Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 376 The Holy Ark
Maxim cursed "Sukka" in his heart, and pressed the communication button on the headset... However, the disappearing window not only blocked his way out of the building, but also cut off all communication with the outside. The team communication channel that was unobstructed a few seconds ago was now only filled with crackling noises of electricity.

"A weird creature, huh? I don't care what kind of weird creature you are, just fucking kill me!"

In desperation, Maxim's ruthlessness suddenly surged up in his heart. He twisted his body in an instant, holding a supporting structure at his side with one hand, and raised the submachine gun high with the other hand, aiming it in the direction where the sound came from.

Under the light of the tactical flashlight, a strange creature that appears to be human but moves on all fours can be seen crawling quickly on the supporting structure inside the building.

It moved extremely agilely, jumping back and forth on those intricate supporting structures. Maxim's light was never able to completely lock onto it - every time the creature's figure was just covered by the light column, it would quickly leap up and disappear into the shadows outside the light column again.

The creature was very fast, and its evasive movements were irregular... But at this moment, the fear in Maxim's heart was gradually dissipating - a hideous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he shouted loudly in Russian: "Asshole! Since you have been hiding, it means you are afraid of bullets, right! Then you can just wait to die!!"

Maxim simply changed to holding the submachine gun with both hands, and the muzzle of the gun closely followed the high-speed moving monster - the monster was less than twenty meters away from him. At this distance, he was confident that he could hit even a high-speed moving target!

He didn't need to fire accurately, as long as he could hit the monster, the specially made 9mm caliber submachine gun bullets could tear the monster's body apart!

In this way, the speed of the monster will slow down... and as soon as the monster slows down, Maxim will beat it into a sieve without mercy!
The monsters are not enemies, there is no need to negotiate with them or take prisoners. As a soldier, all Maxim needs to do is kill with the highest efficiency!
The trigger was pulled, flames spurted out from the muzzle, and the crisp sound of the PPK20 submachine gun echoed inside the building. A large number of supporting structures were broken and shattered, and concrete debris fell from above like rain.

Maxim clearly heard the sound of the bullet penetrating into flesh and blood tissue, and he was immediately delighted: Hit it!
However, the speed of the monster did not slow down significantly. As it jumped left and right to avoid the bullets, the distance between it and Maxim was rapidly shortening!
"If you get shot a few more times, I don't believe you can still jump up!"

With a "click", the PPK submachine gun entered the empty chamber state. Maxim pressed the magazine release lock skillfully, swung the gun to the side, and threw the empty magazine out directly. The next second, his left hand reached to his waist like a conditioned reflex.

Maxim froze.

He suddenly remembered that in order to climb up the window, he had taken off all the extra equipment on his body, including the bulky armed vest with spare magazines!
Maxim's heart felt like it was sinking into an ice cellar.

Not only the spare magazines for the submachine gun, but also his secondary weapon pistol was hung on the armed vest.

The thirty bullets that had just been emptied were all the ammunition he had.

"It's over."

The monster was less than five meters away from Maxim, and it seemed that with just a light jump, it could pounce directly on Maxim!

The situation did not allow Maxim to think too much. He threw away the submachine gun in his hand, unfastened the safety buckle around his waist, picked up the wreckage of the drone at his feet and held it in his arms, then jumped directly from the edge of the platform!
Maxim felt as if he had stepped on and broke several thinner supporting structures. He was unable to break a supporting structure as thick as his arm, and this hit his unprotected right rib heavily... The severe pain as if the bones were broken was secondary. The most fatal thing was that the impact made Maxim's body lose balance. He did not land on his feet as expected, but fell sideways and heavily to the bottom floor of the building!

The distance from the platform to the bottom layer was much deeper than Maxim had previously judged! The intricate supporting structures were visually deceptive. In fact, the bottom layer of the building was at least five or six meters above the platform. In other words, there was an "underground structure" beneath the building that sank into the ground.

Perhaps the word "sinking" is not accurate... After all, these buildings "grow" from the ground like plants, and it is normal for some of them to remain below the ground...

Maxim felt as if his right leg had stepped into a thorn bush. Although the sharp thorns could not cut through the thick military boots, they could easily penetrate his pants. His right leg seemed to be pierced, and a supporting structure as thick as a chopstick went through his calf from one side to the other.

However, under the effect of the surging adrenaline, the pain of the wound was completely suppressed. Maxim had no time to check his injuries, and he didn't even have time to get up from the ground - he reached out to his boots and pulled out a sharp dagger from them.

This is the only weapon he has at the moment.

Maxim turned his head suddenly, and a terrifying face that was very close to him instantly met his sight!

This was a completely carbonized face, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman. The charred and cracked skin covered the other person's face like a mask, and the pair of blood-red eyeballs exuded an extremely dangerous aura!
"Die! Die!"

Maxim roared, struggled to swing his arms, and stabbed the dagger heavily into the monster's neck!
At the same time, the monster opened its mouth and stuck its bloody tongue into Maxim's nasal cavity.

Maxim had heard that the French had a kissing method called the "wet kiss," which involves sticking the tongue into the other person's mouth...but what about sticking it into the nose?
This thought only flashed through Maxim's mind, but his hand did not stop. He pulled out the dagger that had pierced the monster's neck, and stabbed it back in again, repeating it over and over again!
The neck is the vital part of most animals, where important trachea and many blood vessels are distributed. If the opponent was a human, hot blood would have spurted out long ago, but the hand holding the dagger could not feel anything spurting out from the wound of the monster...

Every time the knife stabbed down, the feeling from the tip of the knife was very strange.

