“Reverse Parasitism”

Chapter 399 "Reverse Parasitism"

"It's really fucked up."

Looking at the tentacles that almost filled the entire underground space, Wang Xiyi couldn't help but flash through some heavy-tasting images in her mind.

She didn't like tentacles, except for the ones that Sun Hang made with mycelium.

And when faced with things she didn't like, she only had one way to deal with them.

Burn to ashes.

Wang Xiyi took a deep breath, and then burst into a deafening dragon roar. The dark blue flames around her suddenly turned a little pale, and the temperature in the underground space suddenly began to soar.

The water in the underground lake was evaporated in large quantities, and the misty white steam rose up, hiding the figures of both parties.

Wang Xiyi suddenly spurted out a mouthful of hot dragon breath, and a pale fireball with a hint of paleness in the light blue fell into the lake, instantly triggering a huge explosion. The entire underground space began to shake violently, and countless rocks were broken and shaken off. It seemed that this underground space was about to usher in a larger-scale landslide.

Wang Xiyi was not afraid at all - even if the cave collapsed and buried her alive, she could blast a way out with the strong body given to her by the black dragon meme.

But the imagined collapse did not occur. When the steam dissipated, she suddenly found that the tentacles that had originally attacked her were all attached to the rock wall and the dome, forming a reliable load-bearing structure, supporting the rocks that were about to disintegrate.

"They actually gave up the attack in order to protect the cave?" A question mark popped up in Wang Xiyi's heart, "Is this underground cave important to the cult organization? Or... this octopus monster's survival ability is not that strong, as long as the cave collapses, it will be buried alive to death?"

No matter which guess it was, Wang Xiyi made a decision in her heart - don't worry about this octopus monster next, just keep destroying the cave.

Since it is something that the other party wants to protect, it is the highest priority attack target for Wang Xiyi.

Just when Wang Xiyi was about to put this idea into action, a humanoid creature wrapped in a black robe and soaked all over climbed out of the lake.

Its face was covered with bandages, and its body under the black robe had undergone a lot of changes. It was impossible to determine its gender or age... It could only be barely distinguished that this guy was a person, or that he had been a person.

"As expected of the ace monster hunter of Tianfu City, Night Fury." The other party's mouth covered by the bandage made a hoarse voice... To be honest, although it can be heard that the other party is speaking Chinese, the official language of the Xiazhou Federation, the tone and intonation are really maddening.

Just like scratching a blackboard with nails, every syllable uttered from the other party's throat made Wang Xiyi feel a strong sense of disgust.

"You are very strong. Even if I try my best, I am afraid I may not be able to defeat you." The other party said again.

"Are you scared?" Wang Xiyi narrowed her eyes. Although she didn't believe that the other party would surrender... but if the other party really chose to give up resistance, she would not kill them all at this time.

It would be a better choice to hand over this person and the strange creature in the underground lake to Yang Qi and others for processing.

"I just think that you shouldn't work for those politicians." The other party continued, "There are many ways to survive in this world, but the federal government's choice is undoubtedly the stupidest one."

The humanoid creature said as he slowly climbed onto the shore.

Wang Xiyi realized at this time that it was not a "complete person".

The only part of it that was similar to humans was the part above the waist. Its waist was directly connected to the head of the octopus strange creature... This connection method looked extremely abrupt, as if a human was cut in half and inserted into the head of an octopus.

"So you are this strange creature..." Wang Xiyi became more alert. The other party had obviously merged with the strange creature. It could no longer be considered an infected person. The infection process in its body must have already exceeded the dangerous threshold... But what puzzled Wang Xiyi was that the other party obviously still retained its "pre-death" rationality and memory. It could not only communicate with her normally, but also say its own code name.

"What on earth are you?" Wang Xiyi asked again.

"I am a pioneer." The other party stretched his arms to the sides, raised his face, and made a compassionate gesture, "A pioneer who dared to sacrifice himself. For the evolution of mankind, I chose to embark on a dangerous path. I conducted an unreserved fusion experiment on myself... Perhaps my firm attitude and spirit of sacrifice moved the world. I succeeded. I gained power that humans can never obtain..."

"You talk a lot of nonsense." Wang Xiyi said coldly, "Are you stalling for time?"

"Are you curious why I can still maintain my self-consciousness as a human being and not be swallowed by the weird thing?" Seeing that Wang Xiyi seemed a little impatient, the other party chose to get straight to the point.

"Yes."

"Using your theory, my infection process has long exceeded the dangerous threshold, even hundreds and thousands of times... Under normal circumstances, for an existence like me, the self-consciousness has long been swallowed by the memes in the body and turned into a weird thing or a weird skeleton..."

“But you didn’t.” Wang Xiyi leaned slightly to the side, and a pale green flame ignited in the palm of her right hand hidden behind her back. The energy contained in this flame was constantly compressed, and the color was gradually approaching white.

“Yes, I didn’t… I was not devoured by the weird thing. In my self-awareness, I am still a human being, just like you, and like most hunters whose life has not come to an end.” The other party’s tone was a little proud, “Do you really want to know how I did it?”

“Our policy has always been to be lenient to those who confess and strict to those who resist.” Wang Xiyi nodded, “It’s your freedom to speak or not, and it’s my freedom to kill you or not.”

“Then I have a question, and I need Ms. Ye Fu to answer it for me first.” The octopus man stretched out his right arm and made a “please” gesture.

"You tell me."

"How do the weird hunters get the powers that belong to the weird?"

"It's useless to ask me this question. I'm a hunter, not a researcher." Wang Xiyi sneered, "Even if you ask this question to a serious researcher, they won't be able to give an accurate answer for a while."

