"Who are you?"
My name is SDERS.
"Oh."
I am an Intelligent Life evolved from artificial electronic cells.
"Oh."
Your body will be my soil. We will merge, coexist, and evolve.
"Mm."
Little Bottle Cap habitually curled up.
This kind of hallucination often appeared when she ate poisonous mushrooms.
It was nothing.
But she did not know that a revolution was taking place inside her body.
At an astonishing speed, SDERS transformed her body. In just thirty seconds, it had already taken over her immune and nervous systems.
The capillaries on Little Bottle Cap's belly extended at one end and ruptured at the other, connecting the cysts on her abdomen to her pores.
Little Bottle Cap was astonished to find layer after layer of yellow sweat beads appearing on her belly.
Her stomach, swollen like a basketball, shrank at a visible rate.
At the same time, the germs in her body were slowly devoured.
Her skin acne healed.
Her bones were corrected.
The long DNA chains that determined the essence of her life had their native four-base system discarded and recompiled, replaced with a six-base system similar to SDERS's.
First step: evolution of the host's carbon-based body.
Little Bottle Cap only felt incredibly hungry.
It was as though something had drained all her strength away.
I need energy.
Little Bottle Cap frantically rummaged through the area but found nothing. Then her gaze fell on the plate of food Gu Fan had left behind.
That older sister had already left.
So that food was trash she had discarded.
Little Bottle Cap rushed out on all fours, pounced before the food, and stuffed bread into her mouth as hard as she could.
"Hehe."
Gu Fan hid behind a pile of ruins, covering her mouth as she snickered. Her eyes curved like crescents