"hehe!"
If the face mask is removed you can see the mouth of the man slightly arc with a sneer. The face mask man let go of the woman. Feeling that the hand of the face mask man letting her go the woman quickly ran out of the alley without looking back, as if afraid of seeing something horrible. The man throws the army knife in the air and puts his right hand behind his back pulling something behind.
Seeing this turn of events, even if he is an idiot Chen Mo knew something is wrong, his "sixth sense" sending danger alert also confirms his thoughts.
"Who are.." Just as he was preparing to ask something.
"You should not offend a person whom you can not afford to offend" this sentence is spoken in pure Chinese language, holding a gun in his right hand pointing the muzzle to his head five meters away.
"Bang"
Hearing the "bang" from the gun and seeing the ignition of the gunpowder on the tip of the gun, as if time stood still, Chen Mo saw a bullet slowly rotating coming out of the barrel and slowly approaching his forehead full of sweat because of panic.
If you can see his face right now, you can see he was unwilling, he can not accept it, he finally has some progressed with anticancer medicine, some goals have not been achieved, father, mother, and his younger sister's face keep flashing by.
"Is this what people say 'time will stop or slow down when you are about to die?"
"Is this the end? am I going to die here?"
Chen Mo thought, his mind went blank, he lost consciousness he did not even feel any pain when the bullet hit his head, the back of his head bloom, red and white stuff splash on the ground.
"thud" his body falls backward with wide eyes.
The black man did not even look at him again, the face mask man slowly walks out of the alley without panic as if killing people, he did not do it less. Not even picking up the swiss army knife on the ground can become an important clue in finding him the murderer.
"Trash!"
Leaving these words as the footsteps faded away until no more footsteps can be heard, living Chen Mo's corpse lying in a pool of blood mixed with white stuff from the brain slowly flowing to the floor.
I do not know when the green heart pendant slips onto the floor full of blood, the pendant has been contaminated by Chen Mos's blood turning green to red.
The pendant slowly shining with a mixture of red and gold as if something is waking up inside the pendant, the dyed red pendant is slowly melting from the inside, the pendant slowly melts becomes liquid gold, as if inspired by his soul or got contaminated by his blood and recognized the lord, the liquid gold squirming and slowly growing and multiplying, as if the blood on the floor is delicious food.
At a level that is invisible to the naked eye, the golden liquid is magnified, and they are actually nanobots billions of times smaller than nanometers, after fusing to his blood and mutated the nanobots slowly become iron cells.
After transforming all the blood on the floor, the iron cells slowly gathers flowing back into the gunshot wound in Chen Mo's head, the iron cells devour the original cells of his body and multiply repairing the wound and creating a new brain, replacing the old one, the iron cells flow along the blood vessels, you can see golden veins slowly appearing under the skin, making his pupils golden in color, until the whole body emitting golden light.
The whole alley is illuminated and making street dogs and cats scared away, the golden light slowly diverges and concentrates on his blood, making his blood shining with golden light.
After some time the body on the ground finally moved and situp.
"What happened just now" as if Chen Mo remembers something.
"I... Am I not dead yet?"
Feeling his body and touching his forehead with his hands, no wound as if being shot is just a dream. Looking around, dark alley some garbage dumps and a puddle of water on the ground, and five meters away from him, a swiss army knife used by the face mask man to threaten the woman just now.
As if he perceived something, touching the necklace on his neck, the pendant is missing.
"I... is it because of the pendant that I came back to life?"
He was taken aback, Chen Mo never thinks that the pendant he was wearing on his neck for many years has such a hidden function.
Closing his eyes and feeling his surrounding, trying to find out what changes, the pendant brings to him.
Time passed, Chen mo opens his eyes, with a command his skin change color turned into gold not just his skin his whole body every cell turned into gold.
"What!"
Seeing his whole body change color. He jumps up in excitement.
"What! why is so high."
He blurted out after he leaves the ground because he jumps so high almost three times his previous highest jump. He quickly calms down after landing and keeps on thinking of what happened just now and tries to figure his body's changes.
"I can feel all the cells of my body, my strength also improves." clenching his fist feeling the power on his hands, Chen Mo knew with just one punch he can kill a cow.
He closed his eyes again and try to change back again, quickly the golden skin diverges and back to normal, no different from before.
