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While feeding the abnormal flesh and blood, Shen Xing fell into deep thought.

The way he used the [03-Honeycomb] was quite different from his initial idea.

He always thought that cellulitis was just a "megaphone" that interfered with others by "vibrating" inside or by releasing pheromones.

But what was unexpected was that there was a hidden secret within the celluloid.

Was there a "queen bee" controlling the swarm of insects inside the chandelier that the Ninth Detachment took away?

If there were, that would be great... Shen Xing felt he could train one himself.

What if it doesn't?

Shen Xing had no choice but to consider the worst-case scenario.

The muscles in his left hand remained twisted, maintaining that painful sensation.

If all his guesses so far were wrong, then he would have to rethink every detail from the moment he met Wang Xinran. Memories flooded Shen Xing's mind, finally settling on the scene in apartment 802 of building three, the moment he met Wang Xinran. At that time, Wang Xinran was almost completely desperate.

She smiled through her tears and said to herself, "I'm happy too, but I still can't figure out what you really think."

But after saying that, she seemed to have completely given up any hope of living, and in utter despair, she made herself kill her.

The habits of [02-Doll], or rather its diet, are primarily the flesh and blood of humans, aberrant creatures, and other beings with "thinking" abilities. However, [02-Doll] has absolutely no desire to eat [03-Honeycomb], and even states that [03-Honeycomb] is a completely different species. Does [03-Honeycomb] itself lack thinking? Is it incapable of independently producing a "Queen Bee"?

Shen Xing looked up at the mannequin in the passenger seat and asked, "Why don't you want to eat it?"

"It doesn't taste good."

The doll's reply echoed in Shen Xing's mind.

"Why do you think it doesn't taste good?" Shen Xing pressed.

"Can you eat wood?" This time, the doll directly asked Shen Xing a question.

"Is it because it has no ability to think? If you eat it and digest it, will you also become like it and unable to think?" "You'll become stupid." The doll was very honest.

【03-Honeycomb】 does not have the ability to produce a "queen bee" independently from the celluloid.

Shen Xing basically understood why it was constantly eroding Wang Xinran and her brother Wang Lei, but hadn't directly killed them or devoured their brains.

It is searching for the "queen bee".

They lack the ability to think independently, and before encountering Wang Xinran, they may have already spread and parasitized and infected the brains of many people.

However, because they themselves have no emotions or thoughts, they do not cause any impact; they simply build nests in other people's minds and develop slowly.

Until they somehow selected Wang Xinran and Wang Lei.

Wang Xinran and Wang Lei are the "queen bees" they are "cultivating".

Moreover, it might be similar to the way Shen Xing interacted with the [01-Wall], resonating and evolving repeatedly under certain time periods or special conditions. Shen Xing picked up the tweezers, reached into the cardboard box, and pulled out the carcass of one of the chicks.

When Shen Xing picked up the chick, he could clearly feel that it was somewhat loose, basically just feathers and completely hollow bones inside.

Its brain, muscles, and internal organs had been completely devoured in just a few seconds.

With their swift and frenzied feeding speed, they could probably swallow Wang Xinran's brain completely in just a dozen seconds... But those off-white worms didn't do that.

[01 Wall] with Shen Xing, chandelier celluloid and Wang Xinran... If we correspond them like this, it becomes easier to understand. Assuming that Wang Xinran has truly become the "Queen Bee," then she should have shared the memories of all the other infected individuals.

Although she cannot yet choose whether or not to affect their emotions, those worms are in the minds of the infected.

Among them was Shen Xing, who had close contact with Wang Xinran.

Those insects had most likely already built nests in his mind without Shen Xing noticing at all.

If that's the case, wouldn't Wang Xinran... have all of Shen Xing's memories and everything he saw and heard?

If he gets infected, Wang Xinran will definitely know his memories, provided that he gets infected... Shen Xing felt that he was probably already infected.

Because he could also be influenced by Wang Xinran's emotions, and most importantly—he couldn't bring himself to kill Wang Xinran.

Just as worker bees cannot defy the queen bee, his murderous intent towards Wang Xinran was constantly influenced by the insect in his mind.

Moreover, even though he had provoked the swarm of insects, they hadn't attacked him; instead, the chicks had suffered. Shen Xing put down the tweezers, took off his gloves, threw them into the cardboard box, and then raised his hand, parted his hair, and carefully felt every inch of his scalp with his fingertips, pressing it little by little.

The area that the fingertip touches is nothing but soft scalp, hair, and hair follicles; there is nothing hard.

Shen Xing remembered Wang Lei's eyes.

He climbed to the front of the van and sat in the driver's seat.

Shen Xing adjusted the rearview mirror above the front of the car, pointing it at his somewhat pale and thin face. Then, he took off his glasses and slowly pulled his upper eyelids up in front of the mirror.

A tear appeared in his upper eyelid. Shen Xing's left eye twitched downwards as he looked into the mirror, while his right eye stared straight ahead, finding nothing unusual. He then repeated the process, tearing open his lower eyelid and raising his left eye upwards, still finding nothing.

The flesh on his left eyelid was slowly repairing itself. At this moment, Shen Xing tore open his right lower eyelid and lifted his right eye upward.

Shen Xing was stunned.

At the lower part of his right eyeball, where the bloodshot white of the eye meets the flesh below, there is a black area with numerous holes.

Although it's only a small area, it spreads deeper and reaches right up to the brain.

Do you approve of me now?

But I don't like it when someone is so proactive.

Shen Xing changed into a new pair of gloves, put them on, and then inserted his hand directly into the junction of his eyeball and eye socket. His facial muscles twitched to make way, and his right eye went black, entering a state of near blindness.

At that moment, his right index finger and thumb had already pinched the hard lump.

His hands gripped the hard lump and tore it apart, while the flesh inside also exerted all its strength to wrap around it and push it outward.

A pale pink liquid mixed with tears and blood flowed from Shen Xing's right eye. A small, fingernail-sized cyst, which Shen Xing had completely removed, was still there; these worms were impossible to completely eradicate...

They can devour Wang Xinran's brain without killing her, and they can devour Shen Xing's flesh and blood without his abnormal flesh and blood being aware of it.

In this situation, Shen Xing did not believe that removing this small piece of celluloid would make it safe.

Unless, by order of the "Queen Bee".

Or, become the "queen bee" yourself.