As the Progenitor and the Parasitic Tick fed greedily, Shusha began receiving an endless stream of gene sequences.
The more she received, the more astonished Shusha became. This gigantic creature's gene sequences were extraordinarily rich and complex, like the combined genes of every organism on an entire planet, yet they formed only a single complete gene sequence.
Even the Insect Race's vast gene bank, which had absorbed life from hundreds of planets, contained nothing like these contradictory genes.
Hundreds of Matriarchs analyzed them without a moment's pause, and some simply began experimental hatching.
Just then, Shusha suddenly said, "That organism's wounds have begun healing rapidly. The parasitic genes of the Progenitor and the Parasitic Tick have already integrated into it, but according to the Matriarchs' analysis, the Progenitor's genes have been devoured instead."
"Devoured?" After pondering for a moment, Zhang Fan suddenly realized that if this creature had devoured the Progenitor's genes, it had effectively devoured the Insect Race's Overlord consciousness.
At that thought, Zhang Fan immediately attempted a consciousness link. To his delight, things were exactly as he had imagined: he could actually link with this planet-sized creature.
Although the link was established, communication remained impossible. Zhang Fan's consciousness could enter the gigantic creature's consciousness sea, but there was nothing there.
There were no thoughts or awareness, only a mass of chaos. Zhang Fan tried to make sense of it and discovered something very interesting.
This creature really was an egg, the egg of some cosmic-scale life-form. Without realizing it, the egg had devoured the Overlord consciousness, which meant that once it hatched, it would naturally possess the Insect Race's Overlord consciousness.
The question now was, when would it hatch?
Shusha had no answer to Zhang Fan's question either. The creature's genes could not be fully deciphered, and much