"Time, production, transformation..." Sun Hang muttered to himself, "I think I know where the problem lies."

"What do you mean?" Candle Dragon hurriedly asked.

"This thing might not be able to transform the finished product into a mysterious creature, but if it exerts influence during the production process..."

Sun Hang immediately put his idea into action—a ghostly blue flame ignited in his hand, and the stainless steel dining fork quickly melted into a ball of molten steel suspended in his palm.

Sun Hang began to imagine another shape in his mind, and meanwhile, the dark red square crystal was also lifted by an invisible force.

Seeing the crystal react, both Candle Dragon and Wang Xiyi, standing at a distance, held their breath.

The red crystal rotated a few times in mid-air, then pointed one of its corners at the reshaping fork... faintly, Sun Hang seemed to see a thin red light strip connecting the two together.

Sun Hang could feel that the meme inside the crystal was not transmitted into the molten steel via the light strip, but a completely new meme, with a frequency entirely different from the crystal substance, appeared out of nowhere within the molten steel.

In just a few seconds, the molten steel had transformed into a roughly crafted spoon, and the red crystal again fell back into Sun Hang's palm.

"Has this spoon become a mysterious creature now?" Wang Xiyi couldn't help asking.

Among the three, she had the weakest ability to sense the aura of mysterious creatures, and the recent anomaly forced her to maintain a safe distance from the red crystal... to the point where she couldn't sense any changes occurring on the fork—no, it should now be called a spoon.

"It seems like there's a faint trace of mysterious creature aura." Candle Dragon nodded, "But it's really weak... so weak that it could easily be overlooked."

Sun Hang caught the spoon falling from mid-air, and as his fingers touched it, related information instantly surfaced in his mind.

"Although this thing is weak, if it circulates among the public, it could still cause significant harm." Sun Hang said, tossing the spoon to Candle Dragon.

"Oh? What are its characteristics?" Candle Dragon caught the spoon and examined it with interest.

"If you use this thing for eating, each bite will intensify your hunger slightly... continued use will gradually erode a person's normal perception of food intake, and hunger will completely dictate the user's thoughts." Sun Hang said, "If no one stops them, the user will continue eating, even if their stomach bursts."

"What if there's not enough food?" Wang Xiyi asked, "Would they end up eating the spoon too?"

"That I'm not sure about, maybe you can reference the state of drug addicts during an episode." Sun Hang spread his hands.

"To a Hunter, it's just an ordinary object-type mysterious creature." Candle Dragon said, "But to regular people, it's definitely a dangerous item... after all, no one would attribute 'acute hyperphagia' to the patient's utensils."

But a Hunter like Candle Dragon could use it as a regular spoon.

Although in academia, mysterious creatures are rarely given explicit intensity grades, in the world of mysterious creatures, memes indeed have hierarchical distinctions, with high-tier, high-intensity memes easily suppressing low-tier, low-intensity memes.

If Candle Dragon's meme is "Shatri," then the meme of this spoon is absolutely "Dalit"... belonging to the very bottom tier of the pyramid.

"Speaking of which, what do you plan to do with this thing?" Candle Dragon asked, "As the holder of the Taotie meme, you must want to devour it, right?"

"Devouring it... is a bit like a card drawing game." Sun Hang said, "If lucky, you can fully acquire the crystal's ability, if unlucky, then you might only get the 'younger version'... and if even luckier, you'll have to admit defeat."

"So, you're planning to keep it?"

"If this thing can mass-produce mysterious creatures, it would just be an unlimited supply of ingredients for me, wouldn't it?" Sun Hang weighed the crystal in his hand, "Let's keep it for now, maybe it can serve as emergency reserve food in critical times, wouldn't you agree?"

In the past, Sun Hang would certainly choose to devour it... because even if he didn't, this thing would most likely be taken by people from Dubhe Tower, and their rewards and compensation wouldn't match the value of the crystal itself.

But now, Sun Hang can freely choose from Dubhe Tower's collection, so it's merely a matter of words for him to decide to keep this thing.

Sun Hang rose from his throne and descended, but after a few steps, he noticed the crystal's aura in his hand was swiftly weakening, and the red glow inside was dimming, almost to extinction...

"Eh?"

Sun Hang paused, tentatively stepping back, and the crystal's aura immediately revived.

"Could it be..." Sun Hang glanced back at the bone throne behind him.

Is this bone throne also a mysterious creature? Or perhaps... the bone throne combined with the crystal constitutes a complete mysterious creature?

"A symbiotic type of mysterious creature?"

Sun Hang placed the crystal on the bone throne, and the red glow within the crystal instantly returned to the brightness it had when Sun Hang first acquired it.

At that moment, the sound of engines and tires scratching the ground came from within the tunnel, two armored off-road vehicles marked with the Celestial City Mysterious Creature Research Institute emblem entered the underground hall, and over a dozen fully armed field agents swiftly jumped from the cars.

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