Bowen was dumbstruck upon seeing Jacob gulp down the black mist. After all, he was well aware of how deadly the mind-controlling parasite's toxic gas was.
Under normal circumstances, a mind-controlling parasite would not release its toxic gas as it would die immediately after. Given the difficulties in cultivating mind-controlling parasites, the owner would use them to kill the other party only in an emergency.
After Jacob gulped down the black gas, the mind-controlling parasite stopped struggling and became thin and wrinkly.
He then threw the parasite away as the dead insect was useless to him.
At the same time, a middle-aged man in a black robe sitting inside a sealed room of a secluded house in Hillsborough suddenly rose to his feet and knocked the bowls before him to the floor.