Chapter 133: Zerg Invasion 27
Perhaps for its own survival, the parasite placed in the nutrient solution would actively swim to the side closer to a person when someone approached, extending its tiny proboscis and firmly attaching itself to the glass.
“When you walked past it, it didn’t react to you.”
That’s why Lu Qingyuan thought she was Parasitized.
He called Principal Li, Professor Liang, and others to test again, but the result was the same: the parasites in the glass were attracted to them, but not to Chu Yian.
After the previous incident with the lurking Parasitized, everyone was already on high alert.
When this situation arose, they silently retreated, increasing their distance from Chu Yian.
“This…”
Chu Yian was stunned.
She looked at the parasites’ reaction in the jar. Not to mention others, even she herself began to wonder if there was something wrong with her.
She was not Parasitized.
Chu Yian doubted for a second, then quickly dismissed her own thought.
If she were truly Parasitized, the game would quickly declare her failure for this round, but so far, she hadn’t heard any game notifications.
So it wasn’t her problem; it was the parasite’s own problem.
“She just came out of the observation room; she hasn’t been Parasitized.”
Lu Qingyuan said, “If you’re still worried, we can do another brain scan.”
No one could be completely at ease in this situation, so Chu Yian naturally underwent another brain scan. Once her brain was confirmed to be normal, everyone’s attention returned to the worms.
Now the question was, why did the worms not react to Chu Yian alone?
“It couldn’t be because Little Chu is a girl, so it didn’t react, could it?”
Someone suddenly joked.
The speaker was unintentional, but the listeners took it to heart.
In their entire group, Chu Yian was indeed the only female.
“Could these parasites really have a concept of gender?”
“Thinking back, the ones who chased me seemed to be male Parasitized, but when they chased us, there were both male and female.”
Chu Yian also thought back carefully upon hearing this, “It seems the ones who wanted to parasitize me were all female.”
Although male Parasitized also grabbed her, they didn’t try to parasitize her. But if they weren’t going to parasitize her, why grab her?
“Specific matters still require research to draw conclusions.”
Lu Qingyuan interrupted their speculations, “How much longer until the sonar is ready?”
“It should be ready by noon,” Professor Liang replied.
There were still six hours until noon, which was enough time to figure out whether the parasites had a gender distinction or not.
Lu Qingyuan picked up a scalpel, put it in his clothes pocket, then looked at Chu Yian, who was sitting observing the parasites, “Coming with me?”
To catch Parasitized together.
Chu Yian quickly understood his meaning and immediately picked up the iron rod.
There were no Parasitized on the top floor; all the people Chu Yian had led up earlier had gone down. And their target this time was not male, but female Parasitized.
The two cautiously observed their surroundings. It seemed that the Parasitized on the higher floors had all gone down.
They walked down the stairs to the eighteenth floor. The elevator that had stopped on this floor was still there, and the two corpses inside hadn’t been moved, emitting a foul odor.
It had been over a day, and they were still here.
Had no one come up?
Chu Yian frowned. They hadn’t been out for over a day and were somewhat disconnected from the outside world. “Teacher Lu, what do you think the situation in the school might be like now?”
“I don’t know.”
Many normal students should have already realized the danger around them.
What else could ordinary students and faculty do? Either find a place to hide, or try to escape.
The Fifth Laboratory Building and Fourth Laboratory Building were in a remote location, with few people around, which also meant they lacked information about the outside world without internet access.
“Teacher Lu…”
Chu Yian was about to say something else when she suddenly fell silent.
There was something ahead.
In a classroom on the seventeenth floor, a girl was hiding under the teacher’s desk, trembling. She wasn’t hidden very well; Chu Yian saw one of her legs.
A human, or a Parasitized?
Chu Yian didn’t immediately go forward to check the situation. Instead, she first surveyed the classroom, then closed both the front and back doors.
“Hey, are you okay?”
She asked from a not-too-close, not-too-far distance. The trembling girl shrank further under the desk, “Don’t come over, don’t kill me!”
Seeing her frightened, Chu Yian didn’t go forward to comfort her. Instead, she said threateningly, “We are not parasitized. We need you to explain your situation now, otherwise we will assume you are Parasitized and kill you.”
The girl’s face instantly turned pale.
“Don’t scream and attract other Parasitized, or we’ll kill you sooner,” Chu Yian added, and the girl’s face immediately flushed red.
“My name is Liu Zihan, a sophomore student.”
Liu Zihan said cautiously, “Many people in the school suddenly became very strange, and many people disappeared every day, causing widespread panic. Because the communication signal was cut off, everyone couldn’t contact the outside world, so they planned to skip classes and stay in the dorms or leave the school.
But the school was locked down by the administration.
Principal Li and many other leaders issued instructions to proceed with classes as normal.
I didn’t want to come, but if I didn’t, I would lose credits and wouldn’t be able to graduate.
Then I encountered something terrifying here…”
The more she spoke, the more frightened she became, and she suddenly lunged towards Chu Yian outside, “Classmate, can you take me out? I don’t want to stay in school anymore. I want to go home.”
As soon as Liu Zihan finished speaking, a small knife slashed across her neck.
Blood gushed from her throat, and two parasites emerged from her mouth and dropped to the ground.
Her windpipe was severed, but she didn’t die immediately.
Her originally normal face became distorted, with her face and scalp rising and falling—that was the worms in her brain constantly wriggling. Her cut throat was hoarse like a leaky pipe, “Such a handsome man, yet so ruthless.”
Liu Zihan’s gaze shifted from Lu Qingyuan to Chu Yian. Because she was close enough, she lunged at her.
The iron rod in Chu Yian’s hand smashed down forcefully. The rod in her hand bent, and Liu Zihan’s head was instantly split open.
“Teacher Lu, your knife still isn’t foolproof.”
Lu Qingyuan glanced at the scalpel in his hand, then put on gloves and collected two worms from Liu Zihan’s brain. “Let’s go.”
Chu Yian heard him, stepped over Liu Zihan’s corpse, and walked to his side, “Teacher Lu, how did you discover her problem?”
Just now, Liu Zihan had acted very much like an ordinary person scared witless. Although she also suspected Liu Zihan was Parasitized, she didn’t dare to act as decisively as Lu Qingyuan.
“There were logical inconsistencies in what she said, and her ankle was injured, yet it didn’t affect her movement at all.”
