After Being Parasitized by a Monster 94

Chapter 94: Sister Yingying, come with me.

Evolution Department base, a special confinement room.

Half of the space was so bright that everything had faded, and the other half was extremely dark.

The eternal opposition of light and shadow.

Qu Ying was in the dazzling light, her gaze not avoiding or dodging, and she was directly facing the light source that would almost destroy her photoreceptor cells, and was directly hitting the blurry figure that was hidden in the back.

It was impossible for her to see clearly, but even so, it still brought a considerable amount of pressure to the person in the dark.

This was a prison that had been converted from an experimental area. Its function was not only to detain, but it was also equipped with ultimate facilities for observation, research, control, and even destruction. Those who entered here were not only prisoners, but also experimental materials that could be dismantled at any time.

This irregular, flashing, strong light was just the most common of the large number of devices that were aimed at her.

Click. The switch was flipped.

The brightness decreased, and the light slowly receded like a tide.

The truth came out, and a strange face was revealed.

But, it had a familiar temperament, and a familiar, swaying hair behind it.

“Sister Yingying.”

Xiao Ming had always been dishonest, and at this moment, it did not forget to show its presence. The mycelia were swaying, as if it were deliberately trying to anger Qu Ying.

Qu Ying was once again shrouded in gloom, and she looked at the person opposite her with a blank expression.

“I really don’t know what you’re thinking,” she suddenly laughed, coldly. “What are you doing here, are you walking into a trap?”

She scanned Cheng Ming’s new body, and only then did she move her gaze back to her face, and stared at her, her tone mocking.

A gray haze rolled in from the four corners, and the bright patterns from the unknown receiver on the ceiling left a clear boundary between them.

They were on opposite ends of the darkness, as if they were enemies, as if they were old friends.

After a moment, Cheng Ming broke this boundary and approached her.

There was only one sentence, “Sister Yingying, come with me.”

She controlled the mycelia that were being used by Xiao Ming to provoke, and extended them, filling the gaps, blocking the possible observation ports, and blocking the flashing signal points in every corner.

The uniform that was on her was a little empty, and it was like a bone frame, not in a human form. On such a night, in this quiet and strange place, it was completely comparable to the gloom of a ghost story.

However, behind the gloom was the little bit of compassion she had left, which was only guided by her reason—it was just a borrowing of authority, and she had not killed the supervisor here.

The non-human feeling was getting stronger and stronger, but she still had her humanity, no matter how much. Including, she still cared about her.

One was sitting and one was standing. As they looked at each other, it was like a kind of pity. A monster that could come and go freely wanted to save her other monster companion.

In the depths of those calm eyes, the quietly surging plea was like a rope that had circled her, trying to pull her back to her side.

Facing such a gaze, only Qu Ying herself knew what she was feeling.

But her response was not at all fluctuating.

“I won’t go. And you can’t go either.”

This sentence was very light, and also very heavy.

So light that Cheng Ming thought she had misheard, and so heavy that she shivered slightly, as if she had heard a curse.

She had refused again.

And just two or three seconds later, she understood why she had said that.

Beep! Beep! Beep—

A sharp noise pierced through this underground cavity, and a strong smell of chemical agents exploded in the pipes. The mycelia that she had extended to the distance were the first to be hit, and the ends were as if they had been burned, and then they were twisted and broken with a boom, and she lost her sense.

That feeling was infinitely close to pain, and it acted directly on the spiritual level.

It was a premeditated ambush, like catching a turtle in a jar.

In an instant, her vision went white, and her senses failed. In the last second before she had lost all control, she had seen Qu Ying’s emotionless eyes, but the corners of her eyes were raised, as if they were eternal, cold, and sharp.

Cheng Ming was in a daze and felt that it was her mockery of herself—

Do you think that if I’m in the same situation as you, I’ll accept the salvation you’re offering?

I’m not the same as you.

…

More than ten kilometers away.

At the same time that Qu Ying had seen Cheng Ming, on the periphery of the biology department building.

She had been called to patrol due to a sudden incident, but in the blink of an eye, she had gotten separated from her teammates, and in another blink of an eye—Han Xuhua had also seen a person she had never expected to see.

“Xiao Hua, do me a favor.”

Along with this voice, a thin and invisible shadow floated out. A person emerged from the inky night and walked towards her.

