“Things that the iron block doesn’t like to eat: wasabi biscuits, herring-flavored potato chips, canned sweet and sour pig brains, Sichuan pepper-flavored QQ gummies, snail shell powder, fragrant chicken beaks, Red Bull glutinous rice cakes…”

Ryan Clark recorded all the food names she had just placed on the metal block.

Only then did she begin searching for information about the red worm.

After seeing that notebook, Logan Clark’s mind went blank.

“Should I be touched?”

……

As Ryan Clark continued her search.

Information about the red worm in flesh appeared on the electronic screen—

Red String Worm.

During the Cataclysm, people discovered this creature on Earth for the first time.

At that time, it had crawled out of the abyss and was parasitizing a sheep, which tried every possible way to escape its pen every day.

It even bashed its own head until it was bloody.

When the farmer noticed something was wrong with the sheep, he just thought it was sick and wanted to kill it.

But when the butcher’s knife came down, the sheep’s wound slowly healed.

Frightened, the farmer immediately called the police.

By then, signs of the Cataclysm had already appeared, and this zombie-like immortal creature caused great panic.

The military surrounded the farm, cleared out all the other sheep, and then captured this one.

During the research, people discovered the worm in the sheep’s brain.

The worm controlled the sheep, making it move in a single direction.

When killed by the butcher’s knife, the worm gave the sheep the ability to heal automatically.

Researchers tried burning it with fire, and the sheep gradually adapted to the flames, no longer fearing high temperatures.

When confined in the research institute, the sheep became even stronger, and one day it even broke open the steel plate imprisoning it.

When deprived of food, the worm made the sheep start photosynthesizing.

The sheep was evolving.

If it was prevented from moving toward its intended destination, the sheep would keep evolving until nothing could stop it.

Attempts were made to remove the worm, but after removal, another identical worm appeared in the sheep’s brain.

The worm was also healed by the sheep.

Finally, the institute made a decision—to release the sheep.

They wanted to see where the sheep truly wanted to go.

The sheep was eventually placed on New Zealand’s North Island.

As soon as it regained its freedom, it headed straight for the seaside.

It jumped off a seaside cliff and was nearly killed.

After healing, the sheep began to swim across the Pacific Ocean, heading northeast.

After drowning in the sea, it learned to swim, and its body gradually became more dolphin-like.

At first, it swam slowly and was swept by the South Equatorial Current to the Solomon Islands.

It continued swimming, and halfway through, it was carried by the North Equatorial Current and the Japan Current to Japan.

Then it swam faster and faster, fins began to grow on its legs, and it crossed the Bering Strait, entering Canada from Alaska.

Next, it entered the Arctic Circle, then traveled from Baffin Bay to Greenland.

Along the way, the sheep was hunted by various predators, but it kept healing, only leaving after feeding the predators.

It reached the ice-covered waters north of Greenland.

Amidst the vast white snow, it found a polar bear.

Then it climbed onto its back.

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(End of this chapter)

Chapter 9 Worm Infection

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Chapter 9 Worm Infection

Researchers also found the same red worm inside that polar bear.

After completing their mission, both died, including the worm in their brains.

The worms inside them were a male and a female—the one in the sheep was male, and the one in the polar bear was female.

This sheep’s “tragic and beautiful” love story also inspired the researchers.

Thus, this worm was named the “Red String Worm.”

Seeing this, Logan Clark also sensed the namer’s twisted sense of humor.

It can now be confirmed that the healing ability was brought by the Red String Worm, and the enhanced perception was probably also caused by some kind of evolution.

That’s all for the initial records of the Red String Worm.

After spending so much effort tracking a sheep, they ended up discovering such a strange creature.

Subsequent records also describe the bizarre behaviors of other creatures infected by this worm.

If left alone, the infected host would naturally perish; trying to stop it would instead trigger evolution.

After driving the creatures back into the abyss, the Red String Worm disappeared from Earth.

Later, some hunters who entered the abyss were also infected by this worm, but could only consider themselves unlucky.

Not only that, Logan Clark also discovered that the Red String Worm previously found in the brain of the shock beast was only a juvenile, and at this stage, the host’s consciousness would not disappear.

This was also why those shock beasts would still attack Ryan Clark.

After reading all the records, there was only one treatment method—let it be.

But this also meant the mission had failed.

If the abnormal behavior of the shock beasts couldn’t be resolved, the mission couldn’t be completed.

They were at an impasse.

Ryan Clark clearly realized this as well, and sat in the car, deep in thought.

She continued flipping through the worm records.

Suddenly, Ryan Clark seemed to realize something, started the car, and drove straight toward the depths of the valley.

More and more shock beasts appeared along the way, and these shock beasts were especially alert.

Every one that entered Logan Clark’s field of vision was already in attack mode.

Her vision penetrated into the flesh in their heads—again, red worms!

Why are there so many?

Logan Clark also guessed Ryan Clark’s thoughts.

In previous records, the Red String Worm only ever infected a single individual in a population.

It was not contagious, let alone appearing in large numbers.