Chapter 5: Log out

My body swelled with air, splitting my shell in half from the back straight up to where my head was. From there, all I had to do was wiggle out of the shell, which only took a few minutes at most.

Now without an exoskeleton, I was at my most vulnerable. My body was like a wet piece of paper that could be easily torn apart. Usually, it would take weeks for a centipede to molt as they needed to grow skin underneath their exoskeleton, but by spending my last biomass, I was able to speed up the process, making it instantaneous.

It could take up to 2 days for my new shell to harden, so in the meantime, I decided to log out.

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