The universe the hivemind will be born out of is the egg or an eggshell where the countless lives are the insides of an egg .
And once they hatch they know many secrets of the cosmos as they have been incarnated or reborn to many genius figures of the universe or to be specific every being in the universe that could be sentient .
But when would they hatch is nearly hard to confirm their birth since it's pack with plenty of sentience of many beings . Leech himself knows how long the incubation will take . In fact , he knows the ideal universe that could create such an egg .
The loop universes in his space , it doesn't matter if these universes are already completed because in order for an egg to be born the universe needs to have an end . The loop at both ends will work just fine for the hatching hivemind .
But more importantly , a hivemind doesn't have to be born . Original Maw could use this method to their advantage by incarnating into the incubation to become the unhatched egg and when they come out of the egg they'll gain more potential like the hivemind that was supposed to be born .
This was how Leech learned martial arts but he doesn't learn about mathematical solutions scientific facts or anything . His martial arts were just taken from various incarnates who practice martial arts leaving out the other genius , not in his scope of interest .
But he didn't like the intention of original Maw's idea of using the egg universe method since they weren't using a loop but the universe he is standing on ' They might trap themselves forever but the universe is still doomed anyways ... Plus I hate having a weirdo being everyone . '
Leech thought of some way to beat Maw ' Nah Hiveminds are interestingly not into invading each other's mind ' Leech knew the consequence of doing so .
Hiveminds being a collective of consciousness are too afraid to invade each other's mind as they might become like-minded and it's not simply liking to eat durian it's more like taking the whole kind of person of the hiveminds and both are in danger .
' I shouldn't be here right now ' Leech looked at the sky and sent a mind-piercing gaze at an unlucky bird and landed bird to force its body to become a nest of insects as he appeared on the rooftop .
' Much better ' Leech looked down at the crowd sighing ' I guess I am fasting for now too lazy to talk to someone or even steal ' he laid down on the rooftop looking up at the sky ' How nice it isn't even night yet but I'm already tired '
Leech closed his eyes and fell asleep as he heard voices " Leech even if you know you are in a dream you can't control the dream , since you might slip off that plane thanks to you getting your act together . In short , knowing you're in a dream means leaving it "
" Unless your body is really sleepy and you're still conscious " ' I'm hearing memories ' Leech got up in his dream and looked at the dark water surface " Hello " Leech tried to get anyone's attention in his deserted mindscapes .
' No one ' Leech started to walk around and felt his hunger get to him ' Right I was hungry when I slept ' he continued his walk and found a bulge on the water " Hmm ? " he opened his palm and his fingers spread .
His hand was actually splitting as if someone cut them while dodging the bones of his fingers . It made his fingers into claws with no palms above his wrist ' What is this exactly ? ' Leech poked the bulge with his pointed finger to pop it like a pimple to a toothpick .
But instead of a small spaghetti strand coming out the bulge opened as the hole widened to reveal a cocoon ' I see so this is what Original Maw had in plan ' Leech looked at the cocoon of mind plague .
Mind plague is a disease that happens to hiveminds the illness is mental so many mental disorders can affect the patient . Mind plague isn't just something that eats the mind . No that would be a mind eater .
A mind plague is just a name to include all the mental diseases that affect hiveminds mind eater is one of them with the effect of turning them into dolls without knowledge or consciousness becoming a doll .
The mind plague mostly hits hiveminds thanks to the having countless minds inside them eating a mentally disordered can increase the risk of the plague . Of course , there are doctors but even they can't be trusted .
It's like the surgeon can take out a parasite and put it on another patient which is why hiveminds are picky when it comes to the minds they eat .
Leech got the orb and walked even further the journey was long but in the mind of a hivemind he could stay for so long and only so little time will pass outside ' Found it ' a giant structure appeared and if you turn the screen around it was as if objects were falling to the sky but the water surface was gluing it to stop them from escaping .
" What kind of critters is gonna hatch from this " he looked at a cracked shell and locked at it ' Hmm looks good ' he licked his mouth even though he wasn't in his body .
