Sky-cracking Rider

"Look, he's starting to lose it!"

Chen Fei shrugged his shoulders, his hand moved, and "Blood Spike" was stabbed right near the gang member's neck who had become a parasitic host, almost grazing the skin.

Even as a parasitic host, his movements involuntarily hesitated, and a flicker of fear flashed through his emotionless eyes.

The parasitic spawn is part of the main body, and everything sensed by the spawn is also felt by the main body. When "Blood Spike" almost brushed against the host's neck, the overwhelming killing intent made the main body of the Royal Breed, hidden somewhere, shiver violently—it was as if the sharp cold weapon was placed right beside its vital spot.

In the distance, many bewildered gang members were looking over, not understanding why their companion was attacking Shen Fei and the other two, and why those three had subdued their companion on the ground, no one knew what was really happening.

"I think, there might still be hidden dangers!"

Princess Lin Ziyu, not caring about the backlash she had just suffered from curse magic, switched out the alchemical artifact in her hand and once again started chanting incantations, continuously making strange hand gestures.

"Mind Curse Lock, seal!"

With a soft shout, invisible fluctuations immediately surrounded the parasitic host, sinking into the person's body like harsh shackles.

"Ah!"

A sharp, miserable scream erupted, then abruptly stopped.

As if he had lost half his three souls and seven spirits, his gaze became vacant and dull, and he no longer struggled.

Unlike common elemental magic, a magician's curse magic is mysterious and difficult to unravel, often entangling one for life, and some forbidden techniques can even penetrate into the bloodline, being passed down from generation to generation.

"Hah!"

Princess Lin Ziyu took a deep breath, facing the puzzled looks from Chen Fei and Shen Fei, and took the initiative to explain, "I used curse magic to sever the connection between this parasitic spawn and the main body; they can no longer get any information about us."

Unlike Chen and Shen, who were ordinary civilians, the Slan Royal Family had access to more secrets, especially regarding the knowledge of the Royal Breed "Xionees," including the abilities and characteristics of the Ninth Rank branches. Her Royal Highness the Princess was not clueless.

The new leader of the "Hundred-Legs Gang," previously one of the Eight King Kongs, "Mute" Kano, cautiously approached, timidly asking, "Please, what did Mody do wrong?"

Mody was the gang member lying on the ground, unconscious with his hands and feet bound behind him.

Previously, it was he who had been specifically responsible for liaising with other gang members outside the hotel and purchasing various materials to replenish the hotel's daily consumption; it was unknown when he had been parasitized by the mutated parasitic spawn of "Sagali."

Thus, Chen Fei speculated that the main body of the Royal Breed that was 'spreading' parasitic spawns might be in South Capital City District, perhaps even near the hotel, playing a theatrical trick right under their noses.

Facing Kano's trembling inquiry, Chen Fei didn't beat around the bush and said bluntly, "He's dead, long dead!"

"What?"

Kano stepped back in fear. Just fine moments ago, how could he suddenly be dead?

Yet, he couldn't find any reason to explain why Chen Fei and Lin Ziyu would casually kill someone. It made no sense!

Kano, filled with doubt, looked at Mody lying on the ground in the same four-limbed, face-down position but was surprised to find that although the man's eyes were tightly closed, his chest was slowly rising and falling—he was clearly breathing and not dead at all.

But Chen Fei insisted that Mody was dead. What was going on?

"He, he's still alive!"

Kano pointed at Mody lying on the ground with his limbs pinned down.

Seeing that the man still hadn't caught on, Chen Fei added an explanation, "He's been parasitized by another Intelligent Species. His original consciousness has been erased, leaving only a walking corpse. Understand?"

The Ground Portal Gate Management Substation on the outskirts of South Capital City organized a remarkable team that consecutively dissected four parasitic hosts that Chen Fei had brought back.

The results were consistent: all attempts to awaken the original consciousness failed, which meant, just as the bigwig Louis Landon had said, the host's consciousness died on the spot when parasitized, beyond saving.

Thus, in Chen Fei's eyes, these parasitic hosts were nearly no different from dead people.

"What? What Intelligent Species? Is there such a horrific Intelligent Species?"

Kano scoured his limited knowledge of Cangqiong Star, but could never find an Intelligent Species that could parasitize the Human Race.

"The Extraterrestrial Races that began invading Cangqiong Star ten thousand years ago, 'Sagali'!"

Princess Lin Ziyu couldn't bear to see the gang member still in the fog, clueless about the situation.

"'Sagali'!!!"

Kano's voice was like that of a rooster being choked, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

Unexpectedly, he had heard this name before.

Although the royal family of Cangqiong Star and the sovereigns of Blue Star alike had gradually erased this terrifying intelligent species from the public eye, leaving only some ambiguous phrases, the folklore still passed on, or recorded this long-standing calamity in their own way.

