Red dismissed the glowing text of Sylara's message and dragged the encrypted file to the center of his primary monitor. He tapped the execution key.
[ DECRYPTING BIOLOGICAL DATA STREAM... ]
[ RENDERING SUBTERRANEAN TOPOGRAPHY ]
The dark expanse of the Void illuminated as a hyper-detailed, three-dimensional map of the continent's crust bloomed across the screens. It was a root-level sonar scan, built entirely from the sensory feedback of the Mycelium Queen's ancient ecosystem.
Red leaned forward, his eyes tracking a thick, glowing green line cutting through the digital bedrock.
Sylara had not just asked him to leave her alone. She had painstakingly drafted the perfect path of least resistance for his expanding Omni-Spore network. The green line deliberately steered his biological cables away from her cyan fungal borders, routing them through a series of hollow, subterranean caverns that led directly toward the unmapped western hemisphere.
