Tokyo: Parasite

Chapter 383 153: Same Blood
On the outskirts of São Paulo, a man limped along a dilapidated road, his clothes stained with blood, and every step he took left drops of blood.

As he ran away, he kept looking back, as if there was some extremely terrifying existence there that was chasing his life.

"Help! Help me!"

He tried to stop passing vehicles, but in this country where gangs and guns are rampant, no one dared to stop when seeing such a suspicious guy. They just stepped on the accelerator and quickly passed by the man.

Some even worse would rather turn around and not have anything to do with him.

"You bastards! You all deserve to die! As expected, there is no good person in this world!"

He gritted his teeth, and after being almost hit by a speeding truck, he turned around and walked towards the wilderness on the side of the road.

"I have to survive. I have just awakened extraordinary abilities. I can't die like this. I still have many enemies. Kill them all. I must kill them all." He hypnotized himself while moving with difficulty.

Suddenly, he felt a pain in his calf and fell forward onto the ground, with a mouthful of mud.

"Ahh! F**k you son of a bitch! Come out, if you have the guts, come out and kill me! What's the point of sneaking around! F**k!"

The man held another torn wound on his calf and shouted with gritted teeth at the empty back, his voice hoarse like a madman.

"as you wish."

As he shouted and cursed, Xavier, with his face covered, slowly walked out of the woods and looked at the shouting man in front of him with indifference and calmness.

".Brother, father! Grandpa! Ancestors!! Please, please let me go!"

After seeing Xavier, the man's expression changed instantly. He lost his arrogance and looked sad. He dragged his wound on the ground with his knees for a distance, and the ground was stained with blood. Then he knelt down in front of Xavier and kowtowed continuously.

"I'll do anything you ask me to do! Please, don't torture me anymore!"

He spoke with tears streaming down his face.

Today was only the first day of his revenge. He had just killed the insurance broker who caused him to go bankrupt, but before he could be happy for long, he was targeted by this evil spirit.

After a fight, he was completely no match for the opponent and was taken away and tortured by this mysterious extraordinary person. He was asked some questions that he found incomprehensible, and then the other party suddenly let him go and let him escape.

He felt as if he had been pardoned and thought he had really escaped, but every time he ran a certain distance, this mysterious and extraordinary person would suddenly appear, adding a wound to his body, and follow him like a ghost, and he could not get rid of it no matter what.

He finally broke down.

"Isn't that how you tortured that family? You can't expect to be pardoned when the same thing happens to you." When Xavier found this man, he had cut a family to death with a fruit knife.

It was like a torture called lingchi that he had heard of. He blocked the mouths of the family, and then in front of them, he cut the flesh and bled them one by one with a knife, making them die in extremely torturous ways.

Therefore, he would not feel guilty about taking the same revenge on him. Moreover, it would be a good opportunity to do an experiment on him to see if he would become a complete monster like the extraordinary person at dawn today.

"It's different, that's different! Varian, he's a bitch! He's the one who made me bankrupt and divorced! He's the one who brought me to this point today!"

When talking about that family, he became very excited, and his fear of Xavier seemed to have faded a little. He even dared to raise his head and stare at Xavier and make an excited rebuttal.

"Let's not talk about whether his crime is punishable by death or not. What about his family? What crimes have they committed?" Xavier took two steps closer, and as he stepped forward, pieces of ice crystals appeared on the mud.

"That's interest! He deserves it, and so do they! I'm extraordinary, I can do this!"

There was madness in the man's eyes. He suddenly took out a sharp iron object that he had prepared in advance from his sleeve and stabbed it hard towards Xavier's throat.

Swish—click.

The iron spike was only one centimeter away from Xavier's throat, but even if he allowed the other party to complete the action, it would not cause him any harm. The difference in power between the two was really too big.

He just didn't want blood on his clothes.

Xavier put down his hand. The man in front of him maintained his angry expression and movements, connecting to the ground and forming an ice sculpture.

"His strength is a bit far from that monster."

