Chapter 2 Becoming Human
The Yan family has two children, and Yan Zhen is the eldest son.
Yan Zhen has a younger sister named Yan Zhu. The parents of this family love each other and the family relationship is very harmonious.
And after invading Yan Zhen's body, it naturally accepted everything about him.
Everyone in the family calls Yan Zhen Xiaozhen.
Xiao Zhen's accident caused a lot of turmoil in the family. In the first few days, both her sister and her parents were obviously overly concerned.
The alien parasite can detect human emotions, but it still feels a little uncomfortable with the warm family warmth of Homo sapiens. Observation and being an object of experience are two completely different concepts. For it, the most intense emotion it has experienced from intelligent life recently was the three consecutive screams and headshots from the residents after it and a fellow tribe greeted the residents with a rotting corpse.
No matter what, a corpse is not as good as a living body. It couldn't help but touch the body, which was soft, elastic, and young. This wonderful feeling reduced its worries about the Security Committee and the Eye of Supervision to almost zero.
From now on, it is a young human named Yan Zhen.
Xiao Zhen, Xiao Zhen, it used its body's vocal organs to pronounce this nickname. It liked the pronunciation and liked others calling it that.
That’s right, it’s him, he is Xiao Zhen.
I am Xiaozhen.
After Xiaozhen underwent several physical examinations and confirmed that he was fine, his parents finally returned to their normal life.
This human society believes that aliens are only out of reach. Aliens are just fantasy products of science fiction novels and entertainment movies and TV dramas. After several observations, Xiao Zhen believes that even if he loudly declares that he is an alien parasite, no one will believe it. This will only make his family send him to a mental hospital for treatment. There is a common problem among humans, that is, once a fixed cognition is formed, it is difficult to subvert it. Xiao Zhen is satisfied with the current society's understanding of aliens, which means that as long as he does not do too much, basically no one will find out.
Xiao Zhen is a middle school student, and is at an active age. It is summer vacation now, and he soon faced his first challenge of disguising himself as a human.
That is to receive friends of the same age.
The visitor is Xiaozhen's peer, named Liu Xingquan. He is the son of Yan's father's former driver, Xiaozhen's childhood sweetheart, and a classmate in the same school. He has fair skin, delicate eyebrows, thick and long eyelashes, and smooth black bangs. He is a standard human beautiful boy.
From the first day Liu Xingquan walked into the Yan family, Xiaozhen realized something was unusual.
Xiao Zhen cannot grasp the distance between human relatives and friends. But he has observed the difference between family members and people outside of kinship. Yan's father, Yan's mother, and Yan Zhu are Yan Zhen's family members. Aunt Li, driver Zhang, and Aunt Wang are outsiders. Liu Xingquan should be classified as an outsider.
But when Liu Xingquan walked in, Yan's mother was overwhelmed with joy. One of the racial skills of the tentacle monster Xiaozhen was to perceive the superficial emotions of humans. He was beside Yan's mother at the time, and the tide of warmth and joy surged into his consciousness. This emotion formed a warm halo in Xiaozhen's eyes, moist and soft, like a candle in a dim room. Yan's mother smiled at the boy - Liu Xingquan.
This warm emotion was subtly different from the way Yan's mother felt towards Xiaozhen and Yan Zhu. Xiaozhen savored it carefully and tasted something that was close to pity.
My host's mother must like Liu Xingquan very much.
Liu Xingquan is completely different from Xiaozhen’s concept of teenagers.
Soon after he entered the door, he went into Xiaozhen's study. Apart from the initial greetings, he did not say anything else. He opened his book and took out his homework book, and wrote without raising his head. Liu Xingquan's hardworking attitude won the praise of Yan's mother, while Xiaozhen began to doubt whether the person in front of him was a human being in the adolescent period.
Based on the tentacle monster Xiaozhen's understanding of the civilized races on other planets, almost all intelligent creatures from childhood to adolescence have characteristics such as strong curiosity, constant noisy and destructiveness that cause headaches.
But Liu Xingquan in front of him had been sitting quietly at his desk for two hours. He lowered his head to write his homework, pursed his lips tightly, and frowned his long eyebrows, blocking out all the noise and trivial matters from his world.
Xiao Zhen secretly smacked his lips. He had no choice but to do his homework silently. After getting familiar with this civilization over the past few days, these homework assignments were actually very simple for Xiao Zhen. However, there was an obstacle for Xiao Zhen to do his homework, which was that he was not very good at controlling his body. Although he had no problem with daily life, his hands were very uncontrollable when it came to fine control such as writing.
To achieve precise control, he needed more time to coordinate with this body. At this moment, the result of forcibly controlling his hands to write was that he could only write horrible scribbles.
Xiaozhen glanced at the homework book of Liu Xingquan opposite her. The handwriting of the other party was just like the young man Liu Xingquan, neat, beautiful and pleasing to the eye.
Feeling Xiaozhen's gaze, Liu Xingquan looked up at Xiaozhen's homework book. His eyes swept over the other person's disgusting words and he was obviously stunned.
"I'm not fully recovered yet, my hands are shaking." Xiao Zhen said frankly. Anyway, in everyone's eyes, he had survived an accident, so it was normal to have some sequelae for a short period of time.
Liu Xingquan nodded, said a few words to him to comfort him, telling him to rest well and recover soon, then lowered his head and concentrated on doing his homework.
A bad communication partner, Xiao Zhen thought to himself.
