Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

call out--

The dungeon creature, which had been rolling on the ground trying to extinguish the flames on its body, steadied itself and fired a beam of light behind the man in black who was chatting.

Faced with this beam of light that could even corrode the fire shield formed by his own skills and equipment, Li Huo immediately prepared to warn the other party to dodge.

But unexpectedly, when faced with this thing...

The man in black simply extended his other hand and casually patted the beam of light.

Snapped--

The beam of light seemed to have a physical form as it was easily knocked away by this slap.

It struck another instance creature that was about to launch a surprise attack, piercing a bloody hole right through its hideous appearance.

[Heretical, Copper Skin, Iron Bones]

With the added benefit of Yan Shuangying's exclusive title, Wu Wang's passive ability [Copper Skin and Iron Bones] not only greatly increases his defense, but also introduces entirely new effects.

The moment his skin came into contact with the attack, it miraculously reflected the beam of light, much like a crystal with a refractive effect.

"High offense, low defense."

Wu Wang raised an eyebrow.

These words made Li Huo unable to hold back.

No, buddy! Where is the defense low?

I poked at it with my fire knife for ages, and I couldn't even scratch its shell. How come I don't see how weak its defense is?
Before he could even recover from his shock...

Then Wu Wang took out a slightly cool-looking pistol from his backpack, aimed it at the "facehugger" that was shooting out a beam of light, and pulled the trigger.

In an instant, the flames burning throughout the house seemed to be stirred up by some force, forming a vortex that was completely swallowed up by the gun muzzle.

Even the flame barrier that Li Huo himself had condensed on his body was absorbed.

This allowed him to escape the near-destruction state, and he looked at the strange gun in the other person's hand with some horror.

Heretical Elemental Gun

hum-

The next second, a dazzling beam of light burst from the muzzle of the gun, instantly enveloping the instance creature like a stage spotlight.

When the beam of light disappeared, only a bottomless pit remained on the ground, and the dungeon creature that had been causing Li Huo trouble vanished without a trace.

Only the smell of burning in the air told him that the thing hadn't disappeared on its own, but had been evaporated by a gunshot.

"Holy crap! What the hell is this?!"

The power of the gun terrified Li Huo so much that he couldn't help but curse.

You're telling me this is a handgun?!
Even rockets couldn't achieve that level of capability, could they?

What kind of cutting-edge technology is it?

The temperature that was generated just now was so terrifying that even Li Huo couldn't believe it. The talisman on his body that could manipulate fire elements couldn't even detect it.

It was as if the temperature was too high and completely exceeded the equipment's control range.

After easily eliminating the two dungeon creatures, Wu Wang's gaze finally fell on the one in his hand.

As his fingers gradually closed with force, and a sound of shells cracking was heard, the transparent creature finally revealed its appearance.

The difference between these two and the previous ones is—

The one in Wu Wang's hand had a rather colorful shell, and its abdomen was wrapped with a cyst the size of an egg, as if the creature was pregnant.

The little hill on the shoulder immediately chirped.

"Meow! Meow! Ha!"

As it kept calling, it even started panting.

While Li Huo was completely bewildered, he saw Wu Wang slightly frown and then look at him and ask, "Does the Mingyang City branch of the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs have any laboratories or anything like the places at your headquarters that research and develop cutting-edge technologies?"

Upon hearing this, the other party instinctively replied, "Yes, we do have some, but they're not as large as the headquarters..."

“Take me there, then seal this thing up and you can study it yourselves.” Wu Wang interrupted Li Huo, saying, “These parasitic seeds may just be the vanguard. It won’t be long before more similar things come to invade reality.”

After saying that, Wu Wang reached out and touched the egg-sized cyst.

Tearing open the outer shell, a strange, multicolored object was taken out. Its surface was full of wrinkles, like the pit left over from eating some kind of fruit.

Li Huo asked in confusion, "Seeds?"

