The day before the final countdown to the celebration.
The absorption proceeded unexpectedly smoothly, and it was completed in one night.
Xiaoyu, who stepped into the Lair, had integrated with the sea of slime fungus, becoming the new Queen who commanded this Lair.
That sea of slime fungus roiled as if boiling, with every cell cheering for their new master.
As the control of the Lair changed hands, the murderous crimson faded slightly, losing some of its bloodthirsty fierceness and gaining a few shades of a more likable pink.
That thing had contended with Shelter No. 404 for two hundred years, evolving extreme outer space survival abilities in an almost vacuum environment.
Given enough time and space, it could even take out the one in the center of Qingquan City and develop into the largest Lair on the Central Continent with the widest self-limiting scope.