After Being Parasitized by a Monster 65

Chapter 65: You don’t want to get horny at a time like this, do you?

Cheng Ming realized a probably, should, possibly, somewhat serious problem.

She seemed to have found the wrong person.

And the one in front of her was not even human.

Along with the sentence “Why did you turn on the light,” a scalp-numbing rustling and rubbing sound came from between the pipes and cables on both sides of the wall, like many feet lightly dancing ballet on her eardrums.

Countless pairs of antennae flashed by in the gaps, and they scurried up the pipes on both walls and even on the ceiling. Her instep was itchy. She looked down and, disturbed by the light, a palm-sized dark-shelled creature frantically flipped over her shoe. The chitinous exoskeleton shone with a metallic, oily luster, and the feeling of its seven pairs of feet alternately stepping on the surface of her shoe was particularly distinct. It plunged into the cables below and disappeared.

In an instant, all the muscles in her body were on high alert. Cheng Ming almost crushed it to death as a conditioned reflex. But the swaying light and shadow could not disperse the direct gaze from the other side. In the end, she tensed her legs and did not move.

From a taxonomic point of view, sea cockroaches were not actually related to the common terrestrial “cockroaches,” but they did have some similar appearances and habits, such as being omnivorous, being active at night, and liking to squeeze into dark corners and chew on scraps, and their reproductive rate was incredibly high.

Now, they were following the damp mucus on the ground, and were excitedly gathering like ants that had found a sweet treat.

This breeder… the things you raise are a bit miscellaneous.

“Why can’t I turn it on?” she looked at the person opposite her and said quietly in the increasingly stagnant and fishy air, “I can’t see.”

Her whole body was shrouded in a bloated protective suit, and she didn’t know what was under the other’s clothes.

She looked calm, but her hand had already quietly raised and touched the sealed strip of her protective suit—if the other were to make any strange moves, she would have to let Xiao Ming out for an extra meal.

Although, Xiao Ming didn’t seem to be very interested in this unknown creature in front of her.

No, it was more than not interested.

Its entire attention was now focused on its other half—her.

“Cheng Ming, you really smell so good…” Under the protective suit, it kept rubbing and fumbling on her with its mycelia. It couldn’t go down, so it came back and tried to open her tight collar and drill in.

A tingling, itchy sensation crept up the back of her neck. Cheng Ming was startled, and her barely maintained composure was instantly broken.

“What are you doing!” There was a presence in front of her whose intentions were unknown, and a partner inside her who was acting inappropriately. She gritted her teeth and questioned in her mind, “You don’t want to get horny at a time like this, do you?”

Seeing that a dispute could break out at any time, and it was only concerned with pulling on her, Cheng Ming couldn’t bear it anymore. She didn’t want anything even more strange to happen in such a strange scene. She pulled open her protective suit and grabbed the unruly mycelia.

Feeling her body temperature and the anger that was about to erupt, finally, Xiao Ming was quiet.

She looked up again, and the “breeder” who had been standing in front of her a second ago was gone.

It was just a moment of distraction, and smack! Cheng Ming’s vision went dark.

…

Ground floor.

At the entrance of shuttle elevator No. 1, the researcher had completed his mission and was finally relieved and wanted to leave.

However, the person behind him took the small metal box and asked a strange question, “So small?”

The researcher heard this and laughed speechlessly, “You think it’s too little? You still want the whole…”

As he spoke, he turned his head, and before he could finish, he was stunned.

The half-“colleague” who was supposed to have been sent by the foundation had pinched open the metal box with one hand and had taken out the sample bottle marked “MM” from the wrinkled, hard material. A scale was soaked in an unknown solvent. It was the size of a bottle cap, and its texture was blurry. A deeper liquid was slowly spreading out in the brown, clear liquid.

A fresh, blood-stained fish scale.

Looking at this thing, the other’s face darkened.

She threw this pile of rubbish out with a smack. Her gaze was sinister, and a dangerous and ominous feeling seeped out. “Are you playing with me?”

The glass was very strong, and the sample bottle was not broken. It rolled far away.

But these were not the strangest things.

The strangest thing was that, under the pale and cold light, the protective clothing on the hand of this Investigation Department team leader had cracked. To be more precise, it had been corroded, and the exposed human hand tissue was red, swollen, and ulcerated. The severely damaged palm could even see the white bones, and liquid was dripping.

