Chapter 6: The Shadow Parasite
Princess Dale's hand unconsciously reached towards the cabinet, and the white light emitted from the crack in the cabinet shook slightly. It's just that when Daile's hand was about to touch the cabinet, she suddenly put it back.
"I'm a little stupid, but I'm not stupid!" At this time, there is movement outside, and the sheriff is inspecting the garbage bin. Dai Er quickly lay down on a nearby shelf, grabbed a white cloth and covered her body, and whispered to the cabinet: "Although I don't know how you can hear my heart, now that you know my identity, you know that I can save you." I swear in my mother's name that if you help me avoid the search, I will set you free. ”
After speaking, without waiting for the contents of the cabinet to answer, Daile heard the sound of the warehouse door opening, and immediately put a white cloth on her head.
Footsteps came from the barn door.
"Captain Tyri, you see...... It's all the corpses of failed transcendent species. ”
The captain's eyes kept looking at the innermost cabinet, he didn't know what was inside, but he was specially instructed to pick up the goods. That cabinet...... Never open!
Captain Tyli looked at the corpses lying on the shelves, and his heart was also terrified. These are all failures in the cultivation of extraordinary species, and failure first means uncontrollable, if there is no dead ......
No!
What Mr. Malcoln spent a lot of money on, there must have been nothing dead.
It's a dilemma.
He was afraid that he would be attacked by something in it; He was also afraid of delaying Mr. Malken's business and being retaliated against. Can...... The current situation in the Imperial City is unknown, and if there are really people and things that should not be let go of them from their hands, it is also a dead end.
Captain Tyli kept cursing in his heart, how could he encounter such a thing when he was on duty.
He carefully lifted the white cloth of a corpse, apparently a transcendent cultivator who had died. Lift a white cloth again, and the same guy is dead.
Captain Teli walked slowly inside, careful with every step.
The captain didn't dare to enter the warehouse door at all, he looked out anxiously, and whispered: "Captain Taili, captain...... Be careful! I'm only in charge of transporting the goods, I don't know what's inside, and I can't afford to take that responsibility if something hurts you......"
"Don't talk!" A nervous Terri reprimanded the captain, pointing to the separate cabinet in the deepest part and asking, "What's in there?" ”
"Captain, I'm just a cargo carrier, do you think they'll tell me?"
Tyri drew his standard saber and walked slowly towards the cabinet, getting closer and closer to Dale.
At this time, there was a gushing black smoke coming out of the cabinet.
"Get out, there's nothing unusual here. Close the door and let the ......"
Taili's face froze for a moment, then he turned around and walked towards the barn: "This is all the abandoned objects of the Transcendent Species Cultivation Center, there is nothing suspicious. Release! Release! ”
Then Terri said to the captain, "Let's go, while the blockade order has not yet arrived." ”
"Thank you, thank you, Captain Tyri. I will certainly tell Mr. Malcoln about your concern. ”
"Let's go!"
With a shake, the stopped garbage boat moved.
Dale lifted the white cloth and let out a long exhale, just now she was less than a meter away from Terri. If it weren't for the help of the contents of the cupboard, the chances of her being detected were very high.
Jumping down from the shelf, Daile listened to the sound outside: "It should have entered the lower city." Thank you, what's your name? ”
"Name? The breeders called me...... I don't like that name very much. Princess Dale, don't forget your promise to me. ”
"Of course, I will never let my mother's reputation be discredited. You don't tell me your name, are you afraid that I will know what you are from your name? ”
“……”
The contents of the cupboard did not speak, and the young princess was a little too smart.
"Let me guess......" Princess Dale turned her magic wand, and the images of transcendent creatures flashed quickly, "Whatever you are, there must be known transcendent creatures as prototypes." You were able to peek into my mind just now, and although there is a reason for my distraction, your capture so quickly means that you are from a very powerful psychic perception of the transcendent beings.
There aren't many varieties of this otherworldly creature......"
The magical images of transcendent beings pass by at a slower rate.
Dale continued to look for herself: "You will also mimic energy, and use the appearance of angelic divine energy to lure me to open the cabinet. Mentally confused, it failed at me, but it succeeded at the sheriff.
