"Gloves? Bloodstains?" The Hunter was visibly taken aback, then looked down at his own hands.
His eyes were filled with confusion.
"Blood... Why is there blood?"
"You tell ," Sun Hang said. "If you’re not injured, then it’s either your teammate’s blood or the blood of that mysterious creature... But speaking of that, you didn’t even see what that mysterious creature looked like. How could you have hurt it?"
"Blood? Whose blood?" The Hunter muttered with a bewildered expression.
This guy looked very out of sorts... Sun Hang wasn’t sure whether he’d been scared out of his wits by the mysterious creature or his ntal state was affected by so unknown force.
"Why don’t you take off your gloves and take a look?" Sun Hang suggested.
The Hunter hesitated for a mont, then removed his gloves.
While looking at the Hunter’s hands, Sun Hang’s pupils slightly contracted.
These hands were still essentially "human hands," but the surface skin wasn’t smooth like a normal human’s, instead, it was covered with various sizes of fleshy nodules... There seed to be sothing wriggling inside these nodules, and from afar, they looked like worm eggs encased beneath the skin.
"What’s wrong with your hands?" Sun Hang asked imdiately.
He couldn’t be sure if the Hunter was infected by the mysterious creature... After all, these hunters were themselves infected. To use a popular phrase online, apart from retaining human thought processes, mysterious creature hunters aren’t much different from mysterious creatures.
"My hands?" The Hunter raised his hands, "What’s wrong with my hands?"
His reaction seed a bit slow. After examining his hands for several seconds, he suddenly widened his eyes in horror: "What are these things? When did they burrow into my flesh?!"
He began to frantically pick and dig at these nodules with his fingers, as they ruptured, small, curled up fleshy tendrils fell out from the nodules.
"Parasitic tentacles again?" Sun Hang squinted.
He wasn’t unfamiliar with parasitic tentacles; this type of mysterious creature wasn’t strong at all... Even an entire team of seasoned hunters, no matter how careless, couldn’t possibly be wiped out by parasitic tentacles, right?
Most of the parasitic tentacles that fell from the nodules landed in the mud on the ground, while the remaining few clung to the Hunter’s skin by mucus. Under the corrosion of the mucus, the Hunter’s skin beca extrely fragile, like wet tissue paper, and the tiny tentacles easily pierced his skin, burrowing back into the flesh.
Though called tentacles, they looked more like parasitic worms within the human body.
The Hunter had completely lost his mind; he clawed and scraped his hands until they were bloody, but the more frenzied he beca, the deeper the worm-like tentacles burrowed... Until he dug down to expose his bones, he still couldn’t completely remove the tentacles parasitic in his flesh.
"Help ! Help !" The distressed Hunter pleaded with Sun Hang, "Get these worms off ! Please get them off! I’m begging you!"
Sun Hang did not approach but remained in place, silently activating his mory-reading ability.
The Hunter had gone mad, his brain in an extrely abnormal state of activity. Sun Hang could read only distorted, false images, mixed with many imagined scenes from the Hunter—but amid these jumbled mories, Sun Hang still captured so valuable insights.
He witnessed the Hunter pulling the trigger behind his companion’s back and saw the Hunter plunge his hands into another hunter’s chest, violently tearing open the other’s torso... The "almost wiped out" fourth squad referred to by this Hunter was, surprisingly, slaughtered entirely by him.
"You just said that the mysterious creature is always behind you, right?" Sun Hang suddenly asked.
The Hunter was taken aback and then nodded vigorously: "Yes! That’s how it feels! I can’t see it, but I can feel it! It’s always chasing ; I can’t shake it off! Please help ! I really don’t want to die!"
As he continued speaking, his voice even carried a trace of sobbing.
"You’re right; it indeed is behind you."
At that mont, a liquefied blade that had sohow navigated behind him swiftly slashed open the protective suit the Hunter wore, exposing his back to the air.
A creature resembling a ray was tightly adhered to his spine, its suckers already deeply embedded in the Hunter’s flesh. Through its semi-transparent body, Sun Hang could see dark red blood being drawn from the Hunter’s body in a rhythmic breathing-like motion and then circulating throughout the creature’s form.
Once the blood made a circuit within the creature’s body, it turned a deep black before being fed back into the Hunter’s body—using dical terminology, it was akin to completing an external cycle.
Except this device completing the external cycle wasn’t a familiar ECMO but the body of so unknown mysterious creature.
The Hunter also sensed sothing was wrong. He reached behind with a bloody hand and instantly touched the mysterious creature attached to his spine.
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