"Sun Hang, be careful!" Yang Qi warned, "The instrument shows that the mimetic elements inside this infected person are being stripped away, gathering onto another 'core segment' that hasn't appeared before!"

"What do you mean?" Sun Hang asked instinctively.

"It means that a new aberrant creature is forming inside her!" Yang Qi said, "This new creature is the aggregation of all those mimetic elements causing her physical deformities... As these elements are stripped from her, her body naturally returns to normal, but the newly born creature might..."

Before Yang Qi finished speaking, there was a ripping sound, and the infected person's bloated abdominal cavity was suddenly torn open. A bloody creature leaped out, lunging straight at Yang Qi's face.

However, just as it was mid-air, a large hand composed of white mycelium caught it and crushed it into meat paste.

A flash of ghostly blue flame passed over the palm of the mycelium hand, and the crushed meat paste turned to ash in an instant.

As for the mimetic elements of this new-born creature, they were all devoured by Sun Hang... Unfortunately, it carried no memory fragments.

It seems the memories belonging to this infected person did not transfer with the mimetic elements.

The infected, who had returned to her human form, lay on her side, gasping for air – the wounds on her chest and abdomen were slowly closing. Discharging the creature that gathered all the aberrant mimetic elements had exhausted all her strength... It took her a full five or six minutes to finally calm her breathing.

"Her infection process has stabilized at a very safe level." Yang Qi glanced at the instrument, "But her physical condition is not optimistic."

"Not optimistic?" Ye Xuan asked, puzzled, "Hasn't her body 'regenerated'? All those deformed parts have returned to normal, how is it not optimistic?"

"According to the test results, her aging rate... is hundreds of times that of a normal human. Although her body is now in her early twenties, in a few months, she will turn into an elderly woman." Yang Qi said, "I don't know why this is happening, it's the first time I've encountered such a situation... No similar infected person has appeared in previous records."

"Perhaps this is the price." Candle Dragon sighed softly, "To linger underground in a deformed body for hundreds of years, finally seeing the light of day and having a chance to return to human society, but now having only a few months left... Sigh."

"Hey." Sun Hang squatted down in front of the infected person, "Can you understand what I'm saying?"

Sun Hang had already made up his mind – if the other party could communicate, he would spare her life; if not... what he wanted could probably only be obtained in another way.

Even though Sun Hang was now confident in extracting part of the mimetic elements from the infected without endangering her life, it was obvious that her life was barely sustained by those aberrant mimetic elements, and extracting them would practically mean killing her.

"..." The infected person laboriously propped herself up; she instinctively tried to brush away the dirty, long hair covering her eyes, but just as she raised her hand, a flash of silver light cut her hair into strands, which fell to the ground.

Ye Xuan was slightly taken aback, immediately pointing the tactical flashlight mounted under the gun's muzzle at her face.

"Mr. Ye... be careful not to blind her," Sun Hang couldn't help but retort, "Her eyes probably haven't adjusted to the bright light yet, and the energy inside that crystal is exhausted. If she goes blind, recovery might be troublesome."

"Sorry, I didn't think this through." Ye Xuan immediately moved the light away, apologizing sincerely.

From the body parts, it was clear this infected person was female. Her face was very pale, almost devoid of any color. Although her body was still in a youthful state, her face was already covered with wrinkles, looking like an elderly woman nearing a hundred years... But then again, in terms of actual age, she indeed had surpassed a hundred years.

"Uh... uh..." The infected person strenuously opened her mouth; she evidently hadn't adapted to her new vocal cords yet, and like a mute, she "uh"-ed for a long time before barely squeezing out two words that Sun Hang and the others could understand.

"...Thank... you."

"Seems like she can communicate." Sun Hang nodded with satisfaction, "We are with the Federation Government, and we will guarantee your safety... but in return, you need to tell us everything you know, the more detailed the better."

"He... he... he's still... alive..." The infected person said with difficulty, turning her head to look into the depths of the main tunnel.

"Who is he?" Yang Qi immediately asked, "Another infected person, or?"

"He... is about... to awaken..." The infected person struggled to stand up, "You all... need... to hurry..."

Her body trembled slightly as if having a last flash of strength, her movements suddenly became fluid, she glanced at Sun Hang, turned, and ran towards the depths of the tunnel.

"Should we stop her?" Ye Xuan immediately aimed her gun at the infected person's knees.

Zhong Ling, who had remained silent, had already dispatched two aberrant skeletons, maneuvering to get ahead of the infected person.

The infected person ran a dozen steps, suddenly stopped again, and turned to look at Sun Hang and the others.

"Hurry... hurry..."

"She seems to be urging us?" Yang Qi shoved a pile of instruments back into the bag, "Does this mean she wants us to follow her?"

"Seems like it." Sun Hang nodded, "Let's go, let's follow up."

When the infected person mentioned "he" just now, Sun Hang clearly noticed a flash of dread and fear in her eyes, but more prominently, it was an intense hatred.

Is this "he" her enemy? Is she planning to use us to eliminate this enemy?

Sun Hang thought this as he started running behind the infected person.

The infected person ran faster and faster, progressively surpassing the limits of a normal human being – someone like Ye Xuan, who had received long-term military training, could barely keep pace, while non-combat personnel like Yang Qi were struggling... Not to mention she was carrying several dozen pounds of professional equipment...

Zhong Ling's physical endurance was even worse than Yang Qi's, but after all, she had her "mother" with her – Specimen 001 directly hoisted her daughter onto its shoulders, carrying her forward.

Sun Hang glanced back at Yang Qi, who had fallen to the end of the line. Although Candle Dragon had helped carry all the gear, judging by Yang Qi's expression, exhaustion was only a matter of time.

Sun Hang took three quick steps to reach her, squatted down and said, "Get on."

"Wha... what?" Yang Qi just asked and then lost her breath, starting to cough violently.

"I'll carry you. If you don't want to lose track, don't be stubborn!" Sun Hang finished speaking and ignored whether Yang Qi was willing or not, directly tying her with mycelium onto his back, then chased after the already-distant infected person.

"Mr. Yang, you look like a kidnapped maiden like this," Wang Xiyi, flying close to the ground, glanced at Yang Qi wrapped on Sun Hang's back and joked with a smile.

"Kidnapped is kidnapped..." Yang Qi accepted her fate, "Looks like after this mission, I need to enhance my physical training."

"With your current routine, enhancing physical training is just accelerating death," Sun Hang retorted, "To improve physical fitness, at least you need adequate sleep, right?"

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