Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 855 - 95: Appeal_2

"Cancel the mission... wasn’t it said that we need to see the person alive or the corpse dead? Could it be that the young master of the Song Family has encountered a financial crisis and is out of money?" Sun Hang muttered inwardly.

"Do you know who the employer is?"

"There’s no record, the employer hasn’t made this mission public online, but instead recruited this group of Hunters and mercenaries through Dragon City’s intermediary agency, and that agency keeps all client information completely confidential..." Candle Dragon said.

"Confidential? Even the authority of Dubhe Tower can’t find it?"

"Can’t find it, because all their communications are face-to-face, they don’t archive any information, so even the mainframe can’t trace back the employer’s true identity via the intermediary agency’s data. But the mainframe could potentially deduce the employer’s identity by tracing where the agency personnel went and whom they met during that period... Anyhow, the mainframe’s authority is on your side, so you could give it a try."

"Forget it, this matter is not important." Sun Hang said, suddenly turning to look deep into the shaft.

A humanoid creature, like a mummy, hobbled out of the shadows, its hand clutching tightly onto a metal long whip.

"That weapon... belonged to another female Hunter who disappeared with Qi Delie, the ’razor whip’." Candle Dragon immediately reminded.

"I know." Sun Hang nodded, he not only knew this humanoid creature was the razor whip, but was also aware that Qi Delie had killed the razor whip, even the manner of death was crystal clear.

"Unlike that infected individual just now, I can’t sense any emotions from it." Xue Yue said quietly.

"Of course it’s different, that guy at least was alive, whereas this thing before us is a true resurrected monster." Sun Hang said, "To compare, it’s more akin to that undead monk leading us."

As he spoke, the resurrected razor whip suddenly altered its previous staggering behavior, sprinting upright, the metal long whip in its hand whistled through the air towards Sun Hang.

Here in the shaft, it’s spacious enough not to worry about the metal whip being unable to fully extend like in a tunnel.

However, the enemy it faced wasn’t like Qi Delie, with only a knife and physical attributes barely stronger than a normal Hunter.

When the metal long whip was still several meters away from Sun Hang, it liquefied into a stream of silver molten iron which rolled through the air, finally all pouring into Sun Hang’s palm—next moment, the molten iron reformed into a spear, "gently" tossed out by Sun Hang.

With a "thud", the spear instantly penetrated the razor whip’s shriveled body, its massive kinetic force dragging the razor whip back a dozen meters before pinning it at an angle into the ground.

Razor whip did not die, a mere chest penetration wound was far from fatal for a creature like it.

It grasped the spear with both hands, attempting several times to pull it out, but the spear lodged into the ground was dead secure, utterly beyond its strength to dislodge.

Seeing this, razor whip directly thrust its claw-like fingers into its own chest, brutally tearing its torso open, freeing itself from the spear’s control.

During the process of ripping open, its internal organs were completely exposed to Sun Hang and others’ view—whether heart or spleen and lungs, they had shrunk into clusters of black shriveled meat balls, its body contained no blood, pale fascia and ligaments wrapped around bones, dark red dried jerky-like muscles powered this mummy-like body... It’s hard to imagine those fully dehydrated muscles could stretch or contract like normal ones, but what intrigued Sun Hang more than this was its reason for "resurrection".

Unlike Qi Delie, razor whip and that undead monk were originally dead... For totally dead individuals like these, unless infected by some zombie meme, the possibility of resurrection is almost zero, yet Sun Hang felt no scent of eerie meme from razor whip or the undead monk...

The monk wasn’t an infected person to begin with, having no meme scent is reasonable. As for razor whip, its internal meme should have dispersed upon death, if an infected person’s corpse doesn’t fully zombify, then over time it becomes like any ordinary human, even those bodily organs mutated due to eerie meme influence would gradually revert to normal...

From another perspective, the dispersal of meme scent from razor whip confirms its true demise...

But since it is so, without any influence from eerie memes, how did it revive?

Could "desire" possess resurrection capability?

Sun Hang suddenly shivered.

He remembered the words Candle Dragon had just shared with him.

When a person is about to die of thirst in the desert, their greatest inner desire is to drink a sip of water.

For humans, among all desires, survival desire is first to be fulfilled, only once survival desire is satisfied, can other desires breed...

A person at death’s doorstep... The strongest obsession before dying, or rather, the most intense desire, is probably — "not to die".

So that eerie object, temporarily dubbed "desire" by Sun Hang, can even accomplish this?

No no no... It’s not about this, the key is razor whip truly resurrected!

Though now it resembles a zombie, it confirms "desire" possesses reality-altering capability!

Razor whip, with her scrambled thoughts before death, merely pursued living, perhaps not having understood such mode of living, under such circumstances, the effect "desire" presents will also be distorted—like that genie who turned a black person into a white toilet: it only fulfills your wish, regarding the fulfillment process, if you don’t specify then it means letting it "perform freely"...

If there were a person with clear mind, meticulous thinking, rigorous logic, and utterly unperturbed by negative emotions appearing here... Wouldn’t this so-called "desire" be no different from Aladdin’s Magic Lamp?

Assume this person harbors extremely noble ideals, their greatest wish is to completely eliminate eerie objects from this world, restore previous human life, then would "desire" present a "ultimate solution"?

No... Wrong!

Sun Hang jolted suddenly, realizing he made an error—a narrow miss from turning into a white toilet like in that joke.

How to eliminate all eerie objects and restore previous human life, even humans themselves do not know the answer, thus suggesting such request to "desire" means the wish likely gets distorted during fulfillment... As for how distorted, it’s hard to say.

A simple "not wanting to die" could turn someone into a zombie, let alone monumental desires altering the entire world.

Fortunately... Fortunately Nagano Souta’s father didn’t genuinely propose such request to "desire", or else, who knows what the world would look like now.

But Nagano Souta was not wrong about one thing, this thing indeed can change the status quo of human civilization.

[P.S. Although this joke is quite old, considering some readers might not have heard of it, let’s explain here—a black man lost in the desert found a magic lamp, then he made three wishes to the genie: One, to drink water; Two, to turn white; Three, to see girls’ behinds every day...]