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For now, though, I was more inclined to believe the third possibility.

"Brother September, think carefully. On our way here, didn't we encounter many strange plants and animals?

"For example, animals that looked very much like beasts, but when their fur was torn open, they were full of plant roots, stems, and sap;

"Plants that looked very much like plants, but possessed hunting and mimicry abilities;

"...And those mushrooms and fungi that looked like immortal jellyfish...

"We can make a bold guess.

"Could it be that some special fungus happened to devour your brother's corpse, then copied his thoughts and living appearance...

"Anything is possible here."

The more Jiang You spoke, the stranger Brother September's expression became.

She glanced at the monster standing quietly to one side and suddenly realized that during the entire time she had had her eyes open, the monster had not spoken again.

She had just begun wondering why it had fallen silent.

Then Jiang You somehow produced another object resembling a flexible tube and tossed it to her.

Immediately afterward came a whitened lung, a heart, a stomach, and even a kidney...

"Look, this is the windpipe I pulled out. It looks eighty percent similar to a human one, but it doesn't have complete organ functions, which makes it difficult for these monsters to produce sounds..."

"I just cut open a monster's abdomen and discovered that they had merely imitated the human form, possessing only the shape.

"They don't have a human digestive system.

"No matter how similar their appearance is, they're still a type of plant.

"A plant capable of learning and imitating human emotions.

"In a sense, perhaps the lives in the Abyss can't be defined so simply as plants or animals.

"The boundary between animals and plants is extremely blurred here... Perhaps