' I still can't believe it I left you all hibernating in my mind forever and yet you haven't hatched ' suddenly there was a movement " Oh you're waking up my food treat "
Hiveminds would avoid the mind plague but Leech didn't have to since he was too strong psychologically to even be driven crazy and plus he already had someone to drive him crazy to the point he feels like he is departing from reality .
And he has been subjected to this torture that mental illness was no longer able to affect him . He isn't looking to die just looking for food to eat . Again he isn't looking to die humans put preservatives in their food so what do you think he is doing ?
Additionally , he is capable of resisting the effects of the hatched plague himself even more after he found some hibernating ones that still live in the resting mind of an organism .
" mmh " Leech licked his lips and got the egg cracked " Oh now aren't you strange " Leech possessed the mind eater to feel a consciousness " Familiar " he looked at the rest of them and they all started hatching .
' Nice ' Leech prepared himself for battle but since he was at the mindscapes a mental plane and place he can only make do with his body to avoid messing up . He split his fingers like before cutting the palm to make five long claws .
He distanced himself away from the superstructure as the eggs craked and monsters emerged from the eggs as they climbed to sniff out the only food that they can find which was Leech himself .
Leech smiled looking at the impossible-to-exist monsters as they took various forms . A floating ball with a mouth and dark lips for pupils , a cone with lines circling up to the head as it turned into a tape with saw teeth .
And more other monsters that shouldn't exist attacked Leech " Are you kidding me " he gritted his teeth looking at the weak and small sized monsters and picked them all up " I really can't believe this I spent so much of my time and ended up with this "
Leech got the monster and sniffed them ' Barely even smell like something ' he went to the tape monster and tried to nibble but it immediately turned to powder " Pt Yuck " he looked at all of them and thought that they might need nutrition .
' Yeah yeah as if I'm feeding these things maybe they'll sap on me and try to get some leftovers ' he saw them crawl to the eggs and took them off the ground " I am not letting my cattle eat each other " Leech held them all together and walked away from the giant structure .
' Should be expecting more to hatch ' the material that held the together surrounded the egg caging them to mesh like cages ' They won't break through that material for awhile they'll have time to breathe too '
Leech left the giant structure and threw the monsters separately as the water surface rose to contain all of them in cages and beams were made to hang these cages trapping the plaguelings ( Yes this is the name of the mind plague now ) ' If I give you a biological body you might run but still have your mind trap '
Leech looked back at the only source of light in his mindscapes which were the eggs of plaguelings " Pretty dark could use some light maybe I'll even find a hivemind controlling plague they'll be a good cattle to take care of ... haven't learned how you multiply yet "
He proceeded to think of what kind of medium he can send the plaguelings into without releasing them out of his mindscapes ' Maybe I should just put them in eggs that should be easy ... but I need to make sure they don't die all of a sudden '
He started to control his body which was not so hard since he can control countless insects . he started by bringing insects together to form a hard shell and then threw a living organism while connecting it to the plaguelings and closed the shell with a muscle that is connected to the organism .
The muscles will glow when the plaguelings wakes up in its body and when asleep the muscle loses light ' Should be enough to keep track of their consciousness without visiting they won't be able to escape the egg though '
Leech walked to a giant clock known as his biological clock with one extra hand moving so slowly ' Two minutes asleep should I do something while I'm here ? '
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" Alright you're dressed just fine " Miller smiled and hugged Maw who was dressed by Miller " You're so normal like the other kids hopefully this could get rid of my crazy thoughts " Miller puts some math homework in front of Maw and he was confused .
" No hivemind ability it's all in there " Maw nodded and Miller looked at the kids outside ' Great I am not seeing any hallucinations '
When Leech was with Miller she had been seeing his behaviors and thanks to her seemingly psychic ability to tell lies she knew what Leech was but also knew the rest of the parts .
Leech is a terrifying being , a hivemind she doesn't know their standards but she wasn't afraid of Leech since he doesn't kill blindly or even give in to his own instincts .
