Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 252 The Second Massive Activity of Weird Creatures

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After working all night, Sun Hang did not go home. Instead, he borrowed a sleeping bag from Yang Qi and lay down on the sofa in the office. In Sun Hang's own words, "Director Yang, the sound of your keyboard typing when you work overtime is more helpful to sleep than white noise."

When Sun Hang opened his eyes again, the time displayed on the bracelet was almost noon. He looked up and saw Yang Qi sitting behind the desk opposite him, eating a box lunch with a wooden expression, while another box lunch that had not been opened was placed on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

"Why do you have such a stern face? Did something happen to Jiang Yu?" Sun Hang quickly got out of the warm sleeping bag and put on his coat.

Yang Qi raised her head and glanced at Sun Hang, then slowly said, "Your phone can connect to the Tianshu Tower's intranet, check it out for yourself."

"what?"

Sun Hang took out his cell phone from his coat pocket with doubt and connected to the Tianshu Tower's intranet.

The headline of the important news section of the intranet read: "At 6:27 last night, the strange creature (temporary number B77) Death Aurora landed in Baikal City."

"Baikal City?" Sun Hang repeated the place name, "Why does it sound familiar?"

"The capital of the Siberian Autonomous Region, the Xiazhou Federation is the largest city on the East Siberian Plain, with a population of 9.2 million." Yang Qi put down his chopsticks.

Sun Hang clicked on the message, and at the beginning there were several shocking photos - the gorgeous aurora fell from the sky, burning everything it touched, and the entire city turned into a huge sea of ​​fire.

The photo seemed to be taken from a distant mountain. The bird's-eye view clearly showed the tragic situation in the city... In the face of such a sudden natural disaster, no one could escape... The victims did not even leave behind their bones.

"The falling aurora lasted in the city for forty-five seconds and then disappeared," Yang Qi added.

The next photo shows the scene of Baikal after it was hit by the aurora - all traces of human civilization were almost completely wiped out, leaving only a charred pit. In the pit, some areas even showed signs of vitrification.

"It looks... like it was hit by a Tsar bomb." Sun Hang said.

"According to the analysis of the Tianshu Tower, the essence of B77 is a mass of plasma with a temperature of over 17 million degrees Celsius... You can almost think of it as a small sun falling into the city of Baikal." Yang Qi said, "Nothing can withstand such ultra-high temperatures. Before B77 actually came into contact with the city of Baikal, the city's buildings had already been burned to ashes."

"Auroras usually only appear at an altitude of several hundred kilometers." Yang Lian pushed open the office door and placed several black folders on her sister's desk. "But B-77 is different. It is not an aurora at all, but a strange phenomenon similar to an aurora... It is summer now, and you can't see the aurora even in Siberia at this time of year."

"Are you also paying attention to this matter?" Sun Hang glanced at Yang Lian and asked.

"Everyone in the institute is paying attention to this matter now." Yang Lian said in a deep voice, "The threat posed by B-77 is much higher than that of Eternal Night... After all, the latter will not let a city evaporate in just a few tens of seconds."

"After B-77 disappeared, the Tianshu Tower sent several teams to the former Baikal City area to investigate. But without exception, all humans who entered the area were infected by the weird meme, and the infected were not immune... That place has become a highly dangerous contaminated area, a true 'death zone'."

"It sounds like the radiation zone left after a nuclear bomb explosion." Sun Hang said subconsciously.

"Almost the same, but the memetic contaminated area is far more dangerous than the radiation area." Yang Lian sighed, "Those teams that entered the contaminated area carried the most advanced protective equipment and anti-infection drugs, but it was completely useless."

The "anti-infection drugs" mentioned by Yang Lian are special medicines used by humans to prevent meme infections. Their essence is the product of reverse editing of meme fragments. Within a period of time after taking them, they can neutralize the strange memes that enter the human body... But there is no panacea in the world that can cure all diseases, and anti-infection drugs cannot neutralize all memes.

