Chapter 79 Parasitism

[You sent a trade invitation to the player 'Mianjin Ge'...]

It took a few seconds.

Mianjin Ge immediately accepted Chen Ye's invitation.

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

[Mianjin Ge: "Fuck, it's Chen Ye, how could you apply for a trade... Hahaha, I almost thought I saw it wrong, it seems to be you!"]

[Chen Ye: "Calm down, I'm here to ask about the worm."]

[Mianjin Ge: "Is the worm interested in it? It's just right! It's been hanging for a day and no one cares. Basically no one is interested in such disgusting things, and they can't be eaten. If you want it, you can give it to me for free."]

[Chen Ye: "Thank you, free is not good, I'll pay a copper coin."]

Ding!

The transaction was successful!

At this time, in front of Chen Ye, there was a beetle that was completely black, half a meter long, with a case that had been burned to charcoal, and several traces of being ravaged.

It is shaped like a hedgehog, and its mouth is like an electric drill, with good penetration ability.

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

The beetle has a very strong vitality. It was beaten by a group of boys and girls at a riverside party. Each of them kicked it like a football for half an hour. After losing its ability to move, it was put on the grill and grilled for a day and a night before it was completely dead.

"Monster sequence?"

Chen Ye kept his wandering pace, pacing back and forth, circling the beetle 360 ​​degrees, and observing it carefully.

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

The creatures in this sequence have various extraordinary life structures. The top [Monster] can even give birth to the form of a mythical dragon, and its body is comparable to that of a god.

But according to the information of the weird era, the sea is controlled by the descendants of the sea god and is an area with order.

The shape of this beetle, as if it has merged the [Devil] sequence, exudes an ominous smell of pollution.

Checking with the Eye of Luck...

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

A closer look revealed that the black lines were like maggots, twisting their bodies under the transparent film, and had life!

Now... we are in an unknown area.

Generally speaking, the existence of demons does not use life structures, but this turtle clearly has life, but it feels like it is completely distorted.

Is it another new species brought by the new copy?

"Maybe, I can use the characteristics of [Devil's Cuisine] to dissect this beetle..."

The characteristics of [Devil's Cuisine] give Chen Ye a strong cognitive ability for various ingredients, including all kinds of strange, contaminated, and never-seen ingredients.

Based on the morphological characteristics, the utilization value of the ingredient can be analyzed.

Although this beetle is a new species that has never been seen in the strange era, and its life form is like a [monster], it also has the characteristics of a [demon], revealing an ominous breath. Moreover, it suddenly came out from the back of the player's head after eating the barbecue...

Chen Ye needs to further understand the source of this thing, so as to make a judgment on the current environment of the lower reaches of the West River and the ink and blood light lingering in the aura of luck.

Bang!

The next second, his face suddenly exploded and turned into a bunch of demon vines, wrapping up the whole beetle.

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

The devil vines kept wrapping around the beetle, chewing it while using its rich nerve senses to obtain information about the ingredient:

"The meat is good, tastes like chicken, and has a crisp texture like smoothies."

"But it should be noted that the blood of this creature is infected. Moreover, the neural network connecting the various muscle groups is a parasite. If eaten, this parasite cannot be killed by ordinary digestive abilities other than the [Glutton] sequence. It will drill into the brain through the blood vessels and parasitize the neural network of the new host, and even turn the host's nerves into the same kind of parasite, achieving the purpose of control."

"But the way this parasite exists is very special. It is not a complete creature, but more like..."

"Eggs!"

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

Crack! Crack!

The creepy chewing sound came from Chen Ye's huge mouthparts.

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

Click! Plop!

In addition to the sound of black blood dripping, there were also lines of black worms falling on the black blood covering the ground, twitching and wriggling, struggling to death.

However, the scales that fell from the air happened to hit the wriggling nematodes, smashing them into flat pieces. They jumped a few times and stopped moving.

Finally...

Chen Ye completed the complete decomposition of the beetle.

The tentacle-like demon vines slowly closed and reorganized into a beautiful face.

After picking out the inedible parts...

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

The first part is the fat layer and muscle group under the beetle scales. When all the nerve worm eggs are picked out, the meat is milky white, but its surface is covered with multiple round holes, like puffed cheese.

The taste of this meat is very good, more upscale than pine cones. Even at normal supply and demand prices, it can be sold for 20 to 30 copper coins per pound.

It can be treated as normal meat.

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

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

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

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

The big eyeball tastes a bit slippery, just like fish belly, and tastes fishy, ​​but very fragrant and sweet.

If it is used for pickling and then cut into slices, it can taste like 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 saber-toothed fish under the deep sea. There is a shadow of parasitism in it, but the life structure has changed. If it is an ordinary parasitism, it will not change the original life structure..."

"If I remember correctly, there is a biochemical copy in the Weird Era, which is related to parasitism."

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

"This eyeball-shaped brain is a distorted life form. There is no meninges, no central nervous system, no nerves, only an eyeball left, and it moves instinctively..."

"The stall owners of the barbecue stall are probably also controlled by parasites, and they specially make 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 any similar worms crawling out.

Now that I think about it, the way they behave is more like being parasitized.

Could it be that...

the way they are controlled by parasites is more advanced?