The experiments were conducted on him long enough, but he did not turn into a monster.

So, is it possible that these extraordinary people who suddenly appeared have no connection with each other?

No, there can't be such a coincidence.

With a snap of his fingers, the ice sculpture quickly warmed up. The man's expression changed instantly, and he fell to the ground with a plop. He curled up on the ground, his body and teeth trembling constantly, and he let out intermittent wails.

"Who's behind you?"

"No, I don't know, I don't know anything. When I woke up, I felt strong. I didn't lie, I didn't lie." The man's resistance was crushed. He held his head and answered whatever was asked.

Xavier asked a few questions and got the same answers as before. After making sure that he was not lying, he froze him into an ice sculpture again. He clenched his hands into fists and crushed the ice sculpture into ice chips, which merged into the soil and nourished the earth.

"These lunatics in the city will only cause more deaths and injuries to innocent people."

Xavier looked towards the city and began his patrol without stopping, trying to avoid the large number of police officers.

But thanks to them, he was able to find many suspicious persons by following their clues.

After half a day, he finally found another extraordinary person who had killed someone and fled. Similarly, this person did not transform into a monster and died after he was tested step by step.

But he did not gain nothing. At least he drew a bag of blood from each of the two men.

He planned to give it to Fei Du and ask him to help study it.

"Okay, I'll tell you if there's any progress. It seems like Sao Paulo will no longer be peaceful. After something like this happens, at least one of Ito and Brand will come over." Fei Du took the blood bag and said with emotion.

"Teacher, I feel like this blood has an inexplicable familiarity." Xavier said doubtfully.

This feeling is like...déjà vu? Or is it the same origin?
He couldn't explain it, he could only feel there was some vague connection between him and him.

Fei Du's expression turned serious: "Wait a minute, I'll go to the lab to check."

Half an hour later, Fei Du came back from the basement with a thoughtful expression.

"Your guess is correct. Your ability comes from the Resurrection Powder after all. And there are also a few characteristics of being infected by the Resurrection Powder in the blood, so you feel familiar with it."

Xavier perked up: "So, this is related to voodoo, which means it's related to Ito!"

"Well, I suspect this is an improvement on the resurrection corpse powder by the voodoo cult behind Ito. Perhaps the previous sample size was sufficient, so it was successfully iterated, and São Paulo is their place for this iterative potion." Fei Du said solemnly, "Experimental field." Xavier felt a tightness in his chest and sat on the sofa in a daze.

How could the other party do such a thing as to indiscriminately treat everyone in a city as experimental subjects?

"Luckily, we are in São Paulo." Fei Du encouraged him, "I believe you can protect this city and thwart Ito's conspiracy. As long as the experimental samples are damaged, he will naturally notice the abnormality and rush to São Paulo. By then, we may be able to find a way to expose his true face."

"But don't hold your hopes too high. His current image is that of a voodoo nemesis. And from what you've said, these extraordinary people who popped up don't know anything. They only want revenge, like psychopaths. No one will believe what they say."

"But, there is always a glimmer of hope! Teacher, I will do my best to protect the innocent." Xavier clenched his fists.

"Of course I believe you. Although I don't agree with the practice of taking all the responsibility on our shoulders, we are the only ones who are 'awake' in the whole of Rio. Everyone else has been deceived. If we do nothing, this place will soon become the back garden of Ito and Voodoo."

"Although I'm not particularly patriotic, I have to do my part in this situation."

Drink the chicken soup while it's hot.

"I understand. My ability comes from voodoo but it is not under their control. Maybe it is God's will to let me solve this disaster." Xavier was firm in his belief.

Fei Du nodded: "Do you want to draw blood today? If you are tired, forget it. At this time, you must maintain sufficient fighting power."

"No, I'm not tired!" Xavier stretched out his hand, "Teacher, come on, I don't mind as long as it helps in the research of the antidote."

Fei Du nodded slowly, took out the blood-drawing device, and skillfully stabbed it into Xavier's arm.

