Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 113 Li Huo
"The main goal of the reformists is to 'de-infected'," Yang Lian said. "They believe that humans should rely on their own strength to fight against monsters, rather than relying too much on you infected hunters. In their eyes, the infected are always aliens... You may think this is discrimination, but it is the truth."

"Relying on human's own strength?" Sun Hang thought about it. The only thing he could think of was the "Killing" type of strange equipment. However, strange equipment still relied on the power of strange things. The qualified person could only be regarded as a "pendant". Moreover, the qualified person had been in contact with strange equipment for a long time. I am afraid that in the eyes of these reformists, there is no difference between them and the infected people...

"Strange equipment and qualified people were the reformists' initial attempts... But in this report meeting, she seemed to want to propose a completely new development direction." Yang Lian said, "Professor Deng is very disgusted with strange things and infected people. She even resisted the proposal of strange equipment... If the border defense of Xiazhou Federation did not need you hunters to support it, I think she would have proposed to eliminate all infected people a long time ago."

"Has she been stimulated by something? Why does she hate the infected so much?" Sun Hang asked curiously.

"That's a pretty accurate guess..." Yang Lian nodded. "Her mother was once the direct supervisor of a monster hunter, just like my sister. But the infection process of that monster hunter went out of control and tore her mother into pieces. Professor Deng, who was only eleven years old at the time, witnessed this scene with her own eyes. Since then, she has become a staunch member of the reform faction."

"I see."

Sun Hang suddenly felt that it made sense for Professor Deng to become so extreme... The fact that she could sit in this position now showed that she was an extremely rational person... If she were someone with a more impulsive personality, she would have become an extremist who specialized in hunting down the infected.

"But the problem is," Sun Hang said, "since they want to reform, how do they plan to do it? If they directly abolish the profession of Monster Hunter, the territory of the Federation should shrink rapidly in just a few months, right? The people at the top who hold the decision-making power must be crazy to agree with the reformists' policy, right?"

"Then what do you think is the most important thing for the reformers?" Yang Lian looked at Sun Hang and asked.

Sun Hang thought for a moment and said, "An alternative solution that can replace the infected hunters and solve the invasion of strange creatures. This solution must be low-cost, safe and reliable, and highly versatile and productive. None of the above points can be missing."

For the current Xiazhou Federation, the Monster Hunters are undoubtedly the best solution... Even though the infected hunters are time bombs, only their power can fight against all kinds of monsters - what is the saying on the Internet? "Use magic to defeat magic."

"What she is introducing now is the latest plan." Yang Lian took off one of the headphones and handed it to Sun Hang, "You can listen to it."

Sun Hang took the earphones, which still carried the other person's body temperature, and put them into his own ears.

Professor Deng's nonsense lasted for seven or eight minutes. She kept emphasizing the disadvantages of lax management of the infected, granting monster hunters various privileges, and the threat posed by the infected to human society. She kept talking until the bigwigs sitting in the audience began to show impatience. Only then did she wave her arm and have two researchers push a small cart onto the stage.

"Everyone, this is the result of our seven years of research. I believe it is enough to change the current situation of the human world!" Professor Deng said confidently, "Even... in the future, we may have the capital to counterattack the lost ground!"

Counterattack and lose ground?

The corners of Sun Hang's mouth twitched... He suddenly felt that this woman's rhetoric was very similar to that of a pyramid scheme scammer.

But the fact that the pyramid scheme can fool so many people shows that this set of rhetoric is still very effective... Sun Hang noticed that there was a slight discussion in the audience.

Regardless of whether people believe it or not, as long as she can arouse discussion and controversy, she may be able to win over her supporters - especially after the reformers can produce some research results with practical value.

"I think that infected people and weird things should be regarded as a quantifiable resource rather than combat power." Professor Deng walked quickly to the cart and pulled down the cloth covering the cart. On the cart was a very common 9mm caliber pistol and a silver-white metal rack. In the groove of the rack, there were four bullets of different colors.

"Bullets?" Sun Hang was a little confused... After seven years of research, they only developed these four bullets?

Through the screen, he could vaguely feel that the bullets were a little strange, but he couldn't tell where the strange feeling came from for a while.

Professor Deng picked up the pistol from the cart and pushed the first red bullet into the magazine.

With the "click" sound of the spring inside the slide, the bullet was loaded, and a smug smile appeared on Professor Deng's face.

"Please bring up the target."

The floor on one side of the platform cracked, and a cage made of a special alloy rose from the ground. Inside the cage was a strange-looking creature - it looked like a hybrid of a wild boar and a hippopotamus, with festering sores all over its body. Sun Hang even felt that he could smell the disgusting stench through the screen.

"Bing 4698 'Immortal Rotten Beast'." Professor Deng introduced, "I believe everyone here knows something about this strange creature. It appeared in Siberia in the year of the lunar calendar. After being captured, it has been contained in the Tianshu Tower until now. Its greatest feature is its almost unlimited self-recovery ability and resistance to physical attacks. A project team once conducted an experiment. They imprisoned Bing in a nuclear test site and attacked it with nuclear weapons. Bing was almost instantly burned to ashes, but after six seconds, it recovered from the ashes to its original appearance."

"What an indestructible cockroach." Sun Hang couldn't help but complain.

"Stop making noise and keep watching." Yang Lian said.

"But we found a way to kill it." Professor Deng raised his gun and pointed it at Bing 093 in the cage. "What you are seeing now is not the original Bing , but a secondary creature that Tianshu Tower copied using Bing 's memes... It has almost perfectly inherited Bing 's characteristics and abilities. Among the many copies, this one numbered 'A' is the closest to the original."

Professor Deng paused for a moment, then continued, "The bullet I'm loading into my magazine right now is called 'Lihuo', and the gunpowder inside it comes from three different strange things..."

"Bah!"

A gunshot rang out and the bullet hit the replica of Bing499 in the cage. The next second, black flames ignited on the replica's body. In just a dozen seconds, the replica was burned to ashes and never recovered.

There was a sudden buzz of discussion in the audience - this time, the people sitting below no longer tried to suppress their comments, and everyone could see that this shot had successfully aroused the interest of most of the people present.

"There is one more thing I must make clear to you all. The raw materials and strange objects needed for 'Lihuo' are the same as those in Bing 499. They can be replicated using existing technology... In other words, it is capable of mass production."

(End of this chapter)