The Honors Class Experiment
"In every case, at the junction between the cerebral cortex and the brainstem, we identified an unknown parasitic organism. It wasn't detected in the initial autopsies because of where it was located."
The image zoomed in.
Thin, golden, thread-like organisms were coiled together inside the brain tissue, forming what looked like a symbiotic structure.
A wave of quiet shock passed through the room.
"We've provisionally identified this as a cortical parasite. It appears to secrete a substance that significantly enhances concentration, memory, and logical processing, which may explain the victims' unusually high academic performance before death."
The parents stared at the screen, struggling to