In the city center square, he witnessed the ultimate horror:
One hundred thousand melting corpses formed a flesh-and-blood compass, their organs suspended in mid-air by magnetic forces, assembling into a Cthulhu-like totem.
The sky split open, and some existence beyond dimensions was gazing down at Earth.
Just as his consciousness was about to shatter, Xu Rong discovered an anomaly in his wife's brain—
A cluster of neural synapses stubbornly flickered with human brainwaves.
He tore open the vesicle with his bare hands, allowing digestive fluids to corrode flesh and blood.
When his fingertips touched that warm mass of gray matter, he suddenly received a message transmitted in Morse code:
[Gene Lock... Music Hall... underground... Beethoven's manuscript...]
In the cellar of the Municipal Concert Hall, Xu Rong found a yellowed manuscript of Ode to Joy.
As his mutated fingers pressed the piano keys to play, the notes on the score suddenly began to move, transforming into a DNA spiral structure—this was the resistance program buried within human genes.
As the movement of the music progressed, the Alien Fungal Blanket began to rot.
The flesh-and-blood totem in the sky let out a mournful wail, and twelve spacecraft revealed rotting surfaces shaped like Human Faces.
Xu Rong's skin peeled away in large patches, exposing flowing starlight beneath; he knew he was becoming a true Virus Vector.
Xu Rong's finger bones pierced through the piano keys.
When the melody of Ode to Joy resonated from the cellar of the Municipal Concert Hall, the skeletons embedded in the walls suddenly began to harmonize.
Their jawbones struck out an eerie rhythm, and their cranial cavities emitted low-frequency vibrations that did not belong to humanity.
The notes on the score writhed like leeches, burrowing into Xu Rong's decaying fingers and entering his veins.
"Bang!"
As the third movement began, the crystal chandelier in the dome exploded into dust.
The glowing fragments floated in mid-air, forming a three-dimensional projection of a DNA double helix.
Xu Rong's Eyeball began to ooze black slime; scenes from Beethoven's final moments emerged on his retina—
The deaf musical master was scraping his skull with a metal plate inscribed with alien characters.
"You finally understand..."
Piano Bench suddenly opened his jagged mouth and bit into Xu Rong's thigh. "Music is the key to our genes..."
The excruciating pain accelerated Xu Rong's mutation. His ribs pierced through his chest, transforming into twelve bone spikes resembling tuning forks. As one of the spikes grazed the piano, the entire Music Hall abruptly tilted ninety degrees, revealing a blood-soaked altar beneath.
The twenty-meter-high Pipe Organ was woven from human sinew, its pipes formed from upright human cavities. As Xu Rong approached, those "pipes" suddenly opened their murky eyes, their vocal cords vibrating to produce a sticky moan.
Suspended in the center of the altar was a half-melted black vinyl record, its surface covered in pulsating veins. "This is the master disc from 1827." The monster that Piano Bench had become crawled forward on its spine. "Beethoven's brain matter once soaked it..."
Xu Rong's bone spikes uncontrollably lunged toward the record. In that moment of contact, he witnessed a horrifying truth—on the streets of nineteenth-century Vienna, a doctor wearing a bird-beak mask was injecting alien spores into the spine of a dying musician. Those timeless compositions were merely the parasitic manipulation of the host's neural impulses.
As the last note dissipated, the vault of the cellar exploded with a thunderous roar. A hurricane filled with black spores surged into the city, causing the infected to convulse violently. Their skin bubbled like boiling wax, and their spines erupted from their backs, transforming into barbed vocal structures.
Xu Rong watched as a securities manager's tongue split into eight tendrils, each adorned with a fluorescent plaque bearing NASDAQ codes; a pregnant woman's abdomen burst open, amniotic fluid morphing into gelatinous scales that entwined around a fetus sprouting bat-like wings; statues in the square began to melt, Roosevelt's metallic head singing an ear-piercing rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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