Air.
Two words, light and weightless.
Yet they exploded like a thunderclap inside the room, leaving everyone's ears ringing and their expressions drastically changed.
Air?
The air they breathed every moment?
The air they depended on to survive?
In other words...
Every breath they took concealed a deadly danger?
Something that could turn people into monsters?
Cao Xianming waved his hand. The data model spun rapidly, countless lines converging until they formed a clear Light Screen.
On the Light Screen, a line of glaring red figures stung their eyes and chilled their hearts.
[Transmission route: air → Probability: 99%]
99%.
It was practically a foregone conclusion.
Before anyone could recover from that staggering revelation, Cao Xianming calmly took a clean mask from inside his clothes and slowly put it on, covering the lower half of his face.
He adjusted his Gold-rimmed Glasses. His tone was flat, but every word struck at their hearts, every sentence pushing them further into the abyss:
"For now, I've named them... Corpse Worms."
"They're too small to see with the naked eye. They float in the air, blending into it, penetrating every gap."
"As long as you breathe normally, you'll inhale them without noticing."
"Once inside the human body, they reproduce rapidly, dividing into countless tiny, maggot-like creatures that devour the internal organs, twist the flesh, and reshape the bones, ultimately transforming a living, normal person into a mindless monster filled with nothing but eeriness and ferocity."
"I can't calculate these creatures' fundamental nature, weaknesses, or origins."
The room fell deathly silent.
Even their breathing became cautious and terrified.
"What's even more frightening..." Cao Xianming paused, slowly sweeping his gaze over everyone present, his tone grave. "I've calculated the probability of parasitization for everyone here."
"Every one of us has some chance of