Chapter 15: The Home of the Parasite
A dark and silent black lake has accumulated in the canyon of Jiuling Mountain, and it appears extremely fast, as if it has been formed naturally over thousands of years, and under the dazzling sunlight in the sky, it does not look abrupt, but on the contrary...... It's like the opposite of light, and that darkest color creates an extremely strong contrast with the sun.
Although it seems to come from the deepest part of the universe "dark", it is undeniable that it also has its own bright light, which is a black light that surpasses human cognition...... That light seems to have been transformed in some way, and at the moment it is like a black hole that cannot be described in words, as if all the light in this world will be absorbed by it, and then quickly transformed into its own color.
Cold, dark.
In addition to its strong vitality, it is still "normal", its breath, color, and bright light should not appear in this world, it is a unique product of another world.
After Chen Xian was submerged in the black water, the whole person was in a state of sitting, although he was not a sect. The alien doesn't understand the so-called cultivation techniques, but his meditative posture and the state that is close to entering Zen...... Indeed with those sects. There are different ways to teach the Dharma.
This black lake is like a pool of weak water that does not float, in which even the dead leaves and branches of plants will sink, not to mention the large living people weighing more than 100 catties, so Chen Xian almost effortlessly sat under the water, but unlike those Buddhist meditations, his consciousness did not reach the realm of tranquility or even blankness...... In his consciousness, many horrific and unspeakable images appeared.
Those images seem to be the memories of these parasites.
In a trance......
Chen Xian saw their hometown.
Their home is the darkest planet, the entire surface of which is formed by the Sea of Death made of metal slime, where there is no land and no other life, the only life that can survive or even live forever...... Only these parasites.
Ever since they had memories, the darkest planet had been in a state of decay, which was fatal to the parasites that lived on it, because the planet was as important to them as Earth was to humans...... The oxygen needed for human survival is only supplied by the earth, and the "life force" used by parasites as the basis for survival is supplied by the sea of death.
In the process of decay of the planet, the life force flowing from the core of the star decreases day by day, until it is reduced to a critical point that the parasites can withstand...... At that moment, disaster struck, hundreds of millions of parasites had no way out, they began to kill each other in their homeland to compete for more vitality, and some parasites even devoured each other, and thousands of parasites died every moment in this war where blood and smoke could not be seen.
I don't know how long it took.
Maybe it's a year, maybe it's a decade, maybe it's a hundred years......
Nearly ninety percent of the parasites on the darkest planet have died due to infighting, and the remaining ten percent of the parasites are also in an extremely weak state, not because they don't want to continue fighting, but because they have completely lost the power to fight......
Until that day.
A "beam of light" that covered tens of millions of square kilometers of sea fell from the sky, and that beam of light seemed to cover all the colors of the world, but its breath was much colder than this darkest star, and no one knew where it came from, perhaps from the deeper part of the universe, or from the edge of the universe...... It penetrated the planet in just a split second.
After the planet's inner core was penetrated by this huge energy, the temperature of the planet's surface began to drop suddenly, until the Sea of Death froze at an extremely terrifying low temperature, and all the parasites living in the sea became living fossils in the ice...... With a terrifying explosion, the planet began to completely disintegrate, splitting apart at an extremely fast speed, and the huge energy contained in the beam directly destroyed most of the planet's material into cosmic powder, and only a small part of the matter happened to avoid the impact of that energy.
Although this small part of matter did not face the terrifying energy, it is undeniable that they were also affected by the energy impact, as if in an explosion. Like rubble, they have been "catapulted" to all parts of the universe by energy.
At that time, there was such a "gravel".
It traveled through the empty universe at great speed, crossing countless deep-space seas of stars, until it finally found a planet full of vitality just before its own life force was about to run out......
That's right.
In the eyes of parasites, the planet that can be used to replenish their life force is Earth.
If it weren't for the timely discovery of the parasite that had fallen in the Lanzhou area, as long as it was a few days later, perhaps the place would usher in a disaster even more terrifying than the super-level case, because once the parasite was replenished by its life force, it would enter the stage of crazy growth until it returned to its peak state.
