"Oh, is that so?" Sun Hang glanced at him, speaking nonchalantly.

"You really don't get it, kid..." The passerby lowered his voice, "Mr. Chen has someone in the Public Security Bureau... Does that make sense to you now?"

"Oh... Then it looks like it's time for a cleanup at the Yabei District Public Security Bureau."

Amid the passerby's astonished gaze, Sun Hang took large strides forward, easily pulling away those who were holding onto the strong man, then grabbing the big guy who was about to lunge at Mr. Chen, and said loudly, "What's going on, can someone explain to me?"

"You... and who might you be?" Mr. Chen squinted his eyes. He could tell this young man's strength wasn't small, suspecting he might be trained in martial arts— but no matter how well he could fight, he was only one person, while there were over a dozen on their side... As the saying goes, two fists are hard to fight four hands, let alone a dozen batons and that electric gun hidden in the scooter's trunk.

"Me?" Sun Hang looked Mr. Chen up and down. He could see the malice on the man forming into a shadow twice a man's height, slowly enveloping him. "I'm just an ordinary Hunter passing by."

"I don't care what you are... What, what? A Hunter?" Mr. Chen realized halfway through his sentence, "You... which kind of Hunter are you talking about?"

"I think I just heard you mention 'mysterious creature'... right?" Sun Hang showed a faintly mocking smile.

"He... he, he, he... he's talking nonsense!" Mr. Chen panicked immediately, pointing at the strong man.

"Is that so?" Sun Hang turned his head to look at the strong man.

"I, I'm not sure either..." As soon as the strong man heard Sun Hang claim to be a Hunter, his demeanor deflated instantly, "I just feel... my wife seemed a bit off after she came home..."

However, in those few seconds when Sun Hang turned his gaze from Mr. Chen, the panic on Mr. Chen's face disappeared for a moment. He made a discreet gesture to a nearby middle-aged vendor, who immediately got up and ran away.

"What's off? Tell me." Sun Hang released the strong man and asked.

"It's just... it's just... I can't really say..." The strong man looked troubled, "I just feel like she's turned into a different person..."

"Your wife cheated on you, you got cuckolded, and everyone knows you're upset. Now you've concocted this mysterious creature story, and when things get serious, you can't make any sense of it. Aren't you just shooting yourself in the foot?" Another person, who had been grabbing the strong man earlier, yelled beside him, "You just wanted to blackmail Mr. Chen for some money, anyone with half a brain can see that!"

In Sun Hang's blind spot, the middle-aged man who had left came back. Under his coat, he seemed to be hiding something, acting suspiciously—but what he didn't expect was that in the nearby drainage ditch, an eyeball attached to tendrils was staring fixedly at him.

"I'm not sure about the blackmail, but could the gentleman here take out the good stuff he's hiding under his clothes?" Sun Hang suddenly turned to look at the middle-aged man, who was only a few meters away.

"How... how did you see that?" The middle-aged man's expression changed instantly, backing up two steps, "What are you talking about? I... I don't understand!"

"Young man, are you really a Mysterious Creature Hunter?" Mr. Chen stood up and took a step forward, all traces of previous panic gone from his face, "I've been around, seen a lot, but why do I feel like you're not telling the truth?"

"Do I need to show you my license?" Sun Hang asked sincerely.

"License? Hmph, can you really produce one?" Mr. Chen sneered, "I've lived over 60 years, seen plenty of your kind bluffers—do you think you can fool me?"

"Here." Sun Hang took out his Hunter license from his pocket and tossed it over.

"Still being stubborn, do you know what crime it is to impersonate a Hunter and forge documents..." Mr. Chen stopped mid-sentence because he suddenly realized that the license this young man tossed over seemed... genuine...

Although Mr. Chen had never seen a real Mysterious Creature Hunter license, he recognized the official seal of the Celestial City Management Committee on it... This thing is hard to counterfeit, and if caught, would almost certainly lead to a lengthy prison term.

"You... are you really..." Mr. Chen instantly became submissive, "Heaven and earth as witnesses... I admit I did have a little something with his wife, but I guarantee, there's really no mysterious creature in my house! His wife was normal when she left my place!"

"Bullshit!" the strong man cursed immediately.

"Take me to your house," Sun Hang said to the strong man, then turned to Mr. Chen, "You come along too."

...

...

The strong man's name was Xu Dasheng, and before the arrival of Eternal Night, he worked as a security guard... Despite his fierce appearance, talking to him for a while would reveal that he's a truly honest person, one of those single-minded honest types.

Unfortunately, his wife wasn't as honest...

According to Mr. Chen's confession, Xu Dasheng's wife was involved with quite a few people in the market—being in her thirties, her looks and figure were still passable, and being fairly priced, she was like "heaven-sent rain" to those old bachelors who couldn't afford a wife... Especially in this special period, they didn't even need to save money, just skip a meal or two, scrape a bit from their allocated supplies, and they could...