(Today is Old Dang's birthday, and I'm still spending it working overtime... I'm especially sorry to Brother Jiangnan. The debt I owe is enough to sell me a hundred times over... Thank you, Brother Jiangnan. Thank you all for the birthday wishes, brothers. Thank you.)
The Dawn Warship in the warp passage twisted its hull, its enormous bow aiming in one direction. Through the shaking view, Mu Fan clearly saw that the distorted light screen was filled with... densely packed Spore Clusters.
There were no telling how many thousands or tens of thousands of them. Yellow, white, and green Spore Clusters were packed tightly together, like insect eggs or parasitic pustules, making one's scalp tingle.
How had they appeared here?
Black was even more shocked than Mu Fan, because according to its database, no life-form capable of parasitizing a wormhole had ever appeared before.
What lay before them bore an astonishing resemblance to the acid corrosion they had encountered when entering Planet 131, but these Spore Clusters were clearly of a higher order.
The Spore Clusters expanded and contracted, obviously absorbing some kind of substance to strengthen themselves.
"They look like cocoons. Will Zerg hatch inside them?" Mu Fan asked with a frown.
"No, they are completely different from the Zerg. These Spore Clusters are absorbing special substances from within the wormhole. If I had to describe them, they are more like mineral collectors that need to be harvested periodically. Look there, and there. Once they have gathered enough energy, the outer layer of those Spore Clusters begins turning gray and completely solidifies in place."
Several areas on the display rapidly zoomed in. Mixed among the dense Spore Clusters, Mu Fan saw a few gray sacs. Judging by color alone, one might have thought they were dead Spore Clusters.