What stood before him looked less like a normal creature than a living heart.
The giant insect was both the Insect Race's temporary brain and the enormous heart it depended on to survive. Every time its brain pulsed, a tide of energy swept through the entire nest.
Countless fine threads of bioelectricity were directing the entire Insect Race with hundreds of millions of commands each second.
"Good."
"Things haven't gotten that bad yet."
Shen Yi studied the scene before him.
The Insect Race's condition was bizarre, but still just within the bounds of what he could accept. The worst-case scenario had not come to pass.
Shen Yi and Lilith had feared the entire Insect Race might be connected to the aura of the Black Fog. Now, it seemed that wasn't the case.
"No, wait..."
Shen Yi frowned slightly. Deep within the giant insect's body, he sensed a familiar fluctuation.
"A Rule Fragment?"
Frowning, Shen Yi fixed his attention on one part of the giant insect.
There, wrapped in flesh, was a fruit containing a Rule Fragment. Bioelectricity and a biological force field forcibly sealed it off.
It seemed the insects had detected something unusual about the aura within the fruit.
Around the Ability Fruit, countless fine bioelectric currents, like hundreds of millions of tentacles, concealed the force field enclosing it.
Every current was attempting to break down and analyze the Ability Fruit. But the fruit was so well preserved within the force field that it had not changed in any way.
They don't know what it does, so they're trying to analyze and dismantle the power inside it...
Seeing the Insect Race's attempts to study that unknown power, Shen Yi couldn't help smiling.
It reminded him of someone far away on Blue Star who had once been just as stubborn