After Being Parasitized by a Monster 95p2

Chapter 95: Forever love you p2

This world would not accept fusion for the time being. Humans were still clinging to the little bit of knowledge they had gained in their short lifespan, and wanted to maintain the purity of the human gene. They were sticking to their old ways in the “long” time that was measured by their own dimension, and were afraid of change. Reform required painful lessons, and it had to be paid for with blood.

The “new humans” who had been conceived with beautiful hopes and had been put through great hardships, they couldn’t control them, and they would rather destroy them.

Although, mutation and fusion were the real and eternal state of this world, and were the necessary path for the evolution of all species.

The fusion of different gene fragments had created a variety of physiological functions. The fusion of single cells had given birth to new life forms such as aerobic respiration and photosynthesis. The chimera of multicellular individuals, and so the symbiotic system was flourishing… to be unchanging was the biggest lie of nature.

Qu Ying’s eyes were lowered. At a distance of less than a foot, in the faint light that was shining on the ground in the distance, she saw her wet and tangled hair, and the same crystal clear on her eyelashes.

“Did you know that I sometimes hate your mother,” in this rare and pathetic situation, her tone was still light, and she said words that were beyond her imagination. “Although dying from radiation is very painful, and although she had extended my life, if I had died at that time, I would have been free forever, and would not be like this now… the more ‘projects’ I’ve seen in the biology department and the evolution department, the more I would think, would it be better not to be alive… if everyone were not alive, it seems that there’s nothing wrong with it.”

Cheng Ming’s entire body’s temperature seemed to have been sucked away by her words, and was frozen by the hand that was holding her.

“Sister Yingying, don’t you have psychological counseling?” she asked her with a tearful smile. “Did you skip class?”

“Pfft.” Qu Ying’s hand that was holding her relaxed, and she bent over with laughter.

However, there was something in her side pocket. She felt for the small, emerald green box, took it out, looked at it, and took out a long and thin one from inside, and asked, “Do you mind?”

Cheng Ming could clearly see that it was a cigarette, but her cranial nerves were already in a mess. She nodded for a moment, and then shook her head, not knowing what she wanted to express.

Qu Ying smiled lightly, and click, she lit it. The white smoke rose, but she just put it on the side, and let the red ember slowly burn the tobacco. It was as if she were reminiscing about a certain taste.

The sadness that had accumulated in Cheng Ming’s eyes was about to come out, and she asked with difficulty, “Sister Yingying, why haven’t you considered a partner? You’re even more lonely than me…”

It was not the time to talk about these things, she knew. But if she didn’t ask, she didn’t know if she would ever be able to ask again.

She still had Xiao Ming. Although it was said that her misfortune seemed to have originated from her other half, from this non-human existence, but even without it, she didn’t believe that she could be intimate with anyone. So, it should be said that it was fortunate that she had Xiao Ming.

However, Qu Ying, who was also out of place in this world, did not have a single companion.

Qu Ying looked at her with a smile and asked back, “Do you think I can be a partner with anyone like this?”

Cheng Ming looked at her, and the dim galaxy in her eyes seemed to be about to fall.

She smiled again, reached out and touched her, and her upper body leaned forward, and her forehead lightly touched hers. “It’s fine.”

It’s fine.

A monster should be the most suitable for a monster.

The weight pressed down, and her whole body tilted and slid into the pool with her.

Sinking, the light was blocked by the pool wall, and Qu Ying hugged her. Cheng Ming touched something unusual, slimy and hard, soft but plastic, and covered with keratinous spines.

In the sewage that was soaked with radiation, her tentacles and her mycelia were swimming in the water, and they touched each other lightly. It was the first time they had completely revealed their true selves to each other, but it was in such a scene.

In a place that the outside world could not detect, they had briefly obtained a moment of peace.

The nerve endings touched, and in a flash of insight, she had grasped something deeper, like her body was pressed against a frozen lake, and the temperature had melted it to a thin layer, and an indescribable sadness had finally broken through the ice.

This peace was too precious, too luxurious.

