Damn it, I wasted three hours waiting for you," Xia Shang said impatiently under the street lamp.
His footsteps were accompanied by a figure not far behind him.
"Damn it, I wasted three hours waiting for you," the figure's voice was stiff, as if learning word by word.
Xia Shang turned to look at the stalker who had been following him. The middle-aged man looked unremarkable, his white shirt stained with a large patch of blood. Under the moonlight, the man's face looked particularly pale, and his eyes lacked luster.
Realizing that he had been discovered, the middle-aged man instantly abandoned his concealment and launched an attack on Xia Shang like a wild beast.
During the attack, several cracks appeared on his face, and then the skin of his face, divided into several strips, spread outwards, revealing dense sharp teeth embedded inside, like a bizarre and disgusting flower of flesh and blood.
"How disgusting."
Xia Shang quickly grasped his long sword and slashed at the attacking tentacles. The black cloth wrapped around the iron sword instantly shattered upon contact. The powerful force transmitted to Xia Shang's right hand, a force that humans could not contend with.
Helpless, Xia Shang could only retreat a few steps to avoid being dismembered by the other tentacles that followed closely.
After a brief exchange, Xia Shang realized that the parasitic beast in front of him was a tricky opponent.
Whoosh, whoosh! The blade tentacles, transformed from flesh and blood, lashed towards Xia Shang in the air like steel whips. The speed was so fast that Xia Shang could only barely parry. Even more fatal was that after several consecutive clashes, there were already deep and shallow gaps in the iron sword in his hand.
"This guy must have eaten a lot of people. I can't waste my energy with him; I have to make a quick decision."
Clang!
Xia Shang once again struck the parasitic beast's tentacle. The intense collision caused small cracks to appear in the tiger's mouth holding the sword, and scarlet blood quickly soaked the hilt.
The parasitic beast seemed to have smelled the bloody scent from Xia Shang, which made him even more frantic, attacking Xia Shang recklessly.
The sharp blade tentacles extending from his head swung at an even more alarming speed.
At this time, the surrounding streets were cut with various sizes of gullies by the parasitic beast.
"Huff…" A tentacle narrowly brushed past Xia Shang's face. The pressure of death made Xia Shang gasp for breath. Suddenly, he felt something dripping from his chin. He wiped it with his hand, and the bright red blood stung his eyes.
"Sh*t… I actually got hit. It's really fast." Xia Shang looked at the blood in his hand, but his heart became even calmer.
Xia Shang understood that if this continued, he would surely die. It seemed that if he wanted to kill this parasitic beast, he had to take a risk.
Fortunately, the other party had only recently become a parasitic beast, and its attacks were quite rigid, and the direction of the tentacles was consistent. For the time being, the other party's brain could not react to controlling so many tentacles.
Seeing that the opportunity had come, Xia Shang seized the opportunity, advancing instead of retreating, and dashed through the attacking tentacles, arriving behind the parasitic beast.
Under the moonlight, he gripped the long sword tightly with both hands, his eyes fixed on the middle-aged man in front of him.
The parasitic beast naturally would not let Xia Shang go. He immediately turned his head and strode towards Xia Shang.
Suddenly, his upper body tilted downwards, and the tentacles extending from his head lost control for a moment. It turned out that the parasitic beast was tripped by the gully he had created, causing his upper body to lose its balance and was about to fall.
"If you haven't evolved human intelligence, you're still just a beast after all."
Seeing that the plan was successful, Xia Shang unhesitatingly smashed a bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid at the parasitic beast's head.
Bang! The glass bottle shattered, and the concentrated sulfuric acid instantly enveloped the parasitic beast's entire head.
The intense pain caused all the tentacles that the parasitic beast had previously extended to retract completely. Accompanied by the hissing sound of burning, wisps of white smoke emerged from the bloody and blurred mass of flesh.
"Die!"
Puchi! Xia Shang stabbed the parasitic beast's heart with his sword.
Perhaps worried that this injury was not enough, he then stirred the blade until he completely crushed the parasitic beast's heart.
The parasitic beast, which had been writhing in pain just now, seemed to have its life paused by God. Its knees bent, and it knelt in front of Xia Shang, gradually losing all signs of life.
"It seems that Jesus still gives me, Xia, some face." After saying that, Xia Shang cut off the fleshy ball on his head with a sword.
Everything settled.
Xia Shang moved a motorcycle from the roadside, not knowing whose unlucky thing it was, unscrewed its gas tank cap, pushed it onto the parasitic beast's corpse, then took out the lighter from his pocket and lit the gasoline flowing to his feet.
Boom! The flames rose, engulfing the entire corpse.
And Xia Shang's figure, illuminated by the flames, gradually drifted away.
… …
In a Chinese barbecue restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo, Xia Shang, with bandages on his face, was enjoying the barbecue in front of him. When he put the thickly sliced beef into his mouth and chewed, the rich oil and the ultimate perfect meat aroma instantly filled his mouth, and Xia Shang was so happy that he was about to faint.
What could be more satisfying than eating a late-night snack?
Moreover, this shop was hard-earned by him. After all, it was so late, and most of the shops were closed.
"Not bad." Xia Shang patted his stomach in satisfaction.
At this moment, he opened the panel.
[Talent Ability: Transformation]
[Analysis Condition: Kill a parasitic beast]
[Analysis condition unlocked, whether to merge the talent ability transformation]
"Merge."
[Transformation talent is merging, current progress is 2%]
Xia Shang could clearly sense that his body was undergoing some kind of peculiar change. This seemed to be a change from the genetic level, and there was an itching sensation all over his body, but soon this feeling disappeared.
"To merge the transformation talent faster, perhaps it is necessary to observe or fight with other parasitic beasts." With the experience of merging swordsmanship talent before, Xia Shang probably understood how to quickly increase the speed of talent fusion.
Moreover, he now had an idea in his mind that other talents might be born after the parasitic beast grows.
And Shinichi Izumi, Reiko Tamura, or even Gotou, the final BOSS in the original work, are perfect observation objects.
After paying the bill, Xia Shang walked out of the barbecue restaurant.
The panel had arranged his residence in advance. As soon as he returned to the one-bedroom apartment, Xia Shang began to experiment with his merged transformation ability.
Xia Shang recalled the blade tentacles that the parasitic beast had extended before.
While imagining, he controlled his right hand. With his unremitting efforts, his right hand gradually changed. It could be seen that his right hand melted like rubber and then gradually turned into a curved blade shape… and then, there was no then.
With Xia Shang's current fusion progress and physical strength, he could only do this for now.
"Damn, can this thing be lethal?" Xia Shang poked the table with his soft right hand, wanting to cry but having no tears.