Chapter 641: Chapter 220: Infected Parasitism, Shrinking Earth Giant Louse Form!_4 One minute, five minutes, ten minutes... The transformation lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour, its intensity far surpassing Luokuke’s Source Heart Meat Iron.
Finally, a sliver of control over his body began to return, starting with the ability to move his limbs.
Cheng Ye tried moving his fingers; the stiffness gradually faded away, replaced by a tension brimming with explosive power.
He supported himself on the ground and stood up, only to notice that everything around him seemed to be half its size; even Luokuke before him required him to bow his head to see clearly.
In the distance, the trucks and the dock’s brick walls all seemed as if they had been hit with a "shrink button," even the clouded sky appeared closer.
He looked blankly into the distance, his view elevated as if he were hovering in mid-air, enabling him to see the camp’s edge where watchtowers were being constructed, and even catch glimpses of figures flickering in residential units.
"Cheng... Inspector Cheng?" Luokuke swallowed hard and instinctively stepped back, his back hitting the dock’s bluestone wall with a heavy thud, his eyes full of shock.
"Lu.. In.. Spect.. Or!"
A booming sound rolled from Cheng Ye’s throat, shaking the air till it trembled, the ground beneath his feet vibrating faintly.
He paused, then suddenly lifted his hand. His palm had unknowingly expanded to seventy or eighty centimeters long, akin to a fan, the coarse palm lines able to catch small stones.
Looking again at his arm, the muscles were knotted into blocks, and faint golden runes flowed under the skin, crawling like living creatures.
Everything around became miniscule; he turned to look at the Crab-men in the water.
Those giant crabs, towering over two or three meters high near the water, now seemed much smaller, their once terrifying size now appearing as mere bugs circling at his feet, with none of the previous oppressive presence.
"No, it’s not them shrinking, it’s me... I’ve gotten bigger!"
Boom!
This thought had just emerged when a burst of fierce power exploded from the depths of his heart, as if breaking an invisible shackle.
Cheng Ye looked down at his feet, finding that his soles had already crushed the dock’s blue bricks, cracks spreading from the palm.
Then inspecting his body, it had astonishingly expanded several times over, with shoulder breadth reaching up to two meters, fully inheriting the vast physique of the Shrinking Earth Giant Louse.
He leaned forward a step, and the water’s reflection revealed his current appearance.
His clothes, once fitting, had long since been torn to shreds, leaving his bare body clad in a thin golden membrane, fully enveloping him like a tailor-made armor.
Unlike the cold black of the Obsidian Battle Armor, this "Golden Armor" shimmered with the unique gloss of an insect’s shell, fingers touching it sensed a hardness akin to iron, yet it held a subtle elasticity, unhindered in motion.
The skin beneath had been completely reshaped into terrifying elongated stripes, the quadriceps on his thighs thicker than an adult’s waist, with every muscle contraction showing clear lines, imbued with destructive power.
The most grotesque is his face, covered entirely in a transparent network-like pattern, resembling beetle wing veins, faintly glowing gold.
His original eyes had vanished, replaced by a pair of amber compound eyes, pupils reflecting numerous tiny specks of light, expanding his vision range clear and vivid several times over.
At his brow, a thumbnail-sized Shrinking Earth Giant Louse’s miniature was deeply embedded in the skin.
Six slender legs trembled slightly, with the runes on its shell flashing in sync with the patterns on his body, a bizarre harmony between the human and insect fusion.
"This is... the Coexistence State of the Shrinking Earth Giant Louse?"
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