As he became more familiar with and understood Nen, Oboro understood more and more how difficult it was.
Pure, extremely pure.
Even if it was really post-mortem Nen, it was still individual will... Could a person's spiritual energy radiate so much?
In other words, a person with this kind of will wouldn't need to die at all. They would be unimaginably powerful in life...
If there was such a guy among the Gyudondond Tribe, the East Gorteau army wouldn't have a chance at all, and it would have been impossible for them to almost slaughter the Gyudondond Tribe.
Speaking of post-mortem Nen... He did have a case around him.
Thinking this, Oboro opened a slit in his eyes, and aimed at Hisoka, who was playing cards under the tree.
Hisoka's perception was extremely keen. As soon as Oboro's gaze glanced at him, he raised a smiling face and looked up, raising his hand to greet him.
Oboro closed his eyelids again, and kept his eyes shut to avoid seeing anything.
If all the Gyudondond Tribesmen had awakened post-mortem Nen... That was too far-fetched.
They weren't even Nen users in life... Their spiritual will was extremely weak without temper.
Even if they did, post-mortem Nen could only affect themselves.
After analyzing all kinds of things, through his understanding of the Gyudondond Tribe, Oboro believed that... The only possibility was the origin of this tribe.
Some kind of power beyond the current human world... It was related to the Dark Continent.
All the knowledge and information in his brain now was a fixed framework.
It was limited to the descriptions of the human world and Nen users in the original work. He knew very little about the Dark Continent...
However, this world was originally mysterious and colorful, and the Dark Continent definitely had all kinds of unimaginable things... It was definitely not limited to a certain form or individual.
"For ordinary people, they can continue this power... It's mostly a physical object, or a means and method that exists in memory... If it's memory inheritance, after so long, the effect will definitely decrease, and there may even be omissions... So, I'm more inclined to... An object..."
"But if it's really a means, and the memories of several generations are passed down, excluding the dilution of memory over time and the different degrees of personal acceptance, it can still have this kind of power after a long period of time... Then how terrifying would the most primitive 'first edition' be?!"
Oboro let out a breath of turbidity, opened his eyes, and murmured.
In the few days that Kaki and Dama were communicating with the Association back at the base, Oboro did some experiments on living bodies with a few bugs.
He further verified his guess.
On the grass, Oboro and Hisoka were looking at a soldier who had already died in front of them.
The man's head had been shattered, but his hands and feet had been preserved, and had been damaged to a certain extent.
Crack... Then, they heard a strange noise, and the corpse slowly stood up from the ground, and a wave of Nen also emerged from its body.
Oboro glanced at Lance.
The latter immediately fired a bullet...
However, the bullet made a very small wound on the corpse, and the power was obviously offset...
Hisoka threw out a few playing cards, and suddenly cut off one of the soldier's legs and an arm.
Even so, the corpse that had fallen to the ground was still crawling, and jumped up with the power of only its single lower limb, and pounced at them.
Bang.
Oboro kicked out with a whip kick, like a sharp blade out of its sheath, and shattered the soldier's flesh, causing it to explode directly.
"When they're parasitized by the bugs in life, their spirit will be controlled... Their life essence will be weakened to a certain extent, as if it's been absorbed... After death, Nen aura is stimulated by the bugs as a medium. It's just pure aura, and it has a tendency to initially form Nen... The way the Nen aura contracts is clearly to defend." Oboro said.
"In other words, once they're parasitized, the brain becomes the bug, and it directs them. But because this bug itself doesn't have much thought or wisdom, it can only use its instincts to drive the Nen aura... The aura after death is also released by the bug. First, it absorbs the individual's energy, and then converts it for use..."
As he spoke, two bugs emerged from the corpse's minced meat tissue.
There was originally only one.
As soon as the two small bugs were exposed to the air, they reflexively surge and attacked.
The fluttering of their wings, coupled with this speed... Didn't make a sound at all.
It was only because they were seen with the naked eye. If they couldn't be seen, it would be easy for them to be possessed.
"The Nen, or rather, the will, attached to them has a certain 'camouflage color'. When they're sneaking, it's very similar to 'Zetsu'... When they're facing attacks, they can also use Nen to defend. It's no wonder the soldiers can't do anything about it."
Hisoka lightly swiped the hand holding the playing cards, and the two bugs were cut in half.
After landing, they disappeared with the Nen.
