Hearing Yao Yi’s scold, the female high school student turned back, putting on an expression of innocence mixed with a bit of confusion.
“?” Yao Yi’s expression froze.
Before he could reflect on whether his reaction was too extreme, a gust of fierce wind suddenly attacked from behind him.
He had no opportunity to turn back and check, instinctively lunging forward.
Burning pain transmitted from his arm, letting him know he hadn’t completely dodged this sneak attack.
Out of survival instinct, the moment Yao Yi hit the ground, he immediately rolled, trying to create a safe distance.
Perhaps thinking Yao Yi couldn’t escape, the opponent had no intention of finishing him off.
Taking advantage of this breather time granted by the opponent, Yao Yi, covered in dirt, pressed against a wall, first ensuring he wouldn’t be sneak attacked from behind again.
He took in the entire situation around him.
Three parasitic organisms?
Yao Yi inwardly groaned; he knew well his own capabilities—he wasn’t a freak like Lu Bai and couldn’t possibly fight three monsters single-handedly.
Not to mention…
Yao Yi glanced at his arm.
Through the torn sleeve, he could see the bleeding wound.
The wound wasn’t deep enough to expose bone, but it was still flesh torn open.
Just letting it hang like this already hurt so much he was breaking out in cold sweat, completely unable to support using this arm to fight anymore.
“This guy, right?” The skinny boy sized up Yao Yi.
The other boy twirled a butterfly knife in his hand, doing a knife flourish: “I don’t think he looks like it.”
The female high school student rolled her eyes.
“Never mind if he’s a death fighter or not; anyway, he’s with ‘Pure Smile.’ You all saw that person get off this guy’s car.”
Yao Yi felt like the female high school student had become a different person, no longer having that timid feeling from before.
Moreover, he couldn’t make heads or tails of what these high school students were saying in their conversation, and he couldn’t help furrowing his brows.
“What are you talking about?”
But no one paid him any attention.
That boy gripped the butterfly knife and walked toward Yao Yi: “Enough talk, I’ll give him another slash.”
Yao Yi was a bit dazed.
He was gradually coming to his senses now; since he hadn’t transformed yet, it seemed these three high school students weren’t parasitic organisms.
But why were they talking about killing so casually! Is this how schools educate students nowadays?!
Watching the boy get closer and closer, Yao Yi raised his other hand that could still move normally, waving it frantically.
“Wait, I’m from the Special Affairs Bureau— you know Special Duty, right? If you stop now, there’s still room to turn back; don’t do something that would break your parents’ hearts…”
Before he finished speaking, Yao Yi’s heart gradually sank to the bottom.
Because he could clearly feel that no matter what he said, the other party showed no sign of being moved.
Unwilling to die so unclearly, Yao Yi kicked out with his foot toward the knife-wielding boy.
However, the opponent calmly sidestepped to dodge, and the butterfly knife in his hand slashed out smoothly, precisely severing his leg tendon.
The boy swung a straight punch with his other hand, striking Yao Yi’s abdomen with a dull thud.
Under the intense pain, Yao Yi couldn’t help crying out.
After this series of attacks, Yao Yi nearly fainted, only feeling his vision blur.
“Wang Ting…”
He muttered something softly, but his voice was too low; no one else heard it, and seeing his lips trembling, they only thought it was due to his body shaking.
……
Yao Yi hung his head low, his vision hazy, that layer of mist seeming to come from the past.
He had always known there was a monster inside him; on the hot air balloon, when the monster burrowed into his chest, his consciousness was actually clear.
Later, he met the monster inside him when his life hung by a thread.
At that time, he was investigating an incident with an old special duty agent when a parasitic organism suddenly appeared and attacked; the old special duty agent was killed first.
Just when he thought he would die right after starting the job, the monster in his chest appeared.
Having survived, he didn’t feel fortunate; instead, he felt so disgusted he wanted to vomit and wished he could escape this body.
It asked if he was okay; he picked up the dagger and stabbed at his chest again and again, saying fuck off.
The monster nimbly blocked all attacks; it couldn’t understand why a creature would self-harm.
Its two weird eyeballs pondered for a moment, then said: You can call me Wang Ting.
Yao Yi got even angrier; that fucking name was his old girlfriend’s, and she had been killed by this monster.
He stabbed and stabbed; no matter how tricky the angle, the monster easily blocked them. Later, he no longer hoped to kill the monster this way; it was more for venting, or rather, only this way could keep him from completely going crazy.
Later on, Yao Yi passed out; when he woke up, he was already lying on a hospital bed.
Then they met a few more times, from drawing a knife the moment they met to barely being able to have a calm conversation…
……
“Not even as good as a tourist; probably a native.” The knife-wielding boy gave his conclusion.
The skinny boy crossed his arms: “Should we get some intelligence on that person from him?”
“Forget it, just kill him.”
The female high school student spat: “You think that elite would leak their own intelligence to a native? Even if this native says something, would you dare believe it?”
The skinny boy chuckled awkwardly: “Yeah, an elite like that wouldn’t make that mistake.”
“Tch, wasted effort.”
The knife-wielding boy complained, then stabbed toward Yao Yi’s heart.
Unexpectedly, the knife was blocked, even producing a metallic collision sound.
“What?”
“Holy shit?!”
Yao Yi was leaning against the wall, looking completely limp.
However, the clothing at his chest was torn by a ferocious flesh ball, extending countless jagged bone spikes.
Just using a few bone spikes blocked the stabbing butterfly knife.
“What the fuck is this thing?”
The originally knife-wielding boy was so shocked he let go of the butterfly knife, reflexively retreating several steps: “This isn’t right; there’s absolutely nothing like this in the White Ability Pool.”
“Kinda looks like those parasitic monsters, but how could it parasitize in that position?” The female high school student also silently retreated a few steps, preparing to run if the situation turned bad.
From the gaps in the ferocious bone spikes, two weird eyeballs emerged, glaring viciously at the three high school students present.
Yao Yi’s face was somewhat pale.
Even though it wasn’t the first time, he still found it hard to accept this thing growing out of his body.
“Are you okay?” One of the eyeballs turned toward Yao Yi.
Yao Yi supported his body weight with one foot, staggering to his feet; he low roared: “Wang Ting, let’s go!”