"It seems that this area should be classified as an occupied area." Sun Hang said, "The pollution is so serious that even if we can take it back, there is no point in rebuilding it."

"That's not the key point..." Yang Qi sighed, "If it was just a single disaster caused by a strange creature, it would be fine. The problem is..."

"What is it about?" Sun Hang asked.

"The city of Baikal is located in the northeast corner of the federation. It was destroyed by Unit 77. The city of Tianfu is located in the southwest corner of the federation. It is shrouded in eternal night and its future is uncertain... Do you know what this means?" Yang Qi said seriously.

"It means... the Federation is now in a state of sores on its head and pus on its feet - rotten to the core?"

"It means that the second large-scale activity period of weird creatures... may be coming soon." Yang Qi sighed, "The result of the first large-scale activity period of weird creatures was that the Xiazhou Federation was the only one left in the human civilization spread all over the world... If the first activity period lasts for a few more decades, I'm afraid even the Xiazhou Federation will not be left."

"Are you trying to say that human civilization is going to end?" Sun Hang blinked.

"I didn't say that..." Yang Qi glared at Sun Hang. "At the end of the first large-scale active period of weird creatures, the frequency of weird creature activities dropped significantly, and the super weird creatures that were powerful enough to destroy a city in an instant also disappeared. Human civilization finally had a chance to breathe... During this period, although there were still occasional weird creature invasions, super weird creatures like B77 never appeared... I am very worried that the incident in Baikal City this time is just the beginning..."

"I think we should be thankful." Sun Hang said suddenly.

"Thank goodness... why?" Yang Lian was stunned for a moment and asked immediately.

"According to the principle that there can't be two tigers in one mountain, since Tianfu City has been shrouded in eternal night, the probability of a super weird creature like Yi 77 descending on Tianfu City will be much smaller... It looks like Tianfu City is the first unlucky one, but in fact, Tianfu City drew the not-so-bad 'bad lot' among a bunch of bad lots."

"..." Yang Qi pursed her lips. She really wanted to complain about Sun Hang's twisted logic, but when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that what this guy said made some sense...

This is a bit like the "crater theory" - on a battlefield full of artillery fire, the probability of two shells landing in the same place is very low. It is also for this reason that the crater just created by the shell will become a relatively safe hiding place in the next period of time. If the invasion of the human civilization control area by the monsters requires "division of troops", then the Shuzhou territory is obviously responsible for the "main attack" by "Eternal Night" - if super monsters are to be deployed later, it is obviously a bit of a "waste of manpower" to deploy super monsters in the Shuzhou area...

"Damn it, I actually thought what you said made sense." Yang Lian gritted his teeth and said, "It must be because I didn't get enough sleep..."

"Your breasts may not be developed properly because of lack of sleep," Sun Hang said jokingly, "but your sister obviously stays up late more than you do, so why isn't she affected?"

Sun Hang looked at the two sisters. They were similar in height and weight, so how come one had a D or even E-level figure, while the other could barely get a B?

Could it be a genetic mutation?
"At this time, how can you still be in the mood to make such a joke?" Yang Lian said angrily.

"It's precisely because of this that I have to make such a joke." Sun Hang said, "Being worried about the future will not help change the current situation. Sighing with a stern face is also useless... If you are really nervous, I suggest you go to the gym and hit the sandbag for a while. Maybe you will feel better."

"I don't have the time." Yang Qi said, "But you are right about one thing. Wild thoughts are indeed of no help to the current situation... According to what you said, Tianfu City will be the city with the lowest probability of being attacked by super weird creatures in the future... So it seems that Tianshu Tower has set up a comprehensive talent training base here..."

"An unexpected success?" Yang Lian asked.

"No, it's not an accident." Yang Qi quickly denied her sister's statement, "Mr. Pei must have anticipated the arrival of the second large-scale activity period of weird creatures... Instead of setting up the training base in cities that may be attacked by super weird creatures like B-77, it is better to put it in Shuzhou, which has been invaded by the Eternal Night... worthy of being Mr. Pei..."

