Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 400 Savage Fusion
The octopus man fell silent.

It seemed to have really begun to think about the question of "whether it can still be considered human".

However, in less than three seconds, it gave up thinking.

Countless thick tentacles rose into the air and then slapped Wang Xiyi on the head!
These tentacles almost blocked all the space Wang Xiyi could use to dodge, and her only choice was to confront them head-on.

“Oh, you’re angry because of shame?” Wang Xiyi smiled coldly, “That’s good, I don’t have to continue acting with you… From now on, let Sun Hang do the talking. In comparison, I still prefer to solve problems with violence!”

The temperature in the underground space suddenly rose by hundreds of degrees! The water in the underground lake began to boil in the blink of an eye!
A terrifying huge energy wave emanated from behind Wang Xiyi...and this was just the aftermath, which was enough to turn the surroundings into scorched earth. It was hard to imagine what kind of horrific destructive power would be unleashed when the fireball she was holding in her palm directly hit the target.

Wang Xiyi had no intention of negotiating with the other party from the beginning to the end.

She would only accept unconditional surrender, or... war.

"boom!!!"

The deafening explosion resounded throughout the city, and at the center of the energy storm there even appeared a vortex of flames and steam, shooting straight into the sky!
The vortex of flames lasted for more than twenty seconds before gradually fading away. It was not until the sixtieth second that this horrifying scene completely disappeared.

The "Senyang Aquarium" store has completely disappeared, along with all the buildings in this block. In its place is a sinkhole with a diameter of more than 400 meters and a depth of nearly 200 meters!
A tall woman, almost naked except for her vital parts covered with black scales, stood at the bottom of the pit. Around her lay hundreds of charred tentacle remains. The size of these remains showed how exaggerated the size of this monster was.

Any one of the tentacles was thicker than a woman's torso, and more than a hundred meters long... But now, with a breeze blowing, the charred remains turned into ashes and flew everywhere.

"Huh..." Wang Xiyi let out a long sigh. This was the first time she used this move in actual combat, and she almost got herself beaten to a pulp. She thought that she could just throw out the fireball that had been compressed many times, but what she didn't expect was that the fireball exploded in the enclosed underground space, and it actually formed a tornado-like firestorm that swept across the entire underground space.

Although Wang Xiyi, who was in the eye of the storm, was not harmed by the firestorm, she unexpectedly became the "energy supply mechanism" of the firestorm. Every second that the firestorm lasted, a large amount of energy would be extracted from her body.

When the firestorm was only one step away from being killed, Wang Xiyi managed to "close" the valve that was leaking energy, cutting off the supply to the firestorm.

Immediately afterwards, the firestorm gradually weakened until it dissipated on its own.

Wang Xiyi felt a strong sense of hunger in her stomach. She subconsciously reached for the pocket on the outside of her thigh that held supplies, but her fingers only touched her own smooth and cold skin.

Only then did she realize that in the previous battle with the octopus monster, her clothes were torn to pieces, and then she was besieged by a large number of small aquatic monsters. The fire storm she just unleashed burned the last few rags on her body to ashes.

"At this time... at least some nutrient supplements that taste like soap would be nice." Wang Xiyi thought to herself.

She pressed her slightly deflated belly with her palm, sighed, kicked the rocks at her feet that had been roasted to an extremely crispy state, and walked towards the underground lake.

Before solving the hunger problem, you must first confirm whether the other party is dead.

At this time, the underground lake was almost filled with collapsed rubble, and the lake water was completely evaporated by the fire storm...

In order to avoid the terrifying fire storm, the octopus monster just retracted its entire head into the lake. Then the dome of the underground space collapsed completely. Countless pieces of rubble fell into the lake, directly burying the entire underground lake.

……

Wang Xiyi took a lot of effort to dig the octopus's head out of the lake.

Compared to the tentacles that were directly burned to ashes, the head of the octopus monster was "preserved" relatively well. A strange smell emanated from its torn body. Wang Xiyi sniffed it and it felt a bit like the smell of burnt takoyaki, with a faint fishy smell, as if the octopus used to make takoyaki was not cleaned properly or had already spoiled and rotted.

The size of the octopus's head was about the size of a three-story building. Wang Xiyi pushed hard and turned the entire head over - a hole with a diameter of about one meter appeared in front of her.

This was originally the place where the octopus man and the octopus monster were "connected".

"Run away?" Wang Xiyi frowned and looked inside the hole.

The inside of the cave was littered with severed blood vessels, tendons, and nerve bundles. At the ends of some tendons were still pieces of torn flesh, which looked like they had been torn from some creature's body by brute force.

"Cut off the tail to survive?" Wang Xiyi immediately thought of a creature called gecko.

Obviously, this whole octopus monster is just a discardable "tail" for the octopus man.

This kind of "fusion" does not seem to be irreversible, it can be separated from the monster at any time... I just don't know if there is a price for this fusion and separation.

The sound of propeller blades came from far away. Wang Xiyi looked up and saw the drone with the emblem of Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute finally arrived and stopped right above the tiankeng.

A package was dropped by a drone. Wang Xiyi picked it up and saw that it contained a brand new set of communication equipment and a metal box wrapped in an ice pack. She opened the box and found six neatly arranged disposable syringes filled with light beige clear liquid.

Without saying a word, Wang Xiyi immediately took out a syringe, stabbed the needle into her shoulder, and then crushed the glass bubble wrapped in rubber at the tail of the syringe.

The compressed air in the glass bubble immediately pushed the piston, pushing all the light beige clear liquid into Wang Xiyi's muscle tissue.

"Ah...comfortable."

Wang Xiyi breathed a sigh of relief, and a warm current flowed from her shoulders to her whole body. The unbearable hunger in her stomach was relieved, and her weak body gradually returned to normal.

