The Monster Inside Him

Hearing Yao Yi's reprimand, the high school girl turned around, her expression a mixture of innocence and confusion.

"?" Yao Yi's expression froze.

Before he could even reflect on whether he had overreacted, a gust of wind suddenly swept up from behind him.

He had no chance to look back and instinctively lunged forward.

A burning pain shot through his arm, reminding him that he hadn't completely dodged the sneak attack.

Driven by her survival instinct, Yao Yi immediately rolled over the moment she hit the ground, trying to create a safe distance.

Perhaps thinking that Yao Yi couldn't escape, the other party didn't intend to finish her off.

Taking advantage of this brief respite offered by the other party, Yao Yi, covered in dust and grime, pressed herself against a wall, making sure she wouldn't be attacked from behind again.

He took in the entire situation around him.

Putting aside the female high school student, the two boys who appeared later also looked to be around seventeen or eighteen years old.

Three Parasitic Organism?

Yao Yi secretly groaned. He knew his own limitations very well. He wasn't a monster like Lu Bai, and there was no way he could fight against three monsters on his own.

Not to mention...

Yao Yi glanced at her arm.

Through the torn sleeve, he could see the bleeding wound.

The injury wasn't deep enough to expose the bone, but it was still quite a laceration.

Just having it hanging limply like that was already causing him to break out in a cold sweat from the pain, making it completely unbearable for him to fight with that arm any longer.

"Is this the guy?" The thin boy sized up Yao Yi.

Another boy twirled his butterfly knife, saying, "I don't think it looks like it."

The high school girl rolled her eyes.

"Regardless of whether he's a Deathmatcher or not, he's with 'Innocent Smile.' You all saw that guy get out of his car, didn't you?"

Yao Yi felt that the high school girl was like a different person, no longer having that timid feeling from before.

Moreover, he couldn't understand the conversation between these high school students, so he frowned.

What are you talking about?

But nobody paid him any attention.

The boy gripped the butterfly knife and walked towards Yao Yi: "Enough talk, I'll stab him again."

Yao Yi a little confused.

He finally realized that the three high school students hadn't transformed yet, suggesting they weren't Parasitic Organism.

But why do they talk about murder so casually?! Is this how schools are teaching students these days?!

As the boy drew closer, Yao Yi raised her still-functioning hand and waved it frantically.

"Wait, I'm from the Special Affairs Bureau, you know the Special Operations? If you stop now, there's still room for maneuver. Don't do anything to break your parents' hearts..."

Before she could finish speaking, Yao Yi's heart sank to the bottom.

Because he could clearly sense that no matter what he said, the other party remained completely unmoved.

Unwilling to die such an inexplicable death, Yao Yi raised her foot and kicked the boy with the knife.

However, the other party calmly dodged to the side, and with a swift motion, slashed out with the butterfly knife in his hand, precisely severing his hamstring.

The boy swung his other fist and struck Yao Yi in the abdomen with a dull thud.

Overwhelmed by the excruciating pain, Yao Yi couldn't help but cry out.

After such a series of attacks, Yao Yi almost fainted, feeling her vision blurring.

"Wang Ting..."

He muttered something under his breath, but his voice was so low that no one else heard him. They saw his lips trembling, but assumed it was just his body shaking.

Yao Yi lowered her head, her vision blurred, the mist seeming to come from the past.

He had always known that there was a monster inside him, and that he was actually conscious when the monster crawled into his chest on the hot air balloon.

Later, he met the monster inside him when his life hung in the balance.

He was investigating an incident with an old special agent when suddenly a Parasitic Organism attacked, and the old agent was the first to die.

Just when he thought he was about to die on his first day of work, the monster appeared on his chest.

He felt no relief at having escaped death; instead, he felt nauseous and wanted to vomit, wishing he could escape this body.

It asked, "Are you alright?" As he picked up the dagger and stabbed himself in the chest repeatedly, he kept saying, "Fuck you."

The monster deftly deflected all the attacks; it couldn't understand why any creature would engage in self-harm.

Its two strange eyes pondered for a moment, then it said: You can call me Wang Ting.

Yao Yi was even more furious. That was his girlfriend's name, and she was the one who was killed by this monster.

He kept poking and poking, but no matter how tricky the angle, the monster easily blocked his attacks. Later, he stopped expecting to kill the monster this way; it was more of a way to vent his frustration, or rather, only in this way could he avoid going completely insane.

Later, Yao Yi fainted, and when he woke up, he was already lying in a hospital bed.

We met a few more times after that, and things went from the initial impulsive act of pulling out a knife to being able to have a barely peaceful conversation...

"They're not even as good as tourists; they're probably locals," the knife-wielding boy concluded.

The thin boy crossed his arms and asked, "Should we try to find out anything about that person from him?"

"Forget it, let's just kill them."

The high school girl spat out, "You actually expect that person to leak their information to the natives? Even if they did, would you believe them?"

The thin boy chuckled awkwardly, "True, elites like that wouldn't make such a mistake."

"Tch, what a waste of time."

The boy with the knife complained, then stabbed Yao Yi in the heart.

Surprisingly, the knife was blocked, and even produced a metallic clanging sound.

"What?"

"Holy crap?!"

Yao Yi was seen leaning against the wall, looking completely limp.

However, the clothes on his chest were torn apart by the hideous mass of flesh, extending out countless jagged bone spurs.

He used only a few bone spikes to block the butterfly knife that was thrusting down.

"What the hell is this thing?"

The boy who had been holding the knife was so startled that he dropped it and reflexively took several steps back. "This isn't right, is it? There's definitely no such thing in the white Ability Pool."

"It's a bit like those parasitic monsters, but how could it parasitize in this location?" The high school girl also calmly took a few steps back, ready to run away if things went wrong.

Two strange eyeballs emerged from the gaps in the jagged bone spikes, staring menacingly at the three high school students present.

Yao Yi's face was somewhat pale.

Even though it wasn't the first time he'd seen it, he still found it hard to accept that such a thing was growing inside his body.

"Are you alright?" One of the eyes turned and looked at Yao Yi.

Yao Yi one foot to support his weight, staggering to his feet. He growled, "Wang Ting, let's go!"