Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 348 Intensification

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"Ordinary people without abilities are nothing more than ants," the black-robed hunter said in a low voice. "Without us fighting those monsters, how could ordinary people have a peaceful life... They should be grateful instead of riding on our heads and bullying us..."

Zhong Ling did not continue to communicate with the other party. In response, she directly ordered two strange skeletons to force forward and block the left and right sides of the black-robed hunter.

If things cannot be resolved peacefully, then we have no choice but to resort to force.

"Although you are not a hunter, you also have that ability... You know very well what it feels like to have extraordinary power. You should understand that we are the same kind of people, and we are the future of mankind." The black-robed hunter continued, "And these ordinary people are just inferior products that failed to evolve. Sooner or later, they will be eliminated by this world..."

"This speech... is too dangerous." The lieutenant couldn't help but take two steps back... He had already switched the recorder fixed on his chest to high-definition mode. All the images and sounds had been recorded and transmitted back to the information processing center of Tianfu City in real time.

"I always feel that this guy is a little abnormal." The sergeant also smelled something wrong. He threw the rifle in his hand back to the soldier who had just been slapped in the face, and then pulled out his pistol.

However, he did not point the muzzle of the gun directly at the black-robed hunter, but only pointed it diagonally at the ground, while holding the safety knob above the handle tightly with his thumb.

"Everyone, be careful." The sergeant said solemnly to the sentry behind him, "Watch your fingers and don't fucking fire them."

On the other side, the soldiers in the patrol convoy also got out of the vehicles and gathered behind the lieutenant. They looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Two people with special abilities were facing each other, and one of them made remarks that sounded extremely reactionary... However, without orders from his superiors, even if the black-robed hunter directly said that he wanted to rebel, as long as he did not take the initiative to attack these soldiers, the soldiers had no right to shoot him.

Rebellious remarks do not necessarily mean real rebellion... Before taking action, one can simply use excuses such as "angry words", "mental illness", "unintelligence" to get away with it.

The federal government of Xia State has very strict control over hunters, but is also very "tolerant" of all illegal and irregular behaviors of hunters - as long as they have not committed particularly serious crimes, and as long as the hunters are willing to obey the orders of the federal government, very few hunters will be sentenced to death or life imprisonment...even detention is rare.

The most common punishments are fines and meritorious service.

Only those hunters whose infection process gets out of control or whose memes turn into uncontrollable mutations will be "neutralized".

"Kid." The sergeant touched the lieutenant's arm gently, "Have you ever seen a hunter out of control?"

"An out-of-control hunter?" The lieutenant shook his head.

"I've seen it... That time, in order to suppress that monster, two entire platoons of soldiers were wiped out... In the end, heavy weapons were called in and the entire building was razed to the ground before it was finally killed," said the sergeant major.

The sergeant finished speaking and glanced back at the bunker behind him.

Behind the barricade made of sandbags, there is a 12.7mm heavy machine gun. In addition, there is a twin-mounted mm anti-aircraft machine gun on the off-road vehicle parked in the rear... Apart from the explosives carried by the soldiers, these two weapons are the only "heavy weapons" of this outpost.

The weapons and equipment on the convoy's side are of similar quality - the 35mm caliber machine gun on the light armored vehicle is the most powerful firepower they have.

Of course, if we talk about combat power, the two people with special abilities who are traveling with the team are the strongest force of the team. These soldiers and weapons can only be regarded as supporting roles... To put it more bluntly, the two people with special abilities are the core of the entire patrol team, and all the others are assigned to the team to assist these two people with special abilities.

"This... this shouldn't be a fight, right?" the lieutenant stammered.

"It's hard to say." The sergeant shook his head. "This puppeteer and that hunter... who is more powerful?"

"I... I don't know..." The lieutenant was also confused, "I've never seen them take action..."

"Didn't both of them just start fighting?" The sergeant glanced at the lieutenant speechlessly.

"I can't tell who is strong and who is weak... I'm not studying this... It's not taught in military school..." the lieutenant said helplessly.

