Cyber ​​God: Abyss Walker

"Huff... huff..."

Heaving heavy breaths, Wang Yu could feel the contradictions within his body. As he grew stronger, his "self" became weaker and weaker, more and more ethereal. It was an irreversible process. He didn't have much time left, but thankfully, his goal was right in front of him, and there was still time.

"Wang Yu, the intrusion is complete. I'll open the door for you."

Ling Qi's voice appeared as the gate in front of him opened, revealing the room inside to Wang Yu. It was a familiar yet unfamiliar place. Compared to before, the proliferating flesh of the parasite mother clinging to the walls had become much larger, and the number of parasite larvae crawling around in it had reached an exaggerated level.

No longer caring about the screams of the guards who were gradually turning into scarlet liquid in the torrential rain of blood, the rain did not stop. Inside the entire underground facility of the Tide Gang, anything that dared to step out of the confined space would be melted and swallowed up by the blood rain. There would be no more troublemakers.

The parasite in the brain cheered and jumped for joy, displaying an excitement far greater than ever before. It couldn't wait any longer, couldn't wait to throw itself into its mother's embrace, and then...

Lingqi helped Wang Yu postpone the start of the Blood Rain Ritual by a considerable amount of time, giving him more time to do what he needed to do. He took a step and quickly walked towards the Insect Mother.

Upon seeing Wang Yu appear, the creature opened its arms, which were the upper half of its human form, gesturing for Wang Yu to enter its embrace, as gently as a mother who had not seen her child for a long time.

Of course, this tenderness was never given to Wang Yu, who was merely a useless "nursery bed," but rather to the parasite in his mind that had experienced numerous events and had almost stopped trying to take over Wang Yu's body.

The larval parasites around them were moving in and out of the nest on the mother insect's body. They exhibited the instincts of intelligent larvae, showing a slight curiosity about Wang Yu, this anomaly who had appeared here.

This behavior is quite different from the parasite that was implanted in Wang Yu's brain back then. In comparison, the parasite that was implanted in Wang Yu's brain at that time behaved more like an unintelligent beast with only extremely low biological instincts. These parasites now are beings that have undergone evolution.

Ignoring the parasite that was constantly stirring up his mind and pouring incessant intense emotions, Wang Yu approached the parasite mother, narrowed his eyes at this half-insect, half-human being, and the embrace that the parasite was opening towards him, or rather, the parasite in his mind. After a brief pause of 0.5 seconds, he thrust out his palm.

"Pfft!"

The arm, strengthened by the power of the great being, became extremely tough and strong. With its five fingers joined together, it pierced through the chest of the insect queen's humanoid upper body with tremendous force, penetrating deep inside.

It didn't feel like breaking through any hard object. The insect queen didn't seem to have a sternum. Dark green fluid spurted out, and some gelatinous organ tissue fell down from the wound. The other party only looked like a human; its internal physiological structure had nothing to do with humans. It was a completely different race.

Wang Yu raised his eyebrows slightly and was slightly surprised to find that the face of the insect queen's humanoid upper body was actually curving into a smile. It seemed that she had no anger or other emotions towards what Wang Yu was doing. On the contrary, she was expressing appreciation and reward.

Wang Yu didn't quite understand the emotions the other person was expressing, but he didn't want to understand and was too lazy to understand. He didn't care; he was just doing what he had planned long ago.

Following the devouring instinct of the flesh and blood that constituted his body—an abnormal derivative of the great being, the Sea of ​​Blood—Wang Yu transformed them into a deeper level of aggression.

It wasn't just aimed at the insect queen in front of him whose "chest" he had pierced, but at the insect net composed of insect queens from different gangs and parasitic larvae scattered throughout the city, which excluded Wang Yu and the parasites in his brain.

Inspiration check • Success.

Lucky check - Success.

Wang Yu rolled two dice, the kind he usually used when coming into contact with the power of great beings. In fact, he didn't know if such a check was useful or not, but since it was something he couldn't control, it was probably okay to make it "better".

At this moment, his perception was no longer limited to his five senses, but rather, through the parasites constantly churning in his brain and the part connected to them, he sensed the special network that rejected the parasites in his brain, the "worm web," by directly piercing flesh into the mother parasite's body.

It was a vast network with the insect queen as the "base station" and a huge number of parasite implanters as nodes. At this moment, he was not joining it as a "user", but as an intruder, an observer, watching the "insect network".

