Chapter 100 Microscopic World
According to the introduction, the Ant-Man suit uses a subatomic particle called Pym particles to change the size of an object, and can be shrunk to the subatomic level. The suit produced by Merit Mall has improved some problems of the original version, such as it cannot be changed back to the original shape after shrinking beyond a certain degree, and the size can be changed without the help of buttons on the hands, but is completely controlled by the mind. After putting on the suit and becoming smaller, the mass of the human body will also change, but the amazing thing is that the strength will not decrease, but will increase.
Rong Yuan: ...It’s not that I don’t understand, it’s just that this world is really strange.
[Ant-Man's Suit] is called a technological invention, but it is beyond Rong Yuan's understanding of the word "technology". It is like a pure fantasy product that completely subverts his common sense and worldview.
But if you think about it carefully, there are so many products in the Merit Mall that subvert your worldview. An Ant-Man suit is nothing. He had seen something called a weight-absorbing gun before, which can absorb a person's weight, which is even more incredible. Rong Yuan always thought that such things should only exist in animations.
However, the temptation to become smaller is unparalleled. How wonderful it would be to see the world from a microscopic perspective? Not to mention 550,000 merits, even if it was ten or a hundred times more expensive, Rong Yuan would find a way to exchange it.
This suit is mainly black, emitting a pearl-like luster under the light. The lens on the helmet is dark red, there is a trachea connected to the mouth and nose, and the gloves, boots, cuffs and trouser legs are all tightly buckled, with a completely isolated closed design inside and outside.
To be honest, Rong Yuan was not satisfied with the appearance of this dress. He felt that he looked like a large insect after putting it on. However, compared with its advantages, all the shortcomings could be ignored.
He looked at the time. There were still five minutes until seven o'clock. He still had an hour to study the world before class. So he nodded to the pea sitting on the tissue box, put on his helmet, and activated the shrinking function of his suit.
The world seemed to have suddenly become larger. He didn't feel anything unusual physically, but the sudden change in his career made him dizzy and nauseous. He stopped in a hurry and looked up. The table seemed to be dozens of stories high. His feet were stuck in the wool of the carpet. The acrylic fibers, which were as thick as his arms, were as high as his waist, seriously hindering his movements.
But this was all an illusion. According to the function of the battle suit, his current strength should not be weaker than when he was in his real size. Rong Yuan bent his knees and kicked hard, and his whole body flew into the air. Perhaps because of his lighter weight, he now jumped much higher than usual, and the ceiling was immediately in front of him. He quickly turned his body around, stepped on the roof twice, changed direction and jumped towards the table again.
Rong Yuan landed on the table and realized that he was now much shorter than a pea, and at most only one-third of its height. Seeing that the doll next to him, which he could always hold easily in his hand, suddenly became so tall, Rong Yuan simply couldn't adapt. The marshmallow beans on the table were also huge for him - half the size of his body.
Pea looked over. Although he didn't make emoticons in his eyes, his face was clearly full of curiosity. He stretched out his finger, as if he wanted to poke Rong Yuan like he did when he went over to poke him.
Rong Yuan subconsciously glared at it. Although its eyes were only as small as sesame seeds (literally), they were still powerful. Pea's hand paused for a moment, then slowly retracted its hand, revealing a look of obvious regret.
Rong Yuan walked around twice to get used to the current size, and at the same time observed with interest the appearance of the familiar room from different angles. Because he was short now, he also jumped onto the flower pot next to him and inspected it, with a smile on his face because of excitement.
After a while, he shrank again, and the world he saw in front of him changed into another appearance: the wind in the air seemed to flow more slowly, and the light above his head became much dimmer. The edge of the flower pot he was standing on originally seemed very smooth and clean to him, but now it looked like an uneven ridge of a field, full of holes. It was not very clean either, and was entangled with black and gray unknown substances everywhere.
He could hardly see the pea clearly. Because the pea was too big for him, the huge difference in size made it impossible for him to see the whole picture of the pea. It took him a while to realize that the mountain-like figure was actually the little pea. At the same time, many things in the room were too far away for him to identify their true identities.
Suddenly, the hair on his back stood up and he could sense a strange rustling sound approaching. He turned around and froze.
A huge orange-yellow round head that was as tall as a person was not far behind Rong Yuan. The surface of the shell was covered with fish-scale-like patterns. There were two hand-like mouthparts where the mouth should be, and there were several long whiskers on them. On both sides of the head were a pair of dark red eyes, and above the eyes were hundreds of small protrusions. On the top of the monster's head was a pair of segmented tentacles like lotus roots, which were also covered with fine hairs that made people shudder.
