Alien Hotel.

Chapter 424 Parasite

"Yun Qingzi" who was "attached" to the crystal heart seemed confused and his thinking was intermittent. It often took him a long time to understand Yu Sheng's questions and respond, but there was no doubt that at least now he was communicating with the outside world with "human" reason.

I just don't know how long he can remain rational.

And through Yun Qingzi's intermittent memories, Yu Sheng finally knew what happened on this planet a thousand years ago.

A crystal "meteorite" landed on Garrison-3 without any warning. According to Yun Qingzi's description, its size when it just fell was probably much smaller than the "Crystal Heart" in the cave. At first, it looked like a gray, ordinary stone, and had no active reaction.

But only moments after the fall, the "stone" began to exhibit the characteristics of a living being.

It began to try to drill into the interior of Garrison-3, and in the process it quickly assimilated and devoured all the surrounding matter.

And Yun Qingzi happened to be on this planet at that time - although he no longer remembers why he came here.

"...I don't know where it came from, but after the fight, I saw many things," Yun Qingzi said slowly, as if he was lost in memories, "It... has been to many places, and wherever it goes, it parasitizes the planet, and once the parasitism begins, no one can stop the process. This thing was originally going to fall on Shuji, but it deviated from its direction when it came down. At that time, I thought that I must not let this evil thing leave, but I never thought that I was no match for it..."

Yun Qingzi stopped, as if his thoughts were interrupted again. After a moment, he raised his head again and slowly looked around.

“At the last moment, I buried myself and this thing together in the ground, hoping to suppress it forever, but… the evilness of this thing was beyond my imagination.

"Every 'Yun Qingzi' you have seen along the way is the result of our mutual devouring and checks and balances. The original Yun Qingzi died in the first contact many years ago, but before he died, I refined a wisp of his spirit into the 'heart' of this evil creature, breathing with it and growing with it... Every time it transforms, I am resurrected. I can't remember how many times I have done so far."

As Yun Qingzi spoke, the face that was made entirely of crystal actually smiled, with a hint of pride in his smile.

“It’s true that I failed to defeat it back then, but it still hasn’t won until now!”

Yu Sheng listened to the other party's story in a daze. A lot of information and clues were quickly connected in his mind, but he soon found doubts from the previous clues and subconsciously asked: "Wait, you mean, you have been here for the past thousand years? Who is the 'Yun Qingzi' followed by those black-robed monks in Shuji? And what about the 'Yun Qingzi' I saw in the 'illusion' before?!"

He suddenly stopped talking, and thought of a detail: "Before, we had a big fight with the crystal jungle on the surface, and there were crystals in the jungle that transformed into your appearance, and they were muttering about 'the legacy of the emperor'... How much of that was you?"

He noticed that as soon as he finished speaking, the expression on Yun Qingzi's face changed immediately - serious, solemn, and with a hint of regret.

"That was also me. Any 'Yun Qingzi' you have seen is 'Yun Qingzi' - all evolved from the wisp of spirit I left behind," the crystallized old man said slowly, "I thought the ban I put in would work, at least for more than a thousand years, but I didn't expect this thing to find a way to escape in advance... Once it was not noticed, it found a loophole in a certain 'cycle' and escaped... It also took away a 'Yun Qingzi' that had been completely contaminated and controlled by it, leaving only a pile of 'empty shells' here.

"I know what you are talking about. The 'Benefactor' mentioned by Shuji's servants, the person you saw in the illusion, and the 'Yun Qingzi' that grew out of the crystals - we are all connected together, entangled with each other in the chaotic dream. I often dream. Over the past thousand years, the thoughts and memories of every Yun Qingzi have been mixed together, and I can no longer tell them apart...

"In fact, if you hadn't suddenly appeared today and instantly eliminated more than half of the 'iterations' with the force of thunder, I wouldn't even be sober for this moment - what you saw in this 'heart' would only be another confused monster."

Having said this, the crystallized old man seemed to suddenly remember something. He struggled to prop up his body and looked out, as if he was looking for someone. After a long while, his eyes finally fell on Hu Li.

Now Hu Li has regained her human form, but her iconic nine tails are still particularly eye-catching.

Yun Qingzi just stared at her like this. After a long while, he smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled: "I have been in a daze for so many years, and was finally awakened by that earth-shattering blow. That blow was truly magnificent, magnificent! If I could have had this blow to help me back then, maybe, maybe... Hey, maybe it still won't work. It seems that the evil creature cannot be killed by ordinary power..."