"If you think the answer to this question needs to be explained in a long academic paper, then you are wrong." The other party said, "The answer is very simple. The hunter uses his body as a container to accept the memes that originally belonged to the weird, and thus gains power... and as the weird memes erode the human body more and more, the hunter will sooner or later become a weird, and their self-consciousness will also drown in the power that should not belong to them... This is an irreversible process."

"The stronger the hunter, the more dangerous it is." The octopus man said word by word, "This is not only for the hunter's enemies, but also for the hunter's companions."

"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Wang Xiyi couldn't help but complain.

The flame in the palm of her hand has been compressed dozens of times, and its volume has expanded to the size of a quail egg. Wang Xiyi tried her best to suppress the violent energy inside the flame... Once this energy overflows, this empty underground space will instantly turn into a sea of ​​fire purgatory.

Literally "sea of ​​fire purgatory".

"No, no, no... I have thought about it for a long time and have done many experiments... I found that our thinking was wrong from the beginning." The octopus man said.

"Then tell me, what should the 'right' thinking be like?"

"It should not be the weird meme that infects humans, but humans that 'infect' weird things." The octopus man said loudly.

"What did you say?" Wang Xiyi's expression suddenly became very strange.

"We should reverse this order. Instead of using human bodies to accept the memes of the monsters, we should let the bodies of the monsters accept our human will." Most of the body of the octopus monster crawled out of the underground lake, and the octopus man's body rose to a height of dozens of meters, only a few meters away from the broken dome, looking down at Wang Xiyi from a high position.

"Humans are the masters of this world. It was like this ten thousand years ago, and it is still like this now." The octopus man said.

"Do you think you are still human now?" Wang Xiyi said sarcastically.

"What about you, Ms. Night Fury? Do you think you, with a pair of dragon horns, a pair of dragon wings, a dragon tail, scales all over your body, and the ability to spray flames from your throat... are human?" The octopus asked back, "There is no difference between us in essence, but my fusion method is better than yours."

"How can you be sure that you can control this big octopus? You may be swallowed by it one day." Wang Xiyi sneered, "That scene must be very exciting."

The octopus was not angry because of Wang Xiyi's words. It moved a distance towards Wang Xiyi. The high-handed human The body slowly leaned down, and said in the softest tone possible: "I can feel that you seem to have tamed the power in your body. Although it is different from my way, I must admit that you are excellent... We are the same kind of people, we are the future of mankind... And those who cling to the flaws are just inferior species that will be eliminated in the process of human evolution."

"What do you mean by this... are you trying to persuade me to surrender?" Wang Xiyi was stunned for a moment, "I think you seem a little... humorous."

"You just felt that kind of pain, right? The kind of pain that far exceeds the limit of physiological endurance." The octopus man asked.

"What do you want to say?"

"I don't know if the pain reminds you of the transformation experiments you have undergone in the research institute." The octopus man continued, "Have you ever thought that those high-ranking people have never treated you as a human being or as one of their kind from beginning to end. They only treat you as a weapon and a consumable, and this is the meaning of your existence they set... When you were a little girl, every day when you woke up, did you think that today might be the last day of your life? When you swallowed those nutrients that were distributed at a fixed time and quantity, did you think that this might be your last meal?"

"You seem to know a lot about my past?"

"Yes. In addition to you, I have also come into contact with several survivors of that plan." The octopus man said slowly, "Their situation is not very good, or it is far worse than yours... I can't help them. The only thing I can do is to avenge them on behalf of those who ruined their lives."

"Did they entrust you to avenge them? Or are you being self-indulgent?" Wang Xiyi asked back.

She could see that the octopus man was stalling for time.

She was also stalling for time.

At worst, we could see who could come up with a more powerful trick.

Anyway, she was not afraid.

"Those superiors never treated you as my kind, but in my eyes, you are all my kind, my compatriots." The octopus man continued to persuade, "You don't have to die for a federation that will eventually be destroyed by the weird... You should join us and become the new master of this world after the demise of the old human civilization."

"I seem to have guessed what the task you gave to Wen Ya and Yao Yu is." Wang Xiyi suddenly said.

The octopus man was stunned for a moment and did not respond immediately.

Its head seemed to be in a short downtime, its deformed body was frozen in mid-air, and its arms still maintained the posture of the "speech" just now.

"You are planning to let a selected person 'parasite' Chimera No. 17, right?"

"Ha...hahaha." The octopus man laughed dryly a few times, "Night Fury, you are much smarter than I thought. Not only do you have powerful strength, but you also have extraordinary wisdom. People like you are the talents that the organization urgently needs...Join us, you will definitely not be disappointed!"

"No, buddy." Wang Xiyi sighed, "The black-hearted intermediary will at least paint a rosy picture for you before deceiving people to enter the factory to screw in screws, but you can't even see a sesame seed, let alone a rosy picture. Why should I join you? Just to become as disgusting as you?"

"Disgusting?!" Wang Xiyi's words seemed to stimulate the octopus man's nerves, and its tone became more sharp.

"Yeah, disgusting." Wang Xiyi nodded seriously, "In my eyes, mollusks are disgusting... You who merged with mollusks also look disgusting."

"You..."

"Look, I at least still maintain the normal aesthetics of humans." Wang Xiyi shrugged, "It seems that your cognition may have been distorted by the weird creatures... What's the difference between letting humans parasitize weird creatures? How long do you think you can maintain this state now? Half a year? Or two months? It shouldn't take long for your way of thinking to become very different from that of humans, right?"