"Hmm?"

"Let a supercomputer manage the entire federation... If it can resolve the issues of AI crises, viral infections, private privileges, and the computer itself being weirdly invaded, then yes, it's a pretty good proposal." Sun Hang said jokingly.

"You're too idealistic. If the federation could really solve these problems..." Yang Qi looked helplessly at the back of Sun Hang's head from the driver's seat, "We'd probably have started reclaiming lost territory long ago."

"I was just casually saying," Sun Hang slightly increased the accelerator, "In any case, I don't have to worry about such things... As a Hunter, I just need to focus on fighting."

"But I think Mr. Pei seems to want to train you as his successor?" Candle Dragon said.

"That's his problem to consider, not mine." Sun Hang grumbled, "He can't force me to learn all sorts of knowledge in management and research, can he?"

"That might not be the case..." Yang Qi said quietly.

"Then I'll play dumb." Sun Hang chuckled, "I'll act like I'm illiterate, holding an Xinhua Dictionary and blowing up my knowledge!"

"Sun Hang." At this moment, Zhong Ling suddenly spoke, "It seems something has sneaked in."

"Sneaked in? What?" Sun Hang was slightly taken aback, subdued his joking tone, and asked quietly.

"I've set up eleven mysterious cadavers around us... but now, there are twelve following us." Zhong Ling said.

"Goodness... someone's fishing in troubled waters here." Sun Hang's gaze swiftly swept across the side mirrors, but all he could see were barren rock walls and low shrubs on either side of the mountain road. Even the figure controlled by Zhong Ling was hard to spot, "Can you establish a conscious link with this 'newcomer'?"

"No." Zhong Ling shook her head, "It seems to have another control source."

"Can't you defeat it?"

"That control source has a high priority, and inside that mysterious cadaver, there seems to be another bizarre thing." Zhong Ling said.

"Alright, a pure-love warrior's ecstatic episode..." Sun Hang slowly pressed the brakes, "Let your little minions pull that fellow out."

"Won't this startle the snake?" Yang Qi closed her laptop and asked.

"When Zhong Ling tried to control that mysterious cadaver and failed, the opponent already knew it was exposed. So why should we be nice to it?"

After Sun Hang finished speaking, he pushed open the car door—just as Yang Qi thought he was going to personally catch that mysterious cadaver, Sun Hang actually walked to the roadside, unfastened his belt, and started peeing.

"You... why are you doing this now..." Yang Qi was speechless.

"Personal matters should be sorted out when you can." Sun Hang shook twice and pulled up his pants, "Because, later, you might not have time for the toilet."

Before he finished speaking, two wrestling figures rolled down from the slope on one side of the road; they hadn't even hit the ground when thousands of fungal threads surged up, wrapping them into mummy-like entities and lifting them into the air.

"Is that mysterious cadaver yours?" Sun Hang turned back and asked Zhong Ling inside the car.

"The one on your left side." Zhong Ling replied.

As the fungal threads dispersed, a slim figure with dorsal fins like Godzilla's on its back dropped down—just as it hit the ground, this mysterious cadaver rolled and got up, hunching over, glaring intensely at the other cadaver still in mummy form.

Amidst a rustling sound, several mysterious cadavers with different forms pushed aside the roadside bushes, walked to the center of the road, and surrounded the mummy-like one.

"Rare to fight few with many." Sun Hang said, "I'll loosen it, cadaver brothers, don't let it escape."

"Don't worry, it won't run." Candle Dragon also got out of the car, releasing a chilling aura that spread from him, completely enveloping this section of the road.

"Retrieve." Sun Hang mimicked Sun Wukong from Journey to the West, raised his hand in a motion of retrieval, and those tightly wound fungal threads instantly scattered, retracting into Sun Hang's body.

A cadaver lacking any obvious mutation characteristics fell down, the surrounding cadavers pounced on it, pinning it to the ground.

"Why does it seem... this cadaver is a bit weak?" Sun Hang looked at the cadaver unable to struggle, feeling a sense of using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

If judged solely by aura strength, this cadaver was only slightly stronger than the girl infected with the Taishou meme that Sun Hang encountered at the breakfast stall.

"This cadaver seems to have just transformed, its meme frequency is still very unstable." Yang Qi stared at the laptop screen—the equipment for detecting meme fluctuations was placed on the back seat, connected to the computer by a thumb-thick cable, "Moreover, it hasn't undergone specialized modification, naturally can't compare to the Puppet Master's puppet equipment."

"Speaking of which, didn't Zhong Ling mention there's another bizarre thing inside this cadaver, can your equipment detect it?" Sun Hang asked.

"Indeed, there's another discordant meme wave inside this cadaver, its strength isn't very high." Yang Qi said, "But you'd better be a bit cautious."

Sun Hang walked over, noticed that although this cadaver was wearing clothes similar to those of city dwellers, it had a green turban wrapped around its head—a characteristic attire of Qiang men, suggesting that this cadaver was likely a villager from the nearby Qiang village.

"It's a Qiang person." Candle Dragon also noticed, "There's quite a distance from Liangshui Gou, why would it be here?"

"It may not necessarily be a villager from Liangshui Gou Village..." Sun Hang murmured, "Which is the nearest Qiang village to our location now?"

"Qiujiawan." Yang Qi opened the electronic map, "Just take the right fork at the intersection we just passed and drive five kilometers."

"Deploy drones to Qiujiawan!" Sun Hang immediately said.

"Are you suspecting Qiujiawan too..."

"No suspicion, I'm certain!" Sun Hang said, "Those bureaucratic fools have wasted too much time... If we delay further, whether there are living people in this mountain will be a question!"

"Drones will reach the skies above Qiujiawan in about four minutes." Yang Qi said gravely, "I've already notified the Lizhou City Management Committee, but..."

"Enough with the buts, did they tell you we need to find concrete evidence, and at least provide sufficient footage to prove abnormalities in other villages, right?"

"Uh..." Yang Qi nodded.

"Directly send this information to Tianfu City!" Sun Hang flipped his right hand; a sharp liquid scalpel instantly appeared at his fingertips, "Where's the thing inside this cadaver?"

"The brain." Yang Qi promptly said.

"Hold this guy down for me, don't let it move." After Sun Hang finished speaking, he sliced the cadaver's skull open like cutting clay.

On the withered, shriveled brain tissue laid a blob of sticky stuff... This thing looked both like a semi-dehydrated starfish and an enlarged nerve cell.

It was almost translucent, with eight synapses (or tentacles) tightly wrapping around the cadaver's brain, the ends of the synapses penetrated into the brain tissue.

"Eight synapses..." Sun Hang tilted his head, closely inspecting this strange organism.

The more he looked, the more he felt... this thing was like a melted spider.

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