Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 412 New teammates

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When Sun Hang arrived at the helipad on the rooftop of the research institute building, two monster hunters were already waiting for him there.

Both of them were wearing thick rainproof cloaks, but the difference in size between them was too huge - the man on the left was like an iron tower, and among the hunters Sun Hang had seen, only Tiebi could surpass him in size; while the man on the right was extremely petite and looked like a child who had not yet begun to develop.

On the way here, Yang Qi had already sent the files of the cooperating hunters for this operation to Sun Hang. There were two hunters, one male and one female. The male's name was Liu Li, and he did not give himself a cool code name like most hunters did. The female hunter used a code name called "Crystal Princess".

"Are you Liu Li?" Sun Hang pointed at the giant man who was nearly three meters tall, and then looked at the petite hunter, "Then you should be the 'Crystal Princess'?"

"You've got the wrong person." The petite hunter took off the hood of his cloak, revealing a delicate and tender face under the hood. His looks were definitely the kind that would drive all the priests in Europe crazy - but there was one thing Sun Hang could be sure of, this was a boy, not a girl.

It was clearly written in the file that the hunter "Crystal Princess" was a female, a real female, not those messed up English letters, let alone an armed helicopter or a Walmart shopping bag.

"I'm the monster hunter, Liu Li." said the little boy.

"You are Liu Li? Then you..." Sun Hang looked at another burly hunter and felt a chill in his heart, "Are you the legendary 'Crystal Princess'?"

"Many people find it difficult to associate my code name with my personal image when they hear it for the first time. It doesn't matter. I'm used to it." Crystal Princess also took off her hood and said in a casual tone.

To be honest, according to normal people's aesthetic standards, if you only look at her face, the Crystal Princess is actually quite good-looking...but when this head is mounted on such a body, the extreme contrast always makes people feel a little unreal.

"It's all the fault of the elevator. It was too fast." Sun Hang immediately blamed himself. "Director Yang sent me your files, and I only had time to look at your name and gender. I didn't have time to look at the rest before the elevator arrived."

"It's okay." Compared to Liu Li's cold attitude, Princess Crystal seemed easy to talk to. "My brother gave me this code name. I wanted to change it later, but I couldn't think of a better one at the moment, so I put it aside. For convenience, you can just call me Crystal."

"I've thought of a code name that suits you quite well." Sun Hang said, suddenly having an idea.

"Is it 'King Kong Barbie'?" Crystal asked.

"How do you know?" Sun Hang couldn't help but mutter in his heart - could it be that the ability of this Crystal Princess is also "mind reading"?
"Because my brother wanted to fill in this code name for me at first, but when he was entering the information, he found that this code name had already been used by someone else, so he changed it to Crystal Princess." Crystal said.

"Are there people using this code name?" Sun Hang was a little surprised.

"Yeah, and that hunter has already died... Although there is no clear rule on whether the codename of a fallen hunter can be recycled, my brother said that it would be unlucky to do so, so we changed it."

Sun Hang suddenly thought of Zhulong. The code name Zhulong was passed down from generation to generation in their lineage. It didn't seem to be auspicious or unlucky...

"You can talk about the code name slowly." Liu Li on the side suddenly said with a hint of impatience in his tone, "Don't waste precious mission time now."

"Let's get on the plane first, and we'll talk about other things on the way." Crystal said, and she was the first to bend down and get into the cabin - with her body shape, she couldn't stand up straight in the cabin of this helicopter, and she had to bend her body the whole time. Even so, her head was still tightly against the ceiling of the cabin.

"Okay." Sun Hang and Liu Li also got into the cabin together.

Three helicopters took off at the same time. In addition to the helicopter that Sun Hang and his companions were riding, the other two helicopters also carried an elite special forces team and a large number of sophisticated and expensive monitoring equipment.

"Speaking of which, can I ask a question?" Sun Hang looked at Shui Jing and asked.

"Excuse me."

