Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 585 - 141: Savage Fusion (Part 2)

"Survival by breaking the tail?" Wang Xiyi immediately thought of a creature called the gecko.

Clearly, the entire octopus creature was just an expendable "tail" for the octopus person.

This "fusion" seems to be reversible; it can separate from the creature at any time...though it's unclear if there's a cost to this merging and separation.

A sound of propellers approached from a distance, and Wang Xiyi looked up. A drone bearing the emblem of the Celestial City Mysterious Creature Research Institute finally arrived and hovered directly above the sinkhole.

A package was dropped down by the drone. Wang Xiyi picked it up, finding inside a set of brand new communication equipment and a metal box stored in an ice bag. She opened the box and saw six disposable syringes neatly lined up, each filled with a pale beige clear liquid.

Without hesitation, Wang Xiyi immediately took out a syringe, stuck the needle into her shoulder, and crushed the rubber-wrapped glass bulb at the rear of the syringe.

The compressed air inside the glass bulb instantly pushed the piston, injecting the pale beige clear liquid entirely into Wang Xiyi's muscle tissue.

"Ah...comforting."

Wang Xiyi sighed in relief as a warm current spread from her shoulder throughout her body, alleviating the difficult-to-bear hunger from her stomach, and her fatigued body gradually returned to normal.

"Type 09 Emergency Recovery Agent," Wang Xiyi muttered to herself.

It's good stuff, but should not be overused. The side effects after the drug wears off are equally "sharp."

Wang Xiyi reluctantly glanced at the remaining five disposable syringes in the box, closed it, and tucked it back into the ice bag.

Then she picked up the communication equipment and inserted the earphones into her ears.

"Sorry, the supply reinforcements were delayed!" Yang Qi said on the other end of the earphones.

"It's fine; actually, even without reinforcements, it's not a big deal." Wang Xiyi surveyed her surroundings, pressed her smooth stomach, and gently circled near her belly button with her fingers closely against the skin, "It's just that I'm starving, almost feels like my stomach's hollowed out."

"Target creature...has it been eliminated?" Yang Qi asked, "The drone footage shows a giant creature's carcass. Judging by its shape, it seems the creature's prototype was an octopus..."

"No, it escaped." Wang Xiyi shook her head regretfully, "Did you see that hole on the octopus's head? There was supposed to be someone there."

"Someone?" Yang Qi's tone immediately changed, "You mean someone was controlling this creature?"

"Not controlling, but merging." Wang Xiyi corrected, "That person and the octopus creature became one. His lower body was directly embedded into the octopus creature's head, with only his upper body exposed outside."

"A human and creature fusion experiment?!" Yang Qi couldn't help but gasp.

Dubhe Tower conducted many "artificial Hunter" projects, all invariably extracting the creature's meme and implanting it into the human body, allowing humans to infect the meme to gain creature meme powers...

But something like this, using extremely "simple and crude" methods to stitch human and creature bodies together, even those madmen at Dubhe Tower might call them "lunatics!!"

"Yes, that guy even tried to negotiate with me, wanting me to join them," Wang Xiyi recalled, "It said not to let memes infect humans, but humans should 'infect' creatures, making humans the leaders...it rambled on a lot, but that's basically the gist."

"You mean...after merging with the creature, it still retained clear self-awareness and thinking ability?" Yang Qi gasped again.

"Hiss..." A sour feeling suddenly came from the gap between her molars.

"Exactly."

"Give me the notebook." Yang Qi turned to Song Yarong standing by.

The latter immediately handed Yang Qi an idle laptop from the side.

Yang Qi's fingers rapidly danced across the keyboard, inputting a series of keywords, then pressed the enter key.

A pile of data instantly popped up on the browsing page.

This was Dubhe Tower's internal database, using Sun Hang's access key, meaning she could access all files stored by the Xiazhou Federation, except for those only accessible by Pei Zongjun's level.

However, even so, the search results yielded only sixteen pages.

Yang Qi casually opened the top-ranked file.

This file was a research report from a tripartite scientific team from the Hezhong States, Siberian Federation, and Xiazhou Federation on an indigenous tribe from a Pacific island.

At that time, the first creature war had just begun, and humans understood far less about creatures than they do now.

Like any coastal country worldwide, the island's indigenous people were similarly attacked by aquatic creatures emerging from the ocean—during the initial attacks, this island's population of over ten thousand was reduced to less than seven hundred within a week.

However, these remaining seven hundred people persisted for a whole three months until discovered by a passing Xiazhou Federation air force pilot.

These indigenous people sought power to resist the creatures by dissecting slain creatures and forcibly "transplanting" the disassembled creature organs into their bodies.

The most common "transplant surgery" was blood transfusion—they used hollow plant stems as needles to inject aquatic creature blood into their veins.

This blood transfusion created many infectees, most of whom died. Of those remaining, excluding those who became creatures or creature carcasses, only three stabilized into infectees similar to Hunters.

Subsequently, this group's courage grew bolder; they slit their throats, attached fish creature gills to the cuts, sprinkled ash, and wrapped the gill in leaves...

Others replaced their eyes with creature's orbs, swapped their limbs with creature tentacles and appendages, removed dying warriors' viscera to replace with creature organs...

These indigenous people lacked basic medical hygiene awareness, conducting surgeries without strict sterilization procedures...they weren't aware of human internal structures, couldn't name or explain human organ functions...

Yet, in such primitive conditions tantamount to "barbarism," these indigenous people's "transplant surgeries" had a higher success rate than those of artificial infectee experiments in top laboratories of the Hezhong States!

The crucial point was that these indigenous people who transplanted creature organs still retained human self-awareness! 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Though their appearance almost resembled creatures, when the three political entities' advance teams landed, they did not directly attack the teams but rather sent the only English-speaking tribesman to ask about their intentions.

The island's discovery shocked the academic circles at the time...however, despite the shock, artificial infectee research had already made significant breakthroughs, and almost no country was willing to abandon existing research results to study such primitive, crude, scientifically defiant, and morally questionable "human-creature fusion experiments."

The research report on this island and its indigenous people was subsequently sealed away by the research institutions of the three political entities.

As for these indigenous people, they were unwilling to leave their island and refused to cooperate with the three political entities. With the war situation gradually worsening, the routes to the island were cut off, and the sea was designated as a Surrendered Area.

No one knows their ultimate fate.