He began to mumble, and his thoughts seemed to be confused again, but he soon regained consciousness, raised his head and looked straight at Hu Li.

"Fairy, fellow Taoist - does your attack have a name? I have lived for thousands of years in vain, and have seen many unique skills of famous sects, but I have never seen a move like this one that comes from low-Earth orbit. I am really curious... Which move did 'us' fail at?"

Hu Li looked at the crystal old man in front of her blankly, as if she had never thought about this question at all. She subconsciously glanced at Yu Sheng again, then scratched her hair, turned her head and said honestly: "Fox Carrot Impact."

Yun Qingzi: “…” The entire cave was silent. Even the flickering light on the surface of the Crystal Heart suddenly seemed to be frozen and stopped flashing. Ling Ling, who was standing behind Xu Jiali, almost dropped the mechanical ball in her hand - and then the first person to break the silence was Luna.

The Artificial Saint nodded: "Yes, that's right."

Yu Sheng now knows that Luna said that the nature of these two words is actually equivalent to the spacebar that you type casually after your computer enters the screen saver. Its main function is to cancel the standby state in reality...

Yun Qingzi finally reacted at this time, but still looked at Hu Li steadily: "...What's the name?"

Hu Li said it again honestly: "Fox carrot attack."

Yun Qingzi was stunned for two seconds, and then suddenly burst into laughter.

For a moment, Yu Sheng even wondered if the old man was too shocked. After all, not everyone could accept the fact that they were defeated by a "Fox Carrot Impact".

But Yun Qingzi seemed really happy, even with a kind of happiness that others could hardly understand - he laughed so hard that even the crystals in the cave resonated with his laughter: "Hahaha, good, good! Wonderful, wonderful! I didn't win, and it didn't win either. In the end, what won was the return to nature, the simplicity of the great way! What a wonderful move, what a group of wonderful people... Come on, ask anything else, while I still have some time - in a little while, there will no longer be a 'Yun Qingzi' who can communicate with you in this world, and there will only be a monster controlled by an evil creature!"

As the other party finished speaking, an unsettling cracking sound was heard from inside the "Crystal Heart", and the glow on its surface suddenly flickered chaotically.

Listening to Yun Qingzi's words and looking at the scene in front of her, Irene's eyes widened: "Ah? Old man, you..."

"Can't you see? I'm in the last moments of my life," Yun Qingzi raised his head and said casually as if it had nothing to do with him, "Don't be so fussy. Anyone who can get into this place should know what's important and what's not. I don't know what the situation is like outside, but you do. So if you have anything to ask, speak up!"

Irene opened her mouth, but immediately swallowed the extra words and subconsciously grabbed Yu Sheng's hair.

"What exactly is going on with the Emperor's Legacy?" Yu Sheng asked without hesitation, "From what you said, Yun Qingzi, who is obsessed with finding the 'Emperor's Legacy', should not be on the same side as you? He was controlled by the 'Crystal' that escaped from here. Do you know what he wants to do?"

"I don't know what Yun Qingzi wants to do, nor do I know how the Emperor's Legacy came about, but one thing is clear, all his thoughts must have been interfered with by that evil creature," Yun Qingzi replied, "The abilities of that evil creature are very strange and complex. It can split itself, interfere with people's thoughts, and parasitize on planets, but in essence, it actually has no 'intelligence' and is just acting on instinct. It just affects those intelligent creatures in the process, causing them to unconsciously help it achieve its goals...

"So based on this line of thought, what the controlled 'Yun Qingzi' wanted to do should also be to cooperate with the evil creature's actions and unconsciously help it achieve its goals."

"Help it achieve its goal..." Yu Sheng frowned tightly, and had a vague guess in his heart, "Then the biggest goal of this 'crystalline' is..."

Hu Li at the side suddenly spoke up: "Parasitize the next planet?"

Obviously, she and Yu Sheng had the same idea.

Yu Sheng continued to think along this line of thought: "What is the connection between 'Emperor's Legacy' and 'Parasite Planet'...?"

Irene, who was sitting on his shoulder, suddenly had a quick thought: "What if the so-called 'Emperor's Legacy' is a planet?"

Yu Sheng felt a sudden shock in his mind.

All the vague guesses before were finally illuminated by this sudden enlightenment.

"Taixu Lingshu!"

The real goal of that "Dark Angel" is to parasitize Taixu Lingshu!
(End of this chapter)