Chapter 28

Huo Yan didn't feel very uncomfortable at first, but after he said this, he felt dizzy and couldn't exert his strength anywhere.

He swayed a little, feeling a little unsteady.

Jiang Ce hugged him subconsciously, and softened his tone: "Huo Yan?"

He doesn't seem to be showing any aggression at present, nor does he have any animalistic features, but Jiang Ce still remembers that when he used his ability, his dark pupils looked like another person's expression.

He pursed his lips tightly, Huo Yan buried his head in his arms, and replied in a daze, "Jiang Ce...is disgusting, wants to vomit."

Jiang Ce lowered his eyes, restrained his expression, and straightened his head: "Don't spit on me."

Huo Yan whimpered aggrievedly, and Jiang Ce sighed, "Forget it, it's fine to go back and wash."

Only then did he show a smile, and leaned on him confidently and passed out.

Jiang Ce supported him with one hand, Xu Xiaoxiao hurried over to help him, and asked Jiang Ce to carry him on his back.

She reminded: "Captain, you are injured, you'd better deal with it first."

Jiang Ce didn't intend to stay: "It's fine."

"He's awakened, he can't stay in crowded places, I'll take him home first."

Xu Xiaoxiao froze for a moment, and his expression became tense in an instant: "Then, should I go to the base..."

Jiang Ce didn't look back: "I'll take him home."

Xu Xiaoxiao didn't speak again, she silently watched the other party leave with Huo Yan on his back.

"He's awakened." At some point, Lu Meixin stood beside her, staring at their backs as they went away.

Xu Xiaoxiao subconsciously provided cover for Jiang Ce: "When the target's awakening may cause heavy casualties, it is the right decision to take him away from the crowd."

"Furthermore, Huo Yan's state is stable after awakening, and he has not shown alienation characteristics. He is very likely to become a normal awakened S-rank, and an S-rank on our side."

Although she felt that the captain might not have thought that much about Huo Yan now, but she could help out.

Besides, Huo Yan...

If possible, she also hoped that Huo Yan would be on their side.

"S-level abilities." Lu Meixin repeated in a low voice, showing a helpless smile, "I hope so."

"Rescue the wounded first."

Xu Xiaoxiao let out a sigh of relief, and rarely placed his hope on the virtual gods and Buddhas, praying that Huo Yan would not fail to awaken.

...

Jiang Ce placed Huo Yan on the bed, lowered his eyes and looked at him carefully.

——When he used his abilities, he seemed to be a bit burdened on his eyes, and he shed a lot of physiological tears. Coupled with Zhou Xun's dusty abilities, his face is now dirty, like a gray-faced stray animal.It looks very pitiful.

Jiang Ce wiped the dirt on his face with a wet towel. He was so burned that he was dazed, but he still obediently let him wipe his face with his head up, looking obedient and unsuspecting.

Jiang Ce couldn't hold back and stroked his cheek lightly, leaving another gray mark on his freshly wiped face.

He glanced at his palms, which were not clean either.

Shaking his head helplessly, and wiped his face clean again, Jiang Ce opened the closet and found a clean combat uniform from inside.

I don't know if it is lucky, the rental house they rented was not ransacked by the disaster nest, nor was it destroyed by the mutated creatures that entered by mistake.

If it weren't for the window, the collapsed streets and destroyed houses would have looked like something out of a doomsday movie, and he might have been able to fool himself that nothing had changed.

Jiang Ce felt that he probably couldn't be considered a qualified undercover agent. The combat uniform of the Special Events Department was in his closet, but it was covered slightly with the normal uniform, and Huo Yan never noticed it.

—Maybe he was never on guard.

Jiang Ce went into the bathroom with clean clothes. The water supply at home was still available, but the electricity seemed to be cut off, so hot water could not be provided.

But Jiang Ce didn't care.

Cold water rushed out of the shower, and amidst the splashing sound of water, Jiang Ce faced the mirror, silently raised his hand to hold his dislocated left shoulder—the strengthened body after awakening has begun to repair itself, but he has to straighten the bones by himself.

A toothache "click" sounded, and Jiang Ce straightened his shoulder expressionlessly.

He didn't seem to feel the pain, and moved his shoulder a little bit.

He silently thought that Huo Yan was still awake.

After seeing the real S-rank, he recalled his original plan, only to find it whimsical.

—He couldn't protect him at all.

He closed his eyes, and after a moment of silence, the cold water from the shower began to heat up.

After a brief rinse, Jiang Ce changed into a clean combat uniform, and went to the room again to check on Huo Yan's condition.

His cheeks were flushed with heat, and he muttered unconsciously.

Jiang Ce subconsciously bent down, approached him, and asked in a low voice, "What?"

Huo Yan opened his mouth slightly, unconsciously repeating: "Teppanyaki..."

Jiang Ce: "..."

He paused, glanced at him silently, and raised his chin to let him close his mouth so as not to drool on the pillow.

Jiang Ce looked at him silently for a while, then changed him to a cold towel and covered his forehead, then went into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator and took a look.

There was a power outage at home, and the food in the refrigerator couldn't keep fresh. It looked very dry, but could pick out a lot of edible ones.

Jiang Ce hesitated, and turned on the optical brain search - homemade teppanyaki recipe.

After browsing the various tutorials and strategies, Jiang Ce thought seriously. Although it is a bit out of date, it seems that it is not impossible to do it. If you use your ability to heat cooking oil...

