Purple star beetle (8)

The previous attack almost took up most of Shi Jianxia's strength. Her hands were still shaking a little, and she didn't understand the meaning of Xia Shu's jargon at all, so she glanced at him with a little confusion.

Xia Shuxing panted slightly, a look of shock still lingering in his eyes. "Aren't you unable to awaken your mimicry and live on Shuiyuan Star?"

Shi Jianxia immediately realized why he had called out his name in such shock and scoffed, "What? Has that arrogant Young Master Xia finally remembered me, a poor little thing who can be bullied at will?"

Her voice was full of sarcasm, which made Xia Shuxing blush and move his lips. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

Shi Jianxia stood up, leaning on the Zhuyan sword, and looked back at Xia Shuxing coldly, "I'm sorry to disappoint you. Not only have I awakened my mimicry, I'm even stronger than you now."

Killing people and destroying their hearts, Xia Shuxing is competitive and did not take Shi Jianxia seriously at first. But now, in just a few months, Shi Jianxia's strength has improved by leaps and bounds. He cares about this matter very much and thinks about how to defeat her every day.

But now, not only has he been surpassed, the gap in strength between the two is also getting bigger and bigger. With his usual temper, how can he accept it?

Unexpectedly, Xia Shuxing did not get angry because of her words. Instead, he pursed his lips, avoided her gaze, and lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry... I... I was still young at that time... I didn't know..."

"Still young? Eight years old, right?" Shi Jianxia scoffed, "Stop making excuses for yourself."

It's not like he hasn't received any education. At the age of eight, he should understand the basic principles of being a human being.

Xia Shuxing's face turned almost the color of liver. His origin and prestigious family, which he was proud of, became his most embarrassing background.

He blamed his young age, but what about his family and clan? They knew everything but watched coldly, even mocking and ridiculing the Xia father and daughter in front of the younger generation. They were jealous and bullying.

Realizing this, Xia Shuxing wanted to dig a hole and crawl into it immediately. Seeing Xia turning around to leave, he grabbed her arm without thinking and whispered to her in a cold and disgusted look: "Aren't you going to beat me up?"

Shi Jianxia raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Xia Shuxing closed his eyes, held up the Jade Sea Dragon Spear in his hand, bent his waist into an arc parallel to the ground, and stumbled, "You, hit me! I've hit you several times, and you hit me back! If it's not enough, you can hit me a few more times. I was wrong back then, I'm sorry!"

He is indeed arrogant, but he has grown up and studied in Nandong Military Academy for so long that he can definitely tell right from wrong.

Xia Shuxing closed his eyes, his heart was beating as if it was on fire, and his face was burning.

He was mentally prepared to be beaten, but the expected pain did not come.

More than ten seconds seemed too long. Xia Shuxing quietly opened one eye and wanted to take a peek at Shi Jianxia's reaction, but there was no sign of her in front of him.

Just as I was confused, I suddenly heard the muffled sound of monsters falling to the ground one after another in front of me.

Xia Shuxing looked up and saw that Xia was helping four cadets from Fengyan Military Academy to clear the monsters in the passage.

She turned around during the fight, and their eyes met. Xia Shuxing felt an unprecedented sense of guilt, not knowing how to react. Then he heard Xia sneer, "Why don't you roll over and help? I'll keep the score, and I'll beat you up when I get out!"

It is absolutely impossible to let it go easily. She holds a grudge, but now is not a good time to deal with personal matters.

Xia Shuxing came back to his senses as if waking from a dream, quickly grabbed the Bi Hai Cang Long Spear, and flew forward to kill!

Without the strongest monster as a threat, the strength of the remaining monsters was weakened by the burning effect in the field of [Golden Crow Sun], and the combat pressure on several people was greatly reduced.

Wen Qiuqiu controlled the purple flower chain and helped Shi Wuyu sprinkle the weakness potion on the remaining monsters. In this way, the monsters were no match for Shi Jianxia and others, and the battle ended quickly.

