Strictly speaking, this world is not as dangerous as the previous world. Although parasitic monsters are terrifying, even ordinary people can eliminate them as long as they have weapons. Unlike the previous world, can destroy all civilizations in an instant.
But for the team members, the world of parasitic monsters is far more harmful to their hearts than the world of disasters.
Minister Yu Qiao Zhixue and the research team first took off the camera on the backpack to watch the video while everyone was resting. Qiao Zhixue put the video on the big screen. When they first saw the women in the bar, these old-fashioned professors shook their heads and sighed: “Young people, hey!”
Unexpectedly, the next second it would be the huge mouth of the abyss, with tentacles attacking, a lot of monsters suddenly appeared on the big screen in the conference room, an old professor covered his heart on the spot, and tremblingly took out the Suxiao Jiuxin Pill1速效救心丸 sùxiào jiùxīn wán: lit. quick-acting heart-saving pill, a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) believed to be able to promote the flow of qi, activate blood, eliminate stasis, and alleviate pain. 
from his bosom, afraid of too much stimulation cause a heart attack.
Even Minister Yu could not help but turn pale when he saw such a video, no wonder the team members could not stand seeing people’s mouths after they came back.
After they entered the sewer, Qiao Zhixue played the video at thirty-two times the speed, and it soon progressed to the little girl. The healthy team leader Fei Yindun also borrowed a few Suxiao Jiuxin Pill pills from the old professor, he was a little worried that his heart could not withstand it.
But at this time, Qiao Zhixue slowed down the video again. In order to observe the state of the little girl’s mother in detail, they had a heated discussion with a biologist in the group about what kind of state it is to subconsciously protect her daughter after being parasitized, what creature is this parasitic monster? She is controlled by the parasitic queen but still loves her daughter deeply. She would rather go against her instinct than eat her. What kind of species will be produced by the combination of human beings and parasitic monsters, why do they only parasitize intelligent creatures and not touch ordinary creatures like the little deer, do they need nutrients from the human body, or do they want to learn the living conditions of intelligent creatures, and so on…
When Minister Yu saw that the little girl had tricked someone in order to feed her mother, he also extended his hand to the old professor: “Give me some pills too.”
This kind of scene is really disturbing. He is also old, and he has a son. Minister Yu can’t stand it when he thinks about it.
While the team members were still sleeping, the research team finished watching the video. While Qiao Zhixue and the biologist celebrated the great potential of Tu Zishi’s abilities, Minister Yu said: “This time, the regular meeting after the return from ‘void’ will not be held for the time being, let the team members make adjustments properly.”
“Agreed.” Team leader Fei Yindun was the first to agree.
He can’t bear it just by watching the video, the team members personally experienced this tragic scenario, if they are to recount their experience, it would be too cruel.
“Eh? Why not?” Qiao Zhixue asked in surprise, “I also want to ask about the touch and strength of the tentacles in detail. I just discussed with Professor Wang, I think this parasitic monster is most likely to be a planet-based parasitic. Their consciousness can be shared, and they can also retain the original consciousness of the parasite, which means that they can absorb human wisdom and tell the queen, so that they can easily obtain a civilization. This way of survival is very rare. Professor Wang thinks it will be helpful for cultivating hybrid seeds in the future, but I think we can learn from their way of sharing consciousness and let the team members train…”
Minister Yu: “…”
Professor Qiao is good at everything, but his emotional intelligence is really a bit low, the scenes in the video seem to be unable to touch him, but only arouse his desire for research.
“I will ask,” Minister Yu said, “But it will take some time until the children’s spirits recover.”
This time he didn’t call them team members, but children.
“Okay, I’ll wait.” Qiao Zhixue said, “Hopefully the ‘void’ will also give them time to digest and absorb.”
Minister Yu smiled bitterly, yes, he can give the children time to improve, but ‘void’ can’t. Now they can only hope that the next ‘void’ will come a bit later and give them a little more breathing space.
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“Squad leader, you’re awake.”
As soon as Qiu Qizheng opened his eyes, he saw Cui Heyu grinning in front of him, and proudly said: “I solved the public opinion on the Internet by myself, the ability couldn’t be more convenient, I alone is a number of legions of water army. Those netizens who firmly believe in eschatology have been brainwashed by me, in the end, the brokerage company of the traffic starlet had to issue an official notice that this is her next movie’s special effects, and she was scolded by netizens for hype. I am amazing, hahahahahaha… ummmm…”
The triumphant Cui Heyu’s mouth was covered by Qiu Qizheng’s hand, unable to breathe, and struggling desperately under his palm.
“What are you doing!” Cui Heyu, who escaped from Qiu Qizheng’s clutches, said angrily.
Qiu Qizheng pinch the center of his brows, waving his hands, saying: “You can talk, but don’t laugh, don’t show your teeth when you smile, be more like a lady2大家閨秀 dà jiā guī xiù: girl from a wealthy family; unmarried daughter of a noble house; it used to refer to the talented and virtuous women in the family; it also refers to the daughter of a wealthy and powerful family., it’s better to wear a mask.”
