Shadow trail of the beautiful world

Chapter 467 52. The Secret of the Symbiont

A wriggling world.

It was a planet like an asteroid.

A lonely planet suspended among dead stars, there is no complete celestial body around it, there are broken planets everywhere, those rubbles, those star rings, and a sun that is about to go out.

Merlin saw this weird world in his consciousness.

He didn't know what power projected this picture into his consciousness, but there was no doubt that this thing must be related to the weird, black mud-like thing that he brought out before.

In front of his eyes, the surface of the wriggling world was covered with identical black mud, like a ball of football wrapped in liquid, countless black mud rolled on the surface of the world.

There is a feeling of nausea and terror.

What Icarus said is right, that kind of organic matter can change shape freely, and even cover a world...

"You, what is it?"

Merlin tried to manipulate his consciousness away from this projection, but he couldn't.

He can only allow his consciousness to quickly approach the covered world, he can feel that his consciousness has passed through the disgusting thing covered outside that layer of world, like being sunk into a swamp, that kind of It was as cold and slippery as snake scales, which made Merlin feel very uncomfortable.

But to his surprise, after crossing that layer of black mud, he entered a strange world.

No sky, no earth.

There's only one vast expanse of space, it's not a covered world at all...

This is a ball made up of those black muds, an extremely huge inner space, without support points at all, they are gathered together, suspended in the dead stars, just like an formic ball when it encounters a flood.

In front of Merlin's eyes, endless organic life entangled together, like a super-large spider web.

Red, black, white, blue, green... All kinds of organic life are entangled together. From a distance, it looks like a giant snake pit, surrounded by disgusting mucus and spider silk In the same remnants, these strange beings are like unconscious wriggling, maintaining the distant rotation of this 'planet'.

Merlin's consciousness is roaming in this huge space. At first glance, such a scene will make people feel fearful, and it will make people feel extremely dense fear, but the whole world is like this. If you see more, it doesn't matter. up.

His consciousness was quickly pulled towards the center of the world...

Something there was calling him.

I don't know if it's out of good intentions or malice, but Merlin is more inclined to the latter.

Soon, he saw a black stone throne hovering in the center of this world composed of countless organic life forms.

It was the only entity in this world other than these wriggling organic beings.

And on the throne, a thin, distorted guy was sitting on it, and Merlin couldn't see its face clearly, its face was covered by those wriggling liquids.

It was dressed in a black and red robe, and its long white hair fell loosely over his thin shoulders.

Merlin has never seen such a guy before, but there is no doubt that even in a lifeless state, as if dead, this unknown existence still exudes an ancient and evil aura.

Hmm... Such an appearance ceremony, no matter how you look at it, doesn't look like a decent and good person.

Merlin's consciousness circled around the throne, and he quickly discovered something strange.

These wriggling organic life forms in this world do not seem to be protecting this weird existence, they are restraining it... Yes, although the actions of these liquids are irregular, each of them seems to be separated Gathered a trace of power, implicated on the black stone throne, those 'silk threads' wound around the throne and the body of that ancient life one by one.

Each one is very thin and invisible, but the combined power of the wriggling life in the whole world is enough to bind this throne tightly to the core of this wriggling world.

This ancient life is sealed here along with its throne.

The world is its prison.

but...

Who is it?

With this question in mind, Merlin's consciousness returned to the front of the throne. However, the moment he raised his head, Merlin's consciousness froze in place as if struck by lightning.

That ancient life that was sealed and covered with all kinds of wriggling organic matter, at some point, the left eye on its face had already opened.

He was staring at Merlin in front of him lifelessly.

Those black and red eyes... have no pupils, no consciousness, no thinking, just like a shell with nothing inside, calling for the return of its own consciousness.

"forward..."

A voice sounded in Merlin's consciousness.

"Touch it..."

"Take me back..."

"who are you?"

Merlin asked back.

