Trickster Hunter

Chapter 233 Crystal

A burst of energy appeared out of nowhere inside the lamp holder, and the copper figurine gradually began to melt. The hot and bright copper water flowed down from the fingers of the infected person, instantly burning her hands.

But she seemed to have no sense of pain at all. Even though 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 irregular turbid crystal appeared in front of everyone. The shape of this crystal looked like a dried and shrunken heart, and there were even details of coronary artery lines on the surface of the crystal.

The inside of the crystal emitted a dim fluorescence, which also had its own breathing light effect, switching back and forth between bright and dark... just like the rhythm of a heartbeat.

"Heart?" Sun Hang muttered in a low voice.

He could feel that a memetic fluctuation stronger than the previous ever-burning lamp was emanating from this crystal... Obviously, the lamp going out was not extinction, but hiding its own breath in a way similar to "pseudo-death".

The infected person was trembling all over, and her throat made meaningless sounds - her vocal system had completely mutated and could not make normal human sounds at all, but Sun Hang could still hear obvious joy from these weird sounds.

She held the crystal emitting a faint fluorescence and moved closer to her chest little by little.

Only from this angle could Sun Hang see that there was a very obvious surgical incision on the left chest of the infected person - although the incision had long been healed, the traces left by the suture were like a meat centipede, clinging to the surface of her body.

"She seemed to want to put this crystal... into her chest." Wang Xiyi said.

Not only Lao Wang, but everyone present could see the intention of the infected person - she held the crystal in one hand, and with the other hand she tried to tear the wound on her chest, trying to tear the flesh that had long been healed again...

However, her hands had long been stripped of flesh and blood by the copper water at hundreds of degrees, and the finger bones without tendon traction were difficult to even bend, let alone tearing her skin.

After several unsuccessful attempts, she fell into despair.

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

"I was thinking...should we help her?" Wang Xiyi glanced at Sun Hang, "Help her put this thing into her chest? See what changes she will have?"

"Yeah." Sun Hang nodded, and the liquid metal flying blade split 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 that he was not cutting meat, but like cutting the kind of stale and moldy rotten cotton wool.

There was no blood flowing out of the incision - the muscle tissue in this part had already become fibrotic, and the tiny holes like sponges were enough to make the scalp of the claustrophobic patients numb.

As everyone expected, the left chest cavity of the infected person, 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 is a human body infected by the weird meme."

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

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

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

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

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

"After she recovers to normal, she shouldn't attack us, right?" Ye Xuan held a PDW full of various tactical equipment, and the black muzzle was aimed at the crystal wrapped in flesh membrane in the chest of the infected person.

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

He actually wished that this guy would take the initiative to attack him, so that he would have sufficient reason to devour her.

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

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

The deformed parts of the infected person 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 are being stripped away and gathered into another 'core fragment' that has not appeared before!"

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

"It means that there is a new weird thing generated in her body!" Yang Qi said, "This new weird thing is the collection of memes that caused her body to be deformed... These memes came from her body. After being stripped off, her body will naturally return to normal, but the new strange thing that is born will probably..."

Before Yang Qi finished speaking, she heard a "squeak" sound, and the infected person's bloated abdominal cavity was suddenly torn open, and a bloody creature jumped out of it and rushed directly towards Yang Qi's facade.

However, just as it jumped into the air, a big hand made of white mycelium cut it off and kneaded it into meat paste.

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

As for the meme of this new monster, it was naturally swallowed up by Sun Hang... Unfortunately, it did not carry any memory fragments.

It seems that the memories belonging to this infected person have not been transferred due to the transfer of memes.

The infected person who had returned to her human form was lying on her side on the ground, panting heavily - the wounds in her chest and abdominal cavity were slowly healing, and the expulsion of the strange thing that had gathered all the distorted memes had exhausted all her energy. Strength... She slowed down for five or six minutes 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 doubtfully, "Isn't her body 'reborn'? Those deformed parts have also returned to normal, so why can't she be optimistic?"