The researcher stared at all this in a daze, his mind as if it were blocked by paste and couldn’t turn. He exclaimed, “Does our foundation have people in the fourth department?”

Dong Wentao also stared at him, and her expression became very strange. “So you’re not one of ‘us’.”

The meeting had failed.

The two sides looked at each other, and the researcher’s pupils were shaking.

He finally realized what a hell of a mistake had been made—

This wasn’t a “colleague,” a monster had snuck in!

He scrambled and crawled to the side wall, and as he ran, he trembled and wanted to press the emergency button to call the police. But the more frantic he became, the more his legs twisted up like tangled strands of dough.

And then, his head was also corroded and pinched open like the metal box just now.

A pale white hand grabbed his head from behind. His scalp was torn, and a scorching smell was emitted. His skull became a honeycomb of hollow, thin, and brittle, and the slurry burst all over the ground, and the whole corpse fell down with a thud.

…

Two hundred and forty-three meters underground, in the lightless and silent seabed.

In the unknown passage where you couldn’t see your hand in front of you, two footsteps, one light and one heavy, echoed alternately. Along with them, there was also the rustling and trembling of countless sea insects crawling under their feet.

The two who had also failed to meet, but were still harmoniously and friendly, holding hands and heading deeper.

It was too strange to describe it this way.

It was just that—although Cheng Ming had realized that she might have found the wrong person to hand over to, the other seemed to be unaware.

Just ten minutes ago, this breeder with the number M-0368 had broken her light and had said to her in a gentle voice that if she couldn’t see, she could hold her hand and walk.

She still treated her as one of her “own.”

How did they identify their companions? Was it just because she was also a monster?

Cheng Ming was even more confused.

Thinking that the real person she was supposed to hand over to should be waiting for her at the entrance of shuttle elevator No. 1 above, even if she didn’t see anyone for a while, the other would at most leave with the things, and they could make another appointment later, or, she could just let the pharmaceutical company transfer the mission to someone else…

In the end, she decided to follow this suspected member of the monster organization first to see what they were planning to do.

And so, she held the person in front with one hand, and her “hair” with the other—her short hair had become long hair, and the mycelia were restlessly held in her palm, rubbing and rubbing like a cat that had smelled catnip.

Every time Cheng Ming’s nerves tensed up, it would make some noise to distract her, making this gloomy scene a little absurd and ridiculous.

The height of this passage was decreasing, and the ground was gradually accumulating liquid. Every time she lifted her foot and landed, it would make a splashing sound.

The mutated marine arthropods had gnawed through the pipes.

She couldn’t tell the time. The darkness magnified her other senses, and everything became slow and torturous.

Passing through the long and dark tunnel, from time to time, some strange sounds would come from the pipes in the depths of the side walls. It was unclear if it was the normal operation of the mechanical equipment, or if there were more mutated creatures hidden.

The further forward she went, the tighter Cheng Ming’s fingers became.

Just as she was beginning to suspect that she was already blind, this road finally came to an end.

The space in front of her opened up, and the tightened gate opened. The echo was dull. From this, it could be judged that they had entered a larger chamber, as if they had come to the stomach against the intestines.

After leaving the uneven and narrow passage, the ground here was obviously smoother, probably made of all-metal material. Many light spots lit up around them, mostly green, with red, yellow, and blue. They were the button signs on various instruments and equipment, as a reminder or a warning.

The front was the most dense, and the scattered spots seemed to form a galaxy. It should be the main control console.

The breeder let go of her hand and went to do her own thing, leaving her standing there at a loss like a blind person.

The dim fluorescence was reflected by the glass curtain wall in front, allowing her to barely make out the boundaries of this place.

This was an observation room that was facing the bottom of the bay.

The opposite was a giant observation window.

Listening to the crackling sound of various switches or buttons being moved, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and a guess—

These organized monsters, would they rescue their imprisoned companions from the Defense Center?

…

Ground floor, in front of shuttle elevator No. 1.

Two corpses were lying quietly at the entrance, with white slurry, red blood, and translucent mucus flowing all over the floor.

Both of their protective suits were damaged. The one in the white lab coat was a researcher from the underwater MM experimental area. His head had been opened, and the flowing brain tissue was like spicy pork fat soaked in fat intestines. The other was lying face down on the ground, and his back was split open, which was even more tragic. His spine was pulled out section by section, and it was covered with cracks.

