Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 407 Face

"Xiao Wang, how is it, is there any change in the target today?"

A voice came from behind Wang Zheng. The person who spoke was "Old Xu", the person in charge of Bunker No. 1. Old Xu was a senior investigator with 25 years of work experience. He also had a record of killing monsters with his own hands. He was definitely an elite among investigators.

Lao Xu was also among the first reinforcements to arrive in Tianfu City. According to him, he was unlucky and drew a bad lot, so he was sent to Tianfu City to "suffer"... But the investigators who came to reinforce with Lao Xu said that after hearing about the incident in Shuzhou, Lao Xu was the first investigator to volunteer to come to reinforce Shuzhou.

There was no lottery at all. The first batch of reinforcements were almost all volunteers, and some even quarreled with their colleagues over the quota.

Wang Zheng has always respected Old Xu. He asked himself, if it were him, he would probably not step forward when the leader asked who was willing to reinforce Shuzhou.

Wang Zheng only had two years of military service experience, and was a very ordinary conscript, with almost no combat experience. If helping the monster hunters on the edge of the battlefield was considered combat experience, then he barely had two. As for firing a gun, he had only done it at the shooting range in the military camp.

Old Xu also knew Wang Zheng's abilities, so the task he assigned to him was very easy, which was to use a telescope to keep an eye on the changes in Chimera 17 and record the data regularly.

"It's the same as before. The size of this strange creature has increased a little bit." Wang Zheng replied, "The naked eye can hardly see the extent of the change. This data is calculated by the measurement program of the electronic telescope... Compared with 24 hours ago, the height of Chimera 17 has increased by 0.62 meters, and the waist circumference has increased by 3.75 meters... The increase is about the same as in the past few days."

"Don't take it lightly. Although the changes every day are not big, they accumulate over so many days..." Old Xu said as he superimposed two transparent photos together. There was an elliptical outline on both photos, but the two outlines did not overlap because of the overlapping of the photos. Instead, they formed a structure similar to concentric circles.

"What is this?" Wang Zheng turned his head and asked curiously.

"This one is the photo of Chimera 17 you took yesterday. It was formed by flattening the outline using a computer." Old Xu said, "And the other one was taken on my first day here."

"Fuck, it's almost several sizes bigger!" Wang Zheng exclaimed.

"According to the radiological images, the interior of Chimera 17 is solid... I don't know where all this material comes from." Old Xu sighed.

"Solid? Doesn't this violate the law of conservation of matter? If it absorbed nutrients from the soil, it would have collapsed long ago if it had grown so large in such a short time?"

"Xiao Wang, let me give you a piece of advice."

"What advice?"

"When facing this kind of weird things, it's best to forget all the physics knowledge you learned from textbooks... With our current scientific level, it is completely impossible to explain the formation principles of weird things... Sometimes I don't know whether these weird things are paradoxes, or the knowledge we have learned since childhood is paradoxes." Old Xu said with emotion.

"If one day I have to face these strange things..." Wang Zheng swallowed his saliva, "If I can't even trust science, what should I believe in?"

It can't be God or Buddha, right? Wang Zheng muttered to himself. Even if God and Buddha really exist, they can probably be classified as some kind of weird thing...

Wang Zheng had seen paintings of "angels" drawn by medieval European painters. Unlike the angels of the Renaissance who had human appearances with wings and halos, the images of these angels were very strange - for example, a large wheel covered with eyeballs, a huge eyeball with wings, and an indescribable creature stitched together from the limbs of various creatures...

If this kind of thing appeared in the real world, it would undoubtedly be a terrifying monster.

"Intuition. The only thing you can trust is your own intuition," said Old Xu.

"Intuition? Is this thing reliable?" After hearing Lao Xu's answer, Wang Zheng was speechless.

Is there any difference between saying this and not saying it?

"I don't know if it's reliable or not, but there were several times when I thought I was dead, but I was saved by my intuition." Old Xu said, "Now when I think back to those missions, I still feel scared."

