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Chapter 152 Miracle Effect

For more than half a year, the southeastern sea of ​​Guangdong Province has been plagued by insect infestations. Initially, fishing boats were attacked by sea monsters. The local supernatural ability base sent a team of water-based supernatural ability users to investigate, but the entire team was wiped out, with no survivors.

When the high-level water elementalists went to investigate, on the surface everyone survived and successfully returned to the base with the sea monster corpses for research. In reality, apart from one level four water elementalist and one level two fire elementalist, several level three water elementalists among the group were all parasitized by the Alpha parasite, which led to the tsunami tragedy.

After a long period of research, the researchers also summarized some characteristics of the Alpha parasite: it specifically targets people with superpowers and alien beasts, but has no interest in alien plants.

Those below level three risk being parasitized, but level four ability users can resist the danger of being parasitized and parasitize a certain part of the brain. As time goes by, the degree of parasitism deepens and gets closer to the source of energy—the crystal core.

The strength of the parasitized person or animal will be enhanced. The deeper the parasitism, the less likely it is to be detected. However, when the parasite senses a threat, the host will exhibit abnormal behavior. The weakness is fire. The higher the level of the fire-type ability user, the more their fire can harm these parasites.

Therefore, when Chu Deng was promoted three levels at the Hai City Ability User Base, Hu Lan, who registered her, was immediately targeted by the Guangdong Province Ability User Base, which closely monitors the movements of fire-type ability users across the country. That same day, they reported to their superiors and requested that Hu Lan be transferred to the base to help with pest control.

The reason was that the people at the Guangdong Provincial Superpower Base discovered that the Alpha Parasites were becoming increasingly active, and the parasitized humans and beasts were becoming more and more aggressive, and frequently trying to come ashore. After investigation, it was found that the high-level Alpha female insect queen was about to reach her breeding season. During the breeding season, she not only needed a lot of energy, but also needed a host to store the insect eggs after giving birth. The superpowered people at their base wanted to exterminate these insects, but at the same time, they were also targeted by this female insect queen who was not unintelligent.

Fortunately, the current queen insect is only parasitizing a level 3 alien beast. Although the parasitized alien beast has forcibly elevated her to level 4, she is still only a half-baked one. The research department plans to have the level 3 fire-type Chu Deng lure out the queen, with the level 4 Zero Degree assisting in the attack. The goal is to capture the queen first and not let the insects proliferate.

Because higher-level insects can control lower-level ones, and the special way insects communicate with each other can interfere with signals, after Chu Deng finds the Queen, he sets off a firework in the sky to indicate that he is currently defending against the level 3 sea monster Zero on the coastline. Zero will quickly come here to exterminate the insects.

The premise is that Chu Deng can find the queen hidden among the many strange beasts.

When the research department first proposed this decapitation plan, Zero scoffed at it. Putting aside how Chu Deng, who had just reached level three, could penetrate deep into the rear of the sea beasts, let alone how Chu Deng could find the insect among so many sea beasts, just consider how Chu Deng's safety could be guaranteed during the search. To find an insect in the sea, one must enter the sea. A level three fire-type is completely powerless in the sea. Even a level two sea beast that has been parasitized could easily crush her.

"Speaking of which, we have to thank the Shanghai Superpower Base..." Mo Shouxiang, the head of the research department, smiled as he looked at the silent Chu Deng. "He Zhongjiang obtained a vial of potion from Fire Butterfly that was said to enhance the strength of superpowered individuals. Although it was stolen, this news prompted He Zhongjiang to send people to the United States to retrieve the potion. The people at the Beijing Superpower Base discovered that this potion, in addition to enhancing strength, could also conceal the aura of superpowered individuals—"

Chu Deng blinked and looked at the medicine in Mo Shouxiang's hand.

I never expected this thing to have this effect.

"Although it is only effective on hosts parasitized by the alpha parasite, and the effect lasts for one hour—the reason for this is still under investigation—experiments have confirmed its effectiveness, so..."

Chu Deng took the vial of medicine from his body and drank it down. The moment the pale blue liquid flowed into his throat, a burning sensation ran through the center of his forehead.