The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 113: Parasitize Me? Are You Out of Your Mind?
As a result, I felt at a loss, the elite man was in unbearable pain and couldn’t even speak, as one was unconscious and the other disoriented. This Gu poison didn’t come with a manual, and I couldn’t find a way to cure it at that moment.
The only option was to drag both of them back to the deck. Luckily, there were no other passengers on the ship, otherwise, seeing them in this state could have scared someone half to death.
The ’thing’ inside Qi Xiuyuan was still clamoring for ’food’. Whenever someone uses their body to nurture these things, there’s almost always a backlash.
Because the uncontrollable factors in the world are too many, and one is bound to encounter a rainy day without an umbrella at least once in life.
As I reached the door of the boat, just when I extended my hand to unlock the code lock, I suddenly heard the creature inside Qi Xiuyuan urging ’Hurry, hurry’.
My hand halted, pretending to have forgotten the password, I randomly pressed a few digits, but it didn’t unlock.
"Ugh? What was it..." I pressed another random series of numbers, but it still didn’t unlock.
The creature inside Qi Xiuyuan impatiently urged, ’Hurry, hurry, there’s no time.’
Of course, it didn’t say it that way, but its thoughts translated to this meaning.
I thought to myself, alright, even this thing knows how to play dead, trying to trick me into letting it out.
So I had to go against it, Chen Qinghan was outside, and he was just an ordinary person. If the creature inside Qi Xiuyuan had any special ’transfer’ method, it would definitely be a trap for him once it got out.
I put down my hand from the password panel, prepared to stay inside the cabin and wait until that thing died before going out.
Seemingly aware of what I intended to do, Qi Xiuyuan suddenly jumped up, her mouth opening to reveal something like a scorpion’s tail extending out from inside.
The two antennae in her eyes pointed straight at me like clock hands, her jump had no preparatory motion, as if lifted directly by invisible strings.
I had been keeping a wary eye on her, so when she lunged at me, I sidestepped towards a wall, pushed off it with my legs, flipped in midair, and dodged her pounce.
Qi Xiuyuan failed to control her body, her head slammed into the wall with a bang, immediately opening a big wound on her forehead.
Blood flowed out, but it was eerily red and blue, as the antennae in her eyes refocused, locking onto my position once again.
This was a matter of desperate hunger...
I somewhat regretted hastily moving away earlier, not binding her hands and feet. The corridor of the cabin wasn’t very spacious, making it difficult to gain distance from her.
In her current state, without landing a killing blow, it was likely impossible to control her, but if she died, the elite man might not survive either.
I clenched my fists, hesitating whether to use Karmic Fire, when the elite man suddenly jumped up, his eyes rolled white, with no visible pain on his face.
It was like a game of whack-a-mole, deal with one and another pops up. The elite man and Qi Xiuyuan acted in unison, attempting to attack me from two sides.
However, the elite man’s eyes and mouth showed no abnormalities, it felt more like he was sleepwalking.
Though his eyes were rolled white, he coordinated seamlessly with Qi Xiuyuan, able to discern my position accurately without the need for antennae.
Making them both disappear entirely would be easy, but then the list the elite man promised to Chen Qinghan might just go up in smoke.
However, judging by the current situation, even without me killing him, as long as Qi Xiuyuan didn’t die, he wouldn’t escape the fate of being a puppet, hence failing to fulfill the promise.
When they lunged at me for the third time, I raised my hand, ready to deliver a fatal blow.
’Uh... don’t kill me, don’t kill me!’
The ’plea’ wasn’t from Qi Xiuyuan, but from the creature inside her.
The old Tomb Robber only told me about how terrifying Gu worms were but never mentioned they had thoughts or ’self’ awareness.
Qi Xiuyuan’s body twisted mid-air into an odd posture, withdrawing its charging attack on me, her joints seemingly undergoing mutation, making her look like a puppet. Yet, while her joints were flexible and capable of rotating 360 degrees, it didn’t mean they couldn’t exert force.
The elite man retreated following her, halting their attack on me. My interest was piqued, curious about how it realized I could kill it.
Then, another ’voice’ abruptly interjected, ’I want this body.’
I paused, stunned that there were actually two voices in Qi Xiuyuan’s body. These ’voices’ received directly by the brain had no distinctions of gender, age, or tone.
Yet there were slight differences, letting me know that the creature now ’speaking’ wasn’t the same as the previous one that ’begged’.
So it was also choosy about hosts, meaning the nurse it hadn’t parasitized might have been deliberately abandoned by it.
Looking like a jellyfish, but roasted like squid, it looked strange and had quite the ambition.
I hesitated initially, as the elite man was forced by the Gu poison to obey Qi Xiuyuan, killing him seemed excessive.
But now that Qi Xiuyuan had lost control of the thing inside her, and with a new member joining, it must not be left alone.
I raised my hand, my palm facing them, but Qi Xiuyuan simultaneously extended that tongue-like scorpion tail.
I was caught off guard, a step behind her, and hadn’t anticipated the scorpion tail’s needle could shoot so far. At a distance of three to four meters between us, the scorpion tail’s venomous needle pierced my palm before the Karmic Fire.
A flash of red light, Qi Xiuyuan along with the two creatures inside her vanished instantly, and the elite man collapsed to the floor with a thud.
I quickly turned my hand over, looking at my palm, seeing a one-centimeter-long living thing darting around beneath the skin.
It seemed to be trying to burrow deeper into the flesh, indicating it wasn’t the venomous needle I imagined it to be, maybe an ’offspring’ cast out by the Gu worm inside Qi Xiuyuan just before it died?
It was very thin, definitely able to enter blood vessels, but it appeared to be blocked by something, unable to go beyond the skin’s surface layer.
Trapped within a square inch, no matter how it struggled, its efforts would be in vain.
Karmic Fire in its intrinsic configuration both externally and internally automatically defended me; presumably, it was what had entrapped this thing.
I no longer paid attention to the small thing in my palm, seeing as it had neither food nor water, it wouldn’t take long to starve to death.
I turned my focus to the elite man, his eyes were closed tightly, and his breathing was faint, but at least he was still alive.
After checking him for signs of marine life parasitism and finding none, I started dragging him out again.
Stepping out of the cabin, I saw Chen Qinghan waiting at the door. As soon as he saw me open the door, he approached immediately.
"Qi Xiuyuan couldn’t be saved, I sent her off, and this one’s still alive."
"Hmm."
Chen Qinghan noticeably paused before lightly responding. Together, we placed the elite man onto a stretcher cart and pushed towards the Ghost Ship.
Someone like Chen Qinghan couldn’t possibly display extreme joy or grief. I kept silent as well, helping him push the elite man towards the Ghost Ship. Reaching the plank bridge, Chen Qinghan suddenly stopped.
The cabin had two exits, one on the left and one on the right, the Ghost Ship docked on the left side of the cruise ship, thus we had come out from the right side, effectively circling the entire bow to reach the plank bridge. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
I kept my head down all the while, watching the elite man to prevent any sudden moves from him.
With Chen Qinghan’s abrupt stop, I looked up in front, and was immediately dumbfounded.
