Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 283 Appearance
Seeing Sun Hang's car approaching, two soldiers ran over quickly - Sun Hang noticed with the corner of his eye that, except for the two of them, the other soldiers subconsciously put their right fingers on the trigger guard.

Sun Hang couldn't help but curl his lips... Has the situation become so tense?

"Please show us your identification!" Two soldiers approached and stopped the car with their hands.

Just as Sun Hang was about to touch the hunter's license, a familiar figure ran down the large steps in front of the institute. It was Song Yarong, who was wearing a dirty white coat and an eye patch. The high silver ponytail on the back of her head swung violently with the rise and fall of her body.

"Why did you two come just now? Everyone is waiting for you!" Song Yarong shouted loudly.

"I just did a small thing on the way." Sun Hang said, glancing at the bloodstains on his clothes and speaking calmly.

"Hurry!" Song Yarong said, "Just leave the car to them. Come up with me quickly. Time is running out!"

"What's the matter? Why is it so urgent?" Sun Hang got out of the car and threw the keys to the two soldiers. "Is Tianfu City going to explode?"

"Just think of it as Tianfu City about to explode." Song Yarong turned around hurriedly and ran towards the gate with the two of them.

"Ah? What's going on?" Sun Hang asked.

"You'll understand soon!" said Song Yarong.

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Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute, Operations Meeting Room No. 1.

The last time Sun Hang saw so many people gathered was during the invasion of Longyanlei, and now, the atmosphere in the conference room was far more serious than that time.

"Am I not late?" Sun Hang glanced around. In addition to the familiar faces, there were also many new faces sitting in the front row. Among these new faces, there were no less than five people with general stars on their shoulders. The rest of them who were not wearing uniforms also had an aura of being in high positions for many years and having a majestic aura without even getting angry.

Yang Qi and the old director in a wheelchair stood in front of a huge projection screen. The former was about to say something to Sun Hang, but at the latter's eye signal, he had to swallow the words that were already at his throat. Instead, he coughed twice and turned on the microphone clipped on his collar.

"Now that everyone is here, the third 'Chimera No. 17 Operation Countermeasures Meeting' will officially begin." Yang Qi said.

"Chimera 17? The third combat meeting?" After hearing these words, Sun Hang felt a little confused. "What happened during the time I was away? Chimera 17 showed up?"

"Yes, not only did it show up, but it also made a lot of noise." Song Yarong, who was standing next to him, explained to Sun Hang in a low voice, "On the second day after you disappeared, 200 kilometers north of Tianfu City, an oval object with a height of more than 400 meters and a diameter of nearly 150 meters at its widest point appeared out of thin air. It was emitting milky white fluorescence and stood upright outside the countryside. Its shape was very similar to that of a termite egg... According to the investigation results of the advance team, some of the meme fragments of the egg-shaped object completely overlapped with Chimera 17. It can basically be determined to be the strange creature 'Chimera 17' that had previously caused many attacks in Tianfu City."

So, Anna lured me away from Tianfu City in order to get me away from Chimera 17?

Sun Hang looked towards the projection screen, and saw a huge "white insect egg" appearing on the screen, standing upright on the wasteland. The milky white fluorescence it emitted illuminated the area within hundreds of meters as if it were daytime - and around this "white insect egg", the ground showed obvious signs of vitrification.

"This ground...have they bombed it with a nuclear bomb?" Sun Hang asked.

"That's right. After confirming that the strange object was Chimera 30, the Disaster Countermeasures Committee applied to the federal government for a nuclear strike, and four tactical nuclear warheads with a total equivalent of tons accurately hit it." Song Yarong said, "But, as you can see in the picture, the strange object was intact in the nuclear explosion. Not only that, according to the later detection results, it seems to have absorbed the radiation energy generated by the nuclear explosion. Compared with before the nuclear explosion, its meme strength has increased by at least %."

Four 60-kiloton tactical nuclear warheads...

