Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 417 - 53: Vinyl Record Player_2

"The director's office and the reception room are both in Factory No. 5, with just a corridor in between," said Ling Xiao.

"Then let's go, instead of wasting time here, let's see what the heck that thing is up to."

"Through the ventilation ducts?" Jiang Yu asked.

"Of course, through the front door!" Lilith kicked open the glass door of the dust-free workshop.

"The door is too thick, I'm not sure I can break it open with force..." Jiang Yu said a bit embarrassed.

"I never said you had to," as soon as Lilith's words fell, the three of them suddenly teleported to the front door. The next second, a bright flame ignited at Lilith's fingertips.

She drew a glowing circle on the two-meter thick special alloy door like she was painting with her fingers dipped in paint.

With a loud clang, the part of the alloy within the circle fell outward, crashing to the ground.

A circular hole with more than a meter in diameter appeared on the door.

"Control, teleportation, flames... what exactly is your ability?" Ling Xiao asked Lilith.

He suddenly thought of Sun Hang.

Generally, the abilities hunters possess are linked to their memetics, and hunters like Sun Hang, with a wide variety of abilities, are extremely rare. Especially with the three abilities Lilith displayed, which are utterly unrelated, it's hard to imagine them appearing in a single hunter.

"I've told you, my codename is the Red-haired Witch, so my ability is obviously magic!" seeing Ling Xiao interested in her abilities, Lilith said happily.

"Magic?" Jiang Yu was slightly stunned, "Then the creepy thing that infected you... what is it?"

"I don't know either, it seems like I'm not infected by a creepy thing, but rather a spontaneous infectee," Lilith said honestly.

Ling Xiao's pupils slightly contracted.

Spontaneous infectee...

He remembered clearly, the woman he once called mother was also a spontaneous infectee.

A spontaneous infectee is a special individual who generates bizarre memetics within their body without an infection source.

"I don't know if you've heard this joke, that if you remain a virgin until 30, you'll become a wizard and gain the ability to use magic?"

"Ah?" Jiang Yu exclaimed, obviously not understanding why Lilith brought this up.

"I thought it was just a joke at first, but until the day of my 30th birthday, while lighting candles on my birthday cake, I imagined what it would be like to conjure flames on my fingertips... then it actually happened," Lilith seemed very eager to share her story of becoming an infectee, "The next day, the local Anomaly Investigation Bureau came knocking, and I was confirmed as an infectee... you've probably been through the process once as well."

"Wait, wait... when you said you've remained a virgin until 30..." Jiang Yu stammered, "You were... a guy?"

"I used to be." Lilith showed Jiang Yu a rather flirtatious smile, "After I gained the power, a piece of information popped into my mind — 'Once you lose your virginity, the ability to use magic will disappear, but I won't turn back into a normal person'... back then I was wondering, could there be a loophole, to enjoy the kind of 'joy' normal people could have without breaking the rules."

"So... you decided to... undergo gender reassignment?" Jiang Yu looked at Lilith, dumbfounded.

"The joint masterpiece of the best gender reassignment surgeon of former Siam and the best plastic surgeon of former South Xinluo... how do you like my current body, quite enchanting, right?" Lilith posed flirtatiously.

"...Then... later on..." Jiang Yu asked with a flushed face, "did you do it?"

"Of course, I only lost my virginity, not my original male virginity," Lilith shrugged, "Afterwards, I retained my ability to use magic, so life wasn't boring enough to only have 'five-fingered companions'... isn't that great?"

Jiang Yu suddenly thought... no wonder when hearing classical music earlier, Lilith said her leather jacket would turn into a tailcoat rather than a dress...

Who would've thought that the 'Red-haired Witch'... turned out to be a man.

"Correction, used to be a man." Lilith seemingly guessed Jiang Yu's thoughts and spoke directly, "Now, apart from not being able to bear children, there's no difference between me and any other woman... oh, I have one more advantage, my looks will never age, before I die, I will always look like this."

"Uh..." Jiang Yu didn't know what to say anymore.

"The taste of a witch is pretty good." Lilith used her slender finger to hook Jiang Yu's chin, "How about it, want a taste?"

"N-no, thank you!" Jiang Yu jolted backwards as if electrocuted, shaking his head vigorously.

"What about you, little brother Ling Xiao..."

Lilith turned to look at Ling Xiao, but Ling Xiao merely stared at the metal edge of the hole that was still in a high-heat state, saying, "Since you know magic, there must be a way to lower the temperature of the metal, right?"

The door is two meters thick, this hole should be regarded more as a section of a tunnel. To crawl through, contact with the tunnel wall is unavoidable... at this temperature, crawling through would be like being roasted alive.

"There is a way..."

"So you were wasting time?" Ling Xiao turned back, staring at Lilith.

"I'm curious, is your icy personality natural... or a facade to attract your elder sister?" Lilith asked.

"If possible, kindly cool the metal immediately," Ling Xiao said, "Even if the time flow in the inner world is slow, we shouldn't waste it recklessly."

"Alright, alright," Lilith spoke in a doting tone, softly blowing as a stream of white gas instantly poured into the tunnel.

The moment the white gas appeared, a layer of frost condensed on the surrounding ground, and a biting cold made Jiang Yu shudder instinctively.

The white gas entered the tunnel, and the red-hot metal cooled down immediately. At the same time, some subtle crackling sounds came from the interior of the alloy door.

Ling Xiao stepped forward, tested the temperature, then crawled inside.

Lilith and Jiang Yu followed him immediately.

After passing through the tunnel, the three of them finally arrived outside the factory. However, an unexpected light spread from one side. Jiang Yu turned around, and was stunned on the spot.

A setting sun was slowly sinking into the horizon — though the sky was already pitch-black, the afterglow of the sunset near the horizon was still casting its final rays.

Elsewhere, this is a most common scene... but in Shuzhou, the appearance of a sunset is absolutely explosive news.

If Jiang Yu had any doubts about the inner world, they were now completely dispelled.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... who'd have thought the inner world actually has day and night, interesting," Lilith said with hands on her hips, looking at the distant sunset.

"Communication equipment still has no signal, no drones detected in the sky, no military or field agents found at the factory's perimeter, no abnormal time and space fluctuations detected," Ling Xiao recited robotically, "We are still in the same inner world layer we were in a moment ago."