Lost Narrative Poetry

Xia Ran did not let down his guard, but continued to maintain his vigilance for several minutes. It wasn't until he felt that his left arm was numb due to lack of blood circulation that he opened his personal information page and took a look again.

After confirming the basic facts that were a foregone conclusion, he slowly loosened the ropes binding his arms.

——"Parasitic Beast Strengthening (Partial Parasitism)"

There have been obvious changes in the personal page, and there is an additional item.

And what was very strange was that after habitually turning the pages, he discovered that this item appeared on both the skill page and the equipment page, and was not a separate item listed.

The display on the skill page is the one above, but the display on the equipment page is——

"Parasite Beast (Equipped)"......

So, this is not only regarded as an ability, but also treated as special equipment? Xia Ran thought this while trying to move the freshman's left hand, and the feeling was completely different...

But it's not the feeling of being full of power, as if one punch can blow through a wall, but a more subtle, indescribable contrast of changes.

There was no more swelling and pain, and it seemed that all the previous injuries were healed, but there was no sense of strength, and there was still an obvious numbness. At first he thought it was due to lack of blood circulation due to his own actions.

But I soon discovered that the numbness was not caused by lack of blood circulation, but it was just indescribable. If I had to say it, I was not sensitive enough.

He tried to wave his left arm vigorously and tried to move it. After several tests, he could confirm that the speed reaction of his left hand had not been weakened or decreased, and it was still the actual 12-point agility value before.

It's just that the feeling is not sensitive enough and seems to have been weakened a lot.

It is clear that I can move my left hand with just a thought and make various actions I want to do, but the signals of touch, feeling, etc. are always transmitted to the brain slowly, as if it is a prosthetic hand. .

——But strictly speaking, it is just a prosthetic hand now.

"..."

"..."

After staring at his left hand for a long time, Xia Ran didn't find any movement in it, let alone any deformation or stretching. Only then did Xia Ran remember that maybe the parasitic beasts needed to sleep for a while first.

It wasn't too long. It seemed that Izumi Shinichi was parasitized in the early morning of the first day, and it was in the evening of the second day that his right hand woke up for the first time and greeted him for the first time on the symbiosis journey.

——But that’s okay, after all, I need some time to adapt and make some preparations...

He couldn't tell what kind of emotion he was feeling at the moment. Xia Ran could only try to calm down and force himself to think carefully about what to do next, even though it was already ten o'clock in the evening.

But he can't sleep yet, and will probably have to stay up late for a rare occasion... But now his physical attributes and mental attributes have returned to normal levels, so it's not a big problem.

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…

Early next morning.

Izumi Shinichi was having breakfast with some sleepiness and yawning. Today was the weekend, he didn't have to go to school, and his parents were traveling, so no one would care how long he slept.

But he really couldn't sleep, so he got up early. He was not used to the empty house, and he always felt inexplicably panicked. Sometimes the more I think about it, the more afraid I become, for fear that something terrible will happen to my parents outside.

Although Ah You told him that in terms of probability, the possibility of encountering parasitic beasts in cities is much higher than in remote villages, and parasitic beasts will consciously choose lone prey and carefully prevent accidents.

If two or more people travel together, there is basically only a small chance of being attacked.

But this is only in theory. Everyone knows how small the probability of being hit by a car is when going out. However, if parents and relatives leave home and do not come back for a long time, most people can't help but think about it and feel inexplicably worried. ?

What's more, he knew about the parasitic beast, but he couldn't tell it easily. He even suspected that he was the only person in the world who knew the truth.

Therefore, probability theory has no way to convince Izumi Shinichi that it is good enough that he does not suffer from persecution delusion in this situation. For ordinary people, I am afraid that he is really crazy, and maybe even his parents and relatives Everyone will suspect that they are monsters in human skin.

Relying on the homologous induction in his right hand, Izumi Shinichi can at least distinguish between the wavelengths of humans and parasitic beasts, and will not fall into such a suspicious situation, because he can clearly distinguish who is a real person and who is a parasitic beast.

However, once his parents left home and were no longer within his sensing range, he couldn't help but begin to fall into a state of doubt, anxiety, and uneasiness.

Again, probability theory has no way to convince Izumi Shinichi. He always feels that there are parasitic beasts everywhere outside, and it is really a very dangerous thing for his parents to run around in the streets...

