"Your hands are really itchy. Aren't you afraid those spider legs might be poisonous?"
Luo Ping was stunned. "He wouldn't come right to my door just to poison me, would he? So openly?"
"Even so, you shouldn't just touch it without asking anything first. With your personality, you'll suffer for it sooner or later. If anyone was going to touch it, I should've gone first. After all, my Weird ability is suited for this kind of experiment."
Zhong Hong raised his hand and said awkwardly, "Actually, Lord Wu referred me here."
Then, once the two of them started arguing, they completely failed to hear what he said.
A logistics staff member nearby, clearly used to this sort of thing, stepped forward and politely led him aside.
"Hello."
The other person was so polite that he even used an honorific. Zhong Hong instinctively replied, "Hello."
The logistics staff member smiled. "You don't need to be so polite."
"No, no, you're the one being too polite."
"Were you recommended by Lord Wu? The things on your..." The logistics staff member looked at the twelve appendages behind Zhong Hong. "What happened here?"
So Zhong Hong told him everything that had happened to him, as well as how Wu had saved him and then sent him here.
"I see. I'm terribly sorry that you had to go through something like that. However, your willpower is exceptionally strong. Most people, after being contaminated to that extent, would have long since lost consciousness."
When the parasite had contaminated him and the twelve appendages burst from his body, fully hatching, it was at its weakest and most desperate for energy.
And the closest source of energy it could absorb had been Zhong Hong's family.
Human flesh and blood also contained a certain amount of life energy.
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