Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 399 "Reverse Parasitism"

"It's fucked up."

Looking at the tentacles that almost filled the entire underground space, Wang Xiyi couldn't help but flash some rather heavy-tasting images through her mind.

She didn't like tentacles, except the ones that Sun Hang made using mycelium.

When faced with something she doesn't like, she has only one way to deal with it.

Burn to ashes.

Wang Xiyi took a deep breath, and then let out a deafening dragon roar. The dark blue flames around him suddenly turned pale, and the temperature in the underground space suddenly began to soar.

A large amount of water in the underground lake evaporated, and misty white steam rose up, hiding the figures of both parties.

Wang Xiyi suddenly spewed out a breath of blazing dragon's breath, and a fireball with a hint of pale blue fell into the lake, instantly causing a huge explosion. The entire underground space began to shake violently, and countless rocks were shattered and shaken off. It seemed that this underground space was about to face a larger-scale landslide.

Wang Xiyi was not afraid at all - even if the collapsed cave buried her alive, she could use the strong body given to her by the black dragon meme to blast her way out.

But the imagined landslide did not occur. When the water vapor dissipated, she was shocked to find that the tentacles that had originally attacked her were all attached to the rock walls and the dome, forming a reliable load-bearing structure that supported the rocks that were about to disintegrate.

"They actually gave up the attack in order to protect the cave?" A question mark popped up in Wang Xiyi's mind, "Is this underground cave very important to the cult? Or... this octopus monster's survival ability is not that strong, and as long as the cave collapses, it will be buried alive to death?"

Regardless of which guess it was, Wang Xiyi had made a decision in her heart - she didn't need to worry about this strange octopus anymore and just had to keep destroying the cave.

Since it is something the other party wants to protect, for Wang Xiyi, it is the highest priority target of attack.

Just when Wang Xiyi was about to put this idea into action, a humanoid creature wrapped in a black robe and soaked all over crawled out of the lake.

Its face was covered in bandages, and its body beneath the black robe had undergone numerous changes. It was impossible to determine its gender or age... One could only barely tell that this guy was a human, or rather, had been a human.

"As expected of Tianfu City's ace monster hunter, Night Fury." A hoarse voice came out from the other party's mouth covered by bandages... To be honest, although it can be heard that the other party is speaking Chinese, the official language of the Xiazhou Federation, the timbre and tone are really maddening.

It was like scratching a blackboard with fingernails. Every syllable that came out of the other person's throat made Wang Xiyi feel a strong sense of disgust.

"You are very strong. Even if I try my best, I may not be able to defeat you." The other party said again.

"Are you scared?" Wang Xiyi narrowed her eyes. Although she didn't believe that the other party would surrender...but if the other party really chose to give up resistance, she would not kill him at this time.

It would be a better choice to hand over this person and the strange creature in the underground lake to Yang Qi and others for handling.

"I just think that you shouldn't work for those politicians." The other party continued, "There are many ways to survive in this world, but the federal government's choice is undoubtedly the stupidest one."

The humanoid creature said as he slowly climbed onto the shore.

Only then did Wang Xiyi realize that it was not a "complete person".

The only part that is similar to humans is the part above the waist. Its waist is directly connected to the head of the octopus monster... This connection method looks extremely abrupt, as if a human was cut in half and then inserted into the octopus's head.

"So you are this strange creature..." Wang Xiyi became more alert. The other party had obviously merged with the strange creature. It could no longer be considered an infected person, and the infection process in its body must have already exceeded the danger threshold... But what puzzled Wang Xiyi was that the other party obviously still retained its sanity and memory "before death". Not only could it communicate with herself normally, it could even say its own code name.

"Who the hell are you?" Wang Xiyi asked again.

"I am a pioneer." The other party stretched his arms to the sides, raised his face, and made a compassionate gesture, "A pioneer who dared to sacrifice himself. For the evolution of mankind, I chose to embark on a dangerous path. I conducted an unreserved fusion experiment on myself... Perhaps my firm attitude and spirit of sacrifice moved the world. I succeeded, and I obtained a power that humans can never obtain..."

"You talk too much nonsense." Wang Xiyi said coldly, "Are you stalling for time?"

"Are you curious about why I can still maintain my human self-awareness and not be swallowed by the monster?" Seeing that Wang Xiyi seemed a little impatient, the other party chose to get straight to the point.

"Correct."

"According to your theory, my infection has already exceeded the danger threshold, even by a hundred or a thousand times... Under normal circumstances, for a being like me, my self-consciousness would have long been devoured by the memes in my body, turning me into a weird creature or a weird corpse..."

"But you didn't." Wang Xiyi slightly turned sideways, and a pale green flame ignited in the palm of her right hand hidden behind her back - the energy contained in this flame was constantly being compressed, and the color was gradually approaching white.

"Yes, I didn't... I wasn't devoured by the monster. In my self-perception, I am still a human being, just like you and the vast majority of hunters whose lives have not yet reached the end." The other party's tone was filled with a hint of pride, "Do you really want to know how I did it?"

"Our policy has always been to be lenient to those who confess and severe to those who resist." Wang Xiyi nodded. "It's your freedom to speak or not, but it's my freedom to kill you or not."

"Then I have a question that I need Ms. Night Fury to answer for me first." The octopus man stretched out his right arm and made a "please" gesture.

"You said."

"How do monster hunters obtain the powers of monsters?"

"It's useless to ask me this question. I'm a hunter, not a researcher." Wang Xiyi sneered, "Even if you ask this question to a serious researcher, they won't be able to give an accurate answer in a short time."

