Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 233 Crystal

A burst of energy appeared out of nowhere and burst out from inside the lamp holder. The bronze figurine gradually began to melt, and the hot, bright copper liquid flowed through the infected person's fingers, instantly scalding her hands to the point of bursting with skin.

But she seemed to have no sense of pain at all. Even when her finger bones had been separated from the carbonized flesh, she did not throw away the melting lamp holder in her hand.

Finally, after the figurine was almost completely melted, an irregularly shaped turbid crystal appeared in front of everyone. The shape of this crystal looked like a dried and shriveled heart, and there were even texture details on the surface of the crystal similar to those of coronary arteries.

The inside of the crystal emits a dim fluorescence, which also has a breathing light effect, switching back and forth between flickering... just like the rhythm of a beating heart.

"Heart?" Sun Hang muttered softly.

He could feel a memetic fluctuation stronger than the previous eternal lamp emanating from this crystal... Obviously, the light going out did not mean it had disappeared, but it had concealed its own aura in a way similar to "fake death".

The infected person's entire body was shaking, and her throat was making meaningless sounds - her vocal system had completely mutated and she could not make normal human sounds at all, but Sun Hang could still hear the obvious joy in these strange sounds.

She held the crystal that emitted a faint fluorescent light and moved it closer to her chest little by little.

Only from this angle could Sun Hang see that there was a very obvious surgical wound on the left chest of the infected person. Although the wound had healed long ago, the traces left by the sutures were like a flesh centipede, clinging to the surface of her body.

"She seems to want to stuff this crystal... into her chest cavity." Wang Xiyi said.

Not only Lao Wang, but everyone present could see the intention of this infected person - she held the crystal in one hand, and used the other hand to pull at the wound on her chest, trying to tear open the flesh that had already healed...

However, her hands had long been stripped of their flesh and blood by the copper water at hundreds of degrees. Without the traction of the tendons, it was difficult for her finger bones to tear their skin, let alone to do even the simplest bends.

After several unsuccessful attempts, she fell into complete despair.

She knelt on the ground, pounding the ground with her elbows and making heart-wrenching roars.

"I was thinking... why don't we give her a hand?" Wang Xiyi glanced at Sun Hang, "Help her stuff this thing into her chest? See what happens to her?"

"Yeah." Sun Hang nodded, and the liquid metal flying blade cut open the chest of the infected person in an instant.

When cutting the muscle tissue, the feeling transmitted from the flying blade made Sun Hang feel as if he was not cutting meat, but rather cutting stale, moldy cotton wool.

No blood flowed out of the incision - the muscle tissue in this part had already become fibrotic, and the tiny sponge-like holes were enough to make the scalp of a trypophobic patient numb at a glance.

Just as everyone expected, the infected person's left chest cavity, where the heart should be, was empty.

"Can you live without a heart?" Ye Xuan frowned and said in disbelief.

"The human body is amazing, isn't it?" Sun Hang glanced at her and said.

"You should add an adjective in front of it," Yang Qi corrected, "It means a human body infected by a weird meme."

The deformed infected person used the limbs that could barely be called "hands" to pry open the incision that Sun Hang had made for her, and struggled to stuff the crystal into her chest cavity.

After her body came into contact with the crystal, it seemed as if stimulated by something and began to grow wildly. A large number of granulation tissues suddenly surrounded and wrapped the crystal. In just two seconds, a thick layer of flesh membrane appeared on the surface of the crystal.

The originally dim light of the crystal seemed to become much brighter, and the light could penetrate through the flesh membrane that was almost one centimeter thick. As the frequency of the light and dark flickering gradually increased, the various injuries on the infected person's body began to gradually recover.

"Her body... seems to be regenerating?" Ye Xuan stepped forward and asked in a puzzled tone, "This crystal actually has this effect?"

"I suspect this thing was originally dug out from her body, but now it has been returned to its original owner." Sun Hang said.

"After she recovers, she shouldn't attack us, right?" Ye Xuan was holding a PDW loaded with various tactical equipment, with the black muzzle pointed at the crystal wrapped in flesh membrane in the chest cavity of the infected person.

"Who knows? Maybe." Sun Hang said indifferently.

He actually hoped that this guy would attack him first, so that he would have a sufficient reason to devour her.

This self-recovery function overlaps with Tai Sui's ability and is not very useful to Sun Hang. What he is more interested in are the "memory fragments" carried by the memes in the infected person's body.

Although the ability to absorb memories does not have combat attributes, it is definitely a cheating-level ability from any perspective... Of course, the premise is that the three monkeys do not jump out to cause trouble at the critical moment.

The deformed parts of the infected person's body began to gradually return to normal, but her abdomen began to become more and more bloated, like a balloon, swelling up little by little.

"Sun Hang, be careful!" Yang Qi warned, "The instrument shows that the memes in this infected person's body are being stripped away and gathered on another 'core fragment' that has not appeared before!"

"What do you mean?" Sun Hang asked subconsciously.

"What this means is that a new weird creature has been created in her body!" Yang Qi said, "This new weird creature is a collection of the memes that caused her body to deform... These memes were stripped from her body, and her body naturally returned to normal, but the new weird creature that was born might..."

Before Yang Qi could finish her words, there was a "swish" sound, and the infected person's bloated abdominal cavity was suddenly torn open. A bloody creature jumped out from it and pounced directly towards Yang Qi's door.

However, just as it leaped into the air, a giant hand made of white mycelium intercepted it in mid-air and crushed it into a meat paste.

A faint blue flame flashed across the palm of the mycelium hand, and the crushed meat paste turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.

As for the meme of this new creature, it was naturally devoured by Sun Hang... Unfortunately, it did not carry any memory fragments. It seemed that the memories of the infected person were not transferred due to the transfer of the meme.

