Trickster Hunter

Chapter 196 "Holiday is over"

"Should we send someone to track it?" The colonel turned to look at the old director, "We can follow the tunnel that thing escaped..."

"No..." The old director whispered, and the colonel realized at this time that he didn't seem to care about the escaped weird thing at all, but focused all his attention on the ridiculously strong hunter.

"Teacher," Song Yarong turned her head and said worriedly, "The latest test results show that the infection process of 'Night Fury' has increased by 6.5 percentage points, which is very close to the dangerous threshold... Moreover, this momentum has not stopped... Damn, it has become 6.6 now!"

"Close to the dangerous threshold?" The colonel's eyes twitched wildly, "Does this mean that she will be completely weird?!"

"Yes." The old director gave an affirmative answer.

"Then...then can we control her?"

"If she becomes completely evil, the whole Tianfu City will turn into a sea of ​​fire." The old director said softly, "Her danger level is equivalent to nuclear weapons."

"Nuclear weapons? Tianfu City is equipped with such dangerous hunters?!" The colonel's eyes widened, "Why didn't we know this news before?"

"Because your level is not high enough." The old director said lightly, "The files of 'Night Fury' are directly under the jurisdiction of Tianshu Tower. Even I cannot disclose her files to you without the approval of Tianshu Tower."

"...What should we do now?" The colonel frowned and said this after a long time.

"We should be thankful that her willpower is the strongest among all the hunters I have ever met... no, it should be said that she is the strongest among all the infected people I have ever met." The old director said, "She is enduring, she is fighting against herself... the self who is far more powerful than her... I believe in her, and you should believe in her too."

"I really want to believe in her, but once the situation gets out of control, the price we can't afford at all!" The colonel waved his hands hysterically, "Besides believing, is there anything else we can do, professor?"

The old director shook his head.

A light helicopter with the Tianfu City Weird Research Institute printed on it landed on the edge of the pit, and six special agents dressed like cans jumped out of the cabin with a bunch of equipment.

First, they used liquid nitrogen to extinguish the remaining fire in the pit, and then one of them strode to Wang Xiyi, who was sitting on the ground with a dull face, with a heroic attitude of going to his death, and stabbed Wang Xiyi's arm with the syringe in his hand.

At this time, most of Wang Xiyi's arm was covered with scales, and only a small piece of human skin could be seen on the inside of the elbow. The hard tungsten steel needle slowly penetrated, and the inhibitor pre-installed in the syringe was pushed into Wang Xiyi's blood vessels little by little with the piston.

"The infection process has been temporarily stabilized... but the mutation of some meme fragments can no longer be reversed..." Song Yarong held the tablet and turned around to say.

"What does irreversible mean?" The colonel couldn't help asking.

"She may always maintain this half-human and half-beast state, and in this state, it is equivalent to using the ability brought to her by the weird meme every moment... It's only a matter of time before the infection process breaks through the safety threshold."

"How much time does she have at most?" asked the colonel.

"If she is frozen in a liquid nitrogen pool, this state may last for about four to five months." Song Yarong sighed, "But the price is that she will never wake up again... because once thawed, the memes in her body will become doubly active."

"So... do we need to put her on that..." The colonel hesitated for a moment, but still asked the question in his heart, "that... 'harmless treatment'?"

Song Yarong glanced at him, said nothing, and turned his attention to the old director.

"Bring the person back first." The old director said.

"Will it be... too dangerous?" the colonel asked, his eyes full of worry.

"Are you scared?" Song Yarong glanced at him and asked with some disdain.

"That's not what I mean... I mean, this is now the command hub of the entire Tianfu City, I must be responsible for the safety of everyone here, I can't sit back and ignore an extremely dangerous existence. Once the situation gets out of control, you should know better than me what will happen." The colonel said helplessly.

"We didn't ignore her." Song Yarong sighed and continued, "The safest way to deal with her now is to take her back to the institute. Only here can we safely contain her... Even if we need to carry out the 'harmless treatment' you mentioned, it can only be done here."

The special agents dressed like canned food had already moved Wang Xiyi into a huge "metal coffin". Only the heavy lid with an observation window at the head position was pushed up, and then they lifted the metal coffin onto the helicopter.

"The special situation handling team has completed the initial containment of the target object and requests to return." A dull voice came from the communicator on the old director's wheelchair.

"Allowed to return." The old director said lightly, "Pay attention to her condition at all times and replenish inhibitors at any time."

"Understood."

The colonel glanced at the screen, then at the old director, and then said: "What should we do with the strange creature? Since we failed to eliminate it this time, it will definitely take revenge... Tianfu City will be under threat at all times, and all our deployments against the Eternal Night will be affected..."

"It has suffered a serious injury and should not appear for the time being." The old director said, "Don't think it's just shedding a layer of skin."

"Less than one-tenth of the original meme fragments of the strange creature have been successfully preserved, and the frequency representing the strength of its ability has dropped to less than 5% of the original level." The researcher in charge of the monitoring equipment added, "According to the previously established data model, it will not pose any threat to Tianfu City for at least the next six months."

"What about six months later? When it recovers from its injuries... Do we have a second 'Night Fury'?" asked the colonel.

"Let's first consider the problems brought by the Eternal Night." The old director looked up at the colonel, "This is just the beginning. As the Eternal Night continues, the monsters we will face in the future will only be more difficult and more difficult to deal with than this... Since you are here, you should have prepared yourself mentally, right?"

"..."The colonel fell into silence. He looked around at everyone in the command room, sighed, and sat back in his seat.

