I feel like I'm missing something. I'm trying to get the secondary unlock for the event in the Research wing and I can get the first check at 750M Int just fine, but getting to 7.5B seems like a major slog of just waiting for biomass to accumulate.
I have 100 Instant Coffees and in the Cascade menu, I have both of the upgrades that multiply Body and Int, the bio-link Upgrade, and the Cognitive Leap upgrade. I don't have the last form unlocked, nor do I have any of the endings, but you can't be corrupted for this event and I don't see anything else that boosts Body or Int. Is there some other way to do this or a new mechanic that I haven't unlocked yet? As it stands, I'm stuck gathering 192M biomass per second, when I need 65T for the next upgrade (assuming I only need one more upgrade).
That doesn't seem very reasonable.