The monster seemed very curious about Rong Yuan. It looked at him for a while, its mouthparts trembling slightly. Rong Yuan suddenly realized that the sound he heard before was the sound made by the friction between the mouthparts and the upper jaw. After looking at him for a while, the monster seemed to decide to attack. It moved its head and a forelimb that was longer than its head stretched out. It was translucent, and the shell on the surface looked very hard. It also had segments and fine hairs, and there was a hook on the top that looked very dangerous.
Rong Yuan was startled, and rushed forward and kicked it in the head! The terrifying monster seemed vulnerable, and Rong Yuan clearly saw that its head was obviously deformed, and then the whole thing flew far away!
After it flew away, Rong Yuan realized that it was actually a small ant.
His pounding heart finally slowed down. In fact, he felt a little ashamed of his sudden panic. Although he was smaller now, he was much stronger than an average adult. There was nothing in this microscopic world that could threaten him.
Thinking of this, Rong Yuan recalled the ant that flew away to who knows where just now, and thought it looked a bit simple and cute. After telling himself that there was no need to be nervous and to stay calm, he looked up and his nerves were challenged again.
A creature that looked like a rhinoceros, but only as tall as his waist, slowly crawled over from not far away. It had six thick legs, the two in front were twice as thick as the ones at the back. Its head was shaped like a cone-shaped claw, with no eyes visible. There were a few sparse, translucent hairs on its body that trembled slightly as it crawled.
There was a rustling sound, and the next visitors were a large group of smaller meat plate-like things crawling over. There was no visible head or eyes, ears, mouth or nose. The whole body was a fleshy oval. Several spider-like things stretched out from both sides of the meat plates, stomping on the ground in a very rhythmic manner, and their forward speed was surprisingly not slow.
Rong Yuan: ...
Even if he wouldn't be hurt by such a thing, he definitely didn't want to come into direct contact with it. He jumped directly onto the tree trunk next to him - actually a root of a potted plant sticking out of the soil - and watched them pass by from a distance.
The meat plates bumped into the six-legged rhino in front of them. The fine hairs of both sides touched each other lightly. It was unknown what information was exchanged. The six-legged rhino swung its two strongest front legs and pounced on the other side with great momentum, tearing the meat plate in front of it directly, but it was soon overwhelmed by the other meat plates that rushed over. After these chubby little things crawled away with their short legs shaking, the six-legged rhino and their sacrificed friend were no longer visible, leaving only a little inconspicuous stain on the ground.
Rong Yuan was shocked. He didn't expect that there would be such a brutal battle in such an inconspicuous world.
The world after becoming smaller is much more lively than it seems. Rong Yuan never thought that there would be so many uninvited guests in the room where he has been living "alone".
He also saw a worm with a huge body but a tiny head and two eyes protruding like searchlights. It crawled out of the soil, bit a thin, unknown worm that looked like a black rope, and cut it in two. Then it carried the soft, long worm back into the soil.
On the leaf, he encountered a slender insect whose color almost blended into the leaf. It was covered with smooth scales, and the shell on its head looked like a haircut carefully done at a barber shop. Its two antennae were bent into an elegant arc, and the fine hairs on its body were distributed in a very orderly manner. At first glance, it looked like it was wearing a mink scarf. With its curvy figure, its waist as thin as its forelimbs, and its cone-shaped face, Rong Yuan thought the person standing in front of him was a beautiful woman. Then he felt like he was crazy.
After overcoming the psychological barrier, Rong Yuan unceremoniously kicked off the "beautiful insect" and other "tenants" living on the leaf one by one, occupying the entire leaf by himself. The leaf was also covered with fine hairs, but they were not soft, but rather hard and a bit irritating. He plucked out a fine hair and waved it twice, feeling that it could be used as a whip - he had to choose a weapon. Because when he kicked away a fly that tried to bite him, he didn't control the strength well, and the fly's head instantly sank. Even though Rong Yuan dodged quickly, some things still splashed on his body. He didn't want to recall that disgusting feeling a second time.
After taking a general look around, the initial novelty faded a little. Thinking that he had to go to class later, Rong Yuan decided to hurry up. He activated the shrinking device again.
Every time he shrank, he felt as if he had traveled to another world, and this time was no exception. However, what he saw at this time seemed to be beyond his imagination.
The world in his eyes became completely different.