What does the ontology of a parasite look like?
Is it a pile of scattered metal dust?
Still a sticky mess. Thick and slippery. Greasy liquid metal?
Neither.
In the short and vague memories of the parasite, Chen Xian saw those beings that were extremely ancient to the present day, and at the same time, he was also glad that he was not extraordinary, because judging from the fragile willpower of ordinary people...... The true face of the parasite was a nightmare for them, and the terrifying appearance was enough to shatter anyone's sanity in an instant.
The black light parasite is also divided into juvenile and mature stages, and the juvenile parasite Chen Xian did not see it in its memory, and in its memory, Chen Xian only saw those mature existences.
The main trunk of the "unchanging" body of the mature parasite is nearly a kilometer long, an irregular oval, as large as a mountain and frighteningly large, but it is like an amoeba that can be seen everywhere on the earth, changing its shape frantically all the time.
Each parasite has dense physiological fissures on the surface of its body, which is where the parasite's eyes are located, and each of their eyes is in the form of flowing "pus", and the black liquid metal oozing from here will emit a strange stench and flow through those crevices...... And they all see the outside world through these pus-like non-solid eyes.
In fact, parasites can make sounds, which Chen Xian just knew, if he hadn't seen those bizarre pictures in the parasite's memory, I'm afraid he wouldn't have been able to believe it...... How does this creature, which does not even have the concept of organs, make sounds?
The sounds made by parasites are very strange, not like the sounds of human speech, nor like the strange sounds of animals, if you really want to compare them...... It may be similar to the sound of a flute in an instrument, but the sound produced by the parasite is more high-pitched than that of a real flute, a high-frequency shriek.
While Chen Xian was gradually digesting the memories transmitted to him by the parasite, the staff of the sub-bureau who stayed at the foot of Jiuling Mountain ushered in an unprecedented shock of fear.
They are the people who were sent by their superiors to stay in Jiuling Mountain, and they completed the daily patrol work of the mountain.
In the eyes of these staff, there is actually nothing dangerous about Jiuling Mountain, at least the "risk factors" that the upper echelons are worried about should not be here, because since these staff members were arranged to Jiuling Mountain, they have never seen any anomalies here.
Until today.
As was customary, after breakfast, the group of six began to patrol the mountain in full gear, going up from the east entrance and then descending from the green pine forest in the west, which was the route they were most familiar with.
After going up the mountain, there were two staff members in the team who walked very slowly, almost about 40 meters away from other colleagues, one of them was holding a telescope and looking around, and the other was holding a notebook and recording something......
"Lao Zheng...... Today seems to be another day of nothing......" The middle-aged man with the telescope sighed, as if he was very disappointed in the extremely calm Jiuling Mountain, "The boss also said that if you find a clue, you can give us a reward...... I don't think there's anything I can do with this bonus...... We don't have that life! ”
"If you can't find a clue, you can't find it, it's better than meeting those strange things, you don't know how many people died in Jiuling Mountain, it's actually very risky for us to come here to patrol the mountain, it's good to be able to live peacefully until now, what kind of bonus do you want."
"That's true, but I heard ...... last time"
At this moment, the middle-aged man suddenly lost his voice.
"What happened last time?" Without raising his head, the recorder played with the pen in his hand and began to check that the date on the page was correct.
At this time, the middle-aged man who had been suddenly silent before opened his mouth coldly, and there was obviously a taste of fear in his trembling tone.
"Flood ......"
"What flood?" The recorder was stunned for a moment, then looked up at him.
The middle-aged man held the binoculars and trembled, his pale face was full of fear, as if he was frightened by something in the distance, and his speech became intermittent.
"On top of the mountain...... There was a flood...... Black Flood ...... Wrong...... It looks like a bug...... Amoeba ...... in the pond"
As soon as the words fell, the middle-aged man shouted without warning, and at this moment turned around and fled down the mountain.
"Run! There's something coming down from the top of the mountain! ”