But the terrifying forms she saw that were inside his mind were questionable . Monsters that have different anatomies that she can't explain how they form . These visions have been plaguing her with children that look like Leech and it doesn't help that his genetics is similar to all the humans on the planet .
' Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy ... good thing I can tell lies ' Miller knew that the hallucinations were just caused by the brain after it received information it couldn't handle ' He was right about the brain not being what we are '
Miller sighed and Maw looked around the room " Oh you're done ? " Miller looked at the paper and sees that some of the questions weren't answered " Hiveminds really are just stupid they can't even teach basic math "
" What are these ? " Maw pointed at the books which weren't like what he saw they were all written by hand " Books , my mother made them she is outside thanks to her busy life " " Why did she make them ? "
" To teach me , she hates school since it wasn't creative or so she says I wouldn't know whenever I go to school they gave me all the attention which was disgusting especially when I know about their intentions ... but back to why she made me "
She found a book that was read as "The many words spoken by humans" " In this book , she taught me words like walking , she described it in pictures cause it was much easier to understand , then she thought me idioms , hard to learn but I eventually understood "
She flipped the page and looked at the words written on the last pages " Next one " she grabbed a math book and showed it to Maw " You can't understand them since you don't know the concept of it "
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Leech stretched his bored self off the water and looked at the cages ' I already made enough eggs for all the mind plagues might restrict them from their species' main activity but what do I care . '
Leech walked away and found an even bigger prison he made where there were some creatures whose minds are trapped in his . Making such a thing like this was dangerous it's like caging a killer in someone's house .
" Maybe you will be interesting " Leech walked to a cage and skimmed through the memory " Boring " he looked at all of them and decided to leave them alone ' Yeah I need to look for something else '
Leech walked away from them hearing the same thing of plans to trap Leech .
Before Leech came to this planet he was with other planets helping them while they give him food , it was unfortunate that many of them wanted his status . each planet had a different story , from simply praising him as god to a being who can stay young forever .
When he played god foreign people tried to kill him to claim his head as a trophy of strength . when he drove the monsters away the king wanted him to be his dog , when the government hid his existence they experimented on him for the sake of scientific research .
When he came here he found something about the origin where all those hiveminds come from the origin known as the hive " No news about the hive "
The hive is where all hiveminds and hivemind abilities originate from it was formed by a government Leech settled in first . He didn't care when he knew about the experiment to find the hive since his hivemind ability doesn't originate from his body but rather himself only .
Knowing this all he thought was "Not like they can make a hivemind like me" is what he thought . He got sleepy at that time and went to sleep only for a scientist to cut off his flesh and experiment on it .
He never noticed and wouldn't think much about it even when he knew so he proceeded with his day reading comics and playing games . But that was then that his flesh was mass-produced and turned into a giant monster to skip looking for the hive research .
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" What the hell is this ? " Leech looked at his "kid" " Your child even though you look this young you are a hivemind which makes your appearance just an appearance " the scientist smiled watching the creation made from Leech's own flesh " This is such a beauty . " wearing a smile of accomplishment the scientist stares at flesh .
' Hmm , it looks like it has my hunger ' Leech looked at the familiar curse he is used to and then thought " Oh a mutated curse let's see ... More like an extrovert who wants others to like him so maybe you will become like it "
" What ? " the biomass of the hivemind jumped and wrapped the scientist as his sentience was altered together with his mind " Wow " Leech blankly said watching the scientist stop resisting " You know you would be some material for teenage hormones "
The biomass tried to stretch and brainwash Leech but before that could happen Leech split the flesh with his martial arts " Good way to practice " Leech smiled and punched the flesh of the hivemind .
" You are strong but I am much stronger " Leech punched the biomass that attacked him and then parried as much flesh " You're full of energy for someone who was just born is this what I expect of my own flesh ? "
Leech made a battle-maniac smile and took an offensive position " Then I'd like to see you take this " Leech punched through the biomass cratering a portion of his forced offspring " S*** you're flesh is much tougher than it looks "
Leech's smile widened and he punched even harder he destroyed the lab completely " Awesome " the hivemind boosted its regeneration consuming anything including chemicals " Hungry one aren't cha ? " Leech yelled as he felt even more excited .
