Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 440 - 65: Television

"Didn't they say his ability only absorbs life force without absorbing anomalous memes, so how did his infection process surpass the dangerous threshold?"

"...To be precise, Lucas's situation shouldn't be described as aggravated infection but rather as a kind of 'evolution.'" Yuri hesitated for a few seconds as if pondering his words before answering, "The massive life force prompted Lucas to evolve into a very special 'life form,' and his personal consciousness was erased in this process."

"Does this new 'life form' have self-awareness?" Sun Hang asked.

"Not discovered yet..." Yuri replied, "But the area around Lucas has become a literal life-forbidden zone—in fact, Y423 belongs to a composite anomalous object, which includes Lucas himself as the 'main body' and also the phenomenon of life force materializing and wildly dispersing around. However, since the latter is more significant in form of expression, and the 'main body' has become a 'medium of occurrence' for this phenomenon, we classified this anomaly as type Y anomalous object."

"Life-forbidden zone? I don't really think so..." Sun Hang shook his head, "It's just that the human body is too fragile to withstand this level of life force. If the body were strong enough, this thing would be almost equivalent to a mobile spring... Uh, you know what a spring means, right? It's the respawn point in MOBA games where you can heal. By the way, haven't you tried letting some Hunters with extremely strong physical abilities approach him?"

When it came to extreme physical abilities, two people immediately surfaced in Sun Hang's mind—one was Mr. Wang, who inherited the Black Dragon meme, and the other was the one with a body seemingly forged of steel, the 'Iron Wall.'

Wouldn't these two not burst by getting close?

"Initially, some researchers proposed such an idea, but later it was halted due to high risks." Yuri said.

"Oh, so you guys actually consider risks?" Sun Hang teased, "I thought Dubhe Tower was full of research maniacs who don't care about anything for the sake of science."

"Actually... the experiment had already started back then. The first test subject wasn't a Hunter but an anomalous toad... That toad was previously treated and was on the brink of death. However, when placed within Y423's influence range, its previously dying state instantly recovered, and its body size grew by dozens of times within an hour... It even tried to devour Lucas... The team responsible for the experiment paid a heavy price to handle the out-of-control test subject. The subsequent experiments were stopped after that accident."

"Understood, you're afraid of creating an uncontrollable super monster, so you didn't continue the experiment, right?"

"More or less... that's the general idea." Yuri answered a bit awkwardly.

"Then what are those cups on its back for? Cupping therapy?" Sun Hang asked.

"Those are specially made 'pressure relief cups' with 'Inhibitor Liquid' inside the containment device, and the cups hold tenfold strength 'Super Suppression Liquid'—the life force materializing within Lucas constantly overflows; instead of letting it uncontrollably spill, we choose to actively guide it, extracting the life force that Lucas's body can't temporarily contain into the pressure relief cups. After compressing and inerting it, we return it to Lucas's body... This approach can compress Y423's influence range from a radius of eight meters to about half a meter." Yuri explained.

"So if I were to pull out these cups now, would we both 'explode'? Sun Hang asked with a smile.

"Please don't joke about such dangerous matters..." Yuri sighed, "Y423 is extremely dangerous; once you choose it and start absorbing, we can't intervene in the process... If you realize you cannot absorb it, it'll be too late by then."

"Is the absorption process unstoppable?" Sun Hang inquired.

"It can be... but once you fall into that state, your self-consciousness will be impacted, and you'll intensely resist anything trying to stop you from continuing." Yuri said, "Just like Lucas at that time, we sent robots to pull him away, but he turned around and destroyed the approaching robots with bombs... even allowing the close-range explosions to tear apart his own flesh..."

"With such a vast life force, a head could grow back in minutes, right? What's a little injury?" Sun Hang squinted his eyes, "You say there's 'no way to interrupt the absorption process without harming Lucas,' but in reality, you wanted to see what happens after he completely absorbs that vine anomaly, didn't you?"

"..." Yuri fell into a long silence, and only when Sun Hang took another step did he speak again, "Please try to keep a safe distance from Y423... Its danger is not only from itself but also from other anomalies in this containment area."

"Are you worried that if Y423 breaches containment, it'll nurture other anomalies fat?" Sun Hang glanced at him, "Alright, then I won't touch it for now... But this thing can be noted on the checklist first."

"Understood." Yuri tapped a few times on a virtual projection screen, and the transparent box containing Y423 sank into the ground.