Parasitic Beast Comes Knocking

Zhou Nuo returned home in a daze. After washing up, she collapsed onto her bed, her gaze involuntarily drifting to her right hand. It was currently rapidly scrolling through her phone.

At that moment, an indescribable sense of strangeness filled her heart. A hand browsing the news by itself was simply too bizarre!

Zhou Nuo stared blankly for a while before tentatively asking, "Um... excuse me, how should I address you? Otherwise, like in anime, can I just call you Little Right?"

"Whatever you want," Little Right replied casually, then added, "By the way, you'd better not stay up so late from now on. It's dangerous."

"Dangerous?" Hearing this, Zhou Nuo couldn't help but freeze, a hint of confusion and bewilderment on her face. But soon, her expression turned confident: "How could it be dangerous! Our country has always been very safe and stable!"

Little Right let out a scoff. "Heh, that's just the past. In the last few days, I've clearly sensed at least two or three individuals with strange auras lurking around the night market where you set up your stall. These guys are no good."

After speaking, Little Right gently tapped the phone screen a few times with its index finger, gesturing for Zhou Nuo to look at the content.

Zhou Nuo lowered her head, her gaze falling on the phone screen, which displayed a news report.

Several sheep raised by a farming family had their blood inexplicably drained overnight, dying on the spot!

Seeing this, Zhou Nuo's expression suddenly turned grim, an ominous premonition surging in her heart. Had anime truly invaded reality? How had the world suddenly become so unrecognizable to her?

Suppressing her inner unease, Zhou Nuo inquired, "Do you know what killed these sheep? Also, do you know what those guys you sensed near the night market were?"

Faced with Zhou Nuo's rapid-fire questions, Little Right simply retorted impatiently, "How would I know? I've only been here a few days."

"You've only been here a few days?" Zhou Nuo seized on another key point.

"Yeah, why, did you think I've always existed?"

"So, these anomalies are also only recent?" Zhou Nuo's mind began to race. Had some mysterious force awakened?

After thinking for a while, Zhou Nuo sighed helplessly. She couldn't come up with anything. So, she refocused her attention on the news report on her phone.

Suddenly, as if she had discovered a crucial clue, her eyes widened. Zhou Nuo noticed that on the neck of each dead sheep, there were two small but clearly visible puncture marks!

Looking at them, Zhou Nuo subconsciously murmured softly, "These look like... bite marks from a Zombie."

Before today, if someone had told her that Zombies existed, Zhou Nuo would have thought they were talking nonsense.

But now, she herself had been infected by a Parasitic Beast, so it seemed nothing was absolutely impossible in this world.

"Yeah, it does seem like it," Little Right agreed, also thinking the sheep had been bitten by Zombies.

"Should I tell the police about this?" Zhou Nuo was conflicted. After all, they were Zombies. If they injured people and created more Zombies, it would be a huge problem.

But how could she make the police believe her? Expose Little Right's existence? Then she might be captured and dissected for research. Even if she wasn't dissected, who knew if Little Right would be?

Little Right was now inseparable from her, and she didn't want any accidents involving Little Right to affect her.

Just as Zhou Nuo was in deep turmoil, Little Right suddenly became alert. It exclaimed sharply, "Someone like me is approaching, be careful..."

Hearing this, Zhou Nuo's heart jolted. Before she could even react, Little Right transformed at astonishing speed, instantly becoming a thick, fleshy whip that positioned itself in front of Zhou Nuo.

The next moment, a crisp metallic clang echoed.

"Clang!"

Zhou Nuo stared in horror at the sharp, flesh-like blade less than twenty centimeters from her face. Her heart pounded wildly; she was clearly terrified.

The flesh-like blade, identical to Little Right's, retracted and twisted rapidly after being blocked, transforming back into a complete head in the blink of an eye.

Only then did Zhou Nuo get a clear look at the newcomer. It was a middle-aged man with a blank expression.

His eyes were like two bottomless, dry wells, hollow and lifeless. The cold, inhuman gaze sent a shiver down her spine, raising goosebumps.

"You... you'd better not do anything rash. I've already called the police." Zhou Nuo skillfully dialed 110 on her phone.

The middle-aged man ignored Zhou Nuo and looked at Little Right. "You are strange. You've formed a symbiotic relationship with a human, and you possess emotions."

"You sought me out just to say that?" Little Right eyed the man warily.

"No. I've read many books, and even learned from this human's brain that emotions can be a catalyst for biological enhancement. However, our kind has no emotions and cannot develop them. So, I'm very curious whether emotions can truly make a creature stronger."

The middle-aged man said, shaking his head. "Unfortunately, I've dealt with several humans, and I found that they can indeed unleash power beyond their normal limits under extreme emotions. But that power is too insignificant. I want to see if our kind can become even stronger if we possessed emotions. And you, having emotions, would you like to research this with me?"

"Do you think that's possible?" Little Right replied coldly.

"It seems you don't wish to research with me. In that case, I can dissect you and study how you acquired emotions." The middle-aged man's voice was utterly flat.

The next moment, his head contorted, turning into flesh whips that lashed out at Zhou Nuo. Zhou Nuo screamed in fear and pressed the call button with her left hand. She had been hesitant to call the police earlier, as it would implicate her, but now she had no choice.

Little Right, meanwhile, thrashed wildly, protecting Zhou Nuo tightly. However, it knew that defense was not a long-term solution; prolonged defense would inevitably lead to a breach. It seized an opportunity to speak, "Zhou Nuo, get out of here. Go outside and escalate the situation. This isn't the time to worry about being dissected."

"I... I understand." Zhou Nuo's legs felt weak, but she forced herself to get up and slowly shuffled outwards.

At this moment, the phone was answered.

"Hello, this is the 110 police reporting service..."

Zhou Nuo didn't wait for the person on the other end to finish. She blurted out, "Help! There's a pervert who broke into my house and is trying to kill me! My address is No. 103 Jinfeng Village. Hurry!"