Thanks for the invitation. I am a parasite in Terra.

After Aiden finished speaking, he looked around....except for the female senior who seemed a bit fierce whom he had just met, and the bald boss in front of him, this newspaper office seemed...as if...probably...there were no more people?

"They...are also..."

The bald boss was stunned, then suddenly turned around and rushed into another room.

In the office, the doctor stood up and moved his waist with some difficulty, making crackling sounds from his joints from time to time.

"Finally finished... What was wrong with the last accountant? Not only did he write the report in full Victorian cursive, he also liked to use some old French prefaces... He must be crazy."

She frowned and looked at the thick stack of financial statistics on the table with some emotion.

There is also a Victorian dictionary next to it.

Phew, but, under such circumstances, she managed to finish all these things in just one day. It seems that she is also quite talented in clerical work?

"call.

..Done, done, time to get off work."

The doctor turned his head and looked out the window at the sky which was gradually being shrouded in darkness.

It's time to go back to the staff dormitory and say goodbye to her bed!

In this cold Victoria, she is alone with only her bed to keep her company...

pat!

Before my thoughts could spread, I was interrupted by the sound of the wooden door being roughly pushed open.

"Ms. Te!!! I......"

A bright, reflective bald head rushed into the office and opened his voice as if he wanted to make a high-pitched sound.

"I reject."

"Ah, ah, ah?! I haven't said anything yet—"

The boss was stunned. He didn't even expect that he had been rejected by the doctor before he even said a word.

The latter gave the former a cold look and raised his hand to point at the clock on the wall.

"The time now is seven o'clock in the evening Victoria time."

"According to the contract, I am now off duty. Boss, I regret to inform you that if you have any requests, please come back to work the next day..."

"Please! Too bad! If the newspaper doesn't release any more news, it will lose all its popularity. I put a lot of effort into getting this opportunity!!!"

The boss leaned over the doctor's desk with a sad face and shouted.

"No, what does this have to do with me?! I'm just an accountant, and I'm a new employee! Shouldn't reporters and photographers worry about this kind of thing?! No matter how you think about it, it's not my turn—"

"But there are only three of us in the newspaper now. If we can't dig up some news that can excite the public, we will be completely closed down!"

"Well, you don't want the newspaper you just joined to go bankrupt..."

"Really? Then let's close it down. It just so happens that I don't have to think of a reason to resign."

The doctor's cold words hit the boss' heart

However, seeing the other person's heartbroken look, she couldn't help it after all.

He sighed and spoke.

"That's enough. Give me the address... Also, this counts as overtime."

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"One day I will turn myself into an emotionless working machine... or change my bad habit of being soft-hearted from time to time."

The doctor finished his recollection, gritted his teeth, and sat in the back seat of the taxi with some dissatisfaction.

The surrounding scenery was rapidly receding, and only the people in the car were shrouded in inexplicable resentment.

".....Senior....So scary..."

Aiden glanced at the doctor in the back seat with some trembling. At this moment, the other party's resentful gaze was like a dense network of cold needles piercing his back.

"We're here, you two."

The taxi stopped and the driver opened the door to indicate that he had arrived at the destination.

"Wow, this is the hotel in Londinium... It's huge."

Aiden looked up, gazing at the towering neon buildings in front of him like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.

What? Yanguo college students?

I'm sorry, the scope of my activities is limited to the stalls and fields near the school, and I haven't seen any tall buildings.

"Okay, stop looking and go in."

The doctor had no reaction at all to the "height" of the building. In her opinion, there seemed to be nothing to admire about this building.

It was as if it had already seen countless existences that were more magnificent than it.

"oh oh...."

She sighed and looked at the newly graduated college student following behind her, her tone full of helplessness.

"Just be quiet and take pictures for a while, and don't talk while you're standing by."

"oh oh!"

Aiden nodded, and suddenly felt that this senior, who didn't look much older than him, had an air of maturity.

Just like... my own mentor!

But it seems a bit impolite to describe the other person like this? After all, the other person looks quite young...

"Hello, I have an appointment."

The doctor walked to the front desk and handed the business card given by his boss to the other party.

"Wait a moment, I'll make the call for you."

The receptionist smiled and then turned around to contact the tenant.

"That, senior."

"What's wrong."

Aiden patted the doctor's shoulder and pointed nervously at the groups of guys in the corridor nearby walking towards the spacious elevator.

