Passage

Under Rowan's authorization and command, the Biological Armor used the cover of the fusion process to begin extending a portion of its tentacles toward the host's neck. Since he could find no clues within the genetic information, he would go there directly to see exactly what was going on.

Yet, as the tentacles of the Biological Armor spread, Rowan gradually furrowed his brows. It was not that the scene before him exceeded his understanding or left him unable to act.

Rather, the situation unfolding before him led to some unpleasant speculations.

As the tentacles of the Biological Armor approached the host's neck, they encountered an increasing number of nanobots. Rowan had not paid much attention at first; after all, these spreading tentacles were the front line of the fusion.

If Saide and his team wanted to use the opportunity of the host and the Biological Armor merging to find a weakness or loophole in the armor's defense mechanism, then this was the optimal observation point. Therefore, it stood to reason that they would dispatch more nanobots to this location.

However, as the Biological Armor absorbed more energy, the sensory organs and systems mutating on its tentacles became increasingly sophisticated, and the information Rowan received grew more detailed.

In the end, extremely tiny conduits mutated along the spreading tentacles, filled with shimmering, uniquely shaped chips, and at the ends of these conduits were actual visual cells.

While this periscope-like visual observer had decent stealth because the nanobots dared not get too close, its limitations were also immense.

For instance, constrained by volume and energy allocation, its functions were incomplete; it could only perceive simple colors and could not truly see anything clearly.

Nevertheless, Rowan had already selected the observation systems within several tentacles, allocated energy to them, and authorized them to