Hive mind.
One is all, and all is one.
Every individual is part of the whole.
Therefore, the hive mind can dominate every single Moon Rabbit.
In other words, if a large number of individuals are thinking about a certain thing, that thing becomes the thought of the hive mind. If a large number of individuals fall into a certain emotion, that emotion becomes the emotion of the hive mind.
After the execution, when Labi left the rabbit hole, the Moon Rabbits gathered the remains of the rebel Moon Rabbits who had committed suicide, carrying an indescribable feeling. They then sent them to the Slaughterhouse.
Or rather, the cave that Clara called the Slaughterhouse.
*Jiju.*
*Jiju…*
The emotion spreading among the Moon Rabbits was grief.
However, the rabbits did not know this feeling.
Though they could not understand grief, they found it difficult to dispel. They thought about what they could do to vent this feeling and ultimately decided to send the Moon Rabbit rebels into the Slaughterhouse.
“Slaughterhouse” was merely Clara’s name for it. To the Moon Rabbits, it was both the end of life and the starting point of a new one.
When the rabbit soldiers in the Slaughterhouse “processed” ordinary Moon Rabbits, they would bow their heads in a silent tribute. Such a ceremony was not mandated by Labi; it was their own spontaneous behavior.
Facing the remains of the Moon Rabbit rebels, the rabbit soldiers similarly observed a moment of silence. Then, they efficiently “processed” them into chunks of meat that could be fed to the Big Rabbit.
*Jiju—*
Once, driven by individual survival instincts, they had followed Clara to escape the rabbit hole and surrender to the humans. After experiencing all sorts of things, they had finally become meat. Now, they were finally the same as the other Moon Rabbits.
They had blended from “individuals” into the “collective.”
Only after feeding these pieces of meat to the Big Rabbit on the stone altar did the Moon Rabbits breathe a sigh of relief.
*Jiju—*
*Jiju…*
The Moon Rabbit rebels were dead.
The act of using their deaths to clarify their resolve was like fireworks that shot into the sky, leaving a moment of brilliant splendor. Although they could not resist fading away, they ultimately left something behind in the hearts of the Moon Rabbits. Something was born…
That was expectation.
They expected that this group of Moon Rabbit rebels, who dared to resist their fate, could be resurrected in a new life form.
They expected that they could overthrow the rule of the Control Tower and end the enslaved fate of their race.
The expectations of the Moon Rabbits were the expectations of the hive mind.
And the expectations of the hive mind would become the direction of the race.
Though it was still weak, the spark of rebellion was ignited in a corner that Labi did not watch. At this moment, the air-raid shelter on the upper level was falling into the chaos caused by Clara. As the Mother Body, Labi was determined to mobilize all the Moon Rabbits to launch a general offensive against the resort.
Therefore, the Moon Rabbits soon had no time to worry about the situation of the rebels. They still could not disobey the orders issued by the Control Tower.
*Jiju, jiju!*
The rabbit hole became busy. The rabbit soldiers left the barracks one after another, walking out of the air-raid shelter to assemble in the rainforest. The ordinary Moon Rabbits, numbering in the thousands, also poured out, turning into a dense white tide surging toward the resort.
Night had fallen, but the Moon Rabbits no longer needed to hide.
The Hero was gone, and the survivors in the resort were powerless to stop the advance of the Moon Rabbits.
Barring any accidents, the number of Moon Rabbits would exceed 10,000 in a few days. The proliferation speed would be completely out of control. As long as the resort was not eaten clean, reaching 1,000,000 was not impossible.
However, the Moon Rabbits began to resist Labi’s manipulation, fighting against their arranged fate. The hive mind also tried to break free from the dominance of the Mother Body. This idea finally manifested in the Big Rabbit that had been fed the flesh and blood of the rebels.
Look, the “fire” was burning.
That violently twisting, writhing form was completely different from the previous muscular rabbit soldiers. It had a feminine figure coupled with fluffy grey-white long hair, and proud curves with a protruding front and back…
It was almost like Labi.