"The coverage is indeed extremely wide. There are even parasite implanters in the wasteland. That makes sense. According to Zero Seven, these parasite implantation technologies were originally developed by New Capital to explore the wasteland."

"However, it shouldn't exist. The thought of a bunch of unlucky guys like me working for their gang makes me sick."

Muttering to himself in his thoughts, Wang Yu didn't dwell on anything further. Instead, following the pre-planned steps, he connected with the abnormal derivatives of the sea of ​​blood that formed his body, communicating with the great being behind it and revealing the insect net to the other party.

"Gurgle."

Like the rumbling of a hungry person's stomach, this sound rang out in the void, bringing a smile to Wang Yu's lips. Very well, he had successfully piqued the interest of the Blood Sea, and the great being had focused its attention on this thing called the Insect Web.

Flesh and blood writhed, and the power from the Blood Sea began to pour into Wang Yu's body without stopping, causing the hatred flesh and blood that already accounted for a large proportion of his body to proliferate and evolve at a high speed, just like what happened in the simulated city. The Blood Sea wanted to use Wang Yu as the carrier of power to launch an invasion of the insect web.

This time, however, there was no longer any confrontation between great beings; instead, there was only the unstoppable and never-ending one-sided devouring of the insect web by these great beings.

The tangible flesh and blood of abomination grew rapidly on Wang Yu's body, then wriggled and poured into the wound he had made with his right hand, into the body of the insect queen, and devoured its flesh and blood extremely quickly, replacing it as one of the "base stations" of the insect web as a springboard for invading the insect web.

Invisible pollution has also begun to spread, continuously proliferating within the insect web along the modified worm mother and its connections with the vast number of parasitic larvae and other parasitic worm mothers.

The first to suffer were the parasitic larvae that were growing and resting in the nest inside the mother insect's body. These beings struggled and jumped in pain, but they could not stop the abnormal contamination from spreading on them.

"Crunch..."

"Click..."

One bite after another, the bodies of the parasitic larvae affected by the abnormal pollution of the sea of ​​blood suddenly developed defects, and something was gnawing at their flesh and blood without any way to stop it. Soon, these parasitic larvae, which were not of much value to begin with, were completely devoured.

Then, the abnormal pollution from the sea of ​​blood began to eagerly expand its influence to the entire insect web, the ruined cities affected by the insect web, and even...

On the streets of the abandoned city, a male citizen who had undergone extensive cybernetic modifications, indistinguishable from the people around him, suddenly knelt on the ground.

The intense pain in his head made it impossible for him to think or make any extra movements. He could only scream and roll on the ground, while the people around him, after casting strange glances, simply moved away as if it were nothing out of the ordinary.

"Pfft..."

"What's wrong? It hurts so much! Cough!"

A blood-red liquid mixed with some viscous substance sprayed from his nasal cavity, and the male citizen could not understand why this was happening so suddenly.

It wasn't until he realized that the foreign object that had been in his head was suddenly no longer perceptible, and then he looked at the pool of blood and brain matter gushing from his nose on the ground, that he immediately understood what was going on.

A wave of ecstasy washed over him. Although he didn't know why, the parasite in his brain suddenly disappeared along with the excruciating pain, turning into an organic mixture that flowed out of his nasal cavity. At the same time, his brain wasn't turned into mush by the parasite. He was free!

This male citizen is probably one in a hundred among the parasite implant recipients who make up the parasite web; most parasite implant recipients are not as lucky as him.

"Bang!"

"Clap clap!"

The male former parasite implantee, who had just recovered his senses, raised his head. The sound of bodies falling to the ground around him caught his attention. People in the crowd around him suddenly collapsed one after another, and scarlet, cloudy liquid flowed from their noses, ears, and eyes. Based on his own experience, it was not difficult to tell what these people were going through.

"Are they like me?" he wondered. But those who had fallen never got up again. Their brains, along with the parasites, had been completely devoured by the abnormal pollution that spread along the parasite web. Several of them had their skulls slumped down, disgusting and horrifying.

This is because of their bad luck, and also because these people are more deeply integrated with the parasite. Of course, they are not among the parasite implanters who know about and utilize the parasite web; those who have undergone mutations will be more thorough and have a greater impact on the surrounding environment.

