Chapter 905: Parasite Beasts!

Two minutes later.

As the door before them wriggled apart from the middle, the eyeball monster happily used its authority to open the chamber where cargo was transported, pushing Lynn inside and bringing him to their most secret location.

“Everything’s in here. You can look for as long as you like, but it’s best not to touch anything. Be careful, or those bugs might smell the meat on you.”

Yin Yi was pushed inside alongside Lynn, still looking dazed.

Although she had already been filled in on everything, she had never imagined they would so easily and brazenly “infiltrate” the enemy faction’s most secret location.

For the Flesh and Blood Cult to be this corrupt...

Its Evil God must have had a hard time of it.

【Ding! Current completion progress for your mission “Flesh-and-Blood Parasitism”: 50%】

Hearing the System’s notification by his ear, Lynn stared with his Dead-Fish Eyes and adjusted his Monocle. He knew he was on the right track.

He raised his head, his gaze falling on the countless vessels packed inside the chamber, each filled with crimson slime. Bubbles rose and popped within them, and he could just make out things coiling and writhing in the slime, each like a squirming horsehair worm.

“These are the... Parasite Beasts you mentioned?”

As if sensing the approach of a living creature, the crooked, writhing bugs all crowded against this side of the glass vessels, constantly gnawing at the surface with a series of little taps.

Thousands upon thousands!

They were extremely aggressive.

An introduction immediately appeared before Lynn’s eyes.

【Parasite Beast (Larva)】

【Level】: 1

【Category】: Flesh-and-Blood Creation

【Combat Ability】: Strong parasitic urges, high speed.

【Introduction】: A rapidly reproducing Parasite Beast developed by the Flesh and Blood Cult. It is still in its juvenile stage and has little offensive power. Once discovered, any ordinary dark creature can easily crush it, but under no circumstances should you let one enter your body...

The eyeball monster counted Skeleton Coins as he explained, “Don’t be fooled by how weak they are now. That’s because they haven’t infected anyone yet. If these little things are put into a water source and then accidentally swallowed by a flesh-and-blood creature, they can reproduce and grow rapidly in just a few days, quickly infecting an entire city...”

But before he could finish, he suddenly heard a splash.

He froze and looked up.

Then he was instantly stunned to see that, at some point, Lynn had moved in front of one of the vessels and plunged his right hand into the crimson slime.

“(ΩДΩ)!!”

“Brother, what are you doing? Didn’t I warn you not to touch anything? These things aren’t to be trifled with. If you do that, you’ll soon be...”

But he stopped.

His eyeball rolled down toward the money pouch hanging from Lynn’s waist, and his long tongue dripped with slime.

Maybe... there was no need to stop him after all. If the Parasite Beasts could eat him...

Lynn paid him no attention. At that moment, all his focus was on the vessel. He watched as the tiny parasites swarmed toward his hand, then rapidly gnawed and tore at his skin.

【Warning! Your right arm is being infected by Parasite Beasts (Larvae)!】

But Lynn paid no heed.

He kept his gaze on the bugs and deliberately adjusted his right hand to have the defensive level of a normal human.

He wanted to see just how terrifying these bugs could be.

Sss, sss, sss, sss, sss...

As Yin Yi watched, trembling and pale, the tiny “horsehair worms” wriggled through the pores of Lynn’s right hand and burrowed inside. There were so many of them that, before long, his entire hand was enveloped in bugs that had already burrowed in and those still burrowing, like a writhing sea urchin.

【Ding! Yin Yi’s SAN -5】

Lynn narrowed his eyes and slowly shifted his gaze to his arm.

Before long, winding bulges became clearly visible beneath his skin. The bugs that had burrowed into his arm were moving at incredible speed, trying to tunnel through his arm and shoulder and invade his brain.

However, Lynn casually used Flesh Calamity to sever the connection between his arm and shoulder, blocking their path.

【Ding! Flesh volume in your arm -1%】

【Ding! Flesh volume in your arm -2%】

Notifications rang out one after another. Lynn could sense that, unable to invade his brain, the bugs had begun rapidly devouring his arm from within. He gradually increased the vitality of his flesh, making more flesh sprout from his right arm for them to feed on.

He wanted to see what these Parasite Beasts would turn into after being raised on a large supply of flesh.

The seconds ticked by.

Rip!

At that very moment, Yin Yi trembled and covered her mouth. A sight that made her SAN plummet appeared before her, so horrifying that she felt utterly sick to her stomach.

The skin on Lynn’s right arm, still submerged in the vessel, began to bulge little by little before splitting open. It was as though the countless bugs inside had already undergone metamorphosis. One after another, densely packed crimson bugs, each resembling a spiderling, crawled out from within and swarmed over every part of Lynn’s arm.

“Growing stage?” A sinister smile appeared at the corner of Lynn’s mouth.

【Ding! Flesh volume in your arm -2%】

The metamorphosed bugs continued devouring his flesh in great numbers, and they were clearly much faster than the larvae had been.

In just a few minutes, the spider-like bugs had devoured enough to swell to the size of a hand. One after another, they crawled across Lynn’s arm, slowly changing into something as sanity-destroying as Facehuggers.

The eyeball monster was breathing fast as he watched the scene. He murmured, “Brother, it looks like we underestimated you. I’ve been fortunate enough to see these bugs transform before, but this is the first time I’ve seen them grow this fast... You wouldn’t happen to be a high-ranking direct favored one of the Desire Mother Tree, would you? The vitality of your flesh is far greater than I imagined...”

At first, he had thought that this creature, who wanted to hitch a ride with them and was so generous with his money, might at most be Transcendent, like their Colossus.

But now, it seemed...

He had probably misjudged.

To make those bugs grow at such a rapid rate, the vitality and sustenance in Lynn’s flesh had to be beyond what any Transcendent creature could match...

Lynn’s lips curled slightly. “Oh? Is there more to it than that?”

【Ding! Your Skeleton Coins -50】

“No need! You don’t have to pay for this question! Oh, what am I supposed to do with you? You’re far too generous, my ancestor!”

He quickly picked up the Skeleton Coins from the ground, then eagerly explained, “It’s like this. According to the instructions from our Headquarters, if an ordinary flesh-and-blood creature is infected, there’s an incubation and feeding period of three to five days. Only after taking in enough sustenance do they begin growing into the second stage, becoming what you see now.”

“Once they reach this stage, they begin their first round of egg-laying and start controlling the host’s brain, making the host unconsciously spread their eggs. But those results were only observed when they were tested inside ordinary creatures.”

“The people at Headquarters tried letting them infect Transcendent flesh-and-blood creatures. Because of the increased vitality of the flesh, the three-to-five-day period could be shortened to at most one day. But most Transcendent creatures can quickly discover that the bugs are there, so the results are generally poor...”

He blew on a Skeleton Coin in his hand and wiped it clean with his robe, then continued:

“That’s why I guessed you might be a direct descendant of the Desire Mother Goddess. In just a few minutes, you made so many larvae metamorphose into the second stage. Flesh with that kind of vitality isn’t something ordinary creatures can possess...”