Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 432 - 61: Schemes

Sun Hang felt something suddenly appear beneath his buttocks. Although he could feel through his pants that the surface of this thing seemed to be covered with slick and slimy mucus, the actual "seat feeling" was quite good—soft, resilient, and very bouncy... though still not quite as good as Mr. Wang’s butt, but not too far off either.

Especially... there were no sharp scales to jab into him.

Shortly after, a melodious classical music drifted into his ears.

Sun Hang glanced around the place, realizing he was in a room where the walls, floor, ceiling, and even the furniture were covered with a layer of bizarre fleshy membrane. The thing under him was a large sofa, but its surface was wrapped in a thick layer of flesh, making it look less like a sofa and more like an alien creature crouched on the ground.

The glass coffee table in front of Sun Hang was clean, as was the vintage-style vinyl record player on it, dust-free. Accompanying the rotation of the record, a melodious string music emanated from the flower-shaped horn of the player above it.

The door to the room was open. Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao stood at the entrance; the former’s expression was one of utter shock, while the latter remained expressionless, though his finger was already on the trigger of the "Godslaying Spear," its black muzzle pointed at—

Pointed at another person in the room—a young woman with long, deep red hair and dressed in a punk-style leather jacket.

"Oh, what a coincidence, you’re here too?" Sun Hang greeted Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao, then looked at the red-haired woman, "Long red hair and the aura of a sinister meme on you, you must be the missing Hunter known as the ’Red-haired Witch,’ right? Pleasure to meet you!"

"Sun Hang! Be careful! She—" Although Jiang Yu couldn’t immediately comprehend why Sun Hang suddenly appeared in the room, she instinctively spoke to warn him.

But her warning seemed superfluous—after Sun Hang said "pleasure to meet you," "Lilith’s" head suddenly rotated 180 degrees, presenting the face that belonged to Wu Zhiyuan at the back of her head toward Sun Hang.

"Ha... you finally came." Lilith’s voice was indistinguishable between male and female.

"Damn, a genuine freakshow?" Sun Hang frowned.

Before setting off, he had reviewed the file on the Red-haired Witch, and given his level of access, the file he could see naturally contained more detailed information than those Jiang Yu could access...

This meant Sun Hang knew about Lilith’s past as a male.

"No!" Jiang Yu hurriedly shouted, "She... possessed by a sinister entity..."

Before Jiang Yu could finish her words, Lilith instantly teleported behind the sofa, with her fingertips forming sharp icy claws, thrusting at Sun Hang’s neck with lightning speed.

Sun Hang’s neck was immediately pierced by the ice claws. A crisp sound of a spine snapping ensued, and his unsupported head directly fell, hanging by a few strands of membrane, swaying back and forth on his chest.

"Ah!" Jiang Yu’s eyes widened immediately, her entire being frozen in shock.

Ling Xiao’s finger on the trigger exerted force as well—but he found that the trigger seemed to be jammed by something. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t pull it.

Looking down, Ling Xiao saw several pale mycelium threads seeping through the slot below the trigger, tightly coiling around the spring behind it.

"Holster your gun," Sun Hang’s voice came from behind.

Without any hesitation, Ling Xiao shoved his pistol back into its holster.

Jiang Yu turned her head sharply, seeing Sun Hang standing in the hallway, her eyes twitching: "You... who are you?!"

She seemed to recall something, turning her head back to the room, only to see the Sun Hang on the sofa had turned into a Fungus Puppet, and the severed head rolled under the coffee table like a ball of yarn.

"So, is this guy the BOSS of this layered inner world?" Sun Hang asked after a glance at Lilith behind the sofa—perhaps more accurately, Wu Zhiyuan—since it was still facing them with the face on the back of its head.

But it just stared, without making another attack.

"I also don’t know what happened. Once she entered this room, she just..." Jiang Yu’s words were cut off as Sun Hang’s right hand placed itself on her hindbrain.

Simultaneously, Sun Hang’s left hand set on the top of Ling Xiao’s head.

Almost at the same time, both of them felt a slight dizziness, but it dissipated in an instant, as if it were just a bodily illusion.

"Ah, so that’s how it is..." Sun Hang nodded, "That thing first occupied Wu Zhiyuan’s shell, then discovered he was just an ordinary person, insufficient in strength, and next targeted the Red-haired Witch, burrowing into her body... but the Red-haired Witch’s body needed time to adapt, and the consciousness and memories from the sinister entity needed time to fully merge with this new body... That’s why she teamed up with you guys..."

"Are you saying she was already controlled by the sinister entity back when we saved her?" Ling Xiao asked.

"More accurately, possessed," Sun Hang replied, "But at that time, the sinister entity’s memories hadn’t fully synchronized. Based on the original body’s memories, she continued seeing herself as Lilith... and just now, upon synchronization completion, naturally, she remembered what she actually was."