"Now you understand who our real enemy is, right? It's not the rebels, but the parasitic species."

Chen Fei patted Kano's shoulder, who was still visibly shaken.

The rebel army was an internal affair of Cangqiong Star, a headache for the Slan Royal Family, not for him, an unrelated Blue Star person.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

At this moment, Kano's mind was buzzing; he was just a gangster, how did he end up crossing paths with the fatal extraterrestrial races.

Mody, the bastard, had been too careless to be parasitized by "Sagali"; now it was unclear who would be the next unlucky one to be parasitized.

"So… Kano, do you still want to join us?"

Teacher Shen Fei's words were quite sophisticated, seemingly considering for the other party but actually setting a trap, forcing a commitment to a specific choice.

However, this method was ineffective on a straightforward boy, and could easily backfire.

Kano was startled and finally came to his senses, slapping his chest loudly, "Of course, our 'Hundred-Legs Gang' and the extraterrestrial race 'Sagali' are sworn enemies!"

This guy was not much smarter than the students taught by Teacher Shen at Patan Elementary School, but he knew the score, and his response was quite on point.

A mere gang daring to challenge the extraterrestrial races dreaded by all living beings on Cangqiong Star, it was beyond what one might expect; Kano's words seemed bold but actually amounted to self-aggrandizement for himself and the "Hundred-Legs Gang."

"First, take care of yourself and don't make trouble for us!"

Chen Fei truly had little hope for these gang members and was not optimistic at all.

Even the "Strong Men Team" had almost been trapped in Jiaming Town, which had been overtaken by mass parasitism; this bunch of societal dregs probably had a tough time even surviving.

He thought for a moment and said, "Kano, I have a task for you. Try to collect as many portable infrared thermal imaging devices as you can, in large quantities and standardized specifications."

Using infrared thermal imaging to identify parasitized hosts was fairly feasible.

Although it was possible to obtain professional infrared thermal imaging equipment from Blue Star through the Dimensional Gate Management Substation, Chen Fei was too lazy to run back and forth; on the other hand, he also planned to test the abilities of these gang members. Snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths; local snakes always have some abilities.

"No problem! I'll do it immediately!"

Kano slapped his chest.

The core members of the "Hundred-Legs Gang" were all receiving training at the upscale business hotel, but there were still many minions outside obeying the commands of the core members.

After the sudden silencing of the original gang leader, the gang showed signs of disintegration due to lack of leadership; however, with the supported "Mute" Kano officially taking over and gaining the strong support of the other core members, the entire "Hundred-Legs Sect" seemed to have regained its status as the number one underground gang in South Capital City. The territories and businesses that had been snatched away were returned.

A local snake, extremely familiar with the local area, was fully mobilized and within less than two hours, brought Chen Fei the information he wanted.

There happened to be an electronics product dealer who had purchased a batch of head-mounted infrared thermal imaging goggles, intending to sell them to nature enthusiasts. They hadn't been distributed yet when the war broke out, and these goggles were still perfectly packaged in a warehouse, numbering around five thousand, exactly meeting Chen Fei's requirements.

The subsequent actions became much easier; Princess Lin Ziyu took care of the payment, and Chen Fei made a trip to the warehouse of this electronics product dealer and collected all five thousand infrared thermal imaging goggles, then started an unpacking and packaging assembly line operation.

Chen Fei's psi skill, "Universal Data Transceiver," was busy, prodded five thousand times, updating all the firmware developed specifically for these electronic goggles by the artificial intelligence AI "Adam."

These infrared thermal imaging goggles, loaded with a new recognition algorithm module, were specifically for identifying parasitized individuals.

Mutated parasitic offspring are ultimately foreign entities; once parasitism is successful, it disrupts the original human body's infrared thermal imaging spectrum, resulting in abnormal imaging.

Besides the recently destroyed Jiaming Town, parasitic hosts had now been found among the core members of the "Hundred-Legs Gang." Although it was unknown where the dividing parasitic spawn's royal breed body was hiding and how many people in the surrounding area of South Capital City had been parasitized.

Chen Fei did not want to passively engage in encounters with the parasitic species; rather, he hoped to take the initiative. The gang members familiar with the South Capital City environment were neither cunning nor capable of fighting (compared to the 'Strong Men Team'), but they had sheer audacity, which made them quite suitable to act as spies.

The infrared thermal imaging goggles, refurbished with updated firmware, were distributed to most members of the "Hundred-Legs Gang," who were sent to scout around in search of the parasitic spawn's body. Each pair of infrared thermal imaging goggles served as one of Chen Fei's eyes, casting a net across the inner and outer parts of South Capital City.

Both Chen Fei and Her Royal Highness the Princess were very fortunate to have recruited this local snake gang at the first opportunity, otherwise, they wouldn't have had so many available hands to use.