They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 108 Experiment No. 15
Whether the substance is poisonous or not is unimportant, but Ria wouldn't easily give something with lingering doubts to someone who's on the verge of death.

The mice didn't seem to have any problems after eating the toast; it appeared to be perfectly normal.

In return, Ria wanted these rats to become her informants, gathering clues about the zombies in the neighborhood. The rats readily agreed and scattered in all directions.

Lia also took off her mask at the entrance of the old house and walked straight inside.

He went to old Ilint's bedside and saw that she was barely breathing and probably couldn't eat any solid food.

Bruna was nowhere to be found. Ria searched the house and found only some hidden oatmeal and sugar. The oatmeal had expired long ago and was covered with black mold.

Even if small swain has antibacterial properties, it can't turn back time and make these oats fresh again.

Liya had no choice but to start a fire and boil a pot of sugar water, which she then injected into the old woman's mouth with a syringe, hoping to prolong her life.

"Isn't it funny that those who pursue death can't get it, while those who want to live are tormented to the end?"

Ria didn't know who he was talking to; the only response he got from the whole room was little Swarth's "cooing".

He now has some information about the insects, but it is still incomplete. In the following days, Lia has been preparing for the performance. Since the goal is to lure the enemy out of their hole, all aspects need to be fully prepared.

Those white-masked cultists would likely be very interested in entertainment projects. Of course, what interests them is not entertainment itself, but rather the act of disrupting others' entertainment to entertain themselves.

Time passed by, and Ria stayed by Ilint's side reading. When he noticed that the medicine bottle was empty, he changed it for her. After changing the third bottle, he picked up the book again to continue reading when he suddenly yawned, and the book fell to the ground with a "thud".

His eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and soon his vision went completely black.

……

"!"

Ria opened his eyes abruptly, but the blinding light made them sting. He squinted for a long time to adjust.

He tried to cover his eyes with his hands, but found that his wrists were bound by something and he could not move. As his gaze moved down, his clothes changed and became a blue and white striped hospital gown.

"Where am I?" Ria found himself tied to a bed. He tried to activate the eyes and mythical creatures on his body, but none of them responded.

Here, he became an ordinary person again.

However, this is not his own body, nor is it a body from any other world; he is now a stranger to everything.

"How is Subject Fifteen?"

"There are no major problems at the moment, and the implantation procedure can proceed."

The sound of two people talking could be heard not far away. The voices stopped quickly, followed by increasingly close footsteps.

At this moment, Ria calmed down. He saw two doctors in white coats in his field of vision. The doctors had no facial features and their faces were blank. But even so, they put on sterile masks and gloves in front of Ria and wrapped all their hair with disposable head coverings.

After doing all that, one of them took a glass jar from the medical table, unscrewed it, and used tweezers to remove the palm-sized, fleshy worm from inside.

The worm writhed wildly under the grip of the tweezers, and Ria saw the number "15" on its surface.

At that moment, his blood almost froze.

Unable to break free from his restraints or utter a word, he seemed to be experiencing that person's ordeal again as another. Without anesthesia or sterilization, someone removed his hospital gown, and a cold, sharp metal blade pierced Ria's flesh without warning, slicing a bloody gash in the center of his chest.

At this moment, Ria had no way to block out pain, so she gritted her teeth and tensed all her muscles, and a conspicuous bloodstain quickly appeared at the corner of her mouth.

The blood vessels on the surface of his eye ruptured due to nerve tension, turning half of the white of his eye bright red.

Those who undergo surgery, however, disregard this.

After bloody wounds appeared on his body, another person quickly clamped the insect onto the wounds, seemingly hoping that it would crawl into the holes on its own.

But the worm just kept crawling around haphazardly. Soon, it angered the person next to it. The person used tweezers to force the worm's body into the opening in the subject's chest. However, the opening was too narrow, and the worm got stuck after only one-third of its body was inserted.

Imprisoned, it twisted its body, its six short legs scratching, and its sharp teeth on its head gnawing at the flesh around it.

"That won't work."

Someone spoke, and he reached out and pulled the worm out. Then he forcefully inserted his fingers into the wound, tearing it even wider. Ria could even clearly hear the sound of flesh being ripped apart.

"His-"

Now, the flesh worm could finally be placed inside the test subject, slowly nibbling at the fresh internal organs and crawling towards his brain region.

As the pain intensified, Ria's consciousness gradually faded. When he regained consciousness, his perspective shifted, and his body was visibly withering and decaying.

When he saw those normal people in the outside world again, he felt intense resentment and jealousy. He tried everything to follow them and take their youthful appearance and put it on himself.

To be honest, being in someone else's skin wasn't a pleasant experience. It was stuffy, hot, and had an unpleasant sour smell. But Ria still liked her new skin. It meant that she was a normal person again and could live a normal life.

The perspective shifts again—

A bullet killed him. Before he died, he seemed to see a golden glimmer of light. Then, his head was crushed to pieces, and he was no longer alive.

Everything fell apart.

These are all dreams.

And now-

wake up.

When Ria opened his eyes, the first thing he did was reach out and touch his chest. He found that it was perfectly fine. However, the dream he had just had was so real that he was still experiencing phantom pain in his internal organs.

At the same time, his gaze also fell on Ilint on the bed beside him. Presumably, everything that had just happened was what Ilint had shown him using her Dream Seer abilities.

Logically and emotionally, he should thank her, since what he saw in his dream was probably something that actually happened in reality.

Someone implanted larvae into the bodies of residents of Zolamu Street. The larvae accelerated their aging and absorbed their nutrients to grow into moths.

Some animals also have this parasitic habit, such as parasitic wasps. These wasps lay their eggs inside the bodies of other insects, and the larvae ruthlessly steal nutrients from the host until they completely drain the host and turn it into a lifeless shell.

(End of this chapter)