Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 378 Real Person Test
"What? Are you afraid of him?" Yao Yu pushed his glasses habitually and asked with interest.

"Fear? Humph." Wen Ya snorted coldly, "It's just that this guy makes me feel uncomfortable."

"You've dealt with so many powerful hunters, but this is the first hunter who made you feel 'uncomfortable', right?"

Wen Ya glared at Yao Yu but did not say anything in rebuttal.

He had indeed dealt with many powerful hunters, such as those who were ranked in the top ten in the rankings. They all gave people an extremely strong sense of oppression, making it impossible for people to have the idea of ​​becoming enemies with them.

But it is precisely this kind of oppressive force that is driving the temperature and pressure to become stronger and stronger... His speed of progress can be considered very terrifying among the many monster hunters in the Xiazhou Federation.

In just four years, he had climbed from a newly employed registered hunter to the position of a second-level hunter. Moreover, among all the second-level hunters, he was also recognized as one of the strongest. As long as he waited until the next promotion trial began, it would be a foregone conclusion for him to become a first-level hunter.

The number of first-level hunters in the Xiazhou Federation is less than three digits, and each first-level hunter can be regarded as a strategic-level weapon...but as strategic-level weapons, there is a chasm-like gap between the little boy and Big Ivan.

However, even a top hunter like Tiebi had never given Wen Ya such a feeling.

How to put it... If I have to describe it in words, Sun Hang is like a "thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh" of Wen Ya... If the two sides meet in the occupied area or some other no-man's land, Wen Ya will definitely attack him without hesitation and use all means to put Sun Hang to death.

Wen Ya didn't know why he had such a thought... He clearly didn't know this person at all, and there was no intersection between him and the other party... Why did he hate him so much?
Could it be that Yao Yu was right, and this feeling was essentially a combination of dread and fear?

No, how is this possible!

I am not afraid even when I meet a top-ranked first-level hunter, so why should I be afraid of this fifth-level hunter who doesn't seem to have strong fighting power?
Besides, if it was fear, my first thought when I saw the other person should be to run away, not a strong desire to attack... This is definitely not normal.

"Yao Yu, I want to ask you something." Wen Ya suddenly asked.

"explain."

"Under what circumstances would a weak creature, when encountering a creature stronger than itself, rush forward and attack without fear of death?"

"This question... is quite interesting." Yao Yu looked at Wen Ya with a meaningful look, "Generally speaking, there are two situations."

"Which two?"

"One situation is to protect future generations and ensure the survival of the ethnic group."

"What about the other one?"

"I've been forced into a desperate situation with no way to retreat." Yao Yu said slowly, "Knowing that I can't escape, the only way to find a glimmer of hope is to fight to the death."

……

Wen Ya stood there, staring at the assembly site not far away in a daze - the young man named Sun Hang was invited by the engineer to the mecha that Wen Ya would be carrying soon. The latter was holding a tablet computer and was explaining something to the former incessantly.

This guy... makes me feel like I'm in a desperate situation?

impossible……

Maybe the way I asked the question just now was wrong. I shouldn’t have asked Yao Yu how a weak creature would react when encountering a stronger creature... Obviously, I am the stronger one.

But why did I ask this question subconsciously?
Is it because of lack of sleep recently?

Oh... not enough sleep...

Wen Ya rubbed his brows, feeling inexplicably irritated.

He just wanted to finish the test quickly and leave this place immediately.

"Would you like a drink?" Yao Yu, who had just walked away, came back to Wen Ya with a tray. On the tray was a glass with clear light yellow liquid in it.

There was no ice in the cup, but a thin layer of ice had already formed on the surface of the liquid.

"Where did you find the wine?" Wen Ya picked up a cup, looked at it and asked.

"Logistics Department." Yao Yu replied, "I just wanted to make a cup of coffee to remind you, but I found this in the drinks cabinet. I thought you would like it."

"You are... sometimes quite sensible." Wen Ya drank the whole drink in one gulp. "Come to think of it, I'm about to board this mecha. Should this be considered drunk driving?"

"Do you still care about drunk driving?" Yao Yu smiled, "Besides, your blood... is much more dangerous than alcohol."

