Ego had intended to seed the entire universe, so there was no way he had never visited planets where symbiotes existed. Fallen Planet, for example.
Therefore, symbiotes would not be absent from Ego's mating chart. Something had probably gone wrong in that regard, and a special symbiote had hidden among these corpses by feigning death.
This symbiote was very likely one of Ego's descendants. Thanks to its formidable vitality, it had survived in a manner akin to a severed limb seeking to stay alive. Or perhaps it had originally parasitized one of Ego's descendants; after Ego killed his own son, the symbiote had escaped disaster and hidden here.
Either way, it had been detected by the new Pokemon, which was likewise a fusion of symbiote and liquid metal, and directly dug out.
The moment Steve grabbed it, the aura of a living being stimulated the symbiote that had slept for so long, causing it to enter a parasitic state. This symbiote had been starving for far too long, and it practically entered its most frenzied state from the very start.
Steve desperately tried to tear the symbiote off his body, but this thing could not possibly be ripped away with bare hands. The more he struggled, the faster his body was covered. Before long, the symbiote had completely enveloped Steve, turning him into a pure-white humanoid figure.
Steve seemed to lose consciousness at the same time, collapsing onto the ground.
This sudden development was immediately relayed to Dr. Banner through the Mechanical Beetle nearby. Dr. Banner, who had just been busy researching how to kill Ego's true body, immediately put down the highly toxic reagent in his hand and rushed to Steve's side at top speed.
They had originally split into two groups. Steve had gone to gather evidence, while