The second-to-last day before the celebration.
The absorption had gone unexpectedly smoothly, finishing in a single night.
Having entered the mother nest, Xiao Yu had already merged with that sea of slime mold, becoming the new queen who ruled this mother nest.
The sea of slime mold rolled and churned as though boiling, every cell cheering for its new master.
As control of the mother nest changed hands, its murderous crimson faded somewhat, losing some of its blood-soaked ferocity and gaining a more endearing rosy pink.
It had struggled against the vault for two hundred years, evolving extreme capabilities for survival in outer space within a near-vacuum environment.
Given enough time and space, it might even be able to kill the thing in the center of Clear Spring City and develop, with the broadest self-limitation, into the largest mother nest on the Central Continent.
But perhaps it knew in its heart that those humans would never let it leave. Even if it devoured that little one, all that awaited it would be another round of attacks.
If it understood that little one as a signal of "reconciliation," then perhaps it was not impossible to accept.
This war had already lasted two centuries. Those short-lived creatures did not live long, but their descendants came without end... These creatures simply could not be exterminated.
Then they would coexist.
It was tired anyway...
"Yiwu!"
"Yiwu!"
At the entrance to the computer room on B6 of Vault 404, a noisy chorus of "yiwu yiwu" filled the air.
Looking at the group of pale-red "humanoid slimes" crowding the doorway, Luo Yu stood dumbfounded, his head buzzing.
One, two, three... Good grief, ten?!
He counted them all and went completely blank.
Which one was Xiao Yu?!
"Strictly speaking, they are all Xiao Yu's fruiting bodies."