Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 356 - 22: A Moonless, Windy, and Lonely Night

"What, do you know this person?" Ye Jiu saw Sun Hang’s eyes slightly change, and couldn’t help but ask.

"I don’t know him." Sun Hang calmly denied, "Just feel a bit familiar, that’s all."

"If you feel it’s a bit familiar, then there must be a big problem." Ye Jiu stated confidently, "From my personal experience, anything related to you is trouble."

"Are you trying to say you’re trouble too?" Sun Hang glanced at him sideways.

"Whatever." Ye Jiu directly decided to open up, "Say what you want."

"But the mimetic frequency detected on this plaque indeed matches part of your mimetic frequency." Candle Dragon said solemnly, "The similarity exceeds 99.999%, which can’t be achieved by ’origination’ or ’inheritance.’

The relationship between two highly similar mimes from different individuals can only exist in four possibilities—origination, inheritance, copy, peel.

Origination is easy to understand; it’s when the mimes have the same ’infection source,’ like Song Yarong and Jiang Yu.

Inheritance is also a relationship between infection source and infected individual, like Sun Hang and the mentioned two women.

In these two cases the mimetic frequency wouldn’t be completely identical, and would generate a minor divergence of 0.3-1% due to individual differences.

Only the latter two situations can a similarity of 99.999% between mimes of different individuals be reached.

Copy is easy to understand, it’s an identical replica, as for peel, it’s when one’s mime is peeled from another’s body and implanted...

Moreover, this won’t take long, because if it does the implanted mimes will diversificate, turning into the second case ’inheritance.’

If you want the implanted mimes not to undergo any diversification for a long time, both bodies and even minds must be completely consistent, which is no different from the third case ’copy.’

"You mean... ’peel’?" Wang Xiyi furrowed her brows slightly, turning to look at Sun Hang, "During the time when you were unconscious?"

"Not sure." Sun Hang shook his head.

"Then how do we handle this plaque?" Wang Xiyi subconsciously wanted to hand the plaque to Sun Hang.

But Sun Hang didn’t reach out to take it.

He recalled obtaining Anna’s plaque at the Nameless Island Research Institute, clearly putting it in a zippered pocket, yet it disappeared without a trace with both the zipper and pocket intact...

"To be on the safe side, don’t let me directly touch this thing." Sun Hang said.

Wang Xiyi looked at him somewhat surprised, seemingly puzzled why the always fearless Sun Hang would be cautious of such a small plaque—according to Wang Xiyi’s stereotype of Sun Hang, if he didn’t take the plaque directly to bite with his teeth, it would be considered restrained.

"Use a visible secure container to store it." Sun Hang instructed.

Surprised as she was, Sun Hang’s current actions certainly strictly adhered to Dubhe Tower’s eerie object handling rules, so Wang Xiyi didn’t say much more, directly took a transparent hard container and placed the plaque into it.

"And then?" After tightening the lid and sticking a seal, Wang Xiyi asked.

This time Sun Hang reached out and took the container, but in the next second, he threw it to Ye Jiu standing on the side watching the scene.

"Keep an eye on this thing, your task is to ensure it’s in your sight every moment, not leaving for a second." Sun Hang said.

"Are you serious?" Ye Jiu paused, "You’re not planning to mess with me, are you?"

"Serious." Sun Hang said, "If you can avoid blinking, you’d better not blink."

"Are you crazy?" Ye Jiu couldn’t help but glare at him.

"Sun Hang," Candle Dragon seemed to have realized something, said gravely, "Has something similar happened before... I mean, something similar disappearing right under your nose..."

"Pretty much."

"There’s something like that?" Ye Jiu was stunned, "Then what if I blink, and it disappears, what do I do?"

"Then I’ll hold you accountable." Sun Hang said.

"Damn."

...

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Everyone didn’t linger in the Surrendered Area for long. After completing the primary task of "finding Sun Hang," the two cars pushed to the limit, speeding along Highway 4218 towards Shuzhou.

As for inquiries and such, all can wait until returning to Celestial City. The urgent task is to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.

A few hours later, a voice mixed with a lot of electrical noise finally sounded in the long-range communication channel of the two vehicles.

"This is... hiss... Shuzhou border post 198... hiss... drone has already captured... hiss... your car traces... please reply..."

The communication base station at post 198 was destroyed not long ago, now using only a mobile simple base station, making communication distance and quality far inferior to the previous fixed base station.

"This is Celestial City registered Hunter, codename ’Night Slayer,’ mission number 639581. Main mission target completed, preliminary identity verification passed, no casualties except the first batch of repatriated personnel." Wang Xiyi grabbed the microphone hanging next to the co-pilot’s seat and replied.

"... hiss... received... first batch of repatriated personnel sent to Celestial City, severely injured have no life danger. Moreover, Celestial City urgent communication, please team members along with target immediately report to Celestial City Mysterious Creature Research Institute, important meeting."

As the distance got closer, the electrical noise in the communication also noticeably reduced.