Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 736 - 32: Mild Anomalization

"Hahaha..." Another psychologist laughed dryly a few times, "Even if we can't hold on, we have to. After all, this is our job, isn't it?"

After speaking, he looked at Ganna, "This little girl, is she a survivor of the Lake Baikal City incident? Did you bring her here for psychological consultation?"

"No, we're here to help," Sun Hang said.

"Are you a doctor too?" The psychologist looked at Sun Hang.

As for Xue Yue, he directly ignored her—the little girl looked underage, even if she was a genius who skipped several grades, she should still be in school at this age.

In his view, if the unfamiliar young man in front of him was a colleague, then the little girl following behind him was probably his student.

"No, I'm a Hunter."

"Hunter? Mysterious Creature Hunter?" The other psychologist frowned slightly, "Has the situation deteriorated to the point where we need Hunters to ensure our personal safety?"

Sun Hang didn't speak. Instead, he stepped forward and placed his hand on the psychologist who was resting, leaning against the back of the chair.

"What are you doing?" The doctor got a bit nervous, but his strength was nowhere near Sun Hang's, let alone that his position made it impossible to exert any force.

Sun Hang pressed the doctor's left shoulder with one hand and rolled up the right sleeve to the elbow with the other.

On the psychologist's right forearm, the skin had already begun to keratinize significantly, layered like scales of a reptile. In the gaps between the scales, there were grotesque and disgusting wart-like growths—a single glance was enough to make one's scalp tingle.

The room fell silent.

In the next second, several black gun muzzles popped out from inside Ganna's mechanical prosthetic, aimed at the doctor whose arm had mutated, while another psychologist lunged for the alarm button on the table.

But before his finger could touch the alarm button, several centimeters away, dozens of fungal threads tangled around his arm, preventing him from pressing further.

"Don't panic," Sun Hang said calmly, "Since the mysterious creature meme monitoring device in the consultation room hasn't sounded an alarm, it means your infection symptoms are still mild."

"Why...why..." The psychologist who was held down had a look of collapse, "I've been infected?! This...this is impossible..."

"Xue Yue, his negative emotions are about to explode; calm him down," Sun Hang said. "The other one's condition isn't right either. He's too nervous; let's do them together."

"Okay." Xue Yue nodded, and then the black mist surrounding the two psychologists showed a strange siphon phenomenon, converging into a nearly black thin line, extracting from their bodies like peeling silk, which then entirely entered Xue Yue's body.

Sun Hang could clearly feel their originally soaring heart rates nearing two hundred quickly dropping, and the ferocious expression of the doctor he was holding down gradually calming.

"Don't panic," Sun Hang repeated, "Being tense solves nothing. You're handling this work; you should know negative emotions exacerbate anomaly phenomena... So, try to stay calm, understood?"

The psychologist being held down nodded vigorously.

"Do you need me to call the camp staff in Dubhe Tower?" Ganna also retracted his weapons, asking seriously.

"No rush for now." Sun Hang released the psychologist but the man remained in the reclining chair posture, not daring to move.

Sun Hang stood up, walked to the wall, and took down the portable device used for monitoring mysterious creature memes—only when the device was within two meters of the psychologist did it start to sound an alarm with "beep beep beep" noises.

"The meme frequency response is weak; that's good news," Sun Hang said.

"Good news?!"

"It means your infection level is low, and the infection progress is stable," Sun Hang said, "In a short time, it shouldn't enter an accelerated phase. If controlled, you can continue living as an infected person or as a Mysterious Creature Hunter."

Upon hearing he wouldn't turn into an anomaly or mysterious creature, the psychologist immediately breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Then...what do I do now?"

"To be safe, I'll have someone take you back to Dubhe Tower. The diagnostic equipment and treatment methods there are the best in the federation... Considering you're 'emotionally susceptible,' I suggest you periodically go to the Yellow Road Layer Liuxu District," Sun Hang said.

"Emotionally susceptible? Yellow Road Layer Liuxu District?" The psychologist looked puzzled at Sun Hang, "Can you...explain this..."

"Emotionally susceptible means you tend to experience anomaly phenomena after enduring a lot of negative emotions," Sun Hang pointed to the other psychologist, "Actually, you and your colleague have endured about equal amounts of negative emotions, but his body didn't exhibit anomalous phenomena. It means his 'resistance' is stronger than yours."

While Sun Hang explained, the other psychologist hurriedly rolled up his sleeves, nervously checking his arms. After examining his arms, he seemed still uneasy and squatted to roll up his pant legs.

"As for the Yellow Road Layer Liuxu District I mentioned...do you now feel that the negative emotions 'stored' inside of you have decreased significantly?"

The two psychologists exchanged glances and nodded in unison.

"She absorbed your negative emotions," Sun Hang pointed at Xue Yue, "She's... a special psychic, emerging from a research institution affiliated with Dubhe Tower. This research institution is set in the Yellow Road Layer Liuxu District, and for 'susceptible people' like you, especially those showing anomaly signs, I recommend registering at that institution. The head of the institution should provide a reliable treatment plan."

The leader mentioned by Sun Hang was naturally Lin Lun, currently the second person among humans besides Sun Hang himself who can "see" negative emotions with the naked eye.

"It's similar to serious kidney patients needing periodic dialysis?" Ganna asked, muttering under his breath, "Yellow Road Layer Liuxu District... I remember it as Chunming City's known slum? When was a research institution set up there?"

[P.S. There might be another update later.]