She knew how she had so quickly located her. After accepting this mission, the biology department, which was the best at creating biotechnology tools, had stitched the egg spore they had obtained into her body, and the more small monsters that this monster of hers had left behind were separated bodies that had a parasitic nature but no self-awareness.

It was as if the sky and the earth had suddenly cracked, and a mountain fire had broken out in her neural network. Cheng Ming understood something, and she shook her head desperately, and pushed her desperately.

However, an octopus, this creature that was like a deep-sea ghost, with high intelligence and a strong ability to control, how could she stop it. Qu Ying forcefully bound her, “Calm down, Cheng Ming.”

Her voice was very steady, just like her, her always-reliable sister.

“It’s not your fault,” she said. “It was my decision. Are you not listening to your sister so soon?”

Cheng Ming was trembling and shook her head, crying.

“Don’t you want me to go with you?” she said, with a faint tiredness and weariness. “Take me with you. I’ve wanted to leave this place for a long time too.”

She lowered her head and got very close. The mint-flavored cigarette was burning from behind, and it was mixed with the very light fragrance on her body. It was hard to say if it smelled good or not.

But Cheng Ming was still choked and coughed, and she coughed out tears.

The air she exhaled was so cold, colder than her blood, as if it were going to freeze her into an ice sculpture, and even her soul was chilled.

“Little one…” Qu Ying caressed her cheek, and called her with a light smile that had a hint of a sigh.

Did she still want to say something? Cheng Ming didn’t know.

She had seen the other’s sharpness too many times, and had also suffered a lot because of her toughness. She had almost forgotten that she also had such a gentle side. In the past, the other had always been gentle in front of her.

The days of human society, when she thought back, were already too far away from her.

She couldn’t go back, she couldn’t go back.

She didn’t push her anymore. She hugged her back with all her might, but the entity she was holding was like a foam that was melting. A boundless body of water, a boundless darkness. An endless displacement, an endless twists and turns.

The light and shadow in the vicinity and in the distance were changing, and she couldn’t see clearly what was surrounding her, what was pushing her, and forcing her to embark on this lost path that she couldn’t turn back from.

Her spiritual world was shaken and collapsed. For a moment, she lost control, and more mycelia came forward, like a swarm of hounds that had smelled their prey.

She angrily pushed them away, and the water splashed, and her tears also broke. “Get lost! Get lost! Don’t touch her! Don’t move her… don’t…”

She cried so much that she couldn’t control herself.

What was she growing up for? At first, the motivation was family affection, to find her lost home, her lost warmth. Then, for a truth, she wanted to find out who she was, and to understand her identity.

Cheng Ran had loved her, and it was a transplant of her love for her daughter. Chu Lanying had loved her, and it was a grafting of her own ideals.

In the end, she understood that she was just looking for a home. Where to go?

She belonged neither to human society nor to nature. She was a rootless wanderer, a drifting wave that had entrusted its existence to this place.

The world was so quiet, so quiet.

Quietly, the mycelia scattered again.

She didn’t know how much time had passed. She was trembling from the cold water, and her numb body was as if it were a hallucination before death, and it was warming up.

She felt that this silence was too much. Her breathing was stagnant and trembling, and she called out softly, “Xiao Ming?”

Perhaps for two or three seconds, she didn’t hear a response, and her reason was shattered with a boom.

“Xiao Ming? Xiao Ming! Xiao Ming—”

“I’m here,” it said softly.

“Why didn’t you answer!” Cheng Ming almost broke down.

“I thought you wouldn’t want to talk to me anymore…”

From the moment Qu Ying had appeared here and had said the first sentence, it had foreseen this destined outcome. Resistance was futile, and it couldn’t be changed. And it was not a harmful event, so it had no intention of struggling. Cheng Ming also knew, but her emotions always refused to accept the cruel reality.

She looked up and covered her eyes with her hand, and only then did she find that her tears had run out.

“You will never abandon me, will you?”

In the past, it was always Xiao Ming who was asking her for a promise. Now, their identities were reversed, and she was asking the monster inside her for a vow of undying love.

Her heart and the mycelia were both quietly stopped for a moment.

Then, she heard “her” say solemnly and softly, “Yes, not even in death.”

