CH 54

【Drip—

The interior of the experimental base that was originally filled with the sounds of people coming and going was silent.

A middle-aged man with glasses wiped cold sweat from his forehead, watching the data stream fly by on the light screen, his fingers rapidly hitting the virtual keyboard.

Hurry up, hurry up!

He needed time! Give him another ten minutes and he can destroy these viruses! The serum would be complete soon!

Outside the core experimental area where the middle-aged man was located, the system’s radiation protection net was still functioning, blocking outsider intrusion.

The experimenters with gray pupils expressionlessly surrounded the system’s protective net. From time to time, one or two people tried to break into the area, but they were only hit by rays and turned into pieces of mincemeat.

The infected scattered throughout the huge underground experimental base all shared a single consciousness and they all knew that in the core experimental area, there was something they needed to eliminate.

However, the defense system in this part of the area was controlled by personnel inside the barrier. If these people didn’t turn off the defense system of their own volition, they really couldn’t do anything.

Inside the surveillance room, a tall guard saw the rebels trying to invade the base.

The guard blinked grey eyes and pressed the button to turn off the external defense system.

The rebels successfully invaded. 】

-From《Fatal Infection》

Stopping the suspended vehicle, Zhou Yu’s forehead was sweating lightly.

The internal organs in his body were in severe disarray, the blood in his throat could no longer be swallowed back down, red blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth.

Birus looked at the pained human beside him, a little at a loss.

He couldn’t find any relevant information in the parasitic body’s memory. He could only sense that the human was suffering, but he didn’t know what to do to alleviate his human’s suffering.

“Cough! I’m, I’m fine. It doesn’t hurt at all, cough cough, really!” Zhou Yu forced himself to smile, it really was painless at first, but he forgot it was because this body had not yet completely adapted to his soul.

Now that his soul and body were gradually assimilating, the body’s pain would naturally follow.

Zhou Yu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and smiled bitterly. I can only hope that this adaptation process will pass quickly.

He was accustomed to being a god in the last life, this really was a bit unbearable.

Birus touched Zhou Yu’s cheek with a trembling hand and asked softly, “You won’t die, right?”

Zhou Yu gently arched his eyes and said, “Of course, this is just a minor illness, it’ll be fine by tomorrow!”

Birus’ grey eyes seemed to hide a terrible storm, which was appalling.

He was afraid that the human in front of him would leave him.

But human beings would always die. What should he do that would allow him to be by his side forever?

“However, I may not be able to take you home today, um, this is a bit presumptuous of me, but can you stay overnight at my house tonight? I may need your help to go upstairs …” After saying this, Zhou Yu suddenly felt like a pervert kidnapping a young girl.

No no no, can’t think like that, they were both adults, and he really couldn’t move!

Zhou Yu threw this strange metaphor to the back of his head, and reached out with his only functioning hand to the man beside him.

His body was now racked in pain, but the original owner’s apartment was on the 34th floor and it would take a while to take the elevator, so he really was helpless now.

“Okay.” Birus held Zhou Yu in his arms and stepped out of the car carefully.

Being steadily embraced in his lover’s wide and cozy chest, Zhou Yu instantly felt that the pain in his body had alleviated a lot, and he couldn’t help breaking out in a relieved smile, responding: “Thank you, Birus.”

Birus kissed Zhou Yu’s forehead for a moment, afraid to move too much, fearing that too much movement would make the human in his arms even more pained.

Humans were too fragile unlike them with their virus’s parasite bodies.

Once humans died, they disappeared forever.

And he didn’t want the human in his arms to disappear, in fact, just thinking about that possibility made him feel very broken and desperate.

Entering the elevator, Birus pressed the button for the 34th floor and waited quietly to reach their destination.

The human in his arms also fell into a deep sleep. From the looks of it, it seemed like he was dead, but fortunately, as a virus, he could still feel the human‘s breath, which kept him from going crazy.

Ding Dong——

The elevator reached the thirty-fourth floor. When the elevator doors slowly opened, a pair of elegant calves wearing red high heels graced Birus’ eyesight, his thoughts unknown.

Birus raised his droopy eyelids expressionlessly, staring at the young woman with gray pupils and long brown hair outside the elevator doors.

The woman looked at Birus, tilted her head curiously, and talked to him via the linked telepathy.

The human in your arms, why haven’t you infected him?

Birus walked out of the elevator holding the sleeping dark-haired young man in his arms, and ignored the woman’s inquiry.

The woman stood still and watched Birus walk to an apartment door not far from the elevator, open the door and walk in.

It wasn’t until the kin disappeared from vision that the woman averted her grey eyes and turned to knock on the door of an apartment on the other side.

Its mission was to infect, and although it felt a bit strange towards that kin, it’s mission was still first priority.

“Who’s outside? Eh, who are you?” The man in the room opened the door and was greeted by the woman’s sharpened fingernails.

Puchi——Blood splatters!!!! [1]

Blood contact infections were often more convenient than skin contact.

Zhou Yu was gently placed on the soft bed in the bedroom by his lover and felt the severe pain in his body ease by a lot.

He lifted his head and directed a soothing smile at his still-cold lover, saying, “Will you sleep in the other room tonight? Rest assured, I’ve already cleaned that room!” The original owner’s girlfriend occasionally lived there. Therefore, the infatuated man would clean that room every now and again and keep it clean, more diligent in cleaning that room than his bedroom.

