Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 114 Big Pie
"So, what is the principle behind this special bullet?" A big shot sitting in the audience asked the question that everyone else - including Sun Hang and Yang Lian in front of the screen - wanted to ask.

This big guy was wearing a neat military uniform. The seven rows of medals on his chest and the glittering stars on his epaulettes all proved his important position. A number one figure like him could shake the superstructure of the Xiazhou Federation with just a word.

And now, he was supporting his chin with his fist, looking at the bullets painted with different colors on the stage with great interest.

"According to the research of Tianshu Tower, the meme frequency of strange creatures is not chaotic and disordered. In fact, just like the periodic table of elements, the number and types of existing memes can be completely known through calculation. It's just that the amount of calculation is too huge. Even the most advanced supercomputer today will take tens of thousands of years to complete this task." Professor Deng said.

"Just get to the point." The big guy said again.

"Okay." Professor Deng nodded. "Since the frequency of memes follows a certain pattern and there is the possibility of 'human editing', we can completely determine the special abilities given to the target monster by each segment in its meme through calculation. Monsters like Bing 499, which have super recovery abilities, all have a similar segment in their memes, and it is this segment that makes them almost immortal."

"go on."

"We spent four years and more than 2,000 experiments to determine the frequency of this meme," said Professor Deng. "After that, we spent another two years finding another meme with a completely opposite frequency in several other weird creatures that could neutralize this undead meme."

"Zhonghe? You mean Zhonghe?" another person in the audience said. He was wearing a dirty white coat, with messy gray hair, and a pair of glasses with tortoise-shell frames, with thick tape wrapped around the frame. This image completely fits the description of the older generation of intellectuals in some literary works. However, in the Tianshu Tower where geniuses are everywhere and academic masters are worse than dogs, old guys like this are often the truly terrifying characters.

"What a genius idea!" The old man seemed a little excited. "I had this idea when I was young, but the analysis equipment at that time was too backward, and it was difficult to clearly analyze each meme... Tell me, how did you do it?"

"In fact, it was just a coincidence at the beginning." Professor Deng smiled at the audience. "It originated from a 'competitive experiment'. We put the replica of Bing 499 and the replica of another weird creature in the same scene, forcing them to attack each other, and then collected data... We found that the damage caused to Bing 499 by three kinds of weird creatures would not be recovered by itself, or it would recover very slowly."

"and then?"

"After comparing the two memes segment by segment, we found two segments that were completely 'contradictory' in frequency. When these two segments are fused, they will experience the 'annihilation' phenomenon that occurs when matter and antimatter come into contact. However, the annihilation of memes does not release energy, so the safety of this special bullet is beyond doubt."

Professor Deng paused and continued, "It took us only four months to make the bullet, but it took seven years to analyze and compare the various meme fragments."

"What are the differences between the other three bullets?" the military leader asked again.

"The other three bullets represent the three directions we will explore next," Professor Deng said, "They are respectively aimed at 'special weird things without physical entities', 'weird things with extremely strong physical defense capabilities' and..."

Professor Deng paused for a few seconds on purpose, whetting everyone's appetite before slowly saying, "Rule-based weird things." "Use bullets to destroy rule-based weird things?" Yang Lian was stunned for a moment, "This... is impossible?"

"I think she's just making empty promises," Sun Hang commented. "In fact, they spent seven years researching and only came up with this one special bullet... The other three are still at the stage of 'creating a new folder'. According to her, relying on comparing memetic fragments to find a way to restrain monsters sounds very rigid... It's okay to deal with those known monsters, but if the enemy is a brand new monster, or a mutant monster that has been mutated beyond recognition, she can't let the other party wait for her for another seven years before the monster pounces on her, right?"

"Uh..." Yang Lian glanced at Sun Hang. Although she really wanted to complain about how a "layman" like you who couldn't even recite a few lines of the monster sequence dared to speak so arrogantly to the bigwigs in the industry, but when she thought about it carefully, she realized that what Sun Hang said was indeed correct... This is probably what the so-called "rough words but valid logic" means.

The idea of ​​"meme neutralization" sounds great, but in practice, there is not much room for it.

This is like prescribing the right medicine for a disease. When a disease has been thoroughly studied, then it is natural that the medicine can cure the disease...but what if a completely new disease emerges that has never appeared before?
Until new drugs are developed, won’t patients have no choice but to wait for death?

"We named the other three types of ammunition 'Exorcism', 'Steel Cutting' and 'Defying Fate'..."

Before Professor Deng finished her words, the military leader in the audience interrupted her and asked, "How long will it take you to produce the other three types of ammunition?"

The big boss seemed to have figured out the gap between reality and ideal, and the expectation in his eyes had weakened a lot compared to just now.

"'Exorcism' is expected to take five years, 'Steel Cutting' three years, and 'Defying Fate'..." Professor Deng's eyes suddenly became uncertain, "A conservative estimate is about 20 to 30 years... But if we can expand the project team and provide more research funds, this time will be greatly shortened..."

"Let's put it this way. We just had a brief discussion. We will add ten first-level researchers and twenty-five second-level researchers to your research team. As for the candidates, you can coordinate with the management of Tianshu Tower. The research funding will be temporarily increased to 300%, and the authority level will be increased by one level... I look forward to you letting me see the samples of 'Exorcist' and 'Steel Cutting' as soon as possible." The military leader said, "In addition, 'Lihuo' will be put into mass production immediately. The ammunition will be distributed in limited quantities to the special forces that are about to go to Shuzhou area, where they will be tested in actual combat. Once it is proven to have practical significance, it will be immediately promoted to the entire army."

Sun Hang noticed that this big man never mentioned "defying fate" from beginning to end, and it was obvious that he did not have much hope for this.

If you want to use bullets to defeat rule-based monsters, then the charge of the bullets must also be the meme of the rule-based monsters, right?
"Yang Lian, has the Federation ever successfully contained rule-based monsters?" Sun Hang turned around and asked.

"...In my memory, there shouldn't be any." Yang Lian shook his head. "The only person who has been made public and has the rule-based monster meme is the hunter codenamed 'Bao Si'."

(End of this chapter)