"According to the test results, her aging rate... is hundreds of times that of normal humans. Although her body is in her early twenties, she will become an old man in her twilight years within a few months. "Yang Qi said, "I don't know why this is happening. This is the first time I have encountered this situation... There has never been a similar type of infected person in the previous information."

"Perhaps this is the price." Zhulong sighed and said softly, "She has been living underground with a deformed body for hundreds of years. She finally saw the light of day and had the opportunity to return to human society, but the time left for her But there are only a few months left...sigh."

"Hey." Sun Hang squatted down in front of the infected person, "Can you understand me?"

Sun Hang had already made a plan in his heart. If the other party could communicate, he would spare her life. If not...then what he wanted would probably have to be obtained in another way.

Although Sun Hang is now confident that he can remove part of the memes from the infected person's body without harming the infected person's life, the life of the guy in front of her is obviously supported by those weird memes. If Sun Hang Hang's removal of her meme would be almost the same as killing her.

"..." The infected person stood up with some difficulty. She subconsciously wanted to push away the dirty and long hair in front of her eyes with her hands, but just as she raised her hand, a silver light flashed, and those sticky hair were The locks of hair fell to the ground.

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

"Team Leader Ye...be careful not to blind her." Sun Hang couldn't help complaining, "Her eyes probably haven't adapted to the strong light yet. The energy inside the crystal has been exhausted. She is going to be blind. She wants to recover." I’m afraid it will be troublesome.”

"Sorry, I didn't think well." Ye Xuan immediately moved the light away and apologized sincerely.

From the characteristics of the body, it can be determined that the infected person is a female. Her face is very pale, with almost no color at all. Although her body is still in the state of youth, her face is already covered with wrinkles. Just like an old woman who is nearly a hundred years old... But then again, in terms of 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 adapted to her new vocal cords. She kept saying "uh" like a mute for a long time before she could barely squeeze out two words that Sun Hang and the others could hear. Understand the words.

"……Thanks."

"It seems that we can communicate." Sun Hang nodded with satisfaction, "We are from the federal government, and we will ensure your personal safety... But in exchange, you need to tell us everything you know. The more detailed it is, the better. good."

"He...he...he is still...alive..." the infected person said with some difficulty. She turned her head and looked deep into the main tunnel.

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

"He...will...wake up soon..." The infected person struggled to stand up, "You...have to...quickly..."

Her body trembled, as if she was reflecting back on the light, and her movements suddenly became smoother. She glanced at Sun Hang, turned around and ran towards the depths of the tunnel.

"Are you going to stop her?" Ye Xuan immediately picked up the gun and aimed at the infected person's knees.

As for Zhong Ling, who had been silent all this time, he had already sent two corpses and walked around in front of the infected person.

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

"Quick...quick..."

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

"It should be." Sun Hang nodded. "Let's go. Let's follow her."

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

Is that "he" her enemy? Is she going to get rid of this enemy with the help of people like her?

Sun Hang thought as he 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 have received long-term military training can barely keep up, while non-combatants like Yang Qi seem to be quite struggling... Not to mention that she is carrying dozens of kilograms of professional equipment on her body...

Zhong Ling's physical fitness is worse than Yang Qi's, but after all, she is still with her "mother" - No. 001 Weird Skeleton 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 equipment and weight, judging from Yang Qi's expression at the moment, exhaustion was probably just a matter of time.

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

"What...what?" Yang Qi was out of breath as soon as she asked, and immediately started coughing violently.

"I'll carry you on my back. If you don't want to fall behind, don't be stubborn!" Sun Hang said, regardless of whether Yang Qi was willing or not, he directly tied her whole body to his back with mycelium, and then chased after the infected who had already run.

"Director Yang, you look like a kidnapped flower girl." Wang Xiyi, who was flying close to the ground, looked at Yang Qi tied to Sun Hang's back and laughed and teased.

"If I'm kidnapped, I'm kidnapped..." Yang Qi said resignedly, "It seems that after this operation, I have to strengthen my exercise."

"With your current work and rest schedule, strengthening your exercise will accelerate your sudden death." Sun Hang complained, "If you want to improve your physical fitness, at least you have to ensure that you get enough sleep, right?"