"That's right." Wen Ya looked at his palm. The transparent glass cup gradually melted in his palm and turned into an irregularly shaped glass embryo.

Meanwhile, the assembly area.

According to the drawings and various specifications provided by the engineer, Sun Hang used the mycelium of the Tai Sui fungus to construct one reinforcement part after another. As soon as these parts were formed, the technicians waiting nearby would immediately take them away and install them on the PFDA.

The engineer stared nervously at the timer in his hand, his eyes moving back and forth between Sun Hang and PFDA.

"The parts made by that guy...what kind of ability is that?" Wen Ya threw away the glass embryo in his hand and asked.

"Let me check... This ability comes from the weird creature 'Tai Sui', a fungus-like weird creature. This weird creature was once secretly raised by a weird creature worshiping organization. When it was first discovered, its temporary serial number was Wu179. Because it was destroyed before it matured, it has no official number."

Yao Yu's thumb slid across the screen of his phone and continued, "In May of the lunar calendar 4719, Sun Hang, a registered hunter in Tianfu City, discovered the remnants of a certain weird creature worship organization in the city and carried out an extermination operation alone. All members of the organization died, and the weird creature 'Tai Sui' hiding underground in the organization's hideout was eliminated... Since 'Tai Sui' has been confirmed to be dead, it still has not been given an official number."

"You mean, this monster called Tai Sui was killed by Sun Hang?" Wen Ya suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Correct."

"Why does Tai Sui's ability appear on him?" Wen Ya asked immediately.

"I don't know... Maybe, in that battle, Sun Hang himself was also infected by Tai Sui and gained some of Tai Sui's abilities?" Yao Yu frowned.

"How many examples are there of people remaining in a stable infection state after a second infection?" Wen Ya continued to ask without giving Yao Yu any time to react.

"Wait a minute, let me check..." Yao Yu's fingers tapped quickly on the screen, "275 cases, from the time records began to date, not counting Sun Hang, a total of 275 cases."

This number is not small, but if we put it in the entire history of the Federation, and take into account the Federation’s population base and the total number of infected people, it is no exaggeration to say that this number is one in a billion.

"What exactly is his original ability?"

"I can't find it! I checked Sun Hang's files a long time ago, but I could only find some very basic information. When I wanted to access a higher-level archive, I was prompted that I did not have enough permissions." Yao Yu said, "Even..."

"Even what?"

"When I was using my existing resources to investigate Sun Hang, I received a call from Tianshu Tower. They asked me why I wanted to investigate him." "Tianshu Tower asked you why you wanted to investigate Sun Hang?" Yao Yu's eyes flashed with surprise. "When did Tianshu Tower care about this kind of thing?"

"I'm also wondering...that's why I advise you not to underestimate this person." Yao Yu said.

"Then what did you find out?"

Yao Yu shook his head: "I even... asked the people over there."

"The people over there" is a code word that only Yao Yu and Wen Ya can understand. When they need to mention the organization in the presence of other people, they usually use "over there" instead; and the people in the organization are "the people over there".

"How to say?"

"He told me not to worry about it... As long as it doesn't affect the progress of the plan, there is no need to pay attention to it."

"So, this person will not pose a threat to us? Right?" Wen Ya confirmed with Yao Yu.

"I don't know." Yao Yu shook his head slowly.

Soon, the last batch of PFDA's "custom parts" made of Tai Sui mycelium were all assembled, and the researcher in charge of the testing work immediately found Wen Ya and asked him to "wear" this seven-ton "Tactical Power Armor for the Final Step of the Insecticide Program Breakthrough".

"Checking the thrusters...Thrusters one to twenty-seven are fueled normally!"

"Fixed locks number one to forty-eight have been checked, everything is normal!"

"The internal pressure of the armor is normal!"

"The test subject's vital signs are normal!"

"The test area has been cleared and can be ignited at any time!"

"All data is being recorded, and all instruments are operating normally!"

"Countdown three seconds... three, two, one, ignition!"

