"What do you mean?" Xiang Xiaotong turned to look at him.
"Look here. It connects from front to back!" Song He raised his hand and pointed toward the corner of the screen.
"It really does!" Xiang Xiaotong exclaimed in surprise. "So the entire brain tissue didn't split into a front and back half? All the new brain tissue will gradually connect?"
Song He said nothing. He remained silent for a full twenty minutes, watching helplessly as the real-time data changed bit by bit. The Sea Monster's new brain tissue grew rapidly, advancing at a speed similar to that of slime mold finding its way through a maze in a Petri Dish. Soon, the isolated regions scattered throughout the brain gradually connected into a whole.
"It's surrounded," Song He said.
"So fast!" Xiang Xiaotong marveled.
The newly formed Sea Monster brain tissue gradually divided up and surrounded the original old brain tissue. The encirclement was still extremely fragile, but the new brain tissue was slowly devouring the surrounding nutrients and growing stronger.
Song He took out his phone again and called Qi Feng.
"Dean, something's not right. The Sea Monster's brain didn't split evenly into two. It all connected back together!" Qi Feng said the moment the call connected.
"There are two possibilities, one good and one bad," Song He said.
"The good possibility is that the Sea Monster's understanding of memory is flawed. It didn't actually split into two brothers, with one eating the other. The real situation is that the new brain tissue is gradually eating the old brain tissue," Song He said. "The key is to focus on the data from this process. It thinks the two brothers are killing each other, which means the new brain tissue may be one consciousness, while the old brain tissue is