Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 296 Arrival
Before he finished speaking, the staff member just now shouted again: "Chimera No. 15's stress response has been observed again! The impact point is in the D2.9 area, the same as last time... No, it's different. This time there is a deviation of about degrees!"

"Does this mean that the hunter successfully dodged the first stress response energy flow attack?" The military representative's eyes lit up. "Didn't you say that Chimera 17's energy flow attack is unavoidable?"

"When the energy stream is detected, it is too late to dodge. The speed of this thing is the same as that of a laser." Ye Xuan said, "However, the Chimera 17 obviously has a short charging process when launching the energy stream. It cannot fire instantly or continuously... In other words, from the perspective of the Chimera 17, it needs to make a certain degree of prediction of the target to ensure that the energy stream hits."

"So if we can predict its prediction, can we avoid the energy flow?" A field operator with the Sky Tower emblem Velcro on his arm pondered, "But in the end... it's still mostly luck, right?"

"For us, it does depend on luck." Ye Xuan shook her head, "But for Sun Hang, it may not be luck."

While a few people were talking, Observation Post No. 7 detected a third stress reaction!

"That's three times!" The military representative clenched his fists tightly. "You're right, he definitely didn't rely on luck!"

"Don't be too optimistic. Sun Hang might be dead now." Ye Xuan said expressionlessly.

She always tends to think of things as the worst.

"As long as Chimera 17's stress response doesn't stop, it means he's still alive." The field operator from the Sky Tower said, "He must have mastered some kind of pattern or trick..."

But this sentence was like a flag to Sun Hang who was dozens of kilometers away - after three stress reactions, Chimera No. 17 fell into silence, and there was no movement for five or six minutes.

"He...he failed?" The field operator from Tianshu Tower opened his mouth and swallowed with some difficulty.

"We can't rule out that something went wrong with Chimera 17." Ye Xuan said, "We've never had such a stress response multiple times in a row before... Although we're not sure what the structure of the organ Chimera 17 uses to launch energy flow is, but after launching energy flow of this intensity three times in a row, even if it didn't explode, it should have overheated to some extent."

Although she was used to thinking of things as developing in the worst possible direction, when the worst situation was about to occur, she could find the best development path from a bunch of terrible branches.

This is what Ye Xuan has been taught since she was a child - always treat the situation as a desperate one. At the same time, never give up hope in a desperate situation.

"Any news about the other teams?" the military representative asked, changing the subject.

"The ninth team was confirmed to be wiped out. The fifth team chose to withdraw from the operation after losing two people. The sixth and seventh teams fired distress flares, but their positions were too deep and our people could not get in. The fourth team also fired two distress flares...but..." The field operator of the Tianshu Tower said, supporting himself on the table with his hands, staring at the screen with burning eyes.

"But what?" the military representative demanded.

"Both distress flares fired by the fourth team seriously deviated from the original route, and the second distress flare even appeared on the planned route of the first team."

"So, could it be that Team One caused the target's stress response because they joined forces with Team Four?"

"That's impossible. Sun Hang is the only one left in the first team. There is always a margin between the number of people in each team and the upper limit of the stress response. Even if the fourth team remains fully staffed and Sun Hang is included, it has not yet reached the threshold that will trigger a stress response." The field operator explained to the military representative quickly, "Besides, even if the two teams merged, according to the combat plan designated before departure, they would have already dispersed at the two-kilometer position and moved towards Chimera 17 in groups of two or three."

“The… the fourth strong energy reaction!” The technician sitting on the other side stood up suddenly, even knocking over the folding chair under his butt. “It’s still in the same direction! But the actual landing point of the energy flow is in the D9 area, meters away from Chimera No. !!”

"Is that Sun Hang?" Yang Qi's voice interrupted - as the maker and commander of the battle plan, Yang Qi had to sit in the headquarters located in the Weird Things Research Institute in Tianfu City. When Ye Xuan and others were discussing just now, she wanted to speak several times, but for some reason, she ended up just listening quietly on the other side of the screen without saying anything.

"It can only be him..." Ye Xuan took a deep breath, then bent down and picked up the overturned chair.

"Can we find a way to send drones in?" the military representative asked. "We can send a hundred, no, a thousand drones in. As long as one of them can transmit the captured images!"

"All 650 drones in reserve at Observation Post No. 7 have taken off." Ye Xuan said, "For the rest, we can only wait for the headquarters to replenish them for us."

"My proposal has been approved." Yang Qi said on the other side of the screen, "The Garuda combat platform will be moved to three kilometers behind the No. 7 observation post to serve as an aerial drone landing platform. The Garuda hangar has 4,500 military drones. I will transfer the command authority of all these drones to the front-line command headquarters later."

"Okay. Also, I have a suggestion." Ye Xuan said suddenly.

"What advice?"

"Chimera No. 17 will currently also have an emergency response to single targets. It is obvious that a certain degree of mutation has occurred during this period. Except for Sun Hang, I think the chance of survival for other hunters once they are hit by the energy flow is almost zero." Ye Xuan said.

"What you mean is... you plan to let the other hunters withdraw? Let Sun Hang complete the task alone?" Yang Qi frowned slightly.

"No, what I mean is, we should send another group of hunters. In addition, we should have all 4,500 drones equipped with mice infected with the Weird Meme... The organ used by Chimera 17 to emit energy flow will overheat. If we deploy a large number of fake targets at once, as long as we can trick them into hitting us with energy flow once, we can reduce a lot of pressure on the hunters who are actually carrying out the task of collecting meme samples."

Ye Xuan paused and continued, "If we can trick them into hitting us three times in a row, we can create a relatively safe 'window period' of seven to eight minutes for the hunters."

