Apocalypse Gachapon

Chapter 161: Brain Bug

Ye Zhongming brought Mo Ye and Xia Lei. They lay on the roof of a building and looked around.

“Aren’t we going to draw monsters? Why aren’t we moving out?” Mo Ye squatted beside him and looked at the zombie hoard.

Xia Lei didn’t understand too. Ye Zhongming made such a huge effort but he stayed here for dozens of minutes and he didn’t do anything.

“I am searching for someone.”

“Who?”

Ye Zhongming didn't reply. Even if he told them they wouldn’t understand. He was finding the proven guess that he had before.

Only one thing could control the zombie hoard and mutated monsters to siege at this stage. This thing would appear in human form.

In the last life, people called it a brain bug.

The brain bug was not strong alone. It was really quick and small. They were good at hiding and sneak attacks and could camouflage perfectly with their surroundings. As for everything else, they really weak like they weren’t evolved at all.

But if one didn’t pay attention, they would successfully sneak attack you.

If one was hit by the Brain Bug, it would enter the human body and enter the brain through the blood vessels. It would then grow quickly and mutate.

This bug wouldn’t cause a human to die right away but they would lose their consciousness and get controlled, turning into another kind of zombie.

The human that was controlled by the brain bug would not have too outstanding an ability. Apart from stamina and strong recovery, what they replied on was control of demon crystal lifeforms.

Any mutated life forms with demon crystals would be affected by the human puppet controlled by the brain bugs.

The stronger the brain bug the higher level the lifeforms they could control and the higher the number that they could control.

Of course, the control level and number was not a simple addition. It was complicated. For example, the number of lifeforms a brain bug of the same level could control would be similar but it would differ based on individuals. Even strong brain bugs would be affected by this. The stronger the demon crystal lifeform that is controlled the lesser the number that the brain bug would be able to control. The weaker the lifeforms were, the more they could control.

At the start of the apocalypse, be it mutated plants or monsters, they were at the crazy evolution stage. Apart from humans, they would treat one another as stepping stones. Such a friendly situation would never appear.

But as the apocalypse proceeded and more high level appeared, they got smarter and smarter and would start to work together. But that was in the future and not now.

Since the new district base had such an impossible situation, that prompted Ye Zhongming guessed that the brain bug appeared. This was a really rare but extremely strong thing even ten years into the apocalypse.

During the ruin's defence, Ye Zhongming saw a figure. He was searching for this figure now.

But Ye Zhongming searched for such a long time but he didn’t find anything. He knew that the brain bug was really cunning so he didn’t know where it was hiding at.

He thought about it and took out Moon Edge. He sliced his arm and fresh blood flowed out.

“Oi, are you crazy?” Xia Lei was shocked. He wanted to wrap the wound but Ye Zhongming stopped her.

“Since I can’t find him then I shall let it find me.”

Mo Ye and Xia Lei looked at one another and were totally confused by him.

“We don’t have large amounts of fresh blood and flesh. Even if we make some noise we can’t attract all the zombies over. If we attract just a portion, it would be safe but it would be inefficient. When it turns dark, our battle strength would reduce but the mutated lifeforms won’t be affected. Rather than that, why not let it find me.”

“It? Who is it?”

“The thing controlling these fellows.” Ye Zhongming raised his chin and stretched his arm to the side of the building, tossing his blood down.

Naturally, the brain bug wouldn’t attack the base for no reason. It had a goal. For such bugs that only cared about eating and evolving, there was definitely something in the new district base that attracted it.

Maybe others wouldn’t know but Ye Zhongming realised that its target might be himself.

That was because he had the highest level in the new district base. If it wanted to evolve then he was the most suitable conduit.

The brain bug evolved differently from other demon crystal beings. Each time they evolved, after amassing enough energy and reaching the breakpoint, they had to exchange for stronger mediums. Their control ability concerned whether or not they would be able to evolve.

Each brain bug would be really weak when it first appeared and they could only control normal people. They would evolve in their minds and then search for one star evolved, then two star, three star…

In theory, they could control nine star evolved.

In his last life, based on what he knew, the highest level the brain bug controlled was eight star and no nine star evolved got hit. But even then, the one that controlled the eight star evolved’s body was one of the most terrifying things. It could control so many zombies and mutated lifeforms that it terrified every survivor. Where its army and passed through was where even nine star evolved had to avoid!

Someone mentioned that if there were many brain bugs, then humans, zombies, mutated lifeforms, and monsters were all rubbish. They would be the ones to rule the world.

From that, one could see how terrifying these things were.

Now, Ye Zhongming could confirm that in the circumstance where two star evolved were still rare, this brain bug was targeting him! =

There was something unique about them which was that they were inactive at night so they wouldn’t make moves at night. That was the reason why the battle stopped when the sunset. This made Ye Zhongming more sure that the brain bug had appeared. As it was day now, the brain bug was active. He was close and even cut his own arm, scattering out his own blood. It was really sensitive so it would definitely smell it.

Without the walls blocking, Ye Zhongming believe that the brain bug wouldn’t give up on such a chance.

Ye Zhongming’s guess was right.

A minute after he tossed his blood out, the zombie hoard and mutated lifeforms started to move toward his direction like they were given an order!

When the two women saw such a surprising scene, they were so shocked that they didn’t know what to say.

“Let’s go, they will follow!”

Ye Zhongming looked deeply at the black hoard and turned around to leave.