Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 214 Goodbye
"Hahahaha...that's indeed the truth." Zhulong laughed heartily, "This idea is really interesting!"

"Let's get back to the point - Sun Hang, what you just said means: Instead of waiting in various towns, why not stay in Tianfu City and wait for Chimera 17 to recover and come to you?" Yang Qi said seriously, "But have you ever thought about how many people will suffer from Chimera 17's murderous hands?"

"No matter what we do, these people will die." Sun Hang shrugged. "You can let the Disaster Countermeasures Committee implement the large-scale migration plan, or you can organize elite hunters to wait for Chimera No. 17... But no matter what we do, the final battlefield will most likely be in Tianfu City."

“……” Yang Qi fell into deep thought.

"Don't you think there's something wrong with what I said?" Sun Hang suddenly said.

"what?"

"Does what I said contradict the question you asked me during the initial employment test?"

"This one……"

"I have also raised this question with Pei Zongjun." Sun Hang shrugged. "He told me that this is a war, and war requires a sufficiently ruthless decision-maker... and he hopes that I can become a decision-maker."

"Since Elder Pei said so, then there must be no problem." Zhu Long said on the side, "Decision makers do need to be calm enough, but this does not mean that they are completely inhumane... On the contrary, it is precisely because of their humanity that they will make the choice that can allow the most people to survive."

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Before Sun Hang and his companions' car entered the urban area of ​​Lizhou City, they had already seen several armored vehicles loaded with city defense guards driving out of the city. The leading armored vehicle stopped about ten meters away from them. A second lieutenant jumped out of the vehicle, adjusted his helmet, and quickly ran towards Sun Hang and his companions.

"Hello, sir!" The second lieutenant saluted Sun Hang and the others through the car window. "I am the deputy captain of the second squadron of the Lizhou City City Defense Guard. Thank you very much for the information you provided. My unit is currently gathering in the western suburbs of the city, preparing to go to the Qiang ethnic group settlement area to search and rescue the survivors!"

"How many of you are there?" Yang Qi asked before Sun Hang could speak.

"Two squadrons of soldiers, about eighty people, and three investigation bureau field teams." The lieutenant reported.

"Are there no hunters accompanying you?" Yang Qi realized as soon as she asked this question that it was a bit redundant - Sun Hang and Zhu Long were probably the only two hunters stationed in Lizhou City. Even if the Lizhou City Management Committee wanted to send hunters to participate in this operation, they didn't have any extra hunters to send...

"No." The lieutenant shook his head. "Our superiors told us that hunters will come to support us soon, so we should hurry up and rescue as many survivors as possible in the mountains."

"I'll give you a piece of advice." Sun Hang reached out and adjusted the rearview mirror next to the car window, just in time to see the dark mountain through the reflection in the mirror. "It's best not to go into the mountain before the hunters are in place."

"Sorry, sir... This is an order from our superiors, we..." The lieutenant's expression froze, and then he said with difficulty.

"I'm just saying it." Sun Hang turned his head and looked directly at the oncoming convoy and said, "As for the order or survival, it's your choice anyway."

After saying that, he started the car again.

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Lizhou City, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.

Although the officials of Lizhou Municipal Administration Committee tried to retain him again and again, Sun Hang, who had already made up his mind to leave, would not stay no matter what conditions they offered.

Lizhou City... In other words, the Qiang settlement area west of Lizhou City has been "plundered" by Chimera No. 17, and it will no longer stay in Lizhou City... This creature is very cunning, and it knows how to minimize the risks - compared to launching attacks in densely populated urban areas, the vast Shuzhou territory has many more remote towns that are more suitable as hunting grounds than Lizhou City.

You know, the armed forces of some towns are so small that they can be ignored - a police station of more than ten square meters, three or four sheriffs who have only received one month of standard military training, an old automatic rifle, a shotgun loaded with rubber bullets, and two or three 9mm pistols that may not even penetrate bulletproof vests. This may be the entire armed force of the entire town.

