Chapter 222 - 143: Worldview Subverted! Slaying is Repose! A Battle Only for Transcendents!

Chapter 222: Chapter 143: Worldview Subverted! Slaying is Repose! A Battle Only for Transcendents!

Chen Chong’s gaze swept across the crowd. Not a single person dared to meet his eyes.

At that moment, in the eyes of the thousand-plus students, he was no different from a monster.

They were terrified that the slightest misstep would anger him, getting them killed on the spot—just like the corpse on the ground...

An empty space dozens of meters wide had formed with Chen Chong at its center.

Everyone had been forced back by the terrifying aura emanating from him. Their legs trembled, their hearts filled with nothing but an indescribable dread.

Chen Chong ignored the crowd’s terror. He simply lifted his foot and kicked the young man’s corpse, his calm voice echoing across the square.

"Open your eyes and take a good look. This... is a Parasite!"

"If I hadn’t killed him today, tomorrow you all would have been parasitized by the Bloodthirsty Vine inside him and turned into the same kind of disgusting monster!"

At his words, the crowd turned to look at the corpse on the ground...

The moment they saw it, everyone froze in place. Their pupils constricted, and their faces filled with utter horror!

Before, they had been too busy being terrified of Chen Chong’s brutal killing. Cowed by his intimidating aura, they hadn’t even dared to lift their heads, let alone spare a glance in his direction.

Now, prompted by Chen Chong, they looked closer and finally realized that beneath the blood pooling from the corpse, its twisted and broken limbs didn’t reveal shredded flesh and white bone like a normal person’s would.

Deep within the wounds, sections of vines were squirming faintly, like plump maggots or a nest of tangled vipers.

They were desperately trying to burrow their way out, creating an utterly horrifying sight...

From a distance, it looked as if countless vines were erupting from the young man’s corpse, mingling with the blood that soaked the ground to form a grotesque spiderweb.

The scene before them left everyone thunderstruck, their entire perception of reality shattering.

They couldn’t bring themselves to believe that everything Chen Chong had just said was actually true!

There really were Extraordinary Creatures like the Bloodthirsty Vine in the Primitive Jungle!

It had even infiltrated the school undetected and parasitized someone right in their midst!

What horrified them even more in retrospect was that if Chen Chong hadn’t killed him decisively, they might have gone to their graves without ever learning the truth that the young man had been parasitized all along.

"Oh my god... Those things inside his body look so damn creepy!"

"There are actual vines! He wasn’t lying! They’ll really get inside our bodies!"

"If this is real, does that mean there really is a fourth Extraordinary Creature in the Primitive Jungle? And that the next ’crossing’ is real, too?"

"That stuff burrows into your body like a parasite... It’s disgusting to the core!"

"How is that possible? Can someone parasitized by that damn thing still act completely normal? We couldn’t see anything wrong with him at all!"

"How many others in the school have been parasitized? Could we be next...?"

In an instant, the thousands of students in the Central Square were thrown into a panic, completely sucked into a vortex of fear.

The crowd began to stir once more.

This time, however, the commotion wasn’t caused by Chen Chong, but by the terror of the Bloodthirsty Vine.

They were terrified that the person standing right beside them was another monster parasitized by the Bloodthirsty Vine, just like the young man on the ground.

At the thought of those vines filling their bodies and devouring their flesh, many broke out in goosebumps, feeling that such a fate was worse than a swift death.

After witnessing the existence of the Bloodthirsty Vine with their own eyes, no one dared to question a single word Chen Chong had said.

A thousand warnings, in the end, were no match for this single, bloody scene...

Just then, Chen Chong’s voice rang out again, filled with an authority that could not be questioned.

"I’ve gathered you here today for three reasons. First, to share three pieces of life-or-death intelligence that will increase your chances of survival!"

"Second, to hunt down and eliminate the Parasites hiding in the shadows!"

"And third... you guessed it. I’m going to recruit people, bring order to the chaos in this school, and form my own team."

He paused, his gaze sweeping over the agitated crowd.

"Of course, I won’t force anyone to join. But before you leave, you must do one thing: obey me and stay right here!"

"Once I’ve exterminated every last Parasite, I will naturally let you go. For the safety of the entire school, I expect everyone to follow the rules!"

"Anyone who ignores this warning, tries to leave without permission, or disrupts the order will be treated as a Parasite and dealt with on the spot..."

As his voice fell.

Chen Chong reversed his grip on the Blood Eye Blade and, without hesitation, plunged it viciously into the young man’s head.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

From within the young man’s corpse, long since dead, came a faint sound, like the chirping of an insect or the scraping of metal.

At this strange sound, the faintly squirming vines convulsed violently a few times, as if their power had been cut, and then went completely still.

The bloody red and pale green on the vines’ surface rapidly faded. In an instant, they became a desiccated, ashen gray, completely devoid of life...

At the same time, a crimson light flashed across the blade of the Blood Eye Blade.

The pair of serpentine eyes on the hilt narrowed slightly before snapping wide open, as if they had just tasted an exquisite delicacy, exuding an air of ineffable satisfaction.

In truth, Chen Chong had noticed it the moment he stabbed through the young man’s chest: the Blood Eye Blade seemed to have a great fondness for the power of the Bloodthirsty Vine.

He figured it was likely because the Bloodthirsty Vine itself was a splintered part of an Extraordinary Creature.

And by using his Identification Skill, he had pinpointed the fatal weakness of these Parasites...

After the host dies, the Bloodthirsty Vine inside the body rapidly loses its vitality, but it doesn’t perish completely right away.

Previously, the only known method for complete eradication was incineration.

But now, Chen Chong had found a more efficient method...