Chapter 131: The Silver Merit Token is a Soul Artifact

"What is this thing?" Su Jin stared in horror at a certain pale, tender dead worm. "If Gu Mama was parasitized, did she die? But if Gu Mama is dead, why can she still speak?"

Su Cheng fired off three questions in a row.

"I'm not entirely clear either. I only know it's a type of parasite. It likes to eat brains, can ambush humans, and moves extremely fast. As for whether a human parasitized by it is considered alive or dead, I'm not sure. But I do know that once it detaches from its host, the host will turn into a corpse completely. Just like Gu Mama." Su Jin answered him.

"That's terrifying. There are actually worms like this? So Xu Chengzhu launching a city-wide summons was also for this?" Su Wuji asked calmly.

"Probably. This kind of worm doesn't know how many people it has parasitized. If it were me, I would also do my best to eliminate them all." Su Jin answered with some uncertainty.

"Su Jin, was your last leave of absence because of this?" Su Wuji asked again.

"Exactly. On my way to school, I was set up by a parasitized person and almost had my brain eaten by this kind of worm. Fortunately, I had many trump cards in hand and killed this worm." Su Jin nodded.

That time was truly perilous; I almost died.

Actually, whether that little boy truly wanted to seek her help or pretended to set her up, Su Jin wasn't entirely sure.

And he is already gone, alas!

So for people parasitized by worms, are they considered alive or dead?

Alas!

"Report to Liu Shi immediately." Su Wuji contacted Liu Shi without a second word.

Since both Su Wuji and Su Cheng had contacted Liu Shi, Su Jin did not act further. Soon Liu Shi arrived.

Su Wuji quickly explained the situation just now. Liu Shi listened, immediately went to check Gu Mama's corpse, and confiscated the worm's corpse. Right after, people from the Patrol Bureau arrived.

This time, it was a young girl who looked not much older, at most fifteen or sixteen years old.

Liu Shi saw her, nodded, and then told her the sequence of events. He also handed the worm's corpse over to her.

The young girl accepted the worm with a serious expression, then questioned Su Jin and the remaining three other caretakers.

After hearing everyone's account, she could already confirm the entire process of what happened.

"Actually, several senior brothers have already gone to capture the official who summoned them for that meeting. As for the other caretakers, after returning, they caused a small-scale disturbance. I heard one child from your first year was parasitized by a worm and has already been taken away.

Additionally, three other babies under care were killed.

You three were able to successfully discover the anomaly and kill the worm, which is already considered good."

Upon hearing this, the three of Su Jin were all shocked and awestruck.

Is the harmful effect of these parasitic worms a bit too effective?

The young girl from the Patrol Bureau didn't stay long and left.

As for Gu Mama's corpse, Liu Shi confiscated it.

The family has a dedicated department responsible for the aftermath.

Su Wuji and Su Cheng quickly used their Thousand-Mile Sound-Transmission Talismans to contact people they knew, wanting to inquire who was in trouble this time and if it was someone from their own class.

It was quite a while before they stopped.

"Su Jin, five people from our first year died this time. Four were killed in a surprise attack the night before yesterday. One more died today. Except for one from our class, the others were from other classes. You'll know who from our class died later. He wasn't very familiar with us and didn't speak much usually." Su Wuji said, frowning.

"Mm, mm. Five died in our year, five died in the third year, and only the second year had fewer deaths, just two." Su Cheng also said.

"I didn't expect people to die even in the family school." Su Jin complained.

"What's that? My grandfather said that when we go to the Sect and participate in various missions, the death rate is even higher. My father and mother both sacrificed themselves while on missions." Su Wuji said indifferently. He couldn't be indifferent otherwise.

Incidents like his parents' were too common within the Sect.

Some mission teams that went out never had a single one return; they all died.

The next morning, Liu Shi came to call them back.

The classmates in the class were all waiting at the main gate, and besides their class, several other classes of the same year were also there. Su Jin's group should be the last group of elementary students from their class to be called back.

After waiting for their group to rejoin the ranks, Liu Shi began distributing a type of small silver token.

These small tokens were about the length of a palm and three fingers wide.

The back was carved with a pattern of ten thousand lotuses and an exquisite lotus flower. The front was carved with their own names.

After personally handing all the silver tokens into their hands, Liu Shi continued: "Hurry and drip blood to recognize your master. Store the token inside your body. If you die in the future, the Sect will be able to sense it."

Su Jin listened and followed suit. When dripping blood to recognize the master, her expression became awkward. At the instant she sensed the token recognizing her, the token transformed into a streak of silver light and rushed into her sea of consciousness.

Huh, it's actually a Soul Artifact.

The token directly transformed into a silver mirror surface within her sea of consciousness.

On the mirror surface, silver text and icons displayed various functions.

One of them was called Merit Points. Su Jin quickly touched that icon with her soul power.

Su Jin: Merit Points 152.

Su Jin looked and was stunned. Why did she have so many Merit Points?

Could the task of watching children really give so many Merit Points?

"Su Jin, how many Merit Points do you have? I only have two." Su Cheng said speechlessly.

"I only have two too. We just did one task of watching children; how many Merit Points do you think we could get? I originally thought it would only be one." Su Wuji said.

"Why do I only have one Merit Point, while yours is two? Didn't we all do the same task?" Su Yunhu came over at this moment. Hearing Su Cheng and Su Wuji's words, he immediately noticed the anomaly. "Could it be that because your grades are good, your Merit Points for doing tasks are also higher?"

"Not at all. I guess they must have killed that kind of parasite with extremely fast ejection speed." Su Linyuan also walked over and said. "Didn't our group also discover the caretaker's anomaly? Fortunately, we called Liu Shi over in time, so we weren't parasitized by that extremely fast worm.

But that worm also parasitized another caretaker.

However, after Liu Shi dealt with that worm, we also lost the qualification to earn more Merit Points.

I heard Liu Shi say at the time that a group that killed that kind of worm would receive more Merit Points.

Who in our class could kill that kind of worm? It must be Su Wuji and the others."

Su Yunhu heard this and widened his eyes. "I was so scared I did nothing, just knew to hide far away, while you guys turned around and killed the worm. You guys are too amazing."

"Fortunately you didn't rush up. That kind of worm moves extremely fast. Without special equipment, you simply can't kill it. If you had rushed up, you might have died." Su Cheng said with a serious expression.