"Is this … a cricket? No! " Looking at the unfolded page and then at the Silverback General in the jar, Chu Song was suspicious of its cricket-like appearance, but he quickly denied it after a closer look. Although it looked similar, its appearance was two sizes smaller than a normal cricket. The roots of its wings and claws were also different. Chu Song could not identify its species, so he quickly asked, "It's not a normal cricket. What kind of insect is it?"
Ying Feiyang flipped through the book and said, "Do you know about Gu Xuanren's parasite insect?"
"Of course I do." Chu Song nodded. The Parasite Gu was a Gu worm developed by Gu Xuanke. Gu Xuanke used the Parasite Gu to extract a portion of his memories and place the Gu on a chosen host. He could then use the consciousness that was separated from the Gu worm to suppress the host's original consciousness and control the host's body and mind.
It was said that Gu Xuanren implanted a parasite insect in each of his poisonous insect slaves so that Gu Xuanren could invade the slave's consciousness at any time. Therefore, each slave was equivalent to a clone of Gu Xuanren. Gu Xuanren's reputation of being unkillable was mostly due to the many clones created by the parasite insect.
"But this insect isn't a parasite insect. Why did you mention it?" Chu Song looked at the Silverback General a few more times and asked in confusion.
There were similarities between medical poisonous insects. Chu Song had also seen a specimen of the parasite insect. The parasite insect had no wings or legs, which was different from the insect in front of him. He did not know why Ying Feiyang suddenly mentioned the parasite insect.
"Even though it's not, it's closely related. The Parasite Gu evolved from it. I can't explain it clearly at the moment. Come and read it with me!" Ying Feiyang had only read a few lines. He could not explain it clearly, so he gave up half of the page and invited Chu Song to sit down.
Chu Song hurriedly went forward and held up half of the book to read with Ying Feiyang.
After reading a few lines, he was shocked. It turned out that, like bees and ants, the parasite insect was also a group symbiotic insect.
Their group was divided into larva, adult, and mother insects according to their growth stages. The parasite insect was an adult insect.
Above the adult insects, there was an even higher existence. The only female insect in the colony that had the ability to reproduce was also the core and soul of the colony.
The Mother Worm was the same as the Adult Worm. They both had the ability to extract memories and host other people. However, it was even more domineering than the Adult Worm. Even Gu Xuanzhi couldn't control it.
If Gu Xuanke extracted the memories into the adult worm, and then placed the adult worm (which was the Parasite Gu) on the host body, he could control the host body with his consciousness.
However, if the Mother Worm obtained Gu Xuanling's consciousness, not only would it not become a tool for Gu Xuanling to control its host, but it would also take this part of his consciousness as its own. This was equivalent to Gu Xuanling losing a part of his memory for nothing.
What's more, the Mother Insect that had obtained the memories began to take the initiative to breed a large number of larvae to plunder more memories for her.
Every day, the mother insect would give birth to a large number of eggs that were as fine as smoke and dust. The eggs would drift away with the wind and be sucked into the bodies of others. After that, the larvae would break out of the eggs, distort the memories of the host and stealthily steal a part of it. Every night, the larvae carrying the memory fragments would fly out and gather the stolen memories to the mother insect. After that, they would wither and die.
Born in the morning and die in the evening, a day was a lifetime. Until the larvae had completely removed a person's memories, the host body would become an "empty shell." The newborn larvae had no memories to swallow, so they would devour each other in the human body and kill each other. In the midst of killing, the one that survived to the end would evolve from a larva to an adult worm.
This was the normal evolutionary path of a larva.
However, there were exceptions to everything.
One must know that this kind of memory-sucking alien worm was obviously not born naturally. Instead, Gu Xuanling had cultivated and modified the original grass-eating and dew-drinking worms for tens of years and hundreds of generations.
The human body was the most suitable environment for the larvae of the Parasite Gu to grow. The eggs would drift away with the wind, and most of the eggs that did not fall into the human body would die naturally. However, there were still a small number of eggs that would give birth to larvae outside the human body, and a small number of larvae that could survive in the environment outside the human body.
Because they could not absorb the memories, the small number of larvae would show signs of "atavism," and change back to their ancestors' survival method of eating grass and dew.
Because they did not need to send their memories back to their mother's body, these larvae also changed their fate of being born in the morning and dying in the evening. They could transform and evolve outside the human body, and finally evolve into another form — a form that looked like a cricket.
"That's how General Silverback came about!"
Chu Song came to a sudden realization when he saw this, but what followed was a bone-chilling coldness.
"The appearance of General Silverback means that there's already a Queen Worm in the villa!"
"Then Brother Ying is right. Our memories have been affected by the Parasite Gu and are distorted and lost!"
"If I remember correctly, Brother Tieshan was the one who helped Wei Meng 'er catch this General Silverback. That was when Brother Tieshan found out that something was wrong, so he took the book 'Encyclopedic Insect Encyclopedia' from the library to investigate further. However, he was discovered by the murderer, so the murderer killed him and burned the book! "
"Then who is the murderer? Who is the host of the Queen Worm? Is it the same monster? They must be lurking around us. If we don't find them, all the monsters in the villa will be in danger! "
The more Chu Song thought about it, the colder she felt. Right next to her, one of her smiling sisters might have become the puppet of the Venomous Poison God. There was an evil soul living in her delicate body. At this moment, it was silently watching them with the greatest malice. As she watched them struggle, die, and forget, she tried hard not to laugh out loud …
Chu Song shuddered. A chill seeped from her spine into her brain, but this chill allowed her agitated mind to regain clarity. "I have to find the broodmother host … Let's see if the broodmother has any distinguishable symptoms."
Chu Song suppressed her emotions and returned her mind to the book. But just when she saw the word "symptoms" on the page, Ying Feiyang turned the page.
Chu Song said immediately, "Brother Ying, I haven't finished reading."
But after turning the page, Ying Feiyang's expression changed, and she said in surprise, "No, this book has been torn out by two pages!"
"What?" Chu Song moved closer and found that there were indeed two torn pages. She was immediately flustered. "How can this be? Even the copy was destroyed!"
Ying Feiyang said, "Miss Chu, are there other copies of Encyclopedic Insect Encyclopedia?"
Chu Song was so anxious that she almost cried. "No. Other than Bi Youshu, who else would make a copy of this book?"
As soon as Chu Song said this, she saw Ying Feiyang seem to have discovered something. Her face immediately turned pale, and cold sweat seeped from her forehead. But she said something shocking with a bitter smile, "No? That's good … that's good … "
Chu Song was stunned. "Brother Ying … What do you mean …"
"Nothing. I was just led by the nose …" Ying Feiyang smiled, but her smile was tired and helpless. She whispered to her, "Take care of the Holy Lady for me."
Chu Song was stunned. She could hear the meaning of farewell in Ying Feiyang's words, but she could not understand it. She only blinked, waiting for Ying Feiyang to explain.
At this moment, Zhao Ya, who had waited for a long time, walked over impatiently. "How is it? Did you find anything? Let me see the book too. "
"Sure! Catch it, Lord Zhao! "Ying Feiyang said and threw the book to Zhao Ya before Chu Song could react. Zhao Ya frowned slightly.
Zhao Ya frowned slightly. Just as she was about to reach out and take the book, she heard a clear sword chime.
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