Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 295 Stress Response
"Gloves? Bloodstains?" The hunter was obviously stunned for a moment, then looked down at his hands.

His eyes were full of confusion.

"Blood...why is there blood?"

"I'm asking you." Sun Hang said, "If you're not injured, then it can only be the blood of your teammates, or the blood of that monster... But then again, you didn't even see what the monster looked like, so how could you possibly hurt it?"

"Blood? Whose blood?" the hunter murmured in confusion.

This guy looks very strange... Sun Hang is not sure whether he was frightened by the monster or his mental state was affected by some unknown force.

"Why don't you take off your gloves and see?" Sun Hang suggested.

The hunter hesitated, then took off his gloves.

When looking at the other person's hands, Sun Hang's pupils shrank slightly.

These hands are generally considered to be "human hands", but the skin on the surface is not as smooth as that of normal humans. Instead, it is covered with tumors of various sizes... There seems to be something wriggling in these tumors. From a distance, they look like insect eggs wrapped under the skin.

"What's wrong with your hand?" Sun Hang asked immediately.

He couldn't be sure whether this hunter was infected by the monster... After all, these hunters themselves were infected. To use a popular saying on the Internet: except for still maintaining the human way of thinking, monster hunters are essentially not much different from monsters.

"My hands?" The hunter raised his hands. "What happened to my hands?"

His reaction seemed a little slow. After looking at his hands for several seconds, he suddenly widened his eyes and said in horror: "What are these things? When did they...when did they get into my flesh?!"

As he spoke, he frantically used his fingers to dig at the tumors. As the tumors burst, clusters of tiny, curled-up fleshy tentacles fell out of the tumors.

"Parasitic tentacles again?" Sun Hang couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

It's not like he hasn't encountered parasitic tentacles before. This kind of monster is not strong at all... A whole team of experienced hunters, no matter how careless they are, can't be wiped out by parasitic tentacles, right?

Most of the parasitic tentacles that fell out of the tumor fell into the mud on the ground, and the remaining small part hung on the hunter's skin by the mucus - under the corrosion of the mucus, the hunter's skin became very fragile, like a wet napkin, and these tiny tentacles easily penetrated his skin and drilled into the flesh again.

They are called tentacles, but they look more like flesh worms that parasitize the human body.

The hunter had completely lost his mind. He dug and scratched his hands until they were bloody, but the crazier he got, the deeper those worm-like tentacles burrowed... until he had dug so hard that even his bones were exposed, he still hadn't been able to completely clean out the tentacles that were parasitic on his flesh and blood.

"Help me! Help me!" The hunter asked Sun Hang for help in panic, "Get rid of these bugs for me! Help me get rid of them! Please!"

Sun Hang did not step forward, but stood where he was and silently activated his memory reading ability.

The hunter had gone mad, his brain was in an extremely abnormally active state. The images that Sun Hang could read were extremely distorted, and mixed with a large number of images imagined by the other party - but among these messy memories, Sun Hang still captured something valuable.

He saw with his own eyes that the hunter pulled the trigger at his companion's back. He also saw that the hunter inserted his hands into the chest of another hunter and used brute force to tear open the other's chest... The other members of the fourth team who the hunter said were "almost wiped out" all died at his hands.

"You just said that the strange creature has been behind you, right?" Sun Hang suddenly asked.

The hunter was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously: "Yes! That's the feeling! I can't see it, but I can feel it! It's been chasing me, and I can't get rid of it! Please! Please help me! I really don't want to die!"

As he spoke the last part, there was even a hint of tears in his voice.

"You're right, it's behind you."

A liquid flying blade that had circled behind the opponent at some point in time suddenly cut through the hunter's protective suit, exposing his back to the air.

A manta-ray-like creature was clinging tightly to his back, its suction cups deeply embedded in the hunter's flesh. Through the creature's translucent flesh, Sun Hang could see crimson blood being sucked out of the hunter's body in a rhythmic movement like breathing, and then spreading throughout the creature's body.

After the blood "circulates" in the body of this creature, its color will become darker and darker, and then it will be returned to the hunter's body - in medical terms, it is equivalent to completing an extracorporeal circulation.

However, the "device" that completes extracorporeal circulation is not the common ECMO, but the body of an unknown monster.

The hunter also noticed something was wrong. He reached his bloody hand behind his back and immediately felt the strange object stuck to his spine.

His whole body froze in place.

"I guess there's a high probability that you're beyond saving." Sun Hang took out his pistol, pulled the bolt, and loaded it.

"Don't... don't... save me..."

"I'm not a doctor, and I don't have much interest in studying weird things and infected people." Sun Hang shook his head. "My mission is to collect memetic samples from Chimera 17. Saving people is not included in my mission. As for the rescue team, this location is too deep, and they can't get in."

"help me……"

"This is the only thing I can do for you." Sun Hang raised his pistol.

“Bang! Bang!”

The standard Mozambique shooting method is to shoot the left and right chest of the target with the first two shots, and then quickly follow up with a shot to the head.

But at the moment Sun Hang fired, the manta ray-like creature suddenly released its attachment and fell off the hunter's body.

It glided in the air for a distance with its wings spread out, and then burrowed into the mud. But the next second, its body floated to the surface of the mud again, along with hundreds of hyphae that pierced its body.

While Sun Hang was talking to the hunter, he had already used the mycelium of Tai Sui to lay a dragnet around them - with the position where the two were standing as the center, the radius of the net woven by the mycelium was fifty meters. If necessary, the radius could even be doubled in half a second.

