Chapter 21
A few kiloters away, atop a hill.
The gentlen watched as the small town fell into total chaos. The 'clothes' they wore seed to sense the blood in the air wafting from the town, becoming restless.
With his round belly, Mr. Sman squeezed his facial features together,
“If such widespread forced infections erupt tonight, hardly anyone will survive until tomorrow afternoon... I suggest ending the examination by dawn.”
This proposal gained the approval of many of the gentlen.
Even the usually strict Professor Chamberlain, with his white hair, consented.
As most of the gentlen’s attention focused on the town center and the surrounding area of fierce combat,
Hoot.
The owl on Chamberlain’s shoulder hooted, drawing his gaze towards the edge of the town—towards the Green Shade Inn.
Two conscious “afflicted” individuals didn’t participate in the town’s chaos; instead, they quietly slipped out the back door.
Together, they pushed a cart stacked with six “corpses,” their bodies wrapped in a “fish-egg mbrane” filled with thick mucus.
At the bottom of the stack was the corpse of a young man, whom Chamberlain had noticed earlier, piquing his interest.
Chamberlain simply watched in silence, making no comnt as the cart was pushed to the lake’s edge.
They tilted the cart forward,
Splash! The six bodies tumbled into the water.
The brother and sister who had transported them also jumped into the lake,
sticking close to the bodies, guiding them towards the lake’s deepest depths.
“This is...”
Chamberlain’s pupils shifted, for the first ti activating his abilities during this exam.
The whites of his eyes turned blood-red, his pupils completely black, sharpening his vision and allowing him to see clearly through the green lake, zeroing in on Yi Chen, pretending to be unconscious in his mbrane.
“This guy actually pulled this off…”
Chamberlain pointed forward,
the owl on his shoulder imdiately taking flight, a white shadow cutting across the night sky as it headed toward the green lake.
...
[Beneath the Lake]
The bodies carried by the brother and sister were not corpses.
They were perfectly cultivated, 'fish-transformation hosts', intended as distractions to hide the true “sixth person,” Yi Chen.
The fish-egg mbranes covering their bodies
effectively isolated them from the lake water,
preserving enough air to support them to the lake’s depths.
Additionally,
Yi Chen had taken extra precautions,
such as the “internal filter” built into his mask.
Fibrous “internal nets” in his throat, nasal cavity, and ear canals would prevent lake water from entering his body, filtering out any pathogens effectively.
With eyes tightly shut,
feigning unconsciousness,
a mouth hidden on the back of his head opened slightly, containing an eye that quietly observed the underwater situation.
His observation revealed:
[Upper Lake Region]: Teeming with dense clusters of glowing green parasite eggs and fish eggs,
[Lower Lake Region]: The smaller eggs were absent, replaced by a disturbing form of 'human-egg'.
Those who had reached the first stage of fish-scale infection curled up inside the eggs,
a thick, umbilical cord-like structure connecting from their navel to the lakebed,
beginning their "fish transformation" this way.
Once enough scales covered their bodies and their organs developed into fully functional gills, they would break free, transford into rfolk.
So fully developed rfolk also swam about here, checking on the human eggs and guarding against intruders.
Gradually, under the guidance of the siblings, Yi Chen drew closer to the lake’s depths.
A chilling sense of being watched crept over him—sothing was clearly observing them from below.
‘That’s it!’
After weaving past human eggs and patrolling rfolk, they spotted an enormous "giant eye
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