The voice in his consciousness was very weak, as if he was seriously injured. Facing Merlin's counter question, it said in a voice mixed with calmness and disdain:

"My name is Gnar, mortal...I am the god of all symbiotes, the god of the abyss, the god of killing gods!"

"Oh, then you are really good."

Merlin's consciousness said:

"But I'm wondering, who is more evil, you or Sangong?"

"Sangong?"

There was a hint of doubt in Gnar's weak voice, and it asked:

"Who is that?"

"You don't know it?"

Merlin said softly:

"It's okay, you two will get to know each other soon..."

"Wow"

The next moment, the shackles on Merlin's body that had been stripped of consciousness completely collapsed because of the separation of consciousness, and the evil power originating from the Three Palaces exploded in Merlin's body.

He entered the half-demon form almost immediately, and the scorching hellfire began to burn on his twisted body.

At this time, most of Merlin's body was already covered by the black twisted symbiosis, as if the whole person had been pulled into a muddy quagmire.

But the hellfire erupting from the inside of the body, the moment it touched the symbiote, the black mud seemed to have encountered a natural enemy. They screamed and detached from Merlin's body, retreating quickly, but half The flames during the magic transformation are completely covered, and the black mud has no way to escape.

When the black mud-like symbiont was forced back by the flames, Merlin's hijacked consciousness quickly returned to his body.

His consciousness was getting farther and farther away from the throne that sealed the body of the god of the abyss Gnar, and the voice belonging to Gnar in his consciousness became weaker and weaker, until finally, it disappeared completely.

But it also left something... some memory and knowledge about the symbiote.

"Mr. Merlin?"

The voice of Icarus reappeared in Merlin's ears. The latter coughed and re-manipulated the violent power in his body to return to the human form.

He said to Icarus:

"What just happened?"

"That mass of black organic matter is trying to infect your body at a fast speed. I tried electric shocks and energy shocks, but none of them worked, and your consciousness seems to have been stripped for a short time. I can't wake you up."

Icarus said truthfully:

"Until 3 seconds ago, the power in your body suddenly lost control, and the ignited flame easily pushed back the entangled black organic matter... It seems that the flame is its weakness."

"This thing is called a symbiosis."

Merlin rubbed his forehead, and he examined the remaining knowledge in his mind.

He can be sure that when Gnar's consciousness fades in his will, leaving this information must have bad intentions, but this does not prevent Merlin from using it.

Merlin looked at the wriggling black mud huddled under his feet. He squatted down, pushed his glasses, and said to Icarus:

"In this symbiont, there is a very dangerous consciousness parasitic. It calls itself Gnar, the God of the Abyss...but it is very weak, and it is obviously at an absolute disadvantage in the collision with Sangong's magic power."

Merlin stretched out his fingers and touched the shivering symbiote that was burned by the fire of hell under his feet. He said:

"Look, it's injured, it can't bear Gnar's consciousness anymore...at least on the surface."

"But it's still dangerous, Mr Merlin."

Icarus warns:

"I saw the scene where it eroded your body just now. There is no doubt that it is full of aggression."

"No, no."

Merlin shook his head and corrected what Icarus said. He stretched out two fingers, pinched the trembling symbiote, put it in the palm of his hand, and said:

"The symbiont is essentially a parasite. It has no consciousness, and it doesn't care about good or evil. It will only give birth to wisdom when it is associated with the host... This little guy is currently harmless and can be used .”

"Icarus still doesn't suggest that Mr. Merlin rashly use this unknown symbiosis."

Icarus said in a serious voice:

"Once the consciousness inside it is not completely eliminated, it is likely to bring some subtle troubles to Mr. Merlin."

"Wouldn't that be better?"

Merlin stared at the symbiote in his hand, and said:

"Doesn't that mean that if Sangong wants to get me, he has to fight this mysterious Mr. Gnar first? Well, now I suddenly understand the dead Constantine..."

