In the compartment, which was just enough to isolate the revolving door separating the hotel from the outside street.
A mass of dark liquid was wriggling on the ground.
Suffocating, oppressive!
A feeling unlike anything he had ever experienced surged through Xi Nian's body and mind.
Difficulty breathing? No, it was an inability to breathe!
In this instant, Xi Nian felt as though he was not suited to survive on the current planet!
Absolutely right, it was the Lord of Kin's ability activating—to the point that his body had been reshaped by some transcendent power!
"If this continues, I'll die?" Xi Nian, like a boiling mass of liquid, lay on the ground, his entire body writhing restlessly.
"Meow!"
The cat's meow drew Xi Nian's attention. From the gap in the zipper of his backpack, which had fallen to the ground beside him, a little orange cat emerged.
It was Little Huang!
Xi Nian's body trembled. In this moment, as if driven by instinct, the black liquid he had transformed into lunged forward, engulfing Little Huang, and then quickly merged and attached itself to the small feline body!
The hotel reception.
"Welcome." The receptionist looked up reflexively as the revolving door was pushed open. What met her eyes was a small cat entirely black.
"Where did this stray cat come from!" The receptionist hurried forward to shoo it away.
The black kitten froze for a moment. Then, with swift reflexes, it grabbed the backpack from the ground and dashed out through the still-revolving door into the street.
On the bustling street.
Seeing the black kitten suddenly rush out of the hotel, pedestrians dodged out of the way, watching as it disappeared into a street corner alleyway with the backpack.
A short while later.
On the open-air rooftop of a five-story building.
The backpack was set aside. The black kitten stood on the rooftop railing, gazing blankly down at the neon-lit modern street below.
"Who am I?"
"I am a Symbiote, Venom... No, I am an Essence Devourer Beast, an infant form..."
"No, no, no! None of that is right!!"
The black kitten humanely covered its head, struggling for a moment before its eyes once again revealed a spark of intelligent light: "I remember. I am Xi Nian Prince, an ordinary human middle school student living in Washington D.C."
"What exactly happened to me." The black kitten, which was Xi Nian, took a deep breath, sensing the chaotic and jumbled voices speaking in his mind.
A hoarse, evil voice called out, "What's going on with this human body?"
"Why is he in charge?! Damn it, hateful, pathetic!!"
Another young and innocent voice said, "Xi... Nian, are you okay?"
"Sigh, I can't control my body anymore, I've been locked in a dark room..."
"All of you, be quiet. Let me sort this out properly." Xi Nian rubbed his temples and crouched down to clear his thoughts.
Due to shared thought processes, Xi Nian quickly understood what had happened to his body.
Everything started with a voice in his mind, a symbiotic life form named "Venom."
Venom came from a planet in outer space. It arrived on Earth via a spaceship from a biological research company in New York.
As Symbiotes, they were physiologically and mechanistically unable to survive independently and could only parasitize other living beings.
The Symbiote Venom discovered that some humans had physiques that were very suitable for symbiosis. After searching, it ultimately chose Xi Nian as its host.
Next came an even more complex problem.
Symbiotes did not have male or female genders; they had no gender. However, in a sense, they could be considered both male and female.
And when the Symbiote parasitized Xi Nian, it naturally met the prerequisite conditions for 'intimate contact.' Furthermore, when the liquid body merged with Xi Nian, there was a shared exchange within their bodies—
Thus, Xi Nian's ability, Lord of Kin, was triggered.
Xi Nian gained the characteristics and abilities of the Symbiote Venom, which explained the scene of his body melting into black liquid just moments ago.
The rest was simple to understand.
Driven by its parasitic instinct, Xi Nian parasitized Little Huang, the little orange cat, to coexist.
Simply put, Venom parasitized Xi Nian, and Xi Nian parasitized Little Huang.
Symbiote, human, and Essence Devourer Beast—three different species unexpectedly fused into one. Among them, Xi Nian was the dominant one, though both Venom and Little Huang's thoughts could be shared.
"Human, to possess such extraordinary abilities."
The Symbiote Venom, through the shared consciousness, also understood the current situation and asked in confusion, "Since you've become a Symbiote, why can I still parasitize you?"
Symbiotes could only fight and devour each other; they could not coexist.
"I think I know what's going on," Xi Nian sighed.
He had indeed gained the Symbiote's abilities and characteristics, but he was still human at his core. This resulted in the current situation of 'Symbiote parasitizing Xi Nian, and Xi Nian parasitizing the Essence Devourer Beast'—a triple fusion.
"Three creatures coexisting… this is the first time I've encountered something like this," Venom's hoarse, sharp voice echoed in Xi Nian's mind.
Suddenly, it exclaimed excitedly, "Wait, even though I can't control it, I can feel it – this body formed by our parasitic coexistence is incredibly powerful right now!"
"St-strong? I suppose so." Xi Nian's mouth twitched. He glanced at his paws, which were the size of pudding, unsure how to describe his current physical state. His body seemed to be encased in a dark outer layer, with white markings like lightning on his lower abdomen.
"That's it, that's it!" Venom cheered. "With this, we can defeat those guys!"
Xi Nian tilted his head, and through their shared consciousness, he quickly understood what the symbiote Venom was saying.
Venom wasn't the only symbiote that had descended upon Earth.
There were three others.
These three symbiotes were hostile towards Venom, possessing a strong colonial consciousness and seemingly intending to control humans to lead their kin in invading Earth.
"Destroying Earth again? Is there no end to this? Did Earthlings steal your rice or something?" Xi Nian rolled his eyes, finding some release in complaining.
But suddenly.
The little black cat's body trembled slightly. As if sensing something, it turned to look behind him. On the other side of the building he was in, a model-like woman was climbing up the exterior wall from a dozen meters high.
The model woman moved like a marionette, her bodily movements slightly stiff. Her eyes were vacant, and her bare hands were covered in brown barbs.
"It's one of my kind! We symbiotes can sense each other's locations!" Venom alerted him loudly in Xi Nian's mind.
"Why didn't you say so sooner?!" Xi Nian moved his limbs, transforming into a black streak of lightning and darting backward.
Seeing this, the model woman immediately gave chase with inhuman speed. The brown barbs on her arms continuously grew, like two giant, grotesque hammers slamming down towards the small cat's body!
Mid-air.
"You think you can get away with that?"
The little black cat suddenly turned its head, its mouth contorting into a demonic grin. Its small tail whipped backward violently, instantly slicing through the air. The tail had transformed into a four-meter-long sword, more than ten times larger than the cat's own body!
Swish!
The two hammer-like limbs were cleanly sliced in half!
The symbiote possessing the model woman was shocked, not expecting the "waste" Venom, who had parasitized a small Earth cat, to be so powerful.
Just as she was about to retreat.
The pitch-black, icy four-meter-long sword slashed down, bisecting the woman from head to toe!
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