It lifted up the soft material on the ground and gnawed off the bark of ugly trees, as if venting its pain and expressing its anger.
And this behavior seemed to really work, and a faint voice reappeared in its mind.
The voice seemed to come from the sky, soothing its pain and guiding it in the direction of progress.
The strange beast's manic emotions were calmed down at once, as if it had returned to its previous childhood, feeling the care from its mother.
Under the guidance of the soft voice, the huge monster walked deeper into the forest.
It passed over giant trees that reached into the sky, passed over ditches flowing with biomass, and came to a bottomless pit.
The diameter of the pit is tens of meters, and nearly a thousand strange beasts with round bodies and long mouthparts are forming a large circle around the pit.
They stuck their slender mouthparts deep into the giant pit and continued to suck the gray-black biomass at the bottom of the pit, but seemed unaware of outsiders.
The giant bear didn't know why its mother led it here, but it chose to follow that gentle guidance.
So it crawled on the ground with nothing to do, trying to relieve the pain in its body in this way.
But at this moment, it felt a wave, or multiple waves of severe pain, attacking its entire body, causing its originally calmed heart to become agitated again.
After a loud roar, the strange beast raised its head and looked behind itself.
I saw four or five long and sharp mouthparts like needles piercing into his body from the back and sides.
The strange beasts that launched the attack were no different from the fat strange beasts that kept sucking beside the giant pit.
The giant bear wanted to launch a counterattack and use his beast instincts to defeat the enemy.
But a huge suction force came from the mouthparts that pierced the body.
Those needle-like mouthparts pierced, stirred, and sucked everywhere in its body, crushing undigested food and internal organs already infected by toxins into pieces and sucking them into the body.
As the giant bear roared, seven or eight slow-moving, round-shaped monsters with long mouthparts approached it.
Long needles pierce the neck, body, abdomen, limbs, brain, eyeballs...
The giant bear's roar turned into wailing, and the wailing turned into silence.
After just a dozen seconds, only an almost perfect bear skin was left on the ground.
Naturally, the animal skin was ignored, trampled, and eventually pushed by the strange beasts busy sucking the biomass, fell into the huge pit in the center, and became part of the biomass.
Kloto watched all this with every strand of his mycelium and fell into silence in the space of consciousness where time was almost eternal.
He could sense that some changes were taking place, both externally and internally.
Humans are changing, mycelium is evolving, and the world will never remain constant at a certain point in time.
But this change made Kloto feel strange and...fearful.
Something is not right with Lachesis lately.
Ever since He completed His self-cutting and splitting, He began to become slow in conscious communication.
Although Atropos agreed with Lachesis that this was the sequelae of dividing himself, Clotho always felt that there was something mixed in that he could not understand.
As for Atropos, that guy has been obsessed with the field he is in charge of recently. He is conducting more and more complex experiments and has no time to communicate.
All these changes made Cloto feel unfamiliar, and the death of that ordinary beast just now touched upon some thoughts or emotions that he had never experienced before.
Kloto thought that he needed a self-examination, or rather, the entire mycelium will needed a self-examination.
But... Lachesis' plan is at a critical juncture, and so does Atropos.
So what should He do?
Klotho fell into deep thought.
He, He wants to think more, wants to know Himself more comprehensively, and wants to know everything related to this.
He needs to make some changes.
The three consciousnesses differentiated from the Supreme Will are not completely separate. Just like Lachesis, while being in charge of erosion, it can also carry out large-scale reproduction of fungal mats and tall grass.
The same is true for Clotho. Although it is Atropos who is in charge of learning, imitation, and change, it does not mean that He cannot do similar things.
Deep in the mycelium forest, dozens of giant trees slowly began to move.
These giant trees that could create and breed strange beasts gathered together. On their branches and in their cracks, cocoons that flashed with multi-colored light began to gradually expand.
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In a strange forest filled with trees, bushes, and weeds, a group of what could be described as bizarre monsters were crawling and wriggling on the ground.
Some of them have human-like limbs but their bodies have been replaced, while others embody the characteristics of more than ten different animals, but they are not well integrated together, resulting in a distorted look in the final product.
Most of these monsters are not dead yet and are wandering aimlessly on the ground, while some have already lost their lives and their bodies are wrapped in the gradually ascending mycelium.
These are Atropos's "masterpieces", defective products that he created through countless biological experiments that are not suitable for combat and have no special abilities or functions.
He also possesses some fertility power, so he can also create these strange beasts, but he cannot produce large numbers of individuals like Clotho.
Strange beasts roam the strange woods, sometimes attacking the moving trees.
Atropos didn't care about all this. At this moment, his consciousness was immersed in the minds of twenty people at the same time.
In order to better utilize his abilities, Atropos kept all the brains of biologists and geneticists for himself.
This was agreed upon by Clotho and Lachesis.
At this moment, He and His twenty avatars are listening to private lessons from these human scholars.
Although He had heard this knowledge countless times in the past ten or even dozens of years, He had not been able to fully understand it.
And now a bigger trouble has emerged that Atropos can no longer ignore or choose to turn a blind eye to.
If this problem is not solved, His assimilation and genetic modification of organisms will not be able to go any further.
So He once again returned to the classroom constructed by these consciousnesses, but unlike before, this time Atropos had made a decision that went against his principles.
He decided to resurrect the owners of these brains to a limited extent to help him conduct relevant experiments and research.
This was a crazy idea, so crazy that He thought the other two consciousnesses would definitely object.
Atropos could not hide the truth from his companions, so he could only delay the next gathering as long as possible.
But all this is necessary, He must find a way out for His people.
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