Chapter 34 Parasite

"What is this?" The Son of the Night was shocked when he saw what I summoned. Thirty-nine snow monsters were lined up in a row. It was really spectacular!

"These are snow monsters, ice-type dark creatures, absolute fire brigade!" I turned around and nodded to the snow monsters. All the snow monsters immediately faced the burning woods and began to cast spells. They used very advanced combined magic. Ice and snow. The biggest advantage of this magic is that the attack range is super large. However, it seems a bit reluctant for 39 snow monsters to use this magic. The power of the magic seems to have dropped significantly, but it is enough to extinguish the fire.

Seeing the fire solidify in an instant, even the thick smoke in the sky was frozen into black snowflakes falling to the ground again. For a while, the entire forest was filled with black goose feather snow. That look is definitely unforgettable. !

"Look!" The Son of the Night pointed at the tree trunk and called me.

Only then did I notice the big tree. The original trunk was basically burned out, but the light green crystal stood there with a faint light. It seemed that this so-called crystal was not afraid of fire at all. Now most of the forest is filled with these strange crystals standing one by one, with no tree trunks at all!

"It's everywhere now, take whatever you want!" Night's Son joked.

"I didn't expect it to happen like this. If I had known it, I wouldn't have put so much effort into cutting down the tree. I could have just burned it."

"Then put all these things away now?"

"OK!"

The half of the forest that was burned by the fire is completely full of crystals standing there. I just need to remove them one by one. Similarly, because we didn’t know how much was needed, we simply took the longer ones to the shorter ones until Yeying couldn’t carry them anymore.

After collecting the crystals, we hurried back. We have only spent more than 3 hours so far. It seems that the time given by the Necromancer is still very generous. When we returned to the cemetery, we saw Deken standing there stupidly.

"You're back so soon?" Deken seemed a little unbelievable when he saw us, but when he saw the mountain-like crystal on the back of Ye Ying behind us, he was immediately stunned. "Oh my gosh! So many! So...so good! Now my experiment can be completed!"

"And this!" I also gave the ore to Deken. "I didn't know how much you needed, so I just took these. Is it enough?"

Seeing me pour out nearly 5 tons of ore, Deken's jaw dropped. He dragged his chin up with his bone hand and said, "How did you get so many?"

I flash my bracelet. "This is Clark's, don't you remember?"

Deken suddenly realized and said: "You said Clark's infinite space wrist wheel! He actually gave this thing to you! What is your relationship?"

"I'm his foster brother!"

"No wonder!" Deken looked at the ores on the ground. He originally wanted to put them on himself, but when he realized there were too many things, he said to me: "Put these things away first, and then follow me!"

"Okay!" I quickly collected the ore and followed him out.

Deken actually didn't take us very far. His destination was the cemetery we saw at the beginning. There was also a tombstone of Deken there, and this tombstone turned out to be Deken's current residence, close to where we found it. The straight-line distance from that treasure point is no more than 0 meters! Deken said as he walked: "I actually lived in the town. Later, I accidentally learned that the loyal bones I needed were buried here, so I often came here to study, but you also know this place. The distance from the village was really too far, so I simply settled here and settled down.”

"Home?"

"Of course it's home! I'm a necromancer, where else would I live if not in a cemetery?"

"That's right!" I actually forgot! The necromancer is basically a kind of dead person, and it is understandable that he lives in a purpose.

"That's it!" Deken suddenly stopped, with his own tombstone at his feet. He just clicked on his name, and the entire tombstone suddenly moved back to reveal a one-meter-square hole. Below the hole was a long staircase that led directly to the deep underground. "Come in! The last person closes the door!"

Following Deken into the passage under the cemetery, the Night Child finally came in and closed the door. As the door closed, a row of magic flames suddenly lit up in the underground passage. The dark basement was instantly illuminated. Although the light was still relatively dark, it had no effect on seeing!

"What is this?" I suddenly saw a lot of small bugs crawling on the wall. They looked similar to my tanks, but the largest ones were only one inch long, and were as long as a hundred meters in full body form. Tanks are incomparable!

