In a room that look like a lab, a man was strapped to a lab bed. Two man in white coat was standing beside the man. The two men in white coat were scientists.
"Are you ready?" One them asked to the man on the bed.
"Yes." The man nodded.
"The procedure will start in 10 seconds. 1..2...3..4.." one of the scientists started counting down.
When the counting down reached 10 sec, the two scientists injected a serum on both hands of the man.
Nothing happened to the man after the injection.
Seeing that, the two scientists looked at each other smiled.
But before they could speak a word of joy, the man on the lab bed started twitching his whole body. Then he led out screams.
The screams lasted for more the 10 minutes before the man ultimately lost his consciousness.
Before the man lost his consciousness completely, he heard the two scientists saying something about failure of serum or like that. Then he slowly lost his consciousness.
As he was dying, his life flashed before his eyes or mind, whatever.
He was an orphan who, later due to some luck, joined the army. Then he raised in ranks due to his exceptional skills.
By the time he was 23 years old, he was already a part of special unit task force.
But luck did not side with him for long. When he was on a mission to retrieve a medicine recipe, he got shot in his spine which made him unable to walk.
Unable to accept his fate, he agreed to be a test subject for the super soldier serum. He hoped maybe it will let him walk again and he will return to his old profession. Alas, who knew he could not stand the power of serum and die.
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In a deep part of the outskirt of a forest, a little sparrow was seen twitching his whole body. It was dying. The sparrow was laying on the ground just below a tree. The tree was about 6 meters tall, which is not that tall compared to the other nearby trees.
As the little bird was dying a little light ball fall from the sky and fused with the sparrow.
After some minutes later, the sparrow slowly open its eyes.
It led out small cheers like it was talking to himself.
The sparrow fully opened its eyes and looked around.
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After what felt like an eternity. The man slowly recovered his consciousness.
'What happened? Did I not died? Was the serum successful? But I heard them speaking clearly that it was a failure.' The man thought to himself.
Then he looked around to see what was going on. But when looked around, everything was too big in his eyes. And he was not in the lab room anymore. He was outside in a what look like forest.
When he tried to touched his head with his hand, he felt something was right with his hands. And not just the hands, everything felt different.
He turned his head down to see.
What appeared in his eyes was not a human body and human feet. It was a bird feet. More specifically a weak little sparrow feet.
He was shocked. He was about to let out a scream when his head was suddenly hit with the memories of the little bird.
It hurt his head so bad that he was about to lose his consciousness for a second time. But he held on.
About 3 minutes later, it stopped.
The memories of the sparrow was fused with the man's memories.
'So I died and reborn in this sparrow body. And this useless sparrow was abandoned by its mother because of its weak body. What a sad life.' the man analyzed the situation.
Yes the sparrow was the man who died on the lab bed.
From the little memories of the little sparrow, the man knew there was also some kind of super power in this world. But he did not know what it was exactly.
After it's mother abandoned him. The sparrow only lived for about 20 days before it fall to the ground while trying to fly from one tree to another. It was too weak to make it.
After reading the memories of the sparrow, the man thought to himself. 'I did not expect that I, Ji Yen, would face this kind thing in my life.'
After mocking himself, Ji Yen started thinking how to survive here. His mindset of being a soldier helped him quickly adapt to its current situation.
Hunger quickly hit him.
So he sat up from the ground and tried to fly up. But he felt a pain on his right wing. Then he realized the sparrow fell to ground while flying. So he started walking instead to find foods. While walking he also felt some mild pains all around his body.
'I need for find food quickly otherwise I will be leaving this world too.' He started walking slowly and looked left and right to find anything edible.
Then he saw, about 3 meters away from him, a group of ants.
Ji Yen quickly ran towards it. But when he approached the ants, he was shocked to see that the ants were about half a centimeter big.
He stand there looking at the ants blankly for some time.
By the time he arrived near the ants, the ants also saw him. So they also quickly ran towards their base.
Seeing the ants running, Ji Yen snapped out of his thoughts and started pecking his small beak to the ants.
He open his beak and started swallowing the ants.
He only managed to catch about 7 or so, before the ants completely entered their base.
Even so Ji Yen felt full.
After contemplating for a while, he started thinking about his shelter for the night.
If he stay on the ground in night, he might be swallowed whole by some unknown things. But he could not fly since his wings hurt.
So he was left with the first bad option.