After charging into the solar system with great fanfare and coming up empty-handed, Fang Zheng had considered going back to find Sidonia. The universe was so vast—how long would it take him to find the Honkai Beast swarm on his own?
The news Hoshijiro Shizuka brought was good news for Fang Zheng. After all, it was a Mass Collective Ship... and its volume alone was twice that of a star. The implications of that needed no explanation. That meant the thing was at least some kind of world boss.
As long as he could find it, defeat it, locate its core, and extract information from it, he should be able to find the core region of the Imaginary Tree.
After determining their next objective, Fang Zheng ordered the Azure Fleet to regroup and head for the Rem System. At the same time, he brought Hoshijiro Shizuka and the others to visit the contained fusion entity. Well, according to Hoshijiro Shizuka, although the fusion entity was the product of evil, she herself was innocent and childlike. There was nothing particularly alarming about her.
Soon, everyone met the enormous monster again in the battleship hangar.
It had to be said that although she looked somewhat strange, the fusion entity did resemble a human. Her head was covered in a carapace, with only a compound eye resembling that of a mantis exposed on the left side. Her entire body was pinkish-white, and she had the same limbs as a human. Layers of shell spread out beneath her, making her look as if she were wearing a skirt. Behind her, a huge tail swayed back and forth. Judging by that alone, the fusion entity had a fairly decent appearance.
"Ah, Big Sister!"
The moment she saw Hoshijiro Shizuka, the fusion entity happily called out