Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 582 - 140: Reverse Parasitism

"This is absolutely absurd."

Looking at the tentacles that almost filled the entire underground space, Wang Xiyi's mind couldn't help but flash some rather grotesque images.

She didn't like tentacles, except for those transformed by Sun Hang using mycelium.

And when faced with something she didn't like, she had only one way to handle it.

Burn it to ashes.

Wang Xiyi took a deep breath and then let out a deafening dragon roar, the bluish flames around her instantly grew paler, and the temperature in the underground space began to soar rapidly.

The water from the underground lake evaporated rapidly, and swirling white steam rose and hid both parties' forms.

Wang Xiyi fiercely spewed out a scorching Dragon Breath, a fireball tinged with pale blue fell into the lake water, instantly causing a massive explosion. The entire underground space started shaking violently, countless rocks shattered and fell, and it seemed like this underground space was about to experience a larger-scale collapse.

Wang Xiyi wasn't afraid at all — even if the collapsed cave buried her alive, she could rely on the powerful physique granted by the Black Dragon meme to blast a way out.

But the imagined collapse did not occur; as the steam dissipated, she surprisingly found that the tentacles that initially attacked her were all clinging to the rock walls and the dome, forming a reliable load-bearing structure, holding up the disintegrating rock pieces.

"Actually giving up the attack to protect the cave?" Wang Xiyi's heart raised a question mark, "Could this underground cave be very important to the Cult Organization? Or perhaps... this octopus creature's survival ability is not that strong, as long as the cave collapses, it will be buried alive to death?"

No matter which guess it was, Wang Xiyi made a decision in her heart — she would ignore the octopus creature for now and just keep destroying the cave.

Since it's something the opponent wants to protect, for Wang Xiyi, it's the highest priority attack target.

Just as Wang Xiyi intended to put this thought into action, a figure shrouded in a black robe and soaked from head to toe crawled out from the lake.

Its face was wrapped in bandages, under the black robe, the body had undergone significant mutations, defying identification of its gender or age... all that could barely be discerned was that this guy was once a person, or rather, used to be human.

"As expected of the ace Mysterious Creature Hunter from Tianfu City, Night Slayer." The opponent's bandage-covered mouth emitted a hoarse voice... truth be told, though one could tell they were speaking the official Xiazhou Federation language, Mandarin, the sound and tone were unbearably irritating.

As if nails scraping a chalkboard, every syllable spat from the opponent's throat induced a strong feeling of revulsion in Wang Xiyi.

"Your strength is formidable, even if I give it my all, I might not be able to defeat you." The opponent continued.

"Chickened out?" Wang Xiyi squinted her eyes. Although she didn't believe the opponent would surrender... if they truly chose to give up resistance, she wouldn't go for a kill at this moment.

It would be better to hand this person and the creature in the underground lake over to Yang Qi and the others to deal with.

"I just think you shouldn't be serving those politicians." The opponent continued saying, "There are many ways to survive in this world, but the Federation Government undoubtedly chose the most foolish one."

This humanoid creature spoke as it slowly crawled onto shore.

It was then that Wang Xiyi discovered it wasn't a "complete human."

Its parts resembling human were only from the waist up; its waist was directly connected to the octopus creature's head... this connection appeared extremely abrupt, as if someone had been chopped in half and inserted onto an octopus's head.

"So you are the creature..." Wang Xiyi's mind grew more vigilant, the opponent had clearly fused completely with the creature, it couldn't be considered merely infected, its infection process surely had crossed the danger threshold long ago... but a puzzling thing for Wang Xiyi was that the opponent still retained the rationality and memory of its "previous life," not only could converse normally, but even could state its own designation.

"What exactly are you?" Wang Xiyi asked again.

"I am a pioneer." The opponent extended both arms to the sides, lifting its face upwards, posing in a sorrowful and compassionate manner, "A pioneer willing to sacrifice themselves. For the evolution of humanity, I chose to tread a dangerous path, I conducted an unreserved fusion experiment on myself… perhaps my unwavering attitude and spirit of sacrifice touched this world, I succeeded, I obtained powers humans can never reach…"

"You sure talk a lot." Wang Xiyi said coldly, "Are you just buying time?"

"Aren't you curious about why I can still maintain my human self-awareness without being devoured by the creature?" Seeing Wang Xiyi seemed impatient, the opponent chose to get straight to the point.

"Yes." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"According to your theories, my infection process has already gone beyond the danger threshold, exceeding it by hundreds or thousands of times... normally, beings like me should have long had their self-awareness consumed by the meme within, turning into a creature or a grotesque corpse..."