A Bunch of Lost Idiots

At first, Fang Zheng had not paid much attention to the group of outsiders. After all, he had assumed there was probably nothing around here besides Chaos Monsters. But the Zerg report piqued his interest.

They referred to these intruders as "creatures resembling suspected symbiotes."

Fang Zheng had no idea what the Zerg meant by symbiotes. Out of curiosity, he immediately shifted his perspective, focusing his will on a Hydralisk. Soon afterward, Fang Zheng saw a group walking across the Creep... people.

Well, strictly speaking, they were not people.

If Fang Zheng had to describe them, they were a bunch of lizards that had become sentient.

They had lizard-like heads, but limbs roughly similar to humans, with tails hanging behind them and scales visible on their skin. They wore hoods resembling windproof caps, while their mouths were wrapped in thick cloth that hung over the bridges of their noses... It took Fang Zheng a while to realize why the Zerg called them "suspected symbiotes"—aside from their heads, they actually looked quite similar to the Cursed Children assimilated by the Zerg.

Hmm... so the Cursed Children were just symbiotes in the Zerg's eyes...

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng did not know what to say. It was not as if he had ignored those Zerg-ified Cursed Children. After all, their circumstances were harsher than those of ordinary Cursed Children. But according to the girls themselves, they seemed to be living quite well. Fang Zheng would sometimes even see Cursed Children scratching Zerglings' bellies or bathing Hydralisks... He had just never expected the Zerg to see them this way.

So they were basically like sharks and remoras... Well, as long as they liked it themselves.

The more Fang Zheng thought about it, the stranger it seemed. Logically speaking, the Zerg should have been