He instantly realized something was wrong and immediately began using Magic to forcibly seal the memories continuously flooding into his mind.

In an instant, his mind became exceptionally clear. Xue Dili picked up his student ID card and then looked at the environment he was in and the information he could gather.

He was currently in a small laboratory, where countless utensils were frozen, along with numerous samples of tissues or colonies being cultivated.

Especially the large number of manuscripts and documents on the desk made Xue Dili realize a fact.

"Did I replace myself from the Parallel World?" Xue Dili immediately came to this conclusion.

No, it shouldn't be said as a replacement. Instead, after he traveled to this world, the role of "Doctor Xue Dili" from the Parallel World naturally merged into his entity. Therefore, he is still his true self, only now with an additional experience of the Parallel World like watching a movie.

The memories of being dependent on his aunt since young and the endless medical knowledge he gained after university occupied an important part of his mind. He also understood why he felt uncomfortable.

Although it was his Parallel World self merging with his true self, the Parallel World's self was a "scholar", a genius who had obtained a doctorate at the age of 21. The vast medical and biological research knowledge in his mind was overwhelming like a dimensional reduction strike to the just-graduated college student Xue Dili.

In short, the individual from the Parallel World actively unified with the real Xue Dili, but because of the overwhelming amount of knowledge in his head, it felt as if Xue Dili had learned all the courses from college to doctorate in an instant. Now, he had to seal this knowledge, or he would have a bizarre feeling of his brain being "strengthened by knowledge".

Finally taking a breath, he looked at the memories of his Parallel World self, feeling a surreal sense akin to looking at flowers in the fog.

Even though they were all "the same self", there was always the thought, "turns out I can live so brilliantly without a golden finger".

He followed the path of "Welcome to the School of Realist Supremacy", and nearly all the memories of his Parallel World self were filled with studying and relentlessly advancing. He almost became a scholar king, at the age of 16 entered Ke University, and in three and a half years at Ke University gained a research spot and was directly admitted to cooperating Boston University.

At Boston University, he graduated successfully in just two and a half years and became a Doctor. He was now holding dual doctorates in clinical medicine and disaster medicine at Boston University.

No matter where he went now, everyone called him "doctor".

And if all went well, he would complete his dual doctorates in three years and succeed in returning to Ke University to teach, which was also the content of the agreement signed when he got his research spot.

For the original plan of Xue Dili, he had also intended to use Austin's connections as an old Mystic Scholar to lure out his Parallel World self and give him a severe lesson for daring to study Mysticism.

But now, plans couldn't keep up with changes, and the Parallel World self fully unified, making him succeed in gaining the original identity in this world.

Xue Dili closed his eyes and slowly lifted his seals. It was now 2027, and the next AME election was in full swing. Currently, on television, candidate Vance and Harris were having a fiery debate, both preparing to win the votes for the election a year later.

Wait a minute, why does this scene feel so familiar?

Why, three years later, is it still Vance and Harris cursing each other on TV?

And the extreme weather happening in many of AME's states recently, with New York flooded, Illinois experiencing extreme cold, killing thousands, seemed to make last year's incident in Boston, where countless Freedom Militia Missiles carpet-bombed the area, insignificant.

Only a few hundred deaths in Salem Town, dozens of "professors" coming from around the world to participate in academic research died, officially declared as a tragedy from an accidental hit by Deputy Secretary Ma's Starlink rocket.

It seemed as if nothing had happened; the entire world was still at peace, with AME's mainstream media still reporting on the next election's progress.

It seemed as if the ultra-ancient plant Qijela and the overwhelming spores from a year ago in Salem Town never happened.

This made Xue Dili, who once thought the entire world had fallen, fall into deep thought.

At this moment, Xue Dili spotted his own research, his pupils contracting tightly.

"Upon investigation, when conducting basic clinical examinations on over 100 randomly distributed people in Boston, it was discovered that 99.8% of them had an unknown prokaryotic ancient fungus in their bodies.

This ancient fungus structure resembles organisms from over three billion years ago, possessing characteristics of plants, fungi, and animals, and integrates with the human body, rooting in human cells and assimilating with them, temporarily named 'Desolate Fungus'.

Currently, no harm from this ancient fungus to the human body has been found, but this unknown parasitic ancient fungus, when extracted and cultured separately, displays a tendency for wooden growth characteristics and appears to have a collective consciousness, seemingly automatically merging towards other Petri dishes.

