Half an hour later, as the wave of light reversing Insectification spread outward, the antlike features on Nameless rapidly faded.
Nameless looked down at his hands. Once he was sure the ant shell was gone, he raised his head—and everything around him began to collapse.
A piece of metal fell from the ceiling, then slowly dissolved into energy and vanished. Writhing flesh appeared where the ceiling had been.
Xia Shu let out a pained groan and dropped to her knees. Nameless immediately backed away when he saw her body begin to shed its skin as well.
Though "shedding its skin" was not quite the right way to describe it.
It was more like someone inside a costume taking it off and revealing their true face.
Was the antidote too strong? Nameless wondered.
Xia Shu had worried that the antidote would not be potent enough to counter the effects of the Second Evolution. With all the equipment available at the Somewhere Underground Base, she had strengthened it further.
This time, she had not even used a lab mouse. She had put the antidote straight into the Insectification wave device to reverse the creatures' Insectification.
But judging by the results, the antidote was too strong. It had undone not only their Insectification, but also whatever that outer layer around every creature was.
"Run!"
Nameless glanced around. The entire base was gradually turning to flesh, so he turned and ran.
He sprinted for the exit as the base behind him rapidly became flesh. Strange organs sprouted from it one after another, as though something were waking up.
[Antidote successfully developed. Mission complete!]
A line of text suddenly appeared before Nameless's eyes. Space rippled around him, and he found himself in a higher-dimensional space. Ma Lie and Zhu Chixia appeared alongside him.