[Several limbs thicker than a person thrashed within the flesh membrane, stretching it thin and revealing frightening shadows...]
Lin Xun's eyes lit up.
"This is like a delivery right to my door, looks like I can get a freebie..."
[You tentatively remember the button the 'Hatching Pond Lord' had just pressed on the control panel, seeing it sitting right next to the hatching pond, a bold idea spontaneously sprouts.]
[You remain hidden, silently moving to the control panel...]
[The control panel is styled strongly in an alien civilization aesthetic. It's made entirely of flesh and bone, and all over it, there are large and small eyeballs, which serve as the panel's buttons.]
[At the top of the control panel are several semi-translucent blood vessels, four of which are shriveled, containing no blood at all.]
[Only the very top blood vessel is filled with a significant amount of deep purple plasma, still about one-fifth short of being full.]