"You're a little too much of a Dihua." Sun Hang glanced at her. "Old Pei's original idea was to use the environment of Eternal Night to train outstanding frontline talents. If he really wanted to avoid the attacks of super weird creatures, why didn't he just move the Tianshu Tower to Tianfu City?"

"No matter what the reason, we must speed up the construction of the comprehensive talent training base..." Yang Qi paused for a moment, and then stammered in a voice that Sun Hang could barely hear, "What if Chunming City is attacked by a super weird creature..."

"Then we will really be the last hope of human civilization." Sun Hang continued her words, "Who knows, we may even be the hero who saves the world."

"I hope this day will never come..." Yang Qi murmured.

"Then don't set this flag." Sun Hang took a look at the lunch box that had already gone cold on the coffee table and took out the big chicken leg inside. "Here, I'll give you a chicken leg. After you finish eating, continue with your work."

"I already ate."

"Eat more so you'll have energy when you stay up late." Sun Hang stuffed the chicken leg into Yang Qi's mouth without saying a word, then pushed open the office door.

"Where...where are you going?" Yang Qi took the chicken leg out of his mouth and asked.

"Let's go to the construction site." Sun Hang said without turning his head. "Now that we've come to this point, we have to be fully prepared, right? If we really become that unlucky 'last hope', we can't just lie down and start fighting, right?"

To be honest, in Sun Hang's heart, he still wanted to give up.

But if humans were to completely perish, even if he could survive... then the world would probably become extremely boring, right?
Sun Hang doesn't like ghosts. Ghosts are either impossible to communicate with or like to play riddles. In comparison, he prefers to deal with humans.

What's more, that old man Pei from Tianshu Tower owes him an all-you-can-eat buffet...If a super monster destroys Chunming City, wouldn't that be like overturning his own dining table?
Can you fucking bear this?
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Siberian Autonomous Region, 40 kilometers south of the former Baikal city area.

A whole row of modular barracks has been built on the tundra. Countless vehicles are entering and exiting the camp. The noise of helicopter propeller blades seems to never stop. One steel structure tower after another has been erected. The huge bowl-shaped radar antenna is hoisted into the air by a drone and then installed on the top of the tower by engineers.

The fisherman standing on a watchtower looked at the busy soldiers in the barracks and couldn't help but sigh.

He couldn't help but feel lucky that he couldn't save much money on weekdays...

He had originally planned to bring his family from the port city in the Far East to Baikal City once he had saved enough money... But what happened more than ten hours ago made the fisherman sigh... It turns out that spending money lavishly is not a bad thing sometimes.

Thirty minutes ago, the seventh contaminated area exploration team "lost contact" with the headquarters. The last image sent back by the drone of the forward observation post was that the exploration team members were running like crazy in the contaminated area. As they ran, things kept falling from their bodies... Those fallen things seemed to be rotten flesh that had fallen off the body surface, but these rotten flesh seemed to have turned into a completely new life form. They were wriggling on the ground, chasing their "original owners" relentlessly.

The fisherman opened his phone and took a look at the list of the exploration team. He felt that there would be nothing wrong with changing the MIA status to KIA... There was no way they could come back alive, absolutely no way.

The current maximum time limit for ordinary people to enter the contaminated zone is thirty-seven minutes - the guy found himself infected at thirty-eight minutes, and his consciousness fell into confusion at forty-two minutes. At forty-five minutes, he took the initiative to cut off communications with the headquarters, and at forty-nine minutes, he used the weapons he was carrying to blow up the observation drone following him.

As for the hunters... they have sent a total of six hunters to the contaminated area so far - two of them turned into skeletons, two were completely transformed into humanoid monsters, and the other two were strangely merged into one in the big pit.

"The Exploration Team... might as well be called the Suicide Squad." The fisherman muttered, "No, it should be the Suicide Squad."

The headquarters has decided not to send personnel to the contaminated area for the time being...but even drones find it difficult to reach the core area of ​​the former Baikal City.

(End of this chapter)