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The union operation of graphs is utilized to construct two pairs of non-isomorphic layered lattice-like structures, and the expression of the index is acquired by the approach of Laplacian spectra, then the corresponding asymptotic results are obtained. It is found that when the cardinality of the node sets of coronary substructures with better connectedness tends to infinity, the FONC of the whole network will have the same asymptotic behavior with the central lattice-like structure in the considered classic graph frameworks. 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