Trickster Hunter

Chapter 26: Changes

These visions were fleeting. Sun Hang hesitated for only a moment before his consciousness returned to the blood moon.

And those close-up reflections faded rapidly before his eyes until they disappeared completely.

"What's going on?" Yang Qi stepped forward and asked anxiously.

"These figures seem to be reflections of people." Sun Hang answered truthfully, "When I touched them, I saw the whole process of a person from youth to old age and then to death."

"...Resonance?" Yang Qi was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"I don't know." Sun Hang thought about it. Although those images stayed for less than a blink of an eye, he still clearly remembered that this person was wearing a navy blue suit in his middle age.

And in the news footage he saw before, there were also several leaders and officials who participated in the flower-laying ceremony wearing suits of similar colors and styles.

This figure...could it be one of the missing officials?

Just when Sun Hang wanted to observe the place where those figures disappeared again, a strong fragrance suddenly floated over from the side and back.

He turned around and saw that Wang Xiyi had squatted on the ground without knowing when, with her arms tightly wrapped around her chest, and the expression on her face seemed to be enduring some kind of pain.

On her neck, tiny black scales had already emerged from under her skin, emitting a metallic luster.

"Night Fury?!" Yang Qi also noticed the change in Wang Xiyi and whispered, "When was the last time you injected an inhibitor?!"

Sun Hang looked up at the blood moon in the sky, which was becoming more and more vivid. Without saying a word, he rushed to Wang Xiyi's side.

He resisted the urge to throw the other party to the ground, grabbed Wang Xiyi's arm, and pulled her out of the border with force.

The blood moon in the sky turned into a normal moon, and the scales on Wang Xiyi's neck no longer appeared.

She was holding the syringe of the inhibitor in her hand, but at this time her ten fingers were extremely stiff, and she couldn't do anything to inject herself.

"Help... me... inject..." Wang Xiyi panted hard.

Sun Hang used brute force to pry open her fingers, removed the syringe, pulled off the protective cover, and directly inserted the needle into her upper arm.

The glass bubble storing compressed air at the end of the disposable syringe was crushed, and the clear medicine inside was immediately pushed into Wang Xiyi's body.

After about ten seconds, Wang Xiyi's stiff body became soft again, and she sat on the ground powerlessly.

Sun Hang glanced at the empty syringe in his hand, which still had a nauseating "coriander smell" on it. He shook his head with some disgust and stuffed it into the outer pocket of his clothes.

Yang Qi squatted down beside Wang Xiyi and slightly unzipped the zipper at the other's collar.

The fine scales that emerged shrank back, and the neck, wrists and other places also returned to their original smooth and white skin, which made Yang Qi breathe a sigh of relief.

"Is it caused by the blood moon?" Sun Hang asked.

"It is highly likely that... the influence of the blood moon is like radiation. The higher the intensity, the faster and more severe the mutation of the affected organisms." Yang Qi sighed, "From now on, before the blood moon disappears, you and Ye Fu are not allowed to enter the abnormal area again."

"Are you going to disobey the orders of your superiors?" Sun Hang smiled, "That group of people decided to 'do whatever it takes' this time."

"Because they are all idiots... If Ye Fu gets out of control because of their 'orders', let alone the search and rescue operation, most of Tianfu City will suffer!" Yang Qi said angrily, "Besides, the search and rescue operation has not been suspended, and I am still here... You send Ye Fu back to the institute first and tell the teacher everything that happened here. It's not urgent to come back after the blood moon disappears the next day."

After Yang Qi finished speaking, he threw the key to the SUV to Sun Hang.

Sun Hang did not refuse, and directly took off the gun on his body and stuffed it to 0401 who was still in a daze.

"Ah... what does this mean?" 0401 was stunned and asked.

For some reason, after getting the gun he had been dreaming about, his sense of crisis suddenly increased.

"Although there are no infected people around you, you can't guarantee that you will encounter something on the way to join the main force. You can't always hide behind a woman, right?" Sun Hang said.

"..." 0401's lips moved for a while, but he didn't say anything in the end.

"Go quickly." Yang Qi urged, "The inhibitor only temporarily stabilized the state of Ye Fu. She is still in danger. She must be sent back to the institute as quickly as possible! You don't have to worry about me!"

0401 and Sun Hang worked together to lift Wang Xiyi into the car. Sun Hang got into the driver's seat, glanced at the two people who stayed in the rearview mirror, and then started the car.

…

On the way back, the communication device in the car occasionally reported that a certain team was attacked—not just the wild wolves, but the creatures in the entire abnormal area began to mutate: the abandoned stray dogs and cats, the snakes wandering in the grass, and even the rats and insects at the bottom of the food chain, all crawled out of the soil and began to attack everyone who stepped into this area.

Yang Qi and 0401 were also attacked by these mutant creatures. Fortunately, the two teams that had just completed the merger arrived in time to provide support. Except for 0401 who fell and broke his knee while dodging, there were no casualties.

But the other teams were not so lucky. When Sun Hang arrived at the institute, a rough estimate showed that the death toll had exceeded 20, and the number of injured people had reached three digits.

The impact of this blood moon far exceeded everyone's estimates.

…

A dozen staff members who had been waiting at the entrance of the institute in advance took over Wang Xiyi. They carried Wang Xiyi into a cold "metal coffin" and then left in a hurry, leaving Sun Hang standing alone on the steps at the entrance of the institute.

"The director will perform surgery on Ye Fu immediately. Yang Qi has already reported the specific situation of the operation area." A staff member said to Sun Hang before leaving, "In the next sixteen hours, you can standby freely."

"What about after sixteen hours?" Sun Hang asked.

"You should ask your direct supervisor, not me." After the staff member threw down this sentence, he left on his own.

The entire institute was in a state of frantic operation. The few field staff were sent to the South City Cemetery, and Wang Xiyi's emergency forced those who were resting after work out of their beds - the faces of these white coats were almost all hung with heavy dark circles and resentment of being forced to work overtime.

Sun Hang sat down on the big steps at the entrance of the institute. At this time, a familiar feeling of hunger surged up from his stomach again.

He couldn't tell whether the source of this hunger was the woman who had just been carried in, or because he hadn't eaten for a long time.

The sky was already pale, and Sun Hang took out his mobile phone and took a look. The time on the screen was 4:45 in the morning.

The last time he ate was in the evening, when he bit an apple at "home".