Han Xuhua was at a loss at first, but as the other approached and she could see her appearance clearly, a flash of surprise subconsciously passed through her, and then, her eyes gradually widened, and the surprise was dismantled into astonishment and fright.

Her expression was as if she had seen a ghost.

…But wasn’t it really seeing a ghost.

She had gone to visit her comrades in arms, and had also swept Cheng Ming’s grave.

What was even more in line with a midnight ghost story was that the person opposite her was as if she had been soaked in water. In just these few steps, her pale flesh was deforming, and the texture of her face was writhing, and she was slowly losing her clear outline.

It wasn’t even the Ghost Festival…

As she approached, Han Xuhua took a step back.

And another step back.

The more she retreated, the more she doubted her life.

Cheng Ming: “…”

She belatedly realized.

She had not intended to scare her.

She had originally wanted to change her appearance to see Han Xuhua, to avoid dragging Yan Li’s identity into the water and affecting Yan Rong, but she had come in a hurry, and by accident, she had changed into her true form.

The key formula she had gotten from Shenzhou Pharmaceutical, she had given a copy to Chu Lanying, and she had also had to send a copy to the R&D group of the biology department, so that they could develop a solution as soon as possible and help Yan Rong to get out of her predicament.

But now, she had directly appeared in the biology department, and the probability of her being studied was even greater, so she had to find someone to run errands for her.

Fortunately, an acquaintance was easy to talk to, and she had chosen this old classmate who had always been lucky.

The sensing distance of the conidia was too limited, and only the egg spores that she had directly gestated were her true clones. The outer shell came from the collection of Chu Lanying from the research institute, a living mutated creature. Although it was a bit disgusting to use, it was good to use.

It was just that, in her current state, she could not support too much loss.

There was a problem on Qu Ying’s side, and she had to abandon the car to save the handsome. She could only cut off the link and decisively throw away that egg spore.

And so, the human form that she had barely maintained was affected, and it was a little melted.

What was worse was that she was wearing the blue and white striped work clothes that she had taken from the pharmaceutical company during the day, and at first glance, it looked very much like their former school uniform.

So, in Han Xuhua’s eyes, this was how dedicated, how nostalgic, and how responsible a good student class representative was.

“Class representative, you’re not here to rush me to hand in my homework, are you?” After retreating to the point where she could not retreat any further, Han Xuhua gave up resisting with a blank expression and asked her in a daze.

…Her soul had flown away, and she was still joking.

This too-familiar and too-long-ago conversation, Cheng Ming was stunned for a moment before she remembered that this was an old joke from many years ago. It was a little funny, but it was more from tension to speechlessness.

“Yes,” she replied.

She stopped, and they were half a meter apart. She raised her hand and handed the memory card to this old friend who had been separated for a long time and would be separated forever. She tilted her head and gave a slightly mischievous smile:

“Help me hand in this homework to the office, and I’ll forgive you.”

…

This body still had a few dozen minutes of life.

She shouldn’t be wandering outside, as it would increase the probability of being discovered. But, with a certain indescribable attachment, she did not return as soon as possible, but turned away from the biology department and walked all the way to the end of the road.

This was a fork in the road.

The road was under her feet, but there was no road in front of her.

The research institute, which was like a tower of Babel, stood on the west side, and the warning lights were on and off.

She looked to the east, and the apartment building complex in the distance was like a galaxy, and every point was a light of a home.

Home. Unfortunately, it was not her home.

She had not had a home for a long time.

“Do you want to go back and see her?” Xiao Ming asked.

Very rarely, there was no jealousy in this tone, nor was it sarcastic. It was just a light and considerate inquiry.

At a time like this, it seemed particularly merciful.

It had patiently and peacefully accompanied her to deal with everything, and had even taken the initiative to help her to sort out the threads, to say goodbye to one old friend after another, and to cut off one old tie after another.

After today, no one else would be able to compete with it for her.

She would eventually belong completely to it.

It was only when Qu Ying had rejected her invitation that it was both happy and angry that the other did not know what was good for her.

Cheng Ming also didn’t know what to do with Qu Ying.

Just like this?

She was silent in the steamy summer night wind.

