Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 847 - 91: Gambling Addict_2

He seemed to have been hungry for a long time, with a bony frame covered with pale skin stretched over it, looking like a sprinting skeleton. Gray-white long hair hung down, and amidst the filthy strands, a pair of green fluorescent eyes locked tightly onto Sun Hang.

Before Sun Hang had a chance to speak, the infected person lunged at him like a wild beast, opening his mouth to bite Sun Hang’s throat!

Sun Hang immediately raised his arm, and liquid metal instantly formed a shield on his arm, protecting his vital areas.

"Clang!"

The infected person’s teeth bit down hard on the shield, producing a crisp sound.

Almost instinctively, Sun Hang lifted his leg and kicked the infected person away.

Retracting the shield, Sun Hang quickly followed. Before the infected person, who had been kicked to the ground, could get up, he stepped on the person’s torso.

The Taixu Fungus surged wildly, and in the blink of an eye, it wrapped the opponent up like a dumpling.

"Can you understand me?" Sun Hang used a military knife to lift the messy hair off the person’s face, shouting a question.

"Ow...ow...uh ah...ah..." The infected person’s face was extremely twisted, with eyes emitting a strange green light glaring at Sun Hang, while emitting incomprehensible low growls from his throat.

Sun Hang realized this guy probably had already lost the ability to speak.

Without any scruples towards the enemy, Sun Hang used the Mind Reading Technique. However, after a few seconds, he discovered the person not only had lost the ability to speak but also the ability to think.

The actions of this infected person were completely driven by biological instincts—he lunged at Sun Hang purely because he regarded Sun Hang as edible prey. The only emotion Sun Hang could decipher from his thoughts was hunger.

When hunger reaches a certain point, it can also form negative emotions—that’s where the intense negative emotion Xue Yue perceived earlier came from.

"This person is completely mad." Sun Hang turned his head and said to Candle Dragon and Xue Yue, who were standing by the elevator.

This guy even forgot how to use his abilities and weapons...

He had a tattered belt around his waist, with a multifunctional knife inserted into it, yet when this infected person attacked Sun Hang, he did not pull out the knife but instead bit with his unsharp teeth like a beast.

Most of his teeth had been knocked off by the hard shield; his mouth was full of blood, and the only remaining canine tooth was about to fall out.

Normal communication and Mind Reading Technique were both ineffective, so Sun Hang had to use the last resort.

The fungus filaments that bound the infected person began to wriggle, penetrating his skin like some kind of nimble parasite and drilling into his body.

The infected person’s body suddenly stiffened, and then all of his muscles relaxed in an instant, ceasing to howl or struggle.

This was a neurotoxin ability Sun Hang absorbed from Old Serpent. Although its toxicity couldn’t compare with the Scarlet Spores, when diluted, it was excellent for paralyzing prey—the toxicity of Scarlet Spores was too intense; even after diluting it tens of thousands of times, it could still kill the target in a very short time and cause severe "environmental contamination".

As Sun Hang slowly absorbed the memetic contents from the infected, the memories belonging to him began to play in Sun Hang’s mind like a slideshow.

As the entity being devoured was not yet dead, the memory information contained within these memetic elements was very complete, almost without loss, and the clarity could reach 1080P levels.

"This seems... to be in a cheap hotel? Is it in Dragon City?" Sun Hang murmured as he looked at the dim scene in front of him.

The original host’s sight glanced out of the window, and the fortress-like city walls in the distance confirmed Sun Hang’s guess.

The phone rang again, and the original host picked it up to see it was a call before quickly hanging up again, murmuring, "Damn, another debt collector, aren’t they annoying!"

As more memory scenes flowed into his mind, Sun Hang gradually understood the original host’s circumstances—this guy, although a Free Hunter, was also a gambling addict.

Every time he earned a reward for completing a task, he would go to the casino to gamble it all away, which led to his situation in Dragon City; not only did he fail to save a penny, but he also got himself into a mountain of debt.

"Gamblers never prosper," Sun Hang silently evaluated in his heart.

The phone rang once more; this time it wasn’t another creditor, because the screen showed a contact name—"Mom."

What surprised Sun Hang was that the original host hung up the call without hesitation.

A few seconds later, the original host seemed to think of something, opened a messaging app, found the contact labeled "Mom," and tapped in.

The chat history showed several missed calls, all from the other end.

The original host thought for a moment, then typed in the chat box: "Got money? Send some over."

"Mom doesn’t have money either." The reply came almost instantaneously.

Another message followed in the next second: "Mom just wanted to ask if you’re doing okay and if you’ve been hungry..."

The message seemed to have been converted from voice to text, containing many homonyms and errors, but understanding the intended meaning wasn’t difficult.

"If you don’t have money, stop bothering! I really need money now!" The original host immediately replied, "You don’t even have money for me! What’s the point in asking how I’m doing? If I’m hungry, can you buy me food?"

The original host irritably shut off the messaging app and tossed the phone aside.

After a few minutes, the sound of a transaction notification abruptly rang. The original host excitedly picked up the phone to find a transfer of 2.27 yuan had been received.

Mom: "This is what I saved from grabbing red packets in the group chat, it’s all here..."

The original host, with a face full of disappointment, exited the messaging app, curled up on the bed, and turned over.

"..." For some reason, Sun Hang felt a distinctive discomfort with this memory.

Even though these memories weren’t his own.

After a few minutes, the original host began to nervously tug at his hair with his fingers. After a while, he suddenly sat up and slapped himself twice.

"Damn it... I’m such a beast." The original host cursed angrily, "What the hell have I done..."

"This guy... seems to have a bit of conscience still?" Sun Hang murmured uncontrollably.

"No, I must think of a way to get more money... I’ve borrowed as much as I can..." The original host got off the bed, pacing around in the tiny single room like a headless fly. "As long as I can get the money, I can definitely win this time! Once I win, Mom will have a good life too, no more like now..."

"Damn, forget what I said," Sun Hang mentally raised countless middle fingers, "a gambler is indeed a gambler, this person is beyond saving."

Just as the original host began to become hysterical, the phone he had thrown aside rang yet another time.

The original host pounced on it immediately, just like how he lunged at Sun Hang—a hungry beast.

The caller was someone labeled "Lei." The moment the call was answered, Lei’s voice came through: "Qi, I heard you’re in tight straits lately?"

"Yes, yes, Lei, I’m glad you remembered me..." The original host hurriedly replied.

"I also heard you owe Mr. Chen a lot of money, and besides Mr. Chen, there’s also..."

"Lei, can you help talk to Mr. Chen for me? This month...next month, by the end of next month, I’ll definitely pay it back!"

"How do you plan to repay it?"

"I..."

"Money won’t fall from the sky, you have to work for it, understand?" Lei said in a deep voice, "I have a job here, need to run a trip to the no-man’s land, if you can get it done, the reward is two hundred thousand, interested?"

"Yes! Of course!" The original host agreed before even listening to the task’s content.

"Two hundred thousand, I’ll take half as an agency fee, got any objections?" Lei added.

"Half?"

"If you’re not interested, I’ll find someone else," Lei said indifferently, "In Dragon City, there’s no shortage of Hunters."

"No, I’ll do it!"