The Terrifying Tri-Symbiote

Washington.

It was late at night, but the indoor daylight lamp was still on.

Diana, having changed into a casual beige long dress, sat on the living room sofa. Her long, fair legs were pressed together, and she leaned against the floor lamp, reading books on archaeology and law. Her intellectual and noble aura seemed to form a halo around her.

However, even while engrossed in her reading, Diana would occasionally glance towards the door.

She knew Xi Nian would be staying in New York tonight and wouldn't be back. Yet, she found herself repeatedly and inexplicably performing this action.

Was it habit?

The habit of Xi Nian returning home every day, excitedly calling her "Auntie," circling around her, and sharing his joys and sorrows.

The habit of sixteen years of warm and ordinary life.

The habit of having Xi Nian by her side.

"Am I feeling... lonely?" Diana asked herself in surprise, gazing absently at the quiet, empty living room.

Before meeting that child, she had lived alone in the human world for decades. She had managed to get through all that time by herself, so why was it that after less than a day, she felt an unbearable loneliness?

Yes, loneliness.

The goddess, inheriting the bloodline of ancient Greek gods, seemed naturally unaccustomed to such feelings. After all, a fate destined for eternal existence was bound to be lonely.

But clearly, loneliness had its degrees.

Diana placed the book back on the shelf and walked gracefully towards the room.

Xi Nian's room.

Without turning on the room's light, Diana sat on the edge of the bed and slowly lay down in the quiet darkness.

Her slightly curly hair bloomed like petals on the bed, and Diana's slender hands gently embraced the down comforter, pulling it close along with the boy's familiar scent.

Beneath the elegant white gauze dress, her ivory-like, smooth legs tightened slightly, then relaxed completely.

"What is that child doing now?" Diana's face flushed slightly. She naturally closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep on Xi Nian's bed.

New York, Queens.

"Venom, I didn't say I wanted to kill her." Xi Nian, a three-in-one Venom cat, widened his beastly eyes. He hovered briefly in the air above the rooftop, looking at the model whose body had just been sliced in half by the long sword formed from his tail.

This was unlike before, when he had unilaterally gained the abilities of his Aunt or the Essence Devourer Beast.

Under these special circumstances of parasitic integration upon parasitic integration.

Xi Nian now possessed the racial abilities of both Venom and the Essence Devourer Beast. Internally, he controlled the Venom symbiote that had parasitized him, and externally, he manipulated the host body of the Essence Devourer Beast. The difficulty of controlling his current body had increased by more than one level!

Fortunately, this time, Xi Nian wasn't fumbling through his abilities alone.

The consciousness of Venom and the Essence Devourer Beast were like sub-systems to his main host, capable of providing timely reminders of his racial abilities, as well as suggesting optimal next actions and advice.

Yes, this was the true three-in-one mode.

This was also why Xi Nian could react accurately and skillfully use the symbiote's shapeshifting abilities to transform his tail into an armed long sword just now.

However, the first sword strike was Xi Nian's own decision, while the second was made under Venom's guidance.

"She's not going to die that easily," Venom's voice echoed in Xi Nian's mind.

Following its words.

In Xi Nian's vertical cat-like pupils, the model's body, which had been split in half, and even her wrists, which were cut off first, showed no signs of blood. Instead of blood splattering, wisps of brown, viscous liquid emerged!

The brown liquid poured out from the cuts in the model's severed body, coalescing and rapidly pulling the four pieces of the model's body back together!

Within about two seconds, the model was completely restored and landed on the ground without a scratch.

Venom's hoarse voice sounded:

"This human woman is beyond saving."

"Judging by her current appearance and behavior, the symbiote within her body is clearly in complete control. In this state, her brain and body have long been damaged, making her essentially a vegetative state, retaining only the faintest trace of life. She cannot resist consciously in any way."

"Furthermore, the injury she just sustained was also maintained by the symbiote within her. Once the symbiote dies or leaves her body, she will die immediately."

"Is that so? In that case, there's nothing to worry about." Xi Nian suddenly let out a ferocious grin. His small mouth stretched into an arc that occupied half of his cat face, revealing a maw filled with sharp, interlocking fangs.

The previously cute and soft black cat seemed to have transformed into a little demon from hell.

The ruthless violence of the symbiote and the savage wildness of the Essence Devourer Beast constantly influenced human reason, causing even Xi Nian, who was the dominant consciousness in this three-in-one state, to exhibit monstrous behavior.

The symbiote parasitizing the model knew there was no chance of escape. Its entire body surface immediately erupted with a layer of hard, brown spines. Almost the instant it formed its symbiotic defensive shell—

The black cat in front of it moved.

The model's vision blurred. Before she could even prepare any attack or defense, she tilted her head down with a slight delay, only to see that her chest was hollowed out, allowing a clear view through to her back.

"What… what just happened?" The symbiote parasitizing the model was stunned.

The tough symbiotic defense layer, the flesh and blood within, the bones, and even the internal organs were all pierced in an instant!

So fast!

A speed that couldn't be perceived at all!

No, just having amazing speed isn't enough to do this!

The model covered the large hole in her chest with her hand, the symbiote inside surging to continue repairing her body.

"It's useless, this won't kill it! Symbiotes can self-repair almost infinitely!" Venom rasped.

The small black cat behind the model ignored him, continuing its lightning-fast lunges. Its tiny body was like a supersonic missile warhead!

BOOM!!

The model, also infected by a symbiote, had another dark, empty hole appear in the lower abdomen of her still-recovering body!

Hiss, hiss, hiss!

The black cat's high-speed trajectory was like lightning, leaving deep scratches on the rooftop. The surrounding walls also bore countless claw marks!

As if subjected to a thousand-fold storm's onslaught, the model in the center couldn't move. Her body was constantly being ravaged and torn apart; the symbiote's repair speed couldn't keep up with the destruction!

"Why, how is this possible?!" The symbiote within the model was terrified. "What kind of monster did that damned Venom infect? The gap in power is this huge!!"

It couldn't take it anymore!

Brown fluid sprayed from the mouth of the model's mangled corpse, rapidly rushing towards the crowded street below the rooftop!

"Stop it, it's trying to infect another human host!" Venom shrieked.

"You think too much."

The black cat indifferently waved its hand. Its armed claws, larger than its own body, shot out like tentacles, firmly grabbing the brown fluid still in the air above the street.

"You can't kill me!" The symbiote, in its brown liquid form, seethed with violent rage, struggling and writhing madly.

"Oh."

The black cat revealed a sinister smile. It drew the symbiote close to its face and directly threw it into its own gaping maw!

Xi Nian closed his mouth, and without even swallowing, the symbiote completely vanished from this world.

It wasn't eaten, as it appeared.

Instead, it was banished to the dimensional rift of the Essence Devourer Beast.

There, without a host, the seemingly unkillable symbiote would soon lose its vitality.

"Let's finish this quickly. In this current state, let's clear out the rest," Xi Nian whispered with an evil rasp, coldly looking down at the New York city under the night sky. As the three symbiotes coexisted for longer, his behavioral patterns were gradually leaning towards those of the Venom symbiote and the Essence Devourer Beast.

Human rationality was twisting and collapsing.

But precisely because of this, the power of the three-in-one began to truly emerge!