"I can control every part of my body as if every cell has a soul." closing his eyes and concentrate.
As time passed his face changed several times to a questioning look, amazement, shock, and finally laughing out loud.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" reberverating in the alley.
He knew how lucky he was, what heaven-defying opportunity he obtained, touching his necklace with a missing pendant, he knew everything that happened is because of that pendant. Thinking of this, Chen Mo silently thank his sister in his heart.
"It turned out that my whole body changed, my blood turned golden, I became iron base life." saying while thinking.
"I can also control every iron cells in my body."
"I can feel it these iron cells have my soul so that I can feel every cell on my body."
With a thought, the necklace quickly disappears. In a blink of an eye, a necklace slowly forms again with a heart shape jade pendant, looking at the necklace there is no change in appearance just like lego pieces, disintegrates and integrates again but the lego pieces are changed from plastic lego turns to nanobots.
"So I have the ability to disintegrate and integrate things, and I can feel something from it, with just a command from me it will disintegrate again"
With a thought, the necklace turned to liquid and slowly fall in his hands, the liquid slowly changes color from green to black, and turns into the original necklace, the necklace disintegrate again and submerge his hands and appear again in his neck.
"Is this nanotechnology? nanobots a super black technology only in movies and novel will appear"
Looking around searching for something to try it again, as if he perceived somethings looking around, he can clearly see, ants crawling on the floor, you know the lights here are so dim, closing his eyes, ten meters around him, he can sense everything like a day even ants and dust floating around, opening his eyes looking at the swiss army knife in the floor five meters away from him.
He extended his right hand as if picking up the swiss army knife, a miracle happened the knife slowly shakes and slowly floats, as if received some instructions, still shaking not stable, it falls to the ground halfway many times. After many trials and errors, as if he gets the knack of it and successfully pulls it, in front of him the swiss army knife is floating as if subject to a kind of force and slowly rotating.
Chen Mo is looking at it with shock in his eyes.
"Is this the legendary spiritual power or mental power?"
Holding the swiss army knife in his right hand.
With a thought, controlling his cells on his right hand, his cells slowly devour the swiss army knife.
A swiss army knife appeared in his left hand. The same as what he devour in his right hand.
Looking at the golden ring in his left hand, Chen Mo also devours it and after devouring, the ring appeared in his right hand.
Chen Mo activated his mental power and the two items floated in front of him. He observed it and he can feel that the two have no other differences except the color. With a thought the two items changed, the golden ring slowly melts and turns into a solid sphere, and the swiss army knife also the same. Observing the two balls of different sizes, the small ball is gold and the other is made of stainless steel alloy, with a thought the two slowly exchanged color, and the two slowly approach each other and fuse. Chen Mo made many test of it, to test his abilities so that he can avoid accidents later.
"I can devour metal and absorb it to increase my mass, my iron cells are mutated from nanobots so it has the ability to produce it with sufficient energy and resources or by decreasing my mass and use it to manufacture nanobots.."
"With these abilities, I am sure I will be able to cure Xiaoyu and wakeup Dad"
"And I still have to slowly explore my abilities so I can master it"
"Leave here first" he walks out of the alley and comes back to the parking space earlier.
In front of him is a black BMW X5 2019 model, taking the key in his pocket and unlocking the car, after closing the door, just about to start the car his phone rang. Seeing the name of the caller a smile appear on his face, answer it, and put in his ear.
"Hello! Xiaoyu..." before he could finish the words he was interrupted.
"Brother where are you now? why you are not home yet? you usually come home early to help me drink my medicines."
A slightly weak but sweet girl's voice can be heard on the other side of the phone, throw a series of questions with a worried tone, obviously worried about Chen Mo.
"I am about to start the car when the phone rang, do not worry I am alright, tomorrow I have a surprise for you after you wake up, so sleep early" with a caring tone and full of spoiling meaning.
Hearing Chen Mo's voice and assurance of safety, with a sigh of relief.
"Ok! brother drive carefully, and I will be waiting for your surprise tomorrow."
"Yeah, you will need energy tomorrow, so sleep early, I will be careful on the road."
"Hmm! bye!"
"Goodnight, sweet dreams" hearing the end call tone his face showed a happy smile.
"Boom" engine roar.
With a roar, the car slowly drives away leaving only smoke and tire marks and soon disappeared into the distant traffic among other cars.