"Report! The rescue team has successfully brought back Ye Xuan, the leader of the special operations team, and Yang Lian, an agent of the Tianfu City Abnormal Investigation Bureau. Both of them are currently in stable vital signs and conscious. Should we transfer them to the nearest hospital or..."

"Send them to the research institute. The top medical forces in Tianfu City are now concentrated here." The colonel rubbed his cheeks hard and said tiredly, "Thank God, this is the best news I have heard today."

He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. As soon as he took out a cigarette, he looked up and saw the "No Smoking" sign hanging on the wall. He could only smile self-deprecatingly, turned around, pushed open the door of the command room, and walked to the corridor outside.

With a "click", the colonel lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, and then squatted down slowly with his back against the wall of the corridor.

The sound of wheels rolling over the ground came, and the old director of the institute drove the wheelchair to the colonel's side and said, "Give me one too."

"Uh... Is your body fit to smoke?" The colonel hesitated for a moment, but still lit a cigarette and handed it over.

"Hehe, when I was doing research late at night, I smoked much more than you young people." The old director took the cigarette and smiled, "At that time, the whole laboratory was filled with smoke... I remember that once the fire alarm was triggered, and my more than 200-page research report was soaked into pieces... Haha, cough cough cough..."

"Take it easy." The colonel stood up immediately and gently patted the old director on the back.

"It's nothing, it's just an old problem from when I was young... cough cough..." The old director took another puff of cigarette, "Now the young people in the institute like to rely on strong coffee to refresh themselves, but I'm really not used to the taste of coffee. Cigarettes are still effective. The spicier the cigarette, the clearer the brain will be when I smoke it."

"..." The colonel looked at the hunchbacked old man in front of him, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.

"Wait until the casualty report of this operation comes out, and send me a copy." The old director put down the hand holding the remaining half of the cigarette and looked at the window at the end of the corridor.

"......Okay." The colonel nodded, "After the statistics are completed, I will send someone to report to you as soon as possible."

"Do you have any more cigarettes... ahem..."

"You can't smoke anymore."

"It's okay, hurry up, have another one, don't be so stingy!"

"You should pay attention to your health." The colonel stuffed the cigarette back into his pocket firmly, "Who is responsible for your daily life? I think I should go talk to him."

"Ha... That idiot is not in Tianfu City now, no one can control me."

"Not in Tianfu City? Did she go to other areas to perform tasks?" The colonel asked subconsciously.

"Well, but not in Shuzhou." The old director nodded, "She went to Chunming City."

"Chunming City... Hunter Upgrade Trial?" The colonel reacted immediately.

"Yes." The old director said, "I didn't expect you to react so quickly."

"Uh... That's because one of the hunters who supported Shuzhou with us also participated in this trial, and I submitted his temporary absence report for him." The colonel said.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. Will you give it to me?"

"No!"

...

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Three hundred nautical miles east of Chunming City, an unnamed island, a beach.

Sun Hang lay on the beach, enjoying the rare sunbath to his heart's content - when he returned to Shuzhou, even sunbathing would become a luxury.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Sun Hang planned to get enough sun at once...Since he woke up, such leisurely and relaxing time is rare. He even doubted whether he was born to work hard...

The afternoon sun was hot but not pungent. The sea breeze from afar had a faint fishy smell. When the seawater with white foam surged up, it could just submerge Sun Hang's feet. After the waves receded, many lively fish, shrimps and crabs were left on the beach. A small crab crawled past Sun Hang with its claws and teeth bared. Several long-dormant hyphae suddenly emerged from the sand and pierced its shell.

Sun Hang spit out the broken crab shells in his mouth and sat up from the beach. If it had not been designated as a blockade area, this nameless island would be a good tourist attraction... If there were a few more beautiful bikini beauties on the beach now, it would be even better.

Sun Hang raised his head and a drone hovered right above him. The round camera turned a few times and finally locked onto Sun Hang.

"Huh... the vacation is over." Sun Hang sighed.

After all, this is not a tourist destination, and there are no bikini beauties who invite him to help apply sunscreen.

Behind him, the ruins of the research institute that had been bombed not long ago were still billowing with thick smoke. The self-destruct device that was activated for the second time caused the entire basin to sink nearly 100 meters again, completely burying the laboratory full of bones deep underground.

"Anna Dimoshinna..." Sun Hang repeated the name in his mind again.

What are you?

What am I?

A few dozen minutes later, a speedboat appeared on the sea and quickly drove towards Sun Hang.

Several people wearing the standard combat uniforms of the Trickster Hunter jumped off the speedboat and walked in front of Sun Hang.

"Special search and rescue team, fourth-level hunter, codenamed 'Thunder'." The leading hunter said to Sun Hang, "Except you, where are the other hunters participating in the trial?"

"Not sure, probably all dead." Sun Hang shrugged, "But two people should still be alive."

"Which two? Where are they now?" Lei Ting immediately asked, "What happened on the island?"

"The 'Fisherman' of the Siberian Autonomous State and Yano Seiichi of the Tianshu Tower, they should be trapped in the nuclear submarine in the underground dock." Sun Hang said.

"Underground dock? Nuclear submarine?" The hunters looked at each other, and the expressions they showed after hearing these terms were almost the same as those of the fisherman and Yano.

"If you don't understand, you can ask your superiors." Sun Hang said, "According to the confidentiality regulations of this trial, I have the right to remain silent to you."

"Then can you tell us where the underground dock is? We have to rush to save people." Lei Ting said again.

"You just need to pass this message back, and the Tianshu Tower should tell you the location of the entrance." Sun Hang said, "In addition, the curse on the Nameless Island should have been lifted. Now even ordinary people can go to the island safely."