Deken casually grabbed one and showed me its belly. The mouth of this little thing had a pair of very huge pincers for its size, and its six legs all grew into sickles. It looks like it's very aggressive. After I finished reading, he put the little thing back on the wall. "This thing is called Dark Pincer, a level 5 creature. It is usually very quiet, but if their owner, that is, me, uses magic to direct them to attack, these things can eat a mammoth in an instant! Even though they are small, But their appetite is very huge. If necessary, they can eat the whole city and even the rocks! Although level 5 is weak, the quantity can make up for the lack of level."

"Are there such terrible things?" The Son of the Night also heard our conversation.

"Do all necromancers have this skill?" I am also very worried about this skill. If all necromancers have this skill, then it will be okay. There is nothing these bugs can't eat. Even if I bring a dragon, it doesn't matter. Even if I was caught by them, there would still be no bones left. Of all the magic pets I have, I think only Tank and Xiaofeng are not afraid of them. The tank was too hard for them to chew on, and Xiaofeng's body was full of fire, so they couldn't get on it at all.

Deken's words finally relieved my doubts. He pulled down the collar of his clothes and showed me the back of his neck. I saw something like a ruby ​​almost embedded in his skin. "see it?"

"See it!" I reached out and touched the little thing. The surface was very smooth, and the ice felt very good, but I seemed to vaguely feel out that there was a crack in the middle of the red thing. . "What is this? The ruby ​​that controls them?"

Deken said: "Take your hand away and I'll let it open the shell and show it to you."

As soon as I took my hand away, I saw that the "ruby" actually opened from the middle. Night Child and I were immediately stunned. That was not a ruby ​​at all. This is a beetle, and the shiny red part is just the elytra of this beetle. After opening the elytra, we can see a beetle with a huge abdomen below. Of course, the so-called huge is only relative to the size of the beetle itself. The abdomen of this beetle is not completely outside. I can clearly see that part of the beetle's abdomen is deeply 'inserted' into Deken's body, and it feels like this insect has completely become Deken. a part of.

"Is this the thing that controls those bugs?" The Son of the Night finally recovered from his surprise.

The beetle's elytra closed again, and it turned into a beautiful "ruby" again. Deken touched the shell to confirm that it was closed, and then he pulled his clothes back up. "This is the female insect, very beautiful, isn't it?"

"Mother?"

"Well! How should I put it? The mother worm is somewhat similar to the queen bee in the hive. All members of the entire group are the offspring of this mother worm. In other words, these small dark stem worms are all the children of this mother worm. But this Only this female bug in the group can reproduce, and the other bugs are neutral, that is, neither male nor female. When the female bug needs to reproduce, there will be many male bugs left. When the male bugs grow up, they will mate with the female bugs. After mating, the female can reproduce continuously for a year, but the male will die immediately after mating."

"What if the female insect dies?" The Son of Night asked a strange question.

"The mother worm and the host, which is me, are one. If the mother worm dies, then I must die! If the mother worm dies, the entire group will be disbanded immediately, and every bug will mutate into a mother worm. These The mutated females will quickly search for suitable hosts in all directions, and as long as one of these females finds a new host, the population can be repopulated immediately."

I sighed: "A race too terrible to be wiped out!"

"How do you say it?" Both Night Child and Deken were attracted by my words.

"The entire group is equivalent to a living thing. Any individual in it is very important to become a group, and any individual in the group can be discarded. If you want to eliminate this group, you must eliminate all members of this group. Individuals, but this is almost impossible. According to chaos theory, the success rate of completely annihilating a race is lower than the probability of being hit by a meteorite while walking on the road! Therefore, this race cannot be annihilated, and as long as they are not annihilated, they You can regenerate into a group. And if many of the scattered female insects find hosts, then this group will actually become bigger and bigger!"

"No way!" Deken interrupted me. "Once the parasitism of the first female insect to find the host ends, the other female insects will immediately turn into soldiers and gather towards it. A group will be restored! Although I don't know now how they know who is first in such a large range. They are parasitic, but it seems that they have this ability. Moreover, the way their mother worms control them is similar to telepathy. No matter how far away or blocked by something, the mother worms always have a way to contact their children. "

"This thing has penetrated into your skin. Doesn't it hurt?" The child of the night seemed to be very afraid of this.

