**Chapter 10: The Parasitized Pet Dog**
Early the next morning, Xia Shang was on his way to School.
"Only 2% fusion progress overnight. At this rate, even if the Walking Through The Heavens time ends, I won't be able to fully fuse this transformation talent."
Acquiring fantasy value was not easy. He had been a security guard at Vought International for a month and hadn't seen a single bit of fantasy value. So, having finally come to a Fantasy World, Xia Shang was unwilling to leave without obtaining two or more talents.
"Based on the performance of the parasites in the source material, it's absolutely impossible for there to be only two talents. Is it because the Migi I analyzed yesterday was in its juvenile form?" Xia Shang analyzed as he pondered how to make contact with parasites next.
Simply relying on fishing would be too inefficient.
Just as he was deep in thought, a boy wearing a light brown coat appeared in his line of sight. The boy was looking down at his right hand, muttering something under his breath.
"Shinichi Izumi."
Xia Shang's sudden appearance startled him greatly.
"Be careful! There's a Kindred, my Kindred, the same kind of creature as me."
"You mean Mr. Xia is also Parasitized?" Shinichi Izumi asked nervously.
Seeing Xia Shang walk towards him, Shinichi Izumi immediately took out his phone, pretending someone was calling him, but in reality, he was talking to his right hand.
"Not him, but someone else. It's approaching us."
"How can you sense them?" Shinichi Izumi glanced out of the corner of his eye at Migi, who had turned into an eyeball.
Migi replied, "Because I can sense something like brainwaves."
"Good morning, Shinichi Izumi." Xia Shang greeted Shinichi Izumi after seeing him walking in the opposite direction. "By the way, aren't you going to School today?"
"Shinichi Izumi, ignore him. Let's leave immediately. We must find it before it finds us." Seeing Xia Shang approach, Migi immediately retracted back into Shinichi's body.
Shinichi Izumi scratched his head. Leaving directly would be too impolite, but for a moment, he couldn't come up with an excuse, so he had to state his original purpose: "I was originally planning to go to the Police, but it seems I don't need to now. I plan to go home for a bit; I just realized I forgot a practice book."
"Do you want me to go with you to get it?" Xia Shang couldn't help but laugh when he saw Shinichi Izumi's face turn red like a monkey's butt from lying.
Some people are naturally bad at lying, and clearly, the current Shinichi Izumi was one of them.
"No need to trouble you, I can go by myself."
Shinichi Izumi quickly refused.
"Alright." Xia Shang stood in place, watching Shinichi Izumi's hurried back, revealing a meaningful smile.
On the other side, Migi reappeared in Shinichi's palm.
"Strange, wouldn't it have been better to just refuse directly?"
"You don't understand, that would be very impolite," Shinichi Izumi patiently explained.
Migi stared with its round eyeball, puzzled. "Polite? What is that? It seems I still have a lot to learn."
Subsequently, guided by Migi, Shinichi Izumi turned left and right in the Alley.
Soon, at the end of an Alley, he saw a shocking scene: a pet dog was gnawing on the corpse of a Golden Retriever.
"A dog eating a dog."
Shinichi Izumi was shocked.
The pet dog also noticed Shinichi Izumi at this moment and immediately turned its split head towards him.
This scene was like something out of a horror movie.
Even more difficult for Shinichi Izumi to accept was that the pet dog actually started talking at this moment.
"Did you fail too?" "Are you dissatisfied with the place you Parasitized me, the animal I Parasitized?"
Migi sensed the other party's powerful Killing Intent and immediately told Shinichi Izumi to run.
After Shinichi Izumi fled, the pet dog's head actually grew a pair of flesh wings, and it used them to fly into the sky.
"Not bad." After the two sides left, Xia Shang stepped out from around the corner. He looked up at the pet dog in the sky, a look of appreciation in his eyes. "It can actually fly just by relying on flesh wings."
Shinichi Izumi, hiding by the wall, thought he had successfully escaped, but unexpectedly, when he looked up, he saw the pet dog flying towards him.
"You're kidding, saying that is too..." Shinichi Izumi's words were cut short.
Migi actively transformed into tentacles and attacked the pet dog.
Although the pet dog was very agile, being in the air and having the assimilated parts transformed into wings caused it to lose its means of counterattack. After a few rounds, Migi's transformed tentacles pierced through its body and plucked out its heart.
Migi placed the heart in front of Shinichi Izumi and said, "It really survived by utilizing the dog's internal organs and digestive system."
"This was a Kindred you finally met."
"It's a dog. Although it's related to the environment it grew up in, this guy is really foolish."
Migi's words made Shinichi Izumi feel that it had no emotion. Killing its Kindred was like killing an insect that had nothing to do with itself.
"Forget it, let's go. I want to find a place to wash the blood off my hands."
Less than two minutes after he left, Xia Shang appeared again.
He came to the dog's corpse, observed it for a while, and said, "Transforming flesh and blood into wings that can fly, hmm, it has some reference value."
Xia Shang picked up the pet dog's shriveled corpse, stuffed it into his schoolbag, and returned home.
Skipping a couple of classes at School occasionally wasn't a big problem; currently, the fusion progress was more important.
He took a fruit knife from the kitchen, then forced himself to endure the nausea and performed an autopsy. He didn't need to be as professional as a medical student; he just needed to understand the pet dog's transformation structure.
It took a full half hour.
Only then did Xia Shang figure out the structure of the flesh wings. He straightened his back and summoned the Panel.
As he expected, the fusion progress on the Panel had reached 14%, an increase of a full 10%. This showed that his idea was correct: only by having more contact with parasites would the speed of fusion increase.
"Now this is getting interesting."
Xia Shang looked at his right hand, where all five fingers had turned into blades, and said with satisfaction.
However, he couldn't grow a pair of wings capable of flight like the pet dog yet. Due to the weight limit, unless the wingspan could reach over ten meters, lifting him into the sky would be difficult.
Afterward, he did some more experiments. In this state, his stamina consumption rate was similar to sprinting at full speed. Of course, it couldn't compare to a body enhanced by a parasyte, but this already made Xia Shang very satisfied.
"It seems that after this Walking Through The Heavens ends, I need to find a way to fuse the stamina of a superhero. Otherwise, even if I fuse the transformation ability, I won't be able to use it for too long."
Just as Xia Shang was thinking about which superhero would be easy to target.
The phone in his pocket vibrated.
Xia Shang clicked the answer button and put it to his ear. Hearing the teacher's voice on the other end, he quickly explained, "I'm really sorry, I had an upset stomach last night. I'll rush to School immediately now, I'm truly sorry."
After hanging up the phone, he subconsciously wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
"Strange, it's been many years since I graduated, yet I still get so nervous talking to a teacher."
(End of Chapter)