Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 193 Stitched Strange Creature

Tianfu City, Star City Garden, Building 13.

This residential building has a total of twenty-six floors, and twenty-seven floors if the rooftop terrace is included. The two girls tightly grasped their weapons and watched the numbers on the display screen in the elevator gradually jump upwards.

Eighteen, nineteen, twenty...

Just as the number was about to jump to twenty-one, the elevator car suddenly shook violently and stopped.

Then, the lights and display screens went out at the same time.

"The elevator has stopped!" Yang Lian immediately took out his cell phone. The light from the phone screen illuminated the cheeks of the two people, making them look extremely pale.

"The power supply to the building must have been cut off," Ye Xuan said in a low voice. "Don't worry. There is a backup power supply inside the elevator. After detecting a power outage, the elevator will restart within ten seconds and take us to the nearest floor. Then we can go up via the fire escape stairs."

"Yeah." Yang Lian nodded.

But at this moment, a rustling sound came from under the car, as if something was climbing up quickly along the steel cable.

They both held their breath.

Yang Lian glanced at Ye Xuan and asked in a very low voice: "What should we do?"

Ye Xuan put her finger on her lips, made a "quiet" gesture, then took a step back, pressed against the inner wall of the car, and motioned Yang Lian to do the same.

Yang Lian stepped on the half-solidified plasma and retreated to the corner of the car. The next second, a sharp thorn pierced through the bottom of the car.

Yang Lian's body suddenly tensed up, and he lightly flicked the thumb of his right hand holding the gun to open the safety of the pistol.

But the spike quickly retracted, leaving only a dark hole the size of a fistful.

"Don't move yet, the thing is still underneath." Ye Xuan said to Yang Lian using lip language.

"I know." Yang Lian also replied using lip language.

"Pfft."

The spike once again poked a hole in the bottom of the car. The car, which was welded from alloy plates, was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of this spike.

This time the puncture site was less than five centimeters away from the big toe of Yang Lian's right foot. Yang Lian subconsciously wanted to take a deep breath, but immediately bit his lips hard, fearing that the monster under the car would hear his breathing.

All ten of her toes were curled up and gripped the ground tightly. One hand was covering her mouth and nose, and the other hand was pressing her chest tightly. The cold sweat oozing from her back had soaked her entire nightgown, and even the lining of her down jacket was wet, sticking tightly to her back.

"Pfft."

The strange creature seemed unable to determine the location of the two people, and it poked back and forth at the bottom of the car as if drawing a lottery. Soon, there were more than a dozen holes under the car, and the half of the body that was lying inside the car was also poked to pieces.

Yang Lian and Ye Xuan both stood on tiptoe and put all their body weight on the wall of the car with their backs against it, in order to minimize the possibility of being stabbed by the spikes.

Finally, with a slight "ding" sound, the light appeared again in the dark cabin, the motor resumed working, and the steel cable pulled the cabin to continue rising.

"After the leveling, I'll count to three, two, one, and rush out immediately. Don't hesitate." Ye Xuan stared at Yang Lian and spoke in lip language.

Yang Lian, with sweat all over his forehead, nodded slightly.

The number on the display screen jumped to "twenty-one", the safety warning light came on, and the elevator door slowly opened to both sides.

"Three, two, one!"

The two girls rushed out of the elevator at the same time - fortunately, they were both slim, if they were two burly men, they might have collided with each other by now.

At the moment when the two men fell to the ground, accompanied by a teeth-grinding sound, the bottom of the car, which had been almost pierced into a sieve, was torn open, and a head popped out from the crack.

This is a female head - or rather, a head that barely retains some female features... Its appearance is extremely strange, with extremely bloated cheeks, as if it had been stung by a group of wasps. Its facial features are squeezed and deformed, and its messy and dirty hair is scattered behind its head, covered with blood and dust.

"What kind of monster is this?!" Yang Lian raised her gun and shot, but perhaps because she was too nervous, or perhaps because of the nature of her job, she rarely came into contact with guns... At such a close distance, she fired three consecutive shots in vain, and all the bullets hit the inner wall of the car, sparks flew, but did not cause any substantial damage to the monster.

"I don't know, I've never seen it!" Ye Xuan answered while holding up the PDW and firing at the interior of the car. As a girl who grew up in the military system, her shooting skills were much more accurate than Yang Lian's. Most of the bullets hit the sticking out head, and the already horrible head suddenly became a bloody mess.

"Run!" Ye Xuan threw away the empty magazine and ran towards the fire escape without looking back.

She saw clearly that neither conventional bullets nor the 'Lihuo' bullets developed by Tianshu Tower could penetrate the head - after the bullet hit the target, it was wrapped up by a pile of madly growing flesh and blood... This monster looked like it had been beaten badly, but in fact those changes were completely the opponent's self-defense mechanism.

Yang Lian also followed her and ran towards the stairs. At the same time, she threw the gun in her hand, which had no bullets left. It must be said that her shooting skills were terrible, but her accuracy in throwing things was surprisingly good. The grip of the pistol hit the down button of the elevator five meters away!
Suddenly, the elevator door closed, and the remaining power of the backup power supply lowered the car, and at the same time pressed down the strange creature hanging at the bottom of the car.

The two barefoot girls ran all the way along the fire escape stairs. They didn't dare to slow down at all. There were constant banging sounds coming from the elevator shaft. The strange creature had obviously broken through the barrier of the elevator car and was chasing them frantically along the elevator shaft. "We encountered the target! The target is now in the elevator shaft of elevator No. 1! And moving towards the roof at a high speed!" Ye Xuan shouted into the headset while running, "We need support! We need air support!"

