Chapter 226 - 145: Sudden Aberration! The Parasites’ Final Counterattack! Has the Bloodthirsty Vine Fused?

Chapter 226: Chapter 145: Sudden Aberration! The Parasites’ Final Counterattack! Has the Bloodthirsty Vine Fused?

The early-stage Parasites, just on the verge of losing control, instantly froze. The vines inside them recoiled frantically, as if they had just met their natural predator.

Even under the Bloodthirsty Vine King’s forceful control, they could no longer draw energy from their hosts’ bodies to fight back.

As for the deeply infested Parasites, while they could still move, their actions became sluggish and stiff, clearly affected to a great extent.

Aside from its master, Chen Chong, the Blood Eye Blade’s suppressive effect rippled out to every living creature present.

This included Qi Zhen, the Assassin Insect, Ning Yu, Wang Biao, Xu Jun, and the others...

Qi Zhen, the Assassin Insect, and Wang Biao were already at A-Level strength, so they were the least affected, feeling only a faint tremor in their hearts.

But the others, including the Tiger Striped Dog, found it much harder to bear.

While they weren’t so terrified that they trembled uncontrollably like ordinary people, the pressure, which seemed to originate from their very souls, still turned their faces pale and made their movements slightly strained.

"Damn, Brother Chong, your power doesn’t distinguish between friend and foe!"

Xu Jun grumbled, his face a bit stiff. He laboriously swung the Snakebone Giant Axe in his hands, hacking through the vines in front of him again as he charged toward a sluggish Parasite.

"But the good news is, you monsters are having it even worse! Go to hell!"

The axe came crashing down!

The Parasite, its movements already like a malfunctioning puppet, was instantly blown to bits...

The Blood Eye Blade’s suppressive effect was pushed to its limit, its terrifying pressure blanketing the entire area.

As an A-Level Extraordinary Weapon, its special characteristic was an indiscriminate suppression of all life forms below its rank.

Ordinary people were pinned in place by this pressure, utterly silent with fear.

The Bloodthirsty Vines inside the Parasites were technically Extraordinary Creatures, but the power distributed among the individual offshoots was limited, and the host bodies were too frail. Their highest level was only B-Level, with many even being C-Class.

Under the absolute suppression of the Blood Eye Blade, their movements were like glitching machines. One moment they were lunging to kill, the next they would suddenly freeze, only to glitch out again, repeating the cycle endlessly.

The scene was even more bizarre than when the Bloodthirsty Vine had fought the Lion-headed Geese for control back in the Underground Cave.

By comparison, Chen Chong and his group were in a much better position.

Even Ning Yu, who was relatively weaker, could withstand the pressure and weave nimbly across the square, buoyed by the thrill of battle.

Her movements were slightly strained, but she was still handling it with ease. ℴℴ𝘮

The early-stage Parasites were completely suppressed, unable to lash out, while the movements of the deeply infested ones were also severely restricted.

Already no match for the likes of Wang Biao and Qi Zhen, they were now nothing more than lambs for the slaughter.

Chen Chong was a decisive killer. Even with his core weapon, the Blood Eye Blade, plunged into the ground to maintain the suppressive effect, he still wielded an A-Level Snake Scale Short Knife.

This Extraordinary Weapon, forged from snake bone and Snake Scale, wasn’t as comfortable to wield as the Blood Eye Blade, but it was incomparably sharp. In some ways, its sharpness characteristic was even superior.

A single slash met no resistance, neatly cleaving both vines and Parasite bodies in half.

With this short knife, Chen Chong continued to single-handedly crush the Bloodthirsty Vines...

The battle was a complete, one-sided slaughter.

As the Parasites were cut down one after another, no fewer than thirty bodies already littered the square.

Their Vine Cores were crushed to dust, leaving only lifeless puppet bodies and withered vines to collapse amidst pools of blood and shredded flesh...

At the tunnel entrance in the distance, Zhong Fang and Zhang Meng were far enough away that the suppressive effect they felt was much weaker than it was for the thousand-plus people in the Central Square.

Watching the slaughter unfolding on the field, Zhong Fang fought back the discomfort in his body and forced a grin, shouting at the top of his lungs:

"This is great! Chen Chong is incredible! He can even slay a Unihorn Catfish, so what chance do these offshoots of an Extraordinary Creature have?"

"I never thought it would go this smoothly! The only tricky thing about these damn creatures is how they parasitize people. In a real fight, they’re no match for Chen Chong!"

Zhang Meng laughed heartily beside him and chimed in, "Exactly! I thought this would be a real struggle, but it’s been a piece of cake!"

"Once all these Parasites are wiped out, our school will finally be safe again..."

Both of their faces were full of relief, and the team members behind them had also shed their earlier tension.

Before the operation, they’d all thought something so bizarre would be incredibly hard to kill. They never expected a complete one-sided slaughter that posed no threat at all.

Their prior fear of the unknown, directed at the Parasites and the Bloodthirsty Vine, was completely swept away in that moment.

However, things rarely go as planned.

Just then...

The situation changed in an instant!

The early-stage Parasites were suppressed and the deeply infested ones were in full retreat. The Bloodthirsty Vine King sensed impending annihilation.

’If I don’t find a way to counterattack, all the hosts I’ve worked so hard to infest in this school will be wiped out, and the energy I’ve collected will never return to my main body.’

’Most importantly, I haven’t fully grasped human intelligence yet. I need more time to learn and absorb it...’

The next second, in a Central Square where only about twenty Parasites remained, another thirty-odd people began to convulse violently.

Countless vines burst through their flesh, instantly hoisting the hosts into midair and revealing the true form of the Bloodthirsty Vines.

Unlike the others, these weren’t early-stage Parasites. They were deeply infested Parasites whose brains had long been devoured, their bodies completely under control!

Everyone who saw this was utterly shocked.

They never would have imagined that so many more Parasites were hidden among the crowd.

’Has the Bloodthirsty Vine really gotten this smart? Did it deliberately release some of its offshoots to draw our attention while the rest remained hidden in the crowd?’