Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 698 13: Xue Yue (Part 2)

The young girl shook her head: "Since I gained consciousness, I've been wandering around Chunming City... At that time, I didn't have a physical form and couldn't hide my presence... After narrowly escaping being caught by investigators and Hunters several times, I realized I needed to find a human body, so I..."

"So you sneaked into the hospital morgue and stole a corpse?"

The young girl nodded.

"What is your ability? What is the purpose of absorbing negative emotions from people?" Sun Hang asked — for a moment, he felt as if he were in a dimly lit interrogation room, where a prisoner was suspended by ropes, rotating in the air... But then again, who conducts serious interrogations using Turtle Shell Binding on prisoners?

"I can make my body intangible for a while... but it only lasts a few minutes, and after using this ability, I can't use it again for some time, with a cooldown period of about twenty-four hours." The young girl answered honestly, "As for absorbing that black mist... it's because I'm always hungry, and no matter how much human food I eat, I can't get full... Later, I discovered that absorbing that black mist would satiate me, so every once in a while, I would secretly go to crowded places to absorb those... but I assure you, I've never harmed anyone!"

"Brain unit, what do you think this mysterious creature might be?" Sun Hang glanced at his wristband and asked.

"There is no corresponding record in the database, initially speculated to be a newly discovered mysterious creature. Based on the recent conversation, it is temporarily classified as 'Xin Type·Spirit Body Type Mysterious Creature.' Would you like to establish a temporary mysterious creature file and include it in the Dubhe Tower database?"

"For now, let's not establish a file." Sun Hang waved his hand, directly releasing the mycelium that bound the young girl. With a cry of "ah," she fell heavily to the ground, and the sound of her knees hitting the metal walls of the pipes echoed endlessly within the duct.

The young girl's knees were visibly injured, with the skin thoroughly scraped off, looking a bit bloody and fleshy, but fortunately, it seemed her bones were unharmed. She struggled for a moment and managed to get up from the ground.

This time, however, she seemed to have learned her lesson, not attempting to escape again but standing obediently in place, waiting for Sun Hang to continue "interrogating" her.

"Apart from becoming intangible, don't you have any other abilities? Isn't possessing a corpse an ability in itself?" Sun Hang asked, "Since you can possess this young girl's body, you should also be able to possess others... or even other things, right?"

"I... I can't leave this body." The young girl shook her head. "I don't know why... but there's a voice inside me that always tells me if this body dies, I will also perish..."

"But hasn't this body been dead for a long time?"

"The bodily functions of this body are intact... After I possessed it, it came back to life..." the young girl said, "I don't know the mechanics of it either. At that time, my self-awareness was still very blurry, and I only acted based on the voice in my mind... But I can assure you, I've never harmed any human!"

"The voice in your mind? Is it the creator of this mysterious creature? A controller? The mastermind? Or... something akin to a biological instinct?" Sun Hang pondered, then turned to the brain unit and said, "Scan this entity's appearance, and compare it with the identity data of Federation citizens."

"A completely matched record has been found," the brain unit immediately replied, "Xue Yue, a citizen of Chunming City, born in the Yellow Calendar year 4701, female, father Xue Yang, mother Cao Tiantian, both employees of the Jin Yang Trading Group in Chunming City. Xue Yue had congenital heart disease and suffered sudden cardiac death in the Yellow Calendar year 4715. Her parents immediately sent her to Chunming City Sixth Hospital. After multiple unsuccessful resuscitations, the hospital declared Xue Yue's death, and her body was temporarily stored in the hospital morgue. However, the body mysteriously disappeared later, and the case remains unsolved, with the file number 19841594, handled by the Celestial Market Wall, Room Constellation Branch in Chunming City."

"Three years without solving the case, you must be pretty good at hiding yourself." Sun Hang circled around the young girl, and when he reached behind her, he suddenly extended his palm, placing it on the center of her back.

The young girl's body jolted in shock, and she instinctively wanted to break free, but ultimately forced herself to remain still.

"Hmm... it seems the congenital defects of the heart have all been repaired, and the repaired heart has become stronger than a normal person's, no wonder you can run so fast... The body's functions haven't aged or deteriorated, nor shown any signs of development... The original owner of the body died at the age of fifteen, which means the body should be twenty years old by now, yet it remains in the same state as when she was fifteen," Sun Hang murmured to himself, "So, your possession skill is a one-off? Is that why you treasure this body so much?"

The young girl nodded.

"You said there's a voice in your mind guiding you, does this voice still appear now?"

The young girl shook her head: "That voice... only appeared when my consciousness was very hazy, and it appeared less and less later on... After I found ways to survive in Chunming City, it hasn't appeared again... It's been nearly two years."