Trickster Hunter

Chapter 227 Tunnel under the construction site

"Taklamakan sandworm? What is that?" Sun Hang asked.

"As the name suggests, it is a type C strange creature living in the depths of the Taklamakan Desert. The locals call it the 'death worm'. It is a giant worm with a body length of more than 100 meters and a diameter of 5 to 8 meters. Its most notable feature is its five-petal lip-shaped mouthparts, each of which is full of sharp teeth... It is like a living shield machine, able to easily travel through the hard rock layers under the desert. In the early years, there were records of attacks on oil drilling teams... But after the Taklamakan Desert was included in the occupied area, there has been no more sightings of this strange creature..."

Yang Qi finished speaking, paused again, and then continued: "The most important point is that this strange creature... is Living in groups."

"I don't think it's the 'death worms'." A voice came from above, and with a slight sound, Zhulong also fell to the bottom of the pit, "If there were a group of death worms living underground in Tianfu City, the city would have sunk into the ground long ago. In my opinion, we might as well go down these tunnels and see where it leads to. "

"That's also a way..." Yang Qi turned to look at Yang Lian, "A Lian, are the results of the comparison of the meme fragments out?"

"It's out... There is no existing database that can match the meme fragments remaining in the tunnel... In other words, this is most likely a new and unknown weird thing." Yang Lian shook his head and said solemnly.

"When Yongye appeared, all kinds of monsters and demons appeared." Sun Hang complained, "I'm used to it anyway."

"Me too." Wang Xiyi said with a smile, standing beside Sun Hang, "I'll leave the back to you."

"I don't know why I suddenly thought of a very old lyric." Sun Hang tilted his head, "'Sister, you go forward boldly...'"

"According to age, you should probably call me sister." Wang Xiyi nudged him lightly with her elbow.

"It's simple, just change two words." Sun Hang shrugged.

"Why do I feel that the relationship between you two..." Yang Qi looked at Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi for a few times, "When did it become so good?"

"We have always had a good relationship." Wang Xiyi put her arm on Sun Hang's shoulder.

"How can a life-long friendship not be good?" Sun Hang also echoed.

"Then you two will be the vanguard, and as for the rear guard, I'll leave it to Zhulong." Yang Qi assigned the tasks, "Zhong Ling, A Lian and Ye Xuan, we will be responsible for collecting data and samples, is that all right?"

"No problem." Zhulong replied.

"Hey guys... are you really going to walk in without any preparations?" The white hat who came down with him said in astonishment.

"Preparations? What preparations?" Sun Hang looked back at him and asked back.

"For example... sending drones for preliminary surveys, using large equipment for all-terrain scanning, etc..." said the white hat.

"Yeah, if we just go in like this... wouldn't it be too reckless?" Another technician who followed the white hat said.

"Reckless? I usually call this efficient." Sun Hang said.

"At the very least, we have to notify each department and mobilize enough manpower..." the white hat muttered.

He could never have imagined that these hunters had arrived at the scene only half an hour after he sent the message, and they were planning to go deep into the tunnel suspected of being the lair of the monster without any preparation...

The most terrible thing was that this group of people seemed to have extremely high authority. The young man who always had a smile on his face just swiped his ID code, and the highest command authority on the scene was directly transferred to his hands.

"Various departments? Haven't you already notified them?" Sun Hang smiled, "As for manpower, I'm sorry, at this moment, I'm afraid that more than 80% of the combat power of Tianfu City has been assembled on the scene."

Sun Hang thought about it and thought that he might be too conservative, so he changed his words and said: "Oh, it may be 90%."

The white hat was about to cry - as the person in charge of the construction site, if something uncontrollable happened, although the young man in front of him would bear most of the responsibility, his job would probably be lost.

It's not a big deal if I can't keep my job, after all, the architecture department of the school I graduated from is one of the best in the Xiazhou Federation. Even if I can't be the project manager, I can always find a job as a plasterer to make a living... I'm afraid that not only I can't keep my job, but also my life...

"Well... how about you wait for a while?" The white hat said again, "I'll go evacuate the construction workers first... in case a battle breaks out..."

"Evacuate the construction workers... what were you doing before?" Sun Hang asked in confusion.

The white hat felt a great grievance in an instant, and said with a bitter face: "Before the professionals and the military take over the site, we have to keep an eye on this pit... Besides, those expensive construction equipment must be dismantled and transported one by one. In addition to the safety of personnel and property, it is also my responsibility to ensure the safety of property..."

"How long will it take?" Yang Qi asked.

"The most valuable part of the equipment has been moved onto the car, and the rest only needs to dismantle the large drilling machine. It will take at most two hours... no, one and a half hours, and we can clear the site!" said the white hat.

"I'll give you ten minutes." Yang Qi said, "Just leave all these equipment on the construction site. You just need to ensure that all non-combatants are evacuated."

"But, but..."

"There's nothing to say but. Even if a fight breaks out, the property losses caused by it will not be counted on you." Sun Hang said, "Twenty seconds have passed. You have nine minutes and forty seconds left. I suggest you hurry up."

"I-I'll go evacuate people now!" The white hat hurriedly adjusted the white hat on his head and took the people back to the ground in the elevator.

In addition to Sun Hang and his group, there were only a dozen fully armed soldiers left at the bottom of the pit.

These were soldiers responsible for the security of the construction site. In theory, they were not "non-combatants", so it was understandable that they stayed.

But in Sun Hang's eyes, these people following him would only increase unnecessary casualties.

"You guys go up too." Sun Hang said to the leading officer, "Set up a cordon with a radius of five kilometers around the construction area, and no outsiders are allowed to enter."

"Yes!" the leading officer responded immediately.