"Falcon One and Falcon Two are on their way to your location and are expected to arrive in two minutes!" The headquarters immediately replied, "Ground troops have also entered the community. In addition, snipers on the rooftops of buildings six and eleven are already in place! You must hold on! As long as we can lure the monster to the rooftop, we can snipe it!!"

"There is one more thing!" Ye Xuan continued to report, "'Lihuo' is useless against that strange creature. Don't expect to kill it with conventional ammunition. Let the snipers switch to heavy warheads and use the kinetic energy attached to the warheads to contain the target!"

"Roger that!"

Ye Xuan looked up at the sign hanging in the corridor. In a blink of an eye, they had already reached the 26th floor. They only had twenty or so steps left to reach the rooftop!
At this moment, the wall on one side of the corridor shattered with a loud bang, just like a heavy truck hitting a huge wafer biscuit. A huge monster fell heavily behind the two of them, and they finally saw the full picture of the strange "white shadow".

This is a real "stitched monster" - its upper body is an extremely swollen human female body, and below the waist is the body of a giant spider. If its eight hairy limbs are fully extended, the length is estimated to be more than ten meters.

The spider's abdomen was bulging high, and a faint white fluorescence was emitted through the almost transparent carapace. Below the abdominal cavity, an organ suspected to be the cloaca was opening and closing rhythmically like a mouth.

Further back, there is a giant scorpion-shaped tail. The sharp point that pierced the car is at the end of this tail.

The stitched monster didn't hesitate at all, and after breaking through the wall, it rushed towards the two people quickly - the space in the corridor was extremely small, and the two people had almost no escape. At this critical moment, the door of Room 2601 was suddenly knocked open from the inside, and a figure covered in blood rushed out of the room.

"Hurry - go -" the man shouted to the two girls with all his strength, then leaped towards the stitched monster!
"Pfft!"

The moment he jumped down the stairs, the monster's tail pierced his body and pulled him close.

The heroic field operator lowered his head, a smug smile frozen on his bloodstained face.

He loosened his hands, and two grenades with safety pins pulled out fell from his hands to the ground, rolling under the belly of the stitched monster.

"boom!!!"

A huge explosion sounded, and the gust of air directly pushed Ye Xuan and Yang Lian to break open the safety door leading to the rooftop.

Yang Lian fell heavily to the ground and it took her a long time to come back to her senses. She slapped her dizzy head hard and then climbed up with some difficulty.

Blood flowed out of Yang Lian's ears, and the "buzzing" sound kept echoing in her mind. Apart from that, she could no longer hear any other sound.

The whole world seemed to be shaking violently. The lights on the tall towers in the distance were like the light sticks used by fans to cheer at a concert, stretched into long, blurry neon lights.

Yang Lian had not taken a few steps before he lost his balance again and fell to the ground.

Not far away, Ye Xuan staggered forward, holding onto a water pipe nearby. The field operator threw out two powerful defensive missiles. Although most of the shock waves and fragments were blocked by the body of the stitched monster, one missile still managed to escape and flew past Ye Xuan's calf, cutting a deep gash in her calf that was visible to the bone.

She didn't feel anything at first, but when she came to her senses from the impact of the explosion, severe pain surged up and almost made her pass out.

Blood was gushing out, and Ye Xuan could clearly feel the heat flowing down her legs, but she didn't dare to stop at all, and moved forward bit by bit while enduring the severe pain.

She was also deafened by the explosion in the corridor. She couldn't hear anything, but could still feel the vibration of the ground - the stitched monster was not killed by the explosion, and it didn't even seem injured. It was ramming the corridor frantically, destroying the walls that hindered its movement... It wouldn't be long before it would tear open the narrow passage leading to the rooftop and rush to her.

The instinct for survival prompted the secretion of a large amount of adrenaline. Ye Xuan seemed to feel that the wound on her leg was not so painful anymore. She turned her head reluctantly and saw the monster smashing the side wall of the exit and coming out from the corridor.

An extremely strong airflow passed by Ye Xuan, and a heavy sniper bullet accurately hit the huge spider belly of the stitched monster, causing it to retreat several steps.

The shot was fired from a 1200mm anti-tank weapon. The special sniper bullet with a warhead weight of grams could even overturn a ten-ton light armored off-road vehicle, but when it hit the monster, it only made it retreat a few steps.

"Hello... this... this is Ye Xuan..." Ye Xuan pressed her earphones. She couldn't hear what the command center was saying on the other end of the earphones. She could only talk to herself, "Let the sniper... aim at the part where the humanoid torso and the spider body of the monster are connected... continue to use heavy bullets... maybe we can... cut it in half..."

A basin-sized dent appeared on the part of the monster that was hit by the heavy bullet. In the center of the dent, the heavy bullet, like a tungsten steel rod, sank deeply into it. But even so, the shot failed to penetrate the monster's body.

Another strong airflow passed through, but this time, the stitched monster jumped up in advance... Its heavy and huge body was unexpectedly flexible, and it jumped several meters into the air in an instant. The bullet went straight through its body and failed to hit the target!

"Report from sniper position number four... The sniper's trajectory was predicted by the target! Besides that... ah!"

A scream sounded in the communication channel, which made everyone gathered in the temporary command center of the institute feel nervous!
The stitched monster has appeared on the rooftop, so what attacked sniper position No. 4 on the other building?

"Sniper position number four! Please report your situation immediately! Sniper position number four? Sniper position number four?!"

There was no response from the other end of the communication channel.

"Sniper position number three, you are closest to sniper position number four, what happened to him?!"

"Report from sniper position number three... I only saw a sniper rifle on the edge of the rooftop. The sniper and observer on sniper position number four have disappeared. The guardrail on the edge of the rooftop blocks my vision, and I can't observe more! Wait... wait a minute, there is——"

The communication came to an abrupt halt once again!

(End of this chapter)