"Mr. Arthur, are you listening?"
Ji Yongxing, who was standing beside him, noticed that the big golden guy was distracted, and spoke up to wake up Lin Qingliu who was sighing.
"Excuse me, please continue."
Ji Yongxing looked in the direction Arthur had just looked at and asked with some confusion:
"Is there any problem with Wang Xiao?"
"He should... wake up soon."
Arthur said uncertainly.
Since he has entered the fifth energy level, it means that Wang Xiao's advancement and breakthrough have actually been completed.
But since the other party has just reached that state, he should need time to tidy up his body.
All others can do is wait.
Arthur's reply was not lost on many researchers, who heard it.
Although they did not put down the work at hand, they inevitably cast their eyes in the direction of the glass jar.
Under the gaze of the crowd, cracks began to appear on the surface of the log, which was as thick as a person.
Despite the liquid barrier, everyone still heard the sound of wood fibers tearing.
As the cracks continued to expand, the log finally broke through a certain limit and collapsed as a whole.
The humanoid creature wrapped in it finally appeared. The man was 70% similar to Wang Xiao, but his overall skin color had changed slightly, as if he was closer to the gray-white trees in the forest. Apart from that, his body looked harder than before.
Although they are a little bit unlike humans, on the one hand, the researchers are generally more receptive, and on the other hand, there are indeed many super-powered people who become a little bit unlike humans after using or awakening their abilities.
The most representative example is the former "Blood Puppet" now Yan Ming. Researchers still don't know whether his blood that can think independently is the awakening of self-awareness or the result of the split of his main personality. Not to mention that he is covered in blood, which makes it difficult for him to be associated with humans.
So, while some researchers went to get towels and blankets with humanistic care, most researchers returned to their posts after confirming that the abnormality had occurred.
After the body's reintegration was completed, Wang Xiao in the glass jar suddenly opened his eyes.
A series of bubbles came out of his mouth, and Ji Yongxing quickly pressed the switch behind him to start discharging the nutrient solution.
Soon, Wang Xiao sat in the institute's clinic wearing a bath towel.
He turned his grateful eyes to Arthur and began to tell him about his experiences in the consciousness space.
Ji Yongxing and Arthur listened carefully on the side, and when Wang Xiao finished speaking, they nodded in unison.
"You did the right thing, and your will is impeccable. You are truly a determined and powerful warrior."
Arthur reached out and patted Wang Xiao on the shoulder, and continued:
"The enemy cannot be trusted. I'm glad you realize that."
Ji Yongxing's attention was obviously focused on other things. He put down the pen in his hand, looked at the narrator and asked:
"Can you repeat the three names that the mycelium called out before it disappeared?"
Wang Xiao recalled for two seconds and fluently recited the three names he had never heard of:
"Atropos, Clotho, Lachesis."
Ji Yongxing memorized the syllables of the three names and then fell into thought.
"what's on your mind?"
Arthur asked.
"The meaning of these three names."
“I’ve heard of this before.”
Arthur said in a normal tone:
"These three names come from the myths of the old era of mankind. They are generally called the Three Goddesses of Fate."
Arthur paused and continued:
"Of course, these three names may now become symbols of the will of the mycelium."
Wang Xiao, who was sitting on the hospital bed, fell into deep thought, and then asked in surprise:
"Mycelial will... does it have a gender?"
"No."
Arthur and Ji Yongxing answered at the same time.
“Although alien beasts have different sexual characteristics on their bodies, there is currently no evidence that they can mate.
"In other words, the sexual characteristics of the alien beasts are more like the parts that have not been abandoned in evolution. True mycelial life does not need gender."
Ji Yongxing added:
"The essence of mycelium life is assimilation and imitation, but the main body is still that very special fungus. If it continues to evolve without restriction, in a dozen years, when the plants assimilated by mycelium bloom, there will no longer be a distinction between stamens and pistils. Everything will become the same."
"How did they get these three names?"
Wang Xiao continued to ask.
"I've said before that the Mycelial Will took over most of the life support capsules carrying the crew members when the spacecraft crashed. They maintained the activity of the brains through parasitism, absorbed knowledge from the past memories of those humans, and let those brains help them solve problems."
Wang Xiao thought for a while and said:
"I understand. So my consciousness space is a campus. The will from the giant tree should want to replicate this operation."
Ji Yongxing nodded and said:
“That should be the case. He was originally a part of the overall will, but was cut out, appearing closer to humans between life and death.
"As for the main body of the mycelium will, without the restrictions of a life carrier, 'He' will be more rational and calm, or in other words..."
Arthur took over the topic and added:
“More divine.”
Arthur himself laughed after adding this:
"Gods don't become gods by relying on names. Giving themselves such names only means that the mycelium will has not evolved strong enough. Of course, this is a good thing for us."
Wang Xiao thought about it and raised a new question:
"Why three wills? I remember Shi Jin reported before that she met Nian and Bomber in a similar consciousness space. They reminded her that there is only one will of mycelium."
“The two are not in conflict.”
Arthur replied:
“The three of them were originally split from one individual, and they are closely related to each other. Just like when they attacked the exploration team or set off the beast tide, they never had internal conflicts, because at this time the three consciousnesses had merged into the Supreme Will.
“While thinking, because the hyphae deeply imitated and learned from humans, it inevitably split and tried to reproduce the ability of ‘discussion’.
"This is enough to show that their evolution is by no means a linear model, but similar to an exponential model, with explosive growth."
"Will the number of mycelial wills increase further?"
The person who asked the question this time was Ji Yongxing.
Arthur suddenly laughed when he heard this:
"That shouldn't happen... Firstly, their human brains are not enough, and secondly... there were originally four mycelium wills, but... when I was outside, I found a thought matrix composed of human brains, and I destroyed it directly before the mycelium could react. After that, there were only three mycelium wills left."
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