Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 26 Mutation
These strange visions were fleeting. Sun Hang hesitated for only a moment before his consciousness returned to the blood moon.

And those reflections that were so close to him quickly faded before his eyes until they disappeared completely.

"What's going on?" Yang Qi walked forward and asked anxiously.

"These shadows seem to be reflections of people," Sun Hang answered truthfully. "When I touched them, I saw the entire process of a person's growth from youth to old age and then to death."

"...Resonance?" Yang Qi was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"I don't know." Sun Hang recalled. Although the images stayed for shorter than a blink of an eye, he still clearly remembered that this man was wearing a navy blue suit in his middle age.

And in the news footage seen earlier, several of the leaders and officials who participated in the flower-laying ceremony were wearing suits of similar colors and styles.

This figure...could it be one of those missing officials?

Just when Sun Hang wanted to observe the place where the figures disappeared, a strong fragrance suddenly drifted over from the side and rear.

He turned around and saw that Wang Xiyi had squatted on the ground without him knowing when, with her arms tightly wrapped around her chest, and the expression on her face was as if she was enduring some kind of pain.

On her neck, tiny black scales had already emerged from under the skin, emitting a metallic luster.

"Night Fury?!" Yang Qi also noticed Wang Xiyi's change and whispered, "When was the last time you injected an inhibitor?!"

Sun Hang looked up at the blood moon in the sky which was becoming increasingly brighter. Without saying a word, he rushed to Wang Xiyi's side.

He resisted the urge to throw the other person to the ground, grabbed Wang Xiyi's arm, and pulled her out of the boundary with force.

The blood moon in the sky turned into a normal moon, and the scales on Wang Xiyi's neck no longer appeared.

She was holding the syringe of the inhibitor in her hand, but her fingers were so stiff that she couldn't give herself the injection.

"Help...me...with the injection..." Wang Xiyi gasped with difficulty.

Sun Hang used brute force to pry her fingers apart, removed the syringe, pulled out the protective cover, and inserted the needle directly into her upper arm.

The glass bubble storing compressed air at the end of the disposable syringe was crushed, and the clear medicine inside was immediately pushed into Wang Xiyi's body.

After about ten seconds, Wang Xiyi's stiff body became soft again and she sat down on the ground weakly.

Sun Hang took a look at the empty syringe in his hand, which still had a nauseating "coriander smell" on it. He shook his head in disgust and casually stuffed it into the outer pocket of his clothes.

Yang Qi squatted down beside Wang Xiyi and slightly unzipped her collar.

The fine scales that had emerged shrank back, and the neck, wrists and other parts of the body returned to their original smooth and white skin, which made Yang Qi breathe a sigh of relief.

"Is it caused by the blood moon?" Sun Hang asked.

"It's highly likely that... the influence of the blood moon is like radiation. The higher the intensity, the faster the affected organisms mutate and the higher the degree of mutation." Yang Qi sighed, "From now on, until the blood moon disappears, you and Night Fury are not allowed to enter the abnormal area again."

"Are you going to disobey your superiors' orders?" Sun Hang smiled. "That group of people decided to do it at all costs this time."

"Because they are all idiots... If the Night Fury gets out of control because of their 'orders', let alone the search and rescue operation, most of Tianfu City will be in trouble!" Yang Qi said angrily, "Besides, the search and rescue operation has not been suspended, and I am still here... You send the Night Fury back to the research institute first and tell the teacher everything that happened here. There is no rush to come over after the blood moon disappears the next day." After Yang Qi finished speaking, he threw the keys to the SUV to Sun Hang.

Sun Hang did not refuse. He took off his gun and handed it to 0401 who was still in a daze.

"Ah...what does this mean?" 0401 was stunned and asked.

For some reason, after getting the gun he had been longing for, his sense of crisis suddenly increased significantly.

"Although there are no infected people around you, you can't guarantee what you might encounter on the way to meet up with the main force. You can't always hide behind a woman, right?" Sun Hang said.

“……”0401’s lips moved, but he didn’t say anything in the end.

"Hurry up." Yang Qi urged, "The inhibitor only temporarily stabilized the Night Fury's condition. She is still in danger. We must send her back to the institute as quickly as possible! You don't have to worry about me!"

0401 and Sun Hang worked together to lift Wang Xiyi into the car. Sun Hang got into the driver's seat, glanced at the two people who stayed there in the rearview mirror, and then started the car.

……

On the way back, reports of a team being attacked came from the car's communication device from time to time - not just the wild wolves, but the creatures in the entire abnormal area began to mutate: the abandoned stray dogs and cats, the snakes wandering in the grass, and even the rats and insects at the bottom of the food chain, all crawled out of the soil and began to attack everyone who set foot in this area.

Yang Qi and 0401 were naturally also attacked by these mutant creatures. Fortunately, the two teams that had just completed the merger arrived in time to provide support. Except for 0401 who fell and broke his knee while dodging, there were no casualties.

But other teams were not so lucky - when Sun Hang arrived at the institute, a rough estimate showed that the death toll had exceeded 20, and the number of injured had reached three digits.

The impact of this blood moon far exceeded everyone's expectations.

……

A dozen staff members who had been waiting at the entrance of the institute took over Wang Xiyi. They carried Wang Xiyi into a cold "metal coffin", and then left in a hurry, leaving Sun Hang standing alone on the big steps at the entrance of the institute.

"The director needs to perform surgery on Ye Fu immediately. Yang Qi has already reported the specific situation of the operation area." A staff member said to Sun Hang before leaving, "You can be on standby for the next sixteen hours."

"What about sixteen hours later?" Sun Hang asked.

"You should ask your direct supervisor, not me." After saying this, the staff member left on his own.

The entire research institute was in a state of frantic operation. The few field staff were all sent to the cemetery in the south of the city, and Wang Xiyi's emergency situation forcibly pulled those who were taking a break from get off work out of their beds - almost all of these people in white coats had heavy dark circles under their eyes and resentment for being forced to work overtime.

He sat down on the big steps in front of the Sun Hang Research Institute. At this moment, a familiar feeling of hunger surged up from his stomach again.

He couldn't quite tell whether the source of this hunger was the woman who had just been carried in, or because he hadn't eaten for a long time.

The sky was already turning pale, and Sun Hang took out his cell phone and took a look. The time displayed on the screen was 4:45 in the morning.

The last time I ate was probably in the evening when I took a bite of an apple at "home".

(End of this chapter)