Stray Chapter 18: Handsome for three seconds
After thinking of this incident, Xia Ran acted decisively.
However, he only remembered the keyword "Sakurazaki Hospital". After doing his homework, he could only confirm the approximate location, and since the exact time was unknown, he had to visit the site in advance to be sure.
It's not that I want to sell favors to the protagonist. After all, strictly speaking, this matter has at least two intuitive benefits-
First, this seems to be directly interfering with the main storyline. According to the basic information in consciousness, it is absolutely certain that once it succeeds, the result is that the degree of interference will be greatly improved, and the rewards will be relatively richer.
Second, the parasitic beast is extremely weak and almost in a state of incapacity to protect itself. It parasitized on a girl at first, and as a result, when she went to a picnic with the girl's boyfriend in the car, there was a traffic accident.
Because I didn't know the purpose of the seat belt, I didn't wear the seat belt, so in the car accident, the parasite host's internal organs were shattered and dying, while the boyfriend next to him survived because of the protection of the seat belt.
The parasitic beast sensed that the parasitic body was about to die and had to change its body immediately, so it cut off its own body from the girl's body and transferred it to the man's head.
It originally thought that there would be no problem, but it turned out that the difference in body structure between men and women was larger than it thought, and it was definitely not a simple change in the operation method from a joystick to a keyboard and mouse.
This makes it difficult to unify the body's consciousness and control the body's movements, like a walking dead, and even urinated his pants because of incontinence...
So the parasitic beast had no choice but to try to transfer to a familiar female body again, and a couple who happened to be traveling with the two of them, that is, Izumi Shinichi's parents, suffered as a result.
——The husband watched his wife murdered in front of his eyes, and it was difficult to escape...
——The parasitic beast occupied the wife's body and was going to go back to cut the grass and remove the roots, but she didn't expect her husband to come back, so he killed his son, Izumi Shinichi, who refused to face reality.
But if you take the chance, until it's done its second head change, that thing is simply an excellent target to hunt. The reward is high, the risk is low, and it is the best price/performance ratio in the audience. Xia Ran thought that she had no reason to let it go.
And personal likes and dislikes are also a very important decisive factor. Xia Ran really doesn't like to see such a tragedy unfold.
There aren't that many excuses, very honest, that he doesn't like it.
……
……
Find Sakurazaki Hospital and investigate the surrounding area around it.
Because of the unimpressive reason, Xia Ran also forgot where the incident happened, but vaguely remembered that it seemed to be a cliff by the sea.
When the protagonist's mother was killed, the father was able to escape because he fell into the sea. After that, he was injured and called his son to warn him. Then he was admitted to Sakurazaki Hospital in a coma for treatment, which shows that the hospital was far from the incident. The location is not too far away.
Based on the limited and vague clues, Xia Ran pinpointed several suspected locations, and spent two days familiarizing herself with the terrain, making some justice preparations by the way. It's not much, but it can have a miraculous effect at critical moments.
Being prepared is better than being unprepared. He would rather waste his time and energy and do useless work than realize that he is unprepared when he really needs to use these preparations.
Then, a hotel he had been staring at also welcomed two special guests this morning.
It was a couple, the husband was obviously a little old and the wife was no longer young, but relatively not so old, the two sides looked very loving, not a superficial couple who were in the same bed, different dreams and different looks.
The two of them seem to be traveling to relax, but they are not with a group. Instead, they are looking for some beautiful places to play alone sweetly. They don't even need a guide. They seem to want more Time and space for the two to be alone.
That would have been true, and they were probabilistically safer than in the city.
However, no matter how small the probability is, as long as the possibility is not completely zero, it is still possible to happen. The two of them were so lucky to meet a parasitic beast with a brain pumping, who specially left the prosperous big city hunting grounds with many opportunities, and came to the remote countryside to commit crimes.
And there just happened to be some problems, and it urgently needed a second head replacement... It is a parasitic beast with a brain problem in the true sense.
——I have to say, this is really a tragedy.
It's just that this is not the fate that the two of them can know now. The two couples are still enjoying life. They go out to visit the scenic spots during the day, and go back to the hotel at night to have a good rest, exchange feelings and discuss their recent son by the way. change problem.
Xia Ran is not a stalker, but he still hangs behind the two couples consciously or unintentionally during the day, and he follows them wherever they go. Although his tracking skills are not good, he is better at being agile and responsive.
The two couples have no anti-reconnaissance awareness, and second, they didn't think they would be followed, so they didn't find out at all.
Of course, this situation did not last long, although Xia Ran was patient enough.
But at noon on the third day, the couple set off again after lunch. Listening to the discussion, this time their destination is one of the suspected locations.
