Li Lin, a young man who mysteriously appeared inside Lungmen without any records. Expelled from Lungmen due to lack of identification, then brought back to Lungmen a month later because of Exusiai, and through his own efforts became a member of Penguin Logistics, joining the industry and becoming an indispensable part. On the surface, this data looks quite inspirational. Most people in Lungmen didn't think too much about it.
But after a real physical examination, it was discovered that this person Li Lin wasn't amnesiac as imagined. He was very likely just recently created. Those so-called amnesia and fragmented misunderstandings of language were merely because he had never lived in this world at all.
"Your internal organs are filled with various deformed products. Some functions overlap, some are completely unnecessary vestigial structures. Some even affect the normal development of your body; we don't even dare use conventional treatment methods on your body, only able to carefully wait for you to heal yourself. Your body is fragile because one-third of your nutrients supply the brain; the remainder is for your normal organ replenishment."
"Your life will be very short, most likely you won't live to a hundred years old. And the development of your dental nerve structure is completely deformed and redundant. Not just the teeth, the structure of your optic nerves and ears also has problems. You might even be my original kinsman, but your tailbone has completely degenerated. The connection between your pelvis, thighs, and foot joints is slender and complex, susceptible to structural damage at any time due to excessive running and jumping. And what's even more outrageous is that your nerves lack self-healing ability; you cannot heal your nerves and other parts through rest."
"And your genes are like this too, seeming to have countless redundant chains; they even collapse on their own, or even mutate, forming strange tumors inside the body. You are able to maintain the current balance entirely because your body is filled with some bacteria and viruses; these things propagate in your body, maintaining your life."
"In other words, your physical body is fundamentally a cursed lump of flesh. Inside, there are hundreds or thousands of antibodies and bacteria, with a large pile of organs born from proliferating bacteria and toxins. The brain is also huge and stacked with countless sulci, and some neuron principles are completely unknown. These things maintain a strange balance. So apart from your brain developing relatively normally, other things are very deformed and wasteful. Some structures even feel like they specifically appeared to counter some kind of mutation. If not for dozens of bacterial colonies maintaining your life within your body, you would have died long ago due to exhaustion."
"We don't even dare do anything to your body. It's like a complex yet cumbersome machine; any tiny alteration could cause your life to depart. So we chose to maintain the status quo, letting you make your own choices. Others felt you shouldn't be told, but I feel you have the right to know."
"So I suggest you best not participate in any combat situations in the future, nor appear in any conflict scenes. This is the doctor's advice, and also my advice."
"…"
Looking at the serious-faced Officer Ch'en before him, Li Lin opened his mouth wanting to say something, but after thinking for a long time, didn't know how to say it, and still closed his mouth.
To some extent, these judgments weren't wrong. Back in the other world, Li Lin already understood this point very clearly through some written records and data. The human body, rather than being sacred and inviolable, is more like we consider it sacred and inviolable.
Removing the sanctity of humanity, purely from the perspective of organ excellence, none of human organs are the most excellent. They could even be said to be outrageously clumsy. Overlapping organ functions, extremely wasteful nerve pathways, densely tangled blood vessels and nerve networks that wind around instead of going straight, and large amounts of discarded material starting from the genes, and various other unreasonable designs.
There was even once a scholar who said that if humans were viewed as an engineering system, then this engineering system is entirely an unqualified waste product that can only continue working through constant patching and prodding by coincidence and external factors. If not for beneficial bacteria and various corrections by humans over many years, environmental protection, and the support of vaccines, human life would be even shorter than estimated here. The average lifespan might even be less than twenty-five years. But it is precisely because of this sense of crisis originating from the essence of life that humans burst forth with tolerance for various environments and environmental resilience surpassing all large creatures.
However, this advantage was clearly not enough in the Ark world. After all, Catastrophes and earthquakes run rampant here every day; comparatively speaking, the human body looking deformed and useless is also normal. Plus, the bacteria on humans are mostly specialized for attacking humans, basically useless against other species.
So discovering no infectivity after examination was also very normal.
But how should I put it, being told so directly that you are not the excellent one, still made Li Lin feel a tiny bit unwilling, more or less. However, this tiny bit of unwillingness quickly turned into a smile of relief. No matter what, having transmigrated and survived, and living quite well, that was enough.
"Mm, I understand."
"…Don't you want to say anything?"
"Is there anything worth saying? I'm still alive here, and treatment is ongoing, I haven't died yet, isn't that quite good?"
Li Lin wanted to spread his hands to explain, but his restrained state only allowed him to raise his eyebrows, putting on an air of indifference.
"I'm the kind of person who just wants to live in a stable and harmonious society. No wars, no attacks or violence, a peaceful world is the best. So I've always felt fortunate that I'm still alive, and I also want to use the warm medium of words to convey this feeling to others. Overall, I'm already grateful to this world for being alive. At least I haven't starved to death. That's already very good. As for opinions about my body… aren't there still many Oripathy patients? They are much more miserable than me."
"…I understand. Rest well here."
"Hm? Ah, take care. Forgive me for not seeing you off."
"Rest assured."
Walking to the doorframe, Officer Ch'en placed her hand on the frame, tilted her head towards Li Lin, and said in a low voice:
"I swear, I will make those who torture life pay the price they deserve. I swear I will make them pay the price."
"Ah? Oh…"
Although I feel like she might have misunderstood something, it is what it is.
Watching Officer Ch'en leave with a determined expression, Li Lin wanted to raise his hand to wave, but the lazy feeling all over his body still made him close his eyes, unable to resist falling asleep. And watching the sleeping Li Lin, Officer Ch'en bit her lip, her expression hardening with determination, and walked deeper into the corridor.