"I think you've read too many books and your brain has become dull." The sergeant pulled the lieutenant back two steps. "The puppeteer's skeletons, especially the one that just saved me, are obviously stronger than this hunter... The hunter didn't even have time to react and his claws were cut off. In my opinion, this is because the puppeteer held back... If they really had to fight, the other skeletons wouldn't have needed to take action. That one skeleton alone would have been able to cut the hunter into pieces."

"Really?" The lieutenant looked at the two people confronting each other, then looked at the sergeant major, "Then there shouldn't be a fight, right? The puppeteer seems very calm. With her in control, this conflict should..."

"That's hard to say... When I said this hunter couldn't beat the puppeteer, I was referring to normal circumstances," said the sergeant.

"Under normal circumstances? Then what is an abnormal situation?"

"The hunter is out of control." The sergeant said in a very low voice, "A hunter out of control will become very strong... very strong."

As if to verify the sergeant's words, the black-robed hunter suddenly let out a fierce roar similar to that of a bird of prey. A pair of wings that were much longer than his height directly tore open the black robe and stretched out behind him!
His bracelet suddenly sounded a rapid alarm!

"Oh no! His bracelet is ringing!" The lieutenant's eyes widened immediately - as the captain of the patrol team, before setting off, he had naturally received the necessary training on cooperation with monster hunters. He knew very well what it meant when the alarm on his bracelet sounded.

"Quick! Give him an injection of sedatives and infection inhibitors!" The lieutenant remembered what he had learned in the training course and shouted out immediately.

But the soldiers behind him looked at each other, and no one dared to rush forward.

Facing a hunter who is in a furious state and on the verge of losing control, rushing up and forcibly injecting him with a sedative... this behavior is almost the same as suicide.

"Shit!" The lieutenant couldn't help cursing and shouted, "Where's the medicine box? Who has it? Give it to me, I'll go and give it the injection!"

"In the car," a soldier replied timidly. The lieutenant was about to run towards the car, but the sergeant's powerful hand grabbed his arm... The lieutenant, wearing a powered exoskeleton, was actually grabbed by the sergeant's flesh and blood.

"Stupid boy, do you want to live?!" the sergeant cursed.

"This is my duty! According to standard procedures, he must be injected with sedatives and infection inhibitors at this time. Otherwise, when his infection progresses beyond the dangerous threshold, everything will be too late!!" the lieutenant said anxiously.

"Even if you get the potion now, do you think you can stick the needle into the hunter's body?" The sergeant continued to curse, "Who the hell do you think you are? Superman?"

"Then what can I do? I can't just stand there and watch, right?!" said the lieutenant.

"You can only rely on this little girl called the Puppet Master... We can't help you at this moment!" The sergeant looked at Zhong Ling, "Wait until her corpse controls the hunter, then you will have a chance to inject him with those damn sedatives and inhibitors!"

"Beep beep... beep beep... Warning! Warning! Your infection process is accelerating significantly and is approaching the critical point!" The alarm on the hunter's bracelet continued. "Please stop the action immediately, inject the infection inhibitor and then go to the nearest hunter management department or the Weird Research Institute! Warning! Warning..."

"Damn, it's so noisy!" Since one of his claws had been cut off, the black-robed hunter could only use his teeth to tear the hunter bracelet off the other intact wrist. Then, he bit it hard and immediately bit the bracelet that was sounding the alarm into pieces!
"Fire," the sergeant said calmly.

Actively destroying the hunter's bracelet is equivalent to rebellion.

Several soldiers at the outpost were still in a daze, but the sergeant had already removed the safety of his pistol, pointed the muzzle at the black-robed hunter's head, and pulled the trigger repeatedly!

The pair of wings behind the black-robed hunter suddenly rolled forward and protected his body like a shield. The bullets hit the surface of the wings, splashing out large sparks and making crisp metal collision sounds.

"Metalized feathers?" The sergeant was slightly startled. "Heavy machine gun! Use armor-piercing bullets!"

