The man cleared away the shadows around him and wiped the blood off his hands until there was no trace left before he slowly walked over.
He lowered his head and asked, "Why are you up here again?"
Pei Xiqing said, "I came to see you."
"I'm fine," he said. "Don't worry."
The man held her hand, feeling the warmth of her fingertips, and whispered, "It's cold outside, come and rest first."
Pei Xiqing's gaze fell on the parasite's corpse behind him. The smell of blood was very unpleasant, an extremely pungent stench. Her attention was on the empty chest of the parasite.
She asked, "During the time we've lived here, you've actually been dealing with these parasites and zombies up there, right?"
"yes."
He admitted it quickly, without any intention of hiding it.
She was a little annoyed. "Why didn't you tell me? If you had told me, I would have helped you. The crystal cores in those parasites are sometimes really hard to distinguish. If you act rashly like this, you will be attacked by the exploding virus in their bodies, and what if you hurt yourself?"
Pei Xiqing couldn't help but say, "Qiu Chao and I have studied these crystal cores before. He also told me a lot about how to identify crystal cores in host bodies. I think if I... were by your side, at least I wouldn't have to take such risks as you."
Duan Xiaolin chuckled, his eyes tender and deep, "Sorry, I didn't think about that."
"Don't you want to? You simply don't want to tell me and want to face it yourself." She couldn't help but push him, "I'll be really angry if you do this, very angry."
Duan Xiaolin grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms: "Sorry."
"I don't want to hear you say sorry."
"I did intend to tell you before, but you're pregnant, not feeling well, and you're vomiting all the time. Telling you this would only make you even more restless."
"But you kill parasites here every day, and the noise makes me vomit many times."
"My fault."
"You won't change anyway, so why admit your mistake?" Pei Xiqing couldn't help but hit him. "You're an idiot and a big bastard."
Duan Xiaolin accepted it with a smile.
The parasite behind him seemed to move, and its nearly ten-meter-long tail swung, causing a strong vibration.
Pei Xiqing frowned slightly: "Are the crystal cores in these parasites useless?"
"For now, no."
"You finally admitted that the crystal core you gave me just now was not taken from the body of a host."
Pei Xiqing walked towards the parasite.
As he walked, he said, "The probability of a crystal core of this quality appearing in a host is extremely low. A host needs time to grow and upgrade its crystal core. You've killed hundreds of them so quickly. Even if they were huge, their crystal cores would only be considered semi-finished products."
She stopped beside the ugly head of the host.
I squatted down and took a closer look.
This parasite had all its teeth pulled out and had no attack power. Even the sharp teeth on all its claws had been removed, and the viruses on its body had been cleaned out completely. It was nothing like those ferocious parasites in the wild, which were covered in mucus viruses and could be infected with just the slightest touch.
I knew that this was a play that Duan Xiaolin performed for her in order to get her to come out.
He also knew that he couldn't hide it from her.
It starts from the crystal core that Ma Mengxiang picked up.
He couldn't hide it anymore.
Or maybe from the beginning, he didn't intend to hide for too long.
The discovery of the crystal nucleus is only a matter of time.
Pei Xiqing took a deep breath, resisted the urge to turn her head and glare at him, and observed the parasite at her feet.
There were still a lot of food residues in the parasite's stomach, and even some zombie corpses that had not been digested yet.
She asked curiously, "So, the parasite also eats zombies. These two species don't live in harmony and fight against humans together."
"Zombies also eat parasites," the man said. "They keep feeding on each other and passing on the virus this way."
“But there are exceptions,” he added.
"What unexpected situation?"
"The body has your substance X, and even if it's cannibalism, there's no risk of infection."
"You mean, I'm not only the king of zombies but also the king of parasites? Then I'm amazing! I can eat them and not be infected myself?" Pei Xiqing suddenly thought of something: "This special condition of my body requires crystal nuclei to maintain, and they are the source of crystal nuclei. Could it be that this world is forcing me to eat them all?"
Duan Xiaolin held an umbrella over her head and couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "How come your head is filled with so many interesting things?"
Pei Xiqing was embarrassed: "It's hard, isn't it?"
"If that's the case, are you willing to do it?"
"...Ugh." She was about to vomit just thinking about eating these things.
Duan Xiaolin handed her the dagger and said, "Everyone thinks the flesh of a host is delicious. Cut it open and see."
Pei Xiqing took the dagger.
There was a cut on the waist and abdomen of the body.
It doesn’t look like much on the outside, but the texture of the meat inside is actually similar to salmon.
No wonder this has a fatal attraction to ordinary people, tempting them to pounce on these meats without any regard for reason.
At first glance, it looks like juicy and tender meat like salmon, but after looking at it for a while, it is just greasy and disgusting fat.
She couldn't help it and vomited.
Duan Xiaolin hugged her and wiped the corner of her lips: "Are you okay?"
"Not so good." Pei Xiqing spat out a few mouthfuls of acid, wiped her mouth, then hugged his waist and buried her head in his chest: "You do this, constantly hunting parasites and zombies... I always feel a little bad. And your superpowers, aren't they unusable? Why did I see you using your superpowers just now?"
She was so scared.
Although these lives were deserved, she really could not predict the consequences of breaking the rules of the world and defying the laws of the world.
The coming of natural disasters has already explained part of it.
She whispered, "Just stay here, okay...Just stay here. I don't need this special physique to survive, and I can always be with you. Don't take any more risks."
The man hugged her tightly, and embraced her in the snow and wind: "One last time."
…
Pei Xiqing had an idea and immediately asked Duan Xiaolin, who was preparing milk powder. "Xiaobai has been following Ling Lang and the others. A few days ago, Sister Long Yan sent me a video of it eating. I feel like it's really becoming more and more like a parasite. I have a bold idea."
"What bold idea?"
Pei Xiqing rolled her eyes. "Xiaobai is actually a parasite, having mutated from a zombie. If I let it drink my blood, it will have substance X in its body. After testing, if it can be preserved and reincarnated, it will not be at risk of reinfection after receiving those pathogens, nor will it be infected by the parasite."
The man paused. "Are you really willing to take the risk?"
"What do you mean by that?" Pei Xiqing leaned against the table next to him: "It seems you have had this plan for a long time."
He shook the bottle, "Yes."
"You really didn't hesitate at all."
"This was once the optimal solution proposed by Qiu Chao, but I rejected it."
"Why do you refuse?"
He said: "Xiaobai is our child too."
Pei Xiqing was stunned and turned his head away. For a moment, he felt so complicated that he didn't know what to say.
"It seems... I'm willing to let go. Xiaobai didn't come here with us to suffer. Linglang is training every day over there. I don't know if he still remembers us."
If she hadn't known that she should have been with Xiao Yue at the time, and that it would be the parasite of his mount that was eaten by Xiao Bai, she wouldn't have made such a suggestion.
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