Hunter of Mysterious Creature Chapter 456 73: Containment Object 549

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Dubhe Tower, Containnt Area One.

Sun Hang and Yuri were about to head to the containnt chamber of B423 when a researcher, looking flustered, rushed over and whispered sothing into Yuri's ear.

Yuri imdiately furrowed his brow, his expression turning quite grim, and he asked in a deep voice, "Really no traces at all?"

The researcher nodded: "No signs of the containnt equipnt being opened, all seals, locks, and sealing fluids are intact."

"What's going on?" Sun Hang interjected, "What happened? Why do you all look so tense?"

"Item 549 in Containnt Area Two vanished into thin air," Yuri said without intending to hide anything from Sun Hang.

"Breach containnt?" Sun Hang asked.

This term was one he often heard, yet he had never truly encountered a breach containnt event before.

Oh, no... Perhaps there was one ti, the incident at Naless Island Research Institute... Back then, Sun Hang thought "Anna" had died, but unexpectedly, she had actually broken free from the shackles of the containnt equipnt and regained freedom.

Or rather, that withered flesh was ant to imprison her body.

"It's not yet certain if it is a breach," Yuri shook his head, "because neither the containnt equipnt nor the containnt chamber shows any signs of being opened, and the surveillance footage didn't capture the containnt item escaping..."

Yuri paused briefly here, perhaps recalling the "TV incident," making even him doubt the credibility of surveillance footage, but after half a second, he continued: "The surveillance footage from channels throughout the containnt area shows everything as normal, and except for the incident at Containnt Room 549, no other alarm devices were triggered... Most crucially, the item 549 does not possess special abilities like concealnt or traversing through solid matter... From all the available information, it's as if it self-degraded within the containnt equipnt..."

"Did the cara capture the process of this mysterious creature disappearing?" Sun Hang asked.

The researcher who brought the news shook his head: "The signal from the cara monitoring the target inside the containnt equipnt was interrupted for 0.5 seconds, and after the signal was restored, the target was gone... At the sa ti, all instrunts monitoring the target's readings also fell to zero..."

"Well, it clearly escaped..." Sun Hang said, "Unless it knew I was coming to pick ingredients, fearing I'd choose it, and decided to flee this place — we can't rule out that so mysterious creatures are tired of the outside world's conflicts and want to spend their twilight years in the Dubhe Tower containnt area. But now you're telling them, this isn't a retirent ho; it's a storage warehouse for so guy nad Sun Hang's ingredients... No wonder they'd run away!"

"But, but... except for the monitoring cara inside the containnt equipnt, all other surveillance caras did not malfunction..."

Seemingly feeling that re words were insufficient, the researcher directly pulled a platform from the big pocket of his lab coat and played the internal surveillance footage of Containnt Room 549 at the mont of the "mysterious disappearance."

It was a five-ter-square room, inside which sat a one-ter-square black tal box... One second it was silent, the next, a red warning light on one corner of the box suddenly started flashing, and the shrill alarm began to reverberate through the room.

"By the ti the alarm sounded, Item 549 had already disappeared." The researcher stated.

"Why use a black box? If you used a transparent box, wouldn't you be able to see the entire process of its disappearance?" Sun Hang asked.

"Item 549 is extrely sensitive to light, becoming highly agitated upon seeing any light source, so it's imperative to maintain an absolutely dark containnt environnt," Yuri explained, "Also, considering the malfunction of the cara inside the containnt equipnt, even if we used transparent containnt equipnt, the surveillance cara inside the containnt room would probably 'malfunction' too."

"Tsk, your brain is working quite fast this ti..." Sun Hang praised, "Speaking of which, what is Item 549? A monster?"

"It's a completely anomalized female infected," Yuri said.

"A Mysterious Creature Hunter?"

"No... not a hunter." Yuri shook his head, "Although this infected individual had a stable infection process and was quite lucid initially, she refused to beco a hunter after communication and chose to live a 'normal' life within a designated living area by the local Mysterious Creature Research Institute under strict surveillance."

"Then how did she beco completely anomalized? Without using abilities, the progression of the infection should be very slow, right?"

"Not necessarily, the progression of the infection is entirely irregular and varies from person to person… Using abilities, secondary infection, bodily trauma, dication use, a woman's nstrual cycle, lifestyle and diet… even mood swings can be triggers for changes in the infection progression," Yuri explained, "Item 549's infection process suddenly accelerated in the sixteenth month after being confird as infected while reading a classical novel at her residence. By the ti the field agents and investigators arrived, she had already lost self-awareness... The accompanying researchers imdiately assessed her as non-salvageable and, after a simple procedure, she was sent here."