Oh... not even a second later, the constantly multiplying bizarre lumps of flesh had already cracked the TV screen. They squeezed out like minced at from a sieve, frantically erging from the screen's gaps.
"Quick! Initiate ergency procedures!" Without waiting for Yuri's command, the security team's mbers imdiately surged forward, pulling out their liquid nitrogen sprayers they carried with them and directly spraying the nearly -200 degrees Celsius liquid nitrogen onto the minced at erging from the screen.
The spread of the minced at was instantly halted, but before everyone could catch their breath, a tentacle suddenly shot out from the minced at, quickly wrapping around a security team mber's ankle, pulling him to the ground and swiftly dragging him towards the TV!
"Reproduction requires nourishnt, and nourishnt is obtained through predation." Sun Hang said blandly, "Look, this unlucky guy is considered prey by them."
The remaining security team mbers had no ti to listen to what Sun Hang was saying. Two of them, who were closer, instantly darted forward. One grabbed the arms of the team mber being dragged away, while the other aid the liquid nitrogen sprayer at the middle of the tentacle, frantically spraying out the liquid nitrogen from the canister.
The tentacle quickly froze, and the security team mber discarded the now-empty liquid nitrogen canister, drawing a hand axe from his waist and directly chopping down on the frozen tentacle!
The tentacle shattered on impact, splattering icy shards covered in bits of flesh in all directions. The preyed-upon security team mber, with the help of his colleagues, struggled to free himself from the tentacle wrapped around his ankle and stood up with so difficulty.
"Are you injured?" the security team leader asked.
"This is not the ti to worry about injuries." Sun Hang said with a shrug, "To save just one person, you've pushed the situation to a more severe level..."
"A more severe level?!" Yuri imdiately responded and looked at the ice shards scattered everywhere.
"I just said, don't treat this thing as a complete 'organism', but as an 'aggregate' of countless cell-sized organisms..."
Before Sun Hang could finish, the bits of at within the ice shards had started wriggling on their own, crawling towards the person closest to them.
"Level one alert! The anomalous entity has diffusion properties! The containnt area is already subject to secondary contamination!" The security team leader's eyes widened, shouting loudly, "Seal all entry and exit channels and ventilation ports imdiately, conduct thorough extermination operations! Indiscriminate elimination thods can be used if necessary!"
This "indiscriminate elimination thod" referred to the possibility of also eliminating those within the containnt area who had not yet been infected by the anomalous entity—after all, if the entity couldn't be dealt with, those left in the sealed area couldn't escape the fate of infection either.
By saying this, he had effectively sentenced everyone in the living room to death.
"Your resolve is quite admirable." Sun Hang nodded privately, then countless hyphae shot out from his body—roughly half of them headed straight for the TV screen, while the rest targeted the minced at, severed tentacles, and bits of shredded at that had already erged from the screen.
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Five minutes later, having retracted all the hyphae, Sun Hang stood up from the tattered sofa, walked to the now-empty shell of the TV, and prodded the fragnted electronic components inside with his finger.
"The... the containnt object... the reaction of the containnt object has disappeared..." The security team leader looked at his terminal in disbelief. "Commander... just now... the unknown containnt object number 999... is gone..."
"I know... I'm not blind, dammit." Yuri glanced at this subordinate, let out a long sigh, and turned to look at Sun Hang.
"Is this Taotie's ability?"
"Not just Taotie." Sun Hang tossed the components, now completely beyond repair, back into the shredded plastic shell, stood up, and clapped his hands. "But mainly relying on Taotie."
"Have you completely devoured the containnt object?" Yuri asked again, not even realizing that in his extre shock, he had forgotten to use respectful language.
"Swallowed, yes, but it will take ti to digest slowly." Sun Hang nodded, "This thing holds a lot of information, so I need to chew it over slowly... Have you heard of a cow's 'rumination'?"
Yuri numbly nodded his head.
"I just put them into my 'stomach' first, taking them out to chew again from ti to ti... Although it sounds a bit gross, it's indeed the safest way to handle them," Sun Hang said. "The thing contains mory fragnts enough to piece together the complete lives of tens of thousands of people. If these mory fragnts were to flood into my mind all at once, I fear I wouldn't even rember who I am."
"This indeed requires caution... Can you now determine the characteristics and abilities of this anomalous entity?"
"I can't determine that, completely digesting this thing will probably take months, I suggest coming back in a few months to ask ," Sun Hang said.
He was not lying; the tic content of the anomalous TV held the largest amount of information of any anomalous entity Sun Hang had ever devoured. He even suspected that adding up the tic information of all the residents of Maoyun Town wouldn't match this TV set.
Even though Taotie's ability could fully digest and assimilate these s within ten minutes... whether Sun Hang would remain the sa Sun Hang after digestion is another question.
Under the onslaught of massive information flows, maintaining self-awareness is an arduous task—this phenonon is akin to a small boat rolling in turbulent waves; one minor mishap would an being torn apart by the surging undercurrents, leaving not even a trace.
"Alright... okay." Yuri swallowed with so difficulty, "I need to docunt this matter, and the containnt area of number 999 will need to be cleaned to ensure... uh, do you have any plans now? I personally suggest that you undergo a comprehensive health check, including changes in your self- frequency... Even though you don't seem affected, anomalies on the level may not manifest physically..."
"The health check can wait." Sun Hang said, "My schedule is tight, continue to lead to see the other anomalous entities."
"Huh?" Yuri was stunned, "What did you say?!"
"I said take to see the other anomalous entities," Sun Hang repeated. "The situation in Tianfu City is very tense, not many days left until Chira 17's hatching is complete, I ca to absorb anomalous entities to quickly boost my combat power... The problem is, its abilities can't be imdiately used by ... By the ti I've finished digesting after a few months, Chira 17 might have already devoured the whole of Tianfu City... Wouldn't that an I ca in vain?"
"But you just absorbed this anomalous entity, you also ntioned needing several months to digest it... If you were to devour another anomalous entity in this tifra..."
"That one is in a different 'stomach'." Sun Hang chuckled, "Cows have four stomachs, how could a devourer like Taotie not have multiple stomachs? I don't stuff every anomalous entity I consu into one 'stomach', it won't be a problem. Also, those easily digestible anomalous entities, I can imdiately fuse with their abilities after devouring them, not even needing to use 'stomach space' to store them... I've said this much, get moving and show so more good stuff!"
"... You had previously selected two anomalous entities, naly C7 'Kui Niu Bones' and E423 'Lucas', perhaps you should choose between them?"
"Choose between them?" Sun Hang was puzzled, "Did you misunderstand sothing? That list is not for choosing, I an, I want them all."
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