The monster corpses fell in the passage, and the Bifang fire burned through, leaving a pile of ashes.

The crisis was resolved, and the four cadets from Fengyan Military Academy fell to the ground gasping for breath, feeling grateful from the bottom of their hearts that they had survived the disaster.

Shi Jianxia got straight to the point and asked, "The hospital is so big, why did you come directly here?"

The purpose is clear, as if knowing in advance what secrets will be here.

The four of them looked at each other, and finally the armless boy said, "We landed near here when we entered the examination room. We saw a large number of parasites gathered here, which seemed a bit strange. My mimicry is called Lucky Dice, and it predicted that we would have the best luck here."

Isn't the best luck in the exam to find the answers to the questions and get a high score?

"There is this kind of mimicry?" Jun Xiaoyi, who was walking towards the elevator, couldn't help but ask.

Being able to predict luck is obviously a kind of predictive mimicry, and the number of such mimicry is much rarer than that of powerful mimicry and miraculous mimicry.

The armless boy touched his nose and said, "The potential level is only A-level, and the predicted time and space range is limited."

Precognition is inherently against the will of heaven, so it is normal to have limitations. Otherwise, wouldn't people who possess this kind of mimicry become omniscient gods?

"You are really brave. You dare to run down here after seeing the corpses scattered all over the ground." Shi Wu Yu said casually.

The quality of luck cannot be measured by a specific number, but is a relative standard among things that happen within a certain period of time.

The four recognized Shi Wu Yu, and after hearing his words, they all looked a little embarrassed. It was obvious that they trusted the mimicry of the one-armed boy too much, and did not think carefully before taking action. Or perhaps they thought that this was an examination room after all, and there would not be much danger. Even if there was, the instructors and security guards would take action in time.

Xia Shuxing stood behind Shi Jianxia like a young wife, with her head down and not a word.

Jun Xiaoyi and Wen Qiuqiu both noticed his abnormality and couldn't help but cast inquiring glances at Shi Jianxia.

Shi Jianxia raised his hand and made a horizontal gesture in front of his neck. The two of them cast complicated glances at Xia Shuxing one after another.

What did you do to offend people again?

Jun Xiaoyi gave a look and immediately put the matter behind him. He raised his finger and pointed at the palm-sized monster trapped in the purple flower cage by Wen Qiuqiu. "I just did a little research. This monster seems to be a parasite of the purple star beetle, but it is not the same as a living purple star beetle parasite."

"What do you mean?" Shi Jianxia asked.

Are parasites divided into living and dead?

Jun Xiaoyi explained: "They are already dead before they become parasites."

"Don't Zergs parasitize the dead?" Shi Jianxia asked curiously.

The Zerg's parasites are basically organisms with blood circulation.

After a human dies, blood circulation stagnates and the blood no longer provides a breeding ground for larvae to grow. At most, it can be used as food.

"I haven't figured it out yet, but this guess should be correct. There are insect crystals in the brains of these monsters." Jun Xiaoyi replied.

Zerg crystals can only be born in the bodies of Zerg and parasites.

"Maybe we can go into these morgues and take a look," Shi Wu Yu suggested.

The instructors can watch the live broadcast of the exam. They have been here for such a long time, but the intelligent computer has not made any movement, and the instructors and security guards have not appeared. This shows that the current situation is in line with the exam syllabus. With the lucky prediction of the one-armed boy as a reference, it is very likely that the answers to the exam questions exist here.

Now that the crisis was over, there was no need to rush out. Everyone agreed with Shi Wu Yu's proposal and first entered the morgue where the long-haired monster was.

The morgue is square, about 30 square meters, with cold metal walls on all sides. However, because it has been abandoned, moss is covered in the corners, and there is only a cold chamber in the middle.

The glass cover of the cold cabin was shattered, with dents inside and outside. Judging from its condition, it must have been damaged for a long time. Body parts were scattered on the ground, and the stench of decay mixed with the smell of dampness and mold was quite touching.

