Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 321 Return to Chunming City

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Two hours later.

Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute, "Pesticide Project" Command Center.

"Although we successfully recaptured Factory 105, this is not a victory at all." Yang Qi said seriously, "We lost a senior hunter and all the staff in Factory 105. The progress of meme reverse engineering has also been delayed..."

"My only concern now is how long it will take for Factory 105 to resume operations?" the military representative asked. "The damage that has been done cannot be undone, but we cannot let those people's sacrifices become meaningless."

"We have just completed the inventory of the factory park, and it takes time to arrange for managers, workers and security personnel... It will take at least four hours to restart the production line." Yang Qi replied.

"Will it have a big impact on the entire plan in the end?" the military representative asked again.

"It won't be that big... because Chimera 105's own hatching progress has also slowed down, and the two are basically on par." Yang Qi said, "But what we are worried about now is that Chimera will copy the attack on Factory ..."

"Then we have to increase the production lines of everything several times, and use several times the saturated output to minimize the impact after the attack... This is the only solution." A young man wearing a Federal Parliament badge and an executive jacket, but looking no older than 30, said, "The Federal Parliament will fully support the pesticide program, and we will try our best to meet your requests."

"We are already doing that." Yang Qi sighed, "But Sun Hang reminded me before that there is only one link in the whole plan that cannot be replaced."

"Which link?" the young man asked immediately.

"The reverse engineering team... those top talents in the industry, their value cannot be quantified with numbers. If something goes wrong with them, no matter how many resources we invest, the plan cannot be carried out." Yang Qi said, "We have already deployed a large number of defense forces near the laboratory... More than 90% of the elite combat forces in the entire Shuzhou area are here."

"I will apply to the parliament to mobilize another group of hunters." The young man nodded, "I will call the parliamentarians now."

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On the other side, Sun Hang, who was on a special flight, could vaguely see the outline of Chunming City under the clouds through the porthole on his side.

Although it is not the first time that I have overlooked Chunming City from the air, as the first miracle in the history of human architecture in the new century, every time I see Chunming City, I can still feel the shock from the bottom of my heart.

I just don’t know...what a spectacular sight it would be if this city turned into ashes.

Such a thought suddenly flashed through Sun Hang's mind, and he was so scared that he immediately closed his eyes, instantly clearing all the distracting thoughts in his mind.

This is not because Sun Hang is worried that he might accidentally trigger the ability of "wishes come true" and really burn Chunming City to ashes... Considering the scale of Chunming City, even if Sun Hang were to mobilize all his people, he probably wouldn't be able to burn down one of the neighborhoods.

He was afraid that the mysterious meme in his body would take his fleeting and outrageous thoughts as real thoughts and really beat him to a pulp...

"You seemed a little nervous just now?" Ling Xiao, who was sitting in the next seat, glanced at Sun Hang and asked.

"I'm afraid of heights." Sun Hang said casually.

"Then why don't you close the window?" Ling Xiao was a little confused.

"It would be a shame not to see an architectural wonder like Chunming City." Sun Hang unbuckled his seat belt and stood up, motioning Ling Xiao to switch seats with him. "Is this your first time seeing Chunming City?"

"No, I've seen it many times on TV." Ling Xiao sat in the window seat, looked at the magnificent city below through the porthole, and said expressionlessly.

"I mean the real thing, the real thing!"

"the first time."

“Does it feel grand?”

"Yes." Ling Xiao said.

But the expression on his face gave people a feeling of "nothing special".

"Give me the gun." Sun Hang stretched out his hand to Ling Xiao.

Ling Xiao hesitated for a moment, then pulled out the "God-killing Spear" and placed it in Sun Hang's palm.

"I'll keep it for you for a while and return it to you after you've finished the examination." Sun Hang said as he put the pistol into his pocket.

