"Mother"

"..."

Meng Chao immediately felt that something was off.

Besides folds and protrusions resembling the inner walls of biological organs, they saw numerous structures that looked like pipes and even gears.

It was truly difficult to imagine that this was a creation of nature.

"Imagine a primordial organism like this—it possessed cells with both plant and animal traits. It could produce chlorophyll and draw energy from sunlight, while also growing root systems like earthworms and octopus tentacles, endlessly drilling and spreading through the depths of the earth, plunging into the rock layers richest in Crystal Veins and continuously drawing Spiritual Energy from the planet's interior."

Wu Haibo narrowed his eyes and spoke vividly. "Perhaps its main body was merely a tiny seed, a plant as tender as a weed. But once it was 'planted' somewhere rich in Spiritual Energy, it could take root and sprout, endlessly growing and expanding underground—like a towering tree turned one hundred and eighty degrees upside down, growing downward.

"From the depths of Relic Number Two, we extracted some active matter that had not yet been extinguished and tested it in culture medium. We discovered that its matter-energy conversion efficiency was extremely high, while its cell division rate was astonishingly fast.

"It was simply unimaginable how terrifying its growth rate had been before it suffered the devastating strike of a Space-Based Weapon.

"From an initial seed to a towering tree dozens of meters high—no, dozens of meters deep—and then to a colossal creature hundreds of meters in size, perhaps it needed only a few short years, or even a few months.

"Before long, it could devour the underground space within a radius of ten miles, while its roots could even plunge into Crystal Veins hundreds of kilometers away and draw upon the power of the entire