Chapter 107: Chapter 107: Soul Devouring Worms
Inside Huang Mao’s head, a semi-transparent worm suddenly awoke, opening its mouth to let out a soundless scream. The next moment, Huang Mao’s body trembled violently, a look of pain appearing on his face.
"What is this thing!"
Qin Tian’s expression changed slightly, instinctively channeling his spiritual power to strike at the worm.
He did not expect the worm to be surprisingly fragile, losing its life completely with just a jab of spiritual power.
At that moment, Huang Mao stopped trembling, his whole body going limp.
Qin Tian gently placed Huang Mao on the ground, a flicker of dark light flashing across his eyes.
Worm
It turned out that the cause of the town’s residents and the 137 battalion soldiers falling into a deep sleep was actually a transparent worm.
Looking at it this way, the substance in the underground spring must be the worm egg.
But exactly what species is this worm, being able to go undetected by spiritualists.
Qin Tian opened Huang Mao’s smart wristwatch, searched the entire Insect Race encyclopedia, and after browsing, he finally found the answer.
Soul Devouring Worm
This is a kind of worm that can parasitize in the human brain. When the worm egg enters the human body, it grows rapidly with the nourishment of the body, while simultaneously releasing a special hormone to confuse the body, making people automatically ignore its existence.
The Soul Devouring Worm is very terrifying, constantly influencing human thoughts and feeding on human spiritual power, gradually growing. The higher the host’s spiritual power, the faster it grows.
From Soul Devouring Worm to Soul Worm, Soul Devourer, Brain Worm, and finally to Celestial Soul Dominator, capable of easily destroying a planet.
In the thousands of years of history of the Galaxy Empire, there have been several Insect Race crises, and although they were ultimately survived, the price the Empire paid was unimaginable.
And in the battles with the Insect Race, the Soul Devouring Worm is one of the races the Empire fears the most.
Due to its unique growth characteristics, many spiritualists are unable to detect the presence of the Soul Devouring Worm, and their behaviors and thoughts would change unknowingly, gradually becoming puppets of the Insect Race.
Clearly, the person behind the scenes uses Mist Town’s military and civilians as the host body of the Soul Devouring Worm, using these ordinary people and spiritualists to cultivate it.
Without external interference, these people could not discover the Soul Devouring Worm inside them at all.
Now, Qin Tian finally understood why everyone fell into a deep sleep upon the mist’s arrival.
Why there is a continuous disappearance of people in Mist Town, yet there’s very little information seen online.
It’s not that they couldn’t discover it, but even if they did, the Soul Devouring Worm would make them overlook it.
However, during its larval stage, the Soul Devouring Worm does not have much self-awareness, and how it affects the host had to follow the instructions of a higher-tier Insect Race, meaning that there must be an upper-level Insect Race near Mist Town, possibly a Brain Worm, or something even more terrifying.
Thinking of this, Qin Tian grew more thankful for having the Body of Ten Thousand Poisons.
When the worm egg entered his body, the Body of Ten Thousand Poisons activated itself, killing all the worm eggs in the water. Otherwise, he would be carried back to the nest by the spiders, unsure of life or death like the others.
At this moment, Qin Tian suddenly thought of a question.
Zhao Nuo might not be an accomplice of the one behind the scenes, or rather he did not commit suicide willingly, but was controlled by the Soul Devouring Worm.
No, if it was this level of Soul Devouring Worm, it couldn’t control the mind of a Tier Three Spiritualist.
The worm in Zhao Nuo’s brain must be a high-level Soul Devouring Worm.
Should I check it out?
Qin Tian hesitated for a moment. If he could confirm Zhao Nuo had a Soul Devouring Worm in his mind, he could clear his name.
However, his concern was that the investigation team aimed not to uncover the truth but to detain him and hand him over to Wen Chengxian.
Besides Yan Qing, he couldn’t trust anyone.
Additionally, Zhao Nuo’s corpse is in the military camp morgue, if he goes to check it, he might be discovered by the three investigators.
After pondering for a moment, Qin Tian finally decided to inspect Zhao Nuo’s corpse.
First, to find evidence to clear his name.
Second, perhaps he could also acquire a talent related to spiritual power.
Right now, he desperately needed this kind of talent.
Of course, even if he goes, he has to consider the timing and strategy.
The night is about to fall.
When night comes, his mobility and concealment will be greatly enhanced.
By then, it would be the best time for him to take action.
Qin Tian glanced at Huang Mao under his feet, then stepped away.
About ten minutes later
Huang Mao opened his eyes, clutching his head, a look of confusion and pain in his eyes.
"Why am I here, my head hurts so much, what on earth happened."
After a moment of clearing his thoughts, some memories suddenly surged into his mind.
Huang Mao’s body stiffened, and he spoke with terror:
"Ghost City, this is a Ghost City, no, I must leave here now! Right away!"
He scrambled up, heedlessly rushed out to the street, flagged down a taxi flying device, and said nervously:
"Go, to Deep Blue City."
The driver glanced at Huang Mao, saying:
"300."
"300 is fine, just leave this ghost place quickly."
"Alright!"
The driver started the flying device, soaring it into the sky.
But ten minutes later, the flying device returned to Mist Town, stopping on a desolate hill outside the town.
The driver dragged a corpse out of the flying device, throwing it carelessly aside, a flicker of dark light flashed in his eyes.
......
The night enveloped the land.
Morgue
Under the pale light, a corpse lay on the table, wrapped in a body bag, a faint stench lingered in the air.
In a dark corner, a figure slowly emerged.
Threads of black mist flowed out from him, blocking the light. Soon, the entire morgue fell into darkness.
Qin Tian unzipped the body bag, revealing Zhao Nuo’s lifeless body.
He placed his hand on Zhao Nuo’s head, his spiritual power probing inside.
He saw, a thumb-sized blue worm lay motionless in the brain, but once spiritual fluctuation appeared, the worm instantly awoke, releasing a burst of strong spiritual power against Qin Tian.
This is——Soul Devourer
Qin Tian’s pupils tightened, a stabbing pain shot through his mind, and amidst the mental struggle with the Soul Devourer, he was actually at a slight disadvantage.
Clap
Qin Tian swiftly covered Zhao Nuo’s mouth, releasing toxic gas in one go.
The Soul Devourer, although strong in spirit, was physically fragile, plus it was still in its larval stage, unable to withstand the erosive poison, losing its life in less than two seconds.
A blue orb flew into Qin Tian’s body.
Qin Tian let out a sigh of relief and checked the talent information.
[Name]Soul Devourer (Blue)
[Type]Active Skill
[Introduction]You can release a soul seed, residing in a living being’s body, making it follow your command, meanwhile, you can also directly devour its soul, gaining memory fragments, enhancing spiritual power.
"Indeed, Zhao Nuo was controlled by the worm."
Qin Tian’s eyes sharpened, the Insect Race hadn’t appeared for over a thousand years, many have forgotten the terror they brought.
Yet, a thumb-sized Soul Devourer could make a Tier Three Spiritualist willingly commit suicide. Such a situation truly terrified Qin Tian.
"Qin Tian, you dare come back."
At this moment, a voice filled with authority resounded inside the military camp.
Immediately following, three auras locked onto Qin Tian.