Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 697 13: Xue Yue

"I... I am..."

The young girl lowered her head, speaking indistinctly. Just as Sun Hang was growing impatient, she suddenly turned and tried to run away again.

When the girl was dragged back by the mycelium for the second time, she noticeably became much more obedient.

"You're a supernatural entity, not a human, right?" Sun Hang stepped on the girl's back with one foot, pressing her against the cold metal pipeline wall and asked.

The girl's head moved slightly, barely making a nod. The delicate skin on her cheek rubbed against the rough-textured metal pipeline wall, adding a few more scratches.

"Why aren't you transforming into that form again to escape?" Sun Hang continued to ask, "Can you switch freely between a human body and a Spirit Body?"

"There's... a limit... only once... a day..." It seemed that Sun Hang's foot was pressing against her lungs, making it extremely difficult for the girl to breathe, even speaking was a struggle.

Seeing this, Sun Hang removed his foot from the girl and instead used a finger-thick strand of taishui mycelium to apply a Turtle Shell Binding on her, attaching the other end of the mycelium to the top of the pipeline, suspending the girl in mid-air.

"Since you're a supernatural entity, where did you get this human body from?" Sun Hang continued to ask, "Could it be that supernatural entities are like the spirits in those strange tales, able to transform into human form after reaching a certain stage? By the way, do you need my blessing when transforming into human form?"

The girl suspended in mid-air stared at Sun Hang with a look of terror, unable to speak.

"To be honest, your facade isn't bad, but it's still missing something." Sun Hang said to himself, "If you came to me for blessing, I could definitely add a ton of highly attractive tags for you, rather than being barren like the Gobi Desert in the Tarim Basin as you are now."

"I... I... this body..." The girl stammered, "I... stole... stole it."

"Stole it?" Sun Hang was slightly taken aback, "Is it possession? Where did you steal it from? Confess honestly!"

"From... the morgue at... Chunming City Sixth Hospital."

"...The morgue?" Sun Hang looked her up and down again; before, he just thought her skin was very pale, but now it seemed unnaturally so—not like Anna's moonlight-like luster, but rather a ghastly pale filled with the aura of death.

Yet another question arose—Sun Hang could clearly sense a more vigorous life force flowing within the girl than in ordinary people, nothing like a corpse should have.

Not to mention, the wounds on her body were oozing fresh blood.

"Did you steal a body?"

"I... I wanted to... survive... in human society..." the girl whispered, "So I had no choice... I couldn't help it... the body had just recently died... it hadn't started to decay yet..."

"Main Brain, what's the typical sentence for the crime of corpse theft?"

"According to Article 302 of the Xiazhou Federation Penal Code, theft, insult, or intentional destruction of a corpse, skeleton, or ashes shall be punishable by up to three years in prison, detention, or control. Additionally, according to Article 1095 of the Supplemental and Revised Documents of the Chunming City Regional Legal Details, those who violate Article 302 of the Penal Code shall be fined between one thousand and fifty thousand yuan, and all citizen rights shall be frozen until all fines are paid. If the violator is a public official, the corresponding unit's internal meeting shall also decide on additional disciplinary actions," the Main Brain immediately replied.

"What if the violator isn't human, but a supernatural entity?"

"Supernatural entities are not subject to federal law," the Main Brain stated matter-of-factly, "If a supernatural entity is found violating federal law, depending on the situation, it should be either eradicated or contained and then handed over to official supernatural entity research institutions for processing."

"No... don't..." Upon hearing the Main Brain's response, the girl immediately begged, "Don't hand me over to a research institution..."

"So what you're saying is, you want me to 'neutralize' you instead?" Sun Hang looked at the girl, flashing a smile that was almost a smirk.

"I don't want to die!" the girl shook her head desperately, "I've never harmed anyone! I've never done anything bad! Really! I'm not lying to you!"

It seemed that the instinct to survive made even her speech become clear.

But... do supernatural entities have a survival instinct? Or is it that after possessing a human body, a supernatural entity's self-awareness becomes gradually influenced, even assimilated by the human mode of thinking?

Is this considered the supernatural infecting humans, or humans infecting the supernatural?

Sun Hang lightly shook his head, dismissing these strange thoughts from his mind, then seriously asked, "If you want to survive, you can, as long as you answer all my questions without reservation, I promise to leave you a path to live."

"I will! I'll tell you everything!" the girl responded eagerly.

"What exactly are you?"

"Me?" Unexpectedly, the first question left the girl dumbfounded. After pondering for several seconds, she answered with an uncertain tone, "I... I don't know what I am either. According to humans, I should be some type of supernatural entity... but I don't know what kind of supernatural entity I am."

"You don't know where you came from?" Sun Hang showed a peculiar expression. For some reason, he always felt that the supernatural entity possessing the girl's body gave off an air of confusion.