Xia Ran, who was sitting next to them, was suddenly refreshed, so after the two checked out and left the restaurant, she also decided to go out and push a motorcycle that she had prepared earlier.
It took more than three hours to walk and play along the way. The couple is really relaxing on the trip, not in a hurry to go somewhere. Complete.
So it wasn't until the sun went down that the couple appeared on the cliff by the sea to see the scenery.
And someone who keeps a distance behind them, doesn't follow closely, doesn't easily pull away, walks when it's time to walk, and drives when it's time to drive, patience is really very good, just not in a hurry at all Uneasy feeling.
On the contrary, he took this opportunity to deduce the plans that might be used in the future over and over again, and by the way, he strengthened his psychological hints on the battlefield.
All in all, just one sentence, on the surface it looks like all three of them are traveling.
……
……
The time has finally come to this moment.
Under the afterglow of the golden sunlight, the boundless sea shimmered with shimmering waves, and the sea breeze was blowing on the face, and the sound of the waves was incessant.
Standing on a high cliff by the sea, overlooking the infinite scenery of the sunset, sunset and seascape, Quan Xinyi's mother couldn't help sighing like this——
"It's a beautiful sunset."
"Yeah, it's worth taking a taxi to come here." Izumi Shinichi's father put his hands in his pockets at the back, looked at his wife and said with a smile.
“…”
“…”
"When will we bring the new belt up and come here again?"
After watching the scenery quietly for a while, the wife finally turned around, reached out and held down the hat on her head that seemed to be blown away at any time in the sea breeze, and said gently. Her eyes were full of longing, and she seemed to see a happy family of three in the future.
"Hahaha, you really don't forget Shinichi wherever you go..." The husband couldn't help lowering his head and shaking his head, as if he sighed helplessly.
Then, he raised his head again to continue speaking, but his pupils contracted sharply to the size of a pinpoint.
"Nobuko—?!"
Behind the smiling wife, I don't know when a "man" figure suddenly appeared standing there, under the neck is indeed a man in a suit, above the neck is a deformed and disgusting " Big Snail".
The disgusting flesh like a skinned frog, the huge eyeballs growing out of the top of the two tentacles, and the huge bone blades that are extended and deformed from the tentacles on both sides are slowly opening under the sunset, reflecting steel like The cold light...
"Huh?"
The woman was also confused. She didn't know what was going on behind her, but she just looked behind her husband with some unresponsiveness, because a figure rushed over, almost in the blink of an eye. She went to her husband and came to her.
——The speed of this explosion made her unable to react.
"Get down—!!"
The next moment, she felt a huge force suddenly coming from her head. Before she could even scream in surprise, she was slammed on her head by an extremely rough hand and pressed to the ground.
There seems to be a flash of knife light in the air, and a few long strands of hair were broken in a flash, scattered in an instant, and fluttered away with the sea breeze.
—Bang!
The next moment, a deafening voice sounded!
"Ah-!!" The woman just struggled to raise her head, her face still covered with dust and grass clippings, when she was startled, and suddenly subconsciously screamed, trying to crawl with both hands and feet open.
Xia Ran ignored her, but with a painful expression on her face, she lowered her left hand with a grin, and the barrel of the grenade launcher in her hand was weakly downward... How should I put it, he suspected that his left hand was dislocated.
This parasitic beast is so weak that it can't even control its body, and it wobbles when it walks as if it was a zombie virus. Probably because of this, Izumi Shinichi's father was able to escape while facing a parasitic beast alone...
It's a miracle.
After all, you must know that a parasite with a complete body wants to kill an entire class of students, and it takes at most three seconds.
And the appearance of this miracle also shows that the state of this parasitic beast is really bad. Its tentacles are no longer much faster than ordinary people's full-strength punches.
Xia Ran, whose agility attribute has reached 12 points, is a little more than twice that of ordinary people in terms of numerical value, and the actual increase is more than the numerical value. It seems that his speed and reaction ability have completely surpassed. past the dying parasitic beast.
So much so that when he was just completely concentrating, he saw that the other party's actions almost turned into slow motion that enhanced slow motion.
So he used his speed to be faster than the parasitic beast, see more clearly, and even have enough room to think. fall back.
Then lifted the grenade launcher with one hand, aimed at the parasitic beast that had pulled a certain distance, and pulled the trigger...
Well, a very smooth and fast series of movements, just like flowing clouds and water.
It's a pity that he is only handsome for three seconds, because he only has agility that surpasses ordinary people, but his other attributes are still the same, and his strength attribute is only 4 points, so it is really handsome to shoot a gun with one hand...