The infected person who had regained her human form lay on the ground on her side, gasping for breath - the wounds on her chest and abdomen were slowly healing, and expelling the monster that gathered all the distorted memes had exhausted all her strength... It took her five or six minutes to relax before her breathing gradually calmed down.

"Her infection process has stabilized at a very safe level." Yang Qi glanced at the instrument, "But her physical condition is not optimistic."

"Not optimistic?" Ye Xuan asked in confusion, "Hasn't her body been 'reborn'? Those deformed parts have also returned to normal, so why is it not optimistic?"

"According to the test results, her aging speed... is hundreds of times faster than that of a normal human. Although her body is now in her early twenties, she will become an old person in a few months." Yang Qi said, "I don't know why this is happening. This is the first time I've encountered such a situation... There have been no similar infected people in previous records."

"Perhaps this is the price." Zhulong sighed and said softly, "She has been lingering in the underground with a deformed body for hundreds of years. She finally sees the light of day and has the opportunity to return to human society, but she only has a few short months left... Alas."

"Hey." Sun Hang squatted down in front of the infected person, "Can you understand what I'm saying?"

Sun Hang had already made up his mind. If the other party could communicate, he would spare her life. If not... then he might have to get what he wanted in another way.

Although Sun Hang is now confident that he can extract some of the memes from the infected person's body without harming his life, the life of the girl in front of him is obviously supported by those weird memes. If Sun Hang extracts her memes, it will be almost the same as taking her life.

"..." The infected person raised her body with some difficulty. She subconsciously wanted to use her hands to lift away the dirty and long hair that was blocking her eyes. However, just as she raised her hand, a silver light flashed, and the hair that was stuck together fell to the ground.

Ye Xuan was slightly startled and immediately pointed the tactical flashlight mounted under the muzzle of the gun towards her face.

"Team Leader Ye...be careful not to blind her." Sun Hang couldn't help but complain, "Her eyes probably haven't adapted to the bright light yet. The energy inside the crystal has been exhausted. If she goes blind, it will be difficult for her to recover."

"Sorry, I didn't think it through." Ye Xuan immediately turned off the light and apologized sincerely.

From the characteristics of her body, it can be determined that the infected person is a female. Her face is very pale, almost without any blood color. Although her body is still in a young age, her face is already covered with wrinkles, like an old woman who is nearly a hundred years old... But then again, in terms of her actual age, she is indeed over a hundred years old.

"Uh...uh..." The infected person opened her mouth with great difficulty. She obviously had not yet adapted to her new vocal cords. She kept saying "uh" for a long time like a mute before she could barely squeeze out two words that Sun Hang and the others could understand.

"……Thanks."

"It looks like we can communicate." Sun Hang nodded with satisfaction. "We are from the federal government. We will guarantee your personal safety... But in exchange, you need to tell us everything you know. The more detailed the better."

"He...he...he's still...alive..." the infected person said with some difficulty. She turned her head and looked into the depths of the main tunnel.

"Who is he?" Yang Qi asked immediately, "Is he another infected person, or?"

"He...will...wake...up...soon..." The infected person struggled to stand up, "You...should...hurry..."

Her body trembled, and as if she had a last burst of energy, her movements suddenly became smooth. She glanced at Sun Hang, turned around and ran deep into the tunnel.

"Do you want to stop her?" Ye Xuan immediately raised the gun and aimed at the infected person's knee.

As for Zhong Ling, who had been silent, he had already sent out two skeletons to go around in front of the infected person.

The infected person ran for more than ten steps, then suddenly stopped, turned around and looked at Sun Hang and the others.

"Quick...quick..."

"She seems to be urging us?" Yang Qi stuffed a bunch of equipment back into her bag. "Does this mean that she wants us to follow her?"

"That should be it." Sun Hang nodded, "Let's go, let's follow them."

When the infected person mentioned "him" just now, Sun Hang clearly noticed a hint of fear and dread in her eyes, but more of it was extremely strong hatred.

Is that "he" her enemy? Is she planning to use the help of her people to get rid of this enemy?
While thinking, Sun Hang ran behind the infected person.

The infected person ran faster and faster, and his speed gradually exceeded the limit of normal humans. People like Ye Xuan who had received long-term military training could barely keep up, but non-combatants like Yang Qi seemed to be struggling... Not to mention that she was carrying dozens of kilograms of professional equipment on her back...

Zhong Ling's physical fitness is worse than Yang Qi's, but she brought her "mother" with her after all - Skeleton No. 001 directly let her daughter sit on her shoulders and carried her forward.

Sun Hang looked back at Yang Qi who had fallen to the end of the team. Although Zhulong had helped her share all the weight of the equipment, judging from Yang Qi's expression at the moment, it was probably only a matter of time before she was exhausted.

Sun Hang took two steps at a time and walked in front of her, squatted down, and said, "Come up."

"What...what?" Yang Qi ran out of breath as soon as he asked and started coughing violently.

"I'll carry you on my back. Don't try to be stubborn if you don't want to fall behind!" Sun Hang said, and without caring whether Yang Qi was willing or not, he tied her to his back with mycelium, and then chased after the infected person who had already run away.

"Director Yang, you look like a kidnapped beauty." Flying close to the ground, Wang Xiyi glanced at Yang Qi who was tied to Sun Hang's back and teased with a smile.

"If I'm kidnapped, then so be it..." Yang Qi said resignedly, "It seems like after this operation, I have to strengthen my training."

"With your current routine, increasing your exercise will only accelerate your sudden death." Sun Hang complained, "If you want to improve your physical fitness, at least you have to make sure you get enough sleep, right?"

(End of this chapter)