After almost seamlessly absorbing the Gravity Fruit, Little Scarlet's strength skyrocketed.
Before this, she had merely been equivalent to an extreme life-form, and might not even have ranked near the top.
But after absorbing it, she immediately advanced by leaps and bounds, faintly touching Shrek's level.
Although the former First Monster had absorbed more than a dozen fruits, artificial fruits were ultimately inferior to genuine ones, and Highgonger did not believe that monster could have developed many of them to the deep stage.
Highgonger even doubted whether artificial fruits could be developed to this stage.
After all, Shrek had still died in the end. If he had truly touched the edge of a "carbon-based god," then with the suppression technology of a Level Three civilization—no, back then, the civilized armies had at most been in the late Level Two stage—they might genuinely not have been able to suppress him.
Looking at Little Scarlet, who had absorbed the fruit and was still gazing at him with shining eyes,
Highgonger said helplessly, "Everyone else can receive an implant, but you can't."
Little Scarlet's cheeks visibly puffed up. In an instant, she imagined all sorts of dramatic plots involving "a stepmother's abuse," "an ex-wife's schemes," and "her real father's suffering."
During the planetary era, she could be considered a disconnected native. But in the interstellar era, she was a genuine interstellar shut-in. Unlike Huang Yuanli, that female lackey who loved running around everywhere, her hobby was staying on the tree and surfing the net, losing herself in all kinds of BL novels. Recently, she had been particularly fond of the theme "Daddy, Love Me One More Time."
As an experienced driver, Highgonger saw that the other party had entered female-driver mode and could only patiently explain:
"You were born from me. Strictly speaking,