Meanwhile, in Tianfu City, two thousand kilometers away.

Wang Xiyi slowly opened her eyes, gently rubbed her cheek against the pillow, half asleep and half awake, still lingering as if savoring a dream that had just ended abruptly...

Suddenly, she turned up in bed, flipping over and throwing the covers, which were a mess, aside.

"Damn it, I just changed the sheets yesterday..."

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A few kilometers away in another district, at the Yang residence.

Yang Lian jolted awake from her sleep, her face flushed, her chest heaving violently with her rapid breathing...

After catching her breath for a good ten seconds, Yang Lian rubbed her still somewhat warm cheeks, muttering to herself, "Weird... why would I dream of that guy..."

She got out of bed and headed to the bathroom, only to find the light on, with the sound of running water coming from inside.

"Sis?" Yang Lian blurted out instinctively, but quickly realized that Yang Qi wasn't in Tianfu City at all right now, and besides herself, there was only Ye Xuan, who was temporarily staying here for some reason.

"Ye Xuan?" Yang Lian immediately corrected herself.

"Mm... it's me." Ye Xuan's voice came from the bathroom; for some reason, Yang Lian felt that her voice sounded a bit strange.

"Do you need to use the bathroom too?" Ye Xuan asked.

"N-no, it's fine... I'm not in a hurry." Yang Lian quickly replied.

This house, although it has two bathrooms, rarely uses the other one because Yang Qi often works overtime at the Mysterious Creature Research Institute, spending more than twenty days a month there overnight. Over time, it turned into a storage room filled with various delivery boxes and idle items.

"I'm done." Ye Xuan pushed open the bathroom door and came out.

However, Yang Lian noticed that her nightdress was covered in water as if she had accidentally been splashed by the shower.

Yang Lian recalled that the water sound she heard seemed to be from the shower, not the sink faucet... is it normal to use the shower when using the bathroom?

As both felt a bit awkward, Yang Lian's peripheral vision caught a glimpse of a pale white shadow flashing outside the living room's floor-to-ceiling window. She immediately dropped to the ground, using the coffee table as cover, cautiously grabbing the mobile phone placed on the table.

Ye Xuan also crouched behind the sofa, asking in a low voice, "That thing, you saw it too, right?"

"Mm." Yang Lian nodded.

"Contact the nearby investigation team and the Hunter immediately!" Ye Xuan said, "That guy... took the bait!"

The reason Ye Xuan was staying at Yang Qi and Yang Lian's house was to lure that mysterious white shadow to appear again.

Not long ago, after the Disaster Response Committee decided to protect all important figures centrally, the white shadow disappeared as if it had evaporated from the human world, never appearing again.

Under such circumstances, Ye Xuan, as an "important figure," proactively suggested using herself as bait to set up a trap, intentionally luring the white shadow out.

Since its purpose for hunting was to gather intelligence, it had no reason to let a "lone" Ye Xuan slip by.

Sure enough, this guy took the bait.

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...

"What? The target has appeared?!" While holding a phone against her shoulder with her head tilted, Wang Xiyi immediately dropped the sheets she was washing and, without bothering to change clothes, just jumped straight out from the second-floor balcony in her pajamas!

As she crossed over the balcony railing, enormous dragon wings tore through her skin and emerged. The wings stretched out and flapped forcefully, suddenly stopping the descent, and with this uplift, she shot straight up into the sky.

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Nameless Island, experimental zone.

The three finally passed through the tunnel, and the fisherman looked back, only to find that the wilting signs were noticeably present in the epiphytic vines entrenched within the tunnel.

"What... what's going on here?" the fisherman said in shock. "Why does it feel like... it's withering away?! Shino, do any of the research archives on epiphytes mention this kind of situation?"

Shino shook his head in bewilderment, saying, "No... I always thought that epiphytes would never wither..."

Saying this, Shino seemed to have thought of something, suddenly turning his head to gaze at Sun Hang, asking, "Could it be... that you eliminated it?"

He wanted to see some clues on Sun Hang, but apart from Sun Hang's clothes being stained with lots of vine sap, he showed no other changes compared to before entering the tunnel.

"Why are you looking at me? I didn't do anything," Sun Hang said innocently. "I think maybe the fisherman accidentally cut its main artery while chopping the vines, causing it to lose too much sap and end up like this."

"Main artery? Losing too much sap?" The fisherman's eyes widened, lips twitching, "Are you... sure?"

"I'm just saying." Sun Hang scratched his head, "If you're curious, you can crawl back in and check what's happening."

"No thanks." The fisherman immediately said, "I'm not curious at all, really!"

"Let's go... huh?" Sun Hang took two steps forward and stopped, looking at a blind spot behind a wall.

"What's wrong?" The fisherman sensed Sun Hang's anomaly and placed a hand on the handle of the short knife he had just sheathed.

"If you don't come out, I'll shoot." Sun Hang drew his handgun, aiming at that corner.

"You're going to kill me? You're going to kill me?!" A raspy male voice suddenly echoed, and the next second, a disheveled man stumbled out from the blind spot.

He wore the standard combat uniform of a Hunter, covered in bloodstains—but the source of these bloodstains apparently wasn't himself.

With such a large blood loss, even if not dead, he probably would have gone into shock, but the Indian Hunter's life force was very strong, not at all like someone injured.

His skin was dark; through his disheveled hair, the part of his features visible suggested an Indian-origin Hunter.

"Why... why are you still alive? Why?!" The Indian Hunter tilted his head, bloodshot eyes fixed on the three of them.

"His mental state doesn't seem right," Shino said softly, "probably cursed like the earlier female Hunter on the island."

"It's normal. Even Angsa can't distribute enough 'protective talismans' for themselves, much less for these 'cannon fodders'." Sun Hang said, "But I am kind of curious about how this guy managed to reach here..."

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