Not only did the New Elephant Lord freeze, but the few mechanical leaders who had descended also changed expressions after hearing that.
"You let him devour that 'Bug Queen'?"
"Oh, right. I forgot you planned to divide up this 'Queen's body.'" Gao Gong put on an expression of sudden realization.
"But you can divide up this one instead—the combined version."
"Wouldn't that cause problems?" the Metal Sovereign asked solemnly.
"In theory, there is indeed a possibility that Old Pu could devour the Shadow Bug Queen and advance further."
"But in reality, that possibility is very low. We won't allow him to do that."
"Neither will the others," Gao Gong said leisurely.
It wasn't only the Shadow Queen's body that had disappeared from the mechanical planet. The two national treasure experts had vanished as well, along with another carbon-based civilization leader, Yuan.
Soon, many strange changes began to occur around Old Pu's true body.
First, his carapace peeled away piece by piece amid blinding bioelectric flashes, exposing the glowing, pulsing lymphatic network inside.
These "biological networks" quickly transformed into a "miniature cyber tide," then evolved into a mind network composed of the consciousnesses of countless Mirta people.
At the same time, his sickle limbs disintegrated and evolved into streaks of black shadow. Within those shadows were densely packed bug silhouettes, which seemed to be devouring one another.
More bizarrely, his face disappeared. Yet various faces grew across his insect armor, most of them resembling the faces of the Mirta royal family from that era.
Those faces—some ferocious, some anguished, some despairing—perhaps originated from a decision made by this last emperor back then.
After all, that decision had directly betrayed the royal family of that era.
Then those faces constantly transformed, eventually all becoming the face of Old Pu.
But the emotions