"Is this the ability you acquired after being infected by the mysterious creature?" Sun Hang asked.
"...The Saint said, as long as you eat the flesh of the Great Tai Sui... you can prolong your life, and no disease would affect you..." the girl said in an extremely small voice, "Even injuries would heal quickly..."
"Great Tai Sui? You call that thing Tai Sui?" Sun Hang typed the term into the search bar, but aside from some unrelated ancient mythological stories, there was no relevant information.
"..." The girl nodded again.
"Have you ever seen the Great Tai Sui?"
The girl shook her head.
"So has everyone in your organization eaten Tai Sui meat?" Sun Hang asked again, "After eating it, can you really prolong your life and resist all diseases? Has no one ever died suddenly after eating it?"
"N-No." This time, the girl shook her head quickly.
"Are you sure there are none, or have you just not seen any? Also, since you know the Tai Sui is a mysterious creature, how dare you eat it?" Sun Hang couldn't help but wonder if these people were in their right minds, but from the girl's behavior, it was clear she understood what mysterious creatures and infections were about, so why would she accept it all so willingly?
If she knew about the handling of infections by the Mysterious Creature Research Institute, then she must know about the absurdly high mortality rate after humans contract the Deceit Virus, right?
Sun Hang had gone through the information; the mortality rate for humans infected with the Deceit Virus was 78%, the probability of being assimilated by the mysterious creature was 21.7%, and only 0.3% of people retained their human self-awareness.
The chances of an infected person becoming a Mysterious Creature Hunter were even lower than drawing an SSR in a two-dimensional mobile game.
An entire cult organization couldn't all be SSRs, could they?
How would this reflect on the Anomaly Investigation Bureau and the Mysterious Creature Research Institute?
"The Great Tai Sui is different from other mysterious creatures..." the girl said, "I've personally seen those with terminal illnesses, and after eating the Great Tai Sui's flesh, their ailments immediately vanished... And some congenitally disabled people, after eating the Great Tai Sui's flesh, their missing limbs grew back after a while..."
"Does this Tai Sui really have such effects?" Sun Hang couldn't help but frown, pressing the gun barrel against the girl's forehead, "If I blow your head to bits, can you grow a new head?"
"No... don't kill me!" the girl, however, showed only fear, closing her eyes tightly, "I've told you everything I know, you... can't... don't kill me!"
Sun Hang glanced at her, remembering silently that the infected with "Tai Sui" possessed strong self-healing abilities, but the head might be their fatal weakness.
Based on the girl's description, this "Tai Sui" was apparently a miraculous cure-all, not a world-harming mysterious creature...
Do the infected who ate the "Tai Sui flesh" really not have to pay any price?
Sun Hang carefully examined the girl in front of him and then asked another question: "Have you often not had enough to eat?"
"Huh? N-No." The girl was a bit confused by this question.
If it wasn't due to hunger causing malnutrition, then the girl's sallow and emaciated appearance was obviously abnormal... Since the "Tai Sui flesh" had such miraculous effects that it could cure even terminal illnesses, then digestive system diseases certainly shouldn't be an issue—this rules out pathological malnutrition possibilities.
Is it due to eating "Tai Sui flesh"?
Sun Hang pulled the girl up from the ground and said, "Let's go, take me to them... If the 'Great Tai Sui' you talk about is truly so miraculous, the research institute might not only refrain from arresting you but might even award you some kind of 'special contribution award.'"
...
The girl said nothing and directly took Sun Hang upstairs, causing him to frown slightly.
Although his pistol was equipped with a silencer, firing it in the hallway could be heard throughout the building, and besides, questioning the girl took such a long time... If the girl's accomplices were indeed in this building, they would have long been prepared, just waiting for him to walk into their trap, right?
No, that's not right.
Sun Hang reconsidered, thinking if the opponents only discovered they were being tailed after entering the building, that meant this building was their base, but Sun Hang didn't detect the "scent" of any mysterious creatures or infected, other than the girl.
Initially, Sun Hang imagined the ambushers might be non-infected people, but after questioning her, he quickly ruled out that possibility.
The girl's status in this cult organization was likely not high; even without considering her tattoo position, being sent out to handle food procurement indicated she was at most a lower to mid-tier member. If lower to mid-tier members could access "Tai Sui meat," the central forces of the organization couldn't possibly be non-infected.
Moreover, only after experiencing the "miraculous effects" of "Tai Sui meat" would members be fully devoted to following the "Saint"... The Saint and high-ranking officials of the organization might not be infected, but roles requiring loyalty guarantees like "thugs" or "sentries" are definitely infected!
The girl had been acting, she had realized she was being followed early on and intentionally led Sun Hang here.
But her goal wasn't to ambush Sun Hang; it was to escape.
"They are not here," Sun Hang said to the girl walking ahead.
The girl's body trembled slightly.
"You're lying," Sun Hang added.
"N-No, I'm not."
"From the start, you never intended to take me to them," Sun Hang's tone was very calm, as if void of any emotion.
"..." The girl no longer responded, but she didn't turn around either; she just stood on the stairs, facing away from Sun Hang, motionless.
"I couldn't initially figure out how you planned to escape, but after knowing your abilities, I suddenly realized that the rooftop isn't a dead-end for you." Sun Hang enunciated, "You plan to escape by jumping... As long as your head doesn't break, your body, no matter how severely injured, can recover due to the 'Tai Sui meat.' And I, in order to catch you, would have to turn back along the stairs, by which time you would have already regained mobility or been picked up by an alerted accomplice."
Just after Sun Hang finished this sentence, the girl took off at a sprint, but she didn't get far before gunshots rang out from behind.
The bullet entered her lower back, causing her face to contort in unbearable pain as she fell on the stairs, screaming and rolling down until she landed at Sun Hang's feet, stopping only when he stepped on her.
"I can choose not to kill you, but I won't guarantee that I won't torture you," Sun Hang said faintly.
The ability not to die from anything but a headshot is indeed strong, but from another angle, this ability is also a debuff...
Because not being able to die, she can experience things more painful than death.