The hive mind ultimately chose the person it knew best as a reference sample.
However, what sat atop its head was not a mouth, but proper, long rabbit ears.
…Clara.
*Jiju?*
The newborn rabbit-eared girl sat up.
She was also the “hope” of the Moon Rabbits. A portion of the Moon Rabbits stayed behind, standing upright to face her. There was no movement in the rabbit hole.
It was quiet, yet churning with thick emotions.
“Must find…”
The “Moon Rabbit rebels” who had merged into one became the agent of the hive mind.
The awakening of the hive mind was not only because of the spark of resistance left by the rebels’ deaths but also because of the knowledge Nyx had left on the network.
As well as the method to let the race continue.
Rabbit Alert: Uprising Hour!
Clara’s main body ran off while carrying Sista.
She left the air-raid shelter and plunged into the rainforest under the night sky, disappearing. In this environment that was easy to hide in, even if Labi had the Moon Rabbits conduct a carpet search, it would be quite difficult to find Clara.
Unless she had a way to deal with the dual escape of ink-spraying and invisibility.
But the Moon Rabbit Combat Body still remained in that basement. The door was not closed; it could go wherever it wanted. Once things became messy, no one cared about it anymore.
Even the Blue Cavalier had forgotten it in order to command the rabbit soldiers to launch the final general offensive.
“The permissions are lost, and Sista isn’t right either. What should we do next?”
Clara found a pavilion on the mountain and set down the semi-conscious Sista.
Forcibly interrupting the brainwashing and saving her from Labi’s mouth seemed to have caused some impact. At least, she had not yet shown a clear self-awareness.
[Don’t be impatient. It’s just a loss of permissions; you can’t directly command the Moon Rabbits.]
[But the connection to the hive mind network hasn’t been broken. Nyx will continue to communicate with the hive mind.]
[A crack has appeared between Labi and the hive mind. Although it cannot resist the instructions of the Control Tower, in corners where the permissions do not reach, it can do many things Labi doesn’t know about.]
Without permissions, at least she wouldn’t be resented by the hive mind.
But communicating with it still required Nyx. Only the information processing speed of a Super AI could keep up with the hive mind. Clara’s Squid Brain obviously couldn’t keep up.
“Those rabbits are preparing to attack the resort. Lucia is in danger. I must—”
[No, going back now won’t change anything.]
[We must hurry up and settle Labi.]
Nyx manipulated the Touch Tentacle, using a small Data Extractor against Sista—who had been reincarnated as a rabbit—to check her body.
“How is she?”
[The body is healthy. Everything is normal.]
“But she’s obviously not normal.”
The whole person looked as if she had lost her Soul, and her eyes were completely devoid of life.
[I am also powerless regarding problems at the Soul level. If we extract Labi’s data, we can restore her…]
Clara laid Sista down on the bench of the pavilion and sighed.
“Sigh, the problem is that there is no way to extract it.”
Labi seemed to be able to turn any part of her body into a mouth. This certainly fit her title as a “predator,” but it wasn’t very friendly to the Data Extractor.
As long as the extractor was held against her, it would be snapped off by her mouth like a crunchy snack. It was very targeted and full of malice from the world.
“Clara.”
Fran’s voice came through the walkie-talkie.
“Those Moon Rabbits have started attacking the resort.”
Those security personnel who were slacking off wouldn’t last long. Dealing with ordinary Moon Rabbits was one thing, but they would be no match for the rabbit soldiers.
But Clara couldn’t go back.
Even if she did, she couldn’t deal with all the rabbits by herself.
“Dr. Fran, if you really can’t hold out, use that.”
Clara was referring to the “Rabbit Killer.”
The Moon Rabbit-specific virus that Fran had synthesized in the lab.
“Oh, I’ve already used that~”
“Eh?”
Clara’s opinion didn’t matter.
Revolution, Revolution!