I am an oxygen atom that has been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years. In an ordinary breath, I was drawn into a microscopic universe called the "human body".
There are no stars and seas here, but there are more magnificent waterways than galaxies - blood vessels are high-speed interstellar channels, red blood cells are transport warships, the heart is the roaring main engine of the universe, and white blood cells are the interstellar legions guarding the territory.
I follow the airflow through the nasal cavity defense line, break into the alveolar labyrinth, board the life train, rush through the high-pressure arteries, and shuttle between capillaries. I witnessed phages hunting bacteria, witnessed the silent smoke of the immune battlefield, felt the energy bursting from mitochondria, and traveled through planetary cities called "cells".
From the air to the lungs, from the blood to the whole body, I have experienced every miracle of the life cycle as an atom.
When I arrived at the ultimate forbidden area of the microscopic universe, a fleet of billions of sperm launched a creation charge towards the egg planet, and the moment the first calcium ion shock wave exploded, I finally understood:
I am not a passer-by, not a bystander, but the first ray of consciousness at the birth of a new universe.
An atom, an expedition, a creation.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
