Chapter 39: The Storm
However, it is limited to the type of symbiotic situation.
As for the type that directly eats the host's brain, the dove occupies the magpie's nest and replaces it, but it is a real "parasite"...... So, how can they suppress their need to eat?
Because if you think about it from another perspective, this is basically a person who suddenly says that he can stop eating and drinking, and can control this instinct of physiological needs through his own willpower, and is ready to live through photosynthesis from now on......
- You're not mesmering?
Anyway, in this case, it would be a mistake to expect the parasitic beast to consider the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence with food.
Xia Ran does not deny the possibility that parasitic beasts can really understand humans, but judging from the information he has, it seems that from beginning to end in the original plot, only the parasitic beast Ryoko Tamiya really has feelings and accepts death calmly......
It is even due to the fact that when it was exploring the meaning of the existence of the parasitic beast, it conceived a human child, and slowly underwent some changes in the long process of conceiving the child.
So, what is that Shimada Hideo?
If the human body sex is male, can it not conceive a child?!
It's just a joke, anyway, Xia Ran doesn't believe a word about what Quan Xinyi relayed...... Unless that Hideo Shimada first changes the gender of his human body to a woman, and then says this!
The most important thing is that the impression of the plot makes him not believe that kind of at all. Hideo Shimada is not as innocent as he says he is, it doesn't really eat people, but it just eats people where Izumi Shinichi can't see......
Xia Ran's memory of this plot is the clearest-
Because it shows good motor nerves in school and has a very good face, many girls in the school have directly become its little fan sisters, secretly calling it "Xiuxiu" or something......
One of the girls is really infatuated with Hideo Shimada, not only secretly painted its portrait, but also discovered the truth about its parasitic beast because of too much attention and frequent observation.
It's just that the girl didn't expose this matter, but in order to keep Hideo Shimada from being arrested, she fantasized that she could let it go, and I don't know what she thought......
I guess I think I'm special, right?
Or do you think that the power of love is great, and you can move each other?
Anyway, the girl asked Hideo Shimada to meet alone in the art room, and had a direct showdown, but the latter didn't listen to her at all and left obediently, but directly showed his original form and planned to kill her.
The reason why Xia Ran has a deep memory of this plot is because the reason why the girl was able to survive was because she prepared a strong acid in advance and repelled Hideo Shimada at a critical moment, making him go crazy and out of control......
It can be said that he has been able to live until now and initially grow up because he has memorized this vital piece of information.
Therefore, after getting the information of Izumi Shinichi, Xia Ran made a plan very decisively and directly, and as a matter of course, he took that Shimada Hideo as the target of hunting, and prepared to kill it in the next step.
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And watching this scene happen from the side, Izumi Shinichi and Kimishima Kana were both dumbfounded and completely speechless.
Because his mother is still alive, Izumi Shinichi's heart has not undergone much transformation like in the original book, so his concept is indeed a little naïve...... Sincerely, he really wants everything to be as Hideo Shimada said.
And Kana Kimishima looked at Xia Ran with a completely wrong look, and even shrank behind Izumi Shinichi.
Even if this guy is not a monster, he is definitely a very dangerous character, even if it is not a parasitic beast but a human on the opposite side.
After all, no matter how you say it, isn't the right thing to do is to confirm the situation first? She had never seen such a person, and she didn't care what the situation on the other side was, so she naturally began to make a hunting plan...... How can anyone be so reckless?
What kind of Shimada Hideo is, if he really dies unjustly, he probably really wants to hate Jiuquan, right?
After all, who would have imagined that he had just come over and unilaterally released goodwill and friendship to the enemy, but as soon as the enemy turned his head, he was directly ready to kill himself...... Normally, even if you don't believe it, shouldn't you observe it for a while?
It's just that the reality is cruel -
Unleash kindness? No, you don't! Showing friendliness? Don't believe it!
For Hideo Shimada, it seems that all the performances it does are useless, and the only meaning is to actively expose its own existence to the eyes of ruthless hunters.
Because someone now only has the concept of points, crystals, and keys in their eyes, and the wild monsters without names don't want to let go, and the hostile characters who appeared in the plot have no reason to let go.
At this time, Xia Ran already had a vague guess, that is, compared to those wild enemies who didn't even deserve their names, the hostile characters who appeared in the plot seemed to have a higher probability of dropping the key after being killed.