The tone of this sentence was very flat and light, but it was a love letter that it had promised with happiness and peace.

There was no one else here besides her. No, she would be alone to face the unpredictable future. She could only hug herself, and with a hoarse and choked voice, a gentle and empty voice that was like a spark in a desperate long night, she said, “I love you.”

She had been buried in a sea of fire, but her soul had been reborn from the ashes.

Xiao Ming had finally waited for this sentence.

All the mycelia gathered and embraced her, and they were layered and wrapped like a cocoon, isolating her from the outside world, sealing, monopolizing, binding, and protecting—

“I love you too.”

I love you.

I love you the most, and I will always love you.

Neither life nor death can separate you and me.

…

This was just an ordinary day in July.

This planet was still revolving around the sun. The sun’s direct point was in the northern latitude, the equatorial low pressure was moving north, the subtropical high pressure was parked on the sea, and the ocean currents were circling the continent clockwise.

But, on the 30,000-kilometer-long coastline, the convoy that was silently passing through the quarantine line like a swarm of ants, the large number of armed forces that were being transported to the coast, and the defensive facilities that were set up like winter supplies… also indicated that this would be an extremely unusual day.

The rainy season on the continent had come.

Bad news came one after another.

The plan had finally gone wrong, and it was not the ending they had hoped for.

Time had passed, and the switch that controlled the self-destruction of the neck ring had been pressed. All kinds of guns and bullets had been bombed in turn, and the other high-tech weapon devices that had been thrown in were all silent. There was no movement below.

The people in the tall buildings were also silent.

In front of the surveillance screen, they were staring motionlessly, and countless pairs of eyes were watching, but there was nothing they could do. They were powerless to turn the tide, like the people in a picture book who were killing and praying for a descent, and were also trembling with fear. They were gathered like ants by the side of a nest that was far beyond the size of their known universe, and were welcoming an ancient god that had awakened from the underground.

Should they drop a nuclear bomb? This place couldn’t be kept either. The foundation was unstable, the buildings would collapse, and the radiation would be exposed, and it would affect far more than just the nearest biology department.

The most crucial thing was that the threat of the ocean was right in front of them. They would face the same destruction.

—The text message from the research institute believed that they had made a mistake in their analysis of the audio last time. It was a threat, but it was a threat not to harm them again.

Do you want war, or do you want peace?

The decision was in the hands of mankind.

The sky, which was covered with dark clouds, was like a puzzle or a broken gray glass. The clouds had cracked irregularly, and an abnormally thin, pale gold light was cast from the gaps, illuminating the land and also the ocean.

Was that hope?

Cheng Ming walked out of the lightless underground, and a ray of sunlight was smeared on the corner of her eye.

She looked up, and the fighter jets were circling. The rolling dark clouds were the background. If it weren’t for the roar of the wings, all of this would have been as still as a painting.

A large area of the danger zone had been cleared, and the buildings were standing like skeletons.

The hot and humid wind was blowing from all directions. She was standing on the devastated ground, and the ravines left by the guns and cannons were like undulating waves, and the rising smoke was like a gray and white mist.

This was also the ocean, the ocean that had been stripped of its sharp bones, the ocean that had devoured all living beings.

She took a step and walked towards the real ocean.

She could be completely unlike a human, but in the end, she had still chosen to leave in a human form.

The radiation was too high, and no living person was close. The drones in the high sky and the unmanned exploration vehicles on the ground were silently following her, and they formed a long line of farewell behind her. The metal reflected the sunlight, cold and hard, yet warm, magnificent and absurd.

This might be a mysterious painting that would be recorded in history forever.

July… it was July again. Her birthday was in July, she had lost her relatives and friends in July, the biggest disaster that the Defense Center had experienced was in July, and now, in this too-hot and too-cold season, she was going to face her next journey.

What was Cheng Ran’s ideal?

Countless nights of staying up, countless piles of manuscripts, countless principles that had been subtly instilled, the interests that had been cultivated, and the ideals that had been discussed.

The answer did not need to be thought about, she had already known it.