"That makes sense. I'll let them do it right away!" Yang Qi nodded immediately.

"What if Chimera 17 doesn't fall for it?" the military representative couldn't help but ask.

"Then replace the mice on all the drones with humans." Ye Xuan said in a cold tone, "There are no fake targets. All targets are real targets. As long as the energy flow emission organs are overheated, we can use the human wave tactics to pile them up at the feet of Chimera 17."

Hearing what Ye Xuan said, the military representative couldn't help but shudder: "If we do this...how many casualties will it cost?" "What is the maximum number of casualties that the federal government can accept?" Ye Xuan glanced at him and asked back.

"I...I may need to call the military and parliament to ask..." the military representative hesitated.

"Go ahead and fight." Ye Xuan had a blank expression on her face. "Before this plan is implemented... I don't want to miss the opportunity to fight because of communication problems."

The military representative took out his communication terminal and turned away.

Ten seconds later, he put the communication terminal back into his pocket, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and said to Ye Xuan: "It is said above that as long as we can collect the meme sample of Chimera 17... no matter how much it costs, we can accept it."

"Very good." Ye Xuan nodded and turned to look at the screen. "Yang Qi, ask the assembly factory to speed up the process. I need at least one thousand sets of sample collection equipment. As long as someone can bring one set of equipment to the foot of Chimera No. 17, this operation will be half successful."

"The factory has been working non-stop since the battle plan was proposed. We currently have more than 70 sets of collection equipment in stock. I have already had them transported to Garuda... According to the current production schedule, we can complete another 50 sets within two hours."

"One hundred and twenty sets... Tsk, that's a bit too little." Ye Xuan sighed, "It's a pity that time was tight before, and I didn't have time to test the overheating threshold of the energy flow transmitter tube... If I had known that it would take seven to eight minutes to cool down after three shots, I would have adopted the human wave tactic from the beginning."

In the face of deadly energy flows that are as fast as the speed of light, there is not much difference between monster hunters and ordinary soldiers... As for the independent monsters wandering around Chimera 17, their existence can be almost ignored in the face of human wave tactics.

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D7 area, meters away from Chimera No. .

The closer you are to the object, the more you can experience the awe-inspiring feeling of the giant.

An eighteen-meter-high mecha statue is enough to make people look up, and a four-hundred-meter-high cocoon, even just walking past it, will make people feel weak in their legs.

In contrast, humans would feel themselves to be so insignificant, as if if the giant cocoon were to tilt slightly, it would crush the person standing next to it into meat paste like an ant.

"This thing shouldn't fall down, right?" Sun Hang muttered softly.

The hoverbike was hit by the aftermath of the third energy flow attack and was immediately declared destroyed. Fortunately, the memetic sample collection device, which was almost as big as the hoverbike, was not damaged. Only the waterproof cloth wrapped around it was torn.

But now it doesn’t matter whether there is a waterproof sheet or not.

With the giant cocoon of Chimera No. 17 as the center, within a radius of 300 meters, there is a "dry area" that is not affected by the heavy rain.

Just as the eye of the storm is always the calmest area in the storm, three hundred meters away from the giant cocoon, the rainstorm seemed to be separated by an invisible barrier - on one side of the barrier was pouring rain and flowing swamps, while on the other side of the barrier was dry air and solid ground.

The rubber soles of the combat boots made a teeth-grinding friction sound as they stepped on the ground that had been vitrified by the nuclear explosion. Amidst such friction sounds, Sun Hang walked towards the giant cocoon step by step.

Perhaps it was afraid that being too close would affect itself, so since Sun Hang rushed into the "dry area", Chimera No. 17 has not fired any energy streams at him, nor has it had any other "stress response".

"Now he's quite obedient." Sun Hang walked all the way to a place less than fifty meters away from the bottom of the giant cocoon and put down the equipment on his shoulder.

He looked up and saw that the outer wall of the arc-shaped cocoon was emitting a milky white fluorescence. To an outsider, one might think that the texture of this thing was like some kind of top-grade jade, or the raw stone of the priceless "Night Pearl"... But anyone who has a little knowledge of mineralogy and materials science knows that any stone that can glow on its own is most likely very dangerous.

The Geiger counter hanging on Sun Hang's waist was beeping like Flight of the Bumblebee. The beeping was so dense that it became a long note. Helplessly, Sun Hang could only crush the thing to pieces - both the Tai Sui meme and the Black Dragon meme were immune to radiation. The reason he carried this thing was simply to record data... However, the radiation intensity in this place had long exceeded the reading limit of the dial. Apart from being an ear-splitting device, this device had completely lost its meaning.

Sun Hang walked to the giant cocoon, and after a brief hesitation, he pressed his palm on the surface of the cocoon.

"Bang. Bang. Bang."

He could feel a heartbeat like thunder coming from inside the giant cocoon. With each beat, its power would grow a little stronger... Although the increase was extremely small, so small that it was difficult to detect, as long as the process continued, the quantitative change would eventually lead to a qualitative change.

"I don't know what's hatching inside..."

Sun Hang returned to the collection equipment and assembled the entire set of equipment according to the order in the instructions.

Sun Hang always felt that what he was installing was not a set of equipment for collecting memetic samples, but rather a pile driver that was very common on construction sites.

A huge robotic arm is connected to the disc base fixed to the ground, and at the end of the robotic arm is a hammer that is thicker than Sun Hang's thigh and more than two meters long.

This hammer looks ordinary, but in fact it incorporates a lot of technology derived from monsters...it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a man-made "artifact-type monster".

The "power source" that drives this hammer comes from another strange object.

(End of this chapter)