There really are two!
But can a zombie’s body accommodate two mother hives at the sa ti?
“I don’t know… This is the first ti I’ve seen sothing like this! But for now, it seems theoretically possible.” Xia Na thought for a mont, hesitating as she spoke.
“What do you an?” Ling Mo asked urgently. Although there was a psychic link between him and Xia Na, only Xia Na herself truly understood the situation inside her body.
“Because the new mother hive has already fully ford, which ans it’s started working. If my body really couldn’t accept this situation, or if it would reject it, I should have sensed sothing by now. But look, I’m perfectly fine, aren’t I?” After Xia Na finished speaking, she suddenly sighed again, “But even so, the situation is still a bit complicated…”
“But if you really think about it, it’s actually quite simple… After the new mother hive successfully reorganized, it directly took over my brain, replacing the original virus as the new infection lesion. You can think of it as a sick body suddenly getting a new disease. For example, if chuunibyou
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defeats a cold, it becos the new problem inside the body. But unlike a disease, this kind of virus is much more destructive, because it directly transforms our bodies and promotes our variation… The reason I ntioned chuunibyou is because the virus from the new mother hive is just like it-specialized in affecting the brain…”
“So you’re saying your brain is now occupied by chuunibyou?” Ling Mo asked.
“…I’m just making an analogy… But yes, that’s exactly what I an.” Xia Na nodded.
“But I noticed you didn’t ntion any other parts of your body… Does that an the original mother hive still retains its influence over your body, just not over your brain anymore? And the new mother hive’s influence is limited to the brain?” Ling Mo asked again.
Xia Na continued to nod.
Ling Mo imdiately frowned: “Then… plus your spiritual body… this is basically a Three Kingdoms kill…”
“Sigh… If it were that simple, it would be easy to handle.” Xia Na sighed again, looked at Ling Mo, and said, “Ling-Ge, do you rember how Nana was born?”
“Nana? Of course, she ca from your psychic light cluster…” Ling Mo had only said half the sentence when his expression changed.
He understood.
The psychic light cluster is complicated to explain, but simply put, it’s the creature’s psychic realm. So creatures have low intelligence and simple thought patterns, so their psychic light cluster is almost negligible. Others have high intelligence, clear thinking, and strong willpower and concentration, so their psychic light cluster becos very strong. But no matter what kind of psychic light cluster, it’s always based on the existence of the brain. For zombies, the psychic light cluster is even more affected by the degree of infection in their brains.
For Low-Level zombies, during the initial infection and variation, because their brain structure is more mysterious and intricate, the speed of variation is slower. Usually, their bodies have already completely turned into zombies, but their brains are still in the early stages of variation, which is just a chaotic ss. What they can retain at this stage is only a bit of instinct, and naturally, their psychic light cluster is fragile.
Only as they evolve further can their brains undergo more variation, eventually slowly regaining thinking ability and so on. But after the brain has mutated, it’s already very different from the previous brain, and this is exactly why zombies can regain human intelligence but think differently from humans.
And what Ling Mo wants to achieve by letting Ye Lian and the others keep evolving is simply to regain more common ground. As for the already mutated brain, it probably can’t be restored.
But now, Xia Na’s brain actually has a new mother hive… Since the virus it secretes is different, this mother hive will bring Xia Na a completely new variation. The virus affects the brain, and the brain affects the psychic light cluster, so Nana, who split off from the original psychic light cluster, will also undergo a completely new transformation… or disappear.
“No, disappearing is impossible! Nana was created because Xia Na still has humanity. As long as her humanity doesn’t disappear, Nana won’t…”
“On the bright side, if two mother hives really can coexist, then for Xia Na… it’s like having two Leader-Level strengths at the Leader-Level stage, and one of them is a spiritual body! Before, after she split, her strength wasn’t much different from when she was whole, but there wasn’t much of an advantage. The spiritual body mostly played a supporting role. But if she can have a mother hive dedicated to promoting brain variation and evolution, that’s different…”
“Maybe, with the existence of two mother hives, Xia Na could directly break through to King level, and not just any King level!”
“In that case, even if I’m targeted by that Spider Queen, when we run into her again, they’ll be able to protect themselves… Even without ntioning the Spider Queen, they could hunt more Senior Zombies and get more chances to evolve…”
Thinking of this, Ling Mo suddenly squatted down, grabbed Xia Na’s shoulders with both hands, and stared at her as he asked, “Xia Na, don’t worry, I’ll definitely help you. This is an opportunity, but also a risk. We didn’t expect this mother hive to have this effect at first, but the fact that it could reorganize in your brain ans you chose correctly. Maybe it’s because of your spiritual body that this result happened.”
“I think so too…” Xia Na t his gaze for a while, then suddenly curled her lips and said, “Then you have to watch … And you can’t take the chance to bully .” As she said this, she even blinked aningfully.
“Hmm?” Ling Mo was stunned for a mont, “What do you an?”
But in the next mont, he understood what Xia Na ant…
Xia Na’s psychic power was already pretty good, but it wasn’t stable enough, because her brain wasn’t mutating in the psychic direction. It was enough for ambushing common zombies, but compared to that Progenitor Zombie, the difference was huge.
And this evolution focused on transforming Xia Na’s brain. After the psychic mother hive completely took over Xia Na’s brain, it began a frenzied mutation, and the most direct result of this process was…
Xia Na lost control.
“Eat!” Xia Na’s eyes changed, and after spitting out the word, she lunged straight at Ling Mo.
Ling Mo was startled and instinctively dodged to the side.
Xia Na missed, but imdiately turned her head, gave him a wicked smile, then actually stood up, swaying as she said, “Little guy, don’t run, co here, I promise I won’t eat you…”
“…And you still have the nerve to tell not to bully you!”
Footnote:
Chuunibyou(中二病):
A Japanese term that describes a person, often a teenager, who has delusions of grandeur or believes they have special powers. It often involves acting overly dramatic or adopting a fantasy persona.
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