"Hard to say..." Sun Hang shook his head. "Can I go in?"

"What do you want to do?" Yang Qi asked.

"Try and see if this guy can communicate."

"How do you plan to try?" Yang Qi asked again.

"What else can I do? Just go and talk to her directly, see if she responds." Sun Hang said, "Besides, a large part of the negative emotions that turned her into a mysterious creature are due to her resentment towards me. She probably won't ignore me, right?"

"What you should worry about is whether she'll suddenly go crazy when she sees you," Yang Qi said.

"Even if she goes crazy, you should have a way to calm her down, right?" Sun Hang glanced at the large aluminum alloy boxes stacked in the corner, filled with tools for dealing with mysterious creatures, including but not limited to 12.7mm caliber lead core armor-piercing tranquilizers… Despite most mysterious creatures having significant resistance to these tranquilizers.

"The highest security measure here right now is you," Yang Qi said, "I advise you to be cautious."

"It's not a big deal... You haven't even put this thing in the Class A containment zone, which means it's not that threatening in your eyes, is it?"

"Do you really want to go in?" Yang Qi confirmed again.

"Otherwise, are you planning to bombard it with noise all night?" Sun Hang retorted.

"Alright then... If something unexpected happens, try to spare it, can you do that?" Yang Qi asked.

"If I wanted to kill it, I would've done it back at the placement camp."

...

Yang Qi led Sun Hang around to one side of the laboratory, where there was a hidden door. Opening the hidden door, then passing through a dark and narrow corridor, and opening the 340mm thick alloy gate at the end of the corridor, would allow access to the experimental area where Chen Hongjuan was located.

Yang Qi groped around the wall of the corridor for a while, found a hidden latch, and pressed it. The wall then opened, revealing a storage cabinet hidden within the wall.

"There are Level 4 standard all-purpose protective suits in the cabinet, along with some emergency tools and weapons," Yang Qi said.

"I don't need it." Sun Hang waved his hand.

"Then be careful." After saying this, Yang Qi exited the corridor.

After the hidden door closed, Sun Hang placed his palm on the sensor lock of the alloy gate.

"Scanning palm print... Comparing with database... Identity confirmed, Mysterious Creature Hunter Sun Hang, serial number 0420, permission level: highest."

With the sound of hydraulic pistons pushing inside the gate, the door panel, which weighed several tons, slightly retreated half an inch, and a sliver of light seeped through the crack.

Sun Hang slowly pushed open the gate and walked inside.

The walls of the laboratory were all made of one-way glass, just like the room where Sun Hang was once confined. From the inside looking out, the walls appeared as large mirrors, while from the outside looking in, the room's interior could be fully seen.

With a thought, the large mirror not far away turned into transparent glass, and he could see Yang Qi and other researchers standing behind the glass, watching him intently with tense expressions.

"Relax," Sun Hang said to the glass.

The outside sound couldn't come in, but the inside sound could be transmitted out.

Sun Hang walked up to Chen Hongjuan, first removing her ear muffs, then her VR glasses.

The blood blisters that once covered Chen Hongjuan's face had all burst, turning into layers of dead skin sticking to the surface. A pair of swollen, pus-filled eyes stared like copper bells, fixedly gazing at Sun Hang appearing in the field of vision...

The next second, Chen Hongjuan began to struggle violently, letting out a meaningless growl from her throat, seemingly in an extremely frenzied state.

"What's the situation?" Sun Hang turned his head slightly, eyeing Yang Qi outside with his peripheral vision.

"Brain waves are experiencing violent fluctuations! Even more prominent than when it heard those key sounds and saw those documents before... Besides that, its memetic frequency is also starting to change, although not obviously, it is changing indeed… This seems to be a sign of secondary enigmification." Yang Qi's voice came through Sun Hang's earpiece.

"Secondary enigmification? What's that?"

"The transformation of normal things into mysterious creatures is what we call primary enigmification, and secondary enigmification is when a mysterious creature already fully enigmified undergoes a memetic mutation in a different direction… You can think of it as the evolution or mutation of a mysterious creature. The Bloody Mary you encountered in the amusement park basement was a product of the first Bloody Mary's secondary enigmification, and although its changes were not large, it shed the fatal weakness of fearing fire, making it harder to deal with than the original Bloody Mary."

"But wasn't that thing still turned to ash by Mr. Wang?"

"What killed Bloody Mary was not the dragon flame, but the black dragon meme attached to the dragon flame," Yang Qi said, "Be careful, what Chen Hongjuan will turn into afterward is completely unpredictable… To be safe, after the experiment ends, maybe it should be moved to the Class A containment zone."

"Are there any conditions for secondary enigmification?" Sun Hang asked again.

"Not clear, both external and internal factors play a role, there's no unified explanation," Yang Qi replied, "Some mysterious creatures self-destruct during secondary enigmification, and then completely wither away; others turn into completely different forms after secondary enigmification… However, for most mysterious creatures, secondary enigmification is equivalent to a form of enhancement, just like organisms adaptively evolving to their environment."

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