You don't have the ability to attack or you can't attack for some reason, but you've been luring me into opening the cabinet......"
Dale crossed out the images of the other transcendent creatures, leaving only a jellyfish-like translucent transcendent creature.
"You're a Shadow Parasite!"
"I, I don't know what you're talking about." The contents of the cabinet were denied.
Dale smiled and said, "My Transcendent Biology class got very good grades. The Shadow Parasite is the most basic unit of the Shadow Civilization, and has a very powerful ability to erode spirits. It's just that the Shadow Parasites themselves are very fragile and can only survive by parasitizing the souls of other creatures.
You just lured me to open the cupboard, is it that your parasitic body is now destroyed, thinking about parasitic in my soul. After reading my memories and thoughts again...... Replace me. ”
"I'm not a Shadow Parasite, and I don't have any ill will towards you. You didn't want to help me, so you deliberately framed me. ”
Dale tapped the cabinet with her magic wand: "Don't get excited. Yes, you shouldn't really be a shadow parasite, although the shadow civilization is secluded, my father will definitely not provoke the inheritance of an ancient civilization.
I can't be safe with you.
I want to think about it...... I got very good grades in my history class, and the Ephemeral 2517 Imperial Archaeology team found the sealed Shadow Man body in an ancient ruin, and extracted an incomplete Shadow Parasite from the body. This shadow parasite has the property of parasitizing but not replacing the host, but the host will have its own rejection reaction, causing unpredictable sequelae.
Later, a transcendent cultivator proposed to split and re-cultivate this special shadow parasite, weakening the shadow parasite through iteration, and weakening the parasitic sequelae. Although the sequelae cannot be completely eliminated after experiments, it is much better than before.
It's just that there is no controllable solution to the balance between the intensity of the sequelae and the enhanced mental power. After so many years of testing and experiments, it seems that the most successful is ...... Grover who is already dead. ”
Seeing that there was no response from the cabinet, Daile said to herself: "I don't know how many generations of shadow parasites you are, but the survival probability of your forcible parasitism is zero." ”
"How do you know?" The contents of the cabinet finally spoke, and changed to acknowledge Dale's judgment.
"I didn't like the Transcendent Biology Cultivation class, but my grades were very good. I've seen some papers on iterative breeders of Shadow Parasites, and your current state means that your first host is dead and you're rapidly weakening. Without the replenishment of mental energy, you will dissipate in a day.
And your current state, if you forcibly parasitize, will only be swallowed by the host in reverse.
Unless ......"
"Unless what? Do you have a way to save me? ”
"I said I would save you, and I would do it. It's about my mother's reputation......" said Dale, "The person who bought you must also know how to preserve you, that is, to find something that is not so strong in spirit for you to parasitize." ”
"It's that simple?"
"Otherwise...... It's okay to provide you with spiritual nourishment and not let you starve to death. Look what I just caught...... Princess Dale grabbed a mouse from somewhere, and she pinched the rat's tail and dangled it in front of the cabinet: "This is one of the few animals that doesn't make me feel guilty about killing them, and it's enough for you to be your host." ”
The Shadow Parasite Iterator resisted, saying, "You let me parasitize the soul of a mouse. ”
"I don't think there's anything bad about it. According to experimental records, the weaker the host's soul, the easier it is for the parasite to gain control. Parasitic in the body of an advanced creature, you are locked in a cage and ready to die with a host who is riddled with sequelae. But in the soul of the parasitic mouse, you can go wherever you want, and you can change a mouse if you feel like you're dying, what else do you want?
For the sake of this freedom, I crawled through the garbage heap and had to pretend to be a corpse. ”
“……”
The Shadow Parasite Iterative Body is still hesitating, and the spiritual energy of an animal like a mouse is hanging on to itself, and it will become very weak.
Daile urged, "I can't do anything better...... The ship would stop at any moment, and I would not be able to run away when I was surrounded by unloading people. The person who bought you must have put you in the weak animal soul first, and then keep experimenting, and you will die in the experiment at any time.