The soldier in charge of the heavy machine gun behind the barricade immediately pulled the trigger - this heavy machine gun was equipped with an optical sight, and could be regarded as an anti-material sniper rifle that could fire fully automatically. At this distance, there was no possibility of missing the target!
The 12.7mm caliber armor-piercing bullets flew out of the barrel and hit the steel-like wings densely - this time the attack finally produced an effect: the feathers quickly became fragmented and fell off the wings one after another.

"court death!"

The black-robed hunter growled, and shook his wings violently. Several metal wings shot out like darts - two wings directly cut through the barrel and bolt of the heavy machine gun, while the other wings cut into the flesh of the machine gunner and several soldiers nearby!
The machine gunner covered his throat which was gushing blood and fell backwards with his eyes wide open. The situation of several other soldiers was not optimistic either - some had their entire arms cut off, some had their entire chest cavities cut open and the organs inside were visible to the naked eye... and the worst-case scenario was that the soldier had his entire head cut in half diagonally, with red and white mixed together and flowing all over his neck and shoulders.

"Damn it, you dare to kill my soldiers!!" The sergeant's eyes suddenly turned red, and he turned around and rushed towards the off-road vehicle equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns. However, before he took a step, a metal feather wing cut off his right ankle neatly, and his body lost balance and fell heavily to the ground!
The lieutenant immediately bent down and picked up the sergeant major, then quickly jumped to the back of the barricade and shouted, "Everyone, find cover! Hide! Hide!!"

On the other hand, Zhong Ling was actually the one who received the most attention from the black-robed hunter—but all the metal wings shot at her were blocked by the burly skeleton, and not a single one hurt her.

Skeleton No. 1 had already rushed out, and its ten scalpel-like fingers swung out at a tricky angle... But just when it was about to attack the black-robed hunter, the black-robed hunter flapped his wings and jumped into the air seven or eight meters above the ground in the blink of an eye.

“I know your methods…” The black-robed hunter’s voice had become unclear, as if a large piece of rotten meat was stuck in his throat. “As long as it’s in the sky… Gulu… your puppet… Gulu… can’t do anything to me…”

Zhong Ling bit her lips lightly and frowned as she looked at the black-robed hunter floating in the air.

The other party was right. Among the several skeletons that he brought with him on this trip, none of them had the ability to fly or carry out long-range attacks.

Originally, Zhong Ling brought these puppets with her to complement the abilities of the black-robed hunter, but when the two sides became enemies, this choice put her in an extremely passive situation.

"Don't worry... Gulu... I will slowly... kill these... insects..." said the black-robed hunter, "and then... I will... torture you well..."

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Tianfu City, Weird Things Research Institute.

Pesticides Programme Co-ordination Office.

The three people who were waiting for the instant noodles to be cooked were suddenly disturbed by a burst of urgent alarm sounds. Song Yarong grabbed the phone on the table almost reflexively and asked loudly: "What happened? Why did the alarm sound?!"

"Outpost No. 307! Something happened to Patrol Team No. ! The infection progress of the hunter 'Falcon' accompanying the team has exceeded the dangerous threshold!! He has completely become a weirdo! There have been casualties at the outpost! Urgent support is needed!" The person on the other end of the phone spoke quickly.

"Patrol Team No. 26?! Is this the team the Puppet Master is in?"

"Yes! According to the captain of the team, the puppeteer is fighting with the falcon! But he seems to be at a disadvantage!"

"Sun..." Song Yarong raised her head and was about to say something to Sun Hang, but she found that Sun Hang, who was still beside her the last second, was no longer visible. Even the bucket of instant noodles that he had placed on the table had disappeared.

"Where are the others?" Song Yarong turned her head and looked at Fukada Miki who was sitting aside.

"He ran out with the bucket of noodles, very fast." Fukada Miki answered truthfully.

Song Yarong glanced at the door and saw that the heavy double-opening solid wooden doors of the office were still shaking slowly.

"Tell Patrol Team No. 26." Song Yarong picked up the microphone again, "Reinforcements will be here soon!"

(End of this chapter)