Birus didn’t speak, just looked at Zhou Yu quietly, not blinking.

He didn’t want to leave this human.

Zhou Yu and Birus looked at each other for a long time. After the stalemate, he had to give in.

“Well, okay, that’s okay too, this bed is quite big …”

Zhou Yu silently looked at his lover quickly lying on the bed.

This life’s lover was a little more forward than he’d imagined.

However, no matter how he changed, he was his lover, and that would never change.

In other words, the original owner’s girlfriend was still a problem. Although the person who courted her wasn’t him, Zhou Yu always felt like he was two-timing.

However, the relationship itself between the original owner and his girlfriend was indeed a bit strange.

Obviously, the girlfriend had confessed first, but in the end she didn’t even let the original owner hold her hand. In the dark period when the original owner was obviously depressed, he didn’t see the slightest comfort from his girlfriend.

In the original’s memory, they never had any close contact at all, and they usually get along almost like strangers. Let alone a date, even if the original owner tried to get closer, he would be rejected by the girlfriend for various reasons.

And since the original owner’s girlfriend spilled water on the original owner yesterday, she’d completely cut off all connection with the original owner, which was almost equivalent to a one-sided breakup. This was one of the reasons that made the original owner more desperate and have a high fever.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu felt more and more sleepy, so he left these wrong feelings behind.

Anyway, he can’t contact her anymore. He really doesn’t want to think so much. Even if this cheap girlfriend contacted him again, he would only say that they’d already broken up, and from the current situation, they were already a state of breakup. 

Various organs in Zhou Yu’s body were regenerating. The body’s spontaneous protection made him to set aside all thoughts and gradually fall into a deep sleep.

Birus held the frail dark-haired young man in his arms. He only got up and walked out of the bedroom when he was sure he was in deep sleep.

Birus took out the silenced gun placed behind his waist and skillfully loaded it.

He expressionlessly walked to the door and opened it.

Outside the door, the young woman with long brown hair stood in the doorway, her grey eyes flashed with cold light.

I felt it, he-

Birus looked at the woman with the same gray pupil as himself and shot her between her eyebrows.

The woman fell down, her head blown away by the powerful might of the handgun.

As kinsmen, they always knew each other’s weakness —— the head.

The brain plasma and blood spilled onto the man behind the woman, and the man flung himself at Birus expressionlessly, rigidly restraining Birus’ hand with the gun.

The gray pupils of the man met Birus’. They, who were originally part of an integrated consciousness, were now filled with killing intent towards each other.

Don’t think of monopolizing him.

Birus swiftly kicked the man out the door, his eyes fierce and ruthless.

It’s a pity that your parasitic host is used to sitting in the office and I’m a mercenary.

Birus closed the door of the apartment, blocking the noise and ensuring that the dark-haired young man in the bedroom could sleep peacefully.

He looked at the kin on the ground with a cold grin.

So, of course, I can monopolize him.

BANG——!!!  

The man’s head burst into a flower blossom.

He can only be with me alone. Birus retracted the gun in his hand and kicked the kinsmen’s corpse on the ground coldly.

They – the viruses – were originally the same, but as the quality of the parasitic bodies differed, their capabilities would show differently. Some viruses would have a high IQ, some would have a strong fighting ability, and so on.

The parasitic body controlled by Birus was a mercenary hired by the Resistance to steal the sample of the perfect gene. [2]

Therefore, the mercenary’s physical fitness was incredibly toned, there was no problem in disposing these two people.

The main being connecting them was the collective consciousness of these viruses. Unless it was something that concerned the entire virus community, it would not easily appear.

Now, most of the virus consciousness – also called the main body – should still be paying attention to the original virus sample located in the underground experimental base, and for the time being, couldn’t detect them killing each other.

Birus dragged the young woman’s body into the apartment next door, dark red bloodstains leaving long trails of smeared blood.

Soon, Birus dragged both bodies into the apartment’s living room and piled them together, then raised an eyebrow at the blood on the ground.

He must admit that there was no concept of massacring each other in the consciousness of the virus’.

Because they were one body, individuals living together for one goal. It was theoretically impossible for them to kill each other.

But it was so ridiculous that he now wanted to kill every kinsmen.

Birus wiped the blood off his hands, his gaze coldly indifferent.

All kin who wanted to compete with him over his human should die.

***

Inside the thin, transparent shield, the stubble-bearded man stood up, equipped all the hot weapons on his body and prepared to leave this place the moment the veil disappeared. [3]

This underground experimental base was where the plot began. In order to survive, of course he had to leave. The farther away he was, the better!

Behind the man, the reincarnators in various apparel were poised ready for combat.

They were a group of discarded dregs, a group of wastes that could only be randomly allocated, so, except for a few newcomers who looked ignorant, everyone else more or less looked somewhat dispirited.

The shroud finally disappeared, but against the reincarnators’s expectations, a flying shuttle appeared in front of them. Several heavily armed Resistance soldiers stood in the shuttle and aimed their guns in their direction.

【 Because of the excessive number of reincarnators who have been slacking in work recently, a new task mode will now be adopted. Reincarnators will now be automatically set to adopt character templates. Hope that everybody will proactively participate in the plot and obtain more reward points. 】

“Are you the mercenaries hired by the leader?”

The face of the man with the stubble was fierce.

Lord God, fuck your entire family!