Before long, one shadowy humanoid Anomaly after another crawled up from the edge of the pit. The mechanical soldiers did not even have time to raise their guns before being pounced on and torn apart into piles of parts.
"Humanoid Anomalies?" Chen Jing's heart tightened. He did not even have time to ask questions, instead snatching the laptop from the young woman beside him and switching the feed to the surveillance camera of one of the dismantled mechanical soldiers.
The mechanical soldier Chen Jing switched to had already had its head torn off and tossed onto the ground, so the image showed an upward angle—countless humanoid Anomalies passed through the frame. They had human limbs and torsos, pale skin, and featureless bald heads. At first glance, they looked like mannequin models in a shopping mall.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield.
Candle Dragon lowered his tactical binoculars, glanced at Sun Hang, and said, "It seems these humanoid Anomalies are puppets constructed from hyphae. If I remember correctly, you have a similar ability, don't you?"
"Mm." Sun Hang nodded. "Next time, I need to apply for a patent on my ability so no one can steal it."
Sun Hang had already guessed how these hyphal puppets had appeared—although the Sun Hang replicated by "Desire" existed only within Sun Hang's cognition and could not use Sun Hang's abilities in the real world... "Desire's" real-world vessel was a fungus-type Anomaly. In theory, it could imitate any of Sun Hang's operations carried out through Tai Sui Hyphae.
Although "Desire" had vanished, part of its information had been permanently preserved within the Meme fragments of the giant cordyceps. Therefore, Sun Hang was not at all surprised that the giant cordyceps could create a batch of hyphal puppets like this.
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