In the eerie silence of a Hungarian village cemetery, Van Helsing knelt beside an unearthed coffin. The body inside was unnaturally preserved, but the head had a circular hole at the top of the skull—neat, surgical, and strangely insectoid.
“It’s not decay,” he whispered. “It’s infestation.”
Back at his field lab, Van Helsing slid the brain under a microscope. What he found chilled him deeper than any vampire’s fangs: oviposition scars, tiny larval trails, and fragments of an exoskeleton embedded in brain tissue.
🧬 Species Identified: Ampulex compressa, also known as the emerald cockroach wasp. Native to tropical Asia, but never seen in Europe… until now. This wasp injects venom into a cockroach’s brain to control its behavior before laying an egg inside. But here, it had adapted to something far more complex: humans.
📜 Theories:
- A bioengineered variant?
- A supernatural evolution drawn to necrotic energy?
- Or perhaps something summoned—consciously or not?
Van Helsing retrieved an old text from the Vatican Archives: Parasitus Mentis, a forbidden treatise describing ancient demons that mimic insects to infiltrate the human soul through neural passageways.
🚨 That night, villagers reported a local priest wandering into the woods and screaming in Latin before vanishing. The next morning, they found only his cassock—and a twitching larva inside his ceremonial skullcap.
Van Helsing packed silver tweezers, his ultraviolet torch, and a vial of extracted venom. He would hunt it not in crypts, but in synapses. The war had shifted from blood to mind.
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