Chapter 52 Surge
Xiaozhen actually doesn't know Song Jiarui.
He was not very familiar with Song Jiarui, but he knew that she was the goddess in the eyes of all the boys in the class. Xiaozhen defined the human term "goddess" in this specific environment - the object that everyone wanted to reproduce with.
But in Xiaozhen's eyes, he felt that Song Jiarui was not a qualified breeding partner.
From a physical point of view, she was too weak. According to his standards, most humans on this planet were weak, and Song Jiarui was completely below the normal standard.
Even below the health line.
He knew that his observation was ridiculous, as he only regarded humans as mice that only knew how to mate and eat. As a female Homo sapiens, Song Jiarui was a highly intelligent creature, so there were naturally other more meaningful aspects.
Now Mr. Cat says she is dying.
Xiao Zhen observed her again. Her face was pale and she looked so weak that she seemed to break at the slightest touch. But he could feel the flow of life, and there was nothing unusual about her breath.
"Are you sure? I didn't sense anything wrong with her vital signs."
Mr. Cat gave him a disdainful look.
Song Jiarui's actions were completely stagnant. It was as if Mr. Cat had turned off a switch in her body. This was the ability of the Heart Devourer. Xiao Zhen had used it once on a large crowd at Ren Anzhi's performance. If possible, Xiao Zhen would never want to use it again in public.
At this moment, Song Jiarui seemed to be frozen in a slice of time. She was motionless, stiffly maintaining the moment when she was about to take a step.
Xiao Zhen stretched out his finger and touched her forehead.
Mr. Cat was connecting his induction to him. If Xiao Zhen used his tentacles to forcibly probe Song Jiarui's internal state, it would cause her great pain, but Mr. Cat added his more powerful induction power to minimize the damage to Song Jiarui.
The moment he touched Song Jiarui, Xiao Zhen felt a strong resistance. According to Xiao Zhen's experience, this was not a human's own protection mechanism, but something else resisting detection. Mr. Cat's mental power surged up, like a surging tide, instantly breaking through the barrier.
Fragments of scenes floated in the void. They were Song Jiarui's memories. Those memories were like faded photos, being eroded by the endless black fog.
The black fog extended countless black lines that spread across the memory fragments, or merged into one. A silver light pulled Xiao Zhen's mental power, and he saw everything that Mr. Cat wanted to show him:
Countless tentacles invaded Song Jiarui's brain and pierced her flesh. The foreign object was devouring the girl, slowly eating her. This was not a parasite like the Heart Devourer that strived to coexist with the host, but a true predator that ruthlessly drained the host's vitality.
Xiao Zhen looked at the alien object and said, "This is the Izel alien."
"Yes. He's already eaten a third of it."
"It's not time for it to hatch yet." Xiao Zhen frowned, "It hid too well, even my mental power didn't detect any abnormality at first."
"Yan Zhen! What are you doing?" An angry roar came from the sky.
Xiao Zhen withdrew his induction power from Song Jiarui's brain. Teacher Li, the math teacher who had passed by at some point, was glaring at him angrily.
"What are you doing to your female classmates?"
"There was a bug on her forehead, and I helped her get rid of it." Xiao Zhen answered calmly, and asked Song Jiarui with a smile, "Right?"
(Say yes.)
Song Jiarui had been freed from her stagnation, and she nodded and said that Yan Zhen was right.
Teacher Li looked at Xiao Zhen with suspicion, then looked at Song Jiarui, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Song Jiarui shook her head.
After Song Jiarui left, Teacher Li talked to Xiaozhen for a while. He still suspected that Xiaozhen was bullying female classmates. With a look of "I will enforce justice" on his face, he lectured him a few more times before letting him go.
Song Jiarui's case is very serious.
It is so serious that if it happens in a galactic civilization area, the entire galaxy may be blocked.
She looked normal and mentally normal. But Xiaozhen knew that the girl's life was already counting down. And it was not just Song Jiarui's business.
"Can the Izel alien be removed?"
"You can see that it has already consumed one-third of her brain. It has merged with her nerve tissue. If this thing is removed, Song Jiarui will die."
"Once it hatches, it will occupy Song Jiarui's body and reproduce. Then it won't be a problem for Song Jiarui alone." Xiao Zhen said, "And the biggest question is, can you guarantee that there is only one Izel alien here?"
"Of course not."
Xiao Zhen knew how dangerous it was. The Izel Alien was the enemy of all intelligent creatures in the galaxy, and its legend was accompanied by death and destruction . It was completely different from the Red-eyed Mantis that Xiao Zhen had encountered while eating on the Nightweaver Star. They were also parasitic and hatched in the bodies of living things. This dangerous species that suddenly appeared in the Chaos Star Region had directly led to the extinction of at least dozens of civilized races according to incomplete statistics.
Mr. Cat said: "You should be thankful that I found one in advance."
"Why is there an Izel alien here!!!"
