Full-Time Magister: Super Mage

Chapter 528 Huge Bounty Pool, Time to Be a Babysitter

"And most importantly, if we can solve the Drowning Curse incident, we can be promoted to five-star hunter masters. As for Mo Fan, he can also benefit and be promoted to three stars. Most importantly, our access permissions will become wider, and we can accept more bounties," Lingling said.

"Take me with you! You absolutely have to take me on this mission!!!" Mo Fan shouted.

In the past, Lingling would seek cooperation from Jiang Han for more challenging tasks, while she would go to Mo Fan for simpler ones. This was mainly because Jiang Han's strength could help Lingling quickly improve her hunter level, which would help her increase her access privileges more quickly, thus enabling her to find relevant information about the Red Demon through the Hunter Alliance system.

This is why Jiang Han and Lingling have both become four-star hunter masters, while Mo Fan is still only a two-star hunter master.

As for the Red Demon, Lingling heard about it from Jiang Han. In order to investigate the origin of the Red Demon, this little girl even hacked into the Shuangshouge network system to steal relevant information. If it weren't for Old Man Bao's intervention, Lingling might have been wanted by the island nation.

"Don't you even think about it? If I hadn't brought you along, would you be here now?" Lingling gave Mo Fan a disdainful look.

"Let's not talk about him anymore, let's study this little thing first." With that, Jiang Han took out a glass jar, in which a transparent little maggot was wriggling in the clear water.

"What is this?" Mu Ningxue, Mo Fan, and Zhao Manyan all looked at the glass jar in Jiang Han's hand with suspicion.

Even Mu Ningxue, a top student who had read extensively since childhood, didn't recognize it. As for Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan, they had never heard of it before. In the end, Lingling stepped forward to explain: "This transparent little thing is a very scary parasitic demon. They live in the sea and are tiny, like planktonic organisms."

"It is easy for jellyfish maggots to burrow into the bodies of living organisms, such as through the mouth, nose, and ears of humans. In the early days, there were no species of jellyfish maggots that could survive in the human body. The jellyfish maggots that can parasitize the human body today may have evolved in the last few decades."

"When the evil maggots enter a person's body, they will stick to the stomach wall and frantically absorb the human's nutrients and food. This is why people who are under the Drowning Curse will have a greatly increased appetite."

"Those afflicted by the drowning curse not only need to absorb the energy they require, but also need to feed the maggot larvae that are yet to grow inside their bodies."

"Moreover, as the larvae continue to grow, they gradually become dissatisfied with ordinary food and yearn to enter the vast ocean to complete their final metamorphosis. Thus, the jellyfish maggots begin to devour the human body, assimilating most of the body's vital functions into themselves, storing nutrients for their subsequent ocean journey."

"Then, these little guys will control the person under the drowning curse to go to places with water, especially the ocean..."

"After entering the ocean, these little guys will transform into their second form. It's hard to confirm their second form, but it will at least be related to the host they are parasitizing."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Manyan swallowed hard, thinking to himself that he should be more careful when picking up girls at the beach in the future, otherwise he might be parasitized by this little thing.

"Isn't there any way to solve this?" Mo Fan asked.

"Yes, we analyzed the jellyfish maggots and found a vaccine organization that developed a related vaccine. As long as you get the vaccine, you can avoid being parasitized by the jellyfish maggots." Lingling took the glass jar from Jiang Han. Next, she was going to study this little guy carefully.

After the cremation, Jiang Han took Lingling and the others to the hotel where he was staying. He didn't know the investigation would be so troublesome, so he found a hotel to stay in alone, which would serve as a temporary research lab for Lingling.

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As evening fell, Lingling, carrying a glass jar containing jellyfish maggots, led Jiang Han, Mo Fan, Mu Ningxue, and Zhao Manyan to the beach. At the same time, a very small magical recording device appeared in the sea, with a red dot flashing in the center of the device.

"Weren't we supposed to be researching vaccine tissue for jellyfish maggots? Why did we bring you to the beach?" Mo Fan asked.

"If I'm not mistaken, the larvae of the jellyfish maggot don't contain the necessary vaccine tissue. Lingling is planning to wait for this maggot to grow to its full size and then extract the vaccine tissue from it," Jiang Han said, pretending to have just thought of it.

"Yeah, Jiang Han is absolutely right about that. If you had just used your brain a little more, I wouldn't have stopped taking you on high-level bounties." Lingling looked at Mo Fan with some disdain.

Lingling then shook the magic recorder in her hand and said, "I have already injected a tracking mark into this guy. No matter where it swims, I can pinpoint its location precisely. Now all we have to do is wait for it to completely transform into its final, complete form."

"Of course, there's another important issue: ensuring this little guy lives to reach his full potential," Jiang Han said calmly.

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"What?! Fuck!!" Mo Fan was about to curse. After all this time, he had to act as a babysitter for this little guy.

"There's nothing we can do; this is the only live specimen we have," Lingling said. (End of Chapter)