Wait a minute, isn't the parasitic organism actually one of these facehugger-like things? Shouldn't seeds be used to describe plants?
As if in response to his question, Wu Wang casually tossed the facehugger to him.

This startled Li Huo so much that he jumped up, took out his weapon from his backpack, and aimed it at the thing. He didn't dare to catch it with his bare hands!
But the insect that fell to the ground because he didn't catch it showed no signs of struggling and remained motionless like a corpse.

"Is this...dead?"

Li Huo's words made Wu Wang sigh and rub his forehead.

Pointing to the strange fruit pit in his hand, he explained, "This is the true form of the parasite. Those three insects were also parasitized creatures. I guess they just ate it by mistake while they were under the tree."

"Meow meow meow!"

"Oh, this thing grows on a towering tree in the dungeon, and there are conservatively estimated to be tens of thousands of similar seeds on it."

"Meow! Meow meow meow! Ha! Ha!"

"Hmm... These seeds frequently release pheromones, causing creatures that get close to them to have a strong craving for them, making them see the thing you want to eat most in your life, thus tempting you to eat it."

Looking at the translator-like conversation between the man and the cat, even if Li Huo was completely bewildered, he could tell that it seemed the one who knew this information wasn't the man in black in front of him, but rather the cat on his shoulder!
What's this?
Didn't they say that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, beings were not allowed to become spirits?

Seeing Li Huo's strange look, Wu Wang casually lied, "Oh, this is my summoned creature. It can analyze target information through its sense of smell. It's a good guard dog. It's bio-energy powered and consumes one bone at a time."

Li Huo: "..."

Dude, the creature you're describing sounds like a dog! What does it have to do with cats?!

He had so many things to complain about that he didn't know where to begin.

In the end, he only managed to utter two sentences—

"Thank you for saving me, boss."

"May I ask where you plan to locate the failed dungeon passage next?"

Upon hearing this, I thought the other party would continue to calmly analyze the situation or ask me to lead the way to the branch of the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs for processing.

Unexpectedly, Wu Wang simply asked, puzzled:
"What are you talking about? I asked you to take this thing back for research just so the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs could prepare in advance. You don't think I'm planning to fight a dungeon invasion by myself, do you? What is the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs doing?"

"By the way, once this thing is separated from a living organism, you just need to put it in a container that can seal off the smell, and it won't make people want to eat it anymore. Take it."

"I need to find some meat bones to charge my summons now. Good luck."

After saying that, he placed the strange seed directly on the table.

Before Li Huo could ask any more questions, the other person vanished into thin air.

Apart from the large hole in the ground and the flames that had been completely extinguished, it was as if this thing had never existed.

It wasn't until he heard what sounded like someone tentatively entering from outside that Li Huo realized what was happening and immediately took out a sealed container from his backpack to put the seeds in.

And immediately shouted into the headset:
"Don't shoot! Don't shoot! I'm not fucking dead! Holy crap, Liu, I can hear you chanting and charging up, stop! You really want to blast me to death, huh?! You've been annoyed with me for ages, haven't you?!"

…………

After leaving Uncle Li's house.

Wu Wang appeared on the top floor of the tallest building nearby, where a beautiful woman was already squatting on the ground, boredly poking ants and waiting for him.

"It's back? How did you know one of these things ran away?" the second sister asked, puzzled.

As he turned to the side, he also revealed another seed on the ground, which was exactly the same as the one Wu Wang had given to Li Huo earlier.

Wu Wang casually put the thing into a glass jar, pointed to the small hill on his shoulder, and said, "This thing told me that there are two special parasitic seeds that have come to the real world."

"They can not only parasitize organisms, but also enable them to undergo secondary evolution, giving birth to some abilities that organisms did not have before, such as the cloaking effect of the insects."

"I thought you'd be holding it for a long time."

Hearing Wu Wang's words, the second sister rolled her eyes at him. Did she really think she was that useless?

So she put her hands on her hips and said, "This thing's invisibility is useless against me! It can only hide its color and body temperature, but it can't hide its own life force."