Leech kicked violently at the biomass clearing up as much space for himself " Why are you fighting like a human ? " the scientist's face manifested due to the hivemind losing control of twisting his sentience .
" You're pretty lucky " Leech kicked the face that appeared in the meat sphere he was trapped in and clenched his muscles on his legs and shot through the gapless cage to punch a tunnel above .
" Haehae this is so much fun " Leech kicked the ground to jump up high and see an airplane passing by " This will do " a vortex appeared under the airplane spawning flesh and letting Leech propel himself back down and shaking the airplane like a leaf .
" I'M BACK " Leech clenched his fist and punched right down so hard he went through the core of the planet as he felt his body burn " Oh shit " he lost connection to his body and fell asleep .
While his body was in the core it didn't turn to ashes but was tempered like metal under the heat of the planet's core . Because of wasting his excitement on fighting a powerful offspring of his , he was too concentrated on wasting his mental strength to channel his strength to his body ready to exhaust it all .
And he had places where he can come back to life so he can't feel death nearing him when cutting off the connection to his current body . So he didn't feel the need to fight against the heat thanks to these factors and appeared elsewhere .
" Hmm I made a mistake " right before the body's death he manage to glimpse into something and understood the threat of his offspring " If one hivemind can mutate that much then what about other hiveminds made from my body ? "
Leech looked around his pocket dimension which is a dimension that isn't fully established and the whole place was only made of flesh ' Looks like I need to destroy this ' Leech said and noted a place for his resurrection and gathered all the parts of his hivemind he spread back inside the pocket .
' Goodbye at least I can avoid being discovered if this is destroyed completely ' a vortex appeared and Leech lay down being consumed by it and opened his eyes to another planet .
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Leech opened his eyes at his mind again and sighed ' Feels weird to remember the past ' he was using a special ability that he discovered .
A theorized ability of the brain that traps the person into an eternal or never-ending dream with no difference . He discovered it when the loop universe that materialized into a ring caused a change in the human brain once in contact , sources of the materials aren't needed to be revealed .
' Though I nearly let the fish out the bucket ' Leech got up from the ground and woke up due to external interruptions " LEECH HOW ARE YOU STILL SLEEPING ? " Miller yelled out from the door to the rooftop " Huh ? "
" There is panic on the planet and all you can hear is the wind !!?? " Miller yelled even louder even though her words aren't all capitalized " What panic does it have to do with me all those panic is mostly caused because some stupid idiot is bombing a building like before ? "
Miller punched down Leech expressing her anger and pointed at the sky " There is a meteor about to crush on the planet and you're sleeping !? " Leech turned his head to see a meteor about to fall on earth .
" Ugh but you know that meteor isn't even real " Leech tiredly tells her " I know but those people are not even convinced " " Then why me ? " " Because that meteor is just a distraction ! "
Leech was hit by the words not expecting them " I looked at the sky and saw something being camouflaged opposite to the fake meteor's trajectory , an even smaller meteor although not fast enough to cause an impact the speed is changing but not accelerating "
" Then deal with that " " If you don't take care of this problem you can't go to festivals and get the food there " Miller with her ability to see the truth figures out Leech's preferences .
Although he was beyond human understanding as a being his behavior is similar to humans when they are in a peaceful era . For example , the time when Leech prefers to have his food cooked while he waits .
And a festival is where plenty of stalls are set up and many potentially good food is cooked so he enjoys eating food using a stick or a small paper dish and smelling the various smells that don't seem to affect each other giving the atmosphere a good aroma of food .
" F*** ... fine at least you should take care of transportation " the wind was blowing as a helicopter lowers to the ground " Hop on it's very near " Miller got on and Leech took a seat to find a drink he can try " By the way , I hope you don't mind me asking "
Leech wanted to be ahead of Miller but Miller's mind was not something he can easily penetrate through " Okay so are you a mom or a dad " " PFFT " Leech spat his drink causing the drink to make a mess at the seat .
