CHAPTER 38: CHAPTER 38: ANOTHER FREQUENCY

One cut, two cuts, three cuts...

The proliferation speed of the "rotten flesh" on the surface of the creature gradually couldn’t keep up with the speed at which the Alien Blade peeled it away. Sun Hang was like a chef handling ingredients, skillfully cutting away inedible parts, separating bone and flesh, removing the fascia, carving out the decayed and spoiled areas...

The creature began to emit a sharp wail... Although Sun Hang wasn’t sure if that sound, like glass shards scraping against a blackboard, was indeed its wail, it was no longer important.

More and more limbs burst out from the ground, but these new ones had nothing human about them. They were more like tumors growing randomly... and their purpose was no longer to attack, but solely to block the continually swinging Alien Blade.

After Sun Hang severed the fourteenth proliferating limb, the core of the "creature" finally appeared fully before him—a massive mass of flesh over fifteen meters in diameter, its surface sprouting tumor-like growths, countless malformed limbs wrapped in translucent sacs, like embryonic creatures... The immature limbs that had just burst out to block the attack were products of "forced maturation" of these things.

Supported by these limbs, the creature started to move in a direction away from Sun Hang... It had realized that killing Sun Hang was impossible, and its only option was to flee.

But in the next second, the terrifying "humanoid monster" had already caught up, and the fifteen-meter-long Alien Blade severed all the limbs the creature used to support itself, then pierced straight through its core, pinning it firmly to the ground.

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By the time the Investigation Bureau’s convoy arrived at the scene, the "creature" was already nothing but a shell of "rotten flesh" and "dead skin", with its deformed white shell shattered and scattered on the ground. The deep pit over a dozen meters deep amidst the ruins was filled with the stench of bloody water, a ghastly giant arm stretched straight to the sky, with more than half of the dozens of "fingers" extending from its palm cut off, the remaining ones curled up like the legs of a dead spider.

Several investigators charged into the scene, escorted by fully armed sheriffs, only to see a disheveled young man, looking like a beggar, squatting under a broken wall, nonchalantly picking his teeth with his pinky nail.

"0420? How did you end up here?!" A familiar voice rang out from within the group of investigators.

Sun Hang turned his head, seeing the stern-faced, pretty woman waving her hand.

Yang Lian quickly walked over, scrutinizing Sun Hang with furrowed brows, about to speak, but Sun Hang got ahead of her.

"I remember you said you weren’t an investigator? Why is the administrative staff now on the front line?" Sun Hang teased.

"Nearly half of the Investigation Bureau’s management disappeared in the City South Cemetery incident, almost all remaining investigators were dispatched for the rescue mission, we’re really short of hands right now," Yang Lian explained with a stern face. "But what about you, why weren’t you at the City South Cemetery and ended up here? And what exactly happened here?"

"Your sister got me a special leave, any objections?" Sun Hang shrugged, "Just a little accident happened."

"Accident?"

"During my leave, I conveniently solved a cult organization worshipping and rearing a mysterious creature for you, and while at it, got rid of the big guy they had... By the way, does this count as overtime work? Is there any overtime pay?" Sun Hang said, pointing to the chaos behind him in the ruins.

"Cult organization? Rearing mysterious creatures?" A trace of shock flashed in Yang Lian’s eyes, "What exactly is going on here?"

"The way you’re talking, it’s like a sheriff interrogating a criminal suspect," Sun Hang commented. "Do you know the two biggest differences between you and your sister?"

"What?" Yang Lian asked instinctively.

"First, your sister’s way of talking is more like a normal person, while you always make it feel like others owe you a lot of money... Don’t look at me with that expression, even if I did owe a lot of money before, my creditor was the Xiazhou Federation, not you."

"Then... what’s the other difference?" Yang Lian gritted her teeth, squeezing out the words.

"Your chest isn’t as big as your sister’s."

"..." Yang Lian glared at Sun Hang, her chest heaving several times before she said, "Can I consider this sexual harassment?"

"Say whatever you want, my work is already over, the rest of the cleanup job is up to you guys."

After satisfying himself with a war of words, Sun Hang yawned contentedly and stood up intending to leave.

But at that moment, a sentence from behind halted his steps.

Several researchers from the Mysterious Creature Research Institute had also arrived at the scene with the investigators. While Sun Hang and Yang Lian were talking, they had already entered the ruins, wearing protective suits and carrying professional equipment, checking the "creature" remains left on site—when Sun Hang was about to leave, a researcher holding a device resembling a Geiger counter suddenly said: "Detected a special reaction of a mysterious creature! There’s still a living mysterious creature on site! Everyone be on high alert!"

"A living mysterious creature?" Sun Hang was slightly stunned, returning quickly, "The special reaction you detected, it’s not me, is it?"

Sun Hang remembered very clearly, the core of the "creature" had been completely devoured by him, every bit of the "edible" part was gone... And after finishing, he hadn’t felt the presence of "food" again, logically speaking there shouldn’t be any living mysterious creature on site.

"No, it’s not you." The researcher shook his head. "For any officially registered Mysterious Creature Hunter, their related data is documented, besides you, I detected another frequency of special reaction!"

Hearing this, the investigators and sheriffs immediately became nervous.

Detecting an unknown mysterious creature’s special reaction in a densely populated urban area... is no joking matter.

"Are you sure the machine isn’t malfunctioning?" Sun Hang asked again, "Uh... could what you detected be something left over from the mysterious creature I just took down?"

"No... This equipment is actually designed to detect the ’meme frequency’ of mysterious creatures... Although the ’meme’ inside you has also undergone some changes, the main frequency still corresponds to the documented data. As for the eliminated mysterious creatures, their ’meme’ cannot be detected."

"Could it be that the previous mysterious creature wasn’t completely dead?" Sun Hang looked at the pit not far away, "Does this guy possibly have a part hidden underground?"

"No, the previous mysterious creature was indeed eliminated by you. This can be confirmed through inspecting the remaining shell." Another researcher said, "The different frequency detected, it should be an entirely new mysterious creature."

Apart from the "creature", is there a second mysterious creature hidden in this residential area?

"It’s very close..." the researcher holding the detecting equipment muttered, "less than twenty meters away from us."