"Both Xiaoqian and the Ouija board can keep locking onto it."

After all, the two things my second sister mentioned were ghosts, and they had an extremely strong perception of living things.

Perhaps because the second sister herself is a fragment of the past, her life level is not human in essence, and it can even be said that she is not a living being.

Therefore, the food-inducing allure emanating from these seeds inexplicably had no effect on her.

Store the seeds in your backpack.

Wu Wang then picked up the cow-patterned cat from his shoulder and put it on the ground, squinting his eyes as he said, "Now that there are no outsiders, tell me, what's going on with you?"

"Meow……"

Little Hill called out timidly, head bowed.

This method of communication is very strange. Although it does not speak human language, Wu Wang and Wu Xiaoyou can inexplicably understand what it is saying.

It feels somewhat like using mental power to directly convey what you want to express. Perhaps you don't even need to speak.

As for the meowing now...

It's probably just that, as a cat, it's used to talking like that.

"Hmm, I see... So, are you still considered an animal or a plant now?" Second Sister asked with some concern.

From the meows the other cat had just made, they knew why the black and white cat had become like this—

It was parasitized.

However, it is different from the ordinary seed parasitism before, and even different from those two special parasitic seeds.

The fruit seed is not the one that grows on the parasitic hill.

It is the tree itself.

The instance where that peculiar tree is located is a [Hard] level instance, but it's only a tiny bit away from [Nightmare].

The main quest of the dungeon is to wait for a special fruit that can greatly increase the player's attribute points to mature from the fruit of the big tree, and then pick it and take it away.

On the surface, this is a survival-type instance where players need to wait for special fruits to ripen, during which time parasites will constantly attack the players.

In reality, this was a conspiracy brewing by the tree itself.

It uses all its energy to cultivate special fruits that not only provide bonuses to those who eat them, but also carry the consciousness of the tree itself.

As beings that have developed consciousness.

It cannot tolerate being trapped in one place, unable to move, for its entire life by the shell of a tree.

Upon sensing the presence of a Descendant, or a player of the Spirit Calamity, the Great Tree wanted the Descendant to take it away from this dreadful place.

After the fruit was taken out.

It will then unleash that peculiar hunger, tempting the player who takes it away to eat it.

In this way, it can also parasitize and control the body of the player in the Necropolis, thus becoming a creature that can leave freely.

Apart from that, the other parasitic seeds are actually mindless; they simply follow their biological instincts to parasitize stronger organisms, and even the tree itself cannot stop this instinct.

This is why the "facehugger" would try to burrow into the brain of the fire.

At the very least, humans are more resilient than insects.

The most important thing is——

This is a single-player instance.

In other words, no one will notice that this player, who was infected by the spirit of the Tree, has been replaced by its psychic parasite.

It may even be able to quietly integrate into human society.

Unfortunately, imagination is rich, but reality is very skinny.

The plan went awry in a very abstract way—the tree hadn't anticipated that the visitors who approached it were all strangely weak.

The first two invaders were all new players; they couldn't even survive until the special fruit ripened before being killed by the parasites.

It wasn't until the third time I entered that I finally became a player who had been there since the closed beta.

However, this guy's level is not high.

He acts recklessly, yet his luck is strangely good.

Incredibly, during the process of the tree producing that special fruit, before the fruit even ripened, he found it among tens of thousands of seeds and picked it directly.

This action not only severely damaged the tree itself, but also nearly caused its newly formed consciousness to dissipate, and the three failed attempts at the dungeon opened a passage to the real world.

The player was on the verge of failing the quest, but the passage back to the starting point opened.

He rushed in without thinking.

The good news is—they are indeed back.

The bad news is—as soon as I got back, the Spirit Disaster game ruled my mission a failure and I was instantly killed.

All that returned to reality was his corpse.

Unfortunately, in his haste to escape, he didn't hide the fruit in his backpack; instead, he ran out carrying it in his arms.

