Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 30 Tattoo
“You…what did you say…” The girl’s face turned pale and she shook her head repeatedly, “I don’t understand what you mean. What…they?”

"Your acting is terrible." Sun Hang walked forward, put the gun against the girl's chin with his right hand, and rolled up the sleeve of the girl's left arm with his left hand.

There is a red tattoo at the location corresponding to the festering area on the right arm.

At first glance, ordinary people would think that this tattoo seems to be a mess of ink, or even mistake it for a bruise. But if you look closely, you will find that these seemingly messy patterns are actually very cleverly designed - it overlaps more than 20 characters in a skin area with a side length of less than two centimeters, but the stroke trajectory of each character is clearly discernible...

A pattern like this is definitely not something that can be designed by a cheap tattoo workshop.

These characters are words and symbols that have never been used by any civilization in human history. They are connected and nested with each other, and seem to form a string of strange spells that can never be finished...

When Sun Hang lifted up the girl's left sleeve, she obviously wanted to resist, but Sun Hang had already raised one leg and hit her lower abdomen hard with his knee. Feeling the pain, she immediately lost the strength to resist.

"When you were pulling the sleeve of your right arm just now, you glanced at your other arm twice out of the corner of your eye. You didn't think I didn't notice it?" Sun Hang moved the gun away and hit the other person's ribs hard with his elbow. The girl screamed immediately, and her whole body slid down slowly along the door frame and collapsed on the ground.

But her left arm was still held by Sun Hang, raised high above her head.

Sun Hang put the pistol back into the holster behind his waist, took out his mobile phone, pointed the camera at the tattoo, and pressed the record button.

Then he entered the photo into the search engine of the investigation bureau's intranet.

After a while, a lot of files popped up on the search page.

Just as Sun Hang expected, this tattoo pattern was registered within the Investigation Bureau.

In a case uncovered seven years ago, a cult organization located in Jiangkou District of Tianfu City was wiped out.

This evil cult worshipped strange creatures and secretly bred young strange creatures in Tianfu City. Fortunately, it was reported by citizens in time, and all 148 members of the cult, including the leader, were arrested, except for nine people who were shot dead for resisting arrest violently. The remaining 139 people were all arrested.

These people should still be imprisoned in the "Special Prison for Abnormal Related Events" located in the northwest corner of Tianfu City.

The prison was built on a solitary mountain over 200 meters high, surrounded by cliffs on all sides, and there was only one elevator for people to go up and down the mountain. In addition, there were regular troops of the Xiazhou Federation guarding inside and outside the prison, so the possibility of escaping was basically zero.

Sun Hang grabbed the girl's left arm with one hand and stepped on the other right arm, which was extremely ulcerated. The girl's head hung limply on his chest, and it was obvious that she had not yet recovered from the heavy blow.

Sun Hang gently slid the screen with his thumb. Below the text files were photos taken by the case handlers at that time.

Those cult members all have tattoos exactly like this girl's, and the location of the tattoo is determined by the believer's status within the cult - the higher the status, the closer the tattoo is to the heart.

As for the nearly 80-year-old "leader", his tattoo is located on the left chest, just above the heart. The larvae of the strange creatures cultivated by this group of cultists also left video data - it was a huge mass of flesh with no limbs or organs to distinguish. When the investigators found it, it was soaking in the huge ornamental fish tank in the "leader's" home.

At the bottom of the fish tank, there are still some small pieces of human bones left.

At the end of the file, there is a photo attached. In the photo, there is a large dug pit filled with corpses. A rough estimate is that there are at least one or two hundred dead people.

There were also a few lines of text annotations next to the photo - this pit was located directly below the new gathering place built by the cult. In four years, they killed nearly 500 people to feed the young monster. The remains eaten by the monster were directly buried in the foundation and poured with concrete... In addition to the remains in the pit, a large number of human skeletons integrated with concrete were also found in the foundations of the houses of several major leaders of the cult.

Over a four-year period, the vast majority of missing persons cases in Tianfu City were ultimately attributed to this group of cultists. The cult leader and main leaders were executed on the spot, and the remaining believers were all sentenced to life imprisonment, without exception.

The young monster was transported away and destroyed by the Tianfu City Monster Research Institute.

Behind this sentence, there is a line of text in smaller font - Note: The temporary serial number of the monster's larva was E179, but because it was destroyed before it matured, the serial number was later cancelled.

"Type E... a fungal monster?" Sun Hang took another look at the photo. The pixel of the photo was very low. If you didn't look carefully, it would be easy to mistake this thing for a huge meat ball... But in fact, this "meat ball" was actually made up of countless hyphae. There were also some broken hyphae stuck on the bones at the bottom of the fish tank.

Sun Hang entered "Weird Thing No. 5179" into the search bar, and the result was a giant fungus with extremely bright colors that grew in the dense forests of the Yunnan-Yunnan Plateau. It was obviously not the same thing as the one in the fish tank of the cult leader's home.

"It seems that the action back then did not completely eradicate this evil cult..." Sun Hang thought to himself, "Not only did they not catch all the people, they didn't even kill all the weird creatures they raised..."

The most crucial point is that during the arrest operation that year, the sheriff and investigators checked every cult believer and found no one infected by the monster - it was for this reason that the big meat ball was determined to be an immature monster larva.

But the girl in front of him was a real infected person.

"If this information is reported to the Investigation Bureau... they will have a lot of work to do."

Sun Hang squatted down, pinched the girl's cheek with his index finger and thumb, lifted her head up, and asked: "If you don't want to die, take me to find your 'fellow believers'... and the thing you are raising."

The girl glanced at him and nodded weakly: "Okay..."

Sun Hang glanced at the gunshot wound on the girl's leg. He was somewhat surprised to find that the wound was no longer bleeding and the copper bullet had been squeezed out of the wound and fell to the ground.

He pulled out a small knife and cut open the bullet hole in his jeans. He saw that the place where the bullet should have hit was now filled with new flesh and blood, leaving only a coin-sized scar.

(End of this chapter)