Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 525 - 109: "Regarded as Nonexistent" (Part 2)

Chapter 525: Chapter 109: "Regarded as Nonexistent" (Part 2)

"He’s clever, he figured out the relationship between the videotape and the entity in the control room, but he got the method wrong. He smashed the TV instead of the videotape... Oh, it’s possible he misunderstood, thinking the TV was the entity, not the videotape... After all, a TV that can play without being plugged in looks much more like an entity than an ordinary videotape."

Of course, more importantly, that scavenger is a non-infected person, unable to sense the aura emitted by the entity.

"After smashing the TV, he tried to escape, but unfortunately, he didn’t expect that even after the TV screen was smashed open, the movie could still play... While he was escaping, the movie once again reached that ’special node’, and the suddenly appearing entity attacked him, killed him, and dragged him into the underground control room."

"Then... will that entity now... also attack us?" The scavenger’s voice was noticeably trembling.

"It will, but not so suddenly," Sun Hang said. "As long as the movie remains paused, that entity stays in the ’existing’ state... At least it won’t suddenly appear out of nowhere behind you."

When the word ’behind’ was mentioned, the scavenger instinctively turned her head to look behind her.

"Ah!!"

An extremely terrifying face scared her so much that she dropped to the ground instantly.

"Don’t worry... look closely, it’s just a movie poster," Sun Hang looked at her, somewhat speechlessly.

Behind the scavenger was a cultural wall covered with various old movie posters, including a horror movie poster dominated by a hideous face, which occupied more than eighty percent of the frame—just at the moment the scavenger turned, she happened to lock eyes with this ’face’.

"Whew... whew..." The scavenger took deep breaths, her heart pounding. She carefully glanced at the horror movie poster again and awkwardly got up from the ground.

"I’ll give you three choices," Sun Hang said. "First choice, go with me to the underground control room, and I’ll deal with the entity; second choice, stay here and watch the TV and the videotape for me. If it starts playing automatically, rewind or fast-forward to the ’timeline reset’ node, then hit pause; third choice, leave here and go to the surface."

"I choose the third one..."

"Oh, I forgot to tell you," Sun Hang walked out of the audio-visual store and looked back at her, "That previous person seemed to have been killed during his escape... I can’t guarantee that when I head to the underground control room, the entity won’t bypass me..."

"I’ll go with you! I’ll go to the control room with you!" The scavenger seemed to make a decision, gripping the fire axe tightly in her hand, "I’ll choose the first one!"

"Alright then... let’s go."

The reason Sun Hang forced the scavenger to go with him was that, apart from planning to use her as bait in a critical moment, the most crucial point was that he wasn’t sure if the entity’s triggering conditions were really that simple.

What if, besides the movie needing to be at the ’timeline reset’ special node, it also required the presence of a non-infected person?

The rules of rule-based entities are bizarre, and conventional logic cannot be used to think about their rules... To ensure nothing goes wrong, the best way is to keep all variables from changing as much as possible.

If he lets this scavenger go, and upon reaching the underground control room finds the entity has ’disappeared’, Sun Hang certainly can’t go outside and bring another ordinary person in to satisfy the entity’s rules, right?

What if... what if the rule-based entity’s rules require not only a non-infected person but also a non-infected scavenger?

The probability is low but not zero.

Facing rule-based entities, one must think in the most absurd and outrageous way.

...

The two of them arrived at the stairs leading to the underground control room, and at this point, the scavenger’s face had turned pale—besides the aura of the entity that only Sun Hang could ’smell’, there was now a strong smell of blood emanating from the underground control room... as if it had become a sea of corpses...

The scavenger initially wanted to ask why she was also called to deal with the entity, but she quickly realized one thing—the hunter had given her the option to leave, but thinking of the other scavenger who was killed, her feet refused to move.

Perhaps staying with this hunter is the safest choice?

"Give me your crossbow," Sun Hang extended his hand toward the scavenger.

Though somewhat puzzled, the scavenger obediently handed over the handmade crossbow to Sun Hang.

The structure of this crossbow was very simple, just two crossed wooden sticks nailed together, with a small iron hook at the end of the vertical stick to catch the drawn bowstring. The horizontal stick was the crossbow limb, with elastic bands used as the bowstring fixed at both ends.

This thing was so simple it didn’t even have a trigger... to fire, the user had to manually rotate the small iron hook to release the bowstring.

Sun Hang modified the crossbow using liquid metal, strengthening all the connections on the crossbow body and optimizing its firing structure. He also used liquid metal to create a dozen bolts and handed the modified crossbow back to the scavenger.

"Try it out, see if it works?" Sun Hang said.

Although the scavenger still wore a surprising expression, her hands did not slow down, quickly finishing the loading action and shooting a liquid metal bolt.

The bolt sank instantly into the wall, and the next second, it began to expand... accompanied by a "boom," a basketball-sized hole exploded in the solid concrete wall!

"Huh?" The scavenger was herself shocked by the destructive power of the bolt, "How... how does it explode?"

"You don’t need to worry about that," Sun Hang said. "You just need to aim properly... Make sure you don’t shoot me."

"No... I won’t!" The scavenger shook her head vigorously, "Earlier, I really, really wasn’t intentional!"

"That’s best."

With that, Sun Hang started walking down the stairs.

With a "bang," Sun Hang kicked open the control room’s door, and the scavenger standing diagonally behind him immediately raised the crossbow.

The military-grade flashlight Sun Hang gave her was also fixed beneath the crossbow, illuminating the control room like daylight!

The machines that had stopped operating due to the power outage were now buzzing, indicators of various colors blinking wildly... and the surfaces of these devices were covered with irregular biological tissue, resembling pulverized meat enclosing them.

The cables that occupied the entire floor and seemed capable of tripping someone had disappeared, replaced by wriggling meat tubes, and Sun Hang could even see substances flowing through them from one machine to another.

"What is this entity?" Sun Hang instinctively thought of the biochemical armor Song Yarong was developing... the thing before him seemed like a type of biomechanical entity?

Just unsure whether to classify it as ’Type C (animal)’ or ’Type F (object)’...

But such matters should be left to the experts to worry about... Sun Hang’s job was simply to destroy it.

Just then, the scavenger behind Sun Hang suddenly exclaimed, "I... I see him! That person!"