In the luxurious hourly room,
Nash was sitting on the edge of the big bed, constantly relaxing his mind through deep breathing, adjusting his own state as much as possible, and trying his best to recall his nature as a parasite.
“Boss William, do you want me to take a shower first
Although I had washed many times before leaving the circus, every part of my body was scrubbed clean.
But I just accidentally fell into the sand and walked a distance, so my body might be a little dirty, and it might not be good for it to parasitize in your brain."
William stood by the door, sensing the impact and found that the entire post station was empty. "It's okay, there's no need to force it to be clean~ Nash, you have a big reputation, these people are actually so afraid of you.
How many people have you killed in the past to scare these people so much?"
Nash's eyes darted back and forth as if he were making careful calculations.
"Is it because the parasites in their bodies are scared? No, there are other patients in this hotel... All in all, I have killed no more than a hundred people.
But all these people are serious obstacles to the development of the circus.
He thought he wanted to find out the truth about the circus.
Or they are the ones who are courting death by daring to hinder or intercept the circus's supply of goods.
Normally, Art would not show up, and I would lead the poker-faced assassination team to quickly clean up, but it would inevitably expose myself."
"Well, okay~ let's start parasitizing."
"Is it about to begin!? I thought you were going to perform some special ritual or take a nap, Boss."
"It's just a simple parasitism, why make it so complicated? Hurry up, haven't you been training parasitism all this time?"
"Training is training, but when it comes to actual practice... Okay~ Let me prepare."
Nash was too nervous, and his body was secreting fluid like crazy.
Slowly, his human disguise faded away, and he turned into a huge amoeba whose entire body was transparent, like solid water.
"Can you make it smaller?"
Facing William's question, Nash was unable to answer.
He continued to shrink his body by draining water, eventually reaching the size of a finger, which was the smallest size he could achieve.
"Come on~"
William gently held Nash in his palm and placed it next to his ear.
Let this soft thing go along the ear canal to the brain. The process was very slow. I could even feel Nash secreting body fluids in his ear canal due to excitement, making his ears stink.
When Nash actually climbed to the brain area, he was immediately shocked by the scene before him.
As an amoeba that specializes in parasitizing the brain, Nash's genes are engraved with various "strategies" for the brain. In his childhood, his parents also instilled a lot of knowledge about the brain and taught him about different types of brains.
But the epilepsy brain before his eyes was far beyond his cognition.
This is not a brain at all. To Nash, it looks more like a black galaxy full of death.
Absolutely spherical gestalt brain,
A black fog permeates around the brain.
The modified circular artery wraps around the epileptic brain like a star ring, providing the best quality blood circulation.
The "skull" engraved with words and patterns, like a circuit board, seems to be a barrier that imprisons this death star.
Nash, who was excited, nervous and full of desire, suddenly became quiet at this moment. He seemed to be floating in the starry space and everything became quiet.
He gradually heard the call from the epileptic brain, awakening his instinct as a parasite. He slowly climbed up the brain, followed the best brain groove circuit to the depths, and parasitized it.
Before you know it, the parasitism is complete.
When the nerves in Nash's body perfectly connected with his brain... Buzz!
He was suddenly pulled by a consciousness and followed the complex epileptic brain network to the depths, to a hidden consciousness space.
In the blink of an eye,
Nash actually fell into a library in human form, and William was sitting opposite him.
"Boss, is this... the consciousness space you constructed yourself? These books are the embodiment of memory, and they are so detailed, you are worthy of it!"
Nash was so excited that he even rubbed his face back and forth on the wooden table, feeling the delicate texture of the wood grain.
"It seems you are very good at parasitism."
"I am simply satisfying your needs. I will never parasitize anyone else's head except you... In the past, I felt sick and wanted to vomit when I thought about parasitism, but now I just feel happy. I feel so lucky to be a parasite."
“While you are crossing the channel, you should just stay here honestly. Perhaps you can minimize the side effects of the world crossing.
Don't look through my memories, don't be curious, just sit still."
"Got it. I won't touch anything without your permission, Boss."
Buzz!
William returned to his real body and passed through the passage.
The reason why he chose to let Nash parasite himself at this time was,
Actually, I want to conduct a final test.
After all, William had obtained Yi Chen's memories and had seen many hypocritical people. It was not uncommon for the well-disguised "friend" to bite back in the end.
Now that William is about to leave the circus and develop on his own, he must test Nash's loyalty.
Let's see if he, as an amoeba that specifically targets the brain, is interested in his own epileptic brain and whether he has any secret plans.
Even if any trace of "bad thoughts" arises, it will be captured.
Once William determines that Nash has his own despicable thoughts, he will abandon him here directly. If the situation is serious, he will even take him to Zion for execution.
While crawling through the passages, William deliberately slowed down to prolong the duration of the test.
library
Nash sat upright, his eyes wide as bells, his whole body shaking.
The library in front of him was too tempting for him.
It's not the kind of temptation that a parasite wants to take over the brain and take ownership of it.
Instead, these books involving William's memories were like extremely tempting limited editions and perfect private collections of photo albums to him. They were right next to him, but he couldn't read them.
This was simply the ultimate torture, even more painful than having countless steel needles pierced into his body.
What's more, what Nash didn't know was that there was an eye watching him in a secret passage behind a bookshelf, and as long as he made any unusual movement, murderous intent would befall him.
pity,
Not only did Yi Chen not wait for the opportunity, but he couldn't bear to watch. Nash sat motionless on the bench, his legs shaking while his right hand was moving rapidly.
When we were halfway through the tunnel,
William suddenly received a message from Yi Chen.
"William, stop monitoring me. You're wasting my time."
"What's wrong?"
"This perverted guy who is extremely obsessed with you has fainted. He seems to have suffered unprecedented pain and torture. Get out of here quickly. Such a person will be very useful later."
Climb out of the tunnel,
William immediately moved Nash's consciousness out of the library and awakened him through the nourishment of the epileptic brain.
"Nash, why did you faint... Is it a side effect of traveling through the tunnel?"
“Ahem, ahem, no… it’s my own problem.
Don’t let me go to that library again. It’s too torturous. I can get to know you deeply through those books, but I can’t even read a single one.”
William also kindly comforted her, “If you want to understand, cooperate with me more, cooperate with me in killing enemies, performing, and obtaining resources, and you will gradually learn more.
Now I will share all my vision, hearing and other permissions with you, so you can experience the human world~ Slowly try to assist me on the journey and cooperate with me to reveal the characteristics of the disease."
"Okay~"
Walking out of the temple corresponding to the passage and standing on the top of the mountain, Nash also felt the thick gray matter.
"Hmm? This place is basically the same as the old world~ It's filled with such a thick pathogenic gray matter. I estimate that in less than ten years, the entire world will be infected.
So, where is the friend you mentioned? Is he far from us
Unexpectedly, William's finger did not point to any direction, but pointed vertically upwards towards the clouds.
"ah?"
"On the moon... The moon is currently very far away from us. I'm afraid we need to cross the ocean to reach another continent in this world."
"moon!!"
(Interlude)
With the departure of William and Nash,
The owner of the Blackworm Inn was relieved. After leading all the guests back, he went to the hourly room where the two had stayed to clean up.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the room, he saw a completely soaked bed sheet. Coupled with a strange smell, the boss stood there for a long time, thinking about something. Finally, he shook his head and asked someone to throw away the bed sheet and replace it with a new one.