" Oh god , why would you say something so obscene ? Ugh " Leech wiped his mouth cleaning the drink mixed with his saliva and threw it out to the window " Obscene wouldn't even describe it I just cured my perspective of children with Maw and now a person that looks young has a kid "
She didn't get the whole story but got the summary from one perspective " I'm neither " " Right a child born from a single parent would make them a mother of course that is the case " " Some mad scientist just decided to cut off my flesh to make that "child" of mine "
" So that child happens to mutate to a hivemind " " Not exactly it mutated from my flesh which I haven't changed for so long . Think of that flesh as a shirt that smells like the wearer's sweat because it hasn't gone through special treatment "
Miller nodded thinking how much Leech has the potential of creating so many hiveminds just by using the same body for a long time " Now it sounds like some sort of monster was born from a shirt "
" That was an analog " " Then what can your kid do ? " " What hiveminds can do but more potential since it was born out of my flesh it already took control of the original hive which had been part of a project in hopes of whatever goals they have " Leech sighs with the knowledge that he is going to have to talk with Miller for a long time .
" That sounds like your kid is artificially born and the original hive sounds like a god to hiveminds " " Technically wrong , despite being naturally born this hivemind only has primal instincts to eat and repeat "
" Sounds like you " " Shut up " Miller knew that this insult was going to hurt Leech since he doesn't like being labeled as an animal that only follows his instincts " But I still can't tell if your kid surpasses you or not "
" I wouldn't care if it does unlike being very strong to be able to punch craters I can easily escape that thing " " You don't think that your kid is gonna come for revenge ? You two started fighting the moment your kid came to life what made you think you're not going to fight "
" Miller you know very well I wouldn't care one bit about my damn kid I hurt it because it tried hurt me first " " Self defense " Miller lazily matched with Leech's words knowing what he was about to say " Yes I know but I can't just tell that sloppy words to the public , in the first place hiveminds don't have laws as humans do "
" Yeah , I know the only law was " " Please shut up I already know what you are going to say don't make me tell Maw to look more like normal kids " " Why are you raising the copy of Maw now ? " " I'm not telling you anything related "
' He's the only person who was more different than the kids over here he is so uneducated but is curious when I teach him ' a bright soft smile appears on Miller's face and Leech can only frown at the unexpected expression of hers .
' The hell is she planning to do now ? ' " So what about the artificial ones ? " " Depends on the material and creator I wouldn't even know completely if any artificial hiveminds are able to be born properly or anything just the one made from me "
" So explain the natural hiveminds then they seem to be much easier to understand "
" Fine they just have normal ones but like animals , they need to evolve properly and because of their consumption of the minds of people they can't even tell which one is their own mind so they go crazy and eventually just use instincts only "
" So they are stupid but ever heard of a case where a natural hivemind passes that filter or trial ? " " Maybe but don't jinx it okay " " Not jinxing it I saw something on that meteor and you should know what I mean by not jinxing it "
" So you going put amnesiacs on the pilot ? " " No he can't hear our conversation or even read our lips and only following my orders to land us at the landing spot of the meteor " " So that's why you acted weirdly back then " Leech sighed connecting Miller's smile to the fact she knew what the meteor she found was .
' Thank god I took care of that ' " So ever heard of a natural hivemind that went through that filter of primal instincts , I don't want your own experience since you're just a glutton I want the behavior patterns of a natural hivemind who gained intelligence and exceeded their instincts "
" Then I can't answer it since I never met one " " Then it's a problem " Miller stuck a sticky note at the window to show the pilot her words " He's dropping us off here get ready to jump " Miller walked to the door as the helicopter stopped at an altitude .
" Looks small " " as big as an elephant " Miller jumped off the helicopter and Leech just let his body fall down like he was throwing his body on a bed to land on his back .
