Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 219 Dragon Transformation
A researcher said in disbelief, he took off the headphones on his head, slowly stood up and looked at the glass cover.

Anyone who was not blind could see that the flame within the glass cover was gradually dying out.

……

When Sun Hang could no longer feel the violence and heat in his blood, he finally opened his mouth.

He stood up, wiped the corners of his mouth and burped.

He felt a little sticky in his throat and his stomach was bloated, as if he had drunk a whole bucket of drinking water in one breath.

"Well, after sucking so much blood, Lao Wang won't die of lack of blood, right?"

This thought suddenly popped up in his mind. Sun Hang was slightly startled and quickly lowered his head to check on Wang Xiyi's condition.

The wound on her neck had healed, leaving only two marks like cinnabar moles. Those were the scars left by Sun Hang's two sharpest canine teeth - these two teeth had just grown to ten centimeters in length, making Sun Hang look like a humanoid saber-toothed tiger.

The dragon scales covering Wang Xiyi's body have faded a lot, and her hands that had transformed into claws have turned back into their original slender fingers, leaving large areas of skin exposed to the air.

Her face was very rosy, without the paleness that is typical of ischemia, which made Sun Hang feel relieved.

The Black Dragon Meme gave her a strong vitality. Even if all the blood in her body was drained in an instant, her body functions would be able to produce enough new blood to maintain the functioning of various organs before death came.

However, compared to her previous human form with only a few hidden scales, Wang Xiyi's current appearance has changed a lot.

Her spine, waist, neck, lower cheeks, outer thighs, and other parts are covered with hard black scales, which look like the "bikini armor" commonly seen on female characters in video games... The most obvious dragon-like features are the pair of hard, curved dragon horns on both sides of her forehead and the tail that grows out of her body after the tail vertebrae extend...

These two alienated parts were still retained after the memes in Wang Xiyi's body stabilized.

But this is not a big problem. After all, Sun Hang has seen hunters with even more bizarre appearances. Wang Xiyi's current appearance is not very conspicuous in the hunter circle.

Not only that, her current appearance is quite consistent with the description of a fantasy creature active in the two-dimensional world.

"Dragon Lady".

Now there is only one thing left to worry about...

Will she ever wake up?

Sun Hang slowly exhaled, stretched out his hand, and slapped Wang Xiyi twice on the face.

"Um……"

Wang Xiyi let out an indistinct moan from her throat, and as he approached, she slowly opened her eyes.

Her pupils had completely turned into a brilliant golden color, a shape somewhere between that of most cats and reptiles, a narrow vertical line...but within a few seconds, the shape of the pupils returned to normal, and the dazzling golden color gradually faded.

"Sun Hang? I... am still alive?" Wang Xiyi asked weakly... It seemed that all her energy was used to repair her body. She was extremely weak at this moment. Every word squeezed out from her lips seemed to use up all her strength.

"Yes, you're still alive." Sun Hang reached out his hand to her and pulled her out of the melted and deformed permafrost coffin. "Welcome back to the human world."

"You didn't eat me?" Wang Xiyi asked with some confusion... I have to say, the black dragon's recovery ability is really terrifying. Wang Xiyi, who was extremely weak in the last second, recovered to a state where she was able to support herself standing in the blink of an eye, and even her speech became much more fluent.

"I ate it, but I didn't finish it all." Sun Hang said, "I left some leftovers for you."

Wang Xiyi felt the meme in her body that had quieted down a bit dazedly, and subconsciously reached out and touched her neck.

She touched the two scars that looked like cinnabar moles - for some reason, even with the Black Dragon's recovery ability that was strong enough to reshape the body, it was unable to erase these scars.

The next second, she moved her hand to her head, and then she touched the pair of hard dragon horns.

"……What's this?"

"Dragon horns, maybe?" Sun Hang scratched his head. "No matter if it's a Western dragon or an Eastern dragon, they all seem to have horns... By the way, have you never seen a black dragon?"

Wang Xiyi shook her head, and then she noticed her tail shaking along with her head.

The tail is very long. If you measure from the point where the coccyx grows out of the body, the length is almost two meters, which is taller than Wang Xiyi herself.

Not to mention Sun Hang, who is half a head shorter than Wang Xiyi.

"The beastly form... has actually become normal..." Wang Xiyi murmured in a low voice. She reached behind her, but the wings that she was familiar with were not there.

"I checked it, and it only has horns on its head and a tail on its butt. I don't know why the wings haven't grown out." Sun Hang said, "But it's okay this way. In the future, I just need to open a hole in the pants, and the clothes can still be worn normally."

"Sigh..." Wang Xiyi sighed softly. Her sigh was very slight, but it was still caught by Sun Hang.

"Why sigh?"

"I seem to be... a little further away from humans." Wang Xiyi said softly.

"Isn't it good to survive?" Sun Hang asked.

"Good... it's good to be alive." Wang Xiyi murmured, "But I don't know how long this time will last? One year? Two years? Or a few months?"

"Why do you care about the future? You were not like that before." Sun Hang laughed. "What's that phrase that appears frequently in chicken soup? Oh, yes, 'live in the present'. You have to learn to live in the present!"

"That's right." Wang Xiyi nodded silently. "After experiencing it myself once, I became afraid... Isn't this ridiculous?" "What's so ridiculous? Only after losing something do you know how to cherish it. Only after dying once do you know how good it is to be alive." Sun Hang reached out and flicked her forehead hard. "You are normal now - before that, your brain was a little abnormal."

"Ouch, it hurts." Wang Xiyi immediately covered her forehead with her hand.

"A humanoid black dragon can also be afraid of pain?"

"Isn't this normal?" Wang Xiyi glared at him. As she spoke, her emotions were gradually returning to normal.