"These bugs themselves are very special. They don't simply parasitize in the flesh and blood to lay eggs and reproduce, and increase their numbers... But they split the Nen and the attached 'will' on their bodies, and transfer it to another individual." Oboro said in a heavy tone.
Boom boom boom... At this time, suddenly, there was fierce gunfire and the explosion of artillery fire from behind.
Without saying a word, Lance grabbed Pinson and Dangre with both hands, and accumulate strength with his legs.
The skin of his calves began to show a scalding red color, and the next second, like a supercar, he took the two of them and fled in the opposite direction in an instant.
Oboro and Hisoka disappeared from the spot, and went to investigate the source of the sound.
Arriving near the town, they saw a large number of soldiers in white protective suits madly strafing at animals of various shapes and sizes, both living and dead...
It had completely evolved into a vast beast tide disaster.
There were too many to count...
It felt like there were at least tens of thousands of them that had been parasitized, a black mass, like a black ocean.
The East Gorteau army, which had originally been stationed at the other end of the town, closer to the Jagged Mountains, had also been forced back.
The number of their people seemed to have decreased a lot... Only less than a thousand people were left.
The species that had been parasitized included birds, beasts, and reptiles... The way they launched their attacks was diverse, which meant that it was impossible to cope with them by simply using firearms.
For example, the flock of birds circling overhead violent fall like a rain curtain. For the soldiers, the diving attack was no weaker than bullets.
Facing the hail of bullets, the beasts at the front fell in patches, but they quickly stood up again...
Even if some of their flesh and blood tissues were destroyed by the bullets, the bugs that flew out would still shoot at closer targets.
Some of the soldiers had their protective suits torn, and screamed as they became the food for the horde of beasts.
There were also some... Who were frightened by this scene, and immediately turned around and ran away...
It seemed that all the species in the Jagged Mountains had left their original habitats.
Splitting.
The characteristic of splitting was too terrifying.
It was possible that there were only one or a few bugs at first, but after this period of parasitism and incubation, the number had reached an unimaginable level.
Among the crowd, there was one guy who was particularly conspicuous.
He was an Enhancer-type Nen user.
He was wearing an East Gorteau military uniform, and didn't have a protective suit.
He was the only human who stood tall in the raging beast tide.
The aura he unleashed was even thicker than Oboro's. He was simply a human bulldozer among the herd of beasts.
Any creature that approached him would be minced meat by his attacks.
This person's Nen ability had great destructive power and range, and gave Oboro the illusion that he had seen Uvogin.
East Gorteau actually had such a strong Nen user!
He and Hisoka were hiding behind the human military camp, which was in the forest of the town, and used 'Zetsu' to eliminate their aura, making it easy to hide.
With this Enhancer-type expert around, the military's casualties seemed to have been reduced by a certain amount.
Although the soldiers were gradually retreating, the line hadn't been completely broken up by the parasites.
"They're going to lose ground. The battlefield will expand again..." Oboro said with certainty in his heart.
Just as he was about to call Hisoka to leave first, suddenly, he saw a person in the depths of the beast tide.
A man with long braids, his face covered with tattoo-like totems, wearing a white robe.
It was a Gyudondond Tribesman! The parasites running around near this person didn't attack him.
Then, Oboro's pupils shrank.
He saw this Gyudondond Tribesman raise his hands, facing the sky, and make a series of movements.
Then, he took out a dagger, and slit his throat... He committed suicide!
After he died, he didn't stand up again like a corpse. Instead, the parasites around him stopped, gathered together, and began to devour his flesh and blood...
They didn't even leave the bones. They ate him clean.
Immediately, Oboro sensed that... The huge horde of beasts had become even more agitated, and their aura was even more brutal.
"Withdraw!"
Oboro shouted.
He immediately ran away at full speed.
Hisoka also immediately followed.
...
After half a day, after confirming that they had reached a safe location and had left the area of the Jagged Mountains, he stopped.
There was a sound from the side, and Hisoka stopped.
"What's wrong?"
The latter asked.
From Hisoka's understanding of Oboro, he felt that... Oboro had seen something.
"It's not an energy like grudge... Nor is it direct post-mortem Nen. Instead, it's indirectly transmitted through a medium... It's imbued with the will of post-mortem Nen, and it also has certain rules..."
Oboro turned a deaf ear to Hisoka's voice, and replayed the actions of that Gyudondond Tribesman just now in his brain, and muttered to himself.
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration.
It was like...
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