"This method of playing a balance between the big guys is still quite interesting occasionally."

"bring it on."

Merlin said to the symbiont that he loved in his opponent's heart:

"bring it on."

The symbiote sensed Merlin's call, and it tentatively covered Merlin's palm, but was not attacked by the terrifying hellfire, so it understood what Merlin meant, and it quickly covered Merlin's hand. On the clothes, soon, a long black windbreaker appeared outside of Merlin's clothes.

The shape change of this symbiosis is very, very real. Merlin touched the windbreaker on his body and found that the material was almost exactly the same as the fabric.

"Yes, very interesting."

Merlin closed his eyes, feeling the ignorant consciousness of the symbiote echoing in his mind.

This is the first time this symbiont has completed companionship with real life, and it has not yet evolved its own intelligence, just like a baby.

It can understand Merlin's thoughts. In the change of Merlin's will, the symbiote quickly covered Merlin's hair and cheeks. A moment later, a crow mask like the plague doctors in the Middle Ages appeared on Merlin's face superior.

The sharp black beak mask covered Merlin's entire face, and the eyes with black lenses made Merlin look full of a dark and gloomy temperament.

"Actually, occasionally, I also need another identity."

Merlin touched the mask on his face, he nodded in satisfaction, and then whispered to the symbiote in his consciousness:

"Mr. Gnar, I guess, you are still hiding in this symbiosis."

"I'm here to say hello to you, I mean...don't let me down the next time you meet Sannomiya."

Merlin took a step forward, the crow mask on his face quickly disappeared, and the symbiote obediently followed Merlin's wishes, returning to the appearance of the long windbreaker.

Merlin thought for a while, and he said to the ignorant symbiont:

"It is said that Beowulf defeated the dragon, and he and Thor also defeated your mother... that symbiote dragon, so, I call you..."

"Beowulf."

"Oh, Beowulf, I hope you don't get seasick..."

"Swish"

Merlin pushed his glasses, and in the beating of the transfer spell, he returned to his home in New York the next moment.

Cuckoo was still the same as before, lying on the steps and falling asleep.

Merlin looked at the uncle cat in front of him. He stepped forward with some headaches, trying to hug Gugu, but when he got close to Gugu, the Yuan Devourer suddenly opened its eyes, and it turned to look at Merlin. There was a trace of doubt in its eyes.

Cuckoo stretched out his claws, preventing Merlin from touching it.

Its nose twitched, sniffing at Merlin, and soon, it confirmed where the strange smell came from.

"Meow!"

Gugu let out a sharp cry that would only be made when it was preying. It opened its mouth, and a few dark red tentacles with terrifying barbs were about to pop out, eating the dangerous symbiote attached to Merlin's body.

Undoubtedly, this is Lord Gugu, protecting his weak follower, Merlin.

Goo Goo's action scared the weak symbiote Beowulf to detach from Merlin's body, and fell to the ground while wriggling, forming a black ball, lying there trembling.

"Okay, Goo Goo."

Merlin hugged Gu Gu Gu in his arms, and he stroked Gu Gu Gu's hair, calming Gu Gu Gu down.

Pointing to the shivering symbiote on the ground, he said to Gu Gu:

"It's my new armor...can't be eaten, understand?"

"Meow?"

Cuckoo stared at Merlin, and it made a suspicious nasal sound, as if asking why Merlin came back with such a dangerous thing.

Merlin patted it on the head, and said to Gugu:

"It's useful to me... good boy, don't eat it anyway, okay?"

"Meow!"

Seeing the follower Merlin praying, Master Gugu flicked his tail, and then looked at the trembling symbiote Beowulf on the ground, it nodded reluctantly.

Since Merlin prepares food for it every day, cleans the cat's litter, and cleans up the excrement, let him agree to this not-so-excessive request.

Anyway, things like symbionts, in Gugu's opinion, are just very good snacks.

(End of this chapter)