lost narrative poem

Chapter 31

It didn't take too long. After lunch, Izumi Shinichi and his parents decided to start the return journey.

——There is no nostalgia, even for Izumi Shinichi's parents.

Although they came out to travel together to relax their minds and cultivate their relationship as husband and wife, this journey not only did not let them relax their minds and feel how beautiful life is, but it was also called thrilling and frightening enough.

Especially knowing that some kind of terrifying man-eating creature has appeared in this world, has a powerful camouflage ability, and can even replace the identity of others...

They almost fell into it themselves, and their son basically got it, and his right hand has been replaced by a parasitic beast...

In all fairness, no matter how strong the nerves are, facing such a thrilling development, they will never feel how wonderful this journey can be.Although the love and tolerance of Quan Xinzhi and his wife for their son can make them accept the existence of parasitic beasts on their son——

After all, that thing has already eaten their son's right hand and replaced it. Is there really any other choice now?

Are you going to cut off your son's right hand?Or are you going to report to the authorities and hand over your son to the country?

It is unrealistic, and there is no other way but to accept tolerance.

——But this does not mean that they can accept the existence of other parasitic beasts, especially because of a terrible encounter that left a psychological shadow.

To put it simply, the couple now always feel that everyone on the outside, under the surface, may be a cannibal monster.Unless they return to their familiar home, otherwise, they will not be able to give them any sense of security...

Naturally, therefore, there is no reason to remain in unfamiliar places.

In fact, if Quan Xinyi hadn't had to stay for a day because of Quan Xinyi's coma, they would have been ready to go back yesterday.

But in fact, this is also good, with an extra day of buffer time, at least the family has an opportunity to be open and honest, so there is no gap between each other...

As for the three members of Izumi Shinichi’s family who left the area by boat, there were actually Xia Ran and Uda Mamoru. The reasons are different, but generally they can be attributed to——

Quan Xinyi still has a family, is still in school, and has a circle that he cannot give up. It is unrealistic for him to put everything down and try to keep up with the actions of the other two.However, the reverse situation is that the other two people can go anywhere.

Because Uda Mamoru is no longer a student, he just got divorced not long ago, he can be regarded as an adult with both career and love... no, both failures.But it's not the kind of social animals who are too busy to take time off and have no human rights, they can still arrange their own time.

Although Xia Ran is still a student, she was originally assigned a fictitious identity. In fact, she has nothing to worry about in this world, and she was wanted not long ago.That's why he didn't care where he was going, as long as it was safe enough and had a suitable opportunity to hunt and kill parasitic beasts.

And the protagonist Quan Shinichi's side is obviously the most suitable hunting ground. Parasitic beasts emerge in endlessly, one after another come to give away heads.

To be reasonable, Xia Ran thinks this is really unscientific——

Obviously, in other places, the number of parasitic beasts is in line with the number of their groups, and for the sake of concealment, they often do not overlap the territory, so as not to cause frequent murders and disappearances in the same area, which will attract human beings. social attention.

But in the city where Quan Xinyi is located, this is not the case at all. The parasitic beasts seem to be refreshed on time, and there are always special species.

Not those beasts that can be easily solved, although they pretend to be humans, they still appear mechanical and rigid, and their instincts are greater than reason, but the type that is more human than human, and more dangerous than human.

Parasitic beasts like Ryoko Tamiya who will start to explore the meaning of existence of their own species...

——It can be called a strange species.

Quan Xinyi welcomed this very much. After all, he did feel that the world was becoming more and more dangerous. Could it be that his parents were just going to be targeted by parasitic beasts, which gave him a great sense of crisis. .

Right now, having two reliable companions traveling together is simply a wishful thing, so how could he refuse?

As for Xia Ran's suggestion, Quan Xinyi didn't hesitate long before agreeing and decided to join the small team that hunted and killed parasitic beasts.Because he has already seen that that kind of thing is terrible and dangerous to human society.

In particular, what happened to his parents made him unable to ignore it. In addition, there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. It seems that the best solution is really... to nip the danger in the bud?

Maybe he can't clean up the parasitic beasts in the world, but if he only hunts and kills in the city where he lives, and ensures the daily and travel safety of his parents, relatives and friends to the greatest extent——

Quan Xinyi felt that with the strength of the three people on his side, it was still possible to do it.

