'System. Do something about this. Can you make my body… More human or something? Or like theirs. She's freaking asking for it. Please! Please let me take her!'
The Paru quickly shook its head.
'Fuck no! I can't start thinking with my dick now! This species of aliens… Parus can change their bodies depending on what they eat. They're basically an Evolving Monster! Their unique ability lets them bypass millions and millions of years of evolution! I can't throw this away just to get some! I can't… Do that…'
Night Vision-
'I can't…' The Paru repeated to himself internally, as if in a trance, staring through the hole at the beautiful Worka twisting and turning in her bed, convinced that she was alone and safe. 'I ate two of those… Both of the Worka who died. Isn't that enough to get something?'
[Analyzing…]
[Calculating…]
'Please calculate well!'
[The Goddess of Death accepts.]
'Yes!!'
The next second, the Paru's body started twitching and…
'Wait… Why isn't my whole body twitching?
Without counting its Pincers, the Paru had 12 limbs. The two below the pincers were covered by metal and their end was sharp. Only the two limbs below those were twitching.
They slowly changed and turned into…
'Fucking tentacles?? What the fuck am I supposed to do with that??'
[The increased sensitivity…]
'The fuck??' Rei was enraged. He didn't even read the rest of the message. 'I didn't even eat anything with tentacles!' The Paru clicked its tongue before turning around. 'This-'
Its movements and thoughts had both ceased immediately.
'What…?'
As soon as the Paru had turned around and laid its front limbs on the ground to move, it felt its two new limbs hurt.
'No, it wasn't pain. More like…' The tentacle-like limbs reached for the ground. A second of contact was enough to make sure. 'It's freezing… Huh. Because of the exoskeleton, I don't have much sensation in my limbs or body. I can now tell that these ducts are pretty cold…'
The Paru remained unmoving for a bit.
'Increased sensitivity…' Rei turned towards the hole he had made through the ventilation duct. 'How cruel!' He smiled internally with a chuckle.
Three minutes later, a dozen holes had been made through the ventilation duct, each at a different place and angle.
The Paru was trying to get a good look at the room.
'The ventilation duct goes along the walls of the room? Then…'
It didn't take long for the Paru's eyes to widen.
'There's… An opening…!'
The Paru continued staring at that opening. Pulling out the rectangular fence is all it would take to open up the ventilation duct and enter the room.
'Holy shit…' The Paru could feel its body heat increase as it stared at the opening that was on the other side of the room. 'The duct moved to the corner of the room, descends from the ceiling to the ground while following the corner, then goes along the ground, before shifting to the left… The opening in the duct… Is only five steps away from the bed. Five steps away… From…'
Rei thought for a bit while moving around the ventilation duct, peeking inside the room through various holes.
Gulp-
The Paru started moving towards the corner of the room.
'Right here, the tunnel is completely vertical. I'll have to go down slowly. These tentacles don't stick to stuff, so I'll have to pierce through the metal and go down slowly… Otherwise, the noise will…'
The Paru scratched its head with its left tentacle-like limb.
This actually felt pleasant. Not only did the tentacle-like limb have more sensation than the rest of the limbs, but it was also much more mobile than them, able to reach above and behind the Paru's head.
The Paru peeked down with Night Vision and Heat Vision, before nodding to itself.
'Alright. Nothing standing in the way except some spider webs. Let's start descending…'
Rei started going down, piercing the metal just deep enough that the duct wasn't pierced through. Slowly but surely…
The Paru's body froze before it could reach the end of the descent.
"Argh…"
Rei immediately used his Heat Vision to see through the duct.
The beauty shivered, before reaching towards the same cupboard she had reached towards to turn off the lights.
Click-
A silent minute passed.
'Oh…'
The temperature within the ducts had started rising.
'How nice. Heated rooms… With a spaceship able to travel from planet to planet, that shouldn't surprise me-'
Suddenly, sounds started resonating from within the ventilation duct.
The Paru quickly finished its descent and waited, using both Heat Vision and Night Vision.
'That's…'
Rat-like creatures and Insect-like aliens swarmed the ventilation duct.
'This room is usually kept warmer than the rest, huh? Since she's commander of the ship.'
"MmmmAaaah…" The commander let out a soft moan as she stretched. The temperature was just right for a good night's sleep.
The temperature was just right within the ducts for the creatures standing in the Paru's way too.
'Guess I'll kill and eat a bit before going in.'
The Paru wasn't really sure what it would do upon entering the room through the opening, so the additional time spent here wasn't much of an issue.