Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 328 "Rumination"

"Really..." Yuri nodded - although the scenes on TV were embarrassing, as a senior researcher who had studied strange things for half his life, this little stimulation was not enough to stop his brain from thinking.

Compared to watching yourself being smashed into a pulp with a hammer on the screen, the impact of being gay and impart is almost negligible.

Only this group of security guards, whose average age is 25 or 26, would have a change of expression after seeing this scene.

After pondering for more than ten seconds, Yuri continued, "Perhaps this strange creature has the ability to distort reality to a certain extent. In this case, the interference of the surveillance footage can also be explained relatively reasonably..."

The image on the screen began to become more and more abstract. The mosaic-like color blocks gradually changed from flesh color to dark red like blood. Then, these dark red mosaics continued to spread like a virus and soon occupied the entire screen.

"This... this shouldn't be normal, right?" A younger security guard said in a trembling voice, "Even if... even if he did that... it shouldn't turn out like this, right?"

"You're talking about normal phenomena when it comes to something that has something to do with weird things?" Sun Hang turned around and glanced at him, "Dude, are you new to the job?"

“No… I just think… should we… intervene…” the security guard said with a worried look on his face.

"Sir, I also feel something is a little strange." The captain of the security team also said, "This doesn't look like a sexual act, but rather some kind of flesh and blood deformation phenomenon... If this situation continues to develop, the situation may be beyond our control..."

Yuri pursed his lips. In fact, what his subordinates said was what he wanted to say in his heart. However, Pei Zongjun's text message directly deprived him of his on-site command. As a result, he could only look at Sun Hang with an inquiring look and said, "What do you think... we need to do?"

"Don't do anything, just wait and see." Sun Hang crossed his legs and put his arms on the back of the sofa. "By the way, you said something wrong just now, I need to correct it."

"Which sentence?" Yuri's eyes twitched and he asked hurriedly.

"What is going on in the picture is not sexual behavior, but reproductive behavior." Sun Hang raised a finger. "The former is an 'entertainment' behavior performed by organisms to please themselves, while the latter comes from the ultimate instinct of organisms."

Sun Hang continued, “Don’t think of yourself in the picture as a ‘complete person’… If you disassemble the human body, each cell is an independent individual life. These ‘humanoid aggregates’ composed of countless cells blend and reproduce with each other, greatly increasing the number of individual cells… These biological aggregates can no longer maintain their human form, they grow like an out-of-control tumor… If you look at it this way, don’t you think everything in the picture is reasonable?”

After listening to Sun Hang's explanation, Yuri couldn't help but gasp.

In Tianshu Tower, a place where geniuses and lunatics gather, Yuri has witnessed many wild and unrestrained ideas that can even be called crazy and abstract. Those who can come up with such ideas are either extremely talented or seriously ill patients who just ran away from the Sixth Hospital of Chunming City...

I forgot to mention that the Sixth Hospital is the most authoritative and highest-level psychiatric hospital in the entire Chunming City - at the same time, it is also the best psychiatric hospital in the entire Xiazhou Federation and even in the entire human civilization.

Psychiatric patients have a completely different way of understanding the world from normal people... This way of understanding may be complete nonsense in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the field of weird things research, this way of understanding can produce miraculous results.

Not to mention that a considerable number of patients in the Sixth Hospital were sent here for treatment because they suffered mental shock or had their consciousness distorted in incidents of contact with strange creatures.

As the saying goes, there is often only one step between genius and madness.

A researcher once said that studying weird things is a crazy thing, but if you want to make some achievements in this crazy thing, the best way is to drive yourself crazy.

Yuri had personally seen many researchers from the Skyhu Tower being chained up and sent to the Sixth Hospital. He had also personally seen these researchers who had been sent to the Sixth Hospital being taken back and resume their crazy research in the laboratory...

Yuri vaguely saw the shadows of those crazy researchers in Sun Hang.

"If this thing is a 'tumor', then let it continue to grow..."

Before Yuri could finish his words, the female researcher next to Sun Hang suddenly let out a short exclamation.

Not only her, but everyone present saw the scene that made people feel uneasy - the TV screen was slowly expanding like a bulging chemical battery.

"The reality here has been distorted by something strange!" Yuri shouted immediately, "The tumor is no longer something in the picture! It has run into the real world!!"

The TV screen expanded to its limit, and coupled with the existing cracks, waves of teeth-grinding sounds came from inside the TV, as if those dark red things were about to push the screen open and burst out in the next second.

Oh... there was no need to "as if", not even the next second, those constantly multiplying strange chunks of meat had already cracked the TV screen. They madly drilled out from the cracks in the screen like minced meat squeezed out of a filter.

"Quick! Take emergency measures!" Without waiting for Yuri to speak, the members of the security team rushed forward. They took out the liquid nitrogen sprinklers they carried with them and sprayed liquid nitrogen at nearly minus 200 degrees Celsius directly onto the minced meat that came out of the screen.

The spread of the minced meat was curbed instantly, but before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a tentacle suddenly shot out from the minced meat, quickly wrapped around the ankle of a security guard, pulled him to the ground, and quickly dragged him towards the TV!
"Reproduction requires nutrients, and nutrients must be obtained through predation." Sun Hang said calmly, "Look, this unlucky guy was taken as prey by them."

The remaining security guards had no time to listen to what Sun Hang was saying. The two who were closer rushed out at once. One grabbed the arms of the member who was dragged away, and the other aimed the liquid nitrogen sprayer at the middle section of the tentacle and frantically sprayed the liquid nitrogen in the tank out.

The tentacles were quickly frozen. The security guard threw away the empty liquid nitrogen tank, took out a hand axe from his waist, and chopped directly at the tentacles that were frozen into popsicles!

