Golden Demi-human

Wu Hen did not smell any strange odors.

He walked toward the inside of the warehouse and saw a door that was tightly shut, even secured with a lock.

Splitting the lock, Wu Hen pushed the door open.

But the moment the door opened, aside from the foul stench that rushed toward him, the scene before his eyes made Wu Hen's hair stand on end!

Those large baskets upon baskets of white grains looked like washed white rice at first glance, but upon closer inspection, one would realize that they were all insect eggs!!!

Good heavens!

These three conscience-less maggots who contracted the cafeteria had been feeding these to the students on campus!!!

Wu Hen immediately set aside his cynical attitude.

It was terrifying; this was truly too terrifying.

The campus cafeteria had been controlled by three Insect-Eyed Half-Humans.

This meant that the food everyone had been eating lately was mixed with insect eggs!

In that case, this massive campus had already evolved into a giant vat of parasitic infection.

In a few more days, the Insect-Eyed Half-Humans could hold a graduation ceremony right on the spot to present awards to these three outstanding cafeteria employees!

Wu Hen had not expected that Xiao Yi's unrealistic fantasy was actually close to becoming a reality!

I hope Ming Yi and the others find the Insect Mother Tree as soon as possible... Wu Hen could not help but start to pray.

It was too shocking!!

Wu Hen had originally thought that only those who woke up from the parasitic Soul-Resting Tree carried Pupil Worms. He never imagined that he was already at the campus anniversary celebration of a parasitic army.

Once the incubation period of the larvae passed, the demons would dance in chaos. The entire Fanshan District would likely not be enough for these parasites to gnaw on; by then, it would be a mountain of corpses and a city flowing with blood.

And the most terrifying thing about parasitic organisms was their reproductive ability. If Fanshan District had fallen, could the entire Licheng remain intact?

"Brother, what do we do now?" Yu Yu panicked for a moment.

Thinking that this entire campus had actually already been parasitized, she felt as if she were submerged in a suffocating pool of insects.

"It takes time for the insect eggs to turn into larvae. There is already an advance team on the side of the Desolate Dust searching for the Insect Mother Wood. We just need to hold on a little longer," Wu Hen said.

That was right, hold on for a little longer at most.

If he truly could not hold on, Wu Hen would not hesitate to take his sister and leave through the air-raid shelter. He could not stay here for long!

"Brother, should we try boiling some traditional Chinese medicine into a soup and have everyone drink it? It might be able to kill the insect eggs inside their bodies," Yu Yu suggested.

"Alright, let's head to the Medicine Warehouse now." Wu Hen nodded.

That was the only option left. He just hoped it would still be effective if taken after a meal.

In the Desolate Dust.

Ming Yi soared through the air. She aimed her palm at an Insect-Eyed Ancient Tree, whose white roots were spread across the ground like tangled dragons, and let out a sharp cry. A brilliant and terrifying pulse of light erupted from her palm!

The pulse of light was like the breath of a phoenix, instantly detonating the valley filled with white worm-roots and obliterating the ancient tree that was crawling with giant python-like white worms!

With the ground covered in crimson flames and fire scorching the clouds, the woman in the sparrow-red combat suit slowly drifted to the ground, panting heavily.

Captain Qin and the other team members gave her a thumbs-up, signaling that when it came to the aesthetics of violence, Queen Ming Yi was still the best!

"A pity, it wasn't the Mother Insect Tree." Ming Yi wiped the dampness from her forehead and sighed softly. "I wonder how Wu Hen is doing over there, and if he's encountered any danger..."

"That kid should be quite reliable." Although Captain Qin hadn't interacted much with Wu Hen, he could sense that the young man was no ordinary person!

"If there are still a large number of people in the incubation period within the Homeland, and we don't eradicate the Mother Insect Tree, some cities will be completely lost!" a one-eyed female team member said.

"But we don't have any leads right now. If we keep pulling them out one by one, who knows how long it will take." Captain Qin was also starting to find it difficult.

