Reproduction

Gu Chen stared at the infant before him.

"It is growing rapidly, and there is an extremely aggressive 'host' inside its brain. It also seems to be receiving information transmitted by the 'mother.' If I'm not mistaken, all these creatures appearing in the town were born from a powerful mother. This is somewhat similar to a creature described in a fragment of memory I obtained from the Blood Realm..." Gu Chen said softly.

During the five minutes the two observed it, the baby crawling on the ground changed from crawling to standing, gradually growing larger until it became a boy around ten years old. It was still continuing to grow.

"We'll blend in with them, then control the hosts inside these creatures as camouflage and approach the true mother hidden within the city." Zhu Huan made the decision.

"I'll lure this one over."

Because Atlantis Island had been exposed to the world for half a year, quite a few insects from the mainland had begun living here in this environment so suitable for life. Gu Chen noticed a black beetle in the grass beneath his feet.

At the edge of town, the boy, now twelve years old, watched a beetle slowly crawl out of the grass and onto the road. Clamped in the beetle's mandibles was a piece of tender, juicy flesh containing a large amount of blood energy, immediately drawing the boy's attention.

The boy looked at the beetle crawling along the road fifty meters away and walked toward it with somewhat uncoordinated movements.

When he reached the beetle, his head split open down the middle. A strip of flesh rapidly grew out, attached itself to the beetle and the tender flesh, then pulled them into his brain to be swallowed and absorbed.

However, during the absorption process,