Pain!

It hurts!

Unbearable pain!

It flapped its tentacles in annoyance, muddying the waters around it, and the blades and feet hidden in it trembled, visibly shocked by the anger it revealed.

Pain is not an unfamiliar feeling.

From its inception to becoming the Eye of the Split Nest, it has fought enemies, been wounded, annexed, and evolved more than once, and pain can make the body's reflexes sharper, and it is also a necessary reward for absorbing magical power.

It wasn't the pain that made it angry, it was ...... An unprecedented emotion.

It tries to correspond this emotion to the reactions of other beings, but soon discovers that it is not necessary—the feeling is embedded in the instincts of most species, even if individuals are far apart, but they are surprisingly identical in this regard.

Fear.

It found itself tasting fear for the first time.

This made it a little overwhelmed, and it subconsciously became angry.

Kill!

Kill her!

I want to kill her!

The tiny worm that rushed into itself, the worm that dared to challenge itself with its insignificant magic! it would one day tear her to shreds and hang her head on a skeleton, just as the Red Mist Reptile did.

However, neither anger nor fear is necessary for growth—it has never been afraid of pain, nor has it been annoyed by momentary frustration, or even ...... It had not thought about such a question before at all.

Think of nothing but evolution.

Evolution is more important than survival, survival is only for the individual, and evolution is the sublimation of the race.

It realized that something was wrong with it.

What's wrong?

Just thinking about it made its head ache unbearably - the hot flames not only cost it a third of its body, but also dulled its reflexes.

It takes time.

Time can bring its body back to life.

Time can also let it find out.

It suppressed the fear, anger, and other subtle and varied emotions that it had experienced for the first time, and sank into the mud of the ocean floor.

......

After more than ten days, it crawled out of its hiding place and released all the "blades" and "feet" in its body.

Despite the fact that it lost quite a few in battle, it did not care. As long as the injury is fully recovered, a new vassal can be born at any time.

It's hungry and needs to eat.

At the same time, some of its own problems have also been concluded.

First of all, it discovers that it has lost many pheromones, which have been taken from various bugs to help the evolutionary direction of the colony, and collecting them is also the first task of the Eye of the Split. The loss was understandable - with the loud bang, its body was swept to pieces by flames and heatwaves, some of which were used to store pheromones. Now, even if it is repaired, it is gone, just like a punctured water bladder, and it will not help if it is repaired afterwards.

It's not a big deal, bugs are everywhere, and if you lose them, you can collect them.

What's more, the most important red mist multi-eyed insect has not been lost, and the loss can be described as limited.

The problem is that it has lost contact with the mother of the main nest!

It's incredible!

Since its birth, its fate has been closely linked to that of its race, and this relationship is inseparable, as long as it is in the same body of water, no matter how far apart, it can feel the presence of the main nest. Through water waves, it can both transmit collected pheromones and share the evolutionary instructions of the group.

But now — it's all gone.

After being injured, it barely thought about it, and when its consciousness flowed smoothly and it was ready to spread the pheromones of the multi-eyed insects, it realized where the previous mistake came from.

Even when the tide of the ocean is low and the waters are one, it does not hear the call of the main nest.

At first it suspected that the body had not been fully reborn, but as long as it was not completely dead, any individual separated from the main nest would not be disconnected. After repeated examination, it discovered that a portion of its brain had actually fused with the Red Mist Eyeworm, rather than being completely annexed.

Obviously, the other party took advantage of its weakness to make a final dying struggle.

Realizing this, it was shocked and angry at first, but quickly calmed down.

An imbecile bug is a bug.

Even this did not lead to any benefit.

It is completely incapable of the presence of the multi-eyeworm, on the contrary, all the remaining eyes of the red mist insect belong to it, and through these strange magic eyes, it can "see" many primitive lifeforms looking at it.

After thinking about it for a long time, it finally came to a conclusion.

It was this part of the fusion that made it impossible to contact the main nest again, and also caused it to be tainted with some strange "bug emotions".

For example, fear.

For example, anger.

And also...... Self.

Based on the above results, it should have returned to the Zenith Sea first, telling the Mother of the Main Nest what was happening there, and then giving itself to the other side - in the event that the water wave transmission did not work, the annexation would have preserved the pheromones intact, thus helping the group to obtain usable evolutionary instructions.

Evolution is more important than survival, and this is a matter of course.

But now it's hesitant.

In the past ten days, it has realized that it has thought more than it has in the past hundred years, and that it used to be instinctive to fight, annex, gather, and grow, but now it seems to be gone......

Another point is that there are no restrictions on the use of pheromones.

Evolution is a very careful choice, after all the pheromones collected by the nest are passed to the main nest, the main nest analyzes and screens useful fragments, and then issues evolution instructions after reconstruction. Evolution is not only the change of the nest eye, but also the main nest, and the vassals such as the "blade" and "foot", all of which have grown step by step.

Therefore, there is almost no difference between the eyes of the nests.

But while waiting for its body to recover, it unexpectedly used a pheromone - from a primitive entity that could heal itself quickly. It was for this reason that a serious injury that had taken at least a few months to repair was healed in just about ten days, and it noticed a difference in itself.

It's no longer your average nest.

Foot soon brought back a large pile of food—primitive aquatic organisms nearby, or as the bugs call it: fish. Most of them have their heads cleanly cut off by the "blade", and the fishy smell that spreads will inevitably attract more fish, and it will not be long before they can fill their stomachs.

These inferior aquatic organisms enjoy the same resources as them, but they are still at the bottom of the competition. For some reason, when it saw these headless and brainless fish sent to the door, it suddenly thought of itself.

Now that it has fear, it is reluctant to return to the zenith, the emotions of the insects have interfered with it, and at this moment, survival is more important than anything else.

It was afraid that the Mother of the Main Hive would swallow it up, and that the erratic worm would come to its door again.

It also wants to take revenge on the bugs, and the anger in its heart does not dissipate, but only hides it for the time being.

Alternating between fear and anger, it realized that it had more to desire, which it had never considered before.

Evolution is the only way to achieve this.

Swallowing the fish into its body, it can't wait to get moving.

It would never have been so eager before, all the nests were doing the same thing, no more than it, no less than it.

But now it's different.

The next gathering and evolution has nothing to do with the race.

This time, just for its own sake.

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