"Hair, eyes, vocal cords... was that thing targeting you just now?"
Wen Wen looked towards the sewer and asked Tao Qingqing with a solemn tone.
Tao Qingqing pointed to the hair previously hidden among the bats and said, "That's right, it seemed to want to lure me into the darkness. If I hadn't been vigilant, I would have fallen for it. That strand of hair was left by that thing."
Wen Wen's palm turned dark, and he picked up the strand of hair wriggling on the ground. The hair tried to burrow into Wen Wen's glove but couldn't penetrate the Disaster Containment Facility's glove.
Then Wen Wen took out a small metal box and put the hair inside.
The metal box might not be able to contain this hair, or that strange stomach, but it could at least delay it. If he couldn't store it in the containment facility, Wen Wen didn't have many options to restrain these things for now.
Wen Wen originally thought that the strange stomach was the culprit behind the anomalies in Xihong City, but now it seemed his guess wasn't entirely correct. That stomach should only be a part of the culprit.
Besides the stomach, there were at least the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, as well as flesh, bones, and other parts.
If a single stomach was suspected of having infinite evolutionary abilities, how terrifying would the complete set of parts be?
True Sequence?
No, at least Calamity-tier!
Neighboring Liaozhou City had the Cicada Worm, whose estimated power far exceeded True Sequence, and now this Menxia Province, what was going on? Soodan Novel Network.
However, two suspected Calamity-tier entities were in adjacent cities. One only had scattered parts everywhere, while the other was fiercely attacking the church, seizing divine power...
Wen Wen shook his head. Without definite information, thinking further was meaningless.
Making wrong judgments based on incorrect intelligence could be fatal.
"Let's go to the Hunter's Association in Xihong City first. At least let them keep an eye on these two things before we proceed to the next step."
Wen Wen and Tao Qingqing arrived at the Hunter's Association in Xihong City. The association's base was located underground in a crop plantation. The entrance to the base was in a greenhouse growing cucumbers.
What Wei Ji had said earlier when he lured Tao Qingqing wasn't entirely false. The local Hunter's Association had indeed been wiped out, along with all the plantation workers.
No one saw what did it, but everyone died a gruesome death, their bones violently extracted, leaving only a pool of blood and flesh.
According to the association's investigation, all the victims were killed in a single blow. Even the captain of the disaster-level hunter team. To achieve this, one would need at least Upper Sequence strength and speed so fast that everyone couldn't react.
The weapon used by the killer was likely a cone of varying thickness, as traces of similar weapons were found throughout the base, reminding Wen Wen of the sea urchin he encountered before.
However, the place was now spotlessly clean because people from the Menxia Province Hunter's Association had taken over. Even the old man guarding the botanical garden was a middle-sequence demon hunter.
Upon seeing Wen Wen and Tao Qingqing, the old man checked their credentials before granting them passage.
Following an assistant, the two entered the base from the cucumber field. A man wearing a yellowish-brown coat quickly walked over and shook hands with Wen Wen and Tao Qingqing.
"I am Gu Daoqing, a demon hunter from the Menxia Province branch. Mr. Guitan, it's a relief that you could come and help me."
"You have no idea how much pressure I've been under these past few days. This city has gone mad. Even if I split myself into eight, I wouldn't be able to maintain order in this city alone with just my Upper Sequence strength."
Wen Wen nodded. The situation here was indeed not something a single Upper Sequence hunter could handle.
Not to mention that an anomalous event could be encountered at almost every turn, the monster that had annihilated the local hunter team was enough to put immense pressure on this Gu Daoqing.
In the entire Huafu Region, there were only a dozen or so True Sequence powerhouses. Therefore, not every province had a True Sequence powerhouse stationed there.
The Cicada Worm attacks in other cities also consumed most of the local Hunter's Association's energy. With so much power gathered in Menxia Province by the Glorious Church, someone had to keep watch.
Thus, only Gu Daoqing, an Upper Sequence hunter, was stationed in Xihong City.
Wen Wen's arrival now greatly relieved Gu Daoqing. If he were alone, who knew what Xihong City would have become recently.
Not only had Menxia Province been uneasy recently, but two other places had also experienced great disasters.
One was in a southwestern province of the Huafu Region, where an abnormal cross-dimensional channel had appeared, and thousands of undead creatures with strange powers descended. Fortunately, the area was sparsely populated, and no major catastrophe had occurred yet.
Another was on an island in the east of the Huafu Region, where a reclusive organization had gone mad and publicly challenged the Hunter's Association, vowing to replace it.
Therefore, the association's available forces were temporarily concentrated in those two locations, and not many people could be sent to support Menxia Province.
However, if Wen Wen's deductions were correct and both anomalies in Menxia Province were related to a mysterious Calamity-tier entity, then aid from the Hunter's Guild headquarters was certain.
But it would take at least a few days for support to arrive. At least for these few days, they had to hold the line and prevent major unrest in Menxia Province.
Wen Wen pointed to the two boxes he had brought and said, "These are things I found on my way here. They are not strong now, but they are very dangerous. Find a way to temporarily detain them. I suspect they are related to the anomalies in this city."
Gu Daoqing's eyebrows raised and he said, "These two things should be parts of a monster, right?"
"You know about this too?"
Gu Daoqing gave a wry smile and said, "Of course, I know. I've captured a few during my days here. It should be difficult to detain these things."
He led Wen Wen to a secret chamber in the local Hunter's Association and showed Wen Wen several sealed jars.
The jars were transparent, with constantly rotating blades inside. If anything inside showed a tendency to aggregate, it would be immediately cut down by those blades.
"There are a total of five body parts here: two pieces of flesh, a kidney, an ear, and a finger."
"When the flesh was discovered, one possessed a normal person, and the other possessed a monster. They plundered all the host's nutrients to supply themselves, and at the same time, urged the host to obtain more energy."
"When the kidney was found, it was inside a man who developed a perverted libido and produced six deformed monsters within three days."
"The ear was found on the back of a murderer's head, driving him to kill continuously..."