As an expert in biology, once she had heard the keyword "Old Ones," she could dig up some related information from the depths of her memory.
"So they're born from the mental plane of a civilization out of thin air... How bizarre.
"Then the Old Ones must also rely on sustenance from the mental plane to grow, right?"
Wang Guannan guessed.
"That's right.
"After they're born, juvenile Old Ones grow by constantly absorbing the various negative emotions in their civilization's mental plane.
"Once they've absorbed enough negative emotions to develop into adulthood,
"the Old One will leave behind its existence solely within the mental plane and descend into the material plane in its true form, becoming a genuine living organism!
"During this process, it will spread massive-scale mental pollution across the mental plane, covering the entire civilization that gave birth to it.
"This mental pollution will cause the vast majority of the civilization's members to suffer mental collapse and die on the spot!
"The few members who survive the mental pollution will become the Old One's 'followers,' controlled and enslaved by it for the rest of their lives.
"The large-scale aberrations we're seeing before us should be the spillover into the material plane of the mental pollution that the Old One produced when it reached adulthood!
"Ordinary organisms will also suffer a degree of mental pollution after coming into contact with these large-scale aberrations.
"The intensity of this mental pollution is directly proportional to the Old One's strength and inversely proportional to the time since the spillover began."
Gao Luanqin explained at length, making everyone's skin crawl.
"What a bizarre race...
"They're born in the mental plane, where even ordinary advanced civilizations can't detect them, let alone kill them while they're still embryos.
"Once they reach adulthood, they launch a