When she was old enough to remember but not yet sensible, she had been sick and had had a fever. When she had needed her mother’s company the most, but her mother was not there, she would also cry aggrievedly. When she was tired of crying, she would fall asleep, and when she woke up again, the late Cheng Ran would be sitting by her side, apologizing for her busy work, and telling her that if one day the sea returned to its cleanliness, then she could always be by her side.

She would not come home in her lab coat, but Cheng Ming knew that she had just rushed back from the research institute, with the unique smell of disinfectant from the storage room there.

What made her feel at ease was the smell of her mother.

If it were a past memory, she would have felt warm and sad.

But now, knowing that she was an experimental subject, and having accepted her destined fate, that hint of a daze and sadness was like a smoke that had risen from a extinguished pile of firewood. In the desolation of being burned out, there was also a flickering hope of rekindling.

Mom, you won’t lie to me, will you?

She had left a part of her egg spores, whether it was for the research institute or the biology department. They would continue to be used for experiments, to explore the possibility of fusion or gene introduction into other creatures to obtain radiation resistance.

She knew that much of what the Defense Center was doing now was futile, but it was the norm for humans to go against the trend. To be content with the status quo was what most people hoped for. How many more detours would they have to take? Who knew.

However, that was not for her to worry about.

The high and inaccessible gate was opened, and the machinery was roaring, and the sound of the sea was roaring. She had once again passed through the high protective wall. This time, it was the Defense Center that had taken the initiative to send her away.

The continent behind her was already far away. She would jump into the sea and rush towards the future with her lover.

On the 30,000-kilometer-long coastline, all the guns and bullets had stopped. On the 150 million square kilometer land, everyone had seen the most magnificent scene of their lives.

Whether it was witnessing it with their own eyes in the tall buildings along the coast, or on the live broadcast on various electronic screens.

The people who were walking on the street had stopped. They had seen the apocalyptic scene on the large screens on the side of the street. The people who were resting at home had stopped. Their mobile phones and their computers had lit up with the ocean that they had seen and had not seen. The people who were working in all walks of life and at all levels had stopped. All the equipment that could receive signals and display images were filled with the same scene.

That was their present, and it also seemed to be our future.

The wind came from the sea and brushed past the land.

Circulation was the eternal of this planet, so this wind, perhaps it had come from the primitive atmosphere of forty billion years ago, perhaps it had come from the oxides that a piece of blue-green algae had exhaled two billion years ago, or perhaps it had come from the vortex that had been stirred up by the wings of an ancient insect four hundred million years ago… it had crossed the ocean and had passed over the high mountains, and had passed through the ancient times, and had been born from nature, and had lightly brushed past hundreds of millions of living beings, and perhaps it had annihilated countless small and fragile lives, and perhaps it had passed through mountains and seas, and had just twisted a girl’s hair.

Along with the waves that were stirred up by the wind, in the distance, at the corner of the sky and the clouds, countless marine creatures had poked their heads out.

The visible, the invisible, the beautiful, the ugly, the colorful, the swollen and purulent, a multi-legged octopus as tall as a building, a deep-sea whale as majestic as a mountain, they had crossed the ocean, vast and mighty, and were confronting mankind.

They were looking at the continent.

They were going to welcome their savior.

Standing on the long sea cliff that was surrounded by reefs, Cheng Ming took one last look back. The towering buildings rose from the ground, like a steel jungle, and the city was an isolated island that was surrounded and wrapped by the sea.

This planet was, after all, a planet of the sea. No matter how large the land was, it was just a slightly larger island.

This was the first time she had seen the sea at close range during the day. Further in the distance, the waves were sparkling under the broken sun. The sea was still beautiful, and it was as gentle as an oil painting by an artist. How could it not make people full of longing that one day, the self-purification ability of the ocean would heal all the wounds, and mother nature would forgive the small mistakes that her children had made.

And nearby, the waves were gently rolling, and the white foam was surging, like a boundless expanse of blooming daffodils.

She thought, after crossing this sea, her mother would be waiting for her at the end, and would pick her up and hold her high, and would say to her, “Baby is so amazing!”

【End of Main Story】