"Old Xu... this is not intuition, this is luck." Wang Zheng said, "For an investigator to be able to do a program like yours, I think luck is much more important than strength... No matter how strong we are, we can never be stronger than those weird creatures in the sky and on the earth. In my opinion, luck is the key factor to survival."

"You're right, luck...luck is indeed very important." Old Xu nodded in agreement.

"Let's eat first. You can chat while eating." A neutral voice came from the door of the observation room. The two of them immediately turned around and saw a young girl with a heroic appearance and tall figure walking in with three paper cups.

The girl was 1.75 meters tall, and she wore a loose military coat over her tight combat uniform, but even so, it couldn't hide her eye-catching figure.

When she walked in with her long legs that were over one meter long, Wang Zheng's gaze involuntarily moved from her face to her legs.

After realizing that his behavior was a bit vulgar, Wang Zheng immediately looked away and said with a hint of embarrassment: "It's Lieutenant Yang, what's for dinner today?"

"What else could it be? Instant mashed potatoes." The female lieutenant surnamed Yang handed two cups of mashed potatoes to the two men, then pulled over a folding chair and sat down. "So, is there anything wrong with Chimera 17?"

"It's still the same, and it continues to grow in size." Old Xu said, "What's the situation outside?"

Lieutenant Yang shook his head. "The situation is not optimistic. The radiation intensity is still rising. One of the people who went out on patrol with me today accidentally fell and his protective suit was torn. Soon after he came back, he developed symptoms of mild radiation sickness. I have asked someone to send him back to the rear."

If Old Xu is the highest person in charge of all affairs of Bunker No. 1, then Lieutenant Yang is the highest military commander of Bunker No. 1. The combat force of more than 20 people in Bunker No. 1 is under her command, and she is also the one who leads the most dangerous patrol missions.

She belonged to a very special force - the "Strange Hunting Team", and the first member of this team to arrive in Tianfu City was Ye Jiu.

Like Ye Jiu, Yang Baishuang is also a qualified user of strange weapon equipment. The two daggers fixed to her waist with belts are her strange weapon equipment.

"Then we will be short of several people here all of a sudden." Wang Zheng scooped a spoonful of mashed potatoes and put it into his mouth - in order to ensure the nutrition of the frontline personnel, a lot of "ingredients" were added to these instant mashed potatoes, so that its taste and texture are very different from the ordinary mashed potatoes sold in supermarkets.

In Wang Zheng's own words, "No matter how many spices and seasonings are added, they can't suppress the strong smell of chemicals."

But Bunker No. 1 is too far away from the logistics supply base. Not only is it located in the heart of the radiation contaminated area, but there is also heavy "dirty rain" carrying radioactive dust from the sky. It is extremely difficult to transport supplies in... It is already very difficult for the rear to ensure that Wang Zheng and his men can have three meals a day.

"Two less people is not a big problem, but what's bothering me is another thing..." Yang Baishuang ate while looking at Chimera No. 17 in the distance through the glass of the observation window, "The higher-ups asked us to increase the frequency of routine patrols... According to their requirements, we need to patrol a circle with a radius of two kilometers with the bunker as the center every eight hours..."

"Every eight hours?" Wang Zheng asked in astonishment.

As a member of Bunker No. 1, he saw every time Yang Baishuang led his men out on patrol. A two-kilometer radius might not seem like a big circle, but in such harsh environment and weather conditions, it would take at least three hours to complete a circle, plus the time to put on and take off equipment and replenish supplies... In other words, Yang Baishuang and his men had to patrol outside almost half of the day. Even an iron man couldn't stand such a hard time!
"I refused. I told them that patrolling every sixteen hours is already the physical limit of my men. If the interval is shortened any further, there will inevitably be non-combat casualties," said Yang Baishuang.

"What do the higher-ups say?" asked Old Xu.

"What else can I say? They can't force us to go out on patrol, right?" Yang Baishuang swallowed the mashed potatoes in her mouth. "They can only ask me to increase the patrol frequency as much as possible without overdrawing the soldiers' physical strength... Anyway, I'll just pretend I didn't hear it."

