Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 226 An unexpected discovery on the construction site
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the next day.

As soon as Sun Hang opened his eyes, he saw a pair of golden eyes close to him, and then, warm lips covered him.

"You performed well last night, so here's a reward for you." Wang Xiyi whispered softly in Sun Hang's ear.

"This is what I deserve." Sun Hang chuckled, "My waist almost broke. This is not a reward, it should be compensation."

"You're talking nonsense. How can a person who doesn't die even if thrown from a height of several hundred meters be unable to handle this level of exercise?" Wang Xiyi raised her eyebrows and twisted Sun Hang's waist hard.

In fact, both of them were relatively restrained last night. Firstly, they didn't want to make too much noise and attract other people's attention. Secondly, with the physical strength of Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi... let alone this ordinary solid wood bed, even the floor under the bed... or even the foundation of the villa, might not be able to withstand their tossing and turning.

"Actually, before we start, I've been thinking about a question." Sun Hang stared up at the chandelier on the ceiling and said to himself.

"What's the problem?" Wang Xiyi came closer, and her slender dragon tail silently wrapped around Sun Hang's left leg.

"Will there be scales growing inside the dragon lady's body..."

"You guy, you always think about a lot of nonsense in your head all day long... But if you want to try, you can." After Wang Xiyi said this, she suddenly bit Sun Hang's earlobe.

Tiny beads of blood oozed out from the bite and slid down her lips and tongue into her throat.

"Does it hurt?"

"good."

"There's one thing I'm curious about. Why don't you carry any memes in your blood? How did you do it?"

The two of them realized this problem last night. It was not only in the blood, but also in other body fluids secreted by Sun Hang.

The last time Song Yarong was infected was because Sun Hang directly used the mycelium of Tai Sui to create a "new lung" for Song Yarong, which caused Song Yarong to become infected... and what she was infected with was just pure Tai Sui meme.

In addition, no matter how close Sun Hang's behavior is to others, his memes don't seem to be contagious to others.

The blood of an infected person is itself a high-risk item. If an ordinary person drinks the blood of an infected person that has not yet been "inactivated", the infection rate is over 60%. If the blood of an infected person is directly injected into the body, the infection rate is as high as 97%... But Sun Hang's blood is very special - to monsters or corpses, his blood is as poisonous as poison; but to humans and infected people who have not been completely transformed, his blood is no different from normal human blood.

"Perhaps it's because of the characteristic that Taotie's meme cannot infect other monsters..." Sun Hang made up a reason... In fact, he is now basically certain that the monster that infected him is definitely not Taotie.

Or to put it more accurately - it's not just Taotie.

"Do you want to get up?" Wang Xiyi said as she licked Sun Hang's earlobe with lingering satisfaction. At this time, the wound on the earlobe that had just been bitten had healed as before - she had long been aware of Sun Hang's recovery ability. Last night, she had inflicted more and more serious wounds on Sun Hang's body, but these wounds had scabbed over and healed in just a few seconds. Not to mention scars, even the color and texture of the new tissue were no different from the surrounding skin, and there was no sign of injury at all.

"Or should we do some morning exercises?" Wang Xiyi's eyes were blurry and her breath was hot.

"Forget it, forget it. We still have to go to the testing ground today." Sun Hang quickly stood up, picked up the shorts that had fallen on the side of the bed and put them on.

Wang Xiyi didn't have any extra clothes, so she simply put the nano armor on. With the sound of the mechanical buckles snapping together, the clothes were put on.

The two walked out of the room together, but happened to bump into Yang Lian who was standing in the corridor.

The latter held a stack of paper documents in one hand and a cup of water in the other, and the electric toothbrush in his mouth was still vibrating on its own.

“You…you you you guys…gulp…” Yang Lian swallowed a mouthful of toothpaste foam with some effort and asked in astonishment, “You two…stayed in the same room last night?”

"Yes." Before Sun Hang could speak, Wang Xiyi admitted it generously.

The expression on Yang Lian's face suddenly became extremely interesting. After looking back and forth between the two of them several times, she murmured, "You...slept together?"