You're an iteration with serious flaws, otherwise you wouldn't be able to buy it for any amount of money. ”
"Okay." The iteration knows that it can only talk about survival if it escapes, but it still puts forward a condition to Dale: "After you escape, I will follow you." ”
"Why?" Thinking of carrying this mouse in her hand, Daile couldn't help but shudder: "I gave you freedom, and I did it." ”
"I just helped you, and we're both clear. If you don't promise to protect me in the future, I'll reveal your identity now. ”
"You're excessive! And I'm a little dumb, but not stupid. If you shout now, you won't be able to run away. Goodbye......"
Dale lifted the cabinet, quickly threw the mouse in, then turned and ran. She used her magic to make a hole in the wall of the barn, and when she got out, she jumped into the water of the canal.
After a while, a mouse crawled out of the cabinet. It looked back at the corpse of its first host, jumped to the floor, and swooped out like a puff of smoke through the hole that Dale had opened.
At this moment, the hull of the ship shook, and the lid of the cabinet fell and closed.
The garbage boat docked to the shore, and more than a dozen searchlights illuminated the deck of the ship. A group of men in dirty canvas suits rushed up and carried the garbage bin to the shore.
More people came from all sides, with all kinds of tools in their hands, but they didn't dare to approach the garbage squares.
At this time, someone jumped on a garbage bin and shouted: "This cargo is the bag of Mr. Malken, but Mr. has the grace to eat it all...... No, not all of them.
Neither is it.
In short, Mr. Malken will pick this batch first, and the rest will be yours. Whether you can pick up expensive goods depends on your luck, and Mr. will not ask for it and will not look down on it. ”
Hearing that Malcoln would not "eat" all this batch of garbage, the personnel who were originally a little impatient immediately quieted down. And guessed that there were good things in this batch of goods, and let Mr. Malken personally choose them.
Surrounded by thugs, a man dressed as a high-class man walked to the door of a garbage barn.
The captain saluted respectfully, and then opened the barn door: "Mr. Malken, everything you want is inside. There was chaos in the Imperial City and the whole city was under martial law, but fortunately, it was Captain Taili on duty, and he knew that it was something you wanted and immediately let it go.
There were no delays on the way. ”
"There is indeed an accident in the city of Shenglun, you can deliver the goods in time, you are doing a very good job! The bounty will not be missing from you, and Captain Tyri, say hello to him on my behalf when I go back. ”
Malcoln didn't know what was going on in the city, but he knew that something was wrong. Just now, he was worried that the goods would not be delivered in time, but now he is full of joy to see it with his own eyes.
After a few words of praise to the captain, Malken walked into the barn.
One by one, he lifted the white cloth covering the corpses, and with his expertise estimated the usable parts and their value.
It's fresh, it's of very high quality, and there are two living bodies inside that haven't died completely, which can be bought for a good price.
Malken waved his hand, and his men immediately carried the corpses to the nutrient solution that had been prepared outside. The garbage disdained to be disposed of by the Transcendent Species Breeding Center is a treasure that can be reused for those of them in the lower city.
Especially this batch of high-grade garbage that he spent a lot of money on.
And Malken was most concerned about the innermost cabinet, and he walked to the cabinet, his hands could not hide his excitement and trembled slightly.
The Shadow Parasite Iterative Body is the highest level of the Golden Shield Empire's transcendent species research project, and it is absolutely not allowed to leak the experimental body. Malken paid a very high price to get this somewhat mutilated iteration. But he felt that the price he paid was really worth it compared to what he gained.
This is the first generation of iterations, and it can theoretically be cultivated two to four more iterations. If you can understand and fix the flaws of this shadow parasite iteration, you can carry out your own research direction that has been abandoned by the Transcendent Species Cultivation Center.
What if the sequelae are strong? What if you lose your soul?
The least valuable thing in downtown is human life.
Malken placed one hand on the cabinet and took the mouse handed by his hand with the other.
"Hello, I know you are very weak right now. I've got a safe host for you, I'll cure your flaws, and I'll make you a true Shadowman. ”
There was no response to Malken's words.
Realizing something, Mel Kenmeng lifted the lid of the cabinet.
Inside lay the body of a young man, and there was nothing but the body.
At this time, one of his men shouted: "Mr. Malken, there is a hole here!" ”
Yes............................................................!
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