They waited until midnight, and Izumi Shinichi was still in a coma.
His right arm, which was missing due to Mickey's transfer, now grew half an arm. Suddenly, Mickey looked at Xia Shang with wide eyes.
"Do you have any water or sugar supplements? In order to repair Shinichi's heart, I extracted a large amount of nutrients from his blood."
"There is a convenience store not far from Baiwei Mountain. There should be sugar and mineral water there." Under the moonlight, Shinichi's cheekbones were sunken, and he looked like a homeless man who had not eaten for a week. Xia Shang stood up and brushed the dirt off his trouser legs, then looked at the surrounding jungle.
"If a wild beast comes, can you handle it?"
The one who responded to Xia Shang was Mickey who turned into a sharp blade.
"OK, wait a moment."
Xia Shang turned and left, thinking to himself, "Are you on guard against me? It is indeed an emotionless parasite. I vaguely remember that in the original work, after Mickey and Shinichi merged, they would gradually acquire human emotions. Now it seems that this process is quite slow."
About an hour passed.
Xia Shang walked to Xinyi with a bag of supplies. He took out a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the lid and put it on the ground. Then, he took out a bag of sugar and poured it into the bottle. Then he kept shaking it vigorously until all the sugar inside was dissolved. Then he put it back on the ground.
"The rest is up to you."
"Okay." Mickey, extending from Shinichi's right arm, stretched his tentacles into the mineral water bottle like a straw. As the tentacles continued to suck, the sugar water in the mineral water bottle was quickly sucked dry, and Mickey's abdomen bulged.
Then, Mickey inserted his tentacle into Shinichi's mouth to replenish his water and sugar.
Xia Shang, on the other hand, tore open the sushi bento and began to enjoy his dinner tonight. However, when he just put a piece of sushi into his mouth, the dry taste made him frown. He chewed it hard several times and then swallowed it into his stomach.
"The seaweed is not crispy at all, fail! The quality of the rice inside is not good either, fail! Most importantly, the meat floss is too dry, a failure among failures." However, although Xia Shang complained about the poor quality of the lunch box, he still finished eating it carefully in the end.
"I don't know when this guy will wake up."
Xia Shang lay on the lawn, smelling the unique scent of the soil and looking up at the moon in the sky.
...
At noon the next day, Xia Shang woke up sleepily. The sunlight shining on his body was particularly comfortable.
"Good afternoon, Mickey."
Xia Shang greeted Mickey, but unfortunately Mickey did not show up.
Just as he was washing his face, he heard a faint noise behind him.
When Quan Xinyi just woke up, the first thing he did was to look for his glasses. Fortunately, Xia Shang picked up his glasses yesterday and put them next to his hand, so he could find his glasses immediately.
Izumi Shinichi, with a haggard and pale face, subconsciously put on his glasses, but found that his vision became even more blurred. It was not until he took off his glasses that he could see everything clearly again.
"Drink some water." Xia Shang threw the mineral water in his hand to Shinichi.
After Shinichi took the mineral water, he couldn't wait to drink it up. As the water was replenished, the memories of yesterday emerged in his mind one by one. He subconsciously looked down at his chest, only to see that his white shirt had been stained red with blood, and there was a big hole at his heart.
"Heart... I remember that my heart was pierced by the parasite, why am I still alive?" Shinichi stood there in a daze, muttering to himself.
"That's up to you to ask the Mickey in your hand."
Xia Shang took out the rice balls he bought last night for breakfast and handed one to Shinichi.
Shinichi raised his right hand, but there was no response. "Mickey, Mickey." No matter how he called out, Mickey never showed up, which made Shinichi a little uncomfortable. "Xia Jun, where's Mickey?"
"It has expended a lot of energy to help you repair your heart. It should be resting now."
"By the way! How are my parents? Where is the parasite from yesterday?" Izumi Shinichi immediately thought of his mother whose arms were cut off by the parasite, and his father.
He came in front of Xia Shang and asked nervously.
"Your mother is now in Tokyo Third Hospital. Thanks to timely treatment, she is not in serious condition at the moment, and her arm has been reconnected. She just has some sequelae, and she may not be able to recover to her original state." Compared to the original plot, Shinichi is obviously happy at this time. He breathed a sigh of relief. As long as his parents are still alive, it's fine.
"Where's the parasite?"
Izumi Shinichi continued to ask.
Xia Shang pointed at the cliff and said, "I suspect that the parasitic beast had problems with the body it was parasitizing, so it wanted to parasitize your mother. It failed yesterday and jumped off the cliff. If it was unlucky, it might have died from the fall."
"No, it must not be dead."
Shinichi said as he pressed his healed wound.
"It almost killed my mother. To prevent more people from getting killed, I swear I will find it among the crowd and kill it!"
"Please inform me in time if you have any news about him. Judging from its attack speed, its strength is not inferior to Parasyte A." Xia Shang and Izumi Shinichi walked to the foot of Baiwei Mountain, and Xia Shang stretched out his hand to stop a taxi.
The taxi first took Quan Shinichi to the hospital, and then took Xia Shang to the cafe.
In the cafe, Xia Shang met Tamiya Yoshiko.
"I heard that you quit your job as a teacher?"
"Well, they found out about my pregnancy from somewhere and asked me about the father of the child. I didn't want to tell them, so I had to quit my job." Tamiya Yoshiko picked up the coffee and took a sip elegantly.
"By the way, what is the purpose of your visit to me today? I have already given you all the information I have about parasitic beasts."
In order to integrate the "transfer" talent, a parasitic beast that is transferring its body must be killed. However, Xia Shang himself could not find the parasitic beast, so he contacted Tamiya Yoshiko. As a senior cadre of the parasitic beast organization, she must know the locations of many parasitic beasts.
"I need a parasite for experiments now."
Xia Shang directly stated his purpose.
A sneer appeared on Tamiya Ryoko's lips. She put down the coffee in her hand and said, "Why should I help you? After all, I still can't confirm whether you are a parasite or a human. However, no matter what your true identity is, it seems that there is no need for me to help you."
"Ms. Tamiya, are you really trusted by the organization? If that were the case, Parasyte A wouldn't have broken into the school alone and started killing people." Xia Shang acted very calmly. He was prepared to be rejected from the beginning. "I guess some of your ideas have caused disgust among many parasitic beasts. How can you ensure that they won't harm your children?"