Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 54 The Ingenious Use of Emotional Manipulation Bugs

Several hours later, another experimental subject appeared in the basement.

In fact, Shisei Aburame's control over the higher-ups of Takigakure and his elimination of those who opposed him was only out of necessity—who told them to always try to become his obstacles, to always want to leave this peaceful village, and even to try to expose his personal information?

How dangerous is it outside? There's war everywhere. Even a Jonin-level ninja could be caught up in it all alone and end up with nothing but bones.

In Takigakure, they didn't have to do anything; they just had to obey. Wasn't he being lenient enough?

"The fourteenth experiment failed. Next experimental method: using insects to control insects, insect nest building method."

Aburame Shicheng looked at the last few methods recorded in his hand. He never expected that after going around in circles, he would return to the original secret techniques of the Aburame clan.

Of course, ordinary parasites won't work; they only use chakra and operate with the meager chakra they generate themselves.

Therefore, the first time an insect nest is built, a more ferocious insect is needed: an insect that can quickly and thoroughly devour the symbiotic parasites attached to its body.

Under normal circumstances, it would take at least several years to guide the breeding of this kind of insect, and that is assuming the right direction is found.

But he had a petri dish. In the past few months, apart from secretly going out to re-cultivate the aluminum iron worms, he had not used the energy in the petri dish to cultivate other worms.

On the contrary, he has been using the Knife Clan to hunt down mountain bandits, underground gangs, and various small organizations, using their corpses to feed insects and accumulate energy.

The accumulated amount is now quite large, exceeding two thousand. However, after several months of cleaning, the rate of energy accumulation has slowed significantly.

Yu Nu Zhicheng took the flesh from the insect corpse and brought it to another laboratory.

The instruments here look dilapidated, but they actually represent the limit of current technological capabilities.

It was something that Ryuji Tai spent a lot of money to search for in various countries and then secretly transported over under the cover of cargo.

Three hours later, many of the meat's characteristics were understood.

Yu Nu Zhicheng had already made up his mind: in other areas of research, he might be a mediocre expert; but in insect research, he was now the world's top expert.

Within hours, he had devised a mutation-inducing plan: use the offspring of the former second-class corpse-destroying worms, combined with the most primitive parasitic and eroding worms, to fuse and reproduce with each other, and use the offspring obtained to devour the symbiotic worms, thus accelerating the evolutionary process.

After a hundred years of primordial energy was poured in, a new type of parasite that specifically devours internal parasites was successfully cultivated.

This parasite has a very domineering uniqueness: once a host forms a symbiotic relationship with it, it can only use this one type of parasite for the rest of its life.

Any other parasites that want to enter the body will be considered an enemy, including various parasites in the human body, and even some large bacteria.

The host's body will thus become a kind of pure body, the only drawback being that these insects cannot leave the body; after building a nest, they will continue to reproduce and absorb the host's chakra.

However, they know how to restrain themselves. Because they understand that they have a symbiotic relationship: if one dies, the other cannot live either.

Therefore, when the number of worms in their bodies reaches a certain level, they will restrain themselves and fall into a balance.

Of course, it's impossible to get them to cooperate in performing ninjutsu. Aside from helping to clear internal parasites, toxins, and waste, they do nothing else.

"Well, nothing is perfect anyway. In any case, creating this kind of bug was just a temporary measure."

Aburame Shisei returned to the lab with the newly cultivated insects.

A day later, the Jonin survived again, but his fear did not dissipate. Instead, he became even more submissive and had no intention of resisting.

Because in the bunker, he had personally witnessed the consequences that would befall ninjas whose experiments failed.

At the same time, he also clearly sensed that although the terrible worm was no longer in his body, it had been replaced by another kind of small, grayish-white worm.

The insects were hidden inside his body and were not visible on ordinary days, but he could clearly feel that his body was getting better and better and that he would not get sick in the future.

Moreover, his physical abilities were greatly enhanced after the first insect entered his body; and this enhancement did not disappear after the insect died.

With his current strength... he could sense that he could defeat several of himself.

"Am I receiving some kind of extra blessing?"

"No, you're just lucky to have drawn a proper solution." Aburame Shisei formed hand seals and slapped a sealing spell onto the other person's forehead.

He then took out a white worm and safely inserted it into the other person's brain through their nose.

After the insects entered his body, the Jonin could clearly sense that the small white insects inside him began to stir. A large number of insects surged into his mind, wanting to destroy the enemy, but they were quickly blocked by a sealing technique.

Moments later, the insect army retreated.

"What's your name?"

"Murakami..."

"I'll see you out later. I don't want you to mention what happened today to anyone. Just pretend nothing happened. Not even to your closest family."

After saying her last words, Aburame Zhicheng struck him on the back of the neck, knocking him unconscious.

When he woke up again, Murakami was already in the rice paddies of the village.

"Is this letting me go? No, this is using two kinds of insects to completely control me."

He was terrified, but he had no choice but to do as Aburame Shisei suggested, pretending nothing had happened and returning home safely.

When he got home, he found that although his wife, whom he had once disliked, was still just as irritable, after scolding and beating him, she actually hugged him and cried.

"You heartless bastard, I thought you'd completely abandoned me. But at least you didn't run off with the money. You haven't eaten for days, have you? What do you want to eat? I'll make it for you right away."

He was speechless at that moment of tenderness, and finally said helplessly, "I'll eat anything you make, as long as it's made by you."

His wife turned around and smiled, then gently tapped his head with a spoon.

Unconsciously, he felt a sense of happiness—it turned out that his wife was not so hateful after all, and that she loved him.

Although the child doesn't resemble her, it was probably just a momentary outburst of temper on her part...

He even felt a pang of regret:

I deserve to die!

He actually abandoned his beautiful, gentle, and kind wife to save his own life, leaving her to live alone in this terrifying insect nest.