They both landed to see the meteor moving like actual flesh " How long are you gonna lay on that sad sack of meat ? " Miller said looking at the meteor trying to find the main body or the brain .
" Until you're in danger but seeing that you're not fazed you look like you're not " " How about taking care of that thing it's shaking and is ready to run " " So what you want me to not let it run ? "
" Yep " " Whatever give me a buffet for dinner " like cicada wings transparent like glass with a beautiful frame Leech encased the whole area with the same material and patterned frames to allow light to pass through " There you go "
" It's weird that something like this actually comes from cicadas " Miller looked at the meteor wondering how to communicate with it " Why are you here ? " Miller used her truth-telling ability to understand the answer the hivemind made .
" So you were escaping , from what ? " ' What a convenient ability she has , shame that it doesn't work if she can't communicate she's already lucky for the hivemind to be this smart to understand her '
" Leech ever heard of these words ? " Leech faced Miller and heard her say " Colony ? " Leech frowns and looks at the meteor " Is that a group of ants or the whole colony " Miller frowned knowing the true meaning of Leech's words .
" I see " Miller's expression showed caution and Leech did the same " Then you take care of that thing promise me my dinner will yah ? " Leech took down the cage and disappeared arriving at a villa .
" AHH " Maw fell off the couch Leech appeared on and Leech took the controller and opened the TV " What movie to watch ? " Leech opened a movie and then a knock at the door was heard " That's quick "
He ran to the door and found a truck at the front and licked his lips " YES " and how is he gonna bring it in ? Since this is Miller's house she already prepared it for convenience so Leech doesn't break anything for his own convenience and dragged the whole truck inside to open and see the contents .
" Wow " " LEECH close the damn door will yah ? " Leech peeked out from behind the truck to see Miller with the meteor following her " You're quick and it's not like you're not gonna use it for that thing " " Okay follow me , Percy "
" Are you seriously raising kids that are hiveminds ? " " So , they're better due to not being used to attack me " " Fine " Leech sat and watched the movie while eating the whole truckload of food .
Miller pressed the power button and stood in front of the TV " You should stop that will you tell me more about the colony ? " " Fine " " Also lower the volume " " You're demanding a lot "
" Because I have responsibilities while you don't since you are not bound by society and rules " " K the colony is someplace I joined , that place is full of hiveminds not to be messed with they are made before the original hive was taken over by my kid "
" Is that approval of having a kid or just to shorten the identity " " Shorten , Anyways back then they still have these events like a party to celebrate something like the birth of the original hivemind , which they receive their abilities from . "
" Looks like the original hive didn't kill them " " Only because they have its ability so the hive marked them as part of it while they are not entirely part of it " " So they have its power but still haven't gone crazy or become possessed , what other things did they do "
" The kind of activity where you humans attend to take care of you know " " Stop I know " " Yeah they did that and I left right after " Miller sighs and slumps on the couch " Jeez they are more like an animal "
" There's still more than that holiday they go to for example an offering to the original hivemind which was made by quantity rather than quality but ever since my kid took over that was change from quantity to quality . "
" Does that mean they got rid of the original birthday holiday and turned it into the day your kid took over the original hive ? " " Probably I know a little about my kid and the day the original hive was gone seems like my kid is keeping the original alive "
Miller looked at Leech and tries to see deeper into his secrets " So that's why no Original hive came to us you happen to be like those hiveminds and pretended to be part of it " " It's an animal having its body scent is like identifying me as themselves "
" Glad to have you by our side " " Yeah yeah can I watch my movie now " Miller gave Leech the remote " Thanks you better wake up early tomorrow or something " " Yeah be careful with those things you trap in your head " Miller said seeing the existence of plaguelings in Leech's head .
' She's getting good that I feel thankful she has that ability only to herself ' Leech sighed and started binging the whole movie while eating the truckload of food that Miller got for him " I TOLD YOU ALREADY LOWER THE DAMN VOLUME "
Miller threw a watermelon at Leech and headphones from the side of the TV " Use the headphone !!! "
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