Chapter 80: Whose chicken is this, whose chicken

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Ye Lian’s sudden action left all the players present stunned, their faces full of bewilderment.

Only Bai Xue knew what was really going on.

Jimite had been forcibly made to drink a bottle of Spirit Recovery Potion, his face darkening.

His expression was one of extreme agony.

It was as if he had swallowed a bottle of poison.

Dancing Elephant and Boyang had both taken the same potion, yet showed no ill effects.

Why was Jimite like this?

A flash of lightning struck through Xingyue’s mind as she thought of a terrifying possibility.

What if…

“He’s been parasitized by a monster,” Ye Lian voiced her suspicion.

At her words, everyone except Bai Xue wore shocked, uneasy expressions, their hearts chilling.

There was also a hint of disbelief.

Because Jimite had always been acting normal.

Especially Boyang, who had spent a lot of time with Jimite and knew him very well.

If something was off, he would notice it at a glance.

“Jimite wouldn’t…” Boyang started to defend Jimite.

But suddenly, Jimite clutched his stomach, his mouth wide open, beginning to retch.

Ye Lian stepped back a bit, eyes fixed tightly on Jimite, ready for any sudden changes.

“Ugh!!”

The next moment, he vomited up some grey-black liquid.

A strong, foul stench spread through the air.

No normal human body would contain such fluid.

He must have ingested something wrong, or had something burrow inside!

At that thought, the players shuddered.

“Ugh!” Jimite’s vomiting continued, and something lodged in his throat seemed to enlarge it.

His eyes opened wide, as if they were about to burst, pain making his head feel like it might explode.

“Ugh!!!” With a final heave, the thing stuck in his throat was finally ejected.

It was a grey-black, many-eyed octopus roughly the size of a palm!

Seeing it, Boyang and the others trembled all over, overwhelmed by indescribable terror.

Ye Lian ignored them and gracefully raised her hand, using the power of wind to bind the Octopus Monster.

What appeared to be a dying creature suddenly struggled wildly, startling everyone.

It had been feigning death just now!

“Should’ve known you’re not so easy to kill.

Don’t worry, I’ll send you off now.”

Ye Lian’s words fell.

Everyone watched as the grey-black Octopus Monster bizarrely turned into pieces of flesh in midair.

Then, with soft plops, the bloody chunks fell, staining the ground grey-black.

“Ugh, this feels terrible. What exactly is wrong with me?” Jimite spit out the residual fluid and finally regained his senses, looking around in confusion.

“To be safe, drink this first.”

Ye Lian tossed him a bottle of Spirit Recovery Potion.

Jimite hastily caught it, his face puzzled.

“If I tell you to drink it, then drink it,” Boyang said.

“Oh, I’m drinking it now!” Sensing the tension, Jimite quickly opened the cap and downed the potion in one gulp.

After a few seconds passed without any strange reaction from him,

“It seems this is a type of parasitism that doesn’t severely harm the host,” Ye Lian explained.

“Yeah, it’s extremely covert. The host doesn’t even realize they’re being controlled,” Bai Xue nodded.

Listening to their words, Jimite was thoroughly baffled.

Then he suddenly recalled something.

“Strange, I went to find that Ayu earlier… wait, I already did. Ouch, my head hurts!”

He suddenly grabbed his head and shouted.

“Master, what’s wrong with him?” Bai Xue asked.

“Not sure, probably a lingering effect of the parasitism.

Just let him get used to it and it’ll be fine.”

Ye Lian replied.

She wasn’t a doctor, so she didn’t fully understand these things.

“I see.” Boyang heard this and stopped his step as he was about to leave.

Since the White Knight said he just needed time to adapt, there was no point in going over to help.

“Master, how did you zero in on him?” Bai Xue asked curiously.

Logically, Jimite, who had been acting normal all along, shouldn’t be the prime suspect.

Instead, Boyang and Dancing Elephant seemed more suspicious.

The former was somewhat scheming, the latter possessed strong abilities.

And both had remained calm from start to finish.

“Simple, because he was the biggest suspect from the very beginning.”

Ye Lian answered calmly.

At this, Bai Xue tilted her head slightly in puzzlement.

Dancing Elephant suddenly had a realization:

“I get it now, he was parasitized when he went to find Ayu!”

“Exactly. They were attacked by monsters at the same time,” Ye Lian nodded gently.

“The difference is, one died, and the other survived.

And the survivor helped the culprit buy time to move the body.

Imagine a monster carrying a human corpse flying through the air.

Wouldn’t that be extremely conspicuous?”

At this, whether informed or not, the players all pictured the scene.

They found such an act completely unreasonable.

“Of course, I’m talking about long-distance flying.

If it’s a short distance and someone’s on lookout, it’s still possible.”

Ye Lian said.

“Whoa! So when Jimite came to us earlier, the corpse was already moved.

No wonder we found nothing.

The timing of the crime was completely off!”

Boyang looked at Jimite, excited.

The latter’s pain had lessened and he shrank his neck as he met their gaze.

Though it wasn’t his fault, the monster had definitely used his body to carry out a series of operations.

“Jimite, am I right?” Ye Lian asked.

“Y-yeah, almost exactly… wait, Who’s Chicken isn’t completely dead!”

Lightning flashed through Jimite’s mind as he recalled some operations of the Octopus Monster.

When it left the Watchtower, it had communicated with Who’s Chicken in an inexplicable way.

“What did you say!?” Even Ye Lian was shocked.

She had checked many times—Who’s Chicken was definitely dead.

“No, no, that wasn’t Who’s Chicken, it was the monster!

It’s not fully dead. What came out of it back then was just one of the monsters.

There are two inside it. The one that attacked the White Knight is the obvious one.

The other has already fused with the corpse!”

Jimite’s hands trembled, his face pale.

“A truly terrifying and cunning monster,” Bai Xue felt a chill run down her spine.

If Jimite hadn’t spoken up, she never would have imagined the monsters could operate like this.

“We’ve been tricked.” Ye Lian clenched her fist, a cold light flashing in her eyes.

The monster’s disguise skills were so advanced that even she had been fooled.

“Too cunning,” Dancing Elephant said, still shaken.

He and Boyang had both touched the corpse, yet their danger sense hadn’t triggered.

This revealed just how strong the monster’s concealment and disguise abilities truly were!

“Jimite, when you were possessed, did you have any contact with the monster on the Rooftop?”

Now that it was too late to rush back to the Watchtower, Ye Lian was more concerned about that quick escapee.

“Yes, but I couldn’t understand their communication method.

It was a strange feeling, hard to describe.”

Jimite frowned.

Just then, a loud bang came from the direction of the City Gate.