"If you are curious, you are welcome to come and watch tonight." At this point, Sun Hang was too lazy to hide his feelings. He simply used offense instead of defense, focusing on the fact that a person is invincible if he is the most despicable - "As long as I am thick-skinned enough, I can ignore all doubts and rumors."

"You...you...are you crazy?" Yang Lian glared at Sun Hang with a red face, "I don't care about you! Besides, what does this have to do with me!"

"Then why are you asking?" Sun Hang immediately seized the opportunity and launched a full-scale counterattack.

"I... I'm just a little surprised! After all, your relationship..." Yang Lian paused in the middle of his speech, "Anyway, the regulations don't forbid hunters from interacting with each other... But I suggest that you report to the research institute. After all, you two have special identities, and no one can guarantee..."

"Yang Lian, your face is very red." Wang Xiyi suddenly said with a smile, "Your heartbeat is also very fast, are you feeling unwell?"

"No...no way!" Yang Lian immediately retorted.

"Sun Hang, she also appeared in the dream created by Tumi, right?" Wang Xiyi turned her head and looked at the man standing behind her with a smile.

"Shhh..." Sun Hang immediately reached out and pressed his hand on Wang Xiyi's lips, "What dream is it? I don't know!"

Yang Lian, whose brain was almost short-circuited, obviously did not realize the hidden information in the conversation between the two. After taking a few deep breaths, he resolutely turned around and said, "I'm going to prepare for today's work first. Don't forget that I still have to go to the test site today! My sister hates people who procrastinate the most!"

"Okay, okay!" Sun Hang responded repeatedly.

If I hadn't had to go to the testing ground today, I would probably still be doing "morning exercises" with Lao Wang... When Sun Hang walked down the stairs, Zhong Ling and Ye Xuan had already brought the prepared breakfast to the table. Yang Qi also happened to come out of the study yawning at this time.

Her long hair was casually tied up behind her head, with a few messy strands sticking to her temples. Her unmade-up face was covered with a thin layer of grease, and her eye bags were swollen and dark - one could tell at a glance that she must have worked until the early hours of the morning again last night.

"You're not... staying up all night again, are you?" Sun Hang glanced at her and asked.

"No, I took a nap around six o'clock." Yang Qi said while yawning, and walked to the water dispenser with sleepy eyes, filled a cup of hot water, and then poured two drops of concentrated coffee into the cup.

"A little after six?" Sun Hang looked up at the clock on the wall. It was only half past seven, which meant that Yang Qi had only slept for a little over an hour...

"It's a good thing you could wake up..." he couldn't help but sigh.

"I set the alarm. I have reserved a venue at the test site today. I can't be late." Yang Qi took a sip of strong coffee, then poured out a small pill used to refresh herself from the medicine box, tilted her head back and swallowed it.

"No, I mean, it's a miracle that you didn't die." Sun Hang shook his head repeatedly, "Strong coffee and stimulants, even the King of Hell would have to praise your good health."

"It's not a big problem. I'm used to it." Yang Qi waved her hand slowly, took out a disinfectant wipe for wiping the table from the side, and wiped her face vigorously. "It's just that there seemed to be some noise upstairs last night, as if something had hit the floor..."

"Oh, that was when I turned over in my sleep and accidentally rolled to the side of the bed and fell off." Sun Hang explained immediately.

Although he used his ability to "make wishes come true" to create a soundproof barrier that covered the entire room, it was still unable to completely block out the subtle sounds that were transmitted within the building structure.

"You can still fall off the bed?" Yang Qi glanced at him suspiciously.

"I can't say that Lao Wang accidentally kicked me down..." Sun Hang muttered to himself, grabbing two slices of toast from the plate and stuffing them into his mouth. "Eat, eat, and let's go after we finish eating. I'll drive later. In your current state, I'm really worried that you'll drive the car into a tree."

"Hmm." Yang Qi drank the coffee in the cup in one gulp, picked up the condensed milk in the aluminum tube that looked like toothpaste, and spread a thick layer of it on a piece of toast.

"Wouldn't you choke to death if you squeezed so much condensed milk?" Sun Hang couldn't help but complain as he watched Yang Qi swallow the toast that had almost half of it in it.

