"Wait a minute, I don't understand what you mean."
Xie Yuzhi's slender brows frowned slightly.
"What do you mean?"
"After I woke up, I couldn't control my body for a while."
"Ah, I have an impression of this!"
Ji Chunzao said that her restless feet that were dangling under the table kicked Yan Jingxing's knees. When he turned his attention to her, he saw the little girl smiling evilly at him.
"I thought it was because Jing Xing didn't recognize us anymore and didn't want to talk to us."
"……Unable to control?"
"Yes. How should I put it? This feeling is very complicated. It's like there is another consciousness residing on the pixel body, which seems to be left behind by the previous host."
"You mean, the body will retain the host's... er, 'soul'?"
Xie Yuzhi's frown deepened.
"No, whether humans have a so-called soul is another matter. Let's talk about memory. Have you seen the memory of the previous host?"
"Memory... not really. All I can touch is an emotion. For example, I only know that my last one was a foreigner who spoke English, and that he was very angry."
Yan Jingxing stared at his alienated and swollen arms, recalling the feeling at that time.
"Moreover, this kind of consciousness and emotion itself is also very illusory. It is more like some kind of 'image' that remains. The body moves according to the inertia left behind, but it cannot actually be controlled. As long as you are the current If I am the manipulator, I can easily erase this influence if I wish.”
"However, there is a kind of change that is left permanently. This is what I call 'legacy', which is the special ability possessed by the body."
Yan Jingxing silently chanted "Release" in his heart. The spiral gun that bloomed like a flower withered and returned to its "bud" posture. The thick white bone armor dissipated, leaving only his arms still steaming with heat, and the caring clothes on his arms. The fabric was evaporated.
"The method of making and using the spiral gun was not invented by me, nor does it come with the body. It is an ability developed by the previous generation of hosts relying on their own experience and instinct."
"...Do you mean that the body is like a rough diamond and needs to be carefully carved?"
"More like plasticine, with endless possibilities and freedom. Everyone can develop different skills through fierce battles or training."
Hearing this, Xie Yuzhi couldn't help but be a little confused.
"'Everyone'? Why are you so sure?"
"——Because, I have noticed that there has been more than one host's consciousness in the body." Yan Jingxing replied in a deep voice, "Some hosts... are not even human beings."
"You mean aliens?"
"I'm afraid so."
Ever since he realized that there were residual consciousnesses of other hosts on the body, he had been trying to get answers from it.
As a result, he did touch the second consciousness, but the other party spoke a language he couldn't understand. Yan Jingxing instinctively felt that it was not a language that belonged to any country on earth——
Because it sounds more like the buzzing of mosquitoes, human vocal organs simply can't do it.
…
The room fell silent for a moment.
They are obviously more likely to associate it with something else than special abilities.
What does it really mean to have the consciousness of more than one host remain?
Finally, it was Ji Chunzao's words that broke the silence:
"In other words, all the people who have merged with the physical body... are all dead now?"
"You."
Xie Yuzhi couldn't help but shake his head.
"sorry……"
Ji Chunzao shrank her head, and all the liveliness and excitement on her face disappeared.
"No, that's what I thought."
Yan Jingxing sighed.
"Currently, it seems that the body is an excellent weapon tailor-made for alien warriors. It is powerful and controllable. There are no other restrictions except that the warrior's own adaptability to superpowers determines the length of the fusion duration. . But if that’s the case, why——”
Why do so many hosts die?
Could it be all because of the powerful enemy? Like a battle between overlords?
He felt that it was not surprising that aliens had such a mission. The problem was that there were earthlings among the dead hosts, which meant that the successive deaths of body manipulators from beginning to end were not accidental, but inevitable.
In other words, even if they all really died in the battle with the Overlord, that would probably be the fate that Yan Jingxing would have to face in the future.
"Do you have any ideas?"
"...I do have a guess. Remember what I just said, there is a huge amount of heat inside the body, right?"