He felt as if he was poking a tree stump that had been burned into charcoal.

The monster's tentacle-like tongue was still drilling deeper, and Maxim felt that it seemed to have broken through a layer of diaphragm, which made his heart skip a beat.

He suddenly understood what the other person's tongue was aiming for.

Your own brain.

……

Outside the building.

"Hello? Maxim? How are things going over there?"

"Maxim?"

"Maxim?! Answer now! Maxim!"

After several calls went unanswered, the team leader immediately realized the problem, and before he could give any orders, the female team member rushed directly to the building, imitated Maxim, used the momentum to jump from the rubble, and then rushed towards the window!

However, the female team member's fingers were not able to grasp the windowsill that protruded from the wall, but slid down directly along the flat wall. She only stayed on the wall for about half a second before she fell on the ground with her arms and legs spread out!
The other four people looked towards the window, and they discovered that the window that Maxim had entered had turned into a lifelike three-dimensional painting!
This window is painted on the exterior wall of a building! This window does not exist at all!

The safety ropes in their hands that connected Maxim to the wall seemed to be built into the wall, blending into the entire wall. "A weird thing! This building is also a weird thing!" The machine gunner shouted in horror, "It's a G-type weird thing!!"

"Calm down!" Sniper Glazkov shouted, "This entire city ruins is full of G-type monsters, not to mention this building."

"But Maxim is still inside! He was eaten by the building!" The female team member climbed up from the ground, rushed to the front of the building again, and smashed the wall hard with the butt of the gun, "Maxim! Can you hear me? Maxim!!"

"Veronica, get out of the way!" The team leader stepped forward and pulled the female team member named Veronica away.

Then, he took out two pieces of "plasticine", one red and one white, from the tactical bag on his waist, and rolled them into long strips with each hand. Then, he twisted the two pieces of plasticine together and pasted them on the outer wall of the building with a "snap".

A thin metal tube like a match was inserted into the "plasticine". The captain gently twisted the end of the metal tube and then quickly stepped back.

"Everyone retreat! Retreat!" the captain shouted, "The explosion radius is five meters! But it cannot be ruled out that there will be a secondary landslide! Everyone retreat to an open area!!"

"Captain! Maxim is still inside!" Veronica couldn't help but shout when she saw the captain planning to use explosives to violently break the wall.

"I know!" the captain said without turning his head, "but this is the only way to save him!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a loud "bang", which immediately suppressed everyone's voice.

……

After more than ten seconds, the smoke and dust produced by the explosion slowly dissipated, and a hole the size of a washbasin appeared on the outer wall of the building.

Veronica was about to approach, but the sniper Glazkov said coldly: "Don't go over there, there is something behind the wall."

A face appeared at the entrance of the cave.

That was Maxim's face. He was grinning, maintaining a stiff smile, and his bloodshot eyes were like a bloodthirsty beast.

……

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Tianfu City, Weird Things Research Institute, Combat Base No. 4.

In order to shrink the defense and concentrate combat power, all the buildings around the Weird Research Institute were requisitioned, and this No. 4 Combat Readiness Base was converted from a chain hotel only three kilometers away from the institute.

This place is now used as a temporary residence for the hunters who have come from other city-states to provide support and their direct supervisors. Compared with several other bases converted from civilian facilities, the guard force outside the No. 4 Combat Readiness Base is the least. The reason is simple: the hunters living here are themselves a very powerful fighting force.

The 2005th floor of the hotel, room .

This is one of the three presidential suites in the hotel. The bathroom alone covers an area of ​​more than 80 square meters. The huge bathtub allows guests to swim freely in it. There is also a larger open-air suspended swimming pool just across the wall from the bathroom.

A burly man was lying in the middle of the bathtub, his features looking a little blurry due to the steam.

His muscles were extremely developed, with several silver steel nails embedded in his shoulders and collarbones, and a horrible suture mark running diagonally through his entire chest.

Around his neck was a non-removable black crystal collar with an embedded red indicator light on the side of the collar. Every time the indicator light flashed, the collar would make a slight "beeping" sound.

Opposite the bathing pool, stood a man who was about 1.9 meters tall and dressed in a suit. Compared with the man in the bathing pool, this man was very tall but very thin, with long dark gray hair and a pair of exquisite gold-rimmed glasses on his nose.

But his face was not delicate at all - one-third of it was made up of machinery, and an artificial eye was spinning in its eye socket.

"We've got news from the research institute that PFDA's prototype machine has passed the unmanned test. They hope that you can serve as a tester and take part in the first real-person test." said the long-haired man.

"The first real person test?" The sturdy man in the bath snorted coldly, "Isn't there a very capable guy named Sun Hang in the Tianfu City Research Institute? Why don't you let him take the test?"

"According to the latest news, Sun Hang will participate in the raid, but he does not need to wear PFDA, so it is meaningless to let him take the test."

"What about 'Night Fury'? Isn't this woman known as the 'Ace Hunter' of Tianfu City?"

"I don't know." The long-haired man replied calmly, "I don't know if Night Fury has received the test invitation."

"What did the organization say?"

"There are no latest instructions. In other words, we'd better continue to cooperate with Tianfu City... I think when you have the opportunity to get in direct contact with the 'Holy Ark', the organization should tell you what to do next."

"Hmph." The burly man stood up from the bathtub with a sneer. The water stains remaining on the surface of his body quickly turned into steam and rose up. If someone noticed the control panel next to the bathtub at this time, they would be surprised to find that the water heater connected to the bathtub was not in working condition at all.

The water in this pool is heated by the man's "body temperature".

(End of this chapter)