The fungi that had covered Li Luo's body suddenly began to contract. Her pale blood vessels quickly regained their color, and the vacant-eyed Li Luo suddenly blinked, her pupils trembling slightly.
She seemed to be recovering from her immobilized state, her consciousness gradually returning to her body.
Before long, the fungal threads completely withdrew from her skin, emerging from her pores and slowly crawling along the surface of her body to Li Luo's palm.
Li Luo suddenly drew in a deep breath, light returning to her eyes. She immediately looked at her hand, where the fungi that had withdrawn from her body had gathered into a clump pressed tightly against her palm.
After glancing at the fungi in her hand, Li Luo looked at the Cube beside her.
"It's all right now..."
She looked around, then patted the Cube with the hand that did not hold the fungi.
"I reached an agreement with these fungi. They won't infect me again."
Li Luo looked at her palm and told the Cube everything she had experienced in the Fungal Network.
"After I found the Underlying Consciousness of the Fungal Network, it agreed to help me leave, but it also asked me to do it a favor..."
Li Luo raised her hand, showing the clump of fungi in her palm to the Cube.
"It wants freedom."
"This clump of fungal threads is it. It transferred its consciousness into the fungal threads inside my body, then severed its connection to the main network and established a 'Local Area Network' disconnected from the Outside World. It also pulled me out of the main network in the process."
"But after leaving the main network, its consciousness regressed to its most primitive stage. It can barely make any subjective response to the Outside World."
"It may