"Who is your brother?" When the ability of mind peeping is used on the infected person, the other party will have a very obvious "sense of discomfort", so unless it is necessary, Sun Hang will not use mind reading on the infected person.

But for some reason, he always subconsciously felt that the Crystal Princess's brother should be someone he knew.

"Iron Wall." replied the Crystal Princess.

It really is.

Sun Hang couldn't help but complain in his heart. He didn't expect that Tiebi, such a serious guy, would have such a bad taste when facing his sister.

But then again, judging from their body shapes, they are indeed biological siblings.

I just don’t know what their parents look like... Could it be that everyone in their family looks so “burly”?

"You just said that you didn't have time to look at our files, right?" Liu Li, who was sitting opposite Sun Hang, said coldly, "We can take advantage of this time to tell each other about our abilities. In the next period of time, I can also tailor an action plan for you based on your abilities."

"Hearing what you said, you are the kind of 'intelligent' hunter?" Sun Hang looked at Liu Li.

"Yes." Liu Li nodded expressionlessly. "After I was infected with the meme, the part that mutated was my brain. My IQ is between 220 and 230. At the same time, I can actively turn on the 'overload mode' and gain computing power equivalent to that of an entry-level supercomputer in a short period of time. I don't have any combat ability, so I need you to protect my safety as much as possible."

"IQ 230? Then you are simply a child prodigy!" Crystal Princess couldn't help but sigh.

"I'm not a child." Liu Li frowned slightly. "I'm already 29 years old. After my brain was infected by the meme and mutated, my body stopped secreting growth hormone. My body shape has remained the same for nearly 20 years."

At this moment, Sun Hang's mobile phone suddenly received a message.

The message was sent by Yang Qi, and the content was very simple: "Never mention the word 'dwarf' in front of Liu Li. This is an absolute forbidden zone for him. When he was in school, he once killed someone because his classmates laughed at him for being a dwarf." Sun Hang glanced at Liu Li, then silently deleted the message.

Yang Qi was obviously worried that Sun Hang would be careless and irritate his teammates, so she sent a message...

……

Tianfu City Strange Thing Research Institute, safe house.

"Yang Qi, do you know what your behavior just now looked like?" Song Yarong said with a smile while eating freshly made instant noodles.

"Like what?" Yang Qi looked at her and asked.

"Like an old mother who is worried sick about her naughty child." Song Yarong said.

……

On the helicopter.

"Sorry, I didn't know about this." Princess Crystal apologized to Liu Li sincerely - Sun Hang felt that this girl had a really good personality, and if her body wasn't so amazing, she would probably have a lot of suitors of the opposite sex, right?

Of course, it is not ruled out that some people may like this...

"It's okay, I'm done, it's your turn." Liu Li said to the Crystal Princess.

"As for me...my ability actually comes from my family. Many people in Chunming City know about it. Unfortunately, I'm far worse than my brother. I've been a hunter for two years, but I'm still not a top-level hunter." Crystal Princess said a little embarrassedly.

"Family? Hunter family?" Sun Hang's mind was moved. Could it be that her and Tiebi's memes were also of the type that could be inherited? And unlike Zhulong, where only one "Zhulong" could exist at a time, they could have many branches and leaves, and mass-produce hunters in the same way as humans reproduce sexually?
"Hunter Family... I've heard of it." Liu Li nodded, with a hint of interest in his eyes.

"The memes that infected our family came from the monster 'Titan', so our family is also called the 'Titan Giant Family'. The Titan's meme is one of the known monster memes that is most compatible with humans. But for some reason, the Titan meme cannot be directly transplanted to mass-produce hunters. Only new infected people born through bloodline can maintain a stable infection process for a long time." said the Crystal Princess.

"So, the Titan meme is not compatible with humans, it's just compatible with your bloodline." Sun Hang said, "Maybe you are the descendants of the Titans in Greek mythology who drifted to the human world."

