Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 344 Twin Balloons
A huge amount of memories that did not belong to Sun Hang rushed into his mind. Sun Hang gradually understood the meaning and purpose of the buttons and levers on the control panel, and mastered a variety of basic and extreme flying skills. He even experienced an aerial battle with a flying monster in just a dozen seconds...

He is no longer a flying rookie, but an expert pilot with forty-seven years of flying experience and more than five thousand hours of flying time. If the data of the two pilots are added together, there are probably few pilots in the entire Tianfu City who are more "senior" than Sun Hang.

Accompanied by a shrill alarm, Sun Hang saw a dense cluster of red dots appearing on the radar disk - and the strange aura that Sun Hang sensed also increased from several to more than a dozen, and then quickly increased to nearly a hundred.

Twenty seconds ago, the transport plane had entered the range of eternal night, and the readings of many instruments began to become very confusing... Fortunately, these two pilots had more than 120 hours of flight time in the eternal night environment. The valuable experience they accumulated allowed Sun Hang to achieve visual flight even in such harsh conditions.

Those flying monsters are very fast. Based on the current flying speed of the transport plane and the approaching speed of these monsters shown on the radar, it is not difficult to calculate that the flying speed of these guys has exceeded Mach 2, which is no less than the supersonic fighter jets of the Xiazhou Federation... These monsters don't even need to use any means of attack. They only need to crash into the transport plane to cause serious damage enough to cause a crash.

The transport plane crashed, and with Sun Hang's ability, it was easy for him to survive. But Ling Xiao and Fukada Miki were doomed to die - even if they could successfully parachute at this altitude, they would still have to face the endless pursuit of the remaining monsters.

These monsters can even catch up with transport aircraft that are close to the speed of sound, not to mention unpowered targets in free fall.

Before the transport plane took off, Chunming City asked Sun Hang whether he needed fighter escort. Sun Hang directly refused at that time - but now it seems that even if there is fighter escort, it will only increase unnecessary casualties.

The distance between the monster and the transport plane was getting closer and closer and was already within visual range. Sun Hang pressed a button on the side of the joystick, and a large amount of burning thermite was immediately ejected from the tail of the plane, instantly illuminating a large area of ​​airspace behind.

This thermite was originally used to interfere with the guidance system of missiles, but in the current situation, its only use is lighting.

Sun Hang finally saw clearly what kind of strange creatures were following him - they were a large number of irregularly shaped pieces of meat. No one could explain why these pieces of meat, which seemed to have no power source and whose shapes were completely unconform to aerodynamics, could reach the flying speed of cutting-edge fighter jets... They were like shells fired from the muzzle of some kind of living cannon, biting tightly behind the transport plane.

In order to ensure speed and aerodynamics, this transport plane was not equipped with any weapons - even if it was, Sun Hang did not think that weapons such as machine guns or missiles could completely eliminate these strange creatures...

"Hold on tight!" Sun Hang said to the two people in the cabin, and then he suddenly pulled back the joystick, and the nose of the transport plane was suddenly pulled to an angle almost perpendicular to the ground, and the transport plane instantly stalled and fell!
Sun Hang originally thought that those pieces of meat with a speed of Mach 2 would rush directly to the front, but he did not expect that these pieces of meat were not only fast, but also extremely flexible - at the moment the transport plane fell, they changed the direction of movement and chased the transport plane again.

This time, the risky "Cobra maneuver" not only failed to help Sun Hang escape the pursuit, but also greatly shortened the distance between the transport plane and these pieces of meat - the nearest piece of meat was less than three hundred meters away from the wing of the transport plane. For air combat, three hundred meters is almost a blink of an eye.

In the blink of an eye, a bolt of lightning struck from the sky, and the piece of meat as big as a millstone instantly turned into charcoal, and then slammed heavily into the side of the transport plane!

The scene of the cabin being crashed did not appear. The moment the carbonized piece of meat hit the transport plane, it broke into countless fine ash particles and slid out along the hull of the aircraft like some kind of fluid.

