This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous Chapter 956 - 956 453 The Weakness of the Divine Beast

956: Chapter 453 The Weakness of the Divine Beast 956: Chapter 453 The Weakness of the Divine Beast Late at night, inside the pet shop’s study, Lin Xue was diligently researching the log before her by the light of a lamp.

The journal penned by the Black Clothed One was not written in the standard Star Spirit Language, but in so ancient script similar to it, comparable to the difference between Mandarin and dialects, which presented considerable difficulty for Lin Xue’s translation efforts.

Fortunately, Vivian was right beside her, and such obscure texts were no trouble for her.

With Vivian’s help, the decryption proceeded smoothly.

“…

This unknown creature, separated from the body of the Fool, nad by the Fool as ‘Divine Beast,’ generally appears as cotton-like tufts and possesses fluidity similar to a liquid.

It can silently hide within the human brain, influencing an individual’s cognition and behavior by controlling their consciousness.

It uses the human body as a placenta to quickly nurture new offspring and, once the young are ford, spreads into other Fools’ bodies…”

The above is an excerpt from page ten of the journal.

In the pages before this, the Black Clothed One had already conducted nine experints on a Fool parasitized by the Divine Beast.

The journal is essentially composed of accounts from one experint after another.

Each experint is recorded with a specific number, interspersed occasionally with summary explanations like this one.

Lin Xue flipped to the last few pages and discovered that the Black Clothed One had conducted a staggering total of more than nine thousand seven hundred experints!

“Experint number 13…

Test target of Divine Beast parasitism, test subject: Titan…

Test result: failure…”

…

“Experint number 14…

Attempted to let the Titan absorb a Divine Crystal, transforming it into a divine creature, repeated the parasitism experint, test result: still failed, conclusion: the Divine Beast cannot parasitize Titans!”

…

“Experint number 27…

Testing the Divine Beast’s parasitism on sprites…

Test result: failure…

Divine Beasts cannot parasitize sprites…”

…

Lin Xue didn’t have ti to look through each process in detail and could only focus on the results.

The Black Clothed One’s first few hundred experints were primarily testing the parasitic range of the Divine Beast.

The Black Clothed One had carried out extensive testing on various species from the Star Spirit World and ultimately concluded: no ordinary Star Spirit World creature that has never contacted any divine power will be parasitized by the Divine Beast.

However, when divinity was injected into a creature’s body, species with a high resemblance to humans such as the human race, sprites, vampires, and werewolves were all successfully parasitized by Divine Beasts, whereas other intelligent species like titans, sprites, and goblins still would not beco targets even when infused with divinity.

Furthermore, the species that could be parasitized all had one thing in common: they were precisely those that could be utilized by the Fool to masquerade as their skin!

It was hard to believe this was just a coincidence.

Thus, the Black Clothed One ultimately concluded, “The Divine Beast is specifically targeting the Fool; they are the nesis of the Fool and must be a divine punishnt for the Fool’s transgressions!”

As for the Black Clothed One’s clearly subjective conclusion, Lin Xue didn’t pay much attention—after all, even the divine race itself had been annihilated by the Divine Beast.

How could such a creature possibly be created by the divine to counter the Fool?

Moreover, the Fool was not a species that existed naturally but transford from the human race, theoretically, all original inhabitants of the Star Spirit World could potentially morph into Fools.

Therefore, to say the Divine Beast specifically targets the Fool is not accurate.

It is more likely that this creature specifically targets the divine race, and the ergence of the Fool is rely the process of mortals gradually transforming into divine beings.

Because every Fool holds the potential to transform into a divine being, they are ‘implicated’ and identified by the Divine Beast as a target for attack.

“In conclusion, the true condition for parasitism by the Divine Beast is not determined by species, but whether a creature is attempting to ‘approach’ divinity,”

Lin Xue wrote down this conclusion on paper.

In this sense, Divine Beasts are more like a world’s ‘immune chanism,’ aiming to eliminate all divine beings and prevent the ergence of new gods from mortals.

As long as mortals stay orderly, stick to routine, and live their lives in the Star Spirit World, they will not trigger their enmity; conversely, once a mortal oversteps their bounds and attempts to approach divinity in any way, they will imdiately beco a target for elimination!

This is also precisely why the Black Clothed One and the Wizard Association are so averse to the Fool, striving to delineate boundaries from the Fool and demonizing them, because once soone becos a Fool, or even wishes to beco one, they might attract the attention of this dreadful creature.

Lin Xue shook her head and continued reading.

The subsequent experints finally began to study the characteristics of the Divine Beast itself.

“Experint number 754, testing the parasitic pathways of Divine Beast…”

“Experint number 1246, testing the intelligence level of Divine Beast…”

“Experint number 4211, testing the survivability of Divine Beast in non-parasitic conditions…”

…

Lin Xue patiently flipped through the experint accounts, occasionally jotting down useful information on paper.

This was a significantly complex task, and even with Lin Xue’s speed reading which skipped many details and focused only on conclusions, it still took nearly a day and a half to finally finish flipping through the entire journal.

Shutting the last page of the journal, Lin Xue sighed and then looked at the paper next to her, now densely covered with handwritten text.

At this mont, the paper had a total of more than one hundred sixty entries, all points she recorded during the review process.