"There are already three Heart Devourers here, and there is also an undisclosed vortex." Mr. Cat seemed very calm. "What else do you think will not happen?"
Xiao Zhen was silent for a while and then asked, "Do you have a way to save her?"
"I can't save you."
Song Jiarui was standing downstairs. Her home was on the fourth floor and the lights were not on yet.
Her parents haven't come home yet.
Song Jiarui stood downstairs for a while. The sun had already set. She turned and took another road, passing through three residential buildings in a row. She tentatively called out downstairs, "Bai Lianlian?"
A little girl poked her head out from the balcony. "I'm here. My mom cooked some food. Do you want to come and eat?"
Song Jiarui nodded.
Song Jiarui and Bai Lianlian have always been good friends. Although they were not in the same class after high school, they are still close friends.
Bai Lianlian and her mother lived in a one-bedroom apartment on the second floor. The room was small and crowded, but very cozy.
Bai Lianlian's mother brought out a pot of fragrant rice and vegetables. She filled a large bowl for Song Jiarui and gave her a braised chicken leg.
"It's delicious, much better than what's sold outside." Song Jiarui's mouth was filled and she nodded continuously.
Bai Lianlian's mother couldn't help but smile when she saw her like this, "Eat more if you like it."
"Don't flatter my mother." Bai Lianlian said with a smile: "Your mother can also cook this kind of rice."
Song Jiarui replied sullenly: "She wouldn't."
After dinner, Song Jiarui went to Bai Lianlian's room. Although it was called Bai Lianlian's room, it was actually just a small space separated by a curtain, and a small bed took up two-thirds of the space. Song Jiarui lay on Bai Lianlian's bed and said, "I really envy you and your mother."
"You really know how to find a place to rest."
"I feel a little dizzy," said Song Jiarui, who had a slight headache. Recently, she often felt as if her head was being pressed down by a heavy object.
"You've been feeling dizzy for a while. Didn't your parents take you to the hospital?"
Song Jiarui shook her head, "If I don't tell them, they won't even notice that I'm not feeling well."
"Tell your parents."
"I'm really fine."
"Your parents love you." Bai Lianlian squeezed next to her and said.
Song Jiarui whispered: "No, they hate me."
“There is no parent who hates his or her child.”
“They hate me. I know,” Song said. “I’ve always known that.”
"You are their only daughter."
"I'm just doing my duty." Song Jiarui sighed softly, "It's all my fault."
"It's not your fault!" Bai Lianlian said loudly.
"I have always thought, it would be better if it was me who died instead of my sister."
"Don't talk nonsense."
I'm not talking nonsense.
Song Jiarui is not an only child. She originally had a younger sister. Her sister died a year ago, and her mother took her anger out on her. Her father, on the other hand, always loved her sister more. Since then, Song Jiarui has become increasingly alienated from her parents.
She will always remember that in the morgue, her mother held her sister's body and cried heartbreakingly: "Why did you die?"
"It's all my fault," Song Jiarui said. "I didn't take good care of my sister."
"It was an accident."
Song Jiarui turned around and said, "When we were having dinner just now, I was really envious of the way your mother looked at you."
"What are you envious of?"
"Bai Lianlian, you really don't know how lucky you are."
Bai Lianlian laughed and said, "Do you want to exchange with me? Become an illegitimate daughter who has been stabbed in the back since childhood?"
"Do you want to give it a try? As long as you say the name Bai Xiaoyu here, everyone will frown. They just dislike my mother Bai Xiaoyu. I have been looked down upon since I was a child. I have been inexplicably inferior to others since I was a child. I have to be forced to listen to a bunch of idiots with brains filled with water use the most unpleasant and vulgar words to make up my mother." Bai Lianlian looked at Song Jiarui, "Do you want to try this kind of life?"
"Sorry." Song Jiarui moved her lips, "That's not what I meant."
"You don't have to apologize." Bai Lianlian stretched out on the bed, "I've let it go a long time ago. People can't choose their parents. Just like I have to accept the fact that I'm an illegitimate daughter, they are still your parents after all."
Song Jiarui fell silent. She listened to Bai Lianlian's slow breathing in her ear, looked into her wild eyes, and then she heard Bai Lianlian say, "It would be nice if I had money."
"If I had money, I could save my mother from singing in nightclubs and being criticized by others. I want to leave here. I will take my mother to a new place where no one knows us, buy a big house, and let her live a good life." Bai Lianlian said softly, "No one knows where we are going. We don't have to listen to their gossip."
"If I had money," Song Jiarui said, "I could leave my parents. I could disappear from their sight and they could start a new life. I just want to live my own life, free and at ease."
"But we don't have money." Bai Lianlian closed his eyes, "Not everyone is Miss Wei Jingjing."
"This is different." Song Jiarui sat up, her tone was very firm, and she said:
"We have a future, and we all have a bright future."