Accompanied by a sharp friction sound, the transport plane shook violently... but it was just a shake, the plane did not crash, and the cabin was not pierced. The ash particles left countless tiny scratches on the aircraft's outer shell, and were then blown away by the strong wind in the sky.

Sun Hang, who was sitting in the driver's seat, was breathing heavily. The clothes behind him were completely soaked with sweat and stuck tightly to the flocked seat back.

The energy consumption of summoning lightning out of thin air was so terrifying that it almost drained Sun Hang dry... He looked down at the "sarira" lying in the palm of his hand. The color of the sarira had changed from light yellow amber to pure transparent, and many fine cracks appeared inside, as if it would shatter at any time.

Sun Hang sighed and put the scrapped relic back into his pocket.

"The first echelon has entered the combat airspace!" A powerful voice penetrated the harsh noise of the electric current and reached Sun Hang's ears, "Please pay attention to the identification of friend or foe!"

"The communication interference is gone? No... the interference is still there, and it's not radio... it's laser communication?!" Just as Sun Hang was thinking for a few seconds, more than a dozen fighter jets of different models quickly plundered from both sides of him and rushed towards the group of monsters chasing him from behind!

"Is this... a suicide attack?" Sun Hang was confused.

The flying speed of the strange meat pieces is Mach 2, and the flying speed of the fighter jets coming to the rescue has exceeded Mach 1... The relative speed between the two exceeds Mach 3. In this situation, if they collide with each other, even if the fighter jets are equipped with the frontal armor of heavy tanks, they will still be penetrated by these meat pieces that are like artillery shells.

They didn't conduct a strike beyond visual range or because the missiles couldn't lock onto the pieces of flesh, but they had already rushed close to the monsters. Not only did they not open fire, but they accelerated towards the group of monsters... Could it be that these fighters were drones? They were filled with explosives? They were specially designed to self-destruct?
But Sun Hang had just seen in bullet time that there were two human pilots sitting in the cockpit of a fighter jet that passed by him.

But the next second, Sun Hang's question was answered.

A weird meme reaction suddenly appeared on these dozen fighter jets, and then thousands of electric arcs "connected" these fighter jets arranged in a special formation together, weaving a huge electric grid in the air!

The electric arc also wrapped around the fuselages of these fighter jets, forming something like an energy shield. The monsters' flesh was instantly blown to pieces when they hit the shield, and then they crashed into the power grid and were cut into pieces by the knife-like electric arcs!

The huge electric net immediately cleared out most of the flesh, and as the fighter jets on the outermost side of the formation made a roundabout maneuver, the fish caught in the net were quickly drawn in... In less than four seconds in total, the originally huge group of monsters was completely wiped out in the blink of an eye.

"Wow, what kind of black technology is this?" Sun Hang exclaimed in a low voice.

He could feel that the memetic fluctuations emanating from these fighter jets all came from the same monster, but Sun Hang did not recognize this monster... Although it also had lightning abilities, the electric arc of this monster seemed a little different from the lightning of Kuiniu - it was more like using a force field to constrain the violent energy flow into a special shape, and then using this "materialized" energy weapon to attack.

Its principle is exactly the same as the beam saber in Gundam.

The power grid dissipated, and the shields on the fighter jets also disappeared. The dozen or so fighter jets turned around and quickly formed an escort formation, surrounding the transport plane driven by Sun Hang in the middle.

"I am the commander of the Federal Air Force's 'Special 031' tactical squadron, Wei Yuan, with the rank of brigadier general. The next escort mission will be fully responsible for me and my troops." The same powerful voice from before sounded again in the communication channel, "Now I need to confirm the casualties on the transport plane."

"They are all alive, except for two pilots who are unconscious. They are probably affected by some strange creature." Sun Hang replied.

"Both pilots are unconscious? Who is flying the plane now? The autopilot system?" Wei Yuan asked. "The autopilot system is broken too." Sun Hang said, "I am flying now."

"You mean... you performed the Cobra maneuver just now?" Wei Yuan asked with a hint of disbelief, "How many hours have you flown before?"

"This is my first time flying a plane, and I've only been touching the joystick for less than half an hour," Sun Hang said. "Maybe I'm just gifted."