With a general idea in mind, he was not in a hurry to operate. After all, the high fever period would last for more than ten hours after waking up. Huo Yan didn't know when he would wake up. Teppanyaki was still delicious just out of the pot with steam.

He turned off the optical brain, and then suddenly realized that he really wanted to make teppanyaki at this time.

Jiang Ce: "..."

Wu Yan pressed the center of his brow, he suspected that Huo Yan not only lowered his vigilance, but also his common sense and IQ.

If you think about it carefully, it is not suitable to eat teppanyaki immediately after you have a fever.

Jiang Ce blankly crossed out the teppanyaki plan from his heart.

He opened the optical brain's address book several times, hesitated for a moment, and pressed the communication button.

The reminder sounded three times, and the communication was connected on the opposite side.

"Hello."

The female voice on the other end of the communication was cold, and Jiang Ce didn't answer right away.

The voice on the other side revealed a little helplessness: "Jiang Ce, I don't have much time, you can speak up if you need something."

Only then did Jiang Ce open his mouth. He avoided addressing him and asked directly, "Is it true that xenoparasitism cannot be cured at this stage?"

The other end of the communication was silent for a moment, and sighed: "Now the results we have researched are what we said at the meeting."

"If it weren't for the huge cost of curing, the professor would not have made that kind of proposal."

Jiang Ce felt that the professor was not only unkind, but he didn't want to discuss the professor right now, so he kept silent and didn't answer.

The person on the other side didn't seem to be good at talking up topics, so he was silent for a while before asking: "You won't ask me this for no reason, what happened?"

Jiang Ce didn't answer directly: "Didn't you get the news?"

"I have received the latest information from the Academy City base, but because you called, I haven't had time to check it yet." There was a rustling voice over there, as if she was checking the information.

Jiang Ce waited patiently for a while, then she let out a sigh of relief: "So that's how it is."

"The curse has awakened."

"He didn't lose control." Jiang Ce emphasized first, and then hesitated to speak, "But it's still a little strange."

"What?" When she mentioned things in her professional field, her speech speed increased a lot. "What do you think is wrong?"

Jiang Ce didn't answer, but made a request first: "You have to promise not to include it in the report."

The person on the other side didn't seem to expect him to make this request, and sighed helplessly: "Jiang Ce."

"He didn't lose control, I'm sure." Jiang Ce looked down at the ground, "But I know the risk of S-level, and I also know that you will not let go of any strange places on him, and will let him be checked over and over again.”

"What I'm saying now may also become evidence for you to accuse him of mutation. I don't want that to happen."

He stood upright and slowly bent his shoulders, leaning against the wall behind him lightly, "I'm just asking you about the symptoms that occasionally appear after you wake up, I'm not reporting Huo Yan's abnormality to you, don't remember itCome down, can you?"

On the other end of the communication, Jiang Shu looked at the communication silently.

If it wasn't for the other party's voice, which she was all too familiar with, she might suspect that it wasn't Jiang Ce's call.

She knew Jiang Ce's temper well. Even when he was a child, she seldom heard him speak in such a begging tone.

Jiang Shu was silent for a moment, she stood up, closed the door behind her, walked to the balcony attached to the room, and said, "Okay."

"Go ahead."

Jiang Ce let out a breath, and then said, "He's no different from usual."

"——I know that aliens can play, hide, and deceive, but he... is very special, and he is difficult to disguise."

He knew it sounded like the confession of a dupe, but he didn't know how to convince her.

"Well." Jiang Shu did not deny his opinion, she agreed, "Even the most brilliant pretender, it is difficult to completely escape the eyes of those close to him, you are very familiar with him, this is why we judge himOne of the criteria for being parasitized by a heterogeneous species."

Jiang Ce calmed down a bit, and he continued, "But when he uses his abilities, he will become like another person—indifferent and powerful, as if human emotions have been stripped away."

"When he is not using his ability, he can transform back very smoothly."

"Other than that, there's nothing unusual about him."

Jiang Shu thought for a moment, and tried to put forward her own opinion: "You know, we have been studying alien species."

"What is it, insects? Animals? Fungi? We still don't know how to define it. After all, it brings a lot of unscientific things—I mean, things beyond our current scientific level."

"A researcher once put forward an even more unscientific statement—maybe every alien species has a soul similar to that of a human being."

Jiang Ce frowned slowly: "Soul?"

"Yes, soul." Jiang Shu tried to explain, "My understanding is that they also have unique thinking and character, which seems to us to have a soul."

"If the alien species is a brand new species, they have human-like souls, but it is obvious that it has no hands and feet, cannot produce and work like humans, and cannot develop its own civilization."

"So they choose to compete for the human body, expel the human soul, and replace it."

"This may be their 'evolution'."

Jiang Shu raised her head, "The evolution of organisms is bound to be accompanied by risks."

"The alien species that have evolved successfully will have their own body, while the alien species that have failed to evolve will be killed, leaving humans with supernatural powers instead."

Jiang Ce thought of Weini for a moment. If this was the case, there would be a reasonable explanation for her behavior of spreading the alien species around.

He responded with a sound of approval.

Jiang Shu continued: "The Huo Yan you mentioned may be one of the two."

"There are exceptions to everything. It is rare for him to maintain a delicate symbiotic balance with other species."