Very quickly, the dagger was finished. Ethan took it out from the warehouse.
He held a plate of sun worm eggs in one hand and the dagger in the other. Then he swiftly picked up an egg, cut open a small slit on Poker Face's arm, and planted the egg inside.
"Hmph!"
Poker Face let out a light grunt.
He didn't show much pain on his face. Instead, he even glanced at Ethan with some disdain and said, "That's it? Heh, this is your so-called gift?"
"Of course not. It's just five hundred cuts. Bear with it."
After Ethan said that, he didn't waste any more words on Poker Face. His hands immediately sped up.
After all, a super "vibrator" trained for over twenty years, once it got fast, even he found it a bit scary.
"Hiss!"
"Ugh! Ah!"
"Ahhh!"
As Ethan's speed kept increasing, more and more cuts appeared on Poker Face's body.
He finally couldn't endure this kind of torment anymore and began to scream in pain. And Ethan noticed that it wasn't just the wounds he had just made, even the eggs that had already been planted seemed to be tormenting Poker Face.
Because… Ethan saw that those eggs, one by one, had grown thin, long red threads.
He didn't know whether those threads had already been there or had just grown out, but each egg had sprouted a circle of red filaments of varying lengths. And these filaments were extending deep into Poker Face's flesh.
Although the red threads were extremely thin, each one even thinner than a strand of hair, when that many "hairs" all burrow into your flesh at the same time… Even imagining it made Ethan feel a chill.
And he could even see that those red threads, in order to better absorb nutrients from Poker Face, were constantly wriggling, drilling deeper into his flesh.
Because the skin was being irritated, Poker Face's arm began swelling up with one large bump after another.
At the top of each swelling was a small opening. Inside sat a pale red egg, with countless red threads growing out, constantly writhing beneath his skin.
Especially in the swollen areas, where the skin had stretched thin, those red threads became extremely visible, like thin worms moving under the skin, eating flesh and sucking blood.
"Ah!"
"Kill me!"
Poker Face screamed madly. Fortunately, Ethan had anticipated this and had already tied him tightly to a pillar in the pet park.
But at this moment, Poker Face was clearly in too much pain. He completely ignored the pain from the ropes.
He struggled frantically, trying desperately to break free.
From exerting too much force, red marks appeared across his skin, even tightening around him to the point where he couldn't breathe, coughing nonstop. Yet even so, he couldn't calm down.
This forced Ethan to take out some Water Ghost Green Silk from the warehouse and bind him from head to toe like a rice dumpling.
Only then did he finally quiet down a little.
All the sun worm eggs had been planted, and Poker Face's entire body no longer had a single patch of intact flesh.
Originally, Ethan hadn't wanted to be this cruel. But once the eggs were implanted under the skin, they caused inflammation, making the skin swell into lumps. So he had no choice but to find new patches of intact skin.
Otherwise, two eggs would compete for the same area's resources, affecting the growth of the sun worms.
So, Ethan didn't even spare that particular part of his body.
It could be seen that what had originally been a small area was now swollen to the size of a carrot.
"Ah… what exactly… did you do to me?"
Poker Face wailed, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at Ethan and shouted, "Kill me! If you've got the guts, kill me!"
"You lunatic, beast, you won't die a good death!"
"Phew!"
Ethan let out a long sigh and said, "If cursing me makes you feel a bit better, then go ahead."
"Ah!"
At that moment, Poker Face let out another scream, "What is it! What is crawling into my eye!"
"Get it out! Get it out now!"
Hearing this, Ethan quickly lowered his head to look into Poker Face's eye socket. And sure enough, there really was an egg there.
The red threads growing from it were like thin, long legs, slowly moving toward Poker Face's eye.
Poker Face's pupil stared in terror at the red egg. He kept blinking frantically, but it had no effect on the egg's advance.
Because the egg was so small, and those threads were like octopus tentacles, clinging to his eyeball.
So nothing could stop it.
Poker Face could only watch helplessly as his eyeball was occupied by a red "insect," even preparing to do something to his eye.
Ethan frowned and quickly took out the small knife, intending to remove the egg from Poker Face's eye.
He had originally planted that egg on Poker Face's cheek, where there was the most flesh. He had no idea why it had suddenly started moving, and was now crawling toward the center of his eye…
["Master!"]
The Queen Bee's voice suddenly rang out in Ethan's mind, ["This is the sun worm egg's own choice. And this one is very likely the queen among this batch of sun worms. Don't touch it!"]
"Queen?"
The tip of Ethan's dagger, which was just about to touch Poker Face's eyeball, trembled.
This scared Poker Face into snapping his eyes shut again, screaming hysterically, "What the hell is this thing! What did you do to me? If you've got the guts to torture me, then kill me!"
"Didn't you say you wanted to go back and repay General Shakun's kindness?", Ethan asked instead, "Is his kindness worth so little that you can't even endure this bit of suffering, already begging to die?"
"Ah!"
Poker Face screamed again, "This is just a little suffering? Come on then! You try it yourself!"
"This is no different from ten thousand ants gnawing at the heart!"
"You're a demon!"
"You—AHHHHH!"
Poker Face's face twisted again from the pain.
And at that moment, Ethan saw a white liquid flowing out from his eyeball, as if the egg had already broken through the defenses of his eye and pierced it directly.
["Master, I know you think he's pitiful,"] The Queen Bee sensed Ethan's emotional fluctuation and spoke again, ["But the moment he chose to become a flesh field, this outcome was already decided."]
["And the egg that entered his eye is the mutual choice between the insect and the human."]
["The queen felt this person's determination, so…"]
"So what?"
Ethan felt like things weren't that simple.
And the Queen Bee's next words made a chill run down his spine.
["So, the queen has decided to take over his brain and control his thoughts,"] The Queen Bee continued, ["To prevent him from committing suicide, which would lead to the destruction of the entire sun worm colony."]
"This…"
Ethan sucked in a breath and said, "Is this where the term 'flesh field' comes from?"
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