As for whether it will fall 100% or not, it is difficult to say, and he estimates that it is probably unlikely, but it is very likely that the probability will be higher.
For now, Hideo Shimada is a good target to hunt, and his previous plans are about to change...... You can't wait for the parasite to come to your door, you have to take the initiative.
Because their hole cards are likely to be exposed, and now the parasitic beast needs to face the huge official sweeping pressure and take care of itself, so it's okay to say for the time being. If you really wait for them to find them, I'm afraid you will be sure enough.
Xia Ran didn't want to wait for them to be ready, and then fight to the death in a dignified manner.
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However, in the next period of time, even parasitic beasts will shrink their heads and become humans, and Xia Ran also does not plan to hit the muzzle of the gun.
And there's a whole bunch of troublesome things—
The little gangster Guangfu said that after all, he was unconscious, he didn't see anything, and he didn't know what happened, so he was sent home directly. Or take him to the hospital, where he will have to lie down for at least a few days before he can get off the ground.
But Kana Kimishima is different, so her personal freedom must be controlled...... Of course, this matter will naturally be handed over to Izumi Shinichi, and the girl seems to be very happy with such an arrangement.
Because she doesn't seem to have anyone in her family all along, otherwise, she wouldn't have gotten mixed with a bad gang like Mitsuo.
After calling her parents out of town to report their safety and telling them not to go out easily, she also stayed in this apartment temporarily...... By the way, Izumi Shinichi's parents also moved in with him.
This is to be on the safe side, and everyone will be together for the rest of the time.
What's more, if Xia Ran and the other three are not available, it must be Kana Kimishima by Izumi Shinichi's parents to prevent her from suddenly running out of the case, even if this possibility is very small, but it also needs to be guarded against...... And Izumi Shinichi's parents are even more trustworthy, because after all, their son is also on the thief ship.
This is Xia Ran's consideration, of course, he will not say it openly, and when he made the suggestion, he only used "safer" as a reason, so that Izumi Shinichi could not refuse to move his parents from his home here......
Today is destined to be a chaotic day.
And it's not just the city, it's a lot of other places where some action is going on.
There were also videos posted on YouTube, and some discordant scenes were filmed, but the videos soon became 404 without exception...... Relevant information is constantly swiped out on the Internet, and then they often don't live for more than ten seconds to be killed, and the same is true for the poster's account......
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that something huge has happened, and even suspects that it was a military coup or something.
After all, when the officials of various countries start to sweep, they must be the first to eliminate the cannibal monsters parasitic in the internal system, so without exception, they first surround important government agencies, screen targets, and directly kill them.
It's the right choice, but in the eyes of outsiders who don't know the inside story, the nature of this kind of thing is wrong.
Night.
The city outside has become very quiet, and there is a feeling of silence, but compared to the movement of the suspected military coup during the day, the city at this moment seems a little unreal.
It really makes people wonder if this is the calm before the storm, or the huge waves brewing behind the calm.
Since noon, no one has been out again.
Every residential area, every street, is empty, and all the houses and buildings, whether they are occupied or not, whether they are private houses or shops, are closed doors and windows...... The whole city is like a dead city.
Only the constant repetition of the radio sounded, declaring that everything was under control, so that the general public should not panic......
For a while, there was really a feeling that the end had come and all mankind had disappeared from the face of the earth at the same time...... However, it is a different situation on the Internet, and the major chat rooms can swipe out 99+ messages in one second.
Xia Ran browsed it and didn't care about it anymore, but he also joined in with great interest, and posted a few posts to spread rumors and make the water even more muddy.
Of course, it's not to expose the truth of the parasitic beast or anything, after all, he doesn't want to be approached by someone along the network cable to check the water meter, and he doesn't have any hacking skills......
And thinking about his previous behavior carefully, he actually felt a little afraid, after all, it was really because of the impression of the plot, and he preconceived about the official, thinking that it was the same setting as the background board, so he didn't have to care about it at all......
It's like in a lot of movies, the cops are always late after the battle is over, you fight for 10 minutes and they come after 10 minutes, you fight for half an hour and they come in half an hour......
Until today's sudden sweep, Xia Ran really didn't notice any signs in advance, and now that he thinks about it, it was really thanks to the parasitic beasts that attracted more attention......
- Otherwise, he might be the one who is being targeted.