novelinnhs Chapter 52 Disease Infected by Insects
Chapter 52 Disease Infected by Insects
The first person to experience problems with the symbiotic worm inside their body was naturally not a straight person. His senses were currently perfectly fine, and he was unaware of the symbiotic worm within him.
Furthermore, he remained positive and motivated every day, leading his two teammates to help farmers: either reclaiming fertile fields, repairing houses, or paving roads.
Life was very fulfilling and joyful.
Occasionally, Shisei Aburame would spar and practice martial arts with him.
It was more like a training session, rather than a demonstration, that the instructor was guiding the student, a master of various martial arts techniques.
As a result, Naoto's team's taijutsu skills improved rapidly, and even the weakest member, Tomoki, had reached the level of a Chunin.
In terms of taijutsu alone, Naoto has already broken through to the Jonin level.
During this period, they had no real opportunity to fight, and they were only fighting against Shisei Aburame. Therefore, they had no idea what level they were at and thought they were only chuunibyou (lower-middle ninja).
As for the subordinate who had health problems, it was naturally Kurosaki Ichiro.
He was the first person to receive and survive the insect egg transplant. The insect eggs used were second-generation insect eggs that were not fully evolved. In addition, they were stimulated by Shisei Aburame's ninjutsu, so the development speed was unusually fast. In less than 100 days, he was close to the reproduction stage.
During this period, he devoted himself to assisting Ryuji Ida, not only helping to complete several iron and mineral business deals, but also making rapid progress in his own strength. With his superb physical skills, swordsmanship, and some minor ninjutsu techniques, he was able to deal with most Jonin when they were caught off guard.
However, just a few days ago, his hunger suddenly intensified, as if he could never get enough to eat, and his body gradually became fat and bloated. He could no longer be seen as a swordsman, but rather resembled a ninja from the Akimichi clan.
Upon learning of his health problems, Ryuji Ida immediately abandoned a business deal worth tens of millions of ryo and rushed him back to Takigakure.
Yesterday, he was secretly transported back to the underground palace from the outside world by a shadow clone sent by Aburame Shicheng. Although the worms in his body were temporarily suppressed by drugs and sealed with a sealing book, he still fell into a coma, and his condition was not optimistic.
Aburame Shisei originally did not intend to do his best to save and preserve Kurosaki Ichiro's strength, but due to Ida Ryuji's earnest pleas and Kurosaki Ichiro's impressive performance during this period, he decided to give it his all.
Of course, this also lays the groundwork for cracking the insect infestation problem later.
"Insect Infestation" is a phenomenon renamed by Shisei Aburame, referring to the symbiotic parasitic insects he cultivated. After they fully mature, all the tentacles that grow and extend from the insects combine with the meridians through which chakra flows in the host's body, and can even expand and replace the circulation of chakra.
This is not the worst part.
Since they are merely catalysts, if they were naturally developing, their tentacles would not only attach to the chakra meridians, but would also gradually extend to every blood vessel in the body, strengthening the blood vessels, stimulating blood flow, and releasing a new substance that integrates into the host's metabolism.
In this way, it can help the host quickly absorb food nutrients and convert them into cellular energy with a very high conversion rate, thereby enhancing physical fitness and rapidly improving the host's strength to obtain more energy.
As for the purpose, it is naturally to conceive better offspring.
They have no intelligence; all their actions are driven by instinct, by the pursuit of life's evolution. Their instinct is to reproduce and evolve generation after generation.
Shigeaki Aburame also experimented with separating all their reproductive systems, which, simply put, meant physically castrating the insects.
However, once these insects enter the human body, they remain almost motionless. Even if activated using ninjutsu, they will completely lose their activity after a few days and will not release any pheromones that enhance the host's body.
Several days after their death, their bodies decompose and severely damage their chakra pathways.
The experiment to remove the glands also ended in failure.
He then tried to kill the symbiotic parasite in the human body, but the idea of killing it inside the body after it had fully matured was almost equivalent to destroying all the chakra pathways in the human body.
In that case, not only would it be difficult to use ninjutsu, but even movement would be extremely difficult, and it might even lead to paralysis. Even if the person were saved, it would be no different from being dead.
Inside the thirteenth-floor sealed laboratory.
The light-emitting insects clung to the top of the wall, casting a warm, silvery-yellow glow.
Aburame Shisei formed hand seals and used the secret technique Cocoon to catalyze the insect eggs inside the Chunin lying on the bed to their maximum potential. In less than half a day, they had reached the adult stage.
At this moment, his body was extremely excited, but after a short while, the insects began to suck the nutrients out of his body, gradually draining him dry.
Just then, Aburame Shicheng seized the opportunity, quickly forming hand seals again, his index finger glowing with a ghostly blue light, pressing firmly above his dantian.
"Sealing Technique: Ten-Finger Seal!"
This technique is a relatively obscure B-rank sealing technique. It does not require the use of chakra attributes, but it demands extremely high chakra control. It is especially effective at imprisoning inanimate objects.
As the index finger fell, black runes quickly appeared on the Chunin's stomach, extending along the skin to the subcutaneous layer, firmly binding the underdeveloped symbiotic parasite.
"It's calmed down now. So, it's time for the surgery to remove it."
Aburame Shisei put on a mask and rubber gloves, took out a set of aluminum alloy scalpels from his toolbox, and gently cut open the chunin's abdomen...
Two hours later, a plump, worm-like body, resembling human blood vessels, was peeled from the body of the Chunin by Shisei Aburame.
However, this Chunin ultimately could not save his life.
As the main body was being detached, the adult insect launched a desperate counterattack, releasing a self-destructive acidic substance that melted away a portion of its own limbs and severely corroded the ninja's meridians.
Aburame Shisei was not a professional medical ninja, and faced with such a sudden situation, he could only watch helplessly as the Chunin was corroded to death by the acid.
"I never imagined that the insects originally intended for research on breaking through the limitations of the human body would end up as such a symbiotic monster with such serious consequences."
Aburame Shisei manipulated the Corrosive Insects to clean the lump of stuff on the lab table completely.
Then, he brought over a well-preserved ninja corpse. This time, he didn't start the experiment immediately, but instead opened a book to find ideas.
Symbiosis...symbiosis?
He seemed to have seen records of ninjutsu related to this somewhere before.
Aburame Shisei stood there lost in thought when he suddenly remembered the Takigakure Secret Technique Manual he had seen a month ago—Earth Grudge.
This secret technique has indeed been lost.
However, it's not that the cultivation methods that record the secret techniques have disappeared; what's lost is the Earthly Grudge.