It must be said that communicating with soldiers who take obeying orders as their duty is more straightforward than dealing with people from other units. After a standard military salute, the officer immediately led his subordinates to evacuate the pit.

Eight minutes later, the white hats also sent news that all non-combat personnel in the construction area had been evacuated, and cordons were set up around the construction area. At the same time, the security drones responsible for security and protection had all taken off, putting the airspace under complete control.

"We have obtained permission for action from the Institute and the Countermeasures Committee." Yang Qi said to the others - in fact, with Sun Hang's authority, he could have given orders to the two units in turn and submitted permission for action, but he just did it while waiting for the personnel to evacuate.

The symbolic meaning is greater than the practical meaning... or to put it in a more domineering way: this is just notifying them, not applying for their permission.

"Let's go." Wang Xiyi glanced at Sun Hang, and the dragon wings behind her slightly spread out. A faint blue flame rose at the end of her tail, illuminating the dark tunnel into a blue world like a dream.

"Yeah." Sun Hang took out a pistol and loaded the bullet.

"You are still using a gun..." Seeing Sun Hang's actions, Yang Lian couldn't help but complain.

"Guns are very useful. To deal with those weird things that can be killed by bullets, or human gangsters and wild beasts, you only need to pull the trigger lightly." Sun Hang said, "Such a useful tool, why can I use it."

"A Lian, focus on your own business." Yang Qi said seriously. She took out a device similar to a temperature measuring gun and aimed it at the tunnel wall. A light green light shot out from the launch port and focused on the rock wall.

"These meme fragments seem to have been around for a long time..." Yang Qi looked at the data displayed on the device screen and murmured, "According to the preliminary test results, they have been left on these rock walls for at least several decades."

"Decades? Isn't it said that memes will be inactivated in a short period of time after leaving the weird things?" Sun Hang was slightly startled, "Is there anything wrong with the equipment?"

"No... Although most memes cannot exist alone in nature, there are very few special individuals." Yang Qi explained, "They are like ancient bacteria preserved in the Antarctic ice, and can even survive for tens of thousands of years."

"Then can these memes be found out from what type of weird things?" Sun Hang asked.

Yang Qi shook her head: "There are only fragmented fragments, and the amount of information carried is pitifully small... To be honest, I am also very curious, why can these memes remain in the form of fragments for so long..."

"You can't say that this tunnel itself is a strange thing?" Sun Hang walked forward, looking up at the surrounding rock walls, "Could it be another G-type strange thing?"

"My equipment didn't detect any strange breath anyway, what about you?" Yang Qi looked at Sun Hang, "Your perception should be more acute than this portable device."

"Same." Sun Hang said, "Otherwise I would use a declarative sentence instead of a question."

The crowd walked about a hundred meters along the tunnel, and the fork mentioned by the white hat finally appeared in their sight.

These so-called forks are actually holes opened on the wall of the main tunnel. Compared with the main tunnel that is spacious enough to drive an off-road vehicle, these forks can only accommodate one person, and they must bend over.

There were quite a few holes like this. In a short distance of 30 meters, at least 19 holes were found. Yang Qi marked the number of each hole with a paint pen, while Yang Lian and Ye Xuan were responsible for taking pictures and measuring the diameter of the hole.

"The largest diameter is hole No. 3, 109 cm; the smallest is hole No. 15, 97.5 cm..." Ye Xuan said while recording.

"So they are all about the same size?" Sun Hang walked to a hole and shone the tactical flashlight mounted under the pistol into the hole - the beam of light extended less than 10 meters before being blocked by the corner. If you want to know what is behind the corner, you can only crawl in to see it.

"I released all six archaeological snake-shaped drones I brought and surveyed caves No. 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 and 15 respectively." Yang Qi said, "Currently, the drone status is normal. The drone that penetrated into the largest cave No. 1 has moved 84 meters and found nothing except the bare rock wall."

"Sister, is this really a nest of some kind of weird thing?" Yang Lian rubbed her arm uncomfortably, "Tell me, will there be a lot of weird things pouring out of these holes later?" Come……"

"Don't scare yourself." Yang Qi glared at her sister, "According to the test results, the memes remaining on the rock wall are more than twenty years old. Even if it is a nest, it is still an abandoned one. nest."

"What if it's that weird thing with a long dormancy period? Like... a cicada?" Yang Lian couldn't help but think of his speculation when he first learned the news.

"I think these main tunnels and bifurcated caves... are like a main blood vessel and branch blood vessels." Zhulong said quietly, "We are like being in the body of an ancient giant beast. The remains of the giant beast After a long period of time, it turned into rock-like fossils, and these tunnels are the blood vessels of the giant beast..."

"Speaking of which, are there any myths and stories related to giant beasts that have been handed down in the Shuzhou area?" Ye Xuan suddenly asked.

"Such myths and stories exist in all regions and are not special." Yang Qi shook her head, "If we are inside the blood vessel of the remains of a giant beast, wouldn't the shape of this giant beast be larger than that of the entire Tianfu? Is the city still big?”

"I just expressed my feelings." Zhulong smiled, "I read the Classic of Mountains and Seas again recently, and I subconsciously thought of the ancient and strange beasts described in the book."

"I hope it's not a giant beast." Yang Lian said, "There are fragments of memes from decades ago... Doesn't that mean that this giant beast still had vital signs decades ago?"

"That's not necessarily true." Yang Qi shook her head. "It could also be other weird things that are parasitic in the body of the giant beast, just like the bacteria that are parasitic in the human intestines."

"Can the bacteria in the intestines survive for so many years after death?" Sun Hang complained.

"It's just a metaphor, a metaphor!"

"Stop making metaphors, come here, I've discovered something!" Sun Hang didn't know when he had gotten into Cave No. 13, and was squatting on the edge of the cave entrance, waving to the others.