Seeing the insect, Cleopatra was not surprised.
"You're truly a pitiful bug now. Did you think I couldn't do anything to you? Unfortunately, with His help, I can replace you at any time now."
She reached out and seized the insect.
The insect seemed to have yet to regain consciousness and continued twitching.
The insect was entirely white, its surface slick like fatty meat. It had countless pairs of black legs, while where its head should have been was a layered mouthpart filled with countless tiny teeth.
The insect had no eyes, giving off an eerie feeling.
Cleopatra knew that this was Plato.
Once the insect left the body, the corpse rapidly aged and decayed, turning to dust in the blink of an eye.
This was the secret of the Wasteland Saints.
The so-called Saints were merely created by unusually special insects.
These insects were initially only the size of mung beans and could be implanted into human bodies through certain special means.
As the insects matured, they fed on the human brain, eventually devouring all the cerebral matter.
During this process, the human will fused with the insect, ultimately becoming the insect.
At that point, the symptoms of Crystallization Sickness disappeared. At the same time, they gained supernatural power, surpassing those who still had crystals in their bodies.
This was easy to understand. In the Otherworld, pollution was power, and Crystallization Sickness itself was a form of pollution. To resist the side effects brought by Crystallization Sickness, one had to endure even more severe pollution.
A Saint's pollution far exceeded that of an ordinary person.
These insects could survive for decades or even centuries. At the end of their lives, they laid Larval Sacs and then died. Once the Larval Sacs were implanted into a new host, they would