".....I recognize that tattoo....It's a gang in Victoria."

Aiden lowered his voice and then pointed at the tattoo on one of the men's neck.

"It has nothing to do with us...what do you want to do..."

The doctor was stunned and turned to look at Aiden beside him.

"They went to the underground garage... Senior, they might be doing something illegal... We have to..."

"Keep your head down, don't look at them, and take care of yourself."

However, the doctor just tried to hold Aiden back with cold words.

But the latter turned around and said as if he had made up his mind.

"Doctor...I heard that some local gangs are not only involved in illegal drugs...but may even be involved in trafficking and the like...I think we can't just sit back and do nothing!"

Aiden said, pointing to his camera bag.

"

I've already told you, this is none of your business, keep your head down and pretend you didn't see it, young man, stay out of other people's business, otherwise you'll be in trouble sooner or later!"

The doctor shouted at Aiden angrily.

Damn it, what the hell is going on? She doesn't want to get into any disgusting trouble. She just plans to live her life normally like this!

..........

.....

"Fuck it, I'm telling you, there won't be a second time. Damn it, I must change my bad habit of being soft-hearted!"

With a resentful look on his face, the doctor got into another elevator to the underground garage with Aiden.

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At this moment, at the top of the hotel, a twisted body of flesh and blood was wriggling inside, and in the blue pupils, a jagged mouth was making unclear and hoarse sounds.

"Charles... the boss... asked us to go to the underground garage... call all the brothers... there is something to announce..."

At this moment, at the same time.

The gangster with a bandaged arm was standing at the elevator entrance of the underground garage with another group of people, repeating what the "monster" had just said.

"Charles, the boss wants us to go to the underground garage. Remember to call all the brothers. There is something to announce."

Chapter 70: Victoria and Infection (Part 2)

"That senior, this is..."

Aiden looked at the doctor in front of him with some confusion as he took out an old screwdriver from his pocket with ease and unscrewed the iron partition on the wall.

"The ventilation duct... You don't want to just follow them and observe them, do you? Learn from this and let your blood run through your brain before it rushes to your head."

There was a hint of helplessness in the doctor's words.

Are all young people like this nowadays?

"I see...."

Aiden watched the doctor slip into the pried-open ventilation duct without any hindrance, then he looked at the camera bag, carefully placed it in place, and followed suit.

"Hey, Senior, your red pendant seemed to light up just now..."

“Shhh!!!”

Before Aiden could finish his question, he was interrupted by the doctor's nervous booing.

"Be quiet when crawling into this narrow metal pipe! Damn it! Don't you know that any sound will be amplified in this environment?!"

"Don't you have any experience climbing pipes? Even a freshly graduated college student should know this is common sense!"

"Common... common sense..."

Aiden pondered the doctor's words thoughtfully, and then he sighed as if he had suddenly been enlightened.

So college students have to learn so many things to graduate... It seems that I am too content with the teaching in school and lack the enthusiasm to learn other special knowledge on my own.

If it were those students majoring in journalism...I'm sure they wouldn't be as embarrassed as I am.

Sure enough, he still has a lot to learn!

Coming to Londinium this time was indeed the right choice.

When he was reflecting on himself, he subconsciously ignored what he noticed at first: the scarlet pendant hanging around the doctor's neck emitted a strange red light for a moment.

They would not notice that behind them, circles of scarlet thin wrists were silently climbing up at the opening of each pipe.

It was like a wildly growing vine, blocking every exit of the underground garage.

The exit gate of the land vehicle fell down, the gate opening was entangled, and the ventilation duct was blocked.

Without anyone noticing, this basement is transforming into the closed "stomach" of a monster.

The source of everything, or the main body, stood quietly at the top of the hotel's roof, looking at the open wound on his body. The scarlet blood flowed from his body like a trickle, into the drain on the top floor, fell to the ground, and finally entered the pipe and came to the underground garage.

Just like the roots of a plant, he now has a thorough grasp of every structure at the base of the building.

But...what bothered him a little was

"PhD?"

Zuo Jian felt two people crawling slowly in the ventilation duct. The one leading the group gave him a very familiar feeling. Based on the part of his own tissue carried on his body, he recognized the other person's identity.

Moreover, the man following behind her also gave him a familiar feeling.

What are they coming in for...are they also targeting the gangs?

..........

"First, delay their progress, and then deal with the things in front of us."

After thinking for a moment, Zuo Jian made his choice.