His parents did not refuse either, and also felt that having such professionals living nearby would make them feel more secure.Although they didn't know that these two professionals were actually in the same situation as their son, and they didn't recognize one of them as a wanted criminal.

……

……

a week later.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

The screams of the parasitic beast resounded through the dark alley.

"boom--!!"

But soon, with a deafening bang, it came to an abrupt end.

The writhing and dancing figure fell down in the flames, and the pool of blood stained a large area around it red, but it didn't last too long, and it quickly became scorched black under the burning of the flames, and there was no sound at all. .

Xia Ran hummed an unknown tune, knelt down on the ground, slowly put the grenade launcher back into the piano case, and carried it behind her back.

"..."

Uda Mamoru who was on the side just came here panting just now, and happened to see this last scene, and a big drop of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. Although it was not the first time he saw this situation, he still felt it was very shocking force.

——Who is the murderer who kills without blinking an eye!

Xia Ran didn't know what Uda Shou was thinking. He stood up, walked to the edge of the corpse, knelt down and stretched out his hand, as if checking something, and then turned around.

"Okay, let's go... Follow the previous route, hurry up and get out of here, I think the police's reaction speed seems to be faster recently."

"Huh? Oh, ok..."

Uda Mamoru came to his senses, nodded hurriedly, then turned around and left. His movements were always a bit slow, not because he had a problem with comprehension or memory.

It's because he is really an ordinary person, even if he can muster up the courage to set up a situation with Xia Ran and take the initiative to attack, it is already the limit.As for psychological construction, it can only be said that there is really no way to achieve it in one step.

It can be said that every time he fights with that kind of monster, he bites the bullet and forces himself to rush up...but that's all, so it's hard for him to understand why Xia Ran can do it to this extent.

It's completely another extreme. It feels like the other party is killing chickens and cows. He has no mood swings for a long time. For him, it is to find the parasitic beast and lead it to a suitable The butchery of...the battlefield.

The following operations are the same. The opening is the fight and containment of the parasitic beasts, so he seizes the opportunity to fire a fire bomb and make up the knife to complete the kill.

I even have the mood to hum the melody of the latest pop music or something, this kind of crisp, simple and direct, even if I have seen it several times, Uda Mamoru will still be stunned, it feels unreal.

To be honest, he really thinks that Xia Ran is more like a cold-blooded and ruthless hunter than a parasitic beast...

Xia Ran didn't think about the embarrassing expressions of his companions around him, he just followed the route planned before, and quickly entered with Uda Mamoru from the nearest sewer manhole cover, and then left. A remote area.

After all, the official power seems to be very active recently, and the reaction speed is so fast that it is a bit strange——

And no matter how skilled he is, he can compress the time to kill a parasitic beast in less than ten seconds, and the movement will not be too small, so the official personnel may arrive at the scene of the crime at any time.

Because in many cases, Uda Mamoru's maneuverability made it too late for him to arrive at the scene at the scheduled time, so Xia Ran could only use the grenade launcher to make quick decisions...

The best ideal situation that was originally expected is actually at least two people attacking at the same time, quickly chopping off the enemy's head through the transformation attack of the parasitic beast, silently and without much movement.

After leaving the previous area and taking a long detour, the two returned to the base camp, which is an apartment not far from Quan Xinyi's residential area, which was temporarily rented by them.

After Uda Shou relaxed and eased the discomfort caused by the long-distance running just now, he began to think about the troublesome question of what to eat today.

Xia Ran opened her own system interface, directly used up a precious point she just got, and added it to her physical attributes.

Now his basic attribute has become——

"Strength: 5"

"Agility: 12"

"Physique: 7"

"Intelligence: 7"

"Spirit: 20"

"Perception: 7"

Because the rewards for hunting parasitic beasts have been greatly weakened, although he and his companions have hunted and killed eight parasitic beasts in total during this period of time, the total free attribute points obtained are only two.

He added a point to Strength, allowing him to secure a one-handed use of the grenade launcher.And another point is just added to the physique to ensure that the output of the parasitic beast will not be dragged down due to physical problems.

It's just that the shrinkage of the kill reward is outrageous. Before, one parasitic beast could get one to three free attribute points, but now it seems that three or four parasitic beasts combined can only get one free attribute point.

The point reward has also shrunk. Now a parasitic beast only has a symbolic 100 points for Xia Ran, and it may continue to be reduced.

——The only thing to be thankful for is that the parasitic beast just gave Xia Ran another key.

(End of this chapter)