Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 505 - 99: Desire and Case Studies_2
After obtaining permission to open fire, the situation did not improve at all. The standard issue pistols, shotguns, and small-caliber semi-automatic rifles of the prison guards couldn't kill this mysterious creature. Even though one prison guard risked his life to break its arm with a close-range shotgun blast, it was useless—the creature tore off the guard's arm, attached it to itself, and then turned the stolen shotgun on a whole group of prison guards in the corridor.
Shen City Prison is different from those border prisons; it is not equipped with heavy weapons like heavy machine guns or rocket launchers. The six-millimeter caliber semi-automatic rifle was already the most powerful weapon in the hands of the prison guards.
Fortunately, the Shen City Mysterious Creature Research Institute is less than fifteen kilometers from the prison. Less than twenty minutes after the prisoner turned, the Mysterious Creature Hunter arrived on the scene.
Sun Hang opened the attached video file. The transformed guy looked like the Baltran Star People from Ultraman, but with two giant blades instead of lobster claws—though the sharpness of those blades was impressive, cutting through iron like mud. One slash opened the steel door of the solitary confinement room, and the second cut a prison guard, who hadn't reacted yet, in half.
The next images were a bit like those R18-rated splatter films; almost the entire corridor was strewn with human limbs. A few prison guards blocked the stairs at the end of the corridor, continuously firing at the creature—bullets had a slight hindering effect on its body, but as for the actual lethality...
After all, Sun Hang saw at least seven to eight bullets hit the creature's head, but its actions were unaffected.
The video lasted a total of eighteen minutes, during which the creature slaughtered its way from the third floor to the first. Then it was directly hit and sent flying by an armored off-road vehicle that drove through the main gate. Two Mysterious Creature Hunters jumped out of the vehicle and quickly subdued the creature, securing it in a restraint device and taking it away.
Beyond that point were some memetic analyses and autopsy reports that Sun Hang didn't understand... He was too lazy to spend time deciphering those technical terms, so he simply scrolled down to the conclusion section.
"After on-site evaluation, it is confirmed that there is no memetic contamination in Shen City Prison. The creature self-metamorphosed, with no traceable source of infection."
"Single-mindedly seeking revenge, this thought dominated his mind until his concealed weapons were discovered and confiscated... In solitary confinement, negative emotions surged to the extreme, wanting to reclaim the knives to kill the fellow prisoners who had beaten him... Resulting in his hands directly 'transforming' into the shape of knives..." Sun Hang muttered softly, "It can be considered a manifestation of 'wish come true'... Except the cost of this wish fulfillment seems a bit high, apparently even resulting in a total loss of self-awareness."
For some reason, Sun Hang suddenly thought of a phrase with strong religious connotations.
"To gain power, he sold his soul to the Devil."
But then again, if the demons from those old religious texts truly exist, they might be a form of "mysterious creature" too...
Sun Hang glanced at the countdown timer in the upper right corner; there were only eighteen minutes left, and he had only gone through the first of the three cases included in the email.
His fingers swiftly swiped across the screen, and soon after, the content of the second case appeared on the screen.
The second case wasn't as bloody as the first, but the attached images were even more nauseating—it's hard to say that it's a human, though it seemed to have some human features. Sun Hang wasn't sure how to describe it, but all in all, the creature in the image was something that induced strong physical discomfort...
The subject of the second case was a live-streaming host, more specifically, an "eating stream" host.
As the name implies, an eating stream is the process of enjoying food on a live stream, acting as the "Internet mouthpiece" for those who either dare not eat or cannot access such foods... In this day and age, top-tier eating streamers earn as much as second- or third-tier celebrities, with equally astonishing followings and influence.
And this subject was a top-tier eating streamer on a certain short video platform.
She was very young, only twenty-four years old, and quite a beauty with a great figure... In the streaming industry, beauties have an innate advantage over others, whether in gaming, dancing, food, or even just chatting. They attract numerous viewers, and this streamer had an exceptionally appealing gimmick— a "unique physique" that doesn't gain weight, no matter how much she eats.
In her stream, she would consume several times the amount of food a normal person could eat in a day—enough to stuff several burly men working hard labor at a construction site. Yet, the streamer's stomach seemed like a bottomless pit, where in front of tens of thousands of viewers, she would continuously stuff hamburgers, fried chicken, noodles, cakes, and other high-calorie foods into her mouth, then swallow them down.
She actually "ate," not like those who take a bite, cut the video, and after a few clips, the plate mysteriously empties... And under such terrifying amounts of food, she maintained a slender figure at 1.7 meters tall, weighing less than 100 pounds... Just selling weight-loss products made her a fortune.
The reason she didn't gain weight was simple: After each stream, she would induce vomiting, purging all the food she consumed...
There were online exposés about her inducing vomiting after streams, but her fans quickly quelled such reports... Until one day during a live stream, viewers were horrified to discover that the food she ate was directly "leaking" from her chest, mixed with a mass of bloody matter and mucus resembling gastric acid, slowly dripping onto the table.
Some were struck speechless, others asked what special effects software she used, while some looked at the calendar to check if it was April Fool's Day or Halloween...
Of course, some directly chose to call the police.
The viewers in the stream went from over thirty thousand to nearly a million in an instant, yet the streamer continued to nonchalantly swallow the food...
The crack in her chest kept growing larger, resembling a huge chasm. Through it, one could vaguely see the undulating inner walls of her digestive tract...
The streaming platform forcefully shut down the room, and the beautiful streamer sitting before the table gradually transformed into a monster.
This streamer hadn't signed with an agency; she chose to operate her account independently, streaming from home... Consequently, no one knew if the scene seen in the stream was real or fake...
When the sheriff and investigators arrived at her residence, she had already turned into a heap of rotten flesh composed of all kinds of deformed digestive organs—she continued to eat, consuming as much as she purged... The ground was littered with partially digested food scraps and vomitous acid...
The investigators tried to stop "her" from eating, but to no avail—when they removed the food within "her" reach, she began eating her own "body tissue," all the while an unknown hidden vocal organ emitted garbled voices, "Guys, this kebab is absolute..."
