She put her hands down, sat up straight, and looked like a well-behaved kindergarten child.
She tilted her head and said, "Tell me, which parasite is it?"
"Aren't you scared?" Shu Yan blinked and patted her thigh. "If you're scared, just sit here. My boyfriend's here, so my baby doesn't have to hide under the covers."
What else could Tao Yao do? Of course, she simply straddled her boyfriend's right side and sat on his lap.
She placed her hands on Shu Yan's shoulders, looked him straight in the eye, and said with a charming smile, "Sit down and talk."
Shu Yan reached out and put his arm around her waist. The warm touch made him sigh softly, "Yaoyao, although it doesn't sound nice, I'm glad I knew it wasn't you who was poisoned."
At that time, he was on the balcony, intending to use his mental power to force Luo Zilin to tell the truth. When he heard the Fifth Prince and Xie Langhuan's exclamations of being poisoned and vomiting blood, he panicked.
Si Yi naturally didn't care, but there was no doubt that Tao Yao and Xie Langhuan were sitting together. If Xie Langhuan was poisoned, what about Tao Yao?
When Shu Yan rushed over and saw Tao Yao sitting there properly using her supernatural abilities, he finally felt like he could breathe a sigh of relief.
Tao Yao's dress today was divided into two sections, with the waist exposed in the middle. So when Shu Yan put his hands on her waist, she unconsciously twisted and giggled, "It tickles."
Shu Yan: "..."
His girlfriend, as lovely as a peach, was sitting on his lap, wiggling her hips and saying in a sweet, soft voice that she was ticklish.
Should he have immediately turned into a beast and overpowered her?
Shu Yan took a deep breath, intending to be a man of unwavering integrity like Liu Xiahui at this moment.
“Yaoyao,” he said, having already attained enlightenment, “Don’t move.”
"Oh, then move your hand somewhere else," Tao Yao said. "Put it on my waist, it tickles."
Shu Yan looked at his girlfriend, whose legs stretched from her chest down, and the worldly pleasures seemed irrelevant to him at that moment.
His voice was calm, and he felt very peaceful at the moment. "If we move it any further, it will be 18+."
Tao Yao: "..."
Tao Yao smoothed a strand of hair from his forehead, smiled, and kissed him: "Looks like your skill level isn't high enough, young man!"
Shu Yan gently pinched his girlfriend's slender waist, "You naughty girl."
Why should a young man full of vigor and vitality have to endure this?
Oh, it was my own stupid slap on my thigh just now.
Then, he felt Tao Yao wrap her arms around his shoulders. She rested her head on his shoulder and whispered, "I understand."
Shu Yan turned his head and thought for a moment before realizing that the three words "I understand" were his reply to his earlier response when he was happy to know that she was not poisoned.
The two hugged quietly for a while.
Tao Yao said, "Are we still talking about the parasite clan? They're almost here."
Shu Yan let out a short laugh. "Do you remember the video I showed you in the car on the way here?"
“I remember,” Tao Yao recalled the video she had watched at the time, “You said that the man might be controlled by another person’s mental power, but when Xia Xia tried to follow him again, she lost him.”
Earlier in the car, Tao Yao was in a bad mood because she thought that Xie Lang Huan might not be able to live a carefree life in the future. After she calmed herself down, Shu Yan pulled up a video from his personal terminal and showed it to her, saying that he wanted to play a game of "Guess what I'm doing, he hides and I find".
The game target is the man in the video.
Tao Yao thought for a moment, then looked up with an incredulous expression. "Could it be that you now suspect he's not being controlled by mental power, but rather being parasitized by the Zerg?"
Shu Yan reached out and leaned her head close, wrapping her arms around her neck to remove the necklace from her neck, saying, "I can't rule out that possibility, but I don't know exactly what it is."
Tao Yao felt much lighter on her neck. She shook her head, still not believing it: "The people parasitized by the Zerg are no different from dead corpses. Apart from some basic human actions like walking and raising their hands, there has never been a precedent of them thinking like humans. But the man in the video is obviously like a normal human!"
Humans consider themselves highly intelligent beings, and they have brought civilization to the entire galaxy.
Even orcs are proud of their ability to imitate or even become human.
When fighting, the Zerg can generally obey the commands of the higher Zerg, but that's about it. They haven't grasped even a fraction of the strategies and tactics that humans have passed down for thousands of years.
Now, when the Zerg parasitize humans, they not only know basic human actions, but also think strategically like humans.
“Yaoyao,” Shu Yan opened his palm, and a cluster of white crystals appeared in his palm. It was a crystal cone formed from spiritual power. “We have been evolving, so the Zerg can also keep evolving.”
Humans possess supernatural abilities, and humans can live for over 200 years; these are the results of evolution.
All plants and animals evolve, so why don't the Zerg evolve?
"We haven't yet found any instances of parasites coexisting with humans. This is just a guess. Besides, if that man was indeed parasitized by the insectoids, then he couldn't be considered anything other than a parasite; he should be coexisting with them. Because when he asked us for help, he clearly still had a human way of thinking."
Tao Yao gasped for breath.
The Zerg's reproductive capacity and destructive power are astonishing. Wherever they go, it's like an ancient locust swarm sweeping across the land, leaving the entire planet barren. If they were to evolve into higher intelligence...
She dared not think any further.
Tao Yao: "Could it be that there are really parasitized servants in the palace, or those living in symbiosis with the insect race?"
Shu Yan is currently uncertain: "There's no hope; it's just a power struggle among a group of people trying to make money."
Intrigue and backstabbing lead to the collapse of a royal palace; the evolutionary parasitic Zerg could potentially wipe out all of humanity.
*****
After seeing off the last group of guests leaving the palace, Butler He hurried to a movie theater in the palace's basement.
The 3D cinema is projecting the most popular otome romance game of the moment, and the AI-generated character Si Yi is confessing her love.
The virtual Si Yi stands before you through images, expressing his love to his beloved with deep affection. When the emotion is intense, he can even unbutton his own clothes.
Of course, you can also choose other people as your subjects; any famous figure from the empire can be found in this game.
Behind the ultimate, perfect daydream lies an extremely expensive consumption.
In her previous life, Luo Zilin saved up money during her student days to buy the equipment for this game.
Yes, this game not only requires money to maintain your virtual lover, but also requires spending a lot of money to buy equipment in the early stages.
Now, experiencing all the unlocked game features in a holographic-like room, Luo Zilin only felt it was fake.
The AI-generated Fifth Prince completely lacked the true spirit of the Fifth Prince. She had never seen Si Yi in person before, but she had been captivated by the game. Now, after only a short encounter with the Fifth Prince, she realized how crude the game was.
Seeing the cinema door being pushed open, Luo Zilin quickly closed the game.
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