The tentacles shattered, and ice chips wrapped in broken flesh flew everywhere. With the help of his colleagues, the security guard who was being hunted broke free from the tentacles wrapped around his ankles and stood up with some difficulty.

"Are you injured?" the captain of the security team asked. "Don't worry about whether you are injured or not at this time." Sun Hang curled his lips, "In order to save him, you directly pushed the situation to a more serious level..."

"Getting worse?!" Yuri reacted instantly and looked at the ice chips flying everywhere.

"I just said, don't think of this thing as a complete 'organism', but as an 'aggregate' of countless cell-sized organisms..."

Before Sun Hang finished speaking, the pieces of flesh in the ice began to wriggle on their own and crawled towards the person closest to them.

"Level 1 alert! Strange creatures have the property of spreading! The containment area has been contaminated at level 2!" The captain of the security team opened his eyes wide and shouted, "Immediately close all entrances and exits and ventilation holes, and carry out comprehensive disinfection operations accurately! If necessary, indiscriminate elimination methods can be adopted!"

His "indiscriminate elimination method" means that those people in the blockaded area who have not been infected by the monsters can be eliminated together - anyway, the monsters cannot be eliminated, and the people left in the blockaded area cannot escape the fate of being infected.

When he said this, it was equivalent to sentencing everyone in the living room to death.

"You're quite conscious." Sun Hang nodded secretly, and then countless hyphae shot out from his body - almost half of them went straight to the TV screen, and the rest were aimed at the minced meat that had already flowed out of the screen, the broken tentacles, and the minced meat that was splattered everywhere.

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Five minutes later, Sun Hang, who had recovered all the mycelium, stood up from the tattered sofa, walked to the TV set, which was left with only an empty shell, and poked the broken electronic components inside the TV set with his fingers.

"The containment object... the containment object's response has disappeared..." The security captain looked at his terminal in disbelief, "Sir... just now... Unknown containment object No. 999... is gone..."

"I know... I'm not blind." Yuri glanced at his subordinate, let out a long sigh, and turned to look at Sun Hang.

“Is this the ability of Taotie?”

"Not just Taotie." Sun Hang threw the parts that had completely lost their repair value back into the shattered plastic shell, stood up and clapped his hands, "But it mainly depends on Taotie."

"Have you completely consumed the containment?" Yuri asked again. He didn't even notice that he had forgotten to use honorifics in his extreme shock.

"I swallowed it, but it takes time to digest it slowly." Sun Hang nodded. "This thing contains a lot of information. I have to chew it slowly... Have you heard of cows' rumination?"

Yuri nodded somewhat dully.

"I just put them into my 'stomach' first, and spit them back into my mouth when I have nothing to do, and then chew them carefully... Although it sounds a bit disgusting, it is indeed the safest way to dispose of them." Sun Hang said, "This thing has enough memory fragments alone to piece together the complete lives of tens of thousands of people. If these memory fragments flood into my brain all at once, I'm afraid I won't even be able to remember who I am."

"This does need to be treated with caution... Now can you confirm the characteristics and abilities of this strange creature?"

"It's impossible to be sure. It may take several months to fully digest this. I suggest you ask me again in a few months." Sun Hang said.

He was not lying. The amount of information contained in the memes of the monster TV was the largest among all the monsters Sun Hang had ever devoured. He even suspected that even if the amount of meme information of all the townspeople in Maoyun Town was added together, it would not be as much as that of this TV.

With Taotie's ability, he can indeed digest all these memes and use them for his own purposes in just ten minutes...but after the digestion is complete, it is hard to say whether Sun Hang is still the same Sun Hang.

Under the impact of massive information flow, it is very difficult to maintain self-awareness - it is like a small boat rolling in the stormy waves. If it capsizes accidentally, it will be immediately washed away by the turbulent undercurrent without leaving any fragments.

"Okay... okay." Yuri swallowed with some difficulty. "I need to register this matter, and Containment Area 999 also needs to be cleaned up to ensure... uh, what are your plans now? I personally suggest that you go for a comprehensive physical examination, including changes in your own meme frequency... Although you don't seem to be affected, abnormalities at the memetic level may not necessarily manifest themselves in the flesh..."

"Let's put the physical examination aside for now." Sun Hang said, "I'm short on time, so please continue to take me to see other strange things."

"Ah?" Yuri was stunned. "What did you say?!"

"I told you to take me to see other weird things." Sun Hang repeated, "The situation in Tianfu City is very tense. There are not many days left before Chimera 17 is hatched. I came here to absorb the weird things in order to urgently improve my combat power... But the problem is that I can't use this guy's ability immediately... After a few months of digestion, Chimera 17 will probably have digested the entire Tianfu City... Then wouldn't my trip be in vain?"

"But you just absorbed this strange creature, and you also said that it would take you several months to digest it... If during this time, you swallow another strange creature..."

"That thing is in another 'stomach'." Sun Hang chuckled, "Cows have four stomachs. How can a monster like Taotie, which eats everything, not have a few more stomachs? I don't stuff all the monsters I swallow into one 'stomach', so it won't be a problem. Besides, I can immediately integrate the abilities of those easy-to-digest monsters after swallowing them, and I don't even need to waste 'stomach space' to store them... I've said this, hurry up and take me to see some other good things!"

"...You have already selected two strange objects, namely, B7 'Kui Niu Skeleton' and B423 'Lucas'. Why don't you choose between them?"

"Among them?" Sun Hang was stunned. "Did you misunderstand something? This list is not for selection. What I mean is that I want all the ones on the list."

(End of this chapter)