Red-backed centipede (10)
The moment his eyes met those of the red-backed centipede parasite, Shi Jianxia clearly saw those strange compound eyes move, revealing a strong greed from the inside out, as if a ferocious beast that had been hungry for a long time saw delicious food.
The hairs on her body stood up, and a strong sense of crisis surged in her heart. This sense of crisis was even more terrifying than when she was targeted by the red-backed centipede queen this morning.
This red-backed centipede parasite must be stronger than the mother insect!
Shi Jianxia didn't dare to breathe, her heart almost jumped into her throat, and the accelerated blood flow made her whole body hot. In just a few seconds, thin layers of cold sweat appeared on her forehead, back, and palms.
Before traveling through time, she was a completely ordinary person. She had been to a shooting club a few times for personal interest. Her accuracy was okay, but it was no match for professionals, and she had never received any combat-related training.
She had just escaped a disaster this morning, and before she had time to make a survival plan for the future, she was temporarily recruited to carry out the mission. She thought the mission was not difficult, but who would have thought that there would be such an unexpected situation?
Based on the strategic idea of not moving unless the enemy moves, she stared at the red-backed centipede parasite, preparing to delay time.
But the red-backed centipede parasite seemed to have sensed her intention, and it bit the broken arm with its fine sharp teeth and pulled it apart, revealing a hideous smile. The flesh on the broken arm was bitten off by the sharp teeth, and the bones and the remaining part fell to the ground with a plop, oozing out a shallow pool of blood.
It opened its mouth and chewed the flesh it had bitten off, its scarlet compound eyes fixed on Shi Jianxia, as if thinking about which angle to attack from so that it could bite off her neck as quickly as possible and feast on her blood.
Shi Jianxia gritted her teeth, and the habits of the red-backed centipede she had seen in the mimicry ability exchange forum emerged in her mind.
It likes dark and humid places and is afraid of high temperatures.
Afraid of high temperatures.
Afraid of fire!
Almost at the moment when she came up with a countermeasure, the red-backed centipede parasite suddenly jumped up from behind the support column.
"Classic of Mountains and Seas" suddenly appeared, and a colorful bird with blue feathers and red spots flapped its wings and flew out from it.
It has only one leg, and it stretches its neck and makes a clear cry, which seems to be a threat or a warning. Wherever it passes, a piece of dark blue feathers with red stripes falls, and flames float out, and the temperature around it also rises.
The sudden appearance of Bifang scared the red-backed centipede parasite. The sudden rise in temperature around Shi Jianxia made it instinctively stop flying towards it, and it crawled on the ground, pressing its neck and baring its teeth at Bifang.
The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" floated beside Shi Jianxia and naturally turned to the page that recorded Bifang.
Secondary mimicry name: Bifang
[Mimicry Level: C-level (0/10 C-level vortex required for upgrade)]
[Mimicry Potential: Currently in the young bird state, can be upgraded to level 3S]
[Mimicry Talent: Fire Disaster]
[Talent Introduction: Grants the Mimic's owner the ability to manipulate flames and gain 100% flame immunity. The talent lasts for 1 hour and has a cooldown of 240 hours (after cooldown is complete)]
[Battle Level: Level 1 (Level 1 Insect Crystals 203/10000 required for upgrade)]
[Fusion Combat Bonus: Increases the physical function of the mimic owner by 100%]
Shi Jianxia didn't hesitate at all and immediately chose to merge with Bifang to fight.
Bifang circled in the air, flapping its dazzling colorful wings, rolling up a shallow white airflow, and turned into a ray of light that flew into her eyebrows.
The fox ears in Xia's hair disappeared, a dark blue pattern quickly appeared between her eyebrows, and light red feathers appeared at the corners of her eyes. The frail temperament caused by malnutrition disappeared completely, and her expression became dangerous and weird.
The nine-tailed fox fell on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" with a thud, shook its little head, looked back at Shi Jianxia who was fighting with Bifang in fusion, and pouted a little.
With Shi Jianxia's current strength, he cannot fight against two mimic fusions at the same time. The nine-tailed fox knows this and is also aware that he cannot deal with the red-backed centipede parasite, so he has to squat on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" with his front paws as pads.
Shi Jianxia had no time to take care of it. After merging with Bifang and fighting, she felt a warm airflow surrounding the surface of her body. With just a thought, a ball of fire appeared in the palm of her hand. The fire was like smoke and water, and the breath was burning.
Thinking of how Gongye Jiwang turned flames into a bow this morning, and how each arrow reaped the life of the red-backed centipede parasite, she followed suit, controlling the flames in her hand to expand into a longbow.
Unfortunately, the gun's structure was too complicated for her to understand and transform.
Shi Jianxia had some basic shooting skills. After merging with Bifang, his physical fitness was greatly improved. His strength and eyesight were far better than before he crossed over. Now, when he drew the bow and pulled the string, his nervous heart calmed down a lot.
The bowstring was fully drawn, and the red flame turned into a sharp long arrow, which suddenly flew off the string!
The scorching breath swallowed up the faint smell of blood in the air and came threateningly in the blink of an eye!
The red-backed centipede parasite, still hesitating whether to launch an attack, felt the approaching flames, pressed down its dense limbs, jumped up like a spring, nimbly avoided the flying arrows, and roared as it pounced on the sweet and delicious prey!
A foul-smelling wind blew in her face, and Shi Jianxia ran away decisively, but the red-backed centipede parasite was so fast that it approached her before she could even escape.
Too fast!