Cui Heyu: “…”
Seeing Qiu Qizheng’s complexion was not good, he asked: “What world did you encounter this time?”
“You didn’t watch the video? Professor Qiao should have taken all the camcorders from our backpacks.” Qiu Qizheng asked.
“I’ve just woken up too, and I’ve been fighting all night.” Cui Heyu said, “Relying on my own strength to come back from the computer, I also considered having a little progress, right?”
Hearing his familiar proud voice, Qiu Qizheng felt that he had truly returned to the real world. He put his arms around Cui Heyu’s neck and said in relief: “You have been so proud and don’t change, like this, I finally have the feeling of being alive.”
Cui Heyu: “…”
The words are very touching, but squad leader, can you not cover my mouth?
“Ah, ptui!” On the other side, Yan Yongfeng also got up, “I keep dreaming of a tentacle being stabbed into my mouth, if this continues, how can I have a girlfriend in the future, how can I French kiss her!”
Liang Xian who is already awake: “…”
Yes, can he still French kiss Tan Yan in the future?
No, Tan Yan doesn’t know how to French kiss, he doesn’t even realize his feelings, he is a straight man like steel.
Liang Xian felt very sad.
Everyone woke up at about the same time. Only Tu Zishi was still asleep because of the first awakening ability, the rest sat up.
The expressions are not very good, it seems that the dream is very unfriendly.
“I dreamed about that little girl,” Qin Li, who has always been taciturn, suddenly said, “She was clean and had a cute smile, but suddenly she opened her mouth and flew out tentacles, I killed her.”
Hearing his words, Qiu Qizheng could not help but say comfortingly: “Our world is still safe and this will not happen.”
“Yeah, it is still safe.” Yan Yongfeng lay back again, staring at the white ceiling, “Even if I try my best and die in a different world, I won’t let people in the real world become like that.”
His words spoke out everyone’s heartfelt feelings, and Feng Wu and Hai Liren will feel even more worried. They have not awakened their abilities, but Tu Zishi, who came here by smuggling, has a very special ability.
After a while, Tu Zishi also woke up. Qiao Zhixue, wearing a mask, led the medical staff in, performed a routine physical examination for everyone, and asked: “Do you feel like eating raw meat?”
Everyone: “…”
Of course not!
Qiao Zhixue said: “That’s good, you’ve slept for eight hours. According to my research on the woman’s diaries, the incubation period of parasites should be 5-10 hours. During this period, you will feel like you can’t eat normal food and want to eat raw meat. Everyone is asymptomatic, congratulations, the suspicion of being parasitized has been lifted.”
It was Liang Xian who strongly demanded to isolate everyone. It is normal to have this kind of treatment, and the team members can accept it.
“We have learned the specific situation through the video camera, and there is no need to hold a regular meeting today. As for Tu Zishi’s ability, we will have targeted training later.” Qiao Zhixue continued, “If there is another ‘hole’ tonight, Tan Yan, can you do it alone?”
“Yes.” Only Tan Yan didn’t seem to be affected.
“I’ll go too.” Liang Xian immediately raised his hand and said, “In fact, I think it’s okay, not as sensitive as everyone else.”
Minister Yu carefully observed his expression, Liang Xian’s eyes did not have deep sadness like the rest of the people, and he was indeed in good condition, so he agreed.
“Me too…” Ah San just raised his hand, but then put it down again. He knew that his condition was not suitable for participating in the operation, and would only drag others.
The rest of the people also didn’t force themselves to participate. This time the world had a great impact on them, really don’t know how Liang Xian didn’t care.
On the way back to school, Tu Zishi raised his own question. It is said that Tan Yan has experienced many times, so he should be used to it, but Liang Xian joined the team at the same time as Ah San and Qin Li, why was he not too affected?
“I have done post-apocalyptic training,” Liang Xian said. “After knowing that the ‘void’ is a parallel world of the post-apocalyptic world, I investigated the information and made various assumptions about the end of the world. I have also read a lot of film and television works and novels, anime, and manga about the end of the world. I often make a conception of a post-apocalyptic world in my mind, and then imagine what this post-apocalyptic world would look like. I have imagined the post-apocalyptic world scene of parasitic monsters many times.”
“Just imagining can…” Tu Zishi is a little incredulous.
“Of course not, I was shocked when I saw the real scene. Just like trypophobia, even if you know that the dense state will make you sick, even if you have imagined it countless times, you will still feel uncomfortable after encountering it. But as long as you practice imagination many times, you can relieve a lot, at least you won’t let yourself be depressed.” Liang Xian said.
“You’re really amazing.” Tu Zishi said sincerely.
Even if they are big men, they will still feel scared when watching horror movies. People’s nerves are not so tough. Liang Xian not only looked at it, but also forced himself to think deeply, constantly making conceptions and probing, this process must also be very scary.
But just like taking too many antibiotics will lead to drug resistance, Liang Xian will indeed gradually increase his tolerance by doing so.
“I’m not great, but I hope I can be faster and not lag behind.” Liang Xian said lightly.
He has a goal to pursue, and he doesn’t want to lose face in front of his beloved.