A huge thrust came from behind. Wen Ya was about to look back at Sun Hang who was standing next to the launch pad. However, when he moved his gaze over, he could only see the frozen tundra receding beside him.

The Shuzhou area is mountainous, and Tianfu City is located in a basin within a basin. In order to simulate the rare open plains around Chimera No. 17, the Weird Treasure Research Institute directly flattened several small hills, and then used a steamroller to flatten and compact the frozen soil in the area to create this "artificial plain."

The entire field of vision was constantly shaking, and Wen Ya could even feel the rocket thrusters behind him gradually igniting, ejecting, and falling off - the speed was getting faster and faster, the scenery on both sides had become blurred images, and the signal lights inserted at the edge of the test site as distance scales were stretched into long strips of light... For a moment, Wen Ya felt as if time had come to a standstill.

He glanced at the upper left corner of the AR screen. The current real-time speed of PFDA was 4.9517 Mach, close to five times the speed of sound. At this speed, as long as there was any deviation in the flight angle, it would rush directly into the sky or drill into the ground, and the entire armor would be torn apart and disintegrated under the huge impact force.

He won't die, but he will be seriously injured.

However, Wen Ya didn't hate this feeling - not only did he not hate it, he even became excited.

His blood began to boil, rushing at high speed in his blood vessels, and the boxes on the right that displayed his vital signs data had turned red - for ordinary people, these data were dozens of times higher than the fatal threshold, but in terms of temperature and pressure, they were only within the normal range.

Hundreds of G-forces were applied to Wen Ya's body, and his breathing became increasingly rapid. The liquid in the condenser tube of his specially made combat suit began to boil along with his blood. A large amount of steam sprayed out from the heat dissipation slots of the armor, and in the blink of an eye it was pulled into dozens of thin mist lines.

"Enter the safe zone in three seconds!!" the researcher's voice came from inside the helmet.

"Please be prepared to withstand the reverse impact!"

"Entered the safe zone!!"

"All back thrusters have been detached! The reverse deceleration jet has been successfully activated!"

Wen Ya could clearly feel the force when the large fuel pipes inserted behind him were thrown out - the terrifying thrust disappeared, but the inertia of PFDA was still there. The next moment, he heard a huge explosion.

In order to increase the starting speed of the reverse deceleration injector, at the suggestion of Song Yarong, the original combustion injector was replaced with an explosion injector. This is equivalent to installing several large-yield directional explosives directly in front of the PFDA. When emergency braking is required, these explosives will be directly detonated, and the huge instantaneous impact force generated by the explosion will offset the inertia of the PFDA.

In order to ensure that these explosives would not harm the PFDA pilots, the new design drawings forced Sun Hang to manufacture more than a dozen parts as connecting parts and buffer parts for the front protective layer of the armor.

Wen Ya only felt that his shoulders, chest and abdomen seemed to have been hit hard by several punches, and the speed of PFDA was slowed down at once!
The G-force value has soared to 143G, and the shrill alarm keeps ringing in my ears.

"Fire the sticky anchor!"

"The sticky anchor hook successfully hit the target! The fixing strength has reached the standard value!"

"Lateral thrusters activated!"

"The steering angle is within controllable range!"

"Prepare for disintegration!"

Before Wen Ya could react to what the researchers said on the communication channel, the armor wrapped around his body suddenly broke into pieces.

Several air bags rapidly expanded from the surface of the combat suit, wrapping Wen Ya's entire body inside, and then he fell heavily to the ground.

Although the airbags absorbed most of the vibration, in the perspective of Wen Xu, the whole world still shook violently.

Once, twice, three times.

"The landing airbag rebound height is gradually decreasing! All data is within the controllable range!"

"The second correction of the braking thruster angle is completed! The third correction is completed! The landing airbag has not deviated from the planned trajectory!"

"Reduce the airbag pressure! Quick, reduce the pressure immediately!"

The temperature and pressure could hear the sound of the gas in the airbag being released. This time, the impact force seemed to be much smaller than the previous times.

"Successful landing! Successful landing!"

"The test subject's vital signs are still... still within the normal range!"

"The experiment was successful!!"

There was a cheer coming from the communication channel.

(End of this chapter)