Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 473 - 83: Crimson Spore_2

"Failure to devour? That shouldn't be possible, right?" Sun Hang raised his right hand, and several slender filaments emerged from his fingertips—unlike the pale filaments of the fungus, these were crimson, gently pulsating as powdery spores drifted from them.

"Is that... crimson spores?" Yuri's eyes widened unconsciously, "But why isn't there any change in the meme? Logically, if you devoured other eerie entities... the meme fragments of the devoured should embed into yours..."

"You'll have to ask Mr. Pei about that," Sun Hang said. "I'm just responsible for fighting. Research isn't in my purview. Don't expect me to explain it all..."

"No, this isn't right..." Yuri shook his head repeatedly, "This doesn't align with the known information. If the equipment hasn't malfunctioned, then our understanding of these eerie phenomena might need significant revision..."

Suddenly, Yuri seemed to recall something and turned to his subordinates, asking, "Have the comparisons of meme changes before and after Sun Hang devoured the Kylin Bone Marrow and the Beta 423 been completed?"

When devouring the Kylin Bone Marrow, the entire containment room was destroyed, leaving no monitoring equipment intact; attention during the devouring of Beta 423 was focused on the manifest life force, leading to little observation of Sun Hang's meme changes... This anomaly wasn't realized until now, upon directly comparing Sun Hang's meme before and after devouring the crimson spores.

"The results are out." A researcher replied, "There's no change, just the same."

"Could this be part of the Taotie's characteristics?" Yuri fell into deep self-doubt.

"I think the probability of equipment malfunction is higher." Sun Hang was already out of the containment room when he spoke, promptly surrounded by several logistics personnel in Michelin tire gear, who swept him from head to toe with a suite of beeping instruments.

"Simple comparisons won't uncover the key issue. If possible, I'd like you to stay a few more days. I want to conduct an in-depth analysis of the Taotie meme..." Before Yuri could finish, his phone suddenly rang.

"Forbidden analysis of Sun Hang's meme."

Sender: Pei Zongjun.

"This..." Yuri stood frozen in place.

Why... why would Mr. Pei forbid the in-depth analysis of the Taotie meme?

Could there be some kind of taboo involved?

But... just an analysis wouldn't have any adverse effects on Sun Hang himself. Why would Mr. Pei stop him?

Or perhaps the secret is something he's not qualified to know?

If he's not qualified, then in the entire Dubhe Tower, or the entire Xiazhou Federation... how many people would be?

Counting on his fingers, Yuri figured it wouldn't exceed twenty.

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Chunming City, Taiwei Palace, Dubhe Tower exclusive airport, No. 1 lift platform.

A light gray streamlined high-speed transport was already secured at the runway's end, and boarding alongside Sun Hang was a newly registered ability-user and eerie item suitable candidate, Ling Xiao, and a girl in a pilot jacket, wearing a duckbill cap with a deeply pressed brim.

"'Tang Jing'? A secondary mechanic in the logistics department of Chunming City Investigation Bureau? Volunteering to support Shuzhou's Celestial City Anomaly Investigation Bureau?" Sun Hang glanced at her, "Did I say anything wrong?"

"I don't like that fake name." 'Tang Jing' said, "You should know my real name, right?"

"Yes, Shinkata Misaki." Sun Hang nodded, "But you can't use that real name, nor let anyone other than me know your true identity... As for the reason, Sun Qiong should have told you."

"What about him?" Shinkata Misaki pointed to Ling Xiao, sitting aside, "Is he not human?"

"He won't leak secrets." Sun Hang said, "I trust him more than I trust myself."

"So he's your confidant then?" Shinkata Misaki looked Ling Xiao up and down, "Is he the person who resolved the eerie entity that invaded Building 3 that day?"

"Yes." Sun Hang nodded.

"He doesn't look special..." Shinkata Misaki raised an eyebrow slightly, "Lots of weaknesses..."

To prevent identity exposure, she didn't wear her usual eye patch, opting for custom-made contact lenses to cover her unique "Eye of Death"—though blue light vaguely emanated from her right eye under the lenses when she used her ability.

"Oh? What weaknesses?" Sun Hang rested an arm on the seatback, his whole body leaning sideways, and asked with interest.

"Head, spine, right arm..." Shinkata Misaki stated.

"What about now?" Sun Hang pressed the seat belt lock on Ling Xiao's seat and the previously tight seat belt instantaneously retracted into the seat.

"Seems the seat belt was limiting his mobility." Sun Hang chuckled.

"Yet, even so, his weaknesses are far more than those of any Hunter I've seen." Shinkata Misaki said, "His age should be close to mine, right? For someone like him, going to battle will result in death."

"But what's different about him is, he's been an external field agent only a bit over a month." Sun Hang said, "And to my knowledge, you've worked for Dubhe Tower for many years." 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"You knew him before?" Shinkata Misaki furrowed her brow.

"No, I've only known him for a month or so."

"And you trust him that much?" Shinkata Misaki's brow furrowed deeper, "You Xiazhou people have a saying, 'Knowing a person's face doesn't mean knowing their heart,' many people spend a lifetime but fail to fully grasp the other; you've known him for just over a month, how can you..."

"Can I consider this as trying to sow discord?" Sun Hang asked in a semi-joking tone.

"Suit yourself, I just feel that you want me to strictly conceal my identity, and restrict my freedom of movement... while casually exposing my identity to a newbie who's been here only a month... Is this not somewhat double standard?" Shinkata Misaki said defiantly.

"If you think so, then so be it." Sun Hang shrugged indifferently, "People are inherently double standards animals."

"I like that saying." Shinkata Misaki didn't refute, somewhat surprising Sun Hang.

"By the way, since you can see the weaknesses in infected or eerie entities, can you see any weaknesses on me?" Sun Hang asked.

"I can't see." Shinkata Misaki replied.

"Is it that you can't see or won't see?"

"I can't see any weaknesses on you, I don't know if they're absent or if my ability isn't effective against you." Shinkata Misaki said, "This situation has happened before, with one special eerie entity."

"Special eerie entity? Which one?"

"I don't know its serial number or codename; I only know one characteristic of it." Shinkata Misaki put her hands in her pockets and crossed her legs, "It 'cannot be observed'."

"But clearly, I'm 'observable'... You all can see me." Sun Hang laughed, "So I really don't have weaknesses? I'm perfect? I'm impeccable? I'm invincible? Can I understand it this way?"

"Weaknesses pertain to individual strength... If the disparity in power is vast, weaknesses become meaningless." Shinkata Misaki said, "If an egg's shell has uniform strength all around, it seems to have no weaknesses to me... But when faced with a hydraulic press exerting tens of thousands of tons of pressure, what use is an egg without weaknesses?"

"Certainly useful." Sun Hang immediately said, "You can fry it sunny-side up, or make fried rice too!"