Hunter of Mysterious Creature

"Caught the target's location!"

"Where is it?"

"Still at G57 Airport... No, that's not right, he's falling, very quickly! He's already passed through Taiwei Palace and entered Ziwei Palace!"

"Falling? Did he jump off the airport? Immediately pull up the nearby surveillance images, can we capture him?"

"The nearby surveillance cameras... all malfunctioned, is this... is this his ability?" The initial voice exclaimed, "The window time for location is only ten seconds, we're about to lose his coordinates!"

"Give me the list of Hunters on standby near G57 Airport..."

"Team leader... There are no Hunters on standby near G57 Airport, only two special forces squads and an elite group from the Investigation Bureau."

"Who's responsible for personnel arrangement? How could there be no Hunters?"

"Team leader... you set that yourself, according to the original plan, the difficulty of this trial should be incremental... if we eliminate everyone right away..."

"Damn, it's all these useless people's fault, they didn't deploy any Hunters, and they've already been eliminated down to just one person." The voice referred to as 'team leader' expertly shrugged off responsibility, "Who's the closest Hunter to G57 Airport?"

"As for Hunters, the closest is 'Candle Dragon,' he's on vacation at home, about nine kilometers from G57 Airport, if we rush..." another voice said, "Wait, the 'Puppet Master' is even closer, she's at the mall right below the airport!"

"Dispatch the 'Puppet Master' to intercept the target!"

"But, the Puppet Master is not a Hunter... we don't have the authority to command her."

"In the name of the trial program, have her assist." The team leader said, "Give a heads-up to Research Institute One, ask them to lend us the person."

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G57 Floating Port, suspended area below.

Sun Hang didn't slow down but maintained his free-fall speed, descending until about ten meters from the ground, then he shot out tens of hyphae, wrapping them around the metal frame all around.

"Hiss..."

The tremendous inertia made his expression instantly distort, this force nearly tore apart his limbs—but the next second, the wounds immediately healed as if nothing had happened, even the bruises beneath the skin were absorbed clean.

"Whew... that hurts." Sun Hang felt a bit unnatural as he landed on the ground, twisting his waist, and silently reminded himself perhaps he should find time for some targeted training... especially in the aspect of pain resistance.

Taisheng bestowed him with very strong self-recovery, but when his limbs were injured, Sun Hang's nerves would still fully experience the pain... even if some injuries could instantly heal, his brain would remain determined to make the owner "faint from pain"... if this situation occurred during intense combat, it would be very troublesome.

"Wait a minute... perhaps, I can cheat?"

Sun Hang looked around, seemingly in a dark alley behind a large mall, vacant except for a dozen large garbage bins placed against the wall, he glanced at his palm, and had a thought—

"If I could temporarily block pain perception..."

A piece of hyphae suddenly shot out, pierced through his palm, blood quickly flowed from the wound, immediately dyeing the pale hyphae red.

The hyphae retracted, the wound healed, Sun Hang moved his recovered palm, feeling pleased.

Sure enough, this kind of 'wish fulfillment' ability could also work on himself.

Though Sun Hang was unclear whether the principle here was similar to 'self-hypnosis', blocking the brain part used for pain perception, or obstructing nerve transmission of pain, overall, its consumption of Spiritual Power was negligible, completely applicable in real combat.

"If pain can be shielded, then can facial transformation also be done?"

Sun Hang covered his face with both hands, and after a few seconds, he clearly felt some extremely subtle changes appearing on his facial skin and muscles... it was a feeling both awkward and natural, hard to describe, as if his face had turned into a piece of heated paraffin and a flexible plastic knife gently skimmed his facial contour...

Sun Hang quickly walked to the glass wall of the mall and looked at his reflection on the glass.

His face hadn't undergone earth-shattering change, dividing the facial features apart, each modification could almost be ignored, but when they merged together, Sun Hang completely transformed into another person.

"Is this the so-called quality change produced by quantity change?" Sun Hang touched his face, muttering softly.

The fuzz on his lips turned into short gray stubble, slightly puffy eye bags vanished, replaced by faint crow's feet at the corners, making him look nearly ten years older.

Even his height increased briefly by a few centimeters, his build became more robust, full chest muscles stretched the seemingly tight shirt, flexing his arms slightly revealed bulging veins.

He now looked like a fitness trainer in his early thirties... precisely the type often fancied by lonely housewives in indescribable comics.

Sun Hang felt that even if he stood next to his own wanted poster now, nobody would associate the two.

Just as Sun Hang was about to leave, a rustling sound suddenly came from the garbage bins.

Sun Hang hurriedly turned back, only to see a disheveled person in ragged clothes crawling out of a huge garbage bin, halfway through climbing when the bin lost balance and fell, the person heavily falling to the ground, scattering dozens of black plastic bagged trash everywhere.

He struggled to get up, then wobbly approached Sun Hang.

"A homeless person? No, that's not right..."

This person emitted a strong stench, mostly characteristic of garbage fermentation but mixed with faint corpse odor.

And as this 'person' came within ten meters, Sun Hang could smell beyond the corpse odor, 'it' also had an extremely faint mystic creature presence.

'It' hovered between living human and corpse, neither strictly a mystic entity nor a 'zombie' resurrected by spirit possession.

'It' must have once been an infected individual, now its scientific name should be 'Cadaverous Spirit.'

Why would a Cadaverous Spirit appear in a mall's backdoor garbage bin?

Are Chunming City's Hunters all idlers?