Of course, most of these were trivial conclusions, and there wasn’t much information that could actually be helpful in the current situation.

Lin Xue picked up the paper and read it carefully, eventually circling six items.

First, after a Divine Beast enters a living body, it does not imdiately complete the parasitism but requires a process that lasts about 3-5 hours.

The entire parasitism process is completed subtly and unknowingly to the host.

By the ti the host becos aware, their consciousness and thoughts have already been completely occupied by the Divine Beast, leaving no chance for change.

Additionally, perhaps to perfectly disguise itself, the Divine Beast that has completed parasitism will show certain similarities with the host, possessing so of the original host’s mories, and exhibiting behavior and personality traits similar to the host’s prior state.

Second, when a Divine Beast is within a living body, it remains nearly invisible and undetectable by various scanning devices and abilities.

Therefore, one cannot distinguish whether soone is parasitized until the host is dissected.

However, so individuals with sufficiently strong ntal capabilities seem to be able to feel the ongoing parasitism before the process is completed.

Third, a Divine Beast exposed to the air will die quickly, and must be stored in special devices that simulate the human environnt to remain viable.

After the host dies, the Divine Beast can still survive inside the deceased’s body for about an hour.

During this ti, if the host revives, they remain parasitized, so killing the host while they have a chance to revive is ineffective, as the Divine Beast will still be present after revival.

When the host is about to be killed, and there are other potential hosts nearby, the Divine Beast will activate a self-preservation chanism.

At the mont of the host’s death, it discreetly exits and enters another host, completing the parasitism anew.

Fourth, once a person is parasitized, a new Divine Beast larva will be born inside the body every one to three days.

However, there is a limit to the number of larvae that can be stored in the sa host body, seemingly proportional to the host’s size; in ordinary humans, there can be a maximum of two to three larvae.

These larvae are deployed when the host cos into close proximity to other potential hosts, thus fulfilling the Divine Beast’s mission of spreading.

Fifth, and most importantly, based on the Divine Beast’s movent speed in the air and its survival ti, the Black Clothed One determined the maximum effective distance for transmission of the Divine Beast—ten ters!

If the distance between two individuals exceeds ten ters, even if one of them releases a Divine Beast larva, the larva will die before it reaches its target due to exposure to the air.

Thus, theoretically, as long as all suspicious individuals are kept more than ten ters apart from each other, it would ensure that the transmission pathway of the Divine Beast is cut off!

“Ten ters, huh…”

Lin Xue looked at the last conclusion and let out a slight sigh of relief.

While ten ters isn’t very far, the problem is that to fight a Titan, usually a large group of people is needed, which leads to crowded positioning.

Moreover, since the Divine Beast has the ability to actively detach from its current host and parasitize the nearest other host, it cannot be guaranteed that a newly infected person won’t spread it to others shortly thereafter.

That ans, when actually fighting with Titans, once a player has been infected by a larva spread by the Titan, everyone within a ten-ter radius becos a risk target and must be isolated imdiately to completely halt the spread of infection.

As for how to achieve this, Lin Xue didn’t need to think further; she simply had to release this information.

She believed that with such detailed intelligence, the think tanks of various countries would have plenty of strategies to handle it.

With that thought, Lin Xue uploaded the docunts to the City Lord group and tagged others, asking them to help spread it.

[Baron: ???]

[Blue Beard: Wow!]

[Son of Heaven: …]

[Jiu You: Red Sickle Girl, is the information in this report… all true?]

[Red Sickle Girl: I can’t guarantee it’s 100% accurate, but there’s a more than 90% chance that it is.]

Lin Xue replied.

After all, the information was provided by the Black Clothed One, and although it’s not impossible that they might want to deceive the Fool by giving fake data, it’s unlikely.

Considering the importance, if they really dared to deceive them, the Fools would retaliate fiercely against the Star Spirit World before perishing, and the outco would surely be mutually detrintal.

[Son of Heaven: Amazing!]

[Solomon: Indeed amazing.

This information is too important!]

[Sherlock Hols: Boss is too powerful, now we can finally see a glimpse of hope through the disaster…]

[Jiu You: Alright, ti is limited, everyone, hurry up and pass on the information!]

…

The City Lords briefly marveled and then imdiately got to work without further ado.

Within just an hour, the report had been disseminated in various forms to every player currently fighting at the major Black Hole fronts.

…

At this ti, under the Pacific Black Hole, tens of thousands of top players, gathered from around the world, were moving in small groups, urgently clearing the scattered Sea Beasts from the surface.

With Divine Arts and a sufficient number advantage, the previously fallen tens of thousands of Sea Beasts lost their threat instantly, being systematically defeated by teams of players.

The number of Sea Beasts was visibly decreasing rapidly, with a third already cleared within a day.

On a distant small island, Son of Heaven and Blood Emperor, looking at the rapidly spreading latest reports in the group chat, also sighed in relief.

The importance of the report needs no ntion; just the certainty of a ‘ten-ter’ safe distance could potentially save countless lives in the future!

Even though it’s not easy to keep everyone ten ters apart in combat, there is now more leeway, reducing the necessity to resort to extre fratricide.

If soone accidentally enters a danger zone in the future, there would be no need to fear imdiate betrayal and killing by teammates.

They could first isolate themselves to await observation.

Only under these conditions would players dare to engage fully in the fight against the Titans.