Shi Jianxia's forehead veins throbbed, and he manipulated the flaming longbow in his hand into a long sword, and without hesitation slashed at the red-backed centipede parasite that was rushing towards him.
But she had no combat experience, and her sword strikes were completely random, barely able to block the ugly bite of the red-backed centipede parasite!
The long sword collided with the limbs, and the flowing flames immediately burned upwards. The red-backed centipede parasite sensed the danger and decided to end the battle quickly. Some of its limbs rolled towards Shi Jianxia's legs. Although it was in pain from the flames on her body, it still successfully knocked her to the ground.
However, with Bifang's current level, the flames it released were simply not enough to burn the red-backed centipede parasite into ashes in a short period of time.
At that time, Xia Hou was lying on her back, her legs wrapped by the limbs of the red-backed centipede parasite and unable to move. Although there was flames as a barrier, she could still feel the sticky and disgusting body fluids.
The flames burned the limbs, making crackling sounds. The foul smell of burning quickly spread. The red-backed centipede opened its mouthparts and aimed at Shi Jianxia's head, but before the attack was successful, its head was tied up by a sudden fire net!
The delicious food was right in front of it, but it couldn't be swallowed. The red-backed centipede parasite shook its head angrily, revealing the dense sharp teeth in its mouth, trying to bite through the fire net.
But the fire net is not an ordinary fishing net. The flowing flames are evenly distributed in every corner of the fire net. Wherever there is a hole, the flames from the surrounding areas will quickly fill it up, and no matter how hard it struggles, it will be of no avail.
Unable to move its mouth, the red-backed centipede parasite immediately extended its upper limbs, intending to pierce Shi Jianxia's body, but before it could move, the sharp flaming dagger had already pierced its abdomen.
Phew!
Black blood splashed out, and the flames covering Shi Jianxia's body blocked the dirty blood and burned quickly with a sizzling sound.
She didn't dare to relax, and she condensed one flaming dagger after another, stabbing them into the abdomen of the red-backed centipede parasite. The flames burned into its body along the wound.
The ugly monster trembled in pain and tried to escape but was kicked to the ground by Shi Jianxia who had gained his freedom. Without giving it any room to struggle, he raised the flaming sword and stabbed it hard at the ugly big head that was no longer recognizable.
With another "whoosh" sound, the flaming sword broke through the flesh and pierced through the fragile skull of the red-spine centipede parasite. The deteriorated brain matter flowed out, and the red insect crystal the size of a pigeon egg also slid out.
Beads of sweat the size of beans streamed down Shi Jianxia's forehead. She tilted her head slightly and looked down at the red-backed centipede parasite that had stopped struggling on the ground. She stepped back two steps in embarrassment, then fell to the ground as if she had lost all her strength, gasping for breath.
She didn't expend much energy and wasn't injured, but fighting for her life with this monster that was mutated from a human being took a toll on her reason and mind, even though she was relatively calm.
The nine-tailed fox retracted its claws that were about to scratch out, blinked its glazed pupils, squatted back on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", floated over, and rubbed her cheek, as if to comfort her.
Shi Jianxia touched its nine furry little tails, stood up with the help of the flaming sword, and controlled the flames to pick up the insect crystals on the ground and put them away.
Without the energy support of the insect crystals, the corpses on the ground immediately rotted and emitted a foul stench.
Shi Jianxia took a few steps back, dropped a flame, and burned the corpse to ashes.
The people from the Zerg Investigation Department haven't arrived yet. Are they delayed by something?
She wiped her face and was about to continue guarding the intersection when she suddenly noticed a silver light among the ashes.
Shi Jianxia paused as he turned around, picked up the ashes with his flaming sword, and saw a square silver plate.
The silver medal was only half the size of her palm, without any flaws on the surface. Strange patterns were engraved around it, and a blooming red spider lily was imprinted in the middle.
When Shi Jianxia saw this silver medal, he felt a subtle sense of disharmony in his heart, but he couldn't tell what the disharmony was.
She picked up the silver medal and found it to be warm to the touch, with a faint warmth emanating from the inside out. It did not feel like a metal product, but rather like fine jade.
Apparently, the material used to make it is not silver, but some other material with a similar color to silver.
The back of the silver medal was a little bumpy. Turning it over, I saw some text that looked like a number.
C-11.
Who in their right mind would print a red spider lily pattern on a piece of jewelry they wear? And what does this string of words mean?
Shi Jianxia felt an even stronger sense of discomfiture in his heart. Thinking of the white coat torn by the limbs of the red-backed centipede parasite, he frowned slightly.
Was that person a doctor or researcher before being infected? The Chamber of Commerce Building is an office building, with neither a hospital nor a research institute, so the presence of someone in a white coat is a bit strange.
Moreover, the bald strong man and the young woman did not notice the existence of the red-backed centipede parasite before leaving.
Either it has extraordinary hiding abilities, or it appeared after the two had left.
Shi Jianxia thought about it and walked towards the support pillar where the red-backed centipede parasite was lying.
When I got closer, I realized that this was not a support column, but an elevator. Because the door opened towards the entrance of the parking lot, it looked like a support column from the back.
The elevator door was tightly closed, but blood was visible on it, and the half-gnawed arm was lying on the ground.
Can the red-backed centipede parasite operate an elevator?
Shi Jianxia pursed his lips. Not wanting to put himself in danger, he decided to retreat to the door and wait for the Zerg Investigation Department to resolve the follow-up issues.
But when she turned around, the silver medal in her hand was imprinted on the virtual panel of the elevator. The virtual panel lit up with a faint blue light, and then a few words popped up -
Identity verification passed.
The tightly closed elevator slowly opened.
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