Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 504 - 99: Desire and Case Studies

Is this considered a different kind of "wishful thinking"?

Sun Hang walked out of the apartment building and squatted at the entrance of the residential area for a while before he took out his phone and called Pei Zongjun.

"Hey, Mr. Pei, regarding the issue of emotions and malicious thoughts inducing ordinary people to transform into monstrous entities, do you have any actual cases? Send some over to me."

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Five minutes later, an email marked with "Top Secret" was sent to Sun Hang's phone.

As soon as Sun Hang opened the email, a thirty-minute countdown timer popped up in the upper-right corner of the screen, and its eye-catching bright red font made it hard to ignore.

This was a "read and burn" email, unable to be saved or forwarded, and all data would be deleted once the countdown ended.

"Really got too much time on their hands…" Sun Hang commented casually.

The confidentiality effect of this thing was better than nothing. Anyone with permission to read this level of secrecy would surely delete it after reading, not needing it to self-destruct... As for leak prevention, simply prohibiting saving, forwarding, and editing was useless...

One could just take a photo of the screen or jot it down with pen and paper... there were too many ways to preserve its contents; not to mention that even the surveillance cameras at the residential entrance could clearly capture what was on Sun Hang's phone screen.

The only real purpose of this thing was probably to inconvenience people... If someone with a slow reading speed or a tendency to think while reading encountered the self-destruct program and hadn't finished reading, it would be quite laughable...

Sun Hang walked into a blind spot of a surveillance camera and scrolled down the email content.

The first case sent by Pei Zongjun took place in Shen City Prison, involving a forty-four-year-old inmate.

This man was guilty of child trafficking, during which, due to his mishandling, two young boys died... Since he wasn't the ringleader, he wasn't sentenced to death but received life imprisonment.

He was originally going to be sent to serve his sentence in a harsh, remote area on the northwest border, but fortunately, one of his wealthy younger brothers spent a lot of money to pull strings, eventually getting him sent to the relatively well-equipped Shen City Prison.

However, his younger brother probably never imagined that after spending so much money, his brother not only failed to live comfortably in prison but was frequently beaten and bullied by other inmates, with even the prison staff turning a blind eye...

The reason was simple, Shen City Prison's conditions were better, and information wasn't as closed off as in those desolate places. Prisoners there not only could read newspapers and watch TV but even had designated times every week to go online... Plus, many inmates had backgrounds, and news spread quickly, so most people in the prison knew what he had done from his first day there.

Many of the inmates were parents themselves, so someone convicted of child trafficking was considered at the bottom of the prison's despise chain... Things like having filth in his meals or cockroaches in his bedding were common, and sometimes he'd get beaten when the guards weren't watching — the inmates beating him were seasoned, always wrapping him in a quilt before hitting, so the bruises wouldn't be obvious, and they wouldn't have to hold back...

He also tried to report to the prison staff, but each report was like a stone sinking into the sea, only resulting in harsher retaliation each time.

No one sympathized with him; even the prison staff looked at him with a hint of disgust in their eyes.

In the fourth month of his imprisonment, several strong inmates, claiming to be full of a sense of justice, cornered him in the bathroom of the reading room and gave him a severe beating — they went a bit too far this time, and by the time the prison staff arrived, the situation was almost out of control... The reason was simple: he couldn't take it anymore after months of enduring, and when they slapped him, he fought back, resulting in him being surrounded and beaten nearly to death.

When he was sent to the hospital, the prison couldn't ignore it as they had before — all the inmates involved in the assault were given major demerits and thrown into solitary confinement, and the ringleader had his sentence extended by a year and a half.

He stayed in the hospital for two months, and after his injuries healed, he was sent back to Shen City Prison... But less than a week after he returned, something happened again.

The prison cleaner, while cleaning, accidentally discovered a dagger hidden in the gap of his bed board — though it was called a dagger, it was just two rusted iron pieces, each the size of a palm, with sharpened edges, and during the tussle, he injured the cleaner with them before the guards who heard the commotion pinned him to the ground.

He confessed to hiding dangerous items but refused to explain his motive — of course, even if he didn't speak, everyone could guess it was, in essence, two words: revenge.

He was thrown into solitary confinement, and his cell was moved to another building, separate from those who had assaulted him… But that night, the real unexpected event occurred.

For the survivors of this incident, it was undoubtedly a day they didn't want to recall.

A blood-drenched humanoid apparition with both arms transformed into metallic blades went on a killing spree inside the prison. The guards' non-lethal weapons couldn't hinder its actions, and by the time the guards were authorized to use lethal weapons, nine prison staff and fourteen inmates had been killed by this apparition.