Mass Gathering X Seizing the Initiative

The Parasite People's current situation is somewhat awkward.

The news that an entire city of Parasite People had been wiped out in an instant was impossible to keep secret.

After all, so many parasitic consciousnesses returned to them after their deaths.

Based on previous information, that city was the one where Kevin was located at the time.

The problem is quite complicated now.

They couldn't send anyone close to Kevin, so they couldn't find out anything about Kevin.

Because Kevin and his team were so independent, it was impossible for them to find out about Kevin's schedule through information channels from other departments.

They attempted to investigate through the transportation department and various road monitoring agencies.

Still nothing.

As for someone joining Kevin's team, that's a pipe dream, because they would be discovered as soon as they did.

As a result, Kevin's team is now completely absent from the Parasite People's intelligence network.

Kevin also has the ability to exterminate Parasite People on a large scale.

" By Beyond, he has already begun to show signs of activity."

Biscuit received the message and said.

Beyond, acting as bait, is playing his role perfectly.

"He's right. It's only been a day since his information was leaked, and the Parasite People in this city has increased by nearly five thousand."

Kevin and his friends are currently in a small border town with a population of less than 300,000.

Currently, there are over 26,000 Parasite People in the city.

The proportion is too high.

Because it's close to the Boundary and has a sparse population, Beyond chose this location as bait.

"I still think that with Pariston's brains, he should realize this is a trap," Qiduo couldn't help but say.

Although Pariston is a disgusting character who can rival King.

But that doesn't mean Pariston isn't a strong person.

In every respect, Pariston can be considered a strong man.

"In this matter, trust Beyond. He wouldn't joke around with his future. If he wants the best result, he has to be perfect."

Kevin said directly.

Beyond's yearning for the Dark Continent led him to seek the best judgment, which was exile.

He must produce sufficient results.

If you can't even do a good job of being the bait to finally demonstrate your value, then there's no need for exile.

This is why they all choose to believe in Beyond.

It's not that I believe in his character.

Instead, they believed in his conviction.

" By Beyond has already appeared; don't you want to drag him into the Abyss?"

Pariston, now in a pure white space, looked at the large number of Shadow Creature in front of him and asked.

None of the Shadow Creature spoke, but their meaning was clear: overwhelming hatred.

"A bunch of mute people who can't speak."

--

Pariston cursed, waved his hand, and all the black shadows sank into the bottom of the pure white space and disappeared.

He was the only one left in the completely white space.

He just stood there.

His expression became somewhat distorted.

He had too many emotions that needed to be released.

Despite having his personality replaced, he didn't feel like a different person; instead, a seed of hatred was planted in his heart.

What he accepted in his heart was the hatred of the thousand people who were sacrificed on the Dark Continent.

This is why, when he was engulfed by the Shadow Creature and attacked by these Parasite People, he could feel an overwhelming hatred.

Because he was one of the instigators.

When he became one of the Parasite People, he also began to hate Beyond and those who started it all.

They began to hate humans, and all living things of their own kind.

But he still retains the mindset he once had as a human being.

He was born a non-human monster.

They cannot derive emotions from normal human feelings.

The most important source of happiness comes from the hatred of others.

This makes it difficult for Pariston to truly hate or despise others.

What he craves is the hatred and disgust of others.

Now no one hates him, and no one resents him.

As the most intelligent of all the Parasite People, he ironically became the leader and the one who took responsibility.

He felt a sense of responsibility for revenge.

Disgusting.

His heartfelt hatred and vengeance towards Beyond made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

His inhuman inner world allowed him to clearly perceive the changes within himself.

" By Beyond, you suddenly exposed your whereabouts, especially in this small border town, so obviously. Did you use yourself as bait?"

Pariston muttered to himself, for he had seen through Beyond's scheme with remarkable ease.

Or Beyond never liked to use underhanded tactics; when faced with situations where underhanded tactics were easily thwarted, he preferred to use open strategies.

Just like now.

Even knowing that Beyond was definitely hiding something as bait, Pariston had no intention of holding back; he wanted to lead these Parasite People straight into a trap.

As expected, Kevin is definitely in this city as well.

A week has passed.

The number of Parasite People in the city is increasing at an alarming rate.

Currently, various departments within the city are relocating non-parasites out of the city limits.