"Why don't we try contacting Wu Hen? If he finds the leader of the Insect-Eyed Half-Humans in the Homeland, we might be able to trace back which insect tree is the mother," Ming Yi suggested.

"Transmitting information between the Different Dimension and the Homeland consumes a lot of Yuan You," the one-eyed female team member said.

"It's come to this, let's not be stingy about that," Captain Qin agreed. What if Wu Hen really had a lead?

"Alright, I'll contact him immediately." Ming Yi nodded, then held out her hand to Captain Qin, asking for Yuan You.

"Didn't you just get one? Use yours first, and I'll approve the reimbursement for you later," Captain Qin said, annoyed.

"I gave that Yuan You to Wu Hen. If you want someone to work like a horse for you, how can you not give them some grass?" Ming Yi said.

Captain Qin: "????"

Is that grass of yours even legitimate?

"Take it, take it! You have to return whatever energy is left to me, and don't give me any useless nonsense!" Captain Qin was helpless and had to hand over his precious Yuan You.

Licheng Fanshan Campus.

A man with a Qilin Arm was sprinting toward the foot of the mountain.

His arm had turned the color of silver frost, and a layer of flickering Silver Thunder was attached to it.

Arriving at the warehouse at the foot of the mountain, Wu Hen and Yu Yu saw a line of Order Maintenance Personnel. Each of them held a weapon, appearing to be in a state of high alert.

Fortunately, the Medicine Warehouse had been a key protected area for the Order Maintenance Personnel from the very beginning.

The ground was littered with shell casings, and there were messy bullet holes everywhere. It seemed that some Insect-Eyed Half-Humans had attempted to force their way in, only to be turned into sieves by the powerful firepower of this unit!

As Wu Hen and Yu Yu walked over, all the gun barrels shifted toward them.

But in that instant, Wu Hen didn't feel much pressure of death. Instead, a Death Sword electric mark appeared exaggeratedly on his right hand. The entire squad of Order Maintenance Personnel had no idea that they were aiming at a living King of Hell!

"They are the Order Keepers sent from above. Lower your guns," a female Order Maintenance Personnel said.

Everyone lowered their guns one after another, sparing their own lives.

"How is it? The Medicine Warehouse hasn't been affected, right?" Wu Hen asked.

"Their true goal was indeed the Medicine Warehouse. Thanks to your timely reminder, otherwise, our manpower would have been redeployed, and this warehouse would have been destroyed," the female Order Maintenance Personnel said.

"That's good. Without further ado, have your people boil these Chinese herbs and then have everyone take them, including you Order Maintenance Personnel. This can clear the parasites from our bodies," Wu Hen said.

"Everyone??" the female Order Maintenance Personnel asked in surprise.

"Oh, you can't possibly screen them one by one. Think of the terrifying workload that would be. It's better to have everyone drink it—collective sterilization!" Wu Hen said.

Yu Yu, standing to the side, also understood perfectly and nodded vigorously.

The two siblings were truly afraid that if they told the truth, these Order Maintenance Personnel would be scared out of their wits!

It was better that only the two of them knew about the entire campus being a petri dish for parasites.

"I... should I go help boil the soup?" Wang Rui asked.

"I'll go too," Yang Qin said.

She and Wang Rui weren't good at fighting, but they could certainly handle this kind of work. Yang Qin now understood how to demonstrate her value to the team.

"En, as soon as possible!" Wu Hen nodded.

Yang Qin had performed a great service this time. If she hadn't seen that scene in the kitchen, Wu Hen wouldn't have realized that the situation had developed to such a terrifying extent.

He would definitely buy her a set of high-grade diapers later; that way, they wouldn't have to worry about running out of pants on the road ahead.

"Ahhh!!!"

"Help!!! There's a monster!!!"

"Run!!!"

Just then, cries and screams erupted once again from a building not far away.