He did not intend to tell the secret of the "God-killing Spear" to the Tianshu Tower - if the Tianshu Tower knew the ability of the "God-killing Spear", there was no guarantee that they would not use Ling Xiao as some kind of secret weapon that "kills one thousand enemies and loses one thousand of your own"... Even if they did not intend to put Ling Xiao into actual combat, he and the "God-killing Spear" could not escape the fate of being repeatedly studied.

Sun Hang doesn't care about the fate of people who have nothing to do with him, but he is quite protective of the people under his command.

His main purpose of going to Chunming City was to patronize the inventory of strange objects in Tianshu Tower to see if there were any good things worth devouring. In addition, after reading the memories of Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu, Sun Hang also knew that Ling Xiao had the potential to become a superpower, and it was a very rare type of ability. After asking Zhong Ling, Sun Hang also knew that Tianshu Tower did have a "superpower management department" mentioned by Lilith, so he planned to take Ling Xiao for a check-up to confirm whether his strange perception ability was a real superpower or just "luck".

Sun Hang also asked Yang Qi about people with special abilities, but unfortunately, Yang Qi only knew that they existed, and she couldn't tell her anything more detailed.

After all, weird things and superpowers belong to two completely different fields, and there is little content that can be shared between them. As the saying goes, every profession has its own specialty. Yang Qi, who has chosen the direction of weird things research, naturally has no extra energy and time to study another field. Superpowers are different from infected people. There are very few of them, so unlike the weird things research institutes in all major cities in the federation, there is only one authoritative superpower research institute, which is the "Superpower Management Department" affiliated with Tianshu Tower.

"If I am confirmed to be a person with super powers, will they let me stay here?" Ling Xiao suddenly asked.

"I'm not sure. Maybe they will ask you to cooperate in a series of experiments... but after all, you have joined the field department of the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute first. Even if they want to poach you, they have to consider the wheelchair... and consider the old director's face. If it really doesn't work, I can use my authority to find a way to get you out." Sun Hang said.

However, the rescue is limited to the identity of the psychic - Zhong Ling told Sun Hang that the Psychic Management Department has a very loose management of psychics. Compared with monster hunters, almost all psychics are "employed" by the Psychic Management Department on a contract basis, and they have the power to choose and refuse the department's tasks.

Once the ability of the "God-killing Gun" is discovered, it will not only be the superpower management department that is involved.

Maybe even Old Man Pei would be alarmed.

Sun Hang can use his authority to veto the decision of the superpower management department, but if Old Man Pei is determined to keep Ling Xiao... then if he wants to protest, he may have to break off relations with the Tianshu Tower.

Sun Hang reached into his pocket and wrapped the entire gun with liquid metal. At the same time, he used his ability to "make wishes come true" to give the Gun of God Slayer a "seal" that isolated the memetic fluctuations. Now, from the outside, the gun is just an ordinary pistol "simulated" with liquid metal. Even if it is placed under a monitoring device and scanned repeatedly, the only thing that can be scanned is the meme of the weird liquid metal, not the meme of the Gun of God Slayer itself.

"Okay." Ling Xiao nodded, "I want to stay in Tianfu City."

"Why?" This time it was Sun Hang's turn to wonder, "There's no sun in that place, and you have to face dangerous monsters all the time... The temperature is extremely cold, supplies are scarce, and even the food is not fresh. It's all canned food. Why would you want to stay in Tianfu City?"

"Because I met that thing that called itself God in Tianfu City." Ling Xiao said, "But I never believe that there are gods in this world... Even if there are gods, they are not on the side of us humans."

"..."Sun Hang suddenly felt that perhaps it was Ling Xiao's obsession that led to the birth of the "God-killing Spear".

The plane began to lower its altitude, the surrounding clouds quickly swept upwards, and a floating platform slowly came up.

With a slight shake, the plane stopped steadily on the floating platform.

"The floating port in Taiweiyuan." Sun Hang said to Ling Xiao, "When I came here last time, there was a hole in the runway. I later heard from Yang Qi that it cost at least more than 100 million yuan just to repair the hole."