There were no Parasite People to stop it.

They even assisted with this activity while on duty.

Humans and Parasite People thus entered into a highly tacit understanding.

--

All the Parasite People knew that Beyond was hiding in the city.

But after occasionally revealing himself, Beyond would quickly disappear, making it impossible to find any trace of him.

Once a group of people is sent out, Beyond will be able to reappear for a period of time.

To get rid of him, we must send the normal people out of the city.

As a result, during this period, with its own numbers at their peak, the Parasite People temporarily suspended its parasitism of others.

"It's truly incomprehensible. Has the hatred these Parasite People feel for Beyond reached such a level? Their hatred for Beyond has surpassed their desire to destroy the entire human race."

Qiduo couldn't understand the situation at all.

The infection of the Undying disease, Zobae, is so complex that it's difficult to understand what exactly is at play.

Why does this happen? What is the mindset of the person being parasitized?

Kevin, who had been sitting in the chair, opened his eyes.

"The number of Parasite People in the city has reached 120,000."

"Aren't we almost surrounded by these Parasite People?"

Gon looked out the window and couldn't help but say something.

Pedestrians come and go on the street outside the window.

And now at least half of them have become Parasite People.

"According to traffic data, a large number of Parasite People have also accumulated in the surrounding cities and Small Town. The total number of Parasite People in the surrounding area may have exceeded 500,000."

In other words, Kevin has essentially been exposed, even though they have never seen Kevin appear in the sight of any of the Parasite People.

To avoid being wiped out by Kevin, these Parasite People, although they surrounded him, did not live in the same city as Kevin.

"It's time to close the net. The Parasite People in the city hasn't increased for two days. They're simply multiplying naturally and driving other normal people out of the city."

Kurapika looked at the information on his Notebook and shook his head with a sigh.

"One hundred Professional Hunter have been parasitized; for the Hunter Association, this is undoubtedly a major blow."

The entire Hunter Association only has about six hundred Professional Hunter in total, and now one-sixth of them have been cut.

This is just the beginning.

How much more is hidden within is simply unknown.

"Pariston, as a former member of the Twelve Zodiacs, possesses a considerable amount of information about the Hunter Association."

Qiduo said somewhat angrily.

"Let's get started."

There's no point in waiting any longer.

Kevin can now explore the "circle" limit of up to 800 kilometers using this Phosphor Powder.

In other words, not only the city he is currently in, but also the surrounding cities are under his control.

Beyond was indeed a perfect bait.

Although the Parasite People gathered around are certainly not all, and may even be less than half, eliminating such a large group at once can greatly slow down their continued growth.

Furthermore, almost all of these Nen user were dispatched to surrounding cities, or even within those cities themselves.

They weren't strong enough to beat Beyond.

Without a closed environment, they seem unable to Beyond and replace his mind.

Especially now that we've already alerted them.

This is an obvious trap, but these Parasite People are determined to jump in.

Just as Kevin raised his hand, preparing to exterminate all the marked Parasite People.

"Call out!"

A strange sound suddenly reached my ears.

The whole world turned black and white.

No.

Or rather, all the Parasite People committed suicide in an instant.

"Our actions were foreseen."

Sure enough, the most troublesome thing happened.

Kevin looked at the pure white space he was in, just like when he had entered his own Dreamscape.

But they are completely different.

This time, he didn't feel a Dreamscape sense of unreality; instead, it felt much more real.

She blinked.

The conclusion drawn was that he seemed to have entered the black and white space in his true form.

Shadow Creature gathered in front of them, and then a figure appeared.

A guy I don't know.

"Truly powerful. We paid such a high price just to trap you in this space."

The gathering of so many Parasite People was partly due to their immense hatred for Beyond, and partly to target Kevin.

Pariston didn't know just how strong Kevin was, so to prevent any unforeseen circumstances, all the Parasite People who were willing to come were released from their restrictions.

Even if it means being exposed, it's worth it.

"The price? What kind of price? Most human Succession Ceremony use humans themselves as sacrifices, and the so-called sacrifices, besides human life, are naturally human souls."

"You Parasite People born from the Undying disease have no concept of the soul, do you?"

Whether it was the Machine Lifeform that once existed on the Dark Continent, or the bodies of those in the human world suffering from the Undying disease.

