"Classical novel? What book is so amazing it can turn soone into a mysterious creature?" Sun Hang asked curiously.
"The Count of Monte Cristo," Yuri answered, "However, we've conducted detailed inspections on all the books, even daily necessities, inside the residence of Containnt Object 549, including that book, but found no anomalies... We can't be certain if her tic mutation is linked to her reading."
Yuri continued, "Before being diagnosed, she was an assistant professor and intern lecturer at a local university's language and literature departnt. She's been involved with this kind of classical literature for years. It wasn't her first ti reading The Count of Monte Cristo... Even after her infection, she's flipped through a series of books including The Count of Monte Cristo several tis, but nothing like this ever happened."
"Where is that book now?" Sun Hang casually asked.
"At the local Mysterious Creature Research Institute... They've studied this book for several years, and finally concluded it's just an ordinary printed material," Yuri replied.
"Alright... Seems like we're getting a bit off-topic." Sun Hang scratched his head, "Let's get back to the main point... Do you think maybe soone else 'released' this entity?"
"You an..." Yuri squinted his eyes.
"That mysterious television, since it can distort reality, alter the surveillance footage of Dubhe Tower... then causing a temporary malfunction in surveillance caras would be incredibly easy... Perhaps it helped Containnt Object 549 to escape," Sun Hang suggested, "Of course, I have a bolder hypothesis."
"What hypothesis?"
"Did you open that black box?" Sun Hang turned to ask the researcher.
"No," the researcher shook his head.
"Since the television anomaly can interfere with reality... then perhaps, Containnt Object 549 is now in a 'Schrodinger's cat' state... After you open that box, it might be inside, or it might not be... Who knows, after one night, you might find Containnt Object 549 appearing in the surveillance cara footage again... After all, you can't even determine if that faulty cara has really 'returned to normal,' right?"
Sun Hang said it all in one go and then relaxedly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
Though upon careful scrutiny, this logic cannot form a closed loop, but when it cos to complicating matters, he's indeed an expert... Maybe he shouldn't be a Mysterious Creature Hunter anymore, and instead write for suspense dramas? Perhaps he could make a na for himself...
"But..." Yuri's one 'but' imdiately pulled Sun Hang back to reality, "Why would Containnt Object 999 do such a thing?"
Containnt Object 999 naturally referred to that mysterious television which Sun Hang had devoured.
To be precise, the television's containnt number in the primary containnt area is "1-999," whereas the number of the bizarrely vanished containnt object is "2-549"... The latter is located in the secondary containnt area, where both danger level and importance are lower, and logically, the two shouldn't be associated at all...
"Maybe it's looking for an ally?"
"But, Containnt Object 549 is not suitable as an ally, right?" Yuri remarked, "Its combat ability isn't that strong... Although an unard ordinary person might not be able to defeat it, Dubhe Tower could easily bring in a guard... or rather, soone proficient in firearms could easily deal with it."
"So weak? And yet Dubhe Tower still wants to contain this mysterious entity?" All previous guesses were void, even the thick-skinned Sun Hang felt sowhat embarrassed, "I thought sothing qualified to enter the secondary containnt area would at least be like Wang Xiyi?"
"Containnt Object 549 is just not strong in combat, but its tic mutation is very special, thus making it a valuable research sample worth containing here..." Yuri patiently explained, "The primary and secondary containnt areas mainly differ in the danger level of containnt objects, but in terms of research value, the gap isn't very large."
"Shouldn't Containnt Object 999 be in the secondary area and not the primary area?" Sun Hang internally complained, "Before I arrived, it didn't exhibit any dangerous characteristics?"
"If Containnt Object 999 was ant to disrupt the containnt area, there are many troubleso mysterious entities in the primary area; releasing just one could cause us major headaches... But it didn't do that, it rely released one of the many non-conspicuous Containnt Object 549... It doesn't make sense." Yuri spoke as if addressing Sun Hang yet seed to ponder aloud, "Are there other clues on the scene?"
"That's all for now. Due to the concern of destroying the scene, none of us have entered the Containnt Room 549, further actions await your decision," the researcher remarked.
"Why don't we go over and take a look first?" Sun Hang proposed, "In such a short ti, hard to believe Y-So 4-23 could mysteriously disappear, right?"
Yuri's eye twitched violently: "Your joke... is really not funny."
"Simple, send a few people to keep an eye on Y-So 4-23, we go to Containnt Room 549... What's the saying, if heaven rains or the mother remarries, if Y-So 4-23 is truly set on fleeing, you won't have a choice, right?"
Yuri: "..."
...
The primary and secondary containnt areas are not adjacent to each other. Sun Hang and others navigated through the vast underground space by railcar along the rock wall for about twenty minutes before reaching the "incident area"—Containnt Room 549.
Compared to the primary area, the secondary containnt area uses space more efficiently, with standard-sized containnt rooms neatly lined up grid-like within the space, giving the impression of a "housing complex" specifically equipped for mysterious entities.
However, as they approached Containnt Room 549, Sun Hang stopped in his tracks.
His initially relaxed expression vanished instantly.
In this place, he sensed a strikingly familiar aura.
"Anna Demosheva... Did you follow all the way from Tianfu City to here?" Sun Hang mumbled to himself.
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Chunming City outskirts, Abnormal Ability Managent Departnt, temporary dormitory.
The soft glow on the girl's body gradually dimd, and her tantalizing body contours also beca hazy... Soon, only a barely discernible human-shaped shadow was left at the corner.
Ling Xiao abruptly noticed, sohow, the extinguished cold fla on the Ruler Sword reignited; replacing the girl as the room's sole light source.
As Ling Xiao shifted his gaze from the Sword to the corner shadow again, that shadow had already left the corner, lunging at him!!
By the glow of the cold fla, Ling Xiao barely glimpsed the shadow was a woman—but definitely not the flawless girl from before.
This woman's figure was incredibly gaunt, akin to a skeleton wrapped in skin.
She was draped in a filthy white robe, her black long hair oily, matted, hung down her cheeks...
Most frightening of all—this woman lacked a lower jaw.
Not only that, her face from above the upper lip was completely missing; from the front, it was possible to see the red oral cavity and dark throat...
In stark contrast to her missing jaw was her upper teeth—besides the upper jaw's alveolar part, her upper palate was covered in sharp, monster-like teeth.
Fortunately, faced with such grotesque "woman," Ling Xiao felt no fear.
He quickly leaped back, dodging the woman's attack as she fell onto the bedside, then Ling Xiao reached to his side and switched on the bedside lamp.
The room instantly lit up brightly.
Yet as soon as the light ca on, the woman emitted an ear-piercing scream enough to crack eardrums, simultaneously her/its skin exposed to the light turned flushed, crimson, then developed a scattering of various-sized pustules.
"Afraid of light?" Ling Xiao paused, glanced at the luggage placed by the clothes rack.
The luggage contained a tactical flashlight, maximum brightness 4000 luns.
Or... Could this thing be used to suppress the enemy before him?
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