Although as a border area, the militia organization in Shuzhou has always been retained... but it is completely unknown whether those untrained militiamen have the courage to raise their guns, aim, and pull the trigger when facing ferocious monsters.

Except for the "strong military towns" bordering the Yunnan-Yunnan region, other places in Shuzhou, except for those big cities, are basically undefended.

It’s not that the federal government doesn’t want to, but that it can’t.

In order to train a qualified soldier, the tax revenue of at least fifteen to twenty ordinary people is needed to support it. Add to that the purchase and consumption expenses of various weapons and equipment, and this number will rise to more than thirty... For a country not at war, the ratio of the number of troops to the total population is one to thirty, and the financial pressure is enormous... The Federation cannot support such a large and completely full-time army. If it really does that, there is no need for monsters to launch attacks. It only takes a few years for the Federation's economic situation to gradually collapse.

As for the Trickster Hunters, it costs a lot more to raise them than ordinary soldiers...

Wang Xiyi and Sun Hang once said, "Hunters are like bricks and can be moved wherever they are needed." As for "resident hunters", except for Chunming City and local capitals, it is difficult for ordinary cities to have such treatment.

The plane slowly landed. Outside the window was the familiar Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute building that Sun Hang was familiar with. Several people who came to pick him up had already been waiting outside the helipad. Sun Hang saw Yin Xiang waving his arms vigorously with an excited look on his face.

As soon as Sun Hang got off the plane, this guy rushed over and said, "Boss! I missed you so much!"

"Get out of here! You stink of sweat, can't you go wash yourself?" With a look of disgust on his face, Sun Hang used mycelium to tie up Yin Xiang, who was trying to rush over to hug him.

"Boss, I've been working overtime for three days in a row. I sleep on the floor in the office. How can I have time to take a shower?" Yin Xiang said aggrievedly, "You don't know that a series of major events happened in Tianfu City during your absence!"

"Are you talking about Chimera No. 17?" Sun Hang glanced at him and asked.

"Ah?" Yin Xiang was stunned. "How did you know? The team leader told me that this is top secret and must not be leaked in front of irrelevant people... Now the entire Tianfu City is under strict information control. How did you know?"

"Do you think I'm an irrelevant person?" Sun Hang stared at him speechlessly... But this is not Yin Xiang's fault. Although he has been converted to a regular employee, it does not mean that he can participate in the conversations of the decision-makers with his level of authority. After the attack, he received only one order, which was "keep it confidential."

"You haven't been in Tianfu City for a while. You are not an irrelevant person, so am I?" Yin Xiang looked innocent. "Puchi." Zhulong, who was walking behind Sun Hang, couldn't help laughing, "This little brother is really interesting."

"Ah? What's interesting?" Yin Xiang obviously didn't react.

"That's irony." Sun Hang loosened the mycelium that was tying up Yin Xiang. "Let me translate it for you: 'This little fool is really funny', that's pretty much what it means."

"That's not what I meant." Zhulong waved his hand quickly and said, "It's not the behavior of a gentleman to sow discord."

"I'm not a gentleman either." Sun Hang glanced at Yang Qi who was handing over work to a colleague, yawned, put his hands behind his head, and strode towards the research institute building.

"Boss, boss..." Yin Xiang followed immediately, "Who are these two? Are they the reinforcements sent by the federal government? And those things taken out from the cargo hold...hiss, if I'm not mistaken, those things are coffins, right? How come you brought back more than a dozen coffins? What's in them?"

"Why do you have so many questions?"

"I'm just asking. If you find me annoying, it's okay if you don't answer."

"Then you are indeed annoying." Sun Hang rolled his eyes, "I refuse to answer."

“And, and…” Yin Xiang moved closer and lowered his voice even lower.

"Anything else?" Sun Hang asked, "If you have something to say, just say it. Why are you being so sneaky?"