Sun Hang quickly devoured the manta ray monster - to its surprise, this seemingly inconspicuous monster actually developed two very interesting skills.

The first skill is parasitism. As the name suggests, Sun Hang can parasitize other creatures and absorb nutrients by absorbing their blood... In addition to blood, he can also absorb memes. However, in terms of efficiency, it is much worse than Taotie.

However, Taotie is, after all, one of the top ten "super monsters" in the sequence, and its most important ability is devouring. If its signature skill is surpassed by this little monster that popped out from nowhere, then Taotie might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill himself.

As for the other skill, it is much more useful to Sun Hang than parasitism.

"Hallucinogenic".

This monster can transfuse the blood and memes absorbed from the host back to the host, and transform these things into an almost unsolvable "hallucinogen" - since this part of the transformed blood and memes come from the host itself, the host's body will not have any "rejection reaction" to them... The host will not even realize that his consciousness has been disturbed. From the host's perspective, even if he receives abnormal information, he will think it is normal... In the long run, this "hallucinogen" can even completely distort the host's normal cognition and turn a person into a lunatic.

What Sun Hang finds most interesting is that this skill will not be suppressed by the level of the meme.

In other words, even if the target is an invincible original primary monster, as long as he can successfully parasitize the other party and transfer back the memes "stolen" from the other party, he will be able to rely on this "hallucinogenic" ability to control an original primary monster.

This behavior is very dangerous... The original primary monster in the hallucinogenic state may get out of control at any time, and the success rate is infinitely close to zero - but no matter what, Sun Hang finally acquired a skill that can pose a "fatal threat" to the original primary monster.

A bold idea even popped up in his mind: Next time the three monkeys appear, why not try using these two skills on them?
If it works...

Sun Hang didn't think any further. He seemed to feel two cold gazes vaguely.

Why are there two glances? That’s because one of the three monkeys is covering his eyes.

Sun Hang looked around but saw no trace of the three monkeys.

"What is this? A warning?"

Fortunately, the feeling of being watched soon disappeared, and Sun Hang's newly acquired abilities were not erased by some unknown force.

After dragging the hunter's body to the ground, Sun Hang got on the hovercraft - it must be said that this amphibious vehicle has a wide range of applications. In addition to water and flat land, it can also be of great use in special areas such as deserts and swamps.

Among the hunters who participated in the operation, nearly a quarter chose this vehicle.

"I should have asked Yang Qi for one earlier." Sun Hang thought to himself, "It's more comfortable to sit on this thing than to hold a dragon's tail that keeps swinging back and forth."

This air-cushion motorcycle had 60% of fuel left. Sun Hang twisted the handle, and the motorcycle engine suddenly roared. Two tongues of fire shot out from the back of the motorcycle, instantly pushing Sun Hang and the motorcycle forward.

Ordinary hovercrafts use compressed air pumps as their power source, but this one is different. It is also equipped with rocket thrusters.

The streamlined front of the car tore through the dense rain curtain. Sun Hang tapped a few times on the control panel of the motorcycle and turned on the music player.

The network has been disconnected, and the only songs that can be played now are those pre-stored in the system... Sun Hang didn't know which department this hoverbike belonged to before it was requisitioned, but all in all, the owner of this motorcycle had a pretty good taste in music.

Heavy metal rock and the current stormy weather complement each other perfectly.

Sun Hang turned the volume to the maximum and then stepped on the accelerator to the bottom. The speed of the hoverbike instantly reached 340 miles per hour as it sped along the swamp-like road.

The airflow shield pulled the shape of the rain, forming a shock wave surface at the tail of the motorcycle, just like the one when a fighter jet breaks the sound barrier. The rain mixed with mud splashed into the air tens of meters high, and after a brief hovering, it fell again.

Soon, Sun Hang saw the giant object emitting a faint fluorescent light.

"Chimera No. 17." Sun Hang said to himself, "Why did Anna ask me to avoid you?"

Sun Hang did not slow down, nor did he turn off the onboard audio of the hoverbike. He just rushed towards Chimera No. 17.

A strong sense of crisis arose spontaneously. Sun Hang seemed to see that the fluorescent light on the surface of Chimera No. 17 was gathering in one direction. He subconsciously turned the handlebars, and the hovercraft made a 360-degree turn drift on the mud. At the same time, a blazing white beam of light fell on the path Sun Hang had just driven.

"Are you cheating? I'm alone!" Sun Hang was indignant. He operated the hovercraft to draw a large circle with a radius of 20 meters, and then aimed the front of the car at Chimera No. 17 again.

At the same time, at Observation Post No. 7, the front-line command center.

"A strong energy reaction has been observed!" A technician in charge of observing Chimera 17 shouted, "Determined to be a 'stress reaction'!"

"Can you calculate where the energy flow will hit?" Ye Xuan asked immediately.

"Area D15, two kilometers away from Chimera No. !" another technician shouted.

"Area D15..." Ye Xuan immediately walked to the front of the holographic ground. Her slender ten fingers moved up and down on the virtual keyboard, and a line was immediately marked in red on the holographic ground.

"This is the planned route of the first team. They are approaching Chimera No. 17!" an officer said excitedly.

"It shouldn't be like this... We just picked up the Puppet Master and Night Fury. Logically, Sun Hang should be the only one left in the First Team... One person, at a distance of two kilometers, according to previous calculations, it is impossible for it to cause a stress response in Chimera 17!" a technician wondered.

"Even if the actual data we observe is constantly changing... the calculation results we derived previously are no longer meaningful." Ye Xuan frowned and said, "I just want to know if Sun Hang is still alive?"

(End of this chapter)