Back at the Qingjiang Financial Center Building, Feng Ling felt an inexplicable sense of nostalgia well up inside her.
The moment she stepped into this area, her whole body relaxed, and she felt at ease and comfortable.
It was a little like finding a Safe Zone in a Maze.
Was this what they called the feeling of home?
She suspected the Hive had affected her, because she had always wanted nothing but an unfettered life and had never longed for the concept of "home."
Now she had changed. She had begun to value her own territory and wanted to build a sturdy, secure nest.
"Pfft, genetics really are terrifying~"
Musing to herself, Feng Ling walked through the corrugated iron gate.
After only a few days away, the landscaped strip had become overgrown with weeds, lush and verdant beneath the streetlights. The floor-to-ceiling glass doors of the sales office were no longer spotless, and a thin layer of dust covered the tiles inside.
Yet no matter how she looked at it, she did not find it unpleasant. The longer she looked, the more affectionate she felt toward it.
Her pets seemed to feel the same way. The Cat Owl flapped its wings and flew toward the upper floors of the building, while the Little Third Children followed after it in a dark swarm.
The Cat Spider was a little more troublesome. Feng Ling and Xu Yiming carried the enormous silk cocoon into the building's underground Parking Lot together.
The cocoon was white and thick, and something inside it twitched from time to time, making Xu Yiming deeply uneasy. As they carried it, he asked Feng Ling, "It's not going to hatch into a whole litter of baby Cat Spiders, is it?"
"Impossible—" Feng Ling's eyes widened. "It's still little!"
Although she