"If you think the answer to this question requires a long academic paper to explain, then you are wrong." The other party said, "The answer is very simple. The hunter uses his own body as a container to accept the memes that originally belonged to the monsters, thereby gaining power... and as the monster memes erode the human body more and more, hunters will sooner or later become monsters, and their self-consciousness will also drown in the power that should not belong to them... This is an irreversible process." "The more powerful the hunter, the more dangerous it is." The octopus man said word by word, "This is not only true for the hunter's enemies, but also for the hunter's companions."

"Isn't this all nonsense?" Wang Xiyi couldn't help but complain.

The flame in the palm of her hand has been compressed dozens of times, and its volume has expanded to the size of a quail egg. Wang Xiyi tried her best to suppress the violent energy inside the flame... Once this energy overflows, this empty underground space will instantly turn into a sea of ​​fire and purgatory.

Literally "inferno".

"No, no, no... I've thought about it for a long time and done many experiments... I found that our thinking was wrong from the beginning." said the octopus man.

"Then tell me, what should the 'right' idea be?"

"It shouldn't be the weird memes that infect humans, but humans that 'infect' weird things." The octopus man said loudly.

"What did you say?" Wang Xiyi's expression suddenly became very strange.

"We should reverse the order. Instead of using the human body to accept the monster's memes, we should let the monster's body accept our human will." Most of the octopus monster's body crawled out of the underground lake, and the octopus man's body rose to a height of several dozen meters. It was only a few meters away from the broken dome, looking down at Wang Xiyi from above.

"Humans are the masters of this world. It was like this ten thousand years ago, and it is still like this now," said the octopus man.

"Do you think you are still a human being in this state?" Wang Xiyi said sarcastically.

"What about you, Ms. Night Fury? Do you think you, who have a pair of dragon horns, a pair of dragon wings, a dragon tail, are human? You are covered in scales and can spit fire from your throat?" The octopus asked back, "There is no difference between us in essence, but my fusion method is better than yours."

"How can you be sure that you can control this giant octopus? You never know when it might swallow you." Wang Xiyi sneered, "That scene must be very exciting."

The octopus man was not angry at what Wang Xiyi said. It moved a distance towards Wang Xiyi, and then slowly leaned down from its lofty human body. It said in the softest tone possible, "I can feel that you seem to have tamed the power in your body. Although your method is different from mine, I must admit that you are excellent... We are the same kind of people, we are the future of mankind... and those who cling to their shortcomings are just inferior species that will inevitably be eliminated in the process of human evolution."

"You mean... are you trying to persuade me to surrender?" Wang Xiyi was stunned for a moment, "I think you seem a little... humorous."

"You've just felt that kind of pain, right? The kind of pain that far exceeds the limit of physical endurance." asked the octopus man.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"I wonder if that pain has reminded you of the transformation experiments you underwent in the research institute." The octopus man continued, "Have you ever thought that those high and mighty people have never treated you as a human being or one of their kind from the beginning to the end. They only treat you as a weapon and a consumable. This is the meaning of your existence that they have set for you... When you were a little girl, did you think every day when you woke up that today might be the last day of your life? When you swallowed those nutrients that were distributed at a fixed time and quantity, did you think that this might be your last meal?"

"You seem to know a lot about my past?"

"That's right. In addition to you, I have also come into contact with several survivors of that plan." The octopus man said slowly, "Their conditions are not very good, or rather, they are far worse than yours... I can't help them. The only thing I can do is to avenge them on those who ruined their lives."

"Have they entrusted you to avenge them? Or are you just being wishful thinking?" Wang Xiyi asked back.

She could see that the octopus man was stalling for time.

She was also stalling for time.

At worst, we can just compete to see who can come up with the more powerful ultimate move.

Anyway, she is not afraid.

"Those superiors never treated you as my own kind, but in my eyes, you are all my own kind, my compatriots." The octopus man continued to persuade, "You don't have to die for a federation that will eventually be destroyed by the weird creatures... You should join us and become the new master of this world after the demise of the old human civilization."

"I seem to have guessed what task you assigned to Wen Ya and Yao Yu." Wang Xiyi suddenly said.

The octopus man was stunned for a moment and did not respond immediately.

Its brain seemed to have been in a brief state of shutdown, its deformed body froze in mid-air, and its arms still maintained the same posture as when it had just given a "speech".

"You are planning to let a certain selected person to 'parasite' Chimera 17, right?"

“Ha…hahahaha.” The octopus man laughed dryly a few times. “Ye Fury, you are much smarter than I thought. Not only do you possess powerful strength, but you also possess extraordinary wisdom. People like you are what the organization urgently needs…Join us, you will not be disappointed!”

"No, buddy." Wang Xiyi sighed. "The black-hearted agents will at least paint a rosy picture for you before they trick you into going to the factory to screw in screws. But you can't even see a sesame seed, let alone a rosy picture. Why should I join you? Just to become as disgusting as you?"

"Disgusting?!" Wang Xiyi's words seemed to have irritated the octopus man's nerves, and its tone became even sharper.

“Yeah, it’s disgusting.” Wang Xiyi nodded seriously. “In my eyes, all mollusks are disgusting… and you who have merged with a mollusks are also disgusting.”

"you……"

"Look, at least I still maintain the normal aesthetics of humans." Wang Xiyi shrugged. "It seems that your cognition may have been distorted by the weird creatures... What's the difference between letting humans parasitize weird creatures? How long do you think you can maintain this state? Half a year? Or two months? It shouldn't take long before your way of thinking becomes very different from that of humans, right?"

(End of this chapter)