[2] TRANSMIGRATION.
Blup~ Blup~
Kayra choked on the water as she suddenly opened her eyes widely. But all she could see was blurry green and felt liquid all around her body.
'Where am I?! What is this?!' As this thought crossed her mind, Kayra tried to breathe subconsciously but more water entered her lungs and bubbles came out.
'Eh? Why ain't I drowning?' Kayra thought as she stopped struggling and glanced around. At that time, abruptly, a cute baby voice rang out in her mind.
[It's a special kind of nutrient solution. So you won't drown or die even if you gulp down all the fluid...]
"!!!" Kayra was so scared that she opened her mouth to scream and thrashed her limbs around. In the end, she got more fluid entering her lips and more bubbles coming out from her nose.
[ ... ]
Kayra stopped struggling and then became motionless. She called out in her mind with a bit of fear, 'Who? Who are you?!'
[Finally, you are acting like a proper human. I thought you'll try to drown in the solution until you die.]
"..." Kayra was shocked and speechless by the disdainful voice in her head.
[Cough! If you want to see me, close your eyes and concentrate all your senses to feel your mind...]
'Eh? First time hearing it… How do I feel my mind?! Can you explain in detail…?' Kayra thought in puzzlement. She floated in the liquid and waited for a reply.
[ ... ]
'Hey! Are you there? Don't scare me!' Kayra called out in her mind but didn't get any response.
In the end, she closed her eyes and tried to concentrate all her senses to feel her mind, in other words… trying to feel the glaring darkness while her eyes were closed tightly.
When only 10 seconds passed which was like a long time for her, finally Kayra saw something.
In the void of her mind space, slowly a particular place began to light up. Kayra was trying to concentrate all her senses to see that. Soon, a little pearl-like object came into her vision.
The oval-shaped object was so smooth and shiny that anyone would have the urge to make a locket out of it.
'How much can I get if I sell it?!' She thought as she stared at it. If she could, she would have rushed to a jewelry store to sell it to earn some cash! But how round that was it was quite similar to the pearls that were made on farms.
[I can see and hear everything you think, so… How dare you think to sell me?! Do you know the worth of my divine body?!... I'm priceless!!!] The little thing shook as it jumped nonstop on her mind, showing its dissatisfaction.
'Oops~ Sorry!' Kayra thought cheekily and became serious, 'So, can you tell me what this place is?'
[Cough!]
The object quieted down and then its pointy part faced Kayra's sense as it began to narrate.
[It's the Doctorio Planet's basement, where researchers and scientists do important experiments.]
'Why am I here?... Could it be, I have been kidnapped to be experimented on?!' Kayra's eyes widened in shock. Her red eyes nearly popped out from her eye sockets thinking about this scary idea, 'But I am only a normal girl…'
[Your soul has been transmigrated into one of the experimental things here...]
'Transmigrated?... Don't tell me...' An ominous feeling gripped her heart.
[Yeap. You guessed it right. You've used up the health bar of your human life!]
Kayra became silent. She tried to recall the last moment of her life but couldn't. The most fearsome thing was that most of her memory was blurry. Even before she could voice out her thoughts, the mysterious voice spoke again.
[Those have been blocked so that you can adapt to this new life easily.]
'How can you do that?!' Kayra cried out in despair in her mind space. She felt a huge crisis when she couldn't remember someone who was supposed to be the most important person in her life.
[It is necessary for proper growth of Transmigrators. Also, let me introduce myself. I am Phiphi, a divine system.]
'What Pipi or Phiphi?! I don't care! Give me back my memories!' Again, Kayra began to struggle. Silently, the system saw her throwing her limbs around in the fluid.
Creak~
At that moment, Kayra stopped her actions. She curiously turned to the source of the sound, only to get warned by the system.
[Hurry! Act like a dead person!] The loud voice of a cute baby rang out in her mind again.
Kayra reflexively closed her eyes and moved her tongue out. Her head tilted to one side while the pink tongue dangled outside, tasting the sweet solution in the process.
'Oh! It's so sweet! sweeter than honey~' She thought. After the initial shock left, finally she noticed the addicting sweetness and gulped down again.
[Ew~ Disgusting~ I take back my words. Become a woodblock if you want to stay alive!]
'Hm-mm.' Kayra replied and then retracted her tongue and straightened herself as she stopped controlling her body.
Phiphi's pointy part nodded in satisfaction.
When the matter of one's survival comes, even an ant becomes super-intelligent, not to say the clone of a powerful being!
…
Two people in white robes entered the basement and the automatic sensors turned on the lights.
They crossed the thousands of rows of 20ft tall cylindrical-shaped glass tubes.
Kayra's body shuddered in shame when the two men passed by her tube. At that moment, she felt like curling like an infant to be spared to be seen by them.
But contrary to her thoughts, the two men didn't even turn to her. They went to the last row of the tubes.
"Bro, everything looks fine." Dof commented.
"Hmm. Let's not waste more time. The Auction Planet will close its entrance if we are late! I don't want to miss this once-in-a-century opportunity!" Nes looked at his watch and murmured.
"Let's go then!"
Before leaving, they stopped right in front of Kayra's nutrient solution tube. Both of them smirked as they seized her up and down.
"..." Kayra.
"After her heart is fully developed, we will sell it at the next auction. At that time, we will surely be rich and don't have to worry about future research funds." Nes, the wolfman with eyeglasses said.
"... Before that, can we…" The other wolfman asked meaningfully.
"No, Dof. But you can make another replica and have that as your slave, later." The man said disdainfully.
His mind was filled with what to research in the future, unlike the other person who had lewd thoughts for literally every female creature present in the basement.
"That works too!" Dof smirked. He licked his lips and threw a lewd smirk at Kayra's new body. Kayra who was peeking through the creak of her eyes shivered ever so gently and that went unnoticed by the men.
[ ... ] The system couldn't comprehend why people who shifted in human forms would turn hornier than their real form in the blink of an eye.
"..." Kayra subconsciously clenched her legs which went unnoticed by the two men.