Chapter 25 (1/2)

What Qin Hao did not know was, the black bug’s current appearance was its original appearance. The abdomen that fell out earlier was not part of its body but a parasite!

The parasite bug had been clinging onto the black bug’s back since young and had been absorbing its nutrients. Once the parasite was hungry, it would inject a kind of venom into the black bug’s body, because it extreme pain. So the black bug could only be its slave.

Since the black bug’s weapon was the giant mandible on its head, it could not reach the parasite on the back of its body. So even if it was fast, and its giant mandible lethal and strong, it could not do anything to the parasite.

Since the parasite had affixed itself very firmly onto it, it was impossible for the black bug to get rid of it by rubbing against the tree trunk. Plus, whenever the parasite sensed danger, it would inject venom and cause the black bug to be miserable, so it dared not resist at all.

When Qin Hao startled the black bug earlier, it did not want to attack Qin Hao, but the parasite disagreed. It thought Qin Hao was a delicious meal, and it threatened the black bug to attack with its venom.

In the end, however, what the parasite did not expect was not only could it not feast on Qin Hao, it even threw itself into the equation. Hence, when Qin Hao stabbed into the parasite, the black bug was both in pain and ecstasy at the same time. The pain was because the parasite injected venom into it after the latter was attacked, and ecstasy was because it knew its dark days as a slave was about to come to an end.

The black bug clearly had a certain amount of intelligence, so when Qin Hao helped it killed the parasite, it was very grateful to Qin Hao, so it ran over to him to show fondness and trust.

Of course, there was another reason why the black bug was so fond of Qin Hao. That was because, after Qin Hao assimilated the Insectoid gene, his body too will emit an aura similar to the Insectoids. This aura could not be detected by any human instruments, but the Insectoid could easily perceive it, so the black bug felt that Qin Hao was one of its kind, so that why it was so fond of him.

While Qin Hao did not understand these reasons, he could feel the fondness of the black bug. So he tried to touch its head, and he did not expect not only the black bug did not resist it, it seemed to enjoy it.

Hiss… Kriik… The black bug called out a few times, but Qin Hao obviously did not understand it. While he had assimilated the Insectoid blood, but he did not gain the ability to communicate with the Insectoids.

“All right! Good! I have to go now!” Qin Hao shrugged. While this black bug was very close to him, he could not keep on staying here.

So, Qin Hao looked at the battlefield map on the recorder and continued to walk toward the Coales Valley.

Krriikkk… The black bug called out, and then followed Qin Hao. Clearly, this bugger was scared sh*tless by the parasites and was afraid that once Qin Hao left, it will fall prey to another parasite. So it decided to stay by Qin Hao’s side, and if a parasite decided to screw with it, there would be someone to bail it out of danger.

“What are you doing following me…” Qin Hao frowned. While it was good having a companion around, he was still after all a human, and he was really not assured with a bug following him around. Who knows if the bug would attack him at night?

Krriikk… The black bug rubbed against Qin Hao again, and in any case, it had no plans on leaving him.

Qin Hao looked at the strange bug. If it refused to leave, then he had no way to chase it off. In any case, after that ‘abdomen’ was gone, the bug was protected by a black chitin carapace from head to toe, and Qin Hao’s long knife will literally do zilch to it, so he did not have any means to drive it away.

With no other recourse, Qin Hao could only temporarily acquiesce to this reality. At most he would climb up a tree when he sleeps as this bugger did not look like it could climb a tree.

“Since you’re following me now, I’ll give you a name,” Qin Hao said to himself.

Criieeekk… The black bug called out, and no one had any idea if it understood Qin Hao’s words.