"When parasitizing, you will feel a little itchy, but when the parasitism is over, you won't feel it anymore. It's like you have grown something extra and completely become a part of your body! After parasitism, the female worm will 'insert' its central nervous conduit into the host's spine." Then the female insect has established the most direct neural connection with you, and it can directly feel your thoughts, so it only needs to give orders to think seriously, and it is one with you."

I asked curiously: "Does it have no intelligence?"

"So far, no intelligent response has been found, and the behavior is very simple. The female worm will only instinctively look for a host. Once found, the female worm will be completely silent. It will do nothing except reproduce. As for the larvae, let alone Never mind, if you don’t summon them, they will move on their own, but generally they won’t leave you too far, so they can come out to protect the female insect at any time. They are not actually protecting you, they are protecting the female insect, but because the host dies It will directly lead to the death of the female insect, so these things will also protect you very thoroughly. In order to protect you and the female insect, they will attack the enemy at the risk of their lives. Insects seem to have no concept of themselves because they don’t know what they are. , so there is no sense of selfishness, so he behaves particularly bravely!"

"Hearing what you say, I already want one!" I said tentatively to Deken. Everyone knows that this thing is powerful. Giving it to others is equivalent to causing trouble for yourself, so I am not sure whether this Deken will give it to me. Besides, Well, from what he said just now, it seems that the female worm is not easy to replicate, so he has two questions as to whether he has a female worm!

"You want it?" To my surprise, this Deken was even more excited than me. "I have long wanted to experiment with female worms taking over the body, but I have never been able to find the right person! Because the efficiency of forced parasitism is very low, and I fainted when I was parasitized, so I still don't know about this thing. How did it become parasitic!"

"Isn't it? Are you using me as a test subject?"

"What's the matter! Do you want this thing to be a parasite? Let's take a look at the process!" He suddenly looked at the Son of the Night with bright eyes. "Would you like one too?"

"No need!" The Son of Night waved his hands in fear. "The thought of this thing growing on my body makes me sick!"

I also advised him: "It's okay. After all, you won't feel anything after parasitism. Besides, from the outside, this thing looks like there is an extra ruby ​​on the back of its neck. What's so disgusting about it?"

"But it's not a ruby! It still has disgusting bugs inside!"

"You don't care what's in it? The things inside are even more disgusting than bugs if you kill them in a human stomach!"

"No, I still feel uncomfortable! You have to do it yourself!" Ye Zhizi still refused to do it.

Deken took me to the end of the passage. There was a stone room here. There were many anatomical diagrams and the like hanging on the walls of the room, and there was a stone bed full of blood next to it. Deken took out a glassware from the workbench next to the door, and then carefully took out a red female insect from it. "Go and lie down on the bed!"

I felt nervous all over after looking at the blood on the bed. "Forget it, I'd better stand!"

"Okay then! Take off your armor first!" The collar of the magic dragon suit is very high, and there is no way to see the neck, so there is no way to put the female insect on it without taking it off.

I put the armor into the storage column, then found a stone bench and sat down. "Okay!" My heart began to beat normally. It felt like the family doctor gave me an injection when I was a child!

Deken walked up behind me and pinched the female worm with one hand and said: "When parasitizing, you must be careful not to resist. The female worm is actually very fragile, and your sense of resistance is likely to kill it. I am the only one with two female worms. , if you kill it, it will be gone! Another point is that the mother worm and you will invade your nervous system, blood circulation system and magic operating system. You can choose which system to open to it, or open it to it. Give it all three. But be aware that the system you open will no longer have the ability to recover. The energy used by the female parasite to control the larvae comes from you, but in order to prevent you from being overburdened and dying, it only It will absorb your excess strength, which is your recovery power. If you open the blood circulation system, then you will no longer have automatic blood recovery in the future. If you are injured, you can only recover with medicine, but your health will not be recovered by itself. A little bit. Similarly, if the magic cycle is turned on, your magic value will no longer have the ability to recover. As for mental power, it must be turned on, otherwise parasitism will not be possible. However, opening up mental power will not affect your abilities.