Wei Yuan fell into a brief silence. After half a minute, he asked, "Do you need us to send a pilot to the transport plane?"

"It shouldn't be necessary... I feel like I'm flying pretty well." Sun Hang said.

"In that case, please maintain cruising flight status... before landing, a battle may break out at any time." Wei Yuan said.

"You mean... there are more weird things on the way?"

“No…According to observations from Tianfu City, there was only one monster that intercepted you from the beginning to the end.” Wei Yuan said, “Those pieces of meat just now were all offspring of the monster.”

"Then where is the real body of this strange creature?" Sun Hang asked.

"In the low-Earth orbit above Shuzhou, 580 kilometers above the ground." Wei Yuan replied, "Serial number 'Bing ', code name 'Twin Balloon'."

"Twin balloons?" This was obviously the first time Sun Hang had heard the name of this strange creature. "What is that?"

"Relevant information is being transmitted, please pay attention to receive it." Perhaps Wei Yuan felt that sending the strange creature file directly to Sun Hang would be more detailed than speaking, or perhaps he still needed to command the entire escort formation and had no time to continue chatting with Sun Hang - in short, after sending the file to Sun Hang, he took the initiative to cut off the laser communication.

Sun Hang glanced at the bright red-painted lead plane not far away, then opened the file sent by the other party.

The first thing that catches your eye is a few photos taken by satellites - the background of the photos is the dark universe and the blue earth. In the middle of the photo, two huge, elliptical "balloons" float above the low-Earth orbit, occupying nearly half of the entire photo.

The two "balloons" have a biological texture. The surface of the "balloons" is covered with a layer of liver-colored biomass mucous membrane. Between the two "balloons", there are a large number of tubular structures connecting them. Like the external mucous membrane, these tubular structures also look like part of a living organism.

Next to the photo, a scale is thoughtfully marked - according to the values ​​on the scale, the long radius of these two elliptical spheres is more than 15 kilometers, and the short radius is at least 11 or 12 kilometers.

This is undoubtedly a behemoth.

Below the photo is a brief introduction to the creature:
Bing 4668, "Twin Balloons", were first discovered in January 1 of the lunar calendar.

The sphere exhibits the characteristics of a living organism, with an extremely low overall density, and it is suspected that there is a huge hollow cavity inside the sphere.

The long radius of the left sphere is 15198 meters and the short radius is 11058 meters; the long radius of the right sphere is 15623 meters and the short radius is 12118 meters.

The length of the connection between the two balls fluctuates between 500 meters and 700 meters.

This strange creature floats in a low-Earth orbit 300 to 600 kilometers above the ground all year round. It spends most of its time above the occupied area, and occasionally leaves the occupied area and enters the airspace above human activity areas.

The monster's movement trajectory is irregular, and the frequency and timing of its invasions into human airspace are also irregular.

From the time it was first discovered in January 4668 to March 1, the creature invaded human airspace a total of thirty-five times, the longest of which lasted 4715 days and the shortest lasted only six minutes.

There is no record of this monster actively attacking humans.

"Okay, now we have it." Seeing this, Sun Hang couldn't help but complain.

However, the monster has a strong sense of defense. Once a probe approaches, it will split into a large number of sub-bodies capable of high-speed flight, and crash into any approaching objects, including the probe.

It has been determined that the monster's alert radius is eighty kilometers.

In view of the fact that the monster has not yet caused any impact on humans, the Parliament and the Tianshu Tower have unanimously decided to keep a close watch on the monster and strictly prohibit any actions that may stimulate the monster unless necessary.

Once the strange creature is discovered to leave the occupied area and enter the airspace of the human-controlled area, immediately notify all relevant units and implement response plans one to six according to the actual situation.

"It's really a big thing." Sun Hang took another look at the video footage... Such a big weird thing floating in the sky, I don't know how the Federation can allow it to exist...

Or did they find that they could not get rid of this strange creature, and this strange creature usually appeared to be harmless, so they had to adopt the strategy of "close observation"?

So how should the federal top brass respond to this situation?
(End of this chapter)