"So, can this curse be lifted?" The fisherman pulled out a plastic ziplock bag from his pocket, holding the "Protective Talisman" with the "Shield Curse" ability - a bloody severed finger.

"Useless, this thing only acts as a preventive measure. For those already cursed, there's no salvation." Sun Hang shook his head.

Once the fisherman took out the severed finger, the Indian Hunter immediately focused his attention on it. Within seconds, his expression shifted from rage to fear, then from fear to despair.

He let out a high-pitched scream and then turned to run.

"Hey! Don't run! We won't harm you!" The fisherman shouted immediately, but the Indian Hunter showed no intention of stopping and disappeared behind the building in an instant.

"Let's chase him and see." Sun Hang said.

"Really chase him?" The fisherman hesitated slightly, "What if it's a trap?"

"Then we'll kill them all." Sun Hang said decisively.

He was actually hoping the other side would attack him first.

As long as he confirmed the other side was the enemy, whether it's killing or consuming their meme, Sun Hang wouldn't feel a shred of guilt.

Anything harboring malice towards him, whether human or supernatural entities, deserved to die.

The three immediately chased after him—the Indian Hunter ran quickly; the fisherman and Sun Hang barely kept up, but Shino was left far behind.

"This guy is running too fast!" The fisherman gasped as he spoke, "Damn, is his meme ability running?"

"No... I can sense his fear... It's a potential unleashed by strong survival instincts, to put it simply, a way of overexerting oneself." Sun Hang said while running, "Don't be fooled by his speed now, but he definitely can't stop. If he does, he'll probably faint on the spot."

"Will he just drop dead while running?" The fisherman asked worriedly.

"Can't say for sure."

"Then... should I shoot his knee?" The fisherman touched the gun slung on his back, "Breaking his leg is better than letting him exhaust himself to death."

"No need." Sun Hang shook his head and said, he couldn't be sure if the other would die of exhaustion, but since he could acquire the deceased's memories by consuming memes, the Indian Hunter's eventual fate didn't make much difference to him.

"Don't you think his escape route seems quite deliberate?" Sun Hang continued, "He didn't hesitate at several intersections; it's as if he planned this route from the start."

"So it really is a trap?!" The fisherman was taken aback, "Maybe we should stop chasing..."

"It doesn't matter; if there's an ambush, I can sense it."

After consuming the memes from Xin Ninety-Five and Chamy, Sun Hang's abilities had significantly improved, especially in perceiving supernatural entities. Without considering spiritual power consumption, his sensing radius could reach up to 120 meters in extreme situations—of course, that's the limit. Now, Sun Hang maintained a sensing radius of 50 meters, balancing his spiritual power consumption with recovery.

He sensed residual traces of supernatural memes inside many of the buildings they passed, but they were only residual traces. Even combined, these traces couldn't piece together a complete meme fragment.

...

...

Tianfu City, Star City Garden, Building Thirteen.

"Don't worry, all standby teams around have entered combat status, and the Hunters assigned to protect us are in place. 'Night Slayer' is en route." Yang Lian held a mobile phone, somewhat nervously speaking to Ye Xuan.

"I'm not worried; I'm just wondering when this guy will launch an attack." Ye Xuan glanced at Yang Lian, calmly took out a PDW from the box, and loaded it with a magazine, "You're the one who seems tense."

"I'm... I'm not tense." Yang Lian laughed dryly, "It's just a supernatural entity... Living in Tianfu City for so many years, it's not my first time dealing with them; there's nothing to fear."

"I just asked the monitoring team; as with the last time at the research lab, none of the hundreds of hidden cameras we set up in the vicinity captured that thing's movements." Ye Xuan wedged the PDW under her arm, while her other hand pressed against the Bluetooth earpiece clipped to her ear, "Seems our previous judgment was correct; that thing's appearance can't be captured by electronic devices."

The ambush team did not enter the room—in order not to alert the enemy, they would not reveal themselves until the white figure burst into the room.

According to the action plan, after the white figure launched its attack, there would be a six to seven-second interval during which the two girls would face the supernatural entity entering the room alone.

"Are the bullets in here... Professor Deng Yi's 'Li Fire'?" Yang Lian glanced at the transparent magazine of the PDW, "I thought the first batch of samples would be delivered next month."

"These are advance prototypes from Dubhe Tower, meant for this operation." Ye Xuan cautiously changed her posture on the ground, lifting the hem of her nightdress with her long white legs straight in front of Yang Lian's eyes—only now did Yang Lian realize that this girl, who usually preferred to dress in masculine attire, had skin even softer and fairer than hers.

"Will Li Fire work on that thing?" Yang Lian forced herself to look away from the other's leg, asking in a very low voice.

"Don't know, so I loaded three types of bullets in the magazine—'Li Fire', armor-piercing rounds, and hollow-point bullets. Hopefully, at least one will effectively injure it." Ye Xuan replied.

Yang Lian responded casually as she searched for topics to ease her internal tension, when suddenly her mobile phone vibrated.

"Hello?" Yang Lian immediately picked up the phone, pressing it to her ear.

"The six armed groups stationed around Building Thirteen have lost contact with headquarters! The situation has changed! You're in great danger now! Action canceled! Prepare to evacuate! We'll send armored vehicles and Hunters to pick you up downstairs!" The Field Operations Department chief urgently said on the other end of the line.

Meanwhile, the same evacuation order reached Ye Xuan's earpiece.

The two girls exchanged a glance, without uttering unnecessary words, Yang Lian grabbed the down jacket thrown on the sofa and swiftly pulled it on.

"I'll cover you." Ye Xuan said, holding the PDW.

"It should be me covering you." Yang Lian cocked her pistol, "That thing's target is you, not me."

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