Above The Sky
Chapter 255 - 255 243 Worm Nest Spirit Energy Network 23

255: Chapter 243 Worm Nest Spirit Energy Network (2/3) 255: Chapter 243 Worm Nest Spirit Energy Network (2/3) Yisen Gard had been tending to his master’s condition all this while.

He noticed the signs of the old man’s awakening earlier than Ian, who was focused on monitoring the extraterrestrial giant mushrooms, so he had prepared the potions in advance, ready to have the master inject himself after regaining his thoughts, combining it with the absorption of the Primordial Seed to restore his strength as quickly as possible.

The Ellen Family’s Regeneration Potion and Source Quality Supplement Potion could slowly restore one’s strength.

Even for individuals like Master Gossay, who had sustained severe injuries and overtaxed their Origin Quality leading to a complete disorder in their bodies, they could still gradually adjust back to norm.

At the very least, the power of the First Energy Level could be restored.

But something went wrong.

Master Gossay’s condition was not very good—he was now unable to inject the potion himself.

It wasn’t the injuries but the memory.

“What’s happened to the master…?”

In fact, if it were just simple amnesia, it wouldn’t be a big deal.

What made Ian and Yisen uneasy were the strange words and sentences that he was uttering.

“The Micro Magnetic Field Repair Tool Kit includes solutions to a variety of engineering problems.

Its aim is to provide diverse, complex, and low-latency, high-quality repair tools to maintenance engineers through multi-module and multi-part connections with magnetic fields, ensuring robust maintenance support for the daily upkeep of the Sky Ladder and Ascension Land…”

“When registering extraterrestrial life forms, if the registered life form and its derivative organisms have had contact with Terra Ecology, it is necessary to entrust these extraterrestrial organisms to the Pure Ecology Garden for quarantine.

At the same time, new collection operations must be conducted in the Redwood main network registration system.”

“The Second Generation Ladder Transport System is…”

After awakening, Master Gossay, looking bewildered, continuously repeated these ‘abnormal’ sentences.

To Yisen Gard, these words were incomprehensible gibberish.

He understood each word, but when put together, they made no sense at all.

Moreover, many of these words were completely new, or they belonged to ‘Ancient Terra Language.’

But Ian, after hearing just two sentences, widened his eyes, immediately knelt on one knee before the old man, and listened intently to every word he said.

Why?

The answer was simple.

Because at that moment, what Master Gossay was saying was almost identical to the ‘Engineer’s Code of Conduct’ and ‘Professional Handbook’ associated with his former job as an ‘on-board maintenance engineer’!

—This was the content of ‘Redwood Base Maintenance Code’ and ‘Redwood Base Professional Handbook’!

“Ian, Master Gossay has become like this, what should we do?”

After a brief panic, Yisen quickly calmed down: “Clearly, the teacher’s situation indicates that his brain has been influenced by parasites, leading to memory disturbance.”

As Ian was checking Master Gossay’s condition, Yisen paced back and forth a few times, then stopped and decisively said, “I have a vial of Perception Enhancement Potion here.

Although not exactly appropriate, it should strengthen the will, which might awaken a part of the teacher’s consciousness!”

“No, I also have perception potions, but I think they’re useless.”

Ian, examining the details of Master Gossay’s pupils—not prosthetic ones—scanned them with his Foresight View before nodding: “Using perception potions would only make things worse.

Master Gossay’s current condition is as I had speculated before.”

“He’s been possessed by the Phantom of a Brain-Eating Parasite…

or rather, he has merged with a part of the Spirit Energy Fluctuation remnants of an adult Brain-Eating Parasite and has been forced to make contact with the Brain-Eating Parasite’s ‘Collective Spirit Energy Network’.”

This isn’t baseless speculation, but the result of observation.

Within the Foresight View, a faint layer of blue Spirit Energy traces lingered in Master Gossay’s brain.

Just like the Spirit Energy traces left by Weyges years ago, this trace also affixed itself to an individual, continuously releasing signals—Weyges could use these signals to listen to hundreds of people’s voices and locate Ian’s position across the entire Redwood Forest.

This pale blue Spirit Energy trace could not only output coordinate information but also input network information, making Master Gossay’s consciousness fuzzy.

Yes, it was not as powerful as Weyges’s, which could span the entire Redwood Forest, but the parasitic psychic network of the Brain-Eating Parasite was omnipresent, capable of inputting and outputting information at any time and place.

Such traces would normally be quickly dispersed by the body’s self-circulating Origin Quality, but unfortunately, the old man was weak and had even fallen into a coma, so instead of being eliminated, these Spirit Energy traces were accepted by the body’s Origin Quality, making them hard to see clearly for Ian without careful examination and difficult to expel.

Initially, Ian had speculated that Brain-Eating Parasites were a type of psychic organism.

Indeed, the gibberish resulting from the willful networking that was happening to Master Gossay confirmed this, but it was actually a piece of terrible news.

The once-hopeful pillar of the Second Energy Level had now become a sickly invalid incapable of battle.

Not to mention, after networking with the Brain-Eating Parasite, the content he expressed consisted of various repair manual details, which were indeed thought-provoking.

Without further ado, Ian and Yisen moved Master Gossay to a dry corner behind the Giant Gold Mushroom Cluster.

Ian manipulated streams of water with his bare hands to smooth out a few stone bowls before collecting some of the sugar-rich luminescent fluids secreted by the Giant Gold Mushrooms and stirring them with some water from a nearby pool.

“Take this, drink some yourself, and give some to Master Gossay as well.

It’s a natural nutritional supplement.

Although it has a high metal content, Sublimators should have no issue with it.”

Handing over the slightly blue-tinted mixture to the blond youth, Ian himself drank a bowlful—although it tasted like ordinary sweet water, the energy content was far from low, especially the abundant metal content, which was perfect for someone like him, a Sublimator at the core and an Apprentice of Sand Armor.

Even, Ian felt that if he were to live here for a long time, eating only these Giant Gold Mushroom fluids every day, he would probably advance faster than if he ate Magical Beast flesh every day!

——It seems I must, like Shasha, occasionally drink some metal solution from now on; otherwise, relying solely on beast flesh might slow down the rapid growth brought about by my adolescence.

“Oh, it’s so sweet?”

While pondering his future diet, Ian suddenly heard Yisen Gard’s surprised voice: “This tastes very similar to the candy my uncle used to buy for me; it’s really good!”

“…You’ve never eaten candy before?”

——And you think this stuff tastes good?

Ian looked at the blond youth with some incomprehension, while the latter nodded obtusely: “As for candy, we used to get it directly injected—the Sun-eclipse Refining Dragon Bloodline needs to get used to ‘feeding’ through ‘blood’ from a young age, and this might also lower the chances of…”

Ian shook his head slightly.

He felt that what Yisen Gard had been subjected to since childhood was utterly abnormal…

That wasn’t training to become a Sublimator at all; it was more like rearing a human-shaped Sun-eclipse Refining Dragon!

Wait a moment.

Ian suddenly arched an eyebrow: “Mixed with royal bloodline, a humanoid Sun-eclipse Refining Dragon?”

“With the same parasitic-cohabitative Sun-eclipse Refining Dragon Bloodline…

What are the Ellen Family and the royal family trying to accomplish?”