There's something wrong with me

Chapter 235 The New World [Mythology]

Open your eyes.

The rays of the setting sun emerge from the distant land.

In an instant, I felt dizzy and weak in my limbs.

A strong sense of powerlessness washed over his frail body.

[Note: You have 7 days left to live]

"Cough cough..."

Zhang Feng's cough was hoarse and aged; his body was nearing its end.

But Zhang Feng still forced himself to look at his basic information first.

【Age: 81】

[Physique: 9.5]

[Body Constitution: 7.2+2]

Martial Arts Skills: 7.3+2

[Spiritual Root: 7.5+2]

[Note: You acquired 'Transcendent Watch' in the previous world, granting +2 to all talents and +400 to Digestion and Absorption.]

'Almost at 10 points right from the start.'

Zhang Feng was happy to see this, but the next second he saw that he only had 7 days left to live, and he became unhappy again.

In particular, after digestion and absorption increase, a feeling of hunger arises from the stomach.

But I wasn't hungry. On the contrary, I felt like I couldn't eat anything and had no appetite for anything.

Even the flow of spiritual energy was affected.

My blood vessels and brain are all in disarray, like aging parts.

Just like the text message indicating that there were only seven days left to live, life was slowly slipping away, and the countdown to its end had begun.

In particular, spiritual thoughts need to be visualized. This kind of dying thought, this brain that is about to go on strike, is a big deal.

It was drowsy and lethargic, a sign of physical decline, unable to sustain even the minimum standards of spiritual functioning.

Simply put, it's Alzheimer's disease.

Fortunately, Zhang Feng's mind was holding on, trying his best to keep this old brain machine running.

Right now, only the meridians are slowly opening up, so the impact isn't significant.

But you can't drive fast either.

Because the condition of this body is also very poor.

His whole body was too 'fragile'.

It is very likely that if too many meridians are opened, the 'vitality' will be prematurely depleted, similar to organ failure caused by excessive consumption of ATP.

ATP is a biological energy source.

As a biology and medical expert with knowledge of various disciplines, Zhang Feng knew that although overclocking enhances the human body, the initial overclocking is to 'accelerate metabolism'.

It requires a huge supply of 'bioenergy'.

Furthermore, even if ATP energy can be replenished through various foods and spiritual energy, it cannot make up for this loss.

However, most of the cells in one's body are probably in the 'last few batches' and no longer have the ability to regenerate and divide, reaching the point where 'telomeres are basically exhausted'.

If one dares to accelerate cultivation and try to replace and strengthen cells, it is actually no less than 'rapid disintegration'.

My final outcome will most likely be like an ice cream melting in the sun.

A brief moment of contemplation.

Zhang Feng felt that his best option at the moment was to open up some networks to serve as temporary combat forces.

Then, we still need to quickly awaken the 'exhausted brain' and open up our spiritual thoughts; perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope.

After obtaining the body information.

Zhang Feng then looked around to see if there were any potential dangers.

To avoid being ambushed by something else before you've even trained yourself to death.

After a careful scan.

Based on memory and the current environment.

Zhang Feng knew that he was on a small road outside a town.

He was on his way to the Xuan Yun Sect, whose location was unknown, to find an old friend he had known since his youth.

This was because a few years ago, I thought of my old friend who seemed to be a cultivator, so I dug out his letters, wanting to ask him to 'extend my life'.

I just searched aimlessly for several years without any results.

And then, now.

I'm too old, and I've recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

For the past month, I've mostly been hanging around this area.

Only the instinct for survival, the most basic human need for food, made me know to use the money I had saved up throughout my life to buy something so that I wouldn't starve to death.

Of course, I'm also grateful to the imperial court of this world; the security is relatively good, and no one has stabbed me in the back.

This world seems rather vast, with no relevant history in my memory, unlike Earth.

But it's set in ancient times.

After understanding all the information, Zhang Feng also began to look at the world text information and, based on the current situation, began to select sequence reinforcement.

[Resurrection Chance: 5]

[Adventure Level: 8]

[Adventure Genre: Growth, Survival]

[Occupation: Farmer]

Main Quest: Survive for 100 Years

[Non-main quest: Obtain at least one divine weapon, or forge one divine weapon]

[Note 1: You will have one upgrade option every 3 years of survival, up to a maximum of 22 times.]

