Volume 2: Empire Chapter 6 Shadow Parasite
Princess Dai'er's hand unconsciously reached out to the cabinet, and the white light from the gap between the cabinets swayed slightly. But when Dai'er's hand was about to touch the cabinet, she suddenly retracted it.
"Although I'm a little dumb, I'm not stupid!" At this time, there was a noise outside. The sheriff was checking the garbage bin. Dale quickly lay down on a nearby shelf, grabbed a white cloth and covered herself with it. She raised her head and whispered to the cabinet: "Although I don't know how you can hear my voice, since you know my identity, you know I can save you. I swear in the name of my mother, as long as you help me avoid the search, I will definitely set you free."
After saying this, without waiting for the things in the cabinet to respond, Dai'er heard the sound of the warehouse door opening and immediately covered her head with the white cloth.
Footsteps came from the warehouse door.
"Captain Taili, what you saw... were all corpses of failed supernatural species."
The captain kept looking at the innermost cabinet. He didn't know what was inside, but he was specifically told when he received the goods. That cabinet... must not be opened!
Captain Taili looked at the corpses lying on the shelf, and his heart was filled with horror. These were all failed products of supernatural species. Failure first meant that they were uncontrollable. If there were any dead ones among them...
No!
Something Mr. Malcolm spent a lot of money on must be dead.
It's really a dilemma.
He was afraid that he would be attacked by something inside; he was also afraid that he would delay Mr. Melken's business and be retaliated against. But... the current situation in the Imperial City was unclear. If there were people and things that should not be let go and they slipped through his hands, he would be doomed.
Captain Taili kept cursing in his heart, wondering how could such a thing happen while he was on duty.
He cautiously lifted the white cloth covering a corpse, and it was obviously a dead Transcendent Cultivator. He then lifted another piece of white cloth, and it was also a dead guy.
Captain Taili walked in slowly, taking every step carefully.
The captain didn't dare to enter the warehouse. He looked outside anxiously and urged in a low voice: "Captain Taili, Captain... Be careful! I am only responsible for transporting the goods. I don't know what is inside. If something hurts you, I can't bear the responsibility..."
"Don't talk!" The nervous Taili scolded the captain. He pointed to the cabinet at the deepest part and asked, "What's in there?"
"Captain, I'm just a courier, do you think they will tell me?"
Taili drew out his standard sword and slowly walked towards the cabinet, getting closer and closer to Dai'er.
At this time, a faint black smoke flowed out of the cabinet.
"Go out, there is nothing unusual here. Close the door and let them pass..."
Taili looked dazed for a moment, then turned and walked towards the warehouse door: "These are all abandoned items from the Extraordinary Species Breeding Center. There is nothing suspicious. Let them go! Let them go!"
Then Taili said : "Let's go quickly before the blockade order is delivered."
"Thank you, thank you, Captain Taili. I will definitely tell Mr. Malcolm about your care."
"Let's go!"
With a shake, the stopped garbage boat started moving.
Dai Er lifted the white cloth and let out a long breath. She was less than a meter away from Tai Li just now. If it weren't for the things in the cabinet, she would have a high chance of being discovered.
After jumping down from the shelf, Dale first listened to the sounds outside: "We should have entered the downtown area. Thank you, what's your name?"
"Name? The trainer called me... I really don't like that name. Princess Dale, don't forget your promise to me."
"Of course, I will never bring disgrace to my mother's reputation. You didn't tell me your name, are you afraid that I will know what you are from your name?"
“…”
The things in the cabinet didn't speak. The young princess was a little too smart.
"Let me guess..." Princess Dale turned her magic wand, and images of extraordinary creatures flashed by quickly: "No matter what you are, there must be a known extraordinary creature as a prototype. You were able to peek into my thoughts just now. Although it was due to my absent-mindedness, the fact that you captured it so quickly means that you come from a very powerful telepathic extraordinary creature.
There aren’t many types of this kind of extraordinary creatures…”
The magical images of the extraordinary creatures passed by slower.
Dale continued to search while talking to herself: "You can also use energy mimicry, using the appearance of an angel's sacred energy to lure me to open the cabinet. Mental confusion failed on me, but it succeeded on the sheriff.
