Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 604 - 152: Mr. Xu

Is this considered good luck? Or bad luck?

Mr. Xu thought for a long time. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Surviving in a situation where death was certain... that should be considered good luck, right?

But, as a price, he himself turned into a mysterious creature...

When Mr. Xu just started working as an investigator, he had considered this issue many times.

Between death and transformation, which would you choose?

He had been pondering this question since he started working and still hadn't come up with a definite answer.

Nevertheless, from an emotional standpoint, he was more inclined towards death.

He had seen colleagues who had transformed after being infected by the meme—they either became horrifying monsters, eliminated by investigators and Hunters; or they were brought back to the Mysterious Creature Research Institute, where they were 'neutralized' after it was found that the infection process couldn't be controlled; or they were directly turned into research material for those lab coat researchers, enduring various inhuman tortures before being sliced or frozen for preservation...

Compared to these outcomes, death didn't seem so frightening after all.

Once the meme of a mysterious creature completely erases a person's self-awareness, the person can no longer be called human and naturally won't enjoy any human rights.

However, what puzzled Mr. Xu was... why did he retain his human self-awareness after becoming a mysterious creature?

Could it be that he hadn't fully transformed yet, still considered an "infected"?

Mr. Xu sat up and examined his "new body."

His body now was like the monster in Frankenstein, sewn together from charred, swollen, or decayed body parts, with some "metal parts" visible in certain areas, seemingly from the wreckage of that amphibious motorcycle, Mr. Xu could even feel gears meshing and turning within his body.

This body's shape was drastically different from that of a human, and Mr. Xu found it difficult to describe what he resembled now—the number of mysterious creatures he'd seen that were more bizarre than his current form couldn't exceed a handful.

What devastated Mr. Xu the most was discovering that the parts making up his new body included not only his original body and the motorcycle remains... but also Wang Zheng.

Wang Zheng's head was like a mass of bone and flesh shaped like a red brick, integrated into this new body, his face turned outward, eyes lifelessly staring at the floor, nose and mouth still clogged with dried, clotted blood, with a sharp and elongated metal shard piercing one side of his head, the other end pinned to Mr. Xu's skin like a safety pin.

"Infected? No, I absolutely cannot be an infected," Mr. Xu thought to himself.

Although an infected person carries the meme of a mysterious creature, until fully transformed, they're still human, a living human being.

But he... the moment those explosive charges were detonated, he had already died.

Mr. Xu was very aware that his resurrected self no longer had any connection to the word "human."

Rather than saying the memes resurrected him, it would be more accurate to say they used these "materials" to create a new container and then placed Mr. Xu's consciousness and memories into it.

"Am I a mysterious creature or a human?" Mr. Xu fell into deep thought.

After pondering for about ten minutes, Mr. Xu took a deep breath—he suddenly realized he had lost the breathing organs of a human. When he subconsciously issued the command for a "deep breath," the exposed skin and flesh started frantically absorbing oxygen from the outside world, not just oxygen, even the flowing rainwater was being absorbed into him.

Mr. Xu's body instantly swelled up like a balloon, and the next second, the air and rainwater inside shot out from various gaps in his body with force equivalent to a heavy-duty industrial water jet used for cutting stone.

"Is this... my method of attack?" Mr. Xu laughed self-deprecatingly, yet he found he couldn't laugh at all.

Aside from his eyes, it seemed he had lost all his facial features.

He could hear the splattering rain, but the sounds weren't heard through the ears, rather the vibrations felt by his body were transformed into sound signals in a special manner, presented in his head.

In comparison, Wang Zheng's head, embedded in Mr. Xu, retained human features far better.

Mr. Xu participated in several confidential experiments before. The content of these experiments, without exception, pertained to the transformation of infected individuals—those whose infection process went out of control and were about to fully transform weren't all "neutralized". A significant portion of them were sent urgently to a secret research base in the Dubhe Tower to let the researchers observe the complete transformation process and the changes in body parameters before and after transformation.

As a security personnel, Mr. Xu didn't have the clearance to access these experiment files, but through conversations among the researchers, he could roughly understand the state changes before and after complete transformation.

The vast majority of infected individuals, once the infection process surpassed the danger threshold, their thoughts and perceptions began to distort... their sanity often hovered on the brink of collapse, and their words and actions became unpredictable.

These infected individuals often saw hallucinations that only appeared in their minds, which they believed in unwaveringly. Moreover, to some infected individuals, normal humans turned into distorted and terrifying monsters, combined with the constant erosion of their sanity, they often exhibited aggressive behavior towards nearby normal people... even committing slaughter.