Human beings, if they are the same age and grew up together, should have endless chatter. But the young human in front of him was only focused on the homework in his hands. Xiaozhen tried to bring up a few topics, but only got a few light "um" and "oh" from the other party, just like a stone floating on the water, making a little bubble and then sinking.
He knew nothing about the relationship between Liu Xingquan and Yan Zhen. Perhaps, this was how they spent their daily time together? Xiao Zhen gave up the idea of communicating and continued to fight with his hands.
Yan's mother walked into the room with a fruit plate, smiling. Liu Xingquan, who had been concentrating on writing, immediately raised his head and shouted crisply, "Thank you, Auntie."
"You must be tired, take a rest." Yan's mother put the fruit plate next to Liu Xingquan and urged him to eat quickly. She picked up Liu Xingquan's homework book, raised her eyebrows and praised: "The handwriting is really beautiful. Xiaozhen, take a look at Xingquan's homework, the teacher's evaluation is all excellent, you should learn from him."
Liu Xingquan lowered his eyes and his ears turned slightly red.
"..." Xiao Zhen didn't care too much about what Yan's mother said. Such words only had one purpose, which was to stimulate the child's competitive spirit. It had not yet degenerated to the point of competing with a human teenager.
Mother Yan picked up Xiaozhen's homework book again, "This..." she sighed.
"I'm not completely well yet."
"Don't make excuses. Xingquan's academic performance has always been better than yours. You should learn from others with an open mind." Mother Yan put down the homework book, but still stared at Xiaozhen's homework book in disbelief. It was obvious that the horrible words deeply hurt her. "Do you want me to make an appointment with Dr. Li to check you tomorrow?"
"I'm fine! I'll be fine after a while!"
Liu Xingquan's mouth curled up slightly, and his originally beautiful and indifferent face suddenly became more lively. Yan's mother spoke to Liu Xingquan with a smile on her face, her eyes full of love, as if this well-behaved and beautiful boy in front of her was her own son.
Not only Yan's mother, Xiaozhen's sister Yan Zhu was also a fan of Liu Xingquan. After finishing her homework, Yan Zhu, who was allowed to do so, pestered Liu Xingquan and kept calling him "Brother Xingquan". Xiaozhen, who was the focus of attention a few days ago, was thrown aside openly.
Xiaozhen picked up the remote control and started watching TV. The laughter of the mother, daughter and Liu Xingquan could be heard from the next room. Homo sapiens likes good-looking things, even if they are on a distant planet across hundreds of billions of stars, this kind of creature still likes it.
After Liu Xingquan left, Xiao Zhen asked Yan Zhu a question, which was a line he had just seen from a melodramatic family drama on TV.
"Who do you like more, Liu Xingquan or me?"
Yan Zhu is 12 years old this year, with rosy cheeks and bright eyes. She tilted her head and smiled and replied, "Of course I like them all!"
A standard perfunctory answer. In Xiaozhen's experience, this is the uniform answer of the Homo sapiens race when they don't want to answer . The essence is that you may not be as good as your competitors in my heart. The blood relationship of human beings makes people sad. Xiaozhen thinks that she is also stupid for being bored enough to ask such a stupid question.
In the following days, Liu Xingquan was still the only person of Xiao Zhen's age who came to visit him. Of course, he came here just to do homework with Xiao Zhen. They could spend an entire afternoon doing homework, and the cruel human teacher gave them enough homework to fill up most of the summer vacation. Xiao Zhen didn't mind this, as doing homework was just the right way to train his physical proficiency.
Unfortunately, after a few days, Xiao Zhen still had a lot of difficulty in writing. Even if she concentrated on fine-tuning her nerves, the words she wrote were still ugly. Xiao Zhen looked at Liu Xingquan's words, then looked at her own words, and couldn't help but sigh.
Yan Zhu said that Liu Xingquan has been Yan Zhen’s good friend since childhood.
Is that really true?
I don't think Liu Xingquan wants to talk to me. Xiao Zhen suspects that the Homo sapiens on this planet may have a very different definition of the word friend from the universal language of the galaxy. Or maybe something happened between the original owner Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan.
In front of Xiaozhen, he was silent. In front of Yan's father and mother, Liu Xingquan was well-behaved and likable, with a kind of respectful manner. This split in attitude made Xiaozhen feel strange, but he was too lazy to observe and study the interpersonal relationship problems of teenagers.
He was trying his best to adjust his new body. The original owner of this body was already brain dead, so since he had decided to live in this body, he had to be fully prepared.
The combat power of these creatures is not strong, but they can transform the body after fusing with the host tissue. Xiao Zhen's body is still developing and growing, and he does not plan to make any major changes to his body. Instead, he will gradually strengthen his body and train his agility based on the existing foundation.
This planet has not yet established contact with the Milky Way, but other enemies or dangerous creatures may exist. The history of their race is a history of being hated by intelligent life. Although the laws of the past hundred years have recognized their right to survive, there is no doubt that at least 70% of the intelligent races want to tear them to pieces, and the Safety Committee and the Eye of Supervision are looking for every opportunity to destroy them in the dark.
"I hate the Eye of Supervision." Xiao Zhen muttered in a low voice and threw the pencil in his hand. Snap! It stuck straight into the wall.
"What did you do?"
Liu Xingquan was standing at the door. His eyes widened and he asked in surprise, "What did you just do?"
I saw that the pencil was almost halfway embedded in the wall, like a sharp knife cutting into tofu.
