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Chapter 79 Parasitic
[You sent a trade invitation to player 'Brother Gluten'...]

It didn't take a few seconds.

Brother Gluten immediately accepted Chen Ye's invitation.

Soon, the message panel on the side popped up a message from the other party——

【Brother Gluten: "Fuck, it turned out to be Mr. Chen Ye. How could you apply for a deal... Hahaha, I almost thought I was wrong, it seems to be really you!"]

【Chen Ye: "Calm down, I'm here to ask about that bug."】

[Brother gluten: "Is the boss interested in that bug? It's just right! No one paid attention to it after hanging it for a day. Basically no one would be interested in this disgusting thing, and they can't get it to eat. If the boss wants to If so, it can be delivered for free."]

【Chen Ye: "Thank you, free is not very good, I'll pay a copper coin."】

Ding!
The transaction was successful!

At this moment, in front of Chen Ye appeared a pitch-black, half-meter-long beetle with a burnt case and several ravaged marks on its body.

Its shape is like a hedgehog, and the tip of its mouth is like an electric drill, with good penetrating ability.

It is said that when the player became a living dead, a beetle drilled a hole from the back of his head and crawled out.

The vitality of the beetle is very tenacious. It was beaten by a group of boys and girls at the riverside party. They kicked each of them like a football for half an hour. No life.

"Monster sequence?"

Chen Ye maintained a wandering pace, paced back and forth, circled the beetle 360 ​​degrees, and observed it carefully.

Generally speaking, most of the creatures in the sea area are related to the [Monster] sequence.

Creatures of this sequence have various extraordinary life structures. The top [monsters] can even give birth to the form of mythical dragons, and their bodies are comparable to gods.

But according to the information from the Strange Era, the sea is controlled by the sons of the sea god, and it is an area with order.

The form of this beetle, as if fused with the [Demon] sequence, exudes an ominous pollution atmosphere.

Check with the pupil of luck...

Chen Ye also found that inside the beetle, there were tiny black lines that were constantly wriggling.

Take a closer look, the black lines are like maggots, twisting their bodies under the transparent film, full of life!
This time...but I fell into unknown territory.

Generally speaking, the existence form of demons is not used in the structure of life, but this soft-shelled turtle clearly has life, but it feels like it is completely distorted.

Could it be another new species brought by the new dungeon?
"Perhaps, I can use the characteristics of [Devil's Cooking] to dissect this beetle..."

The characteristics of [Devil Cuisine] endowed Chen Ye with a strong ability to recognize various ingredients, including all kinds of weird, polluted, and never-before-seen ingredients.

According to the morphological characteristics, the utilization value of the food material can be analyzed.

Although this beetle is a novel species that has never been seen in the strange era, its life form is like a [monster], but at the same time it has the characteristics of a [demon], revealing an ominous atmosphere.Moreover, after the player ate the barbecue, it suddenly came out from the back of the head...

Chen Ye needed to learn more about the source of this thing, so as to make a judgment on the current environment in the lower reaches of the Xijiang River, as well as the ink and blood that lingered in the halo of luck.

boom!
In the next second, his face burst open, turning into demonic vines, entwining the entire beetle.

The sharp black knife on the side teeth, like cutting tofu, directly cut the hard scales covering the beetle's back, exposing pieces of charred meat inside.

The devil's vines are constantly entwining the entire beetle. While chewing, they use their rich nerve senses to obtain information about this ingredient:
"The quality of the meat is good, it tastes like chicken, and the texture is as crisp as a smoothie."

"But it should be noted that the blood of this creature is infected. Moreover, the neural network that connects the various muscle groups is a parasite. If you eat it, this parasite cannot be eliminated [Gluttony] Killed by ordinary digestive abilities outside the sequence, it will drill into the brain along with the blood vessels, thereby parasitizing the neural network of the new host, and even turning the host's nerves into similar parasites to achieve the purpose of manipulation."

"But the way this parasite exists is very special. It's not a complete organism, it's more like..."

"Eggs!"

"Perhaps, this kind of beetle is completely hatched from these eggs, absorbing the energy of the entire host body, and thus giving birth to the insect king!"

Click!Click!
A creepy chewing sound came from Chen Ye's huge mouthparts.

Black sticky blood continued to drip on the ground as the side teeth decomposed.

blah blah blah!blah blah blah!
In addition to the sound of black blood dripping, there were streaks of black bugs falling on the pool of black blood covered on the ground, twitching, wriggling, and dying.

However, pieces of scales that fell in mid-air happened to hit the wriggling nematode, smashed into flat pieces, it bounced a few times, and never moved again.

at last……

Chen Ye completed the thorough decomposition of the beetle.

The tentacle-like demonic vines slowly closed, reorganizing into a delicate face.

After picking out the inedible parts...

At this moment, what is in front of Chen Ye can be roughly divided into three parts.

The first part is the fat layer and muscle group under the scales of the beetle. When all the eggs of nerve bugs are picked out, the color of the meat will be milky white, but the surface is covered with many round holes. , like puffed cheese.

The taste of these meats is very good, and it is more high-grade than pine nuts. Even at normal supply and demand prices, they can be sold for twenty or thirty copper coins per catty.

It can be treated as normal meat.

The second part is part of the cartilage, which is crispy after being grilled by charcoal, the scales that can be crushed by teeth, and the mouth like an electric drill.

These parts are more difficult to eat. They need to be grilled at high temperature, beaten into rice crusts, sprinkled with cumin and salt, and fried until crispy. The taste is similar to the skeleton of charcoal-grilled chicken.

It's just... the color is a bit darker, but thinking that devil cuisine needs a little "devil's color", it seems that this thing can be sprinkled on the surface of the ingredients for some artistic "coloring" treatment.

The third part is the brain of the beetle.However, the shape of the meninges is a big half-moon-shaped eyeball, which requires two hands of an adult to hold it around.

The taste of big eyeballs is a bit slippery, like fish belly, the taste is fishy, ​​but it is very fragrant and sweet.

If it is used for marinating and then cut into slices, it will have the taste of eating preserved eggs.

at this time.

After the complete decomposition, Chen Ye had some clues about the origin of the beetle.

"This should be an ordinary sharp-billed saber-toothed fish under the deep sea. There are shadows of parasitism in it, but the life structure has changed. If it is an ordinary parasitism, it will not have the effect of changing the original life structure... ..."

"If I remember correctly, there is a copy of one of the biochemical classes in the strange era, which is related to parasitism."

"Parasite is the nemesis of [monsters]. They can directly manipulate the nerves of creatures and control them..."

"This eyeball-shaped brain is a distorted life form. It has no meninges, no center, and no nerves. There is only one eyeball left, which moves instinctively..."

"The owners of the barbecue stalls are probably also controlled by parasites, and they specially made this dangerous food to expand the scope of infection!"

However, when Chen Ye killed the Dark Chef and the Gluttonous Giant, he did not see similar bugs crawling out.

Thinking about it now, their behavior is more like being parasitized.

Could it be that……

The way they are controlled by parasites is more advanced?
(End of this chapter)