[Note 2: If your Honor and Adventure Rank are equal, you will receive the first tier of enhancements.]

【1: Advanced Bond Formation, Spells】

[2: Advanced Affinity, Medical Skills]

【3: Advanced Connections, Celestial Phenomena】

[Special: Refining Essence into Qi]

……

Take a glance.

Zhang Feng first looked at one of them.

[Spells: Epic, Epic, First-Tier Enhancement]

[Effect: After making this selection, your friend in the letter will arrive at 'Xihe Township', 300 li away, five days later.]

[Note 1: Male, 85 years old, outer sect steward of Xuan Yun Sect, Foundation Establishment Mastery, loyal and righteous, no brothers, skilled in magic]

[Note 2: When this term is selected, the main quest will change to: Reach the Nascent Soul realm within one hundred years.]

……

Zhang Feng looked at the options and found the "Spell Connection" option interesting, and thought it could also be considered a kind of information.

This proves that his old friend still exists, is still alive, and really knows magic.

Having achieved the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, one can be considered to have reached a fairly high level of attainment.

He also held a position within their sect, and was loyal and righteous, and could indeed take care of himself.

at the same time.

After looking at the two subsequent enhancements, Zhang Feng found that the enhancement was indeed quite good.

The second "medical skill" involved knowing a doctor in a nearby town and using traditional Chinese medicine to regulate his body, thus extending his life by ten days.

I can do this kind of conditioning myself.

The third celestial phenomenon is that three days later, I will meet a cultivator from the 'Lingchao Tianji Pavilion' and then learn about meteorology and related topics.

I can do that myself.

Unlike before when I saw these sequence enhancements, I didn't understand any of them.

Zhang Feng now has a wealth of knowledge.

Even if the world is different in some ways, we can learn from it by analogy when the time comes.

So, Zhang Feng looked at the final special enhancement.

At a glance.

Zhang Feng discovered a new level.

[Refining Essence into Qi: Rare, Mythological, Taoist, Mythological]

[Note 1: Mythological enhancements are unique. Once you choose this enhancement, you will not receive any further enhancements in this world.]

[Note 2: 'Supernatural Watch' is unaffected]

【效果1：根骨+8、武学+8，灵根+10，消化与吸收+500克】

[Effect 2: Your resistance to Five Elements magic increases by 20%, your resistance to lightning magic increases by 15%, and your resistance to unorthodox magic increases by 25%]

[Effect 3: Improves thinking ability by +0.5, and increases after spiritual awareness is activated]

[Effect 4: Randomly obtain a rare and precious herb that increases spiritual root aptitude]

[Effect 5: Memory correction +0.8, increased after Spiritual Sense is activated]

[Prologue: Refining Essence into Qi, Building the Foundation of the Inner Alchemy]

……

Read the properties.

Zhang Feng didn't need to think at all; he chose it directly.

Once you get it, all three of its stats will reach nearly 20 in the early game.

As long as you don't die, and you recover your health and get through the most difficult early stages, you will definitely become invincible soon!
Now, it's time to test the results of my past knowledge.

To pull a person who had only seven days left to live back from the brink of death.

With the choice.

Another pale brownish-brown fruit, resembling a mango, appeared.

It also has attributes, and the text is displayed.

Earth Spirit Fruit: Epic, Common

【Effect 1: Earth-attribute spiritual root +2】

[Effect 2: Ensures sufficient energy for daily digestion; works perfectly for those with a constitution below 50]

It really only increases spiritual roots; it doesn't increase other attributes like constitution or reaction at all.

Furthermore, since it is a text-based product, it cannot be parsed.

Otherwise, it can also achieve synthesis and cultivation.

Fortunately, there is an energy replenishment, which is a good thing.

Otherwise, with nearly three pounds of hunger, I would soon have to eat myself.

This body is skin and bones, with virtually no fat to burn, only a small amount of muscle to break down.

Snap—

Take a bite of the fruit.

The fruit was a bit sour, had an earthy taste, and was hard.

After taking a couple of bites, Zhang Feng even spat out half a tooth.

This body is in really bad shape.

I don't have many teeth left, just a few molars and back molars.

Chewing is often done with the gums.

