Trickster Hunter

Chapter 25 Reflection

"They don't look like the members of the survey team... No, they don't even look like normal people." Yang Qi frowned, "'Night Fury', can you feel their life breath?"

"No, if I block my vision, they don't exist in my perception." Wang Xiyi shook her head.

"Tsk, they're not even energy bodies..." Yang Qi frowned even tighter.

"Could they be ghosts?" 0401 took a breath of cold air, "This is really weird..."

"If the 'ghosts' you mentioned really exist, they should be classified as 'Xin-type' weird things, which are commonly known as 'spiritual body type' or 'energy type'... But these figures don't even have energy sensing..." Yang Qi shook her head gently, "That means... they really might... just be 'shadows'."

"Take a closer look." Wang Xiyi said.

"Don't, don't..." 0401 said with a cowardly face, "I think, why don't we observe from a distance first?"

"I agree." Sun Hang nodded.

"That's right, it's too dangerous to approach directly..."

0401 hadn't finished speaking when Sun Hang interrupted him: "I mean, I agree with the proposal of 'Night Fury'."

"Ah?" 0401 was stunned for a moment, and the whole person shrank in the back seat.

"Are you afraid of ghosts?" Wang Xiyi looked at him and asked.

"Not... not afraid, but these shadows... I always feel... creepy when I look at them." 0401 replied.

"Shadows themselves are not scary." Sun Hang said.

Sun Hang found that he seemed to have an ability to detect strange things or infected people - that is his "appetite".

In Sun Hang's view, those mutant wild wolves affected by the blood moon just now can only be regarded as "edible, but not delicious" at best.

If the bloody rose is a delicious dessert that makes people salivate, then Wang Xiyi is a dish of top-quality ingredients... As for those wild wolves, they are just a little meat on the legs of mosquitoes.

The shadows not far away gave Sun Hang the first feeling that they were "inedible".

According to the research institute, as long as it is a weird thing, there must be something called "meme" (or concept) on it. The reason why the weird virus can infect other things is that it copies the "meme" on the weird thing and transmits it to other things.

And the weird thing "Taotie" with serial number "Bingjiu" feeds on these memes.

Sun Hang could not detect the existence of memes on these shadows.

So, they are not weird things, nor are they infected by the weird virus.

"If you are afraid, you can stay in the car." Wang Xiyi opened the car door and jumped out first.

Sun Hang and Yang Qi also got out of the car together.

"Wait, wait for me!" Seeing that the three people had gotten off the car, 0401 climbed down hurriedly.

"Aren't you afraid of those shadows?" Yang Qi looked at him and asked curiously.

"It's more terrifying to stay in the car alone..." 0401 murmured, "Don't you know that in those horror movies, the characters left alone are the first to die..."

"It seems to make sense." Yang Qi unexpectedly did not refute, "At least, if you follow us, we won't watch you being swallowed by the monster."

After getting off the car, Wang Xiyi did not stop and walked straight towards the figures.

When she was still a few steps away from the swaying figures, she stopped.

"It seems that they are really shadows." Wang Xiyi picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the figures.

The stone passed through the figures without any hindrance, fell to the ground, and bounced forward a short distance.

Sun Hang also walked closer.

He found that these figures were just some human-shaped shadows that were slightly darker than the surrounding environment and suspended on the ground. They swayed slightly, as if there was a water surface in the air that was perpendicular to the ground and could not be observed, and these shadows were just reflections projected on this vertical water surface.

As the water surface fluctuated, these reflections also moved along.

"Prepare for a direct contact experiment." Wang Xiyi looked back at Yang Qi, "Make a good record."

"Try to be careful... Hey." Yang Qi turned on the camera she carried with her and then let out a light "Hey."

"These shadows can't be photographed?" Sun Hang had almost guessed the answer. He leaned over to take a look. Sure enough, there was only Wang Xiyi standing there in the camera's picture, and the figures close to her did not appear at all.

"Just like those 'non-existent' pictures you see on TV." Yang Qi nodded slightly, "It can only be observed by the naked eye, and cannot be recorded by optical imaging equipment."

"Lucky, maybe this is the breakthrough point." Sun Hang nodded.

Wang Xiyi took out two syringes from the small bag tied to her leg. One was the enhanced serum from Sun Hang, and the other was the beast inhibitor that exuded a strong "coriander smell".

She clamped the two syringes between the fingertips of her right hand, and then slowly reached out to the figure in front of her with her left hand.

Yang Qi and 0401 had held their breath and stared at Wang Xiyi's movements intently.

Like the stone, Wang Xiyi's left hand went straight through the figure, and nothing happened.

"I can't feel anything." Wang Xiyi said.

"Try to stir it." Yang Qi sighed and said.

Wang Xiyi gently stirred her right hand, but the shadow did not change, and even the frequency of shaking did not change.

She took her hand back and shook her head at Yang Qi.

"Let me do it." Sun Hang stepped forward, "Since these shadows are somewhat similar to the pictures on TV, maybe they will react to me."

"That's right, after all, you are the one who has a 'resonance'." Yang Qi nodded.

Sun Hang took a deep breath, followed Wang Xiyi's example, put his five fingers together into a palm knife shape, and inserted it into the chest of a figure.

At the moment when his fingertips touched the figure, Sun Hang seemed to feel that time had stopped for a short time.

Then, he found that the light and shadow around him changed rapidly at a speed that was difficult for human perception to capture. Light and darkness kept switching, as if a long shot that recorded tens of thousands of days and nights was compressed into just a few seconds.

Sun Hang was shocked to find that the figure he touched actually had a vague human appearance - in the few seconds when light and darkness changed rapidly, he quickly changed from a young man to a middle-aged man with a big belly, and then turned into a white-haired old man... until he turned into a white skeleton.