Chapter 1 Parasites
I'm not a parasite, guys..
Now, I do inhabit the body of a human boy, and his body is now entirely mine. I will be happy to explain why this is so.
This is true for all of us. Simply put, we live in other creatures. Their bodies are our habitats.
In fact, our species is fundamentally different from parasites. We are intelligent and try our best to avoid harming the host. After all, who wants to move all the time? Everyone will be happy if the living place has a long life. An elder of our species thinks it is more appropriate to call our lifestyle "symbiosis".
But those advanced intelligent life forms were furious about this.
Since our existence was discovered, they have always hated us. The reason is that they suspect that we will seize the host's body and control it. An ancient civilization planet calls this "possession". They question our way of life and have listed us as a top dangerous race for thousands of years and hunted us on a large scale. It was not until the equal rights movement prevailed in the past hundred years that our right to survive was reluctantly recognized.
Nowadays all our activities must comply with the law.
The law strictly prohibits us from living on intelligent life forms. As for what constitutes an intelligent life form, the law has clear provisions. So for a long time, we have been very tactful and lived on some ordinary animals. But in recent years, the protests of animal protection associations have become louder and louder. They believe that our reasonable lifestyle infringes on the rights of those lovely animals, even though all these animals think about all day is eating, eating, eating, eating, and reproducing.
Under such circumstances, it is very difficult for our people to live uprightly. Previously, some of my people and I were neurotically oppressed by the local Homo sapiens authorities in a certain star region. The authorities even forbade us to live on animals. Of course we wanted to leave, but we did not have enough money to buy a ship ticket to emigrate.
We cannot be animals or intelligent life forms, so we have no choice but to parasitize on the corpses of Homo sapiens.
Although the corpse has lost its original life, our tribe can use the original tissues of the corpse to barely provide energy and live for a period of time. It must be admitted that the quality of life will be very poor, and we cannot stop the corpse from rotting.
After dozens of days and nights, our group of corpses successfully aroused the anger of the local residents. To them, it was probably a zombie siege and the walking dead happening every day. Fortunately, we also successfully destroyed the local tourism industry.
A friend of the same tribe said that he just wanted to go shopping, but when he pushed open the door, all the guests rushed to the wall and jumped out of the window, crying and screaming. Homo sapiens are really rude. I really want to remind him that he should put his half-hanging eyeballs back, straighten his head, and stuff some tissues back into his stomach.
After disgusting the local human residents many times, our group of corpses were also shot in the head many times. We politely told the residents that we are not zombies, we do not eat intelligent life forms, and we have no interest in the brains of Homo sapiens. Even if we were shot in the head, it would not have any effect on us. However, the response we got was another bullet explosion.
By the time the residents finally figured out what we were, all the local tourists had been scared away by the zombies. Yes, it was really annoying to encounter zombie passers-by every day. Even though we repeatedly stated that we had no interest in their brains. As a result, the local tourism industry was in a slump, and house prices plummeted. After all, no one wanted to live in the same place with wandering corpses. The patience of the authorities was finally worn out by us.
So we were completely expelled.
I felt very happy. I was tired of living in a corpse. It was too troublesome to clean the maggots on my body every day. It would be great if we could be couriered to another suitable place for free.
But the way the authorities drove us away was not really friendly. They forcibly pulled my weak body out and stuffed it into a special bottle. I could only adjust my semi-transparent tentacles uncomfortably in the bottle, hoping to reach my destination as soon as possible.
I hope the new place won't discriminate against us so much, and I can combine with a healthy life form as soon as possible. Ah, don't worry, I swear I really won't hurt my host, because moving is really too annoying.
The spacecraft had an accident during its voyage.
I had no idea what had gone wrong, but the crew were screaming and shrieking in panic until they finally remembered to eject us before escaping into the lifeboat.
After that, I only remember the intense rotation and collision, and everyone was communicating with each other through anxious brain waves, basically meaningless sighs such as "What should I do?", "What should I do?", "I'm going to die". The hull exploded in the air, and I was ejected.
I pushed open the lid of the culture bottle, wrapped my tentacles around and expanded them into an umbrella shape, and rotated with the airflow.
Countless rays of light flashed past me rapidly, and I seemed to be caught in a vortex. Brilliant lights exploded behind me, and I was constantly spinning and floating.
I don't know how long it took, but I finally managed to control my floating speed. At this time, there was an endless expanse of green under my tentacles, and the blue-green was so beautiful that I stopped thinking. Above my tentacles was the light blue sky, and at the end of that sky there was a sharp white light.
I loved this planet. At that moment, I fell in love with it.
Gentlemen, I would like to explain the current situation.
Yes, I am now parasitizing, oh no, I am parasitizing a human boy. But I can swear to the Star Spirit that this is absolutely, completely, an accident.
I swear I never intentionally invaded this fresh intelligent life form.
This was an accident.
When I regained consciousness, I had run into the boy's body, which was also brain dead.
His body was still functioning, but his mind was still silent. Then I realized I couldn't leave this body.
That’s right, I can’t leave.
So I am a parasite, no, it is just an accident that I am parasitic on this body.
At that time, the boy's body was being held by a woman who was crying bitterly. She was "my" mother. When I opened my eyes with the boy's body, she burst into tears and said, "That's great...Xiaozhen, you finally woke up."
Language is a wonderful thing. The moment I read the boy's brain, I understood the language here. Through these few words, I felt the woman's pure love for the boy. This is the most wonderful emotion of intelligent and civilized creatures. A man looked at me happily from behind the woman. He is "my" father.
They loved the child, and the boy loved them. Even though my brain was dead, my body was still happy to be hugged by my parents..
If I leave this child's body, the child in their eyes will be completely dead. That's why this body will spontaneously prevent me from leaving.
Our parasitic race does not have the social relationship of parents, nor does it quite understand parental love, but now, I, or rather my body, feels sad about it.
This is one of the reasons I live in this body.
In the afternoon, another reason made me decide to officially live in this body. Because the civilization of this planet has not yet developed to the point of interstellar communication. Well, to put it bluntly, no one can control me.
This is an independent planet, inhabited by Homo sapiens, with little contact with galactic civilization, no galactic animal protection associations, no equal rights organizations, no damn committees, no suffocating supervisory eyes, and few alien creatures visit. I was greatly relieved by this discovery.
I stood in front of the mirror and looked at myself. This body was about 14 years old, with soft hair and a white face. From a human aesthetic point of view, it was undoubtedly cute. I said to the child in the mirror:
【“Hello, Yan Zhen.”】
So, my journey as a human being began..
