The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 629 - 627 Parasitic Abyss

[Ascaris Experiment (Day Five)]

Half the time had passed, and according to previous experiment experience, by now, the total number of worms inside the subject should have decreased to around a thousand. These thousand are true elites and are not easily killed. The remaining time is for determining the strongest among these elites.

However,

The total number of worms in William’s body remained unchanged, ten million, not one had died, and they operated strictly according to the formula devised by the researchers.

During these five days, he had not made any movements and maintained the same cross-legged position, even occasionally showing a slight smile at the corners of his mouth.

When William arrived at Black Ascaris headquarters,

He understood the essence of the headquarters, saw the technology contained in the guest rooms, and viewed Orenna’s presentation of the Ascaris Experiment; a completely different thought quickly formed in his mind.

William’s body was already perfect, and he had the support of "Yellow Skin," the "External Parasite." By the time little grapes returned from the Evil Sun-related path, the "Inner Parasite" would also be complete,

Therefore, he didn’t need a parasite at all. Even the ’Parasitic Worm King’ obtained through the competition mechanism of the Parasite Nest was ’superfluous’ to him, who already had little grapes and Yellow Skin.

The real reason William wanted to participate in the Ascaris Experiment was not for the experiment itself but for the ten million parasitic eggs carefully cultivated by the Black Ascaris Company through ’talent pairing’ and ’genetic screening.’

These eggs, if released on the market, could definitely fetch an astronomical price, even enticing the Duke.

Moreover, William discovered during his bath that the ’Black Worm’ seemed to have a mysterious connection and affinity with the "Tenth Abyss,"

The Black Ascaris in the baths unconsciously circled the abyss in a regular movement.

As William focused his attention on the abdomen abyss and tried to amplify its influence as much as possible, all the Black Ascaris in the bath were affected.

Now, using the Ascaris Experiment as an opportunity,

William used his body as a dwelling for the highest level Black Worm larvae, bringing them closer to the abdomen abyss, while he himself fully activated the "Stargazer" physique and entered a deep space meditation state.

At this moment,

The starry sky, the abyss, and the parasites were all linked by him.

Between the deep spaces of the universe, William’s consciousness floated there,

Not alone, for around his consciousness floated ten million black, free-floating parasites,

And not far from them was a ’black hole’... Unlike regular black holes, this ’black hole’ seemed like a real pit in the universe.

Under William’s lead, the swarm of parasites slowly drew nearer.

The purpose was now very clear,

William planned to use these parasites as a medium to explore the abyss, trying to understand, excavate, and activate the illness traits of the Tenth Abyss.

[Day Seven]

Finally, the situation inside William’s body changed, those parasites performing regular movements began to reduce their circling radius, gradually gathering towards the abdominal abyss.

The person in charge of the experiment, Charlie, suddenly noticed something, "What is that! Zoom in and observe the patterns on the surface of the worms."

The camera zoomed in, the image enlarged

The segmentations on the bodies of the Black Ascaris larvae were slightly abnormal, and putting those branched segments together surprisingly formed an ancient character -[Madness], showing that William’s brain thinking had fully integrated into the larvae.

At this moment, the nearest hundreds of parasites had already crawled into the abyss, disappearing from the monitoring screen, even vanishing without a trace of their aura.

The massive deaths due to internal killing among the parasites, which were supposed to happen in the Ascaris Experiment, had now turned into individual disappearances.

As more and more parasites crawled into the abdominal abyss, William’s brain also gathered more and more information about the abyss, cooperating with the Madness Brain for superfast analysis.

The steam generated by thinking left his skull, quickly fogging up the laboratory.

No matter what kind of noise the laboratory emitted, whether they released parasite stimulants or transmitted low-frequency vibrations, nothing could affect the parasites in William’s body.

The person in charge of the experiment also immediately found Burn, the president of the observation room, "Boss! This person appears to be using and consuming our larvae for his own bodily exploration.

Should we intervene manually to terminate the experiment?"

"No need... William hasn’t broken any rules.

"Since I promised him, let the experiment continue. I want to see what tricks this fellow has up his sleeve and how far he is prepared to go,"

"Boss, if he doesn’t plan to keep the parasite within his body, he won’t become one of our people. Is it really worth such a huge cost to assist an outsider?"

"The most important thing in business is integrity. Don’t waste your time and mine,"

"Yes, boss, it was shortsighted of me."

As the manager left,

President Burn softly asked Reagan beside him, "Your friend is quite scheming... He had planned from the beginning to use the experiment to enhance his self, never intending to let the parasite take root inside him."

Reagan didn’t seem to mind, "Could William have reached this level if he always played by the rules? It seems that neither his Circus identity nor his Abyss Spokesman identity were obtained through completely normal means."

"Hmm..."

Burn couldn’t deny Reagan’s words and even reminisced about the past when the Holy Nest still existed and he too used unconventional methods to rise to power.

He didn’t stay in the Nest to participate in the so-called ’elections’, but sneakily went out to seek a host,

From a young age, Burn’s view differed from other parasites; in his eyes, a host should be an individual with self-awareness and mutual respect, not a manufactured living dead.

For this reason, Burn had found his other half, and together in a symbiotic state, they developed and ultimately transcended the Holy Nest to become the ’Holy Nest Protozoa’.

...

Time passed and even exceeded the anticipated ten days of the experiment.

Since President Burn hadn’t spoken, all the researchers continued to let the experiment go on,

By the morning of the eleventh day, nearly all the researchers were gathered before the monitoring screens.

At this moment, there were fewer than a hundred Black Worms left inside William’s body, all concentrated deep in his abdomen.

As the last Black Worm crawled in and disappeared, everyone’s eyes widened, watching William on the screen, wondering if the young man just wasted ten million larvae and ended the experiment in vain.

If that was the case, the manager would likely lead a number of people forward to berate him and even ask William to compensate for all the funds used in the experiment.

However, something strange happened on the monitoring screens.

William still maintained a state of closed-eye meditation, but his body began to change,

He started crawling toward the abyss in his abdomen,

First stretching his arms into it, then burrowing his head in, followed by his lower half... When only the abdominal structure was left, the abyss began to fold inward, sucking in the abdomen along with it.

Gone.

William disappeared entirely from the lab, with all monitoring devices unable to capture his aura.

Even President Burn, who had been watching the whole time, was stunned. He smashed the glass with a punch and personally stepped into the laboratory, using his perception ability to search for William, but ultimately found nothing.

"Devoured by the abyss? It’s not possible to leave no trace at all, right?"

Just as President Burn puzzled over the situation before him,

Buzz!

At the exact location where William had just disappeared, an abdominal abyss of the same size reappeared,

Following this, two arms coated with lubricant stretched out from inside, and the whole person quickly emerged from the abyss and resumed his normal form.

The only difference from before was,

The abdominal abyss no longer appeared dry like rock layers; instead, it acquired some mucus and became more lubricated.

Exhaling deeply, William stretched his body and an oppressed, excited, strange smile couldn’t help but spread across his face.

He had finally developed a unique abyss ability belonging solely to him, or rather, an illness ability that infused the attributes of starry sky, abyss, and parasite, named

’Abyss Parasite’

He could, at any moment, in any place, use the abdominal abyss as a pathway to entwine himself in the deep spaces, silently crawling and wriggling like a parasite.

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