But there was nothing he could do now. He didn't know where his parents had gone, so he could only wait for information in fear, and secretly made up his mind that next time nothing could be done to let the two of them go out.

It is best not to let parents go out for long periods of time until the problem of parasitic beasts is solved by the government.

Jingle Bell--

Izumi was thinking about when the disaster of parasitic beasts would be solved and whether the country had taken action. Izumi was stunned for a moment. He quickly picked up the phone next to him and felt that his heavy mood was relieved in an instant.

The couple finally remembered their son and knew to make a phone call to report that he was safe.

"Hello!"

Izumi Shinichi pressed the answer button, took a long breath, and thought about how to tactfully urge the two of them to come back.

However, as the voice on the other side of the phone rang, his expression quickly changed, becoming solidified and shocked, and his pupils instantly shrank to the size of needlepoints, almost losing the ability to think.

He didn't wake up until there was a busy signal on the other side of the phone.

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…

Time: Nine o'clock in the evening.

Location: It’s the same B\u0026B.

In a room with a good view on the second floor, Xia Ran was sitting at a low table in the center of the room, talking to someone on the phone.

"Hello?... Well, I understand... Just don't come here. If your son is really parasitized, believe me, you will never want to see that scene..."

He held the mobile phone to his ear in his left hand and kept talking, while his right hand was writing and drawing on a small notebook on the table. It was originally a normal scene and there shouldn't be any problems.

But what is chilling is that although his hands are still operating normally, his left hand has "split" from the elbow joint downwards into another arm.

And as if it was a person with abilities who had eaten the rubber fruit, the split arm was obviously stretched much longer, as if it had no bones. It was pressing another phone that Xia Ran had prepared before, and seemed to be browsing the web or something.

After hanging up the phone, Xia Ran glanced at his alienated left hand, and the corners of his eyes still twitched slightly. Fortunately, at least the skin on that arm was not as curious as a few cracks in the skin and a few eyeballs growing out.

Because Xia Ran believes that since the parasitic beast can transform at will, it is basically a cell-level manipulation, so it should not be limited to the expression of human body structure.

After all, they can even stretch like rubber, and can quickly transform into bone blades like steel... They are completely creatures that transcend common sense, so why do they have to simulate human eyeballs to be able to see?

It can only be said that it is possible, but it is not absolutely necessary.

This is not Xia Ran's own assumption, because Izumi Shinichi's right hand has shown such properties——

During the class, Izumi Shinichi, who was parasitized on the first day, was sleeping, while his right hand was operating a mobile phone under the table to learn knowledge. There was no deformation. It was the same as his original right hand, without the need to grow special eyes.

This made Xia Ran feel that at least he was not that curious, and although he could not adapt to it or even feel a little psychologically rejected for a while, the indescribable sense of security that he felt because he had mastered the power was truly overwhelming.

No matter how you say it, it is undeniable that starting from the evening, after seeing "Left Hand" wake up and behave as expected, he felt relaxed from the bottom of his heart, no longer as seemingly as before. Calm and calm, but actually a state of anxiety inside.

On the surface, he was as calm as an old dog, but in reality, he was panicking. This was his true feeling before. Every time he faced a parasitic beast, he was like this, fearing that an accident would happen and his head would be cut off by the other party like lightning.

But now, he has really relaxed his tense nerves and can finally take a breath.

If he continued like this, he doubted that he would have fallen into the hands of the parasitic beast before he collapsed because his nerves were too tight and the pressure was too great... After all, although his experience was special and different from ordinary people, , but he is really not a "warrior" through and through.

Xia Ran's left hand has just woken up and can't even speak completely. It still needs a period of learning.

But it is estimated to be very soon, in about two days... because the parasitic beasts seem to master the knowledge of language and characters based on the host's own knowledge reserves, and they can quickly use this knowledge proficiently within a few days.

Then, use this as a basis to demonstrate extremely powerful learning ability...

Taking into account their own attack and defense speed and other abilities, Xia Ran no longer wanted to think about their terrifyingly high strength sensitivity and what their intelligence attributes would be...

Fortunately, of course, their mental side seems to be a weakness.

Thinking like this, he subconsciously opened the personal information page and looked at the basic attribute values ​​​​that had changed again——

"Power: 4"

"Agility: 12"

"Physique: 6"

"Intelligence: 7"

"Spirit: 20"

"Perception: 7"