Also, the number and ability of larvae born after the female parasitizes are affected by your attributes. If you open the blood circulation system, then your total health and recovery speed will affect their abilities. If you also open the magic power, their attributes will be more affected. Theoretically speaking, the greater your blood volume and the higher your magic power, the more powerful these things will be. "

"Okay, I understand, just let it go! The longer you delay, the more nervous I become!" As the saying goes, death is not scary, but the scary thing is the feeling of waiting to die. The longer you delay, the more scared I become!

Deken finally put the female beetle on the back of my neck. I could clearly feel a stinging pain. It was not just itching like Deken said. What I felt was a pain that was driving me crazy. Seeing me falling from my seat and rolling on the ground in pain, Deken actually said something that made me almost vomit blood. "Ah! Oops! I forgot, I am a necromancer, so I can't feel pain! This parasitic thing should be very painful!"

"Ugh~ I've been fooled...!" The pain is really unbearable, and it's the kind of pain that doesn't make you dizzy. It would be great if you fainted directly! Fortunately, the pain didn't last very long. Although I felt it lasted a long time, it only ended in about 1 minute.

The system prompt rang suddenly. "You were parasitized by the Dark Pincer, did you open a spiritual channel?"

"yes!"

"Is the life channel open?"

"yes!"

"Do you want to open the magic channel?"

"yes!"

“Is it open to mind sharing?”

kindness? Why is there one more item? Regardless, it is definitely a setting to increase capabilities. "Okay! Open!"

"Attributes are assimilated, and the dark pincer absorbs pure evil abilities and evolves into a crystal magic beetle. The system confirmation is completed, and you can use the beetle's abilities!"

After the system prompt ended, I quickly jumped up from the ground and touched the beetle on the back. It felt as smooth as Deken's one, and it felt better, but my bug seemed bigger than his!

"How many times can your female worm reproduce?" Deken ran up to me excitedly and asked me.

"I have no idea!"

"What? You didn't show it?"

"Show? Oh! Wait!" The pain just now confused me. I felt completely shocked when I opened the properties. I sat down on the ground. There is an additional crystal magic beetle command ability in the attribute, and there are many zeros in the number after it. "One, two, three, four, five, six! Six zeros? Oh my God! A million of them!"

"What a million?" Deken was also frightened and sat down on the ground. "You counted correctly, right? I can only control a thousand!"

I read it again: "Yes, a million!"

"Oh my god!" Deken collapsed and said, "Did you know? One million level 5 dark pincers can eat a whole village of people!"

"I'm not talking about the Dark Pincher here! It says it's the Crystal Magic Beetle, a super creature!"

Boom! Deken immediately fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth. We shook him for a long time before he woke up. The first thing he said when he opened his eyes was: "For the first time in 500 years, my heart beat!" Necromancers belong to the undead. Biological creature, the heart should have stopped beating a long time ago!

"Are you OK?"

"Fortunately, it was just a shock! There is such a terrifying creature. Do you know what a million crystal magic beetles can do?"

"What can I do?"

"You can chew down the city walls in one minute, or eat an advancing cavalry brigade!" He suddenly thought of something. "Do you have a magic pet?"

"Yes, there are quite a few, what's the matter?"

"You didn't just add a life sacrifice to yourself, did you?"

"What kind of life sacrifice?"

"It's the dark type of life-sharing magic. As long as you use it, your life can be shared with your magic pet. As long as your magic pet doesn't die, you won't die."

"I don't know how to sacrifice my life at all, but I have this!" I summoned the dart, and then showed Deken the protective collar around his neck. "This thing allows me to share life with my magic pet!"

"That's not right! How can such a small thing get so many lives? Even if you two add one to the other, you shouldn't have to pay a million!"

I laughed. "I don't just have this demon pet, I also have a few dragons and other things, but they all went out to do things and haven't come back yet!"

"Are you a dragon knight?" Deken was shocked! "I saw that you were riding a fake dragon, right?"

"Oh! That's Ye Ying, a nightmare that was mimicked using a transformation gem. The real dragon is still out there and hasn't come back!"

"No wonder! With the dragon's vitality and recovery speed, summoning a million of them is really not a problem, not to mention you have more than one dragon!"

I 'touched' the female insect on the back of her neck again and said, "Didn't you say you can bring a million of them? Why haven't you come out yet?"

