258: Chapter 259 "Order Wars" [Clone City]: Aberration—The Central Control Room of Flesh Aberration

The lingering echoes of the frenzied energy fluctuations had not yet dissipated, and the [Beholder], having completed its initial aberration, stood quietly in the center of the central control room, which had already transformed into an altar of flesh.

Its smooth, porcelain-white skin shimmered with a cold, pearly luster. Ninety-nine pitch-black eyeballs were evenly distributed across its slender body, blending seamlessly with the scarlet cyclopean eye that dominated its face and the massive, closed eye pulsing on its chest. It possessed an eerie beauty that made it impossible to look away.

The [Beholder] slightly raised its arms. On every knuckle of its palms, the pitch-black eyeballs slowly rotated. The pure black light emitted by the eyeballs and the scarlet light radiating from the flesh intertwined around the [Beholder]. From the corner of the mysterious closed eye, formed by the living book "corruption aberration," a drop of transparent mucus condensed from the [Power of Corruption] slowly gathered. As the transparent mucus dripped onto the writhing flesh on the floor, a shudder-inducing energy fluctuation surged through the entire central control room, centered around the drop.

There was no earth-shaking roar, only the wet, squelching sounds of flesh shifting from slow writhing to rapid surging and the impact of the transparent mucus. The dark-red writhing flesh beneath the [Beholder]'s feet eroded the reinforced glass floor like a tide.

The crystalline lattice of the glass was dominantly dismantled and reorganized by the [Power of Corruption]. The cold, hard texture of the glass was eroded and aberrated into dark-red flesh tissue. As the blue glass was bit by bit replaced by the dark-red flesh, fine transparent fuzz grew on the surface of the flesh, which pulsed like breathing as the flesh writhed.

In just a single breath, the floor, walls, and ceiling that were originally covered in glass were completely eroded and aberrated by the dark-red flesh, turning into flesh tissue of the same origin as the flesh altar.

This flesh aberration was not a simple replacement in the ordinary sense, but a perfect replacement of all the technological equipment within the entire central control room.

The superconductor lines originally buried in the walls, responsible for transmitting signals and energy, were dismantled and replaced by bundles of slender yet resilient flesh nerves the moment the flesh permeated them. Both ends of the nerve bundles were perfectly connected to the now-fleshy equipment interfaces. Nerve impulses replaced electronic signals, transmitting through the flesh network of the entire central control room at speeds dozens of times faster than before, without any delay or loss.

The fusion energy core that originally powered the top floor of the [Clone Tower] was now replaced by a massive, heart-shaped flesh tissue that pulsed continuously. With every contraction and expansion of the heart-like flesh core, warm blood carrying the [Power of Corruption] was pumped through the vascular network permeating the walls to every corner of the central control room. Blood replaced the original electrical energy, becoming a brand-new power source to support the operation of all flesh equipment—stable, surging, and full of vitality.

The metal casing of the circularly arranged control consoles was assimilated by flesh, turning into a ring of slightly raised flesh platforms with a warm touch. The original physical buttons and touchscreens were replaced by countless slender, retractable nerve tentacles. Each tentacle could precisely receive the [Beholder]'s will, performing operations a hundred times more complex than before.

The holographic data screens that originally surrounded the entire wall were replaced by a flesh membrane as thin as a cicada's wing and covered with fine blood vessels. Blood flowed rapidly through the vessels, instantly projecting a panoramic surveillance view of the entire Clone City. Its ultra-high definition and vast coverage far surpassed the original electronic screens—because now, every inch of flesh and every bundle of nerves in the entire central control room was a part of the [Beholder]'s body.

The alarm System that once emitted piercing sounds and the emergency light sources used after power failures were replaced one by one during the process of flesh aberration. These technological creations, having undergone flesh aberration, no longer suffered from the wear and tear of electronic components or the risks of aging wires. The entire central control room had completely aberrated from a cold, technological control room into a flesh organ fully bound to the [Beholder]'s will.