We must be wary of the invasion of this ancient fungus, as it might cause unimaginable consequences."

This is an article previously published by himself in a parallel world, but it did not attract much attention. He was even warned by the FBI to stop researching this topic, or it wouldn't just be a warning, but surveillance and investigation.

Xue Dili frowned, suddenly having a bad feeling.

Previously, he played a game called "Plague Inc.," where his goal was to control a virus to wipe out humanity.

The most stable way to clear the game at the highest difficulty was to frantically increase transmission speed without selecting any symptoms or pathogenicity, infecting the majority of the world first. Then, once the entire world was infected, instantly select pathogenicity and lethality to harvest everyone.

Now, looking at the research in his hands, he suddenly felt that the strategy of the Desolate Fungus was eerily similar to his own approach in Plague Inc., as if they had a unified consciousness. Previously, the fungus's ability to grow a woody structure on animals and humans had also regressed, thoroughly lurking.

Xue Dili thought of the mystic scholar who ultimately killed Austin. Was he the one secretly controlling the Desolate Fungus?

However, it seemed that his parallel self did not heed the FBI's warning. He continued researching the Desolate Fungus in secret, conducting countless animal and reverse experiments on the original foundation. His freezer was filled with petri dishes of the Desolate Fungus.

He was researching an agent to suppress the Desolate Fungus!

Xue Dili immediately began searching his memory for clues. He understood that his parallel self was always preparing for the worst. As someone delving into mysticism, he knew some details about Salem Town. After the disaster ended, he extracted tissue samples of Qijela from there first thing.

That is the original strain in his laboratory, and he compared it to the strains from those coming for medical exams. Finding them identical, his parallel self immediately began exhaustive methods to develop a specific medicine.

From antibiotics to alcohol and countless other chemical or biological methods, he tried everything but could not find an effective way to kill the Desolate Fungus. Even when he heated it up to 1400℃, it still wasn't effective.

Meanwhile, he published articles warning about this ancient fungus on all major mainstream media, all ignored.

However, his efforts finally paid off with some results.

The T-166 Bacteriophage, an ancient virus accidentally extracted from himself. This ancient, nano-machine-like bacteriophage was the only microorganism among all his research that could survive a Desolate Fungus attack and launch a counterattack.

This microorganism is entirely non-aggressive towards humans but unleashes unimaginable power against the Desolate Fungus, even parasitizing the fungus in reverse.

Xue Dili immediately took out the petri dishes and began reverse-deducing the bacteriophage and the Desolate Fungus through Cursed Blood, and instantly felt a sense of discord.

This was because the RNA of the T-166 Bacteriophage actually bore traces of Cursed Blood modification.

Despite having mutated many times, even beyond recognition, the trace of Cursed Blood was too obvious, making Xue Dili close his eyes and think of a possibility.

"3200 years ago, I used Cursed Blood to trigger a plague against the gods on Mount Olympus in Ancient Greece..."

"But even with this bacteriophage host, it should be the descendants of the Greeks. Why is it appearing in myself..."

However, looking at the thousands of separated Desolate Fungus samples and a few bacteriophage samples behind him, as well as the dense manuscripts in his hands, Xue Dili suddenly laughed.

Even his parallel self was trying to save the world in his own way. Although he was just getting some leads, Xue Dili saw that he had tested thousands of schemes, like a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse, trying to research an inhibitor, yet never thought of giving up.

Xue Dili's mouth lifted slightly. Perhaps he was somewhat dissatisfied with his parallel self's venture into mysticism, but now it seems that this "Xue Dili" is essentially unchanged, only differing in approach.

"Using bacteriophage as an antidote to fight against the Desolate Fungus? But the effect of the bacteriophage is too slow..." Xue Dili said, realizing he could not guarantee when the disaster would erupt, and his parallel self, despite his utmost effort, might still face an unbearably grim future.

"Click..."

The laboratory door was opened with a key, causing Xue Dili to be taken aback. In his memory, this was his private laboratory; only he and the administrator had keys.

However, it wasn't the administrator who entered but a girl with tea-brown hair and glasses in a white coat. Upon entering, she familiarly took off her coat, revealing her graceful figure, and skillfully placed the outer garment in the cabinet.

Xue Dili: "?"

"Ah Xue, what's wrong?" The girl seemed to notice Xue Dili's change in mood and asked with a puzzled expression.

At this moment, Xue Dili suddenly had a headache, realizing something—this was his parallel self's wife, and his parallel self was a married man!

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