This has already been proven.

The moment a human is parasitized, the soul ceases to exist, or rather, the soul has been twisted into something else.

Human Succession Ceremony originate from human life and soul, and from human emotions.

They cannot perform the Succession Ceremony without these things.

"But it's really rare. You're the first Parasite People that's willing to stay within my sight and have a proper conversation with me."

"It's really disappointing that your companions committed suicide one by one when they saw me."

Kevin wasn't in a hurry. He just stood there, quietly looking at the other person, as if they were having a conversation.

The stranger opposite Kevin smiled when he heard what Kevin said.

"There's no way around it, you're just too terrifying. It's hard to believe that a human could wipe out tens of thousands of targets in a city in an instant."

Previously, I was just afraid that Kevin might get some information from them or from them.

That is, until Kevin demonstrated his ability to instantly eliminate a large number of Parasite People in another city.

They were the ones who truly felt fear.

Do you also feel scared?

"Of course, we are still human after all, aren't we? It's just that we have more hatred for humanity in our hearts."

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The other party seemed to think that Kevin was really under control and was willing to talk more.

"Now you understand, right? This space can't control me for long. What's the point of going to such great lengths just to control me for a short period?"

It couldn't be that they wanted to take this opportunity to infiltrate and Biscuit and the others.

To be honest, having known they possessed this ability all along, Kevin naturally prepared the corresponding medicine to help Biscuit and the others fight against this parasite.

In addition, it bears the eye mark of Pairo.

The only pity is Nion's Prophecy Poem.

Before taking action, they naturally obtained a prophecy from Nion.

The results should not present any major problems.

However, it was not predicted that Kevin would be controlled within this space.

Clearly, this targeted control was timed perfectly.

The other side only reacted the instant Kevin was about to act.

It doesn't seem to be some kind of prophetic Nen ability, but rather some kind of preemptive strike targeting a specific event.

Nen ability are, after all, incredibly diverse.

There might also be prophecies that are blocked.

Although Kevin and his group had kept Nion's Nen ability hidden all along, secrets can't stay hidden forever, especially with the terrifying information-gathering methods of Parasite People.

" By Beyond —you paid such a high price just to trap me here and then kill Beyond?"

Kevin suddenly seemed to understand something and asked somewhat uncertainly.

The other person didn't speak, but simply looked at Kevin with calm eyes, though the hatred emanating from them was unmistakable.

It really is true.

All that effort to trap Kevin was just to kill Beyond.

Is there really that much hatred?

"Why? Why do you hate Beyond to this extent?"

Kevin had already heightened his emotions, but he hadn't expected these Parasite People to be even more terrifying than he had imagined.

No wonder he's so much more confident Beyond.

"This is the Resentment of the first thousand who died—"

Upon hearing this, Kevin immediately understood.

If we trace the origin of all Undying disease, we must trace it back to the first thousand people who died.

The condition for the emergence of the Undying disease is that a large number of people of the same race die.

The larger the population of a race, the more likely it is to have a large number of deaths; this is the mechanism that governs population size.

In reality, given the weakness of humans, even if there were two or three thousand of them, it wouldn't be enough to trigger a targeted mechanism.

But there's nothing we can do; given the small number and low quality of humans, and the fact that exploration forces us to venture into the most dangerous places...

The deaths of a thousand people in a short period of time suddenly activated the Undying disease.

These Undying disease were mixed with their resentment.

Those thousand people who were sacrificed.

This should be the characteristic of the Undying disease. If it is a life form without much emotion, then the only characteristic of the Undying disease is the desire to destroy its own kind, because they are born from the death of their kind.

When a life form like humans, with its excessive emotions, emerges, these emotions can even coalesce into Resentment, which then transforms into hatred.

That's how Resentment can sometimes be—its goals are extremely extreme, and based on these extreme goals, Resentment can be exploited.

Therefore, every Parasite People that is infected inherits the Resentment that existed when the Undying disease was first created.

Beyond is the top priority target.

Therefore, as long Beyond dies, the Undying disease will be equivalent to gaining freedom.

Only then can they truly dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the destruction of the human race.

"Looks like I really need to find a way to get out."

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Kevin clenched his fist as he spoke, gathering his strength.

The man's expression changed from calm to panic, and finally to terror.