Although it is prefixed with the word "tactical", the power of a single nuclear warhead with an equivalent of 1.5 tons is already terrifying... You know, the "Little Boy" that was detonated on a certain island country that year had an equivalent of only tons.

"Not only that, its meme intensity is still rising... According to the analysis of the Tianshu Tower, Chimera No. 17 is not in a complete state yet, but is in a 'pupa form' similar to 'complete metamorphosis', and the huge white egg-shaped object we see now is the 'cocoon' used to protect itself." Song Yarong said.

"Since it is a 'cocoon', when will it 'break out'?" Sun Hang asked.

"According to the current rate of enhancement, it is estimated that it will break out of its cocoon in forty-one days." Yang Qi, who was explaining in front of the projection screen, answered this question for Song Yarong. "According to the calculations of the Tianshu Tower, once Chimera No. 17 breaks out of its cocoon, its strength may be infinitely close to that of the original primary monster. Therefore, we must kill it in this form within these forty-one days!"

"Forty-one days... I always feel like there's plenty of time." Sun Hang said.

"Not at all." Song Yarong shook her head. "None of our existing weapons can effectively damage it... Moreover, as Chimera 17 continues to grow stronger, the opportunities left for us will become fewer and fewer."

"Even if this thing can absorb a nuclear explosion, as long as the power of the nuclear explosion is strong enough, it will be able to blow it up, right? I remember that the Siberian Federation has a super hydrogen bomb called the 'Tsar Bomb' or the 'Big Ivan'? Throw that thing down, I don't believe it can absorb it all." Sun Hang said.

"If Big Ivan is detonated at this location, the entire Tianfu City... no, most of Shuzhou will be razed to the ground." Song Yarong said.

"Doesn't that leave 41 days for evacuating the people?" Sun Hang asked. "Evacuating people from Shuzhou, abandoning the city, and dropping hydrogen bombs... This is almost the same as abandoning the Shuzhou area." Zhulong walked behind Sun Hang and sighed, "This is the worst option. By then, even if we kill the weirdo, we will only get a large piece of wasteland, which is no different from the fall of Shuzhou."

"In fact, the work of evacuating the people has already begun, but this move will only be used when it is absolutely necessary." Song Yarong said, "The higher-ups still hope to save Shuzhou... Losing Shuzhou is a very painful blow to the federation."

"So, those big shots sitting on expensive chairs, are planning to let us fill this thing to death with our lives?" Sun Hang asked somewhat unhappily.

"If human lives could kill this monster, they wouldn't hesitate at all." Song Yarong shook her head helplessly, "But it can't... Even a 60,000-ton nuclear warhead can't hurt it at all, and the attacks of ordinary hunters are probably the same."

"What's the solution?" As soon as Sun Hang asked, Yang Qi said to everyone present: "The only solution we can think of right now is the 'Pesticide Plan'."

"Pesticide plan?" Sun Hang was slightly stunned - not only him, even the big guys sitting in the front row showed puzzled expressions and started whispering to each other.

"The so-called 'insecticide plan' is to find a way to tear a hole in the 'cocoon' of Chimera 17, and then inject a special 'insecticide' into its body--"

Before Yang Qi could finish her words, a man with the rank of major general interrupted her.

"Excuse me, what is this 'special insecticide' you mentioned?"

"An extremely large dose of 'anti-memetic agent'." Yang Qi said word by word.

If we were to say what the greatest invention of this century is, if "anti-memetic potion" ranks second, then I'm afraid nothing would dare to call itself the first.

If the "anti-meme drug" had not been successfully developed, the current Federation would probably be full of quarantine towns and quarantine areas like Maoyun Town. People would be full of suspicion of each other, and wars between city-states would be imminent... There would not even be a need for a large-scale invasion of monsters, and humans would probably perish in an endless civil war.

"Anti-memetic drugs", also known as "broad-spectrum weirdo vaccines" and "weird virus targeted drugs", are produced by reverse-editing memetic fragments that have a high frequency of occurrence in various weirdo bodies.