You don’t have the ability to attack or you can’t attack for some reason, but you keep tempting me to open the cabinet…”
Dai'er crossed out the images of other supernatural creatures, leaving only a jellyfish-like translucent supernatural creature.
"You are the Shadow Parasite!"
"I, I don't know what you're talking about." The thing in the cabinet denied it.
Dale smiled and said, "My grades in the supernatural biology class are very good. The shadow parasite is the most basic unit of the shadow civilization, and has a very strong mental erosion ability. However, the shadow parasite itself is very fragile and can only survive by parasitizing the souls of other creatures.
You just tempted me to open the cabinet. Is it because the body you are parasitizing is now damaged, and you want to parasitize in my soul. After reading my memory and thoughts... replace me. "
"I am not a shadow parasite, and I have no ill will towards you. You deliberately framed me because you don't want to help me."
Dai Er knocked on the cabinet with her magic wand: "Don't get excited. Yes, you are probably not the real Shadow Parasite. Although the Shadow Civilization is secluded, my father will definitely not provoke the inheritance of an ancient civilization.
I can't be safe facing you.
Let me think... I have very good grades in history. In the 2517th century, the Imperial Archaeological Team found the sealed body of the Shadow Man in an ancient ruin and extracted an incomplete Shadow Parasite from the body. This Shadow Parasite has the characteristics of parasitism but will not replace the host, but the host will have a rejection reaction, causing unpredictable sequelae.
Later, an extraordinary cultivator proposed to split and cultivate this special shadow parasite, weakening the shadow parasite through iteration and reducing the parasitic sequelae. Although the sequelae could not be completely eliminated after the experiment, it was much better than before.
It's just that there has been no controllable solution to the balance between the intensity of the harmful effects of the sequelae and the enhanced mental strength. After so many years of testing and experimentation, it seems that the most successful one is... the deceased Grover."
Seeing no response from the cabinet, Dale continued to talk to herself: "I don't know which generation of Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration you are, but your chances of survival if you force yourself to parasitize are zero."
"How do you know?" The thing in the cabinet finally spoke, and indirectly acknowledged Dai'er's judgment.
"Although I don't like the supernatural creature cultivation class, my grades are very good. I have read some papers on the iterative cultivation of shadow parasites. Your current state means that your first host has died and you are rapidly weakening. If you don't replenish your spiritual energy, you will dissipate within a day.
In your current state, if you force yourself to parasitize the host, you will only be devoured by it.
unless……"
"Unless what? You have a way to save me?"
"I said I would save you, and I will definitely do it. This concerns my mother's reputation..." Dai'er said, "The person who bought you must know how to save you, which is to find a creature with weaker spiritual power for you to parasitize."
“So simple?”
"Otherwise... I can just provide you with spiritual nourishment and prevent you from starving to death. Look what I just caught..." Princess Daier caught a mouse from somewhere, and she held the mouse's tail and shook it in front of the cabinet: "This is one of the few animals that I won't feel guilty about killing. It's more than enough for you to use as a host."
The Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration said in resistance: "You let me parasitize in the soul of a mouse."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with . According to the experimental records, the weaker the host's soul, the easier it is for the parasitic meta-body to gain control. When you are parasitic in a higher-level organism, you are locked in a cage and can die at any time along with the host suffering from sequelae. But in the soul of a parasitic mouse, you can go wherever you want. If you feel like dying, you can just change to another mouse. What else do you want?
I crawled out of a garbage dump for this kind of freedom, and I had to pretend to be a corpse."
“…”
The Shadow Parasitic Meta-iteration was still hesitating. The spiritual energy of an animal like a mouse would mean life to it, and it would become very weak.
Dai'er said hurriedly, "I have no better way... The ship may stop at any time, and I will be surrounded by people unloading the cargo, and I will not be able to escape. The person who bought you must have put you into a weak animal soul first, and then continued to experiment on you. You may die in the experiment at any time.
You are an iteration with serious flaws, otherwise you can't buy it no matter how much money you spend."
