The Death Knell

After getting out of the cave, the weak light green sunlight in the rain forest fell on Deathstroke's armor again, and he looked at Harley immediately.

Little Jelly Bean raised an eyebrow and winked at him.

So the Supreme Mage immediately noticed the direction of her hint, and with his extraordinary eyesight, he discovered that something was not right about a few bugs on a leaf, and a message came from the strangler, saying that he smelled something similar to the one in the cave just now.

They were several ladybug-like insects, of course, but they looked a bit like earth ladybugs. They were larger, about the size of a thumbnail.

They are strange because there are several such bugs lying on the same leaf, not eating, but staring at several people with their black, upright eyestalks.

After watching for a while, they will touch each other's tentacles, as if they are communicating.

"That's right. As users of psychic energy, they should have sensed the presence of a suitable host like a living human being on the planet immediately, especially since there is also Aphra as a 'benefactor'."

Deathstroke put his arm around Harley's waist, then tilted his head slightly and asked her:

"When dealing with psykers, the mind is stronger than the sword. I don't want to cut down the bugs that explode. Can you deal with them?"

"Just leave it to me. I'm the Queen of Gotham's Heart." Harley confidently pulled out the lollipop stick from her mouth, threw it away, and walked towards the bugs with a bouncing catwalk like a model. .

The insects squatted on the leaves and looked at her, and she squatted down and looked at them. Both of them were speechless for a long time, as if they were competing to see who could not blink first.

Of course, humans are no match for insects. There is only a layer of dura mater outside their eyeballs. They don’t even have eyelids, so how can they blink?

So Harley, who had lost sight of each other, spoke first. She held the ends of her twin ponytails in front of her nose and said, "Which of you has evolved into the Insect Queen? How about you come and negotiate a deal with me?"

"Human, you will soon be one of us. Now, kneel before Queen Abezen!"

A voice came out of the insect's mouth strangely. It had no vocal cords, but this did not prevent the symbiote from using its psychic energy to vibrate the air to make sounds.

"No way, sisters, you want to use your little head to control my big head, haven't you thought about the strength gap beforehand?" Harley shook her head with a smile, and she reached out to flick the blade: "But speaking of you You are really very patient. After escaping from the prison, you randomly found some insects as hosts, and then you have been lurking near the entrance of the cave, waiting for Aphra to come back to you, right?"

"What a dark race. Fortunately, I am a robot." San0 couldn't help but sigh, and then looked at the bone flute that Deathstroke had just carved: "Mr. Slade, can you teach me to play the flute?"

Su Ming, who was following Harley's progress, shrugged: "Then you must at least add a ventilation and cooling system to your body, otherwise you won't be able to play a musical instrument. This is the price of being a robot."

The leaves shook violently, and the ladybugs lying on it suddenly staggered. They quickly stretched out their black arthropods to firmly grasp the shiny leaf surface, so as not to be thrown off.

"Hehehe, you said it's not good to choose a host. You have to choose a small beetle. Even the cats I raise can't beat it." Harley couldn't help laughing when she saw their embarrassed appearance, as if they were riding in a boat in the storm. Made a sound.

Queen Betzen lay on the gradually stabilizing leaf surface, waving her two forelimbs angrily, and made a harsh noise with her spiritual power:

"How dare you insult me ​​like this?! I will definitely take over your body and make you regret your actions today!"

As he spoke, a huge black smoke rolled out from the little ladybug's mouth, forming a shadow like a green prawn in the air, and then it suddenly pounced on Harley.

As for its subordinates, they are also performing similar actions, breaking away from the original ladybug body and trying to parasitize the remaining three humans.

Robots cannot be parasitized, but that doesn't matter. As long as humans are controlled, there must be masters of the robots among these people. At that time, just give orders through that human.

Pillows of black smoke, accompanied by the roar of the dark wind brought by psychic powers, rushed towards several people, but for these guys, Su Ming just lightly took off the magic floating cloak behind him.

"Psychic creatures should be considered a type of energy, right?" He threw out his pet and put on a handsome pose: "The decision is yours, magic floating cloak, use energy absorption!"

It's a pity that the cloak can't speak or bark. It can only express its opinions through "physical behaviors" such as raising its edges.

Now it reacts like a hungry dog ​​pounces on food, and even twists its corners into four legs and runs in the air.

It blocked the piles of black smoke, and quickly wrapped it up and began to rotate. Gradually, the sphere in the sky became smaller and smaller. After a few seconds, it let go of its body and shook like a hiccup.

"So you have a way to deal with the Bezen symbiote?" Aphra breathed a sigh of relief. She put her small laser pistol back into its holster again: "It's just that the method seems unscientific at all. How can a cloak fly on its own? And how did the disembodied Bezen get trapped?”

"This is magic. I tell you that you don't understand it either." Su Ming continued to watch the black smoke incarnated by the queen penetrate into Harry's head, but did not mean to stop it. He just replied calmly: "Actually, I feel that even if I don't Take action, you and Leia can also deal with this psychic creature."

The princess nodded, put away her small pistol, and took a few steps back behind Deathstroke:

"Luke said one thing. My willpower is very strong and I can even be immune to Force manipulation. However, it is still the best choice not to be in close contact with the Bezen symbiote."

As for Aphra, when Deathstroke mentioned that she was also immune to mental abilities, she seemed a little guilty and began to talk about it:

"But Deathstroke, your girlfriend seems to be parasitized. What should we do? If Betzen is unwilling to give up the host, we will have to kill her."

Looking at the abandoned previous-generation hosts on the leaves over there, those ladybugs had exploded and died. When the symbiote left them, they died completely in pain.

The mouthparts were completely torn, and the carapace behind him was also shattered, as if a powerful force had broken through the body from the inside.

Seeing that Aphra was obviously hiding something, Su Ming had no intention of delving deeper. He knew the secrets hidden by this female doctor, and he also knew how dark her inner pain and memories would make her feel.

"Don't worry about Harley, because Queen Betzen is simply asking for death by parasitizing her. The poor bug must have never thought about how complicated humans can be."

It may only take a few seconds for the poor symbiote queen to turn into a madman like all the patients who have interacted with Dr. Quinzel in the past.