It happened to be dinner when they arrived at school, so they all went to the cafeteria for dinner.
Everyone was picking vegetarian dishes, but Liang Xian came over with a plate of grilled squid.
Ah San almost spit out when he saw the grilled squid, and Yan Yongfeng couldn’t take it anymore, the squid’s feet were almost exactly the same as those tentacles, his eyesight could see the suckers on its feet, it was so painful, he couldn’t stand it: “What are you doing?”
“Conquer myself as soon as possible.” Liang Xian said.
He raised his chopsticks and stared at the squid’s feet viciously for a while before making up his mind to pick up the grilled squid, forcing himself to stare at it for a while before stuffing it into his mouth.
Can’t close eyes, can’t escape. Liang Xian was thinking about what happened just now, while biting hard, thinking about half of the nausea, puffed up his face and forcibly held back, looking like he was about to vomit.
At this time, a hand was stretched under his chin, Tan Yan said: “Just throw up if you want to throw up, don’t force yourself to this level, you are already good enough.”
Liang Xian looked at Tan Yan recalling the countless times he stood up to the monsters in the other world. It was Tan Yan who was under the greatest pressure, but he never flinched.
Has the 18-year-old Tan Yan ever been afraid? Must be afraid. Tan Yan was worse than they are now. At that time, there was no other Tan Yan to help him, but Tan Yan persevered.
Today, 19-year-old Liang Xian also wants to become strong.
Liang Xian suddenly didn’t feel sick anymore, he swallowed the grilled squid and said with a sigh of relief: “It’s okay, it’s quite delicious. I used to love eating it.”
After finishing speaking, he put his chopsticks into another squid, this time he ate it more smoothly, and by the time he had the third squid, he was able to eat it as usual.
Seeing him like this, everyone also went to get one each, and ate it with a look of bitterness and hatred.
There is nothing wrong with fear, biological instinct is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. But as a human being, there are things that must be protected, and there are also things that must be overcome.
Halfway through the meal, Ah San ran out and threw up. But after throwing up, he came back and continued to eat until he was able to see the pile of grilled squid normally.
“I have fallen into a snake pit before when I was on a mission.” While eating, Ah San said, “I was bitten by several poisonous snakes wrapped around my body. I lost consciousness after being bitten, and I watched a poisonous snake crawl into my mouth.
Although were later rescued and injected with a serum to detoxify, but since then, I can’t stand the sight of those slimy crawling creatures. I also saw a psychiatrist, and the doctor said that it needs to be overcome slowly. The quickest way is shock therapy, but this therapy may cause the opposite effect, I didn’t dare to try it.
Thinking about it now, I’m really too useless in this mission, I must overcome it!”
He bit the squid’s feet viciously, as if he wanted to eat all his fear into his stomach.
Seeing the team members like this, Tan Yan smiled with some relief.
After this kind of experience, the supernatural team will become stronger in the future.
And all of this was done by Liang Xian leading everyone.
Recalling the young man with second-year syndrome who was still madly looking for death in the first world, Liang Xian’s progress is really great now, very reassuring.
In the evening, Liang Xian climbed into Tan Yan’s bed as usual, he didn’t believe that he could not get Tan Yan’s reaction by rubbing it every day!
Looking at Liang Xian who still needed someone to hug him to fall asleep, Tan Yan couldn’t help but pat his head, and said softly: “You grow up quickly.”
Liang Xian blushed. It wasn’t because of fear that he want to sleep together. He was boiling the frog in warm water. Sooner or later, Tan Yan will be familiar with his presence, and then… it would be difficult to fall in love, but at least he wouldn’t push him away.
“You can take over from me when you grow up.” Tan Yan said in anticipation.
Liang Xian’s scorching heart felt as if someone had poured a basin of ice water over his head, and it immediately chilled his heart.
Yes, Tan Yan is 58 years old, his age will always be the gap between the two. Liang Xian wants to boil the frog in warm water, but does Tan Yan have time to let him cook it?
Qiao Zhixue can think of things, although Liang Xian is slower, he can always think of them.
He once asked Qiao Zhixue if all supernatural beings would never grow old. Qiao Zhixue told the results of the skin experiment to the members of the supernatural team, mainly to warn everyone not to be delusional. The reason why Tan Yan was able to maintain the youngest state is because of his ability to enhance cellular activity. Everyone’s supernatural power is different, superpower does not mean immortality.
After knowing this, Liang Xian’s desire to become stronger became more urgent. He is very good at biology, so he knows that the number of human cell divisions is limited. For example, their healing ability may have been traded at the cost of lifespan before. What about Tan Yan? What is his immortality exchanged for?
Liang Xian didn’t dare to continue to think deeply, and kept deceiving himself that they could go on like this forever.
But Tan Yan’s words woke Liang Xian up from his beautiful dream, he actually didn’t have time.
Two years… or shorter than two years, no one knows what will happen when Tan Yan reaches retirement age.
During this period, they have to continue to learn and train to enter the ‘void’, and maybe the next ‘void’ will kill them.
Time, what a luxury.
