Chapter 25 Reflection
"They don't look like people from the survey team... No, they don't even look like normal people." Yang Qi frowned, "'Night Fury,' can you feel the breath of life of the other party?"
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"I can't feel it. If I block my vision, they don't exist in my perception." Wang Xiyi shook her head.
"Tsk, it's not even an energy body..." Yang Qi's brows furrowed even more.
"It can't be a ghost, right?" 0401 took a breath, "It's really a ghost now..."
"If the 'ghosts' you talk about really exist, they should be classified as 'Xin type' monsters, which are also commonly known as 'spirit type' or 'energy type'... But these figures have energy sensors on their bodies. None of them exist..." Yang Qi shook her head slightly, "That means... they may really be... just 'shadows'"
"Look closer." Wang Xiyi said.
"Don't, don't..." 0401 said with a timid look, "I think, how about we observe it from a distance first?"
"I agree." Sun Hang nodded.
"I mean, it's too dangerous to approach directly..."
Before 0401 finished speaking, Sun Hang interrupted him: "I mean, I agree with the 'Night Fury's' proposal."
"Huh?" 0401 was stunned for a moment, and huddled on the back seat.
"Are you afraid of ghosts?" Wang Xiyi glanced at him and asked.
"Well...it's not that I'm afraid, it's just these shadows...I always seem to feel...terrified." 0401 replied.
"The shadow itself is not scary." Sun Hang said.
Sun Hang discovered that he seemed to have the ability to detect strange objects or infected people - that was his "appetite".
In Sun Hang's opinion, those mutated wild wolves that were affected by the blood moon just now can only be regarded as "edible, but not delicious" at best.
If the Bloody Rose is a delicious dessert that makes one's mouth dazzle, then Wang Xiyi is a plate of peerless delicacies cooked with top-quality ingredients... As for those wild wolves, they are all worth it, that is, the bit of meat on the mosquito's leg.
Those shadows not far away gave Sun Hang his first impression, that is, "inedible".
According to the research institute, as long as it is a monster, there must be something called a "meme" (or concept) in it. The reason why the monster virus can infect other things is because it transfers the meme to the monster. "Memes" are copied and then passed on to other things.
The strange creature "Taotie" with the serial number "Bingjiu" feeds on these memes.
Sun Hang could not detect the existence of memes in these shadows.
Therefore, they are not treacherous creatures, nor are they infected by the treacherous virus.
"If you are scared, you can stay in the car." Wang Xiyi opened the car door and jumped out first.
Sun Hang and Yang Qi also got out of the car together.
"Wait, wait for me!" Seeing the three people getting out of the car, 0401 climbed out in a hurry.
"Aren't you afraid of those shadows?" Yang Qi glanced at him and asked curiously.
"It's scarier to be alone in the car..." 0401 murmured, "Don't you know that in those horror movies, the characters who are left alone are the first to die..."
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"It seems to make sense." Yang Qi unexpectedly did not refute, "At least, follow us, we won't watch you being swallowed up by strange things."
Wang Xiyi didn't pause after getting out of the car, and walked straight towards those figures. She stopped when she was still a few steps away from these dangling figures.
"It seems like it's really a shadow." Wang Xiyi picked up a stone from the ground and threw it towards the figures.
The stone passed through the figures without any hindrance, fell to the ground, and bounced forward a short distance.
Sun Hang also came closer.
He discovered that these figures were just human-shaped shadows suspended on the ground that were slightly darker than the surrounding environment. They sway slightly, as if there is an unobservable water surface in the air that is vertical to the ground, and these shadows are reflections cast on this vertical water surface.
As the water surface ripples, these reflections move with it.
"Prepare to conduct direct contact experiments." Wang Xiyi looked back at Yang Qi and said, "Make records."
"Try to be careful... Hey." Yang Qi turned on the camera she carried with her and let out a light sigh.
"These shadows can't be photographed?" Sun Hang had almost guessed the answer. He leaned over and took a look. Sure enough, Wang Xiyi was the only one standing there in the camera's picture, and the figures close to her did not appear at all.
"It's the same as those 'non-existent' pictures you see on TV." Yang Qi nodded slightly, "It can only be observed with the naked eye and cannot be recorded by optical imaging equipment."
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"Good luck, maybe this is the breaking point." Sun Hang nodded.
Wang Xiyi took out two syringes from the small bag tied to her leg. One was the enhanced serum she got from Sun Hang, and the other was a lycanthropy inhibitor that exuded a strong "cilantro smell".
She held two syringes on the fingertips of her right hand, and then slowly reached towards the figure in front of her with her left hand.
Yang Qi and 0401 had held their breath and stared at Wang Xiyi's movements with all their attention.
Just like the stone, Wang Xiyi's left hand passed directly through the figure, and nothing happened.
"I can't feel anything." Wang Xiyi said.
"Try to stir it." Yang Qi took a long breath and said.
Wang Xiyi gently stirred her right hand, but the shadow did not change, and even the frequency of shaking did not change.
She took her hand back and shook her head at Yang Qi.
"I'll do it." Sun Hang stepped forward, "Since these shadows are somewhat similar to the pictures on TV, maybe they will also react to me."
"That's right. After all, you are the one who resonates." Yang Qi nodded.
Sun Hang took a deep breath, followed Wang Xiyi's example, put his fingers together into the shape of a palm knife, and inserted it into the chest of a figure.
The moment his fingertips came into contact with the figure, Sun Hang seemed to feel that time had stopped briefly.
Immediately afterwards, he discovered that the light and shadow around him were changing rapidly at a speed that was difficult to capture by human perception. The light and dark were constantly switching, as if a long lens that recorded tens of thousands of days and nights was compressed into just a few seconds. .
Sun Hang suddenly discovered that the figure he touched had a vague human appearance - in these few seconds of rapid change of light and darkness, he quickly changed from a young man to a middle-aged man with a big belly. The man then turned into a gray-haired old man... until he turned into a pale skeleton.
(End of chapter)