The places where the liquid had been stained were all pitted, and the white anti-shock layer on the surface was corroded, revealing the more solid acid-resistant material underneath. The color of the ground was uneven.

Smack. A foot in a combat boot stepped over the first corpse and flipped the second one over with its toe.

Looking up from this foot, it was a pair of slim-fit jeans, and a black jacket over a top. A long-haired woman with a blank expression.

Qu Ying passed by this mess and looked down. It was clear that the second one was Team Leader Dong of the 7th squad.

As she strode towards the shuttle elevator, she took out the temporary pass she had obtained during the day and placed it on the recognizer by the hall door. At the same time, she used her communicator to call Qiu Ju—

“Yes, something has happened. You gather the team. I’m going down now.”

…

Two hundred and forty-three meters underwater.

Swish. The main control console lit up.

The sudden light made Cheng Ming close her eyes uncomfortably, and she only opened them after a moment.

The glass curtain wall was obviously made with a special process. The interior was so bright, but there was almost no mirror reflection. The light shone over, and besides a faint atomization, the strong light was like a sharp sword that pierced into the water behind, clearly illuminating the entire situation.

Her gaze was attracted by the light path. She subconsciously looked out along the bright white, and then, her whole person was frozen.

She saw a mermaid.

…

Really, a living mermaid.

Although it was too far to see clearly, and her eyes were almost tearing up from the light, Cheng Ming held her breath and did not dare to blink.

It was far more shocking than the decaying specimen she had seen in laboratory 40. It should have lived in myths, in stories passed down by word of mouth, and in the lost legends of the old days, a beautiful and magnificent deep-sea creature.

No wonder the Security Department had named it “Jiao.” Not a mermaid, nor a Jiao Ren.

The latter two would have brought their relationship with humans too close.

Modern science believed that the rumor of mermaids originated from the misidentification of a certain marine mammal, but those mammals did not have scales. But the creature in front of her had scales arranged neatly from head to toe, and they shone like crystals under the light. This was their armor. With this strong scale armor, they could resist the terrifying water pressure at the bottom of the sea. They did not have the large ups and downs of a human body, and completely conformed to the streamlined structure required by marine life. They and humans were already extremely different two species.

Yes, they.

Cheng Ming also didn’t know how she had determined at a glance that it was a female.

It was alive, but not completely alive.

The endless pressure of the deep sea could not annihilate it, and the surging, polluted wastewater of the ocean did not destroy it. But in this man-made cage, it was bound by the crisscrossing pipes, and it was motionless, as if it had been dead for a long time.

Countless wires connecting sensors and high-voltage electrodes were like black parasites crawling all over her body, sucking her life.

Cheng Ming pressed one hand on the cold glass and looked up at the thick water, her fingertips trembling slightly.

The light path passed through the enclosed sea area within this enclosed sea area, and revealed the clear, huge arched metal gate behind it.

This was the sea area that she had been inexplicably attracted to last time, the hidden experimental area that was not marked on the map.

The unknown creature that had said “run” to her was locked up.

The seashell on her chest seemed to be getting cold, so cold that her heart was a little insufficient in blood supply.

She still remembered the first time she had approached this place, the dreamlike sound waves, which the human ear could not hear, but could directly reach the soul and leave a deep imprint. At that time, she had felt scared, but at this moment, when she had witnessed the truth with her own eyes, there was only sadness.

Was it because it had sensed her existence as a “kin” and was worried that she would become the next “her,” and had tried its best to transmit the message to her?

Looking around again, there were countless metal structures and countless protective grids, which were both protection and restriction.

Redstone Bay was a huge underwater prison.

A display screen on the main control console listed all the physiological indicators of the imprisoned creature, and there were several openable pipe openings in the corner for inputting nutrients.

The “breeder” was busy there, taking out a container similar to a medicine bottle, opening the lid, and pouring a certain solution into it.

In an instant, it was as if some volatile substance had been released. The mycelia became abnormally active and began to crawl on her again, wrapping around her arms and drilling into her collar.

“Xiao Ming…” Cheng Ming was a little broken. She also felt that indescribable restlessness. She suddenly tightened her ten fingers and did not allow it to mess around. She leaned against the glass wall, her body uncomfortable, and her own breathing gradually became irregular.

Only then did she understand what was wrong with it.

The liquid that the breeder had poured out was for monsters, a chemical with an aphrodisiac effect?

No, that’s not right, it should be… for mermaids?

What was she doing? Was she really here to save the fish?