"Tsk... Come to think of it, the decisive battle is only a few days away, right?" Wang Zheng muttered.

"Who knows? You can only ask the person who formulated the entire battle plan to find out about this kind of thing." Old Xu waved his hand, "We don't need to worry about those things. We just need to do our own part well."

"Well, since we have nothing to do anyway, why don't you tell me some of your stories, Old Xu?" Wang Zheng urged, "I really want to hear those stories about escaping death that you mentioned."

"Do you really want to hear it?" Old Xu glanced at him, "Are you not afraid of having nightmares after hearing it?"

"Is it that exaggerated?" Wang Zheng frowned, "To be honest, I don't believe it."

"Don't regret it later..."

Old Xu was just about to start speaking when Yang Baishuang beside him suddenly stood up and took a few steps towards the observation window.

"What's wrong?" Old Xu, who was cautious by nature, immediately noticed the problem and asked quickly.

"Look, there are some small bumps growing on the surface of Chimera No. 17 facing us?" Yang Baishuang said, pointing at Chimera No. 17 in the distance.

"Little lump?" Wang Zheng also stood up. "Can you see clearly from such a distance?"

"Not very clear..."

"It seems... there is a small bump." Old Xu squinted his eyes and said, "I remember that the last time I observed it, this area seemed to be very flat... Xiao Wang, immediately magnify the image captured by the telescope!"

"Okay... okay!" Wang Zheng took two steps at a time and ran to the computer.

The telescope was always aimed at Chimera 17. Wang Zheng slightly adjusted the angle of the telescope using the joystick and instantly locked the lens area on the place where the "small bump" appeared.

When the telescope was refocused, Wang Zheng suddenly felt the hairs on his back stand up and he was jerked back. The legs of the folding chair rubbed against the ground violently, making a harsh noise.

The dense patches of small bumps on Chimera No. 17's body... turned out to be human faces magnified dozens of times!

"This...what is this?" Yang Baishuang grabbed the back of Wang Zheng's chair tightly with both hands, her eyes full of horror.

"Capture the image! Upload it to headquarters immediately! Quick!" Old Xu shouted.

"Okay... okay! I'll immediately... fuck!"

With a scream, Wang Zheng fell to the ground with a thud.

Where the telescope was pointed, those strange human faces actually opened their eyes one after another, looking at the camera with a smile.

Through the computer screen, the three of them actually had a strange feeling that they were looking into those strange faces.

"It...they are looking at me...us!" Wang Zheng said incoherently.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Old Xu forced himself to remain calm and pulled Wang Zheng up. "We are dozens of kilometers away from Chimera 17! These monsters don't have telescopes, how can they see us?"

“But, but Old Xu…” Wang Zheng pointed at the screen and said tremblingly, “Don’t you think they are just staring at the camera?”

"Maybe it's just a coincidence!" Old Xu said in a low voice, "It's not that they looked at the camera, but our camera just happened to face their eyes! Don't scare yourself!"

At this time, Yang Baishuang had already run out of the observation room, and a shrill alarm sounded inside Bunker No. 1.

"Old Xu, I have a way to know whether they are staring at the camera..." Wang Zheng murmured.

"any solution?"

"Just by slightly adjusting the angle of the camera, you can..."

"What are you talking about? Hurry up! Are you scared?"

"I... I'm not scared... I'm just wondering, what should we do if they really stare at the camera?"

"What else can I do? If you have the guts, just put those faces right up to my nose... You're not afraid of anything even though they're dozens of kilometers away!"

Wang Zheng took a deep breath, held the control lever of the lens angle with one hand, turned on the automatic focal length adjustment function of the lens, and moved the lens little by little in a very small amplitude.

The picture began to move slowly, and as the picture moved, the gazes of these strange faces actually followed.

Not a coincidence!

They are staring into the lens of the telescope!

(End of this chapter)