The discomfort of not being able to eat many things, and having food get stuck in your teeth, can indeed psychologically reduce one's appetite.

If you have no appetite, coupled with obvious oral degeneration and insufficient gastrointestinal motility, it will create a vicious cycle, and your physical condition will gradually deteriorate.

After reaching a certain limit, the body gradually declines, resistance weakens, various diseases emerge, and a person's days are numbered. Zhang Feng now at least senses that he is plagued by at least a few diseases.

To further verify.

Zhang Feng also tried walking briskly for several dozen steps.

When the 100-meter mark is reached.

My heart is feeling slightly heavy, and my breathing is not smooth.

This is a blood vessel blockage caused by cardiopulmonary disease.

A ringing in the ears and dizziness are symptoms of high blood pressure.

A maltose taste also appeared in my mouth, suggesting that my blood sugar was not low, which is also similar to metabolic disorders that occur in old age.

Zhang Feng also had a feeling: it was difficult.

But if we say that as long as the brain doesn't age, it can still activate spiritual thoughts.

With the arrival of spiritual energy, none of this becomes a problem.

But it is precisely because of brain aging that a whole host of problems have surfaced.

After thinking for a while, and based on the existing information and data, Zhang Feng felt that he should do the opposite and find medicinal herbs to nourish his body first.

Use your physical constitution to extend your lifespan, and then try to nourish your brain in return.

This involves a biotechnological modification called 'assimilation'.

Simply put, if a person eats well, has good nutrition and physical condition, and with the help of some special medications, the brain can gradually recover to some extent.

Even if it's difficult to recover, as long as your physical condition improves, your lifespan will increase.

This gives you more time to allow for error correction.

Thinking about this, Zhang Feng suddenly realized that this test was a comprehensive assessment of his knowledge.

This involves not only the biomechanics and genetics of martial arts training, but also the prevention of directly opening one's meridians and causing disintegration at the beginning.

It also involves biotechnology, as well as neurology, psychology, and medicine, among other related fields.

Furthermore, the biotechnology that can 'assimilate and prolong life' is the most crucial, connecting everything.

Something was definitely wrong with the last world.

Without access to biotechnology, I would never have been able to find a solution so quickly.

It will take at least more time and allow for more mistakes; it's impossible to get things clear in a short time.

'Let's go to the nearby town to choose the medicine first.'

Zhang Feng acted on his thought, turning around and heading straight for the town in the distance.

However, this speed is not fast.

It's about the same walking speed as an average person.

For Zhang Feng to be able to walk with such agility in his physical condition is entirely due to 'overexertion'.

Two meridians on my legs have already been activated for overclocking.

The internal organs are also trying to resonate, trying to gather some internal energy.

For example, opening up the lungs can make breathing easier.

So, let's open!

……

Open your eyes again.

Zhang Feng is not opening.

Even the option to revive did not return to the beginning; instead, Zhang Feng deliberately chose to return to two seconds earlier.

It doesn't look wrong at all right now.

It's just that I was too impatient and currently lack the strength to fully understand my own abilities, which led to some mistakes.

These are all minor matters, and I can handle them all.

After all, since I have a margin for error and the significance of reviving isn't that great right now, I definitely have to give it a try.

Otherwise, what's the point of having this margin of error?

"Cough cough..."

As Zhang Feng hurried along, he kept thinking, occasionally letting out a muffled cough, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

But I just tried it, and the internal organs cannot be moved.

So be it, I'll just keep coughing.

Chest tightness is fine, just chest tightness, ignore it for now.

Perhaps this state of lingering can hold out for a little longer.

Thinking about this, Zhang Feng also recalled many other worlds.

Many elderly people suffer from pulmonary heart disease and then undergo open-chest treatment.

Some were cured outright.

Yes, surgery can severely deplete one's energy, so it's better not to do it.

To put it bluntly, even without surgery, a little recuperation would allow him to stay longer and see his descendants more often.

But no one can see the future, so it's hard to say whether things are right or wrong.

Since everyone wants to get better, their starting point is definitely not wrong.

However, Zhang Feng did manage to recover; otherwise, like the latter, he would have had little time left after the surgery.

This is also the last big gamble of my life.

The stakes are truly one's own fate.

seriously.

