Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 892 - 118: Fury

"What a pity..." Candle Dragon looked at the power armor that had already been completely wrapped into a huge cocoon by cordyceps mycelium and sighed.

"What’s so pitiful about it? Just a brute." Ya Qiaoxi’s eye twitched twice. "If this guy hadn’t run into such a good client like the Chen Family, he’d probably have been left rotting in some wilderness long ago. And it’s only because Chen Dazhuang is such a loyal guy that every time this idiot got seriously injured, he poured in all his resources to treat him... It’s just that this time, there’s nothing Chen Dazhuang can do to save him."

At this moment, Chen Jing, who was still sweeping Sector Four, also saw Jin Hongyi’s condition and couldn’t help letting out a heart‑wrenching scream: "Mr. Jin... Uncle Jin!!"

"I don’t even know what to say." Nagano Souta also sighed. "I’ve dealt with Jin Hongyi a few times. Aside from his tendency to charge in headfirst, he can be said to be the most suitable person to be a friend—no, to be a brother—among everyone I’ve met in this world... As for why this happened, I don’t know if it’s because he trusted Bai’s Military Industry’s power armor too much, or because he underestimated these Fungus Puppets..."

"People who keep taking risks will definitely die because of one." Ya Qiaoxi said, "The Chen Family spoiled him too much on normal days. You could say he’s just reaping what he sowed."

"You seem to have quite an opinion about Jin Hongyi?" Sun Hang glanced at Ya Qiaoxi and asked.

"He once got into a fight with someone in my bar. I think it was because another table of drinkers was complaining that Chen Group Trading Company was controlling the prices of some goods in Dragon City. Those guys were talking pretty harshly, and Jin Hongyi just started a fight with them on the spot and trashed my place as well." Ya Qiaoxi shrugged. "Although the Chen Family later compensated me for everything, I still had to close for half a month just to renovate... Anyway, with customers like him, I couldn’t be more unwilling to have them."

"He’s not dead yet." Xue Yue, who had barely spoken this whole time and whose presence had basically dropped to a ridiculous low, suddenly spoke up. "I can feel his emotions... they’re intense."

"Emotions?" Sun Hang froze, then immediately activated the special vision that allowed him to see human negative emotions. He saw that within that huge lump of mycelium and flesh, a crimson shadow shot straight into the sky, and from a distance it looked like a blood‑red pillar of light.

Of course, that pillar of light could only be seen by Sun Hang and Xue Yue... To everyone else, Jin Hongyi was already as dead as one could possibly be.

"What intense emotions? What are you talking about?" Ya Qiaoxi looked at Xue Yue, then at Sun Hang, completely confused.

The next second, a roar that shook the entire battlefield drowned out all gunfire, explosions, and shouts of killing. That blood‑red pillar of light exploded outright, like a surge of crimson ocean spreading outward from Jin Hongyi as the center.

The huge mass of flesh made up of dozens of Fungus Puppets blew apart with a boom, and a lithe, blood‑soaked figure appeared in everyone’s field of view.

The set of power armor on Jin Hongyi’s body was gone. Replacing it were knotted, bulging muscles and blood‑colored mist constantly spraying out of his pores. Many blood‑oozing cracks had opened up on his chest and back, and inside those cracks were eyeballs glaring angrily in all directions... Because of these eyeballs, the blood flowing from those openings instantly turned into bloody tears, radiating a feeling that was both bizarre and violently feral.

"Ugh—aaah—!!!"

All the muscles over Jin Hongyi’s body tightened, and he let out another roar that shook the heavens. Fungus Puppets that were relatively close to him were literally blasted away by the sound waves!

"I feel like I’m going deaf!" Ya Qiaoxi clamped her hands tightly over her ears. "What is this, the Lion’s Roar Skill or something?"

And that still wasn’t all. The inner sides of Jin Hongyi’s forearms suddenly ejected two sharp bone blades, and crimson flames ignited along their surfaces... Without the slightest hesitation, he hurled himself into the pile of puppets and began slaughtering them, swinging those two bone blades.

"Is this... a complete aberration?" Ya Qiaoxi said as she rubbed her ears. "But I remember Jin Hongyi wasn’t an infected, right? Where did this weird memetic thing come from? It can’t be from those Fungus Puppets, can it? This doesn’t look like the same category at all."

"Could it be..." Candle Dragon looked at Sun Hang with a grave expression.

Sun Hang nodded. "It’s an emotion‑driven aberration, like those people who self‑aberrate because of extreme negative emotions... His trigger is the ultimate rage erupting from within his heart... Wait a second?"

"What is it?" Candle Dragon asked in puzzlement.

"He seems... not fully aberrated yet?"

"This isn’t fully aberrated?" Ya Qiaoxi said in astonishment. "Looking at him now, isn’t he just a walking, talking humanoid aberrant?"

Sun Hang didn’t respond.

In the shadow behind Jin Hongyi that symbolized the solidified emotion of rage, he vaguely saw a trace of clarity.

Could this guy still be retaining human reason?

The danger threshold of the infection process is the golden benchmark for judging whether an infected person has entered the "rapid mutation phase," but entering the rapid mutation phase doesn’t mean that this infected person has already become an aberrant or a ghoul. It only means he or she is racing toward that outcome at high speed.

And the true measure of whether an infected person has completely aberrated lies in his self‑awareness and cognition.

Only those whose self‑awareness and self‑cognition have been completely erased or twisted are confirmed as fully aberrated.

But in practical terms, once an infected person enters the "rapid mutation phase," the time left to them is often very short, or they’ll be directly subjected to harmless disposal... Therefore, in many people’s eyes, once the infection process breaks through the danger threshold, it already means that person has "completely aberrated."