"Oh, by the way, I think you look even cuter now than before... well, how should I describe it..." Sun Hang pondered for a few seconds, then said, "Much cuter."

"You...you...what are you talking about?" Wang Xiyi's expression froze, and the skin on her cheeks that was not covered by scales turned slightly bright red.

It was just like when she was lying on the sofa in Sun Hang's house, drunk with alcohol.

"I think you look cute now." Sun Hang circled around Wang Xiyi, "Wow, dragon lady, you are a rare species..."

"You pervert! Where are you looking?" Wang Xiyi pretended to hit him, but at the moment when her hand knife was about to hit Sun Hang, she stopped abruptly.

"It's not that I want to see it. I actually want to find you some clothes to wear, but everything here is burned down. Not to mention clothes, there's not even a piece of cloth to cover your body... Didn't you not care about this before?" Sun Hang muttered.

"I don't care...but you...why are you still looking at me?"

"This is a rare opportunity, so take a closer look." Sun Hang glanced at the flames around him - the range of the flames was gradually shrinking, and it was estimated that it would not be long before this last "cover" would completely disappear.

"You... forget it, just look if you want to. It won't cost you anything anyway." Wang Xiyi said unhappily.

"The flame is about to go out." Sun Hang said suddenly.

"What did you say?" Wang Xiyi was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding what Sun Hang meant.

"I mean, the flames are about to go out." Sun Hang pointed outside the glass cover. "There are probably hundreds of people outside, including the staff of the institute, hunters responsible for maintaining order, field team operators, the army, etc.... Don't you mind showing them?"

"At worst, I can just activate my abilities and enter a completely beastly state." Wang Xiyi said nonchalantly, "I feel that the state of the meme is much more stable now, and the use of my abilities doesn't seem to have as many restrictions as before."

"Forget it then." Sun Hang shook his head. "If the flames are extinguished and those people outside see that there is a dragon instead of a person standing in the hood, who knows what kind of commotion might arise... Let's keep a low profile."

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"I'll help you get some clothes." Sun Hang said.

"You?" Wang Xiyi looked at the tattered protective suit on Sun Hang. "You are already in this state, where can you help me get clothes?"

"Simple." Sun Hang snapped his fingers, and countless hyphae spread out. These hyphae, which were only as thick as a hair, intertwined with each other and formed a loose long skirt, covering Wang Xiyi's naked body.

"I didn't expect that your ability could be used in this way?" Wang Xiyi touched the skirt with some surprise. Judging from the feel alone, it seemed very similar to silk, but the memes flowing inside the mycelium gave her, who was also an infected person, a strange feeling, as if the skirt on her body was not an object, but some kind of living thing.

But this idea is not wrong. This skirt made of Tai Sui mycelium is indeed "alive".

"There are many things you haven't expected." Sun Hang said.

However, there was one thing he did not make clear to Lao Wang.

That is, this skirt is not only alive, it can also share various sensory abilities with Sun Hang... You can say that it is an extension of Sun Hang's body. From a certain perspective, the two of them are now in a state of hugging each other tightly without any obstacles.

He could clearly feel the temperature and touch of the other's skin, as well as the cold, sharp-edged dragon scales... and the strong heart that was beating vigorously.

Wang Xiyi was wrong about one thing. The most obvious alienation on her was not the horns on her head nor the tail behind her.

But her heart.

It was no longer a human heart, but a dragon's heart.

……

The flame inside the glass cover was finally completely extinguished. Just as Sun Hang said, nearly a hundred people crowded in front of the glass cover, staring eagerly at what was revealed behind the flame.

"Night Fury...Night Fury is still alive!" a researcher exclaimed in a low voice, "She seems to still have human sanity! She seems to be talking to Sun Hang... Damn, I can't hear what they are saying!"

"What are those things on her head? Horns?" another researcher said, scribbling something on a paper notepad. "And a tail... Is this because she hasn't completely gotten rid of her beastly state, or is this her normal state from now on?"

"I think we should call it 'Dragonization'. The black dragon is not just some beast..." another older researcher whispered, "It is the embodiment of disaster. If it appears anywhere, it will cause a destructive disaster."

"Fortunately, no new black dragon was born this time, otherwise I don't dare to imagine what will happen next..."

Yang Qi was also standing among the researchers. She breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, "What are you all standing there for? You have no professionalism at all! Go back to work! The experiment isn't over yet! Analyze and compare the meme frequencies of the two immediately! I want to see the results within five minutes!"

"The results are out!" The researcher who had been thinking about running away ran over, handed a tablet to Yang Qi, and said, "The strength of the meme of 'Night Fury' has increased by nearly sixteen times compared to before the Chimera 17 incident...but the stability has increased significantly instead - this is incredible! Logically speaking, the strength of the meme should be inversely proportional to the stability..."

"This is nothing to be surprised about." An old and familiar voice came from behind. Everyone turned around and found that the old director in a wheelchair had arrived at the scene at some point. "She was a 'failure' from the beginning. That's why she was sent to Tianfu City... But just now, Sun Hang helped her make up for those fatal 'flaws' in the meme fragment... If the human body fusion experiment back then could produce a perfect 'work', it should be her current state."

"The human fusion experiment back then..." Yang Qi looked at the old director, "Teacher, are you talking about the fusion experiment of the Black Dragon meme?"

"Then what other experiment could it be... From the beginning to the end of the experiment, only 19 people survived. However, none of these 19 survivors can be considered 'successful' or 'perfect'. They all have various flaws... And Wang Xiyi's flaw is that when she uses her ability, it will aggravate the instability of the meme... Just like the child herself said, she is a consumable, a consumable with a 'limited number of uses'."

(End of this chapter)