"Who would have thought it would produce an effect similar to an 'insect nest'? It really was unexpected, yet entirely within reason."
The moment Gao Gong came out of seclusion, Huang Yuanli dragged him straight beneath the tree roots to witness the fusion of the two "Carbon Thrones."
The fusion was already more than halfway complete.
The Carbon Throne's tentacles pierced into the soft flesh of the Rotten Throne, analyzing, controlling, and assimilating it. Yet the rotten slurry flowed backward along the tentacles, corroding them in return and transforming the precise nanostructures into disordered organic matter. Mycelia climbed over the crystalline armor, secreting acid that dissolved honeycomb-like holes, only for new colonies of fungi to sprout within them. At the boundary between the two, matter constantly reorganized—sometimes forming hybrids that were half-spore and half-flesh, sometimes collapsing into a boiling soup of primordial protoplasm.
The same effect had appeared on Little Fresh Red—no, on the "Queen."
At that moment, half of the Queen's skin had turned into "primordial protoplasmic soup," while the other half was covered in countless branches, roots, stems, spores, and fungal colonies.
She looked exceptionally terrifying and grotesque.
"What the hell is going on? I don't even know why she suddenly came back to life, or why she took the initiative to fuse the two Carbon Thrones. Doesn't she know that a failed Carbon Throne will suffer a powerful backlash? Can the girl withstand it?" Huang Yuanli asked anxiously.
Gao Gong pondered for a while, then brought up the attributes of the "Queen's Coffin" and glanced over them.
"It's probably because of the 'Hive Mind.' After the Queen bloodline finishes gestating, it automatically activates the 'Hive Mind.' The 'Hive Mind' is similar to an 'Insect Nest Consciousness,' but its territorial attributes are stronger. It needs an 'insect nest'