Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?

"Bang!" Following the noise, a shower of pungent blood splashes through the air, it is exactly the lure device from the Dungeon — the [Pungent Blood Cocktail]!

The parasites surrounding them instantly pounced on it as if they were flies smelling a toilet, even the Monsters dismantled themselves, scrambling to taste this rare blood treat, despite the obese mutant strain struggling to control them without success.

However, there seemed to be some greasy substance mixed in with the blood, causing the delicacies to be coated in a layer of fat.

Wait, is this oil from the oil can?

Fanen quickly pulled out Fire Paper, rubbed it on the ground, and the slight spark created by the friction between the Fire Paper and the ground instantly set the blood-drinking parasites ablaze, turning the scene into a sea of fire in an instant!

They had hidden such a trick!

The body of the obese mutant strain froze in place.

In the sea of fire, Fanen and Isha exchanged a smile and high-fived in tacit understanding.

The former wiped away the parasite blood splattered on the corner of his eye with his thumb, while the latter blew away the lingering gunsmoke from the barrel of her gun, both of them staring at the obese mutant strain in unison, which stood motionless.

At this moment, an untimely voice came from below them.

"Your actions... are quite dashing."

Looking down, they saw that Uffie had woken up at some point, her eyes deeply buried with exhaustion, as if she had run several hundred meters in her dreams, but the exhaustion was washed away when she saw the siblings high-fiving in the sea of fire, instead showing a strong interest.

High-five, wiping away blood, blowing on the gun barrel, these three seemingly ordinary simple actions matched the current atmosphere so well, subtle yet graceful, more stylish than any deliberately performed gimmick.

Uffie suddenly seemed to discover a new world.

"Can you tell me how you practiced those moves? Wait, what are you looking at me like that for?"

Uffie sensed something was wrong, because the siblings had frozen after seeing her.

"What's wrong, has my face turned into a monster?"

She reached up to touch her cheek and actually felt something out of place.

A slippery, fat parasite had already occupied the left half of her cheek.

"!"

Just as she was about to react, her left hand suddenly clamped down tightly on her right hand, her mouth uncontrollably shouting:

"Hahaha, such a strong body, it's perfect! Now I am the Insect King!"

The sound of a "thud" came from outside the sea of fire, it turned out the body of the obese mutant strain had collapsed, its tail end completely empty, leaving a hole exactly the size of the parasite on Uffie's face.

Golden Cicada Shell! The one parasitizing Uffie's face is its main body?

"Let me see how powerful this gift from heaven is!"

In the blink of an eye, Uffie performed a nimble somersault jump, her legs whipping Fanen and Isha like lashes, sending both crashing heavily into the wall, spitting out blood.

"Strong, so strong!"

The mutant strain at this moment felt the joy of having increased strength.

"Who are you?" Fanen struggled to stand up.

The mutant strain straightened up, and Uffie along with it, borrowing the girl's mouth to proudly say:

"I am the one born for the purpose of transporting nutrients for the Insect King."

The nutrients it referred to were these human flesh balls on the ground?

"But recently, the Insect King seems to have found something more nutritious and no longer needs me."

The mutant strain said, "Since my intelligence is second only to the Insect King, it now wants to eliminate me. Heh, how could I just sit and wait to be captured? I had to seek the opportunity to grow stronger, and first, I needed a suitable body, then I found you all."

It seemed eager to boast, laying everything out clearly.

"It was I who led you here; your bodies are currently the strongest in the entire city. I was quite troubled when I couldn't parasitize you."

"When this woman I'm currently parasitizing appeared, I immediately took a liking to her body, strong, precise, flawless; the only flaw was that I couldn't beat her, so I even considered fleeing at that point."

"As it turned out, this woman, for some reason, blacked out herself. Hahaha, made herself faint, is there anything funnier than that? It was simply a godsend opportunity for me!"

"Winning against her was very difficult, but evading you two to parasitize her was completely doable!"

The mutant strain laughed wildly; it indeed had every reason to laugh as controlling Uffie's body left no one present able to defy it!

"Next, I'm heading north to eliminate the Insect King and take its place, bwahahaha—"

Heading north? Fanen's eyelid twitched; isn't the Capital to the north?

The obese mutant strain already possessed intelligence beyond their imagination, and now, having Uffie's body, what could stop it anymore?

The hopeless atmosphere began to spread.

"Sorry to interrupt."

Suddenly, Uffie's voice sounded, and with a "snap," she shrugged off the control of her left hand and grabbed the parasite on her face with her right hand, intending to pull it out.

She wasn't completely controlled? Great, now they just needed to pull the parasite out—

The parasite, unflustered, said, "I've already implanted myself into your brain. If you pull me out, you'll die immediately."

After a moment of silence, she realistically loosened her hold without vainly showing off, realizing that the parasite was speaking the truth.

"Heh heh heh..."

The mutant strain laughed uncontrollably.

Uffie's body was quite resistant, hard to fully control at the moment, but thanks to the cooperation of the parasite previously burrowed inside her, it allowed the strain to immediately gain control of nearly half of it; from here on, it simply needed to proceed systematically to completely control this body.

"Sorry, I messed up this time; you two should run."

With a lowered gaze, Uffie recalled that the reason she was parasitized was that she had lightly used [Empathy] to glance at Fanen, which led her to see something strange. In the moment when her protective Fighting Qi dissipated, she got parasitized.

She had no qualifications nor reason to blame Fanen, only her own carelessness.

Now, before she could still mobilize her body's power, she could only try to resist the parasite, and if resistance was futile, she would destroy herself; at any rate, she couldn't let the parasite use her body to harm others.

"As she said, I'm in a bright mood now, so I'll spare you two." The mutant strain said with complacent satisfaction, anyway, it could capture them at any time in the future, allowing them to flee today only added to the fun of the hunt later.

Fanen looked intently at Uffie, suddenly asking:

"To what extent can you control your body now?"

Uffie didn't understand why he was asking this but replied sincerely: "My left hand can't move at all, my right hand is almost the same, only my two legs can still be controlled."

"My legs will soon be mine too!" The mutant strain interjected, really irritatingly smug.

"Can you hold on for another five minutes?" Fanen asked further.

A bit of Fighting Qi dissipated from Uffie's body, she nodded, she could hold on for five minutes, even for ten.

"Heh."

Fanen suddenly laughed; turning, he crushed the parasite's body, burnt into char by the fire, and said:

"Then run with us."

"What?" Uffie and the mutant strain were bewildered together, where could they possibly run to?

Though the youth's tone was full of confidence, as if the place he was heading to could solve all the hardships, leading them to unconsciously trust him.

"To your first stop in this city, which is also this worm's last stop."

Facing the descending moonlight, Fanen stretched his hand towards a certain direction, saying:

"To the Dungeon!"