"I don't know about that. As for my ability, it's actually similar to my brother's, but the strength is several levels lower than his. I can harden part of my body into crystals, and I can also generate armor and weapons made of crystalline materials outside the body...but the hardness of the crystals is not high, the Mohs hardness is only level seven, the same level as quartz, so my brother gave me the code name Crystal Princess." said Crystal Princess.

"In fact, even if you don't have the ability to crystallize, with your size and physical strength alone, you can probably smash the dog heads of many monsters." Sun Hang said.

"My brother said the same thing." Crystal Princess smiled a little embarrassedly, "He said that my crystallization is too fragile and vulnerable. It would be better to equip me with a set of power armor forged with a special alloy. The hardness of that thing is much higher than my crystal armor."

"Your brother is right. In the battle with monsters, protective gear with a Mohs hardness of level seven is far inferior to the composite armor of military mechas. You should not think about fighting directly with your own abilities. Instead, you should find a way to combine your abilities with modern technology. Only in this way can you maximize your own combat effectiveness." Liu Li nodded and said.

"Hehe, actually my equipment is in the cargo hold behind the helicopter." said Crystal Princess.

It was only then that Sun Hang realized that the cabin space of their helicopter was a bit small - they were obviously the same model of transport helicopters. The helicopter next to them carried more than 20 soldiers, while their cabin only had three people, and the space was already a bit tight... It turned out that the cabin space was occupied by the separated cargo hold.

"Okay, I've told you about my and Shuijing's abilities. What about you?" Liu Li looked at Sun Hang. "I just tried to check your combat records, but the system told me that I don't have enough permissions."

Princess Crystal also looked at Sun Hang, her clear eyes filled with curiosity.

"I?"

"If your ability involves some important secrets, it doesn't matter if you don't tell us." Liu Li said coldly, "But if you do, we may not be able to cooperate with you."

"Actually, there's nothing to keep secret. The weird creature that infected me is Taotie."

"Taotie?" Liu Li's eyes twitched suddenly, "Didn't they say that Taotie's meme can't be infected by humans..."

Before Sun Hang could respond, Liu Li denied himself again: "No, we can't use common sense to judge strange creatures. Perhaps you are a special case. Your appearance means that our understanding of the strange creature Taotie must be completely rewritten. Well, I think I understand why the confidentiality level of your file is so high."

"Taotie? What are Taotie's abilities?" Princess Crystal didn't know as much about strange creatures as Liu Li did. "I only know that in Xiazhou's ancient mythology, Taotie seems to be a mythical beast..."

"It's devouring." Liu Li answered for Sun Hang. He turned and stared at Sun Hang with a burning gaze. "I know you won't answer if I ask you directly which strange creatures you have devoured, and you won't easily let others know your hidden cards... Then how about this, you tell me what abilities you are willing to share with us, and I will make the next action plan based on this information."

"I can tell you your abilities... I guess you can tell me about most of them." Sun Hang snapped his fingers, and Tai Sui hyphae emerged from his fingertips. The liquid metal bracelet on his wrist also turned into a flying blade, spinning in front of Sun Hang.

"This is the mycelium of Tai Sui. You can find out its specific abilities by looking it up in the database. This thing should not be kept secret. In addition, I also have the ability to manipulate metal. I can shape metal at will, and I can also give metal an anti-gravity BUFF to make it float in the air. Oh, by the way, do you know Kuiniu?"

"The 'Kui' of number Bingqi?" Liu Li's pupils suddenly dilated a little. "Are you referring to the skeleton of the giant beast found on the southeast coast?"

"Yes, I absorbed a small part of Kuiniu's bone marrow, so I can also control lightning and weather, and accelerate objects with the help of electromagnetic fields... I usually use it as a skill to help myself travel, but I am not proficient in controlling it yet, and sometimes I can't stop the car." Sun Hang said.

"Taotie... can actually devour the meme of Kuiniu?" Liu Li's eyes were filled with the words "doubt about life". He looked at Sun Hang again, "Are you really not kidding me?"

(End of this chapter)