Apocalypse Gacha 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 massive effort but stayed here for dozens of minutes and 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 swift and small. They were good at hiding and sneak attacks and could camouflage perfectly with their surroundings. As for everything else, they were weak, like they weren't evolved.

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

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

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

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

The human puppet controlled by the brain bugs would affect any mutated life forms with demon crystals.

The stronger the brain bug, the higher level of 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 wasn't straightforward. For example, the number of lifeforms a brain bug of the same level could control would be similar but 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 levels appeared, they became more intelligent and innovative and started to work together. But that was in the future and not now.

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

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

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

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, I shall let it find me."

Mo Ye and Xia Lei looked at one another and were 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. If we attract just a portion, it would be safe, but it would be inefficient. Our battle strength would reduce when it turns dark, but the mutated lifeforms won't be affected. Rather than that, why not let it find me."

"It? Who is it?"

"The thing is 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, something in the new district base definitely attracted it.

Maybe others wouldn't know, but Ye Zhongming realized 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, they had to exchange for stronger mediums after amassing enough energy and reaching the breakpoint. Their control ability concerned whether or not they would be able to evolve.

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

In theory, they could control nine stars 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 passed through was where even nine stars evolved had to avoid!

Someone mentioned that if there were many brain bugs, 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 stars evolved were still rare, this brain bug was targeting him!

Something unique about them was that they were inactive at night and 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 arm, scattering out his blood. It was really sensitive so that it would smell it.

Without the walls blocking, Ye Zhongming believed the brain bug wouldn't give up on such a chance.

Ye Zhongming's guess was correct.

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.