Trickster Hunter

Chapter 137 Predation

"Du Cheng, Lou Haoyong." The team leader shouted into the intercom, "I am Yan Li, the leader of the second investigation team. How is the situation over there now?"

There was no response on the other end of the intercom.

"Hello? Hello?" Team Leader Yan's face suddenly turned ugly, "Can you hear me? Hello? Du Cheng? Lou Haoyong?"

After a while, a "click" sound came from the receiver. It seemed that the walkie-talkie on the other end was picked up from the ground. Two seconds later, Wang Xiyi's voice rang: "I am the Night Fury, and I am here now." On the roof of Building A of the Investigation Bureau Building, two security personnel have been confirmed dead.”

There was an uproar in the main control room.

"How could this happen!?" The security guard who luckily escaped turned pale, "Just a few minutes..."

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Building A of the Investigation Bureau Building, rooftop.

Wang Xiyi turned the two corpses over and inspected them, then piled up the intercom and said: "A hole was drilled in the back of the two people's heads, and their brains had been sucked out. This should be the direct cause of their death. In addition, There is still some mucus left at the scene..."

Wang Xiyi dipped her fingertips into a little bit of mucus, and immediately felt a strong numbness coming from the surface of her skin.

"This mucus has a very strong paralyzing effect. I estimate that the two of them were paralyzed by the mucus first, and then had their brains sucked by the strange thing without any resistance... The purpose of that thing appearing here is Foraging.”

"Did you find any other traces?" Team Leader Yan asked again.

"Not yet."

Wang Xiyi looked up in the direction of Building C - the structure of the Investigation Bureau building showed a "匚" shape. Building A, which covers the largest area, is located in the middle. Buildings B and C are on the left and right sides. There are three buildings between them. The suspended corridors are connected, but the rooftops are not interconnected.

There is a distance of nearly thirty meters between Building A and Building C. Assume that the monster can cross this thirty meters silently and paralyze the two security personnel with mucus without them noticing... The maneuverability of this strange thing may have reached an extremely astonishing level.

"Ye Fury, have you found any traces of Bai Ying?" Team Leader Yan's voice came from the intercom.

"No, even the meme detection equipment I carried with me didn't respond." Wang Xiyi replied, "I have a feeling... that thing left here after it finished hunting."

"Is its purpose just to hunt?" Team Leader Yan said with a hint of confusion, "If it was just to hunt, why had no residents been killed near Shengshu Securities before... and went to the investigation bureau specifically? Are you demonstrating against us by coming to prey on our territory?”

"In addition to hunting, its other purpose should be to collect intelligence." Wang Xiyi turned the head of the corpse over. The expressions of the two security personnel were extremely dull - the mucus paralyzed the nerves in their bodies, from the morning to the attack until death. So far, neither of them should have felt any pain. "In my opinion, the purpose of the monster is not to suck the brains of the two people, but the information that exists in their memories... We should be happy that the two of them The level of the victims was not too high, and they did not know much confidential information.”

"In other words, the monsters attacked them to obtain our intelligence?" Team Leader Yan's eyes widened and he looked at everyone in the main control room. "It seems...the enemy we are facing this time, The level of intelligence is not low.”

"My suggestion is to gather the senior leaders and confidential personnel of the management committee, research institute, and investigation bureau to a safe place for protection... This time the monster attacked only two security personnel. Next time, it should come from Two security officers were known to pick targets from the 'leader's list'."

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Chunming City, "Useless" Tavern.

Sun Hang had just finished his cup of sugar-free butter beer when the researcher who couldn't afford the money came to visit him again.

"Is something wrong?" Sun Hang glanced at him and asked.

"The situation of 'Overlord' is somewhat special. Research Institute No. 1 requires the puppet master to return to the headquarters immediately to cooperate with subsequent research work." said the researcher.

"Is this making up a new excuse to try to defraud the hostages from me?"

"No, this is true." The researcher said with a grimace. "If you want to transform the corpse into the puppet master's trick equipment, you must adjust its memetic frequency at the first time. This process must be done by the puppet master himself. You have to be present...otherwise, as time goes by, the connection between the puppet master and the skeleton will become weaker and weaker until it disappears completely."

"Really?" Sun Hang looked at Zhong Ling.

The latter nodded.

"Then please bring me a hostage of the same level, who is quiet and well-behaved and won't run around." Sun Hang said, "In that case, I can still consider it."

"Uh... what Tianshu Tower means is that you will be counted as passing the first stage of the trial, so that you no longer need hostages, and the puppet master can rush back to Research Institute No. 1 immediately. As for the second stage, The trial will officially start tomorrow.”

"What about my identification code and personal account?" Sun Hang raised his wrist and saw that the screen of the bracelet had returned to normal, and the sundial symbolizing the positioning countdown had disappeared.

"They've all been thawed," the researcher said.

"This second stage of the trial won't be a city battle royale, right?" Sun Hang asked again.

"Of course not!" The researcher shook his head repeatedly, "In the second round of the trial, you will work together with several other batches of trialists to overcome difficulties together - in this round, both the Tianshu Tower and the federal government will stand on your side and provide you with necessary assistance."

"In other words, it has changed from PVP to PVE?" Sun Hang rubbed the hair on the back of his head, "Can you tell me the content of the second round of the trial?"

"This..." The researcher immediately looked embarrassed.

"Is it inconvenient? If it's inconvenient, I won't return it, right?" Sun Hang threatened in a low voice.

"That... I only know that the trial site is not in the city..." The researcher said, "As for other information, please wait until tomorrow..."

"Give me your headphones." Sun Hang stretched out his hand to him.

"Ah?" Before the researcher could react, several hyphae had already snatched the headphones he was wearing.

Sun Hang put on the headphones and said straight to the point: "Tell me, what is the content of the second round of the trial?"

"How can you be sure that I know it?" A strange male voice came from the headphones.

"I guessed it." Sun Hang replied, "Besides, even if you don't know, there must be someone in the Tianshu Tower who knows... Then please go and find out for me."