Looking at the faint lights in the distance, she actually couldn’t see anything clearly, but she assumed that there was a lamp that belonged to the bedroom on the 17th floor of Building 3, and belonged to Yan Rong. It was like a cluster of flames that attracted a moth.

But the person who was holding the lamp was not the one she wanted to see the most.

After a long time, she said, “I’m not going back.”

Just like this.

The smile on her lips was faint, but the corners of her eyes were drooping with a fine, flowing light. A helpless, self-mocking sigh, it was bitterness, it was relief.

Looking back on this journey, she had been so busy. What was she looking for?

Just like this.

…

On July 12th, the news that had been quietly fermenting and expanding the night before, after more people had woken up, had exploded in the daily newspaper.

Shenzhou Group had been hit by a terrorist attack, the “mother of genetic medicine” Chu Xiuru had died, the executives of the core company had died, and important research materials had been stolen… when these reports had all appeared on the news interface, there was undoubtedly a huge uproar.

It was probably the only piece of social news that people, who had been almost desensitized by the frequent disasters all over the world since the 78th sea defense incident, would pay attention to.

Chu Lanying had left the Defense Center overnight to take charge of the overall situation.

Of course, she was not forced. This was the goal she wanted to achieve.

The power that had been lost for more than twenty years was recovered.

She had fulfilled another wish for “Chu Lanying.”

The Defense Center was naturally happy to see this. Chu Lanying was one of their own who couldn’t run away. The power of the Chu family’s enterprise had returned to her hands, which meant that the ENS Foundation could also be gradually brought under control.

From this point of view, the escaped monster had really helped them a lot.

Sometimes, resorting to violence was really a brilliant and efficient means. The whole of mankind was facing a crisis, and the leaders had to consider the stability of the united front, and had to be civilized people who were bound by the rules, and had to be tactful and subtle, and had to be hypocritical and take it step by step… but when it was given to a monster, it was just a matter of doing it.

To kill with a borrowed knife, Cheng Ming was happy to be this knife.

However, this was an internal conflict of mankind. In the end, the external conflict was the top priority. To be able to break through the quarantine line and to accurately find the most influential group of upper-class elites to persecute, it was like dancing a tap dance on the face of the Defense Center.

The public opinion was in an uproar, and it was urgent to deal with the real culprit.

In the early morning of that day.

Evolution Department, Backup Base No. 15.

The culture pod that had been placed there had already dried up. The metal plates were spliced into a smooth wall, and a blue electric arc was faintly flowing. The upward-opening inspection door was opened, and a gray and cold light fell in, and the interior furnishings were in full view.

“Are you satisfied with me as a bait?”

Qu Ying, who had not seen a living person for a long time, saw the researcher who had come in a grand manner, and she raised her eyelids and asked with a sneer.

In the past, she had only fished for others, but now she had also experienced the feeling of being a bait.

The researchers, including Chen Ke, from a research point of view, still wanted to find out the secrets of Cheng Ming, so of course they hoped to capture her alive.

But the people from the combat department did not hope so.

They hated the monster organization deeply, and even the evolution department was implicated, not to mention VOM47, who had been recklessly pulling hatred, and Cheng Ming, who had betrayed her human identity.

“Professor Cheng Ran is already dead,” Chen Ke did not answer directly.

She did not mention the egg spore they had just intercepted, nor did she mention the next step, but she first talked about this matter.

It was still her usual, matter-of-fact tone, and her expression was calm.

However, the gaze she cast on her was very serious, as if she were expecting her to have some reaction worth recording.

“Oh,” Qu Ying replied.

A lukewarm sound, with only a faint upward inflection at the end, “Who did it?”

She didn’t think that her last move had caused much harm to “Professor Cheng,” nor did she think that there was anything wrong with her “trial and error.” In fact, she was just responsible for the safety of the Defense Center.

It was just that an attack that did not follow orders was already an extremely uncontrollable and dangerous behavior, and to turn the butcher’s knife on her own researcher was an even greater crime.

The researcher wanted to destroy the experimental subject, and the mother wanted her child to die. How could she resist?

“Just like you,” Chen Ke said. “We guess it’s MM1.”

Qu Ying’s gaze was slightly raised.

Chen Ke had thought that she would finally have some emotional change, but she just stretched out her hand and asked, “Do you have a cigarette?”