Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 874 - 109: Selfie Stick

In the terrified eyes of the crowd, this man bent down, using his hand to support the chair back beside him and started coughing violently.

The tainted blood, mixed with dark brown fragments of flesh, spattered onto the ground and the "corpse" of the female hunter.

The carriage immediately erupted into chaos.

"He’s infected! He’s been infected by that woman’s meme!"

"He is also a Hunter! It’s secondary infection!"

"What is the infection route? Blood transmission or contact transmission? It can’t be airborne, can it?"

The crowd plunged into panic instantly, many subconsciously covering their mouths and noses, and some even pulled out gas masks from their bags.

He Dawei’s eyes also flashed a trace of panic. He quickly yanked his backpack, took out protective gear like masks and gloves, and swiftly put them on while saying to the other three, "Hurry up! Put on any protective gear you have! Who the hell knows how that meme spreads?"

Many hunters and mercenaries stood up, rushing to the front and back of the carriage, all wishing they could be a little further away from these two individuals.

"Help... cough cough... help me... cough cough cough!!!" The man’s words were interrupted by another fit of coughing.

This time, he directly coughed out a palm-sized piece of organ fragment, covered in dark blood. Once it hit the ground, it wriggled like a slug, crawling towards the nearest hunter.

"Don’t come any closer!" The hunter’s face turned pale with fear. He wanted to retreat, but the space behind him was already crowded with people, leaving no room for him to move back.

In desperation, he took off his thin jacket, threw it to the ground, covering the wriggling organ fragment, and then stomped down hard!

"Squish—Pop!" A crisp cracking sound came from the jacket, and deep red bloodstains instantly spread over the backside of the fabric.

The pale-faced hunter immediately withdrew his foot and stepped back a few paces.

The people behind him quickly moved aside, as if terrified of touching him.

"Take off your shoes too!" another hunter called to him, "In case the soles accidentally touched the tainted blood..."

"Yeah, better safe than sorry. Your jacket is soaked in blood, so the soles must be dirty too!"

The hunter hesitated for a moment but then took off his shoes and tossed them forward.

The infected man seemed not to have lost his senses entirely. He was still making weak calls for help, and black beads of blood began seeping out from the pores of his skin.

Cheng Ming’s breathing halted momentarily.

For a fleeting instant, the man’s image overlapped with that of his deceased colleague.

Both were bleeding out from their pores... the only difference was probably the color: the blood from Cheng Ming’s colleague was bright red, while the blood seeping from this man’s pores was as black as ink.

"Wei, what should we do?" Shen Rui asked, clutching a power bank tightly.

"If worse comes to worst, we break the window and jump off the train." He Dawei’s voice was muffled beneath the gas mask.

"Jump off the train, are you crazy?" Yu Duo’s eyes widened, "This is a high-speed train, at 350 kilometers per hour! Even hunters with physical enhancement memes would lose a layer of skin if not die from jumping at this speed! As for us... how likely do you think it is we’d survive jumping off the train?"

"Zero," Cheng Ming said, "Jumping off is a dead end."

"Then tell me, where is our way out now?" He Dawei looked at Cheng Ming.

"Wait," Cheng Ming said, "The infection route seems to require direct blood-to-skin contact. If it were airborne, everyone in this carriage should’ve shown symptoms already. As long as we don’t touch the blood of those infected, we shouldn’t get infected."

"Just wait around? Do nothing?" Shen Rui asked.

"Yes... until the next station, let the professionals handle it," Cheng Ming said.

"But we are hunters... aren’t we the ’professionals’?" Shen Rui asked again.

"We are worth nothing!" He Dawei cursed under his breath, "If there were really a master in this carriage, they’d have acted by now. We wouldn’t have a bunch of people huddling in the corner like quails, would we?"

With He Dawei’s scolding, Shen Rui’s face grew even paler. He never expected that on his first mission, he would encounter something like this... He frantically recalled various emergency response strategies that the instructors had taught them during training, but no matter how hard he thought, he couldn’t figure out how to deal with the current situation.

Not just him, even the experienced "old hunter" He Dawei couldn’t come up with a solution now, and the other hunters in the carriage opted for the same approach as Cheng Ming — to wait.

At least He Dawei wasn’t wrong in saying one thing — there truly weren’t any masters in this carriage.

Those elite hunters or top figures among the Free Hunters with names and reputations had their specialized means of transportation to Dragon City; they didn’t have to squeeze into the high-speed train with so many people... and in this carriage, the most experienced hunter had only completed six tasks at most.

In a sense, He Dawei and Cheng Ming, who have completed four tasks, could indeed be considered among the more experienced in this carriage.