It was Zhang Feng's first time experiencing being an elderly person that he understood this very complex emotion.

This feeling is one of confusion, reluctance, and a lot left unsaid, as well as a silent fear of anticipation.

It is not a simple emotion.

As Zhang Feng walked, he couldn't tell whether it was his lung disease that was making him breathless or the psychological pressure he was under.

Such insights into life.

Zhang Feng actually wished he didn't have it.

Even though the Divine Transformation level increased by 3%, it filled in some complex emotions and psychological states.

But Zhang Feng was not happy.

Zhang Feng felt that using such insights based on moral principles was wrong, no less than making fun of a dying old man.

However, this realization also made Zhang Feng understand many things.

Moreover, his own federal utopia is a world that has already entered a state of 'zero death'.

The concept of dying of old age no longer exists.

With the support of medicine and high technology, the lifespan of the elderly has been extended indefinitely.

For an old person like myself who is nearing the end of my life, if I could go to my own 'kingdom'...

The first three days are for conditioning, using nanorobots and drugs to improve physical condition and extend lifespan.

The following day was for pre-operative examinations and a simulated surgery in the virtual world.

On the fifth day, the body will be completely renewed, and lifespan will be extended again.

Even if telomeres have been shortened to nothing, the Federation's biotechnology can still achieve the replacement of artificially synthesized human cells.

Neuroscience and genetics can activate the brain and eliminate neurological diseases.

Extending one's lifespan by another fifty years is absolutely no problem.

With proper care, living to three hundred years old will be a piece of cake.

The only thing that can limit human lifespan today is the brain.

In addition, the Federation has already developed synthetic hearts and other similar products.

It is entirely possible to take the patient's cells, culture some internal organs, and use them as hardware replacements.

According to the calculations in the virtual building, the average lifespan in the Federation is now 500 years old if a person adopts Federation technology from the beginning.

We'll wait for technologies like brain or soul technology to be perfected.

As long as the soul is not damaged during the grafting and transfer process, then it is a kind of 'indirect immortality'.

Thinking about this, Zhang Feng felt relieved and let go of his depression.

just.

My mood has improved.

But after walking for half an hour, Zhang Feng sat down by the roadside covered in yellow dust.

It's so tiring.

And my joints are very painful, including my right calf which is a little hard to lift, and there are even signs of cramping, as if a tight spring has suddenly been pressed into my leg.

Zhang Feng sensed that this body also suffered from arthritis and osteoporosis.

These illnesses are the result of my years of searching for old friends, coupled with my increasing age.

You need to supplement your calcium intake.

As he pondered, Zhang Feng slowly straightened his calves and used a special massage technique to promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and relax the muscle groups.

"Cough cough..."

As soon as I sat down, phlegm started to rise up.

Zhang Feng was a little frustrated, but there was nothing he could do but try to rest for a while.

They also hoped that a horse-drawn carriage or something would come into town.

He had two taels of silver and over three hundred coins in his small bundle.

We'll observe the other person's facial features and subtle movements then.

If they are good people, they will give you some money so you can give them a ride.

Today, it is still more than 20 miles from the town.

If I really had to walk, it would probably take a whole day.

Zhang Feng was deep in thought.

About ten minutes.

Crash-

The sounds of horses' hooves and carriages came from behind.

"Grandpa, are you alright?"

At this moment, Zhang Feng looked back and saw that the approaching vehicle was a cart pulled by a thin horse.

The driver was a young man dressed in coarse cloth.

But despite his apparent concern, his eyes kept glancing at the small bundle in Zhang Feng's arms.

"Thank you for your concern, young man. I am fine."

Zhang Feng glanced at him and knew that this man had ulterior motives.

So he also put on a deep voice and acted like someone who had been around the block for many years.

He seems like a seasoned veteran.

They usually possess some special skills, especially elderly people in their sixties.

He's seen a lot, experienced a lot, and has been in the world for many years. To say he has no skills is to completely deceive people.

Zhang Feng was using this basic logic to scare away this "starting crisis".

Because of his actions.

His physique is at least [87].

87, robbing an old man like yourself, that's fucking outrageous!

At first glance, he's the most low-class, ruthless thug.

But now, I really can't hold on anymore.

It seems like they're not wrong to kill someone and steal their treasure.

(End of this chapter)