After training at headquarters for seven days, Wen Wen felt that staying there any longer would have limited benefits for his improvement.
Moreover, many things were inconvenient here. There were too many powerful individuals, and Wen Wen had too much to conceal.
Even Chang Sun Jing had captured two monsters during this time, so Wen Wen had no reason to continue being idle. He wanted to go hunting.
So, he began browsing the hunting terminal, looking for suitable missions.
Previously, in Furong River City, Wen Wen would handle whatever cases he encountered and often found himself with nothing to do. But the situation was different now; as long as Wen Wen wanted, there were always missions for him.
Not only were there missions, but he even had options. He could choose supernatural cases he preferred to deal with.
Each mission involved at least a disaster-level supernatural event, allowing Wen Wen to fully utilize his strength without wasting time on less challenging tasks.
"Let me see if there are any suitable missions for me..."
"Plague in a desolate village, humans inexplicably turning into twisted plants... I don't like plants."
"'Flame Demon' tracks in the volcanic eruption on Whale Fishing Island, Hua Fu District... This one is good, but several hunt-goers have already accepted this mission. I don't like sharing spoils with others; I prefer to go it alone."
"A giant worm has appeared underground in Meng Xin Prairie. Tsk tsk, this is good, but I just came out of the ground and don't want to go underground again for now."
After meticulously picking and choosing for a while, Wen Wen's attention was drawn to a case he found quite interesting.
"A scenic town in Song Tao City, Dong Shan Province, where one can only enter but not exit. Several local demon hunters have already perished here... It's speculated that disaster-level power is involved, but there are no signs of escalation or bloodshed yet."
"Song Tao City... that seems very close to my home..."
...
A few days prior, in a shantytown in Song Tao City, hundreds of residents were gathered on the street by armed assistants, their faces filled with fear.
People had been dying here for several days, and many wanted to flee, but the area had been sealed off, and no one could leave.
This led the residents to suspect the worst, believing there was a plague, and that the authorities had quarantined them.
Jiao Xin Lei, with her ponytail tied up and wearing a black uniform, her eyes flashing with an eerie light, weaved through the crowd of residents.
After examining everyone, she pointed to a man in a suit and said, "He will be the next to die, so that thing is on him."
As she finished speaking, two assistants walked over, grabbed his arms, and attempted to handcuff him.
The man struggled violently, shouting at everyone, "I don't understand what you're saying, but I warn you, I am an employee of Kewei Group and have come here for demolition negotiations. I just arrived today. Whatever you're doing, the person you're looking for definitely has nothing to do with me."
His struggle was so fierce that the two rigorously trained assistants couldn't subdue him.
Just then, gunshots rang out, and his legs were riddled with holes. The surrounding civilians were all silenced by fright.
A man in a dark green suit, wearing a monocle, calmly tucked his gun away and asked Jiao Xin Lei in a deep voice, "Are you sure it's him? If it's not, you'll have to cover the compensation fees."
This man was Song Ling, the captain of the Song Tao City demon hunter team.
Jiao Xin Lei yawned, "As long as your scope is correct, that thing must be on this guy."
Song Ling nodded and ordered his men to take the man with the broken legs away. Before leaving, he told another demon hunter, "Not a single person here is to be let go. After this is over, observe them for a week."
They hadn't gone far with the man when they turned into an empty alleyway. Several assistants on the other side had prepared a cage large enough to hold a person, and then they violently shoved the man into it.
The man wailed in the cage, the pain in his knees unbearable, tears and snot streaming down his face. He pleaded with the people around him, hoping they would let them out.
His emotional performance made the surrounding assistants show signs of pity.
But even so, what needed to be done had to be done. This was the only way to deal with such monsters.
The hosts infected by this kind of monster would die at the forty-eighth hour, with no prior symptoms.
After the host's death, this monster would, in a way not yet understood, instantly infest another ordinary person within a hundred-meter radius.
The only way to prevent this infestation was to imprison the host in a cage made of spiritual materials before their death.
Unfortunately, although these cages were not rare, they couldn't be used to hold so many people. In such densely populated areas, it was difficult to control this monster.
Song Ling said coldly, "Proceed."
An assistant standing nearby raised his gun to the man's head.
"Don't kill me, I didn't do anything, I'll do whatever you want..." The man tried to shrink back as much as possible, but there was nowhere to hide.
"Stop pretending. From the moment you entered this person's body, he was already dead. Hurry up," Song Ling said indifferently. The assistant did not hesitate and pulled the trigger.
The bullet pierced the man's skull, and he fell to the ground in despair.
After the man died, nothing happened, and his body showed no abnormalities. The assistant's face turned ashen. Had he really killed an innocent person?
Song Ling patted his shoulder, calmly placed his hand on the cage, and green energy emanated from his hand, enveloping the entire cage.
At this moment, the monster's true form finally became visible. It was a creature no larger than an infant, with a human-like upper body, but with a row of insect-like segmented limbs under its armpits, and its tail resembled a worm.
This creature was completely transparent; without Song Ling's energy, its form would not have been revealed.
"It is indeed this thing. Dispose of it. Every second it remains alive is a scourge," Song Ling said indifferently.
The monster looked at the humans with a somber expression and said in a deep voice, "Humans, what difference will it make even if you kill me? I have already left my eggs in a host. As soon as I die, those eggs will hatch immediately, and another me will appear in no time!"
The monster wanted to use its eggs to bargain for its life, looking at Song Ling with a hint of pleading and saying, "As long as I don't die, the hatching will be delayed. If..."
Before the monster could finish speaking, Song Ling reached into the cage and grabbed its neck!
Then, he snapped its neck.
Until its death, it did not understand why this human had killed it without listening to its terms.