Working overtime was always unpleasant, especially when the finished product was nowhere near what you actually needed.
"This is a treant? This is a fucking treant?"
When little Mu Mu finally began fulfilling her duties and quickly completed the First Wave of creations, Lu Mouren, who had gone to inspect them, was somewhat dumbfounded.
"They are animal-form tree creatures. Heh, humans are always so arrogant. Robots have to be made humanoid, wasting exorbitant resources for no reason. A spider form is far better suited to mechanical limbs, and for treants, extra limbs are actually completely meaningless."
In a sense, Mu Mu was the kind of child who did whatever she said she would.
After Lu PingAn finally forced the issue, she really had produced followers within a few days—the "treants" Lu PingAn had been looking forward to most.
But upon actually seeing them, they had nothing to do with treants no matter how he looked at them.
"A snake-like body is the most suitable?"
"A long body can become a new limb when it falls over. Snakes walk using their scales, while treants likewise have mutable Tree Bark. Their leaves become light-sensitive eyes."
Mu Mu yawned. Before she had even finished explaining, she nearly fell asleep herself.
At that moment, the two of them were surrounded by a "Tree Snake." The eyeballs densely scattered across its leaves were particularly unsettling.
It looked like a giant brown snake, except it had neither head nor tail. Countless little "tentacles" trembled around it. They were roots trying to absorb nutrients, and given their size, they could not be used as moving legs.
Lu PingAn was a little confused, but he understood, or at least could understand, everything Mu Mu said.
Just as apes had evolved into humans, evolution between similar life forms required