Chapter 122: Silent Integration

After more than thirty years of recovery and rest, Earth’s ecology had basically recovered. Except for a few limited cities, the continents were all covered with dense vegetation.

Various animals were also constantly returning. Some of these animals were originally surviving specimens, while others were artificially cloned and released. They had all adapted well to this new, vibrant nature.

After Lin Lei returned to Earth, the first place he went to was not the City of Hope, but the wilderness.

His return was something that could never be hidden from the Earth’s Will Body. In fact, as soon as he arrived in the Solar System, the Earth had detected him and sent him a summons.

Lin Lei’s Will was currently very powerful. After arriving on Earth, he could clearly feel the Earth’s Will Body was everywhere. Any tree, animal, insect, and even non-living things like rocks and soil, were all tinged with this aura.

In the forest on the outskirts of the City of Hope, Lin Lei moved silently through the dense plants.

It was quite magical. These plants did not hinder Lin Lei at all. Instead, they parted to make way for him as he approached, welcoming him like a child of the forest.

He walked all the way to the heart of the forest and only stopped when he was sure no one else could sense him here.

Although Lin Lei no longer needed to breathe, he still took a deep breath to savor the fragrant aura of the wild nature.

“It has been so many years since I smelled this scent. Memories from the past have become so vivid at this moment! Earth, are you well?”

Lin Lei sat on a raised rock in the forest and spoke softly to the surrounding air.

The mist in the forest drifted and slowly coalesced into a human figure. The figure became clearer and clearer, finally taking the shape of Lin Lei’s deceased mother.

This was the Earth’s Will Body. She looked at Lin Lei, who had now become graceful and profound, with great surprise.

“My child, it seems you have truly grown. On you, I see a radiance like the sun.”

This radiance was no longer Earth’s aquamarine color, but a golden light of Will. Lin Lei had become a completely independent life form.

“No matter how much I grow, I cannot erase the fact that I was born on Earth. You are always my mother. That is why I have returned.”

Lin Lei’s purpose in returning was to integrate into today’s Earth society with a brand-new identity. He intended to play a role in pushing and promoting development at a critical moment in the rise of civilization, helping the Earth Civilization quickly cross the threshold into a Fifth-grade Civilization.

“Mother, I hope you can help me integrate into Earth’s society. Only you can help me mask the fluctuations of my Will so that the Watcher Civilization will not detect them.”

Lin Lei did this because he had learned from the Dark Saint’s lessons. In the past, how many Dark Remnants were there, yet they were still discovered by the Watcher Civilization. This forced the Dark Saint to be reborn in a hurry, and ultimately, he failed at the last step.

The Earth’s Will Body was silent for a moment. Looking into Lin Lei’s eyes, which were free of any impurities, she slowly smiled.

“This is easy. You can hide a part of your Will Body in an unborn baby. Wait for him to grow up, and then merge your complete Will Body with his. No one will notice anything abnormal.”

This sounded like reincarnation, but Lin Lei did not want to wait another decade for the growth period.

“This method takes too long. Is there a way to choose a young person who has suffered an accident and is on the verge of death? I can use a part of my Will to replace him.”

The Earth nodded. “This method is feasible, but it has some sequelae. To do this, you must constantly pay attention to restraining your social behavior. Change slowly, and do not attract the attention of those who are watching.”

“Of course! I will bury this body deep underground, and my Main Will will also remain here.”

Lin Lei planned to let this body peacefully comprehend the Dimensional Element. This was the current top priority.

……

The Earth chose a coma patient for Lin Lei, a guy who had been in a vegetative state for ten years. The unlucky fellow had taken a fall and hit his head when he got up to use the restroom ten years ago.

Before falling into a coma, he had been engaged in scientific research on Earth’s warp drive spacecraft. This person was a genius. His logical reasoning ability and spatial imagination were incredibly strong.

For any spacecraft design, as long as the result was feasible after virtual operation in his brain, it would not have any errors in reality!

When the accident happened, the Earth Government had tried its best to save him. However, he really had bad luck. When he was found unconscious on the ground, more than ten hours had already passed. His brain had been compressed by blood clots for too long, and he was basically doomed.

Even with regulatory nanobots in his body, it was useless. After three days of rescue efforts, they finally declared failure. Since then, he had been kept in a half-dead state in the medical ward, hoping for a miracle one day.

He was the ideal “body possession” target. Under the cover of Earth, Lin Lei quietly used his Split Will to complete the replacement process.

After completely possessing the body, Lin Lei could not wake up immediately. This body’s hardware did not support these actions.