The apron sank into the hangar, and the floating port returned to its original position, fitting seamlessly into the top-floor buildings of Taiweiyuan. The only two passengers on the special flight emerged from the aircraft's cabin door.

Sun Hang did not bring any luggage this time. He put his hands in his pockets and looked at the group of white coats who came to pick him up with interest. Ling Xiao, who followed behind him, dragged a small suitcase and looked around the defense facilities, monitoring systems and emergency escape routes inside the hangar with a serious expression.

"This time... there shouldn't be a group of special forces soldiers who suddenly show up and shoot tranquilizer bullets at me, right?" Sun Hang asked the man in the white coat who was the leader.

"Of course not..." The man in the white coat looked a little embarrassed, "Last time, it was about the level-up trial..."

"Which one of you is from the superpower management department?" Sun Hang asked again.

"Hello, my name is Sun Qiong, and I'm the deputy leader of the No. 1 working group of the Superpower Management Department." A young woman with long hair and frameless glasses stepped forward. "My electronic business card has just been transferred to your bracelet."

"Ling Xiao, you will follow her later." Sun Hang said, and then looked at Sun Qiong, "Remember to return the person to me intact after the examination!"

"Of course." Sun Qiong said quickly, "The inspection process will not cause any harm to the human body. It's just that some special inspection items require the cooperation of the person being inspected to complete."

"If you can cooperate, try your best. If you can't cooperate, call me and tell me." Sun Hang patted Ling Xiao's shoulder and said, "Go."

"Yeah." Ling Xiao dragged his suitcase towards Sun Qiong.

The two of them quickly left the hangar on a small air shuttle with the Tianshu Tower logo printed on it.

Although the headquarters of the Superpower Management Department is inside the Tianshu Tower, their experimental site is in another urban area. According to Sun Hang's request, they will take Ling Xiao directly there for inspection, and after the inspection is completed, they will send him back to the floating port.

"It's a special period and time is tight. There's a shortage of manpower in Tianfu City. Operator Ling Xiao is an important combat force in the field department. I hope all procedures can be simplified." - These are Sun Hang's original words.

As for Sun Hang himself, after making a phone call with Old Man Pei, he did not plan to meet with him - there was nothing to talk about anyway. It would be better to save time and let these white coats take him to the "buffet restaurant" and leave immediately after eating, in case Chimera No. 17 did anything weird in Tianfu City while he was away.

The air shuttle that Sun Hang and his companions were riding was slightly larger. Apart from the pilot's seat, the seats at the back could just accommodate six people, including Sun Hang. With a slight push on the back, the air shuttle rushed out of a pipe and entered the airspace between Taiweiyuan and Ziweiyuan.

The shuttle did not stay in the air for a long time, but quickly found a suspension track, used a magnetic device to attach itself to the track, and slid quickly along the track.

This kind of air shuttle is called an aircraft, but in fact it is more like a small magnetic levitation train with the ability to fly for a short time. There are a large number of movable suspension tracks above Taiweiyuan, Ziweiyuan and Tianshiyuan. Under the coordination of the Chunming City Traffic Control Center, these air shuttles can travel through the densely built Chunming city area at a speed comparable to that of high-speed rail, and deliver passengers to their destinations at the fastest speed.

Of course, those who can ride on this kind of air shuttle are either rich or noble - what is expensive is not the air shuttle itself, but the suspended tracks built specially for the air shuttle, as well as a large number of supporting facilities behind the track system.

This was Sun Hang's second time taking the air shuttle... The last time was when he heard that Wang Xiyi was in trouble, and he and Yang Qi decided to return to Tianfu City overnight.

The shuttle was moving very fast. In less than ten minutes, Sun Hang was already standing in front of the "Jade Pillar".

"The strange object containment area of ​​the Tianshu Tower is at the bottom of the 'Jade Pillar'." The white-coated leader said, "Although you have obtained the highest level of permission, we still cannot skip some necessary security procedures... Of course, this is also for your personal safety."

(End of this chapter)