How would Xavier react if he knew that the source of all these disasters was his blood?
Regret, confusion, or madness?

Fei Du was just thinking about it, he couldn't bear to see any problems with his regenerating humanoid potion.

With his current strength, even if he cannot defeat Ito and Brand, escaping should not be a problem. He is quite relieved, not to mention the help from the mysterious force that appeared last time, which made him realize that there are people who hope that Rio will continue to be in chaos.

This means that he has a natural ally lurking somewhere unseen.

"Reverend Brand."

"Sit down."

In St. Paul's senior hospital, the Five Loaves and Two Fishes ward for recuperation was opened, and Pastor Brand came in.

Although they are from different sects, they don't care about these things at this time.

Moreover, Ye Jie had ordered them to obey the command of Brand and Jennifer.

"Have you run out of holy water?" Brand looked at their injuries. Eryu was fine, and it looked like only superficial wounds.

Wu Bing was wrapped up like a dumpling, and from his clenched fists, one could guess that he was in severe pain.

".There is not much holy water left. I want to use it in battle." Wu Bing explained.

Brand nodded, took out his cross, said a prayer, and then borrowed the power of the "Lord". A soft and warm light emanated from his palms, making the five loaves and two fish feel like spring breeze, and their injuries healed quickly.

The two of them quickly knelt down and responded with thanksgiving and prayer to the Lord.

"I will be stationed here, and the choir will arrange two nuns to come over. You need to be ready for battle at any time."

The two looked at each other and nodded: "Understood."

Brand didn't say much. He believed that the people trained by Ye Jie didn't need too much courtesy.

"Don't be stingy with holy water when you fight." Brand took out a few bottles of holy water and placed them on the table. "This is the holy water I warmed up. The quality is not as good as the one warmed up by Goddess Ye Jie, but if you run out, you can always ask me for more."

"Thank you, Reverend Brand."

The two of them accepted it with surprise. To them, the amount of holy water almost determined the strength of their combat effectiveness.

Unfortunately, the holy water that Ye Jie nurtured not only had to be supplied to the Heaven Nodes, but also had to be used to train new people before it could be distributed to them. It was destined that there would not be much left.

Brand left the hospital, got on the official vehicle, and headed towards the research institute where the monster's extraordinary corpse was stored.

"These are all the collected text files, video materials, and inspection reports. Of course, the inspection reports are only from a scientific perspective. There may be many mysterious things that cannot be detected. We will need to trouble Pastor Brand to conduct personal inspections."

The extraordinary commissioner Kanis was also in the car and handed a tablet to Brand.

Brand read through it carefully until he arrived at the institute.

"No signs of infection from the Resurrection Powder were detected?"

"From the data, it is true that it was not detected." Kanis confirmed.

Brand didn't say anything, walked out of the car, and followed the person who led him to the place where the bodies were stored.

"Some of them look like demons, but they don't have the aura of demons. However, they are also very sinful. As long as conditions permit, they can quickly transform into demons." Brand examined them carefully, and Canis wrote down Brand's words.

".There is the scent of resurrection corpse powder. It's very faint, but it does exist." Brand narrowed his eyes and shifted his gaze from the corpse to the container storing blood on the side.

Canis paused: "So, this matter is related to voodoo?"

"It can only be them. They are the only ones who can make the Resurrection Corpse Powder. Besides this, are there any other corpses?"

"There is another one, but his supernatural ability is very weak, only slightly stronger than that of an ordinary person."

Brand followed and checked again.

"That's right, it's indeed a voodoo trick. They have improved the potion this time. No wonder it hasn't appeared for such a long time."

Canis suggested: "Do we need to notify Mr. Ito and Sister Jennifer to come over?"

"His hiding method is very special. It may not be a good thing for all of us to come here. There are so many cities in Rio, he can always find a place without us."

"what do you mean?"

"Too many people will scare him away. Don't let them come over before you have an accurate clue of his location. I will arrange the rest."

"Okay, I understand."

(End of this chapter)