Among them, there was a white bone with some flesh and blood hanging on it, which was the forearm bone of the boy with the broken arm.

He suppressed the nausea in his stomach and turned his head away, not daring to look at the white bone full of teeth marks.

Fortunately, medical technology is advanced in the interstellar age, and he can undergo limb regeneration surgery after he gets out. Otherwise, every time he sees a broken arm in his life, he will probably remember the situation today.

"How come there is only one cold storage compartment in such a large morgue?" Jun Xiaoyi walked around the cold storage and looked left and right.

Shi Jianxia diligently controlled the Bifang fire to burn the body parts on the ground. When it reached the white bones, he turned around and asked the boy with the broken arm very politely, "Do you want to take it back as a souvenir?"

The boy with the one-armed leg immediately shook his head like a rattle. If it weren't for the exam grading, he would have wanted to rush into the elevator and leave Renxin Hospital right now.

"Could it be that the person parked here is more important?" Shi Wu Yu took over Jun Xiaoyi's words and selectively skipped Shi Jianxia's words.

"Look what this is?" Wen Qiuqiu suddenly asked.

She stood at the head of the cold chamber and pointed at a groove. "It looks like there's a recording chip inserted here."

Everyone gathered over immediately.

Jun Xiaoyi put on gloves and took out the chip, shining it towards the Bifang Fire floating high in the sky. "It is indeed a recording chip. Judging from the serial number on it, it should have been issued more than ten years ago. I will try to see if I can still read the information."

As he spoke, he took the chip and placed it on the intelligent brain. A light blue light flashed, and the chip floated above the intelligent brain. A virtual screen popped up, and a long stream of data was quickly read.

The boy with the broken arm exclaimed in surprise: "It still works!"

Jun Xiaoyi enlarged the virtual screen and waited for the chip data to be completely read by the intelligent brain. Xia Shuxing, who had been stealing glances at Xia like a thief, also raised his head.

After a while, folders popped up one after another, named with a series of numbers.

Jun Xiaoyi opened the first folder, which was a medical record. The man in the photo looked exactly like the long-haired monster who died at the hands of Shi Jianxia and Xia Shuxing, except that he had short hair in the photo.

"Hemiparasite of the purple star blister beetle?" Shi Wu Yu read out a line of words on the medical record in surprise.

The words "semi-parasite" immediately attracted Shi Jianxia's attention. She looked down and quickly found the content of Shi Wu Yu's words.

Jun Xiaoyi read through it quickly and couldn't help but clap his hands and said, "So that's how it is."

"After the purple star blister beetle parasitizes humans, there's a period of incubation. During this stage, humans aren't yet considered parasites. The purple star blister beetle that enters their body suddenly dies, and these humans, who haven't yet fully transformed into parasites, become semi-parasites."

"Renxin Hospital accepted investment from Dream Technology to research the resuscitation of semi-parasites. They received a batch of purple star blister beetle semi-parasites from Purple Mist Star for treatment research."

"But these semi-parasites are different from ordinary parasites. The purple star beetle larvae died in their bodies, turned into liquid and dissolved in the human blood. After combining with the purple star toxin secreted by the human blood, these semi-parasites mutated."

"The doctors and researchers at Renxin Hospital didn't realize the potential danger posed by these semi-parasitic organisms. One day, they completely transformed into parasites, triggering a plague of insects."

In the Federation, there are many research institutes and pharmaceutical companies that study semi-parasite resuscitation technology. As long as the research projects are reported to the Federation and approved, reasonable and legal treatment and research can be carried out under the supervision of the Zerg Investigation Office.

The same is true for the cooperation between Renxin Hospital and Dream Technology.

After making his guess, Jun Xiaoyi stroked his chin and said, "Isn't that idiot Yuan Huai the eldest son of Dream Technology? It would be great if he were here. Maybe he could get some more accurate information. The above is all my guess based on the medical records, so it may not be reliable."

"He was only eight years old ten years ago. What could he know?" Shi Jianxia shrugged.