Therefore, the fruit successfully came into reality.

At that time, due to the arrival of the [public beta], Uncle Li was taking Xiao Qiu for a walk in the park when he was pulled into the instance.

The unattended hill roamed freely.

Then, when he jumped onto someone else's balcony, he stumbled upon the fruit that the corpse was holding in its arms.

It ate the fruit.

Because the fruit is not fully ripe, it does not contain much of the tree's spirit, but it is still infused with a considerable portion of the tree's energy.

In this accidental turn of events.

The hill that ate the fruit unexpectedly gained sentience, or as commonly known, it developed a brain.

The above situations are what Xiao Qiu discovered after he grew a brain. Most of the things attached to his memories were the tiny bit of consciousness that the big tree had left in the fruit.

"So, the reason those parasitized things attacked Uncle Li's house was actually to capture you and take you back?" Wu Wang said after a moment of contemplation. "Even if they didn't capture you, they still wanted to eat you, since you carry the energy of the Great Tree's origin."

Little Hill: "Meow?"

Even if it did develop a brain, it would be a freshly made brain, practically emptier than that of a contemporary college student.

Where can one possibly understand these questions?

It was only when Wu Wang proposed this hypothesis that Xiao Qiu immediately became alert.

Holy crap! No wonder I've been feeling like I'm being watched lately, it's been making me really uncomfortable.

He then planned to go home and eat a few more cat treats before heading out to look for Wu Wang and Wu Xiaoyou.

After all, staying with these two owners is the safest place in a cat's life, which can be considered a kind of animal instinct.

"Then... what about Uncle Li?"

The second sister asked nervously.

She was terrified that her own cat had caused someone else's death. Unlike Wu Wang, whose humanity had been gradually eroded by countless deaths, Wu Xiaoyou was still a very sentimental person.

Hearing the master's doubts.

Xiao Qiu sighed and said, "Meow..."

Uncle Li has never returned since he disappeared.

This is already obvious.

Uncle Li died in the initial instance.

After all, they were neighbors, and the other party even helped them take care of Xiaoqiu. Now, because of the [public beta], they were pulled into the dungeon world and their corpses couldn't even return to their roots.

These words also made Wu Xiaoyou feel a pang of sadness.

However, Wu Wang suddenly thought of something.

Looking at Xiao Qiu earnestly, he asked, "In your memory, were those four the only parasitic creatures that came with you?"

Xiao Qiu nodded.

After all, if there had been more parasites, it would have been caught long ago.

Looking at Xiaoqiu's determined expression.

Wu Wang looked down at the night view of Mingyang City and said calmly, "I understand."

"That proves that the instance invasion of reality is not simply opening a free passage, but rather there is some kind of mechanism. Otherwise, there would never have been only a few insects coming over; the parasitic army would have already overwhelmed Mingyang City."

"Perhaps, through this incident, we can actually figure out the mechanism by which the dungeon invades the real world after failing to complete the mission three times."

"I believe the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs must have already begun studying this situation."

This is also the real reason why Wu Wang asked Li Huo to take a seed back to the Bureau of Strange Events to report the situation and to conduct research.

Besides the Bureau of Extraordinary Events being the strongest defense against dungeon invasions in China, it is also necessary to rely on more professional personnel like them for research.

Wu Wang indeed had a wide range of interests.

However, the Bureau of Paranormal Affairs is the authority when it comes to researching these supernatural disasters.

He has witnessed many of their research achievements in the headquarters laboratory.

"Wait a minute, since the parasite's target is Xiaoqiu, what would happen if we took it with us when we left Mingyang City?" the second sister asked疑惑地.

Wu Wang's gaze then turned eastward.

That's the coastal location of Mingyang City.

He grinned and said, "You'll find out soon enough! Let's go to the beach! We'll call some people too!"

Isn't it just a copy of a creature coming to the real world?
What a coincidence, I also know the dungeon creatures… (End of Chapter)