"Okay." The iteration knew that it could only survive if it escaped, but it still put forward a condition to Dale: "After we escape, I want to follow you."
"Why?" Thinking of carrying this mouse with her, Dale shuddered: "I gave you freedom. I did it."
"I just helped you, and we are even now. If you don't promise to protect me in the future, I will reveal your identity now."
"You are going too far! I am a little dull, but not stupid. Even if you shout now, you can't run away. Goodbye..."
Dale opened the cabinet, quickly threw the mouse in, and ran away. She used magic to open a hole in the warehouse wall, crawled out and jumped into the water in the canal.
After a while, a mouse crawled out of the cupboard. It looked back at the body of its first host, then jumped onto the floor and scurried out through the hole that Dale had opened like a puff of smoke.
At this moment, the hull shook, and the opened cabinet lid fell and closed.
The garbage ship docked at the shore, and more than ten searchlights illuminated the deck of the ship. A group of people in dirty canvas clothes rushed over and worked together to carry the garbage container to the shore.
More people gathered from all sides, holding various tools in their hands, but they did not dare to approach these garbage warehouses.
At this time, someone jumped onto a garbage warehouse and shouted, “This ship’s cargo was booked by Mr. Melken, but he has the magnanimity to not eat it all… No, he won’t swallow it all.
Not really.
In short, Mr. Melken will pick the goods first, and the rest are yours. Whether you can pick up valuable goods depends on your luck. Mr. Melken will not want them and will not look down on them. "
Hearing that Mr. Melken would not "eat" all the garbage, the impatient staff immediately calmed down . They wondered what good things were in this batch of goods that Mr. Melken had to choose personally.
Surrounded by a group of thugs, Melkan, dressed in upper-class attire, walked to the door of a garbage warehouse.
The captain saluted respectfully and opened the door. "Mr. Melken, everything you want is inside. There was a disturbance in the Imperial City and the whole city was under martial law. Fortunately, Captain Taili was on duty. He knew it was what you wanted and let it go immediately.
There were no delays on the road.”
"Something did happen in Saint Lun City. You did a great job in delivering the goods in time. You will get a reward. And Captain Taili, please give him my regards when you go back."
Although Melken didn't know what happened in Saint Lun City, he knew something serious had happened. Just now he was worried that the goods would not be delivered in time, but now he was filled with joy after seeing it with his own eyes.
After praising the captain a few words, Melkan walked into the warehouse.
He lifted the white cloth covering the bodies one by one and used his professional knowledge to estimate the usable parts and their value.
It is very fresh and of very high quality. There are even two living bodies inside that are not completely dead, so it can be sold at a very good price.
Melken waved his hand, and his men immediately carried the bodies to the nutrient solution tanks that had been prepared outside. The garbage that the Extraordinary Species Cultivation Center disdained to deal with was a treasure that could be reused by those in the lower city.
Especially since this batch was high-end garbage that he had spent a lot of money to order.
What Melken was most concerned about was the innermost cabinet. He walked to the cabinet, his hands shaking slightly with excitement.
The Shadow Parasite Meta-iteration is the highest level of extraordinary species research project in the Golden Shield Empire, and it is absolutely not allowed to leak out of the experimental body. In order to obtain this somewhat incomplete iteration, Melken spent an extremely high price. But he felt that the price he paid was really worth it compared to what he got.
This is the first generation of iterations, and theoretically it can be iterated two to four times. If he can comprehend and repair the defects of this shadow parasitic iteration, he can carry out his research direction that was abandoned by the Extraordinary Species Cultivation Center.
What if the sequelae are strong? What if I lose my soul?
The least valuable thing in downtown is human life.
Malken put one hand on the cabinet and took the white mouse handed to him by his subordinate with the other hand.
"Hello, I know you are very weak now. I have specially prepared a safe host for you. I will cure your defects and make you a real Shadow Man."
Malcolm's words received no response.
Realizing something, Melken suddenly opened the cabinet lid.
Inside lay the body of a young man, and nothing else.
At this time, one of the men shouted: "Mr. Malcolm, there is a hole here!"
ah……!!!