Inside a deserted city, within a gang's territory, the gang member responsible for guarding the parasite mother frowned as he looked at the parasite mother behaving strangely inside the isolation chamber. The mother was trembling at a very high frequency, and an unknown liquid was secreted from her body, spreading to the surrounding ground.

"Ron, what's going on?"

He took out his personal terminal, preparing to report the abnormal state of the insect queen to the gang's higher-ups. He casually asked his colleague beside him, who was the one who had voluntarily implanted the parasite to come into contact with the thing called the insect web, and thought that he should have more knowledge and opinions about it than he did.

"What are you doing?! Aaaaaaah!"

Before he could even turn around, "Ron" tackled him to the ground. Ron's swollen and twisted head exploded in his eyes, and a large number of disgusting, slimy, fleshy lumps fell from where the brain should have been, hitting his face and beginning to devour his flesh. Endless pain struck, screams rang out, followed by eternal silence.

Of course, this dead gang member probably wouldn't have guessed what the gang leaders he was going to report on were really like; in fact, the situation there was even more chaotic than it was here.

After all, there are quite a few people who have mastered and are familiar with parasite technology who have actively implanted parasites and deeply integrated with them in order to gain a higher position in the parasite network and control other parasite implanters.

"Gurgle, crack!"

The enclosed interior was devoid of any food that could be called human. The proliferating, oozing flesh covered everything, enveloping the walls, furniture, and other things. The gang leaders, who were more closely connected with the parasites, exploded. The abnormal pollution of the blood sea spread and burst forth from their exploded bodies, engulfing and devouring everything around them, and then transforming into the chaotic and distorted form before our eyes.

"Boss, something's wrong..."

"Creak!"

The mechanical gate activated, and the powerful force tore off the mutated flesh attached to it. A high-ranking gang member rushed into the room from the outside, intending to report the situation to his superior. The entire gang was in chaos.

However, the moment it stepped into the room, the flesh and blood on the walls and ceiling closed, swallowing it whole with a speed it couldn't react to. The gate closed, and the flesh and blood that covered and filled the entire room fell silent again, waiting for the next piece of food to rashly rush into its mouth.

The reality was somewhat different from what the reporter who rushed to report, who was swallowed whole, had imagined. It wasn't that their entire gang was in chaos, but rather that the entire ruined city was thrown into disarray because the insect web had been abnormally polluted and invaded by the Blood Sea, transforming into a polluted web that allowed the Blood Sea to spread its power.

On the streets, the residents of the abandoned city nervously pulled out their weapons and ran towards what they considered safe places, wary of each other, wondering if the other's brain would suddenly explode and turn into mutated lumps of flesh that devour human bodies.

One by one, the parasite implantees were killed and infected by the abnormal pollution of the Blood Sea, turning their bodies into extensions of the Blood Sea's power to attack the surrounding "food".

A large-scale outbreak of Blood Sea Derivatives has begun within the abandoned city. Mutated flesh and blood are preying on the city's residents everywhere—on the streets, in shops, medical clinics, machine repair shops, and more.

These mutated flesh and blood were not too powerful or difficult to kill; the weapons in the hands of the residents of the abandoned city were enough to render them harmless. However, the danger of these mutated flesh and blood lay in their sudden and unpredictable nature. People around them could mutate at any time, making it impossible to defend against. Many unlucky souls had already been suddenly devoured and killed, and the residents of the abandoned city lived in constant fear.

"boom!"

A thick laser beam swept across the massive blood-sea-like entity on the street, annihilating the enormous mutant into dust. The Valkyrie mechs of the Inquisition flew low overhead, creating a gust of wind.

"Understood. I will do my best to minimize the damage this incident causes to the Wasteland and ensure that the group's resource allocation in the Wasteland is not significantly affected."

The mecha pilot was speaking with the being on the other side, making assurances to the other.

Meanwhile, at the other end, a researcher was standing in the private research institute of World Tree Corporation, looking at the isolation chamber that originally contained the first generation of parasite mothers, which were created after being modified by World Tree Corporation. That was the mother of all the parasite mothers in the ruined city.

But the isolation chamber was no longer home to any parasite host; it contained only a raging mass of flesh and blood completely polluted by the abnormal sea of ​​blood.

"This is troublesome..."

With a somewhat solemn expression, the World Tree researcher murmured to himself.