Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 479 The Passage to Hell
“Aren’t you curious…” Sun Hang held the distorted soldier’s loose chin with one hand, while gently shaking the soldier’s skull with the other, as if trying to even out the brain matter. As he shook it, he said, “Assuming that something like Hell or the Underworld really exists in this world, could this Baikal’s Remains be a passage connecting to those places?”

"Hell?" Ganna was clearly a bit confused by Sun Hang's train of thought. "Wh...what do you mean?"

“First, we need to determine one thing,” Sun Hang said, “whether this guy’s mother actually appeared on the remains of Baikal, or just appeared in his imagination.”

"It's probably just the person's hallucination, right?" The psychiatrist's tone was uncertain. "I just checked the reports of the other people who were on the same reconnaissance mission as him. Apart from him, no one else saw anything inside the remains of Baikal except for isolated monsters, let alone humanoid monsters, which would be the focus of the report... The intelligence analysts have also reviewed the recordings from their personal recorders many times, but they haven't found anything unusual."

"What about this guy's dashcam? Didn't it capture anything? Tsk... How disgusting." Sun Hang poked the other person's sunken cheek with his finger, but he didn't expect that the skin had become so fragile. Sun Hang didn't use any force at all, and his finger went straight through, leaving a round hole in the other person's face.

Pus mixed with rotting flesh and blood immediately flowed out of the hole.

Sun Hang immediately pulled his finger out with a look of disgust and wiped it repeatedly on the other person's training uniform, which had been torn into shreds.

"The video footage is 'clean'; it didn't capture any other strange objects besides the remains of Baikal itself," the psychiatrist replied.

The "recorders" carried by these soldiers on reconnaissance missions are actually military versions of the law enforcement recorders that sheriffs carry. However, unlike regular law enforcement recorders worn on the shoulder or chest, military recorders are often fixed to the side of a tactical helmet with a special base. The front and rear cameras can simultaneously capture the scene in front of and behind the wearer. The camera facing directly forward has a field of view that is basically the same as the wearer's, meaning that whatever the wearer sees, that camera will capture.

The freak soldier claimed to have seen his mother, who had been dead for many years, but the camera on his helmet didn't capture anything.

“It must be a hallucination…” Ganna chimed in. “I find it hard to imagine that a world specifically for the dead could exist… It’s just too far-fetched…”

Ganna originally wanted to say that this was too contrary to normal human cognition and the laws of physics, but when he thought that what he was discussing was a strange creature that did not abide by these laws of cognition at all, he swallowed the second half of his sentence.

After all, in his first lesson when he received education about strange creatures, his teacher repeatedly emphasized, "Never put any kind of strange creature into an existing cognitive framework. The reason why strange creatures are called strange creatures is because they can break through the human cognitive framework at any time and turn the experience, rules and laws that humans have summarized over thousands of years into a series of jokes."

Sun Hang wanted to ask something more, but he discovered that the soldier's vocal cords had been completely mutated and he could no longer produce normal syllables.

The memories carried by the memes within its body are extremely chaotic, basically pieced together from trivial fragments of life. The only valuable ones are the "phenomena" it saw in the remains of Baikal.

However, in this memory, Sun Hang did not see the "painful mother" it described, but only a ghostly figure composed of negative emotions, which was jumping around in front of the soldier, baring its teeth and claws, and making a series of chilling hissing sounds.

Ordinary people cannot see the concrete shadows or dark fog of negative emotions, and similarly, cameras cannot capture these things.

"So, the 'monster' this guy saw in the remains of Baikal... was actually his own negative emotions?" Sun Hang muttered to himself. He released his grip, and the monstrous soldier, whose body was already torn to pieces, slid off the armchair. Its flesh and blood had all festered and festered, leaving only a tattered skin and countless broken bones inside.

Sun Hang sighed, and a pale blue flame rose from his palm.

He originally intended to have the people of Tian Shu Tower contain this strange creature... but unfortunately, this creature was the type that wasn't very strong, yet was very difficult to contain. The black fur on its body had extremely strong "infectiousness" and "penetration"—it had only been a few minutes since the soldier was completely transformed, and the entire half of the clinic, except for the places where Sun Hang had walked, was covered with a thick layer of black fur.

It looks like a house that has been in a damp and dark environment for a long time and is full of mold.

Even the protective glass used to ensure the safety of the psychologists was corroded. Mold-like fuzz slowly seeped into the glass, blooming one after another inside the glass like the patterned crystals on the surface of a preserved egg.

To contain this strange creature, we'd probably have to take over the entire field hospital.

The cost and operational difficulty are too high, and the cost-effectiveness and feasibility are too low.

"Goodnight," Sun Hang said softly, looking down at the corpses on the ground.

The black dragon's flames fell from Sun Hang's palm, instantly burning all the black fur in the consultation room to ashes. The corpse of the mutated soldier was also burned into dozens of pieces of black, brittle bone fragments of varying sizes, scattered at Sun Hang's feet.

Sun Hang's control over the dragon flames was extremely precise. He only burned everything that had been contaminated by the monster meme, without causing any damage to the structure of the building itself.

The clinic, which had undergone a "hair removal surgery," revealed its original appearance. However, the paint on the walls and ceiling had become extremely mottled, revealing the modular building materials underneath, which were riddled with tiny holes. Large patches of yellowish-black paint had peeled off, making it look like an old, dilapidated house.

After the dark blue dragon flames completely disappeared, the fire sprinklers, which were a beat slow to react, were finally triggered, and a dense curtain of water immediately filled the entire clinic.

Sun Hang stretched out his hands and leisurely washed them with the water sprayed from the fire sprinkler.

Only then did the fully armed guards burst through the clinic door, carrying a high-pressure water gun and a fire extinguisher.

(End of this chapter)