Clearly, another Insect-Eyed Half-Human was causing chaos, and the Order Maintenance Personnel had no more manpower to spare. The female officer was exceptionally anxious; she did not want those young students to be brutally murdered.

"Brother, are we saving them or not?" Yu Yu nudged Wu Hen's arm and asked.

Wu Hen looked back, then set his gaze on the vicious Insect-Eyed Half-Human at the building.

"Of course we're saving them. We're living saints!" Wu Hen said, his fighting spirit soaring.

Mostly because Xiao Yi was crying out to be fed.

With that said, Wu Hen rushed toward the building with his sister in tow, beginning their hunt for the Insect-Eyed Half-Human.

Inside the Medicine Warehouse.

Wang Rui looked around the storage room, finally spotting the medicinal herbs Yu Yu had written down.

"This is it. Move the whole crate down," Wang Rui said to the Order Maintenance Personnel behind him.

"It looks like this is all of it. I don't know if it'll be enough to brew a soup for everyone to drink," the sturdy male officer said.

"It should be fine if it's a bit diluted, as long as it has an effect... It's a bit heavy, be careful," Wang Rui said.

"I'll help." Yang Qin squeezed in, displaying strength that a delicate woman shouldn't possess, and assisted the male officer in lifting the entire crate of medicinal herbs down.

"Yang Qin, since when were you so fierce?" Wang Rui couldn't help but laugh.

The next second, Wang Rui's smile froze!

Because he saw Yang Qin's entire head suddenly bloom open like a man-eating flower, and then, with terrifying speed, she swallowed the entire crate of medicinal herbs into her body in one gulp!!

"Parasite..." The officer nearby suddenly realized what was happening and hurriedly raised his gun to fire.

But golden mycelia sprouted from Yang Qin's arms, instantly transforming into a golden spear that viciously pierced the officer's chest!!

Blood gushed out. The officer couldn't even make a sound as he watched the golden mycelial spear grow more blades inside his body, shredding all his internal organs!!

Wang Rui was so terrified he collapsed onto the floor, but his survival instinct made him scramble backward frantically!

"You have a good relationship with Wu Hen. If you scream, I'll kill you. If you stay quiet, I'll spare your life as a hostage." Yang Qin's grotesquely opened body quickly restored itself, and she stared at Wang Rui with an eerie smile.

Wang Rui immediately covered his mouth and nodded desperately.

The iron-willed man signaled that he was willing to be a hostage!

Yang Qin's abdomen was writhing violently. She only needed a few seconds to completely digest the crate of medicinal herbs. They were harmful to insect eggs and larvae, but to someone like her who had already evolved into a Golden Fungal Body, they were just like a crate of urea—the taste was just a bit disgusting, that was all.

"Gurgle~ Gurgle~~"

However, the process of her massive stomach digesting the contents was a bit beyond what Yang Qin had expected; she felt extremely uncomfortable inside.

That shouldn't be...

At this moment, Yang Qin stared coldly at Wang Rui, sensing that he seemed to have something to say.

"Speak!" Yang Qin's entire face was covered in golden mycelium, exuding an air of wickedness while simultaneously carrying a sense of nobility, like an empress in a tomb wearing a mysterious, ancient mask.

(Author's Note: Many readers have enthusiastically suggested keeping a tally of how many lives they've lost while reading this book.)

(The vast majority died at the hands of the "delicate and pretty one" during the very first plot arc. The combined likes on those two death points reached nearly a thousand; a thousand readers have already admitted to dying at the hands of the delicate and pretty one. Others were either prepared or too stubborn to admit it.)

(In the second stage, a huge number also died at Scar-faced Uncle's side. Everyone thought the team had escaped, but it ended up being a near-total wipeout...)

(So, for this third stage involving the parasite, how many will die at the hands of Cha Cha and Yang Qin?? I will leave a note on the last line of this chapter: "Press like if you lost a life," or just type 1. Let's see if there are any experts out there who can finish the book with only one life!)

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