"I think not everyone's physique is suitable to be parasitized by 'Ta Sui', right? And among those being parasitized, only a very small portion are truly terminally ill, right? You use them as examples to spread the mystical abilities of the strange thing, enticing more people to voluntarily be parasitized by 'Ta Sui'..."
Sun Hang paused, staring into the Saint's eyes and asked, "Am I wrong?"
"...So, what do you plan to do?" The Saint's expression didn't change much. "Notify the people from the Public Security Bureau and the Investigation Bureau to come and take us all away?"
"Where is the main body of 'Ta Sui'?" Sun Hang asked once more.
"It's inside each one of us." The Saint raised his arms and shouted softly, "It's right in front of you, within reach."
Sun Hang: "Bullshit."
He could feel that all the fragments of 'Ta Sui' parasitized in these people's bodies together were not even as much as the dirt washed off Wang Xiyi's body when she bathed.
The Saint took two steps back, and the two individuals closest to Sun Hang suddenly jumped up from the cushion, tore off the bandages covering their eyes, and charged forward with a bizarre yell.
"Those who defy Ta Sui will be deprived of its blessings!" The Saint shouted gloomily, "The deprivation process is a thousand times more painful than the fusion!"
"Oh, really?"
Hundreds of white mycelium spurted out from the bodies of the two believers, weaving into a large net in the blink of an eye and falling over Sun Hang's head!
Sun Hang did not move; he stood there motionlessly, allowing the mycelium net to fall on him.
The seemingly soft and powerless mycelium turned into sharp blades upon touching Sun Hang's skin, directly slicing the epidermal tissue and sinking deep into the flesh, leaving grid-like bloody cut marks on Sun Hang's face—while his upper body clothes had already turned into countless neatly cut diamond-shaped pieces scattered on the ground.
But then, the mycelium disappeared into Sun Hang's body as if directly melted, vanishing without a trace.
The cut marks on Sun Hang healed instantly, even the small blood beads were reabsorbed by the skin.
The two believers immediately fell to the ground, convulsing violently.
Their skin began to dissolve, exposing blood-soaked subcutaneous tissue to the air, and dense sounds of muscle bubble explosions echoed from within... In less than five seconds, the two had turned into two rigid corpses, lying horizontally at Sun Hang's feet.
"Uh... it seems you really didn't lie to me; forcibly stripping 'Ta Sui' from the body is indeed very painful." Sun Hang earnestly told the Saint.
The Saint's previously calm expression had long vanished; he glared at Sun Hang, muttering, "You... what did you do to them?!"
"I did what you planned to do to me... It's just a pity that this amount is so small, it can't even fill a tooth gap." Sun Hang walked forward two steps, "Tell me, where is the main body of 'Ta Sui'?"
"Monster! You're a monster!" The Saint shrieked, "You can't be a federation Hunter! The federation can't possibly allow a monster like you!!"
The believers sitting on the cushions could no longer maintain their previous calm; with each step Sun Hang took forward, they retreated a step. Before long, all thirty-something people crowded against the wall.
"I'll ask one last time, where is the main body of 'Ta Sui'?" Sun Hang lowered his voice, "I'm very hungry now and irritated, I don't want to waste time with you anymore."
But who knew, the Saint seemed scared out of his mind and kept muttering "monster" as if he couldn't hear Sun Hang's question.
"Annoying." Sun Hang raised his hand and blew off the Saint's head with a shot.
The 'Ta Sui' parasitized in the Saint's body was the best in quality among this group, but still couldn't quench Sun Hang's hunger.
Moreover, Sun Hang found that after his "first" devouring of other strange things, similar to eating an appetizer, his hunger not only wasn't alleviated but also became increasingly intense.
He glanced at that group of believers trembling in the corner, secretly feeling a sense of luck.
The Cult Organization's brainwashing of them wasn't thorough—not yet, at least, they still know to fear death.
"Who among you knows where the main body of 'Ta Sui' is?" Sun Hang asked, "Take me there, and I promise you will live."
The quality of 'Ta Sui' inside these believers varied, with some even worse than the little girl out buying breakfast, while the best was far inferior to the Saint... Once the main body of 'Ta Sui' is found, this mosquito meat is actually dispensable for Sun Hang.
The best way to handle them would be to turn them all over to the people from the Investigation Bureau and the research institute... Of course, that had to be after Sun Hang devoured the main body of 'Ta Sui'.
He didn't plan to hide this matter, but before reporting to the authorities, he had to fill his stomach.
"...I know where Ta Sui is!" A female voice fragile yet tinged with a hint of timidity sounded, Sun Hang looked over, it was the young woman who was just used as a cushion by the "Saint".
The young woman's body was draped in only a thin white robe, half of the robe pulled away in panic earlier, revealing large swaths of skin as white as snow—when she discovered Sun Hang's gaze, she hesitated only for a moment before lowering her arms from covering her chest.
"Put on your clothes properly." Sun Hang waved the gun in his hand, "I'm not interested in holding up the aftermath, as long as we find the main body of 'Ta Sui', you don't have to die."
"The Saint previously took me to cut Ta Sui's meat!" The young woman said hurriedly, "Ta Sui is buried under the ground of this building!"
"Underground?" Sun Hang was slightly stunned; if 'Ta Sui's' main body was buried underground, why didn't he sense anything when he approached the building earlier?
"Really, I'm not lying!" The young woman was almost about to cry, "Just two months ago, at the back of this building's shady side, if you dig up the soil you can see Ta Sui!"
"Just dig up the soil and you can see? Ta Sui is buried very shallowly?"
"Well... it's only about ten centimeters deep." The woman recalled, "That day the Saint just took a few digs with a shovel and the meat of Ta Sui appeared... He personally handled the meat cutting and didn't let us approach, only allowing us to hold jars from afar. After he finished cutting, covered the soil back, then permitted us to go forward and pick up the pieces of meat into the jar."
"Any others who were present besides you?" Sun Hang asked.
The young woman pointed to the two believers who had died first.
"Besides them, who else has seen 'Ta Sui's' main body?" Sun Hang asked again.
"I... I've seen it too." There was a woman in her thirties or forties who spoke, "What she said is true, Ta Sui is indeed buried under the building, but the Saint is the only one who got close enough to Ta Sui, we can only watch from afar."
"How big is Ta Sui?"
"I don't know about that." The woman shook her head, "I could only see the soil was dug up, revealing a patch of white stuff like a scalp..."