"Type 09 emergency recovery agent." Wang Xiyi muttered to herself.

This is a good thing, but you can't use it too much. If you use it too much, the side effects will also be "sour" after the effect of the medicine wears off. Wang Xiyi looked at the five disposable syringes left in the box reluctantly, closed the box, and stuffed them back into the ice pack.

Then she picked up the communication equipment and put the earphones into her ears.

"Sorry, the reinforcements are late!" Yang Qi said on the other end of the headset.

"It's OK. Actually, it's not a big problem if there's no reinforcement." Wang Xiyi looked around and pressed her smooth belly again. She pressed her fingertips against her skin and gently circulated around her belly button. "I'm just very hungry. I'm almost starving."

"Has the target monster been eliminated?" Yang Qi asked. "The drone footage shows the remains of a giant monster. Judging from its appearance, the prototype of the monster seems to be an octopus..."

"No, it ran away." Wang Xiyi shook her head with some regret, "See the hole on the octopus's head? There should have been a person there."

"Someone?" Yang Qi's tone suddenly changed. "Do you mean, someone is driving this strange creature?"

"It's not control, it's fusion." Wang Xiyi corrected, "The man and the octopus monster merged into one. His lower body was buried directly in the octopus monster's head, leaving only the upper body exposed."

"A fusion experiment between humans and monsters?!" Yang Qi couldn't help but gasp.

The Tianshu Tower has carried out many "artificial hunter" plans, but these plans are all about extracting the memes of the weird creatures and then implanting them into the human body, infecting humans with the memes and then gaining the power of the weird creature memes...

In this case, using a very "simple and crude" method to "sew" the human body and the body of a monster together, even the crazy people in Tianshu Tower would probably call you "crazy!" after seeing it.

“Yes, that guy also tried to negotiate with me and wanted me to join them.” Wang Xiyi recalled, “It said that memes should not be allowed to infect humans, but humans should ‘infect’ weird things, so that humans can become the dominant ones… It said a lot of random things, but it was basically the same meaning.”

"You mean... after merging with the monster, it still retains a clear self-awareness and thinking ability?" Yang Qi took another breath.

"Hiss..." A sour feeling suddenly came from the gap between her back teeth.

"Yes."

"Give me the notebook." Yang Qi turned around and said to Song Yarong who was standing beside her.

The latter immediately handed an empty laptop computer next to him to Yang Qi.

Yang Qi's ten fingers moved quickly on the keyboard. She typed a series of keywords and then pressed the Enter key.

A large amount of information instantly popped up on the browsing page.

This is the database inside the Tianshu Tower, and the authority key used is Sun Hang's. In other words, except for those materials that only people of Pei Zongjun's level have the authority to read, she can search all the files stored in the Xiazhou Federation.

But even so, the results from searching with these keywords only amounted to sixteen pages.

Yang Qi randomly clicked on the first file.

This file is a research report by a joint scientific research team from the United States, the Siberian Federation, and the Xiazhou Federation on the indigenous peoples on a small island in the Pacific.

At that time, the first monster war had just begun, and humans' understanding of monsters was far less detailed than it is now.

The indigenous people of this small island, like any other coastal country in the world, were attacked by aquatic monsters that crawled out of the sea. In the early stages of the attack, the indigenous people of this island, who numbered more than 10,000, were reduced to less than 700 people in just one week.

But it was these remaining 700 people who persisted for three full months until they were discovered by an air force pilot from the Xiazhou Federation who passed by the island.

In order to gain the strength to fight against the monsters, these indigenous people dismembered the monsters they killed, and then forcibly "transplanted" the "disassembled" monster organs onto their own bodies in a very crude form.

The most common "transplant surgery" is blood transfusion - they use a hollow plant stem as a needle to inject the blood of aquatic monsters into their own blood vessels.

This blood transfusion operation created a large number of infected people, and most of them died. Excluding those who turned into monsters and skeletons, only three people became stable infected people like hunters.

Then, the indigenous people became more and more courageous. They cut their own throats, put the gills of fish monsters on the cut throats, sprinkled wood ash on them, and bandaged them with leaves...

Some people even replaced their own eyes with the eyes of a monster, replaced their own hands and feet with the tentacles and limbs of a monster, dug out the internal organs of dying warriors and replaced them with the organs in the monster's body...

These indigenous people don't even have the most basic medical and health awareness, and there is no strict disinfection process before performing such operations... They don't even know the internal structure of the human body very well, and can't even tell the exact names and functions of human internal organs...

However, in this environment that is almost synonymous with "barbarism", the success rate of the "transplant surgery" of these indigenous people is actually higher than the success rate of artificial infected experiments in the top laboratories of the United States!

The most crucial point is that these indigenous people who have been transplanted with strange organs still retain their human self-awareness!
Although their appearance had become almost indistinguishable from monsters, when the advance teams sent by the three major political systems landed on the island, they did not directly attack the advance teams. Instead, they sent out the only native who could speak English to inquire about the advance teams' intentions of landing on the island.

The discovery on this island almost shocked the academic circles at that time... However, no matter how shocked it was, the research on artificial infected people had made considerable breakthroughs at that time, and almost no country was willing to give up the existing research results and turn to researching this barbaric, brutal, scientifically unconventional, and even unethical "human-ghost fusion experiment."

The research reports on this island and its indigenous people were subsequently sealed up by the research institutions of the three major political systems.

As for these natives, they were unwilling to leave their islands, nor were they willing to cooperate with the three major political systems. As the war situation became increasingly severe, the route to the island was cut off, and that sea area was also classified as a occupied area.

No one knows what the final outcome of these people will be.

(End of this chapter)