The unconscious tall grass-like mycelium life began to decompose under the gaze of Lachesis.

And the object of decomposition is... themselves.

After completely losing the guidance of consciousness, the mycelium in this area began a behavior that was close to degeneration.

It begins to decompose its already developed leaves to produce more mycelium that can move flexibly.

Lachesis originally thought that his ability in this area came from a plant called tumbleweed in the gene pool brought by humans, but now he realized his mistake.

After decomposing part of the leaves, the newly grown mycelium began to spread in all directions.

As a creature without vision, its only way to explore the outside world is through the extension of hyphae.

And now this poor body is left with only instincts, the instinct of living things to devour and grow.

Lines of hyphae extended in all directions, and some of them inevitably explored the deep valley in the center.

With the help of limited nutrients, the hyphae continued to stretch downwards, hanging parts of their bodies on the surrounding rock walls.

I don’t know how long it took, but a hyphae touched a soft substance.

This substance seemed to contain rich organic matter, and the mycelium began to try to absorb it as soon as it came into contact with it.

It worked.

A bioelectric signal began to spread among the hyphae.

For wild beasts that have no ability to think, making a decision often only takes a split second.

Lachesis saw that in the dark night, the hyphae on the ground seemed to be performing their last dance, constantly shrinking themselves and moving towards the pit in the center.

Countless hyphae have dangled down along the edge of the cave, desperately searching for the biomass that will sustain the colony.

Seeing that the mycelium here began to shrink, Lachesis also issued instructions to his own body.

The crystallized hyphae and tall grass were broken to a certain extent, and then slowly moved forward under the influence of countless fungal mats, occupying positions that did not originally belong to them.

And none of this matters to that body.

Beasts still have a sense of fullness, but this puppet has none of that.

The purpose of its existence is to eat, eat and then decompose, and then use the nutrients obtained to generate more mycelium, and then repeat the process from eating. This is the purpose of its existence.

This is also the mission given to it by Lachesis.

In the misty forest and tall grass, two changes are quietly happening.

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Hope City, core research laboratory.

"Airtightness confirmed."

"The lab is sealed."

"power ups."

"Bang!"

The smooth thick glass plate was covered with a dense layer of gray-black biomass, leaving the researchers completely clueless about what was going on inside.

"well."

Ji Yongxing sighed slightly, reached out and pressed a button, and a long handle similar to a windshield wiper immediately extended from the inner wall of the laboratory and began to scrape off the layer of paste from the glass plate.

The researchers regained their sight, but the situation was clearly not optimistic.

In the closed experimental area, the paste formed by the biomass explosion was everywhere, and a metal container was lying on the ground in a broken state.

Although the container was in pieces, there were no dents on the surface. The damage was caused by an internal explosion.

In the experimental area, a small robot wearing protective clothing and holding a cleaning tool in its hand began to erase the biomass bit by bit.

"【Sky Curtain】, have you recorded the experimental data?"

"It has been uploaded to the cloud."

"Okay, keep cleaning."

Ji Yongxing casually gave an order, and he and his assistants began to study the data of the explosion of the biomass battery prototype on the screen.

It has been a week since the first prototype was manufactured by Ji Yongxing. If the ones that exploded are counted, the number of the one below might be several hundred.

There is no way around it. Biomass can indeed hold energy and be made into batteries that are powerful enough to support the actions of a single soldier's exoskeleton.

But it also has many disadvantages. For example, if the biomass itself has no consciousness, the probability of this creation getting out of control will increase significantly.

This is why the "disaster core" can contain energy and charge itself, while Wang Xiao's special battery exploded directly after being hit by a gun.

Not everyone is like Wang Xiao, and not everyone can feel at ease carrying a bomb with a huge equivalent.

The task of improvement naturally fell on Ji Yongxing.

The inexplicable toxicity of biomass has invisibly increased the difficulty of development.

In order to speed up the process, Ji Yongxing thought of his illegitimate son and rescued him from the custody of the psychological clinic.

Although he had known about the relevant developments before, Ji Yongxing still subconsciously felt helpless when he saw the [Sky Curtain] that could no longer be put into the box.

It seemed like I was just a little careless and the child became like this.

But fortunately, [Tianmu] has done a lot of labor reform during this period, and he can be said to be skilled in sweeping and mopping.

With the support of "Wanjuan"'s hands and the components sent by Ji Yongxing from time to time, the senses, or receivers, of [Sky Curtain] are now very sensitive, and even the smallest stains can be clearly seen.

In order not to waste such good resources, Ji Yongxing personally sent Haodaer into the experimental area.

And [Tianmu] lived up to everyone's expectations. After finding out that his own father also made him sweep the floor, he naturally expressed the idea of paying him a salary.

Then Ji Yongxing confiscated a memory stick from him.

The completely honest artificial intelligence began to work busily in the laboratory and became a complete sweeping and mopping robot.

After a few days of work, Tianmu gradually realized how important what these people were doing was.

As an artificial intelligence, he was not worried about being swallowed by the mycelium, but he also did not want his biological father and godfather to be swallowed by the mycelium, so he worked even harder.

Not to mention the little tricks that [Tianmu] was constantly calculating in his mind, Ji Yongxing outside the experimental area had already finished analyzing the explosion data.

"Adjust the ratio to fill it, and we'll start the next one."

His voice not only reached the ears of the team members, but also reached the [sky curtain] through the loudspeaker.

The little robot didn't say anything, but just carefully wiped the experimental area, then went to the corner, lifted up a huge upside-down stainless steel basin, and stuffed itself in it.

Several robotic arms extending from the ceiling completed the filling and installation operations and then retracted above the experimental area.

Less than a minute later, a familiar explosion sounded from the [sky curtain] below the stainless steel basin:

"Bang!"