He felt his body’s condition and found that many neurons in the brain had atrophied and died. Only some autonomic nerves remained to maintain the body’s basic physiological functions.

The muscles throughout his body had also suffered severe atrophy due to the long period of no movement. His heart beat weakly and irregularly.

If Lin Lei had not possessed him, this guy probably would not have lived long either.

Lin Lei had no time to deal with the muscle issue for now, but the cerebral cortex had to be repaired as soon as possible. Otherwise, even with Lin Lei’s powerful Will, it would be useless. Without the support of the Material World, he could only run in circles in this broken brain domain.

Constructing this Split Will took a lot of effort. Lin Lei even equipped it with the System’s function for repairing human body structures.

The current him, just like the System back then, could make changes to the human body at the DNA level. Of course, restoring a few atrophied neurons was a piece of cake.

The human brain has more than 100 billion neurons. It was completely impractical for Lin Lei to activate them one by one.

But the wonder of biology lies here. The blueprint of a biological body is condensed in DNA. As long as this aspect of genetic information is activated, the vegetative patient’s brain will undergo development again, just like he once did in his mother’s womb!

This genetic information was not hard to find. After finding it, what Lin Lei needed to do was to turn on this switch. When he felt the brain was mature enough to hold his Split Will, he could turn the switch off.

Speaking of it, it was as simple as turning on a faucet tap. But to actually do it required very delicate control.

Biological growth and development were not only related to DNA; the external environment also had a great influence. What Lin Lei had to do was control these external factors to make the structure of the newly developed brain dense and reasonable, rather than just a pile of disorganized neurons!

This process could not be too fast. It was not only to avoid attracting attention but also a matter of energy consumption for the body.

This body was too weak. Even with scheduled nutritional solution feedings every day, it could only maintain the body’s basic needs. To use it for growth and development, he had to be as frugal as possible.

It was best to show some signs of improvement so that this body could receive better care.

Lin Lei’s first action was to greatly enhance the fluctuations of the brain waves and try to make these fluctuations similar to those of a normal person in sleep, giving people the feeling that this person was about to wake up.

What made Lin Lei depressed was that it took him a full three days for anyone to notice this action. It seemed that this guy was also on the verge of being abandoned.

Earth could not afford to support such a pure drain on resources.

A female nurse was the first to notice the abnormality on the brain wave monitor. She was stunned at first, and after a long while, she suddenly let out a scream. She rushed out of the ward, running and shouting for the doctor.

A few minutes later, a middle-aged doctor rushed in. He carefully looked at the body information emitted by the regulatory nanobots in Lin Lei’s body, and an expression of disbelief slowly appeared on his face.

“A miracle! What a miracle! This patient actually began to awaken after ten years of coma!”

“Hurry up! Prepare the best conditions for his revival. Upgrade the grade of the life-support nutritional solution to the highest level and replenish the patient with a large amount of surplus protein to help him recover his body.”

“And you, Nurse Yu. The patient’s body muscles are completely atrophied. From now on, you must perform full-body massages for him every day to help him recover muscle activity.”

……

The doctor immediately began to arrange things in an orderly manner. The execution efficiency of this hospital was also exceptionally high. Soon, Lin Lei received the best physical care.

After that, different doctors came every day to observe his condition and record his body recovery data. They could hardly restrain their sighs of admiration at how tough this person was, able to recover even from such a state.

Of course, there were also several groups of special visitors during this period, including people from the Earth Government and relatives of this body.

Even one day, Lin Lei saw an exceptionally beautiful woman come to visit him. Of course, this woman came with those government officials.

Lin Lei was not amazed by the woman’s beauty. What surprised him was that he felt a strange sense of closeness from her. However, Lin Lei was not in a hurry. All these questions would be answered as soon as his body recovered.

This body was not an only child. In fact, on Earth today, only children basically did not exist. There were usually big families with many brothers and sisters.

Through observation over these few days, Lin Lei had understood the family situation of this person. He had a younger sister, an older brother, his father had died early, and there was only one mother.

The other two members of this family seemed not to have inherited excellent genes. At least in Lin Lei’s opinion, there was no budding spirituality in the eyes of this younger sister and older brother.

No doubt, the mother of this body was a clone. However, more than thirty years of social life had already made her completely indistinguishable from a naturally born person. She looked like just an ordinary woman in her fifties.

It could be seen that the members of this family felt very gratified that Lin Lei’s body could recover.

When the clone mother came to the ward, she held Lin Lei’s hand tightly and did not let go. Tears flowed from her eyes, uncontrollable.

In this situation, Lin Lei could only sigh silently. As for the relatives of this body, he could only compensate them as much as possible.