"The brain needs enough sugar to keep running at high speed..." Before Yang Qi finished speaking, the cell phones of several people in the restaurant rang at the same time.

Sun Hang turned his head and looked at Wang Xiyi. The former took out his mobile phone, while the latter shot out a beam of light from the holographic projector on her wrist, projecting a palm-sized holographic screen onto the dining table.

The news came from the construction site of the talent training base. When the workers were excavating the underground part of the northeast corner of the base, they accidentally discovered many interconnected tunnels in the rock strata 50 meters deep, and detected some remaining weird meme fragments in the tunnels.

Considering that Chimera No. 17 had escaped from Tianfu City using an underground tunnel some time ago, the construction unit immediately notified various departments including the Disaster Response Committee and the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute of the news.

"Is this the passage left behind when Chimera No. 17 escaped?" Yang Lian had returned to normal by now, frowning as he browsed through the on-site photos in the message attachment.

"I don't think so." Ye Xuan shook her head. "The tunnels that Chimera No. 17 used to escape were dug temporarily, but these tunnels deep in the rock formations seem to have been there for many years... Unless..."

“Unless Chimera No. 17 once lived underground in Tianfu City and built a network of tunnels in the underground world, this would explain why it was able to escape from Tianfu City so quickly and attack the Qiang settlement west of Lizhou.” Yang Lian immediately analyzed.

"Chimera No. 17 seems to have appeared after the Eternal Night appeared, right?" Yang Qi said thoughtfully, "If it has been living underground in Tianfu City, then there should be no eyewitness records before... If it wants to eat, there will definitely be missing persons cases, but in recent years, all the missing persons cases in Shuzhou area do not seem to match the number."

"Maybe it has been dormant?" Yang Lian said, "Just like a cicada pupa, it needs to stay dormant underground for a long time until it matures and then breaks out of the ground?"

"It's hard to say... Since the construction site detected the meme fragments of the weird creature, this incident must be related to the weird creature." Yang Qi immediately made a decision, "Put aside the plan to go to the suburban test site for the time being, and let's go to the construction site!"

"Indeed, seeing is believing." Sun Hang agreed, "No matter what happens, let's go to the scene and see it first."

They quickly finished their breakfast and got into Yang Qi's military off-road vehicle. Sun Hang sat in the driver's seat, while Wang Xiyi squatted on the roof, and the wings behind her slowly spread out.

"Go!" Sun Hang stepped on the accelerator and the car immediately rushed into the parking lot. At the same time, Wang Xiyi on the roof of the car flapped her wings and rushed into the sky.

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Half an hour later, the talent training base construction site.

The crowd gathered around the large pit dug by heavy equipment, and the manager wearing a white safety helmet was describing to them the situation of the underground tunnel being dug. A little further away, a dozen construction workers wearing blue and yellow helmets gathered together, arguing over some specific details with red faces.

"When we first dug it out, we thought it was an air-raid shelter or something like that from the old days." The man in the white hat spitted. "I sent two workers to go inside the tunnel, but the further they went, the more they felt the atmosphere was not right, and there were many forks in the road... In order to prevent any safety accidents, I quickly sent these two people back. Later, people from the Investigation Bureau came and took a test with instruments. Wow, there were still some residual viruses in the tunnel! Fortunately, nothing serious happened..."

"Lao Wang, are the meme fragments remaining in the tunnel from Chimera No. 17?" Sun Hang shouted loudly into the pit.

Wang Xiyi, who was standing at the bottom of the pit, shook her head.

"Tsk... I'd rather be that guy's." Sun Hang jumped and landed next to Wang Xiyi. Yang Qi and others took the elevator on the construction site and slowly descended to the bottom of the pit.

The tunnel is an irregular oval shape with a diameter of about ten meters. Not to mention people, even the off-road vehicle driven by Sun Hang can pass through it unimpeded... For the base construction team, such a tunnel is not a small project. Without the participation of a shield machine, the construction difficulty can be regarded as five-star.

"These tunnels are a bit like the nests of Taklamakan sandworms...but that kind of thing shouldn't appear in Shuzhou." Yang Qi murmured.

(End of this chapter)