"Mutant horsehair worm?"

Everyone was surprised.

The eccentric doctor frowned, looking puzzled, and said, "Is it just horsehair worms? I know you can parasitize and control horsehair worms, but they don't seem to be very resilient. They should die if they are crushed into powder."

"But the problem is that horsehair worms can parasitize more than one type of organism."

"Before the apocalypse, horsehair worms could only parasitize some low-level organisms, such as insects like mantises. But after the apocalypse, mutated horsehair worms can not only parasitize, but also gain all the abilities of their hosts without any hindrance."

Zhang Hao slowly said, "Although I don't know how powerful the iron horsehair worm that parasitized Gu Tianle is, I am certain that it must have parasitized a creature with a very strong self-healing ability before, which is why it has more than two abilities."

"President, what kind of creature do you think has such a strong self-healing ability?"

"You guessed it?"

"Hmm, I think it could be a tardigrade."

"Oh? Tell me your reasons."

"Tarbills are very small creatures, most of them are no more than one millimeter in size, and they are not aggressive at all."

The mysterious doctor slowly said, "But they have one great characteristic: they are incredibly resilient. No matter if it is extremely cold, extremely hot, hungry, lacking oxygen, or even radiation, they can survive tenaciously."

"And they can reduce their water content from 83% to 3%, thus achieving a long-term dormant state. They have lived from the Cold Era 500 million years ago to the present day and are known as 'immortal' creatures."

"But they are not truly immortal; they also have weaknesses. Even though they can tolerate extreme heat and cold, there is a temperature limit! Once this limit is exceeded, even tardigrades will die."

"And the heavenly lightning that the guild leader just unleashed..."

"The temperature reached tens of thousands of degrees, so it's only natural that Louis Koo was killed and the horsehair worms were wiped out. But this also proves that... mutated creatures are getting stronger and stronger, and we must take it seriously."

“That’s right, President.”

Fang Ping's expression was solemn: "If horsehair worms can parasitize zombies, they can also parasitize humans, right? Our Dawn Society must take precautions against this."

"I know. When we get back, I'll have all the strategists tested."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Let's wipe out the zombie horde now."

"yes."

Everyone dispersed.

He began leading his legion to wipe out the remaining zombies.

Only the eccentric doctor stood in the huge scorched pit, digging in the soil like a dog, as if searching for something.

"Hey, what are you looking for?" Zhang Hao asked, puzzled.

"Crystal core, Guild Master! I'm looking for my level nine crystal core. You even killed Gu Tianle, so the crystal core must be right here."

"I'll search slowly, I'm sure I'll find it..."

"Uh, the lightning's temperature of tens of thousands of degrees... wouldn't it have blown the crystal core away? Where's my huge crystal core? I... where's my crystal core? Guild Master... the crystal core is gone... Waaah~~"

The quack doctor searched for a long time.

I've dug up more than 30 kilograms of soil.

Unable to find the crystal core, he collapsed to the ground and began to wail.

“It’s impossible not to find it. The crystal core is extremely hard; even heavenly lightning can’t destroy it. Look carefully,” Zhang Hao said.

"But I really can't find it! It's so hard to find!!" the quack doctor cried.

"How could you not find it? What's so hard to find?"

Zhang Hao's face hardened, and he righteously "reprimanded" Zhang Hao: "The crystal core has always been there, okay? Isn't it because you haven't been working hard enough? Sometimes you should look for the reasons within yourself."

"After all these years... your ability to find something is still so weak? Have you even bothered to dig properly? Hmm?"

The Mysterious Doctor: "(⊙o⊙)??"