"That pretty girl in the black skirt, the way she looks at you seems a little strange..." Yin Xiang said in a voice that only he and Sun Hang could hear, "I can guarantee that this girl likes you!"

"Oh, what then?"

"What then?!" Yin Xiang was stunned, "Isn't this your new harem?"

"When the hell did I ever have a harem?" Sun Hang elbowed Yin Xiang. "Fuck, am I single now?"

“Ouch…” Yin Xiang covered his elbowed arm and cried out in pain, “Boss, why did you elbow me? I’m telling you the truth. If you want to start a harem, it’ll only take a few minutes. And they’ll all be high quality…”

"Shut up and take me to the place where Lao Wang is being taken in." Sun Hang said.

"Uh, are you talking about the place where the Night Furies are kept?" Yin Xiang shook his head. "I can't get in there... Not even everyone in the research institute can get in. How can I, a social animal working for the Investigation Bureau, have the right to get in there?"

"That's right." Sun Hang paused, and waited until Yang Qi finished the handover and walked over to this side before saying, "Let's go, let's go check on Lao Wang's condition."

"So urgent?" Yang Qi was slightly startled, her eyes seemed a little strange, "I was planning to go see the teacher first."

"The old man is fine." Sun Hang said, "But Old Wang is only half alive. We must go see her first."

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Tianfu City Strange Thing Research Institute, second underground floor, Class A containment area.

The institute's monster containment area is divided into three areas: A, B and C. However, these A, B and C have nothing to do with the type A and type B types of monsters. Instead, they refer to the degree of danger of the monsters - level C is the lowest and level A is the highest. For example, Sun Hang's exclusive weapon "Ji Er Qi Jiu Liu" belongs to the Class C containment area.

"Please put on protective clothing." The researcher who led the way opened a wardrobe on one side and asked Sun Hang and Yang Qi to change into bulky protective clothing that looked like space suits. Then he opened the airtight door in front of them and led the two of them in.

This is a corridor made entirely of special alloy. There are nine isolation walls inside the corridor. Every time you pass through a isolation wall, the surrounding temperature will drop by more than ten degrees. Although Sun Hang, who is wearing protective clothing, cannot sense the surrounding temperature with his body, the helmet that comes with the protective clothing projects a series of parameters including the indoor temperature.

When the last isolation wall rose, the temperature displayed on the inside of the helmet suddenly jumped from minus 112 degrees Celsius to minus 140 degrees Celsius, and was still decreasing.

Being here is no different from soaking in a swimming pool filled with liquid nitrogen.

The containment area was divided into independent compartments by low-temperature resistant glass printed with a large number of precautions. Sun Hang noticed that most of these compartments were empty, and only a very small number of them contained things - and these things were all various special containers, so the true appearance of the containment could not be seen at all.

The researcher who led the way took the two of them through many compartments with ease, until they came to a liquid nitrogen pool that was constantly emitting white smoke.

He clicked a few times on the portable operating terminal on his wrist. With the sound of gears turning, a permafrost coffin immersed in a pool of liquid nitrogen was lifted up by dozens of chains and hung in front of the three people.

There is a 20-centimeter square observation window on the front of the eternally frozen coffin. Through this window, you can see Wang Xiyi's closed eyes and the fine scales that have climbed up her cheekbones.

"As you can see." The researcher's voice came from under the helmet, sounding a little dull. "Although the liquid nitrogen pool and the permafrost coffin can slow down the progress of the transformation process, it can only slow it down. We can't stop it completely."

"How much time does she have left?" Yang Qi asked.

"We initially estimated it to be April or May... but according to subsequent observation data, she probably only has two months left." The researcher said, "According to the original plan, we should have carried out harmless treatment or handed it over to the Tianshu Tower one month before the deadline..."

"Can this coffin be opened?" Sun Hang asked.

"Not now." The researcher shook his head. "I know what you want to do, but not now. In order to ensure the safety of the institute and Tianfu City, we must make adequate safety preparations before attempting to absorb the mutant meme."

(End of this chapter)