The Sheep's Story

Li Luo's records were very thorough, but there was one thing she had failed to notice.

In Mo Ling's perception, deep within the flesh of that Shock Beast was a long red worm.

The worm was not thick, as thin as a strand of hair, wriggling through the Shock Beast's flesh.

With every pulse of the Shock Beast's flesh, the red worm wriggled its body and squeezed deeper in.

The fangs on its head constantly gnawed at the flesh, while the flesh kept healing.

Was this healing ability also brought about by the red worm?

Mo Ling could not determine whether the red worm was a parasite that had originally existed inside the Shock Beast or the cause of its abnormality.

He could not operate the electronic screen or look up detailed information about the worm. It seemed he would have to rely on Li Luo.

"I need to find a way to remind her."

The chunk of flesh Mo Ling had just stripped away happened to be where the worm was.

Any living thing affected by Mo Ling's teleportation would die immediately.

After being stripped away, the chunk of flesh containing the worm's corpse was tossed by Mo Ling into a conspicuous spot, but Li Luo did not notice it.

That Flesh Slime was simply too conspicuous. Even Mo Ling himself had been distracted by it.

The red worm was extremely tiny and similar in color to the flesh.

If not for his special perception, Mo Ling would have had trouble noticing it too.

Let alone Li Luo, who was still completely unaware.

How could he make Li Luo notice something so tiny?

As he pondered this, another Shock Beast entered Mo Ling's field of view.

As his vision delved deeper, Mo Ling found that familiar red worm within this Shock Beast's flesh as well.

This Shock Beast was also abnormally sensitive. It turned its body and charged toward Li Luo.

Perfect. Mo Ling intended to change tactics.

He aimed at the upper parts of the Shock Beast's legs and activated teleportation.

Smooth cuts appeared at the roots of its legs, slicing the slender Shock Beast cleanly in two.

The spherical Metal Mesh, having lost its support, flew out of thin air and rolled all the way to Li Luo's feet.

Like the first one, this Shock Beast's spherical chunk of flesh continued to thrash madly on the ground despite having no chance of winning.

If the Metal Mesh had not restrained it, the flesh would have already leaped out and attacked.

Mo Ling tossed the empty can onto the metal block.

With a clang, it caught Li Luo's attention.

Then he squeezed the Teleportation Frame down to its absolute limit and aimed it at the area containing the red worm.

When Li Luo looked toward the can on the metal block, a cube of flesh the size of a bottle cap appeared inside the can out of thin air.

"She should notice it now, right?"

Sure enough, Li Luo's attention was completely focused on the can.

Mo Ling fixed his vision on the chunk of flesh inside the can and began an even more meticulous operation.

He kept cutting along the worm's edges, forcibly carving it into a long strip.

Perfect!

At that moment, only a long strip of flesh remained in the can, with a red thread clearly visible inside it.

It was the dead worm.

Seeing the changes in the chunk of flesh before her, Li Luo's eyes lit up.

She hurriedly aimed the Recording Device at the can and took out tweezers and gloves from behind the vehicle.

Carefully, she extracted the red worm from the scant remaining flesh and preserved it in a transparent box.

After finishing all this, Li Luo gave the Cube a meaningful look, seemingly intrigued by what it had just done.

However, Mo Ling was not worried.

He knew that such obvious, precise manipulation would certainly arouse Li Luo's suspicions.

But that was also an opportunity for him to test humanity's attitude in this world.

Yet Li Luo did not seem to find anything strange about it.

After taking off her gloves, she gently patted the metal block again, seemingly very satisfied with Mo Ling's actions.

"Not bad. What else do you want to eat?" Li Luo asked, looking as though she truly wanted to communicate with the metal block.

This was bad. Things were going in the wrong direction!

Mo Ling quickly played dead and gave no response.

Even when Li Luo took out more food this time, he did not choose anything.

Instead, when Li Luo saw that the food had not disappeared, a disappointed expression appeared on her face.

She took out the electronic screen. Rather than recording the red worm first, she opened another notebook.

"Iron Block's disliked foods: wasabi crackers, herring-flavored chips, canned sweet-and-sour pig brains, Sichuan pepper QQ gummies, snail shell powder, fragrant chicken beaks, Red Bull rice cakes..."

Li Luo recorded the names of every food item she had just placed on the metal block.

Only then did she begin searching for information on the red worm.

After seeing that notebook, Mo Ling's thoughts came to a halt.

Should I be moved?

As Li Luo searched,

information about the red worm in the flesh appeared on the electronic screen—

Red String Worm.

During the Great Cataclysm, people discovered this creature on Earth for the first time.

At the time, it had emerged from the Abyss and was parasitizing a sheep. That sheep tried every day to escape its pen.

It even smashed itself bloody against the walls.

After the farm's Master noticed the sheep's abnormal behavior, he merely thought it had some sort of illness and wanted to kill it.

But after the butcher's blade came down, the sheep's wound slowly healed.

The Master was so frightened that he immediately called the police.

Signs of the Great Cataclysm had already appeared by then, and this zombie-like undead creature caused widespread panic.

The military surrounded the farm, cleared out all the other sheep, and captured this one.

During the research process, people discovered the worm in the sheep's brain.

The worm controlled the sheep, making it travel in one direction without stopping.

When it was struck by the butcher's blade, the worm gave the sheep the ability to heal itself.

When researchers burned it with fire, the sheep gradually adapted to the flames and no longer feared high temperatures.

Confined within the laboratory, the sheep grew stronger and stronger. One day, it even rammed open the steel plate holding it captive.

When they gave the sheep no food, the worm made it begin photosynthesis.

The sheep was evolving.

If it was not allowed to move toward the place it wanted to go, the sheep would continue evolving until nothing could stop it.

They tried to remove the worm, but after it was removed, an identical worm appeared in the sheep's brain.

The sheep had healed the worm as well.

Finally, the laboratory made a decision—they would release the sheep.

They wanted to see where the sheep was trying to go.

The sheep was eventually placed on North Island, New Zealand.

The moment it regained its freedom, the sheep walked straight toward the shore.

It jumped from the cliff by the sea and was nearly killed by the fall.

After healing, the sheep began crossing the Pacific Ocean, heading northeast.

After drowning in the sea, it learned how to swim, and its body gradually took on the shape of a dolphin.

At first, it swam slowly and was swept by the South Equatorial Current to the Solomon Islands.

It continued swimming out at sea, but halfway through, it was carried by the North Equatorial Current and the Kuroshio Current to Japan.

Then it swam faster and faster. Fins began growing on its legs as it passed through the Bering Strait and entered Canada from Alaska.

It then entered the Arctic Circle before traveling from Baffin Bay to Greenland.

Along the way, the sheep was hunted and killed by all kinds of predators. It kept healing, only leaving after feeding its predators full.

It arrived in the ice-covered waters north of Greenland.

Amid the endless white snow, it found a polar bear.

Then it climbed onto its back.