Late at night, in the Pet Shop's study, Lin Xue was poring over the research journal before her by lamplight.
The journal written by the Black-Robed One did not use standard Star Spirit Language, but an ancient script resembling it. The difference was roughly like that between Mandarin and a regional dialect, which made Lin Xue's translation work somewhat difficult.
Fortunately, Vivian was right beside her, and this relatively obscure script posed no difficulty for her.
With Vivian's help, the deciphering proceeded smoothly.
"...This unknown organism separated from a Fool's body was named the 'God-Eater Beast' by the Fools. Its overall appearance resembles cotton wool, while also possessing liquid-like fluidity. It can lurk silently inside the human brain, influencing an individual's perceptions and behavior by controlling their consciousness. At the same time, it uses the human body as a 'placenta' to rapidly gestate new larvae, which spread into other Fools' bodies once fully formed..."
That was an explanatory passage on the journal's tenth page.
Before that page, the Black-Robed One had already performed nine experiments on a Fool suffering from God-Eater Beast Parasitism.
The entire journal was essentially composed of experimental accounts, each experiment recorded under a specific number, with an occasional page of summaries like this one interspersed among them.
Lin Xue flipped to the last few pages and discovered that the Black-Robed One had actually conducted more than 9,700 human experiments in total, on and off!
"Experiment No. 13... Testing the God-Eater Beast's host targets. Test subject: troll... Result: failure..."
"Experiment No. 14... Attempting to have a troll absorb a Divinity Crystal to transform it into a divine creature, then repeating the parasitism experiment. Result: failure again. Conclusion: God-Eater Beasts cannot parasitize trolls!"
"Experiment No. 27... Testing the God-Eater Beast's ability to parasitize merfolk... Result: failure...