When the conversation turned to these extraterrestrial creatures, Anya Corazon, who had been hiding in her room the entire time, came out as well. "Henry, do you know that creature's weakness?"
Faced with such a direct question and those eager, curious eyes, Henry could hardly crush her enthusiasm. Instead, he guided her with a question of his own. "Since you also think it's a living creature, what weaknesses do you think it might have?"
Anya Corazon lowered her head in thought. Henry continued, "I don't know the right answer either, but I don't think we need to overcomplicate it. Since it's a living creature, we can make some reasonable deductions based on Earth life."
"Bullets obviously won't work. From what I saw of the police operation, at most they could kill the host, but they couldn't hurt those strange things that were no different from amoebas or slime. If they're living creatures, then maybe high temperatures, fire, or strong acid?"
Henry smiled and praised her. "See? You've already come up with three possibilities. Next, we test them and see which one is true. Or perhaps all three methods can produce the results we want."
"But doing that would hurt the parasitized people too. Is there no way to force that parasitic creature out?"
"Then the direction we should be looking in isn't how to hurt it, but how to make it so uncomfortable that it has no choice but to leave its original environment. Can you think of anything that would make a creature uncomfortable enough to want to run away?"
"The most common thing in the animal kingdom would be the scent of a higher-order predator. And unusual... noise."
Henry clapped his hands in approval. "Exactly. You've found so many possibilities, so why not figure out a way to