"One million worms cannot be transformed at once. You have to wait for the female worm to give birth slowly! The speed at which the female worm lays eggs is certain. As long as the upper limit is not reached, it will continue to lay eggs. Your one One million is estimated to be almost full within three to five days! This thing reproduces very quickly!"

"One more question, how does this thing lay eggs? It won't happen to me, right?"

"Of course it's on you, and it can't leave you! But don't worry, it won't affect you. Stretch out your left hand and have a look."

I stretched out my left hand and saw an extra hole in the armor on the inside of my wrist, which was inserted directly into my arm. The magic dragon suit does have the ability to change shape according to the wearer's body. The last time he transformed into a werewolf, the armor also turned into a werewolf's armor. This time, it actually evolved a hole on its own initiative. This hole also has a cover that opens and closes automatically, which seems to prevent other things from pouring into the body through the hole.

Deken said: "This hole is the birth tube of the larvae. The larvae will hatch inside after birth. Once the larvae reaches adulthood, they will crawl out on their own."

"How long will it take to become an adult?"

"Two hours is enough. Insects grow faster!"

"Hey! I feel less and less like a human being!"

"What's so strange about this!" Deken was not surprised. "Just get used to it. You are just a food extraction machine for the female insect. It is it and you are you. Even if I am parasitized, am I still a necromancer? This thing will not command your body for you!"

Ye Zhizi also said: "It would be great if I could take over the command! When I go offline, I leave the leveling work to it. It's even better than a plug-in!"

"Thank you for coming up with it!" I said with a smile, "But it's really a good idea, but it's a pity that it can't be realized!"

"By the way, where's your helmet?" Deken stretched out his hand to me. "You have helped me so much and I came to see if I can help you fix the gem."

I handed him the helmet and said, "Clark said you have repaired the Dark Crystal!"

"I have repaired it, but that crystal is not as badly broken as yours. The last one was just broken at a corner. Although yours is not broken, the center part is basically completely broken. It is worse than that one. It’s much more serious! Besides, I borrowed the Dark Star from the Dark Temple to fix it!”

"You mean Dark Star?" I quickly took out the Demon King crystal bottle. "for you!"

"The Demon King's crystal bottle? How did you get it? But why did you give me this? It couldn't be...?" Deken was surprised when he thought of the possible situation.

I put my hand in front of my mouth to keep quiet. "I stole it, don't tell it!"

"You're really good! You stole this thing! But the Death Knight isn't just a fake, is he?"

"Haha! Don't ask about this, the mountain man has his own clever plan!" I can't tell him that I did it because of an insider, wouldn't that hurt Domingue!

"I know even if you don't tell me, you must have someone inside the temple. It's impossible for you to break into the temple with your strength! Two Death Knights can kill you!"

"I can't say it anyway. It's up to you to guess what you want! Now that I've given you everything, you should hurry up and help me repair the gems!"

"Okay! Got it!" Deken dug out the whole gem from the helmet. As soon as he took it out, the gem clicked into a dozen parts, and the small arrow in the middle also fell out. Deken looked at the fragments on the table and said, "It's impossible to completely restore it. How about we try to glue it back together?"

"What do you mean by sticking it back? Do you think it's for making handicrafts? What I want is the summoning power of gems!"

"But this thing is too broken. Not to mention completely recovering, even gluing it back together is very troublesome!"

"What should we do?"

"How about we try to use the gem furnace to re-synthesize it?"

"Can crystals be re-smelted? You won't burn it into a pile of crystal solution for me, right?"

"That's not necessarily true, but you can't fix it anyway. Why don't you just keep doing it, maybe you can succeed?"

"Okay then!" I really have no choice. This thing is so broken, much more serious than I expected. It's good to have a chance of survival! When Clark said it couldn't be repaired, I actually didn't have much hope!

"Come with me!" Deken stood up and wanted to take us to the smelting room.

It was inconvenient for Deken to hold a pile of fragments, so I ran to the door first to help him open it while he was still collecting the fragments on the table. As soon as I opened the door, something hit me head-on. I didn't rush to defend myself and was suddenly knocked out. Fortunately, the fusion between the phantom and me was still not released. The mercury shield helped me block the first impact, but I still borne all the impact!