"Hey, Gerard, are you there?" Ash's voice came from the doorway. "They said the Flesh-Weaving Machine seems to be on the verge of advancing again after weaving for a full day and night. They want you to take a look."
"Alright, I'll go take a look now."
Wu Heng answered, opened the door, and saw Ash's weathered, heavily bearded face.
His brows were tightly furrowed, as though weighed down by deep worries.
When he saw Wu Heng, he forced a smile.
"Stop smiling. Your smile looks worse than crying. Let's go," Wu Heng said softly with a smile.
"Oh, right. Let's hurry. They're still waiting."
Ash hurriedly turned around and led Wu Heng away.
They passed through corridors styled like a modern underground military facility, crossing seven checkpoints fitted with one-meter-thick nuclear-proof doors before reaching the core area where the Flesh-Weaving Machine was stored.
The space here was enormous, at least the size of three football fields.
If the Flesh-Weaving Machine advanced to its final stage in the future, the area could be expanded again. For now, this was merely its initial storage space.
A group of Marrow Eater wizards in researcher uniforms, along with several senior scientific researchers who had achieved results in the field of biological sciences, all surrounded the Flesh-Weaving Machine, constantly recording data through various instruments.
"Strange. This makes no sense. It clearly contains none of the characteristics of plants, yet it may possess certain special photosynthetic pigments and enzymes, along with unique carbon fixation pathways and energy conversion mechanisms.
"Logically, this growth pattern and behavioral trait should require massive amounts of biological energy to sustain it. Yet judging from the sacrificed flesh and blood, much of the energy seems to appear out of nowhere.
"This kind of growth completely violates biology.
"Its cell nuclei also