Yan Jingxing was able to exert power when fused with his body for the first time, indicating that it was indeed created as a weapon;
But he could still recall that when the battle was about to end, the surging heat accumulated to the extreme, and the huge terror of burning his whole body and immolating him immediately was really unforgettable.
The power of the body will continue to break through and improve with the accumulation of heat. There is no upper limit to this process. He can't understand the source of this heat at all. The endless light and heat are like a raging bear sealed inside the body. Like a burning sun.
When Yan Jingxing thought of this, he had a feeling: all the previous hosts probably died from this unlimited increase in "heat".
Just like a certain kind of life form endlessly evolving towards the highest point, the result is self-destruction.
He couldn't help but think of the special ability of the body: it can create weapons like spiral guns in a short time, and it also relies on unimaginable self-division and reproduction; once the cell life reaches its limit, the weapon will wither.
Perhaps, this rapid development of self-burning is the characteristic of body cells.
…
After listening to his story, Ji Chunzao and Xie Yuzhi looked at each other and saw the worry on each other's faces.
"This is really..."
"Then, why don't you stop using it in the future?"
The curly-haired girl stretched out her hand, tugged on his sleeve, and whispered.
Yan Jingxing was stunned for a moment.
Now Chun Zao has forgotten what she just said, "As long as Jing Xing is by our side, no matter where we go, we will be safe." She raised her face and looked at her with a gaze that concealed cautious emotions. Own.
The little girl never forgets the alien adventure a few weeks ago. Because chasing information and traces of aliens is her life motivation. Since her parents disappeared, searching for the truth has become what she has been doing.
But even so, for Ji Chunzao now, there is already something more important than all the above in this world——
"You don't have to worry."
Seeing the delicate atmosphere, Yan Jingxing laughed first.
"Heat accumulation is also a process. As long as you end the fusion before that, or find a way to release the heat, it is nothing more than a battle time limit."
"Let's think on the bright side! More than one ability of the physical body has been developed. What I have now are all the special abilities accumulated by previous generations of hosts. They are all sleeping in my body, waiting for me to discover them."
"..."
Miss Xie just looked at him silently and did not speak.
"Maybe there will be cool special moves in it! By the way, we can also name these abilities one by one. Anyway, they are all dead... Well, let's just call this move the spiral gun for now, in my mind It’s already called that.”
Neither girl meant to speak, and he was the only one trying to liven up the atmosphere. In the end, Yan Jingxing could only sigh and said:
"You're not going to let me use it, are you?"
"No, you misunderstood, Jing Xing. The body belongs to you. How you use it is up to you. No one can force you to make a decision."
"It's true that you are not forcing me...but if you keep looking at me like this, I will still feel embarrassed."
"hehe."
Hearing this, Xie Yuzhi's tense expression suddenly relaxed, her eyebrows that had always been tightened relaxed, and her beautiful face bloomed with a smile.
"That means you're vulnerable to our influence."
"Isn't that natural?"
"Then, I can only answer you in one sentence."
The girl said softly.
"No one knows what the future will be like. No matter what you choose, I will support you. So, just go for it."
"Me, me too!"
Before Yan Jingxing could react, Ji Chunzao next to him raised his hand.
"I think if the three of us think the same way, there is no need to worry about taking the wrong path...Rather than the threats that may exist in the future, it is better to think about the actual problems that currently exist and need to be solved urgently."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Yan Jingxing was stunned for a moment.
"Of course I'm talking about the clothes you wore after your transformation."
Miss Xie showed a narrow smile and poked the muscles on his arm with the tips of her nails.
"When you were unconscious before, you were naked from top to bottom. This time I saw the process of merging you with your body with my own eyes. I can confirm that every time you transform, your clothes will be burned off. Get slick, right?”
"ah……"
Yan Jingxing suddenly realized that he had not noticed this.
This...is really a problem.
(End of chapter)
