Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 25 Reflection
"They don't look like the survey team... No, they don't even look like normal people." Yang Qi frowned, "'Night Fury', can you feel their life breath?"

"I can't feel them. If I block my vision, they don't exist in my perception." Wang Xiyi shook her head.

"Tsk, it's not even an energy body..." Yang Qi frowned even more tightly.

"Isn't it a ghost?" 0401 took a breath of cold air, "This is really a ghost..."

"If the 'ghosts' you mentioned really exist, they should be classified as 'Xin-type' monsters, which are commonly known as 'spiritual bodies' or 'energy-type'... But these figures don't even have energy induction..." Yang Qi shook her head slightly, "That means... they really might be... just 'shadows'."

"Come closer and take a look." Wang Xiyi said.

"Don't, don't..." 0401 said with a cowardly look on his face, "I think, how about we observe from a distance first?"

"I agree." Sun Hang nodded.

"That's what I mean. It's too dangerous to get close to them..."

Before 0401 could finish his words, Sun Hang interrupted him: "I mean, I agree with Night Fury's proposal."

"Ah?" 0401 was stunned for a moment, and shrank into the back seat.

"Are you afraid of ghosts?" Wang Xiyi looked at him and asked.

"Well... I'm not afraid, it's just that these shadows... I always feel... creepy when I look at them." 0401 replied.

"The shadow itself is not scary." said Sun Hang.

Sun Hang discovered that he seemed to have an ability to detect strange creatures or infected people - that was his "appetite".

In Sun Hang's opinion, those mutated wild wolves that were affected by the blood moon just now could only be considered "edible but not delicious" at best.

If the bloody rose is a delicious dessert that makes people salivate, then Wang Xiyi is a peerless delicacy cooked with top-quality ingredients... As for those wild wolves, they are just a little bit of meat on a mosquito's leg.

The first impression Sun Hang had of those shadows not far away was that they were “inedible”.

According to the research institute, as long as it is a weird creature, it must have something called "meme" (or concept) in it. The reason why the weird virus can infect other things is because it copies the "meme" on the weird creature and transmits it to other things.

The monster "Taotie" with serial number "Bingjiu" feeds on these memes.

Sun Hang could not detect the existence of memes on these shadows.

Therefore, they are not monsters, nor are they infected by the weird virus.

"If you're scared, you can stay in the car." Wang Xiyi opened the car door and jumped out first.

Sun Hang and Yang Qi also got out of the car.

"Wait, wait for me!" Seeing that the three people had gotten off the car, 0401 climbed down hurriedly.

"Aren't you afraid of those shadows?" Yang Qi looked at him and asked curiously.

"It's scarier to be alone in the car, isn't it..." 0401 muttered, "Don't you know that in those horror movies, the characters left alone are the first to die..."

"That seems to make sense." Yang Qi surprisingly did not refute, "At least, if you follow us, we won't have to watch you get swallowed by the monster."

After Wang Xiyi got off the car, she walked straight towards the figures without stopping. When she was still a few steps away from the swaying figures, she stopped.

"It seems like they are really shadows." Wang Xiyi picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the figures.

The stone passed through the figures unhindered, fell to the ground, and bounced forward a short distance.

Sun Hang also came closer.

He discovered that these figures were just some human-shaped shadows that were slightly darker than the surroundings and suspended on the ground. They swayed slightly, as if there was an unobservable water surface in the air that was perpendicular to the ground, and these shadows were just reflections projected on this vertical water surface.

As the water surface ripples, these reflections move along with it.

"Prepare for a direct contact experiment." Wang Xiyi looked back at Yang Qi, "Make good records."

"Be careful as much as possible...eh." Yang Qi turned on the camera she carried with her and let out a light "eh."

"These shadows can't be photographed?" Sun Hang had almost guessed the answer. He leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, in the camera's picture, only Wang Xiyi was standing there, and the figures that were so close to her did not appear at all.

"Just like those 'non-existent' images you see on TV." Yang Qi nodded slightly, "They can only be observed by the naked eye and cannot be recorded by optical imaging equipment."

"I'm lucky. Maybe this is the breakthrough point." Sun Hang nodded.

Wang Xiyi took out two syringes from the small bag tied to her leg. One was the enhanced serum she got from Sun Hang, and the other was the beastification inhibitor that exuded a strong "coriander smell".

She held the two syringes between the fingertips of her right hand, then slowly reached out to the figure in front of her with her left hand.

Yang Qi and 0401 held their breath, staring intently at Wang Xiyi's movements.

Just like the stone, Wang Xiyi's left hand passed directly through the figure and nothing happened.

"I can't feel anything." Wang Xiyi said.

"Try to stir it." Yang Qi said with a long sigh.

Wang Xiyi gently stirred her right hand, but the shadow did not change, even the frequency of the shaking did not change.

She withdrew her hand and shook her head at Yang Qi.

"Let me do it." Sun Hang stepped forward. "Since these shadows are somewhat similar to the images on TV, maybe they will react to me as well."

"That's right. After all, you are the one who resonates with me." Yang Qi nodded.

Sun Hang took a deep breath and imitated Wang Xiyi, putting his five fingers together to form a palm knife shape and thrusting it into the chest of a figure.

At the moment when his fingertips touched the human figure, Sun Hang seemed to feel that time had briefly stopped.

Then he discovered that the light and shadow around him were changing rapidly at a speed that was difficult for human perception to capture. Light and darkness were constantly switching, as if a long shot recording tens of thousands of days and nights was compressed into just a few seconds.

Sun Hang was shocked to find that the figure he touched actually had a vague human appearance - in the few seconds when light and darkness changed rapidly, he quickly changed from a young man to a middle-aged man with a big belly, and then turned into a white-haired old man... until he turned into a white skeleton.

(End of this chapter)