It is called a drug, but in fact it is closer to a "vaccine" - it cannot completely eliminate the memes in the infected body, but it can completely neutralize the memes in the early stages of invading the human body. It is also thanks to the "Antimemetics" that the infectiousness of the memes has been greatly reduced, allowing human civilization to defend the last piece of territory in Xiazhou during the first large-scale invasion of weird creatures.

It’s not that no one has imagined using this kind of "anti-memetic agent" in the field of weapons to fight against monsters - in fact, the "Special Ammunition·Lihuo" developed by Professor Deng was developed based on this idea... But if you want to use the anti-memetic agent as a weapon, there are several extremely difficult technical difficulties to overcome.

First, the "anti-memetic agent" must be made and used immediately, and its "shelf life" is extremely short. As a weapon, this is obviously unqualified... No one can predict when such a weapon will be needed, and making it in advance will result in a huge waste of resources.

Second, although the "anti-memetic potion" can neutralize the monster meme, it can only neutralize the part that matches it and cannot completely kill the monster. It is like "Lihuo" can deal with Bing499, but has little effect on Chimera No. 17 - it performs well as a vaccine and inhibitor, but as a "disinfectant" and "special medicine", its effect is very limited.

Thirdly, and this is also the most important point, the production volume of "Antimemetics" is not that high. Under the current circumstance that the federal situation is stabilizing, only a few special factories directly under the Tianshu Tower are capable of producing "Antimemetics". It is really too extravagant to want to use it as a weapon.

"Antimemetic agent... How do you plan to implement this plan?" Perhaps with the attitude of trying everything possible, the major general did not directly reject Yang Qi's combat plan which sounded like it had a low chance of success, but continued to ask.

"First, I need a team of hunters who are elite enough to get close to Chimera 17 and obtain its meme fragments as complete as possible. Secondly, I need a team that is experienced enough in meme reverse editing engineering to reverse edit the memes of Chimera 17. Furthermore, after the development of the 'insecticide' is completed, we have to find a way to break the protective shell of Chimera 17, which is this giant white cocoon, and inject the 'insecticide' into its core... This may not kill it directly, but it will definitely bring its memes to the brink of collapse - finally, use heavy firepower to saturate it and kill it!" Yang Qi spoke quickly but clearly.

"What do you think the success rate of this plan is?" asked another big boss.

"Fifty percent." Yang Qi's eyes were firm. "It will work, or it won't work."

"As long as the success rate is not zero, it is worth a try." said the major general who asked the question earlier, "But I am more concerned about the time... Forty-one days, is it enough time to complete the steps you mentioned?"

"We contacted the top team in Tianshu Tower responsible for meme reverse editing. In addition to them, the team left by Professor Deng Yi will also rush to Tianfu City overnight. These two groups of people can be said to be the most familiar experts in meme reverse editing in the entire human race." Yang Qi said, "They told me that with the complexity of Chimera 17's memes, it may take more than ten years to complete 100% reverse engineering, but it will only take one month to complete 70% reverse engineering!"

"One month... That means we only have eleven days to complete the steps of meme sampling and injecting 'insecticides'." The lieutenant general's tone was a little heavy. "Moreover, the step of injecting 'insecticides' must be carried out after the meme reverse engineering is completed. Are you sure that by then, we will still be able to break through the 'cocoon' of Chimera No. 17?"

"About this issue...I choose to believe our hunter." Yang Qi raised his head, his eyes passed over the people in the conference room and stopped on Sun Hang.

Many people sitting in the front row also turned around and looked at Sun Hang.

"I suggest you don't have too high expectations of me." Sun Hang pursed his lips, "You don't think... my attack power can be comparable to a 60,000-ton nuclear weapon, do you?"

"Not only you, but many hunters will also come to Tianfu City for support... You don't need to completely destroy the cocoon of 'Chimera No. 17', you just need to tear a small hole in this 'cocoon', a hole big enough for the 'insecticide' to enter, that's enough!" Yang Qi said.

(End of this chapter)