Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 449 - 69: "Regurgitation"_2

Oh... not even a second later, the constantly multiplying bizarre lumps of flesh had already cracked the TV screen. They squeezed out like minced meat from a sieve, frantically emerging from the screen's gaps.

"Quick! Initiate emergency procedures!" Without waiting for Yuri's command, the security team's members immediately surged forward, pulling out their liquid nitrogen sprayers they carried with them and directly spraying the nearly -200 degrees Celsius liquid nitrogen onto the minced meat emerging from the screen.

The spread of the minced meat was instantly halted, but before everyone could catch their breath, a tentacle suddenly shot out from the minced meat, quickly wrapping around a security team member's ankle, pulling him to the ground and swiftly dragging him towards the TV!

"Reproduction requires nourishment, and nourishment is obtained through predation." Sun Hang said blandly, "Look, this unlucky guy is considered prey by them."

The remaining security team members had no time to listen to what Sun Hang was saying. Two of them, who were closer, instantly darted forward. One grabbed the arms of the team member being dragged away, while the other aimed the liquid nitrogen sprayer at the middle of the tentacle, frantically spraying out the liquid nitrogen from the canister.

The tentacle quickly froze, and the security team member discarded the now-empty liquid nitrogen canister, drawing a hand axe from his waist and directly chopping down on the frozen tentacle!

The tentacle shattered on impact, splattering icy shards covered in bits of flesh in all directions. The preyed-upon security team member, with the help of his colleagues, struggled to free himself from the tentacle wrapped around his ankle and stood up with some difficulty.

"Are you injured?" the security team leader asked.

"This is not the time to worry about injuries." Sun Hang said with a shrug, "To save just one person, you've pushed the situation to a more severe level..."

"A more severe level?!" Yuri immediately responded and looked at the ice shards scattered everywhere.

"I just said, don't treat this thing as a complete 'organism', but as an 'aggregate' of countless cell-sized organisms..."

Before Sun Hang could finish, the bits of meat within the ice shards had started wriggling on their own, crawling towards the person closest to them.

"Level one alert! The anomalous entity has diffusion properties! The containment area is already subject to secondary contamination!" The security team leader's eyes widened, shouting loudly, "Seal all entry and exit channels and ventilation ports immediately, conduct thorough extermination operations! Indiscriminate elimination methods can be used if necessary!"

This "indiscriminate elimination method" referred to the possibility of also eliminating those within the containment area who had not yet been infected by the anomalous entity—after all, if the entity couldn't be dealt with, those left in the sealed area couldn't escape the fate of infection either.

By saying this, he had effectively sentenced everyone in the living room to death.

"Your resolve is quite admirable." Sun Hang nodded privately, then countless hyphae shot out from his body—roughly half of them headed straight for the TV screen, while the rest targeted the minced meat, severed tentacles, and bits of shredded meat that had already emerged from the screen.

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...

Five minutes later, having retracted all the hyphae, Sun Hang stood up from the tattered sofa, walked to the now-empty shell of the TV, and prodded the fragmented electronic components inside with his finger.

"The... the containment object... the reaction of the containment object has disappeared..." The security team leader looked at his terminal in disbelief. "Commander... just now... the unknown containment object number 999... is gone..."

"I know... I'm not blind, dammit." Yuri glanced at this subordinate, let out a long sigh, and turned to look at Sun Hang.

"Is this Taotie's ability?"

"Not just Taotie." Sun Hang tossed the components, now completely beyond repair, back into the shredded plastic shell, stood up, and clapped his hands. "But mainly relying on Taotie."

"Have you completely devoured the containment object?" Yuri asked again, not even realizing that in his extreme shock, he had forgotten to use respectful language.

"Swallowed, yes, but it will take time to digest slowly." Sun Hang nodded, "This thing holds a lot of information, so I need to chew it over slowly... Have you heard of a cow's 'rumination'?"

Yuri numbly nodded his head.

"I just put them into my 'stomach' first, taking them out to chew again from time to time... Although it sounds a bit gross, it's indeed the safest way to handle them," Sun Hang said. "The thing contains memory fragments enough to piece together the complete lives of tens of thousands of people. If these memory fragments were to flood into my mind all at once, I fear I wouldn't even remember who I am."

"This indeed requires caution... Can you now determine the characteristics and abilities of this anomalous entity?"

"I can't determine that, completely digesting this thing will probably take months, I suggest coming back in a few months to ask me," Sun Hang said.

He was not lying; the memetic content of the anomalous TV held the largest amount of information of any anomalous entity Sun Hang had ever devoured. He even suspected that adding up the memetic information of all the residents of Maoyun Town wouldn't match this TV set.

Even though Taotie's ability could fully digest and assimilate these memes within ten minutes... whether Sun Hang would remain the same Sun Hang after digestion is another question.

Under the onslaught of massive information flows, maintaining self-awareness is an arduous task—this phenomenon is akin to a small boat rolling in turbulent waves; one minor mishap would mean being torn apart by the surging undercurrents, leaving not even a trace.

"Alright... okay." Yuri swallowed with some difficulty, "I need to document this matter, and the containment area of number 999 will need to be cleaned to ensure... uh, do you have any plans now? I personally suggest that you undergo a comprehensive health check, including changes in your self-meme frequency... Even though you don't seem affected, anomalies on the meme level may not manifest physically..."

"The health check can wait." Sun Hang said, "My schedule is tight, continue to lead me to see the other anomalous entities."

"Huh?" Yuri was stunned, "What did you say?!"

"I said take me to see the other anomalous entities," Sun Hang repeated. "The situation in Tianfu City is very tense, not many days left until Chimera 17's hatching is complete, I came to absorb anomalous entities to quickly boost my combat power... The problem is, its abilities can't be immediately used by me... By the time I've finished digesting after a few months, Chimera 17 might have already devoured the whole of Tianfu City... Wouldn't that mean I came in vain?"

"But you just absorbed this anomalous entity, you also mentioned needing several months to digest it... If you were to devour another anomalous entity in this timeframe..."

"That one is in a different 'stomach'." Sun Hang chuckled, "Cows have four stomachs, how could a devourer like Taotie not have multiple stomachs? I don't stuff every anomalous entity I consume into one 'stomach', it won't be a problem. Also, those easily digestible anomalous entities, I can immediately fuse with their abilities after devouring them, not even needing to use 'stomach space' to store them... I've said this much, get moving and show me some more good stuff!"

"... You had previously selected two anomalous entities, namely C7 'Kui Niu Bones' and E423 'Lucas', perhaps you should choose between them?"

"Choose between them?" Sun Hang was puzzled, "Did you misunderstand something? That list is not for choosing, I mean, I want them all."