Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 437 Circuit Breaker Threshold

Sun Hang quickly found the cover that Yang Qi mentioned. After opening it, he found a crimson button hidden inside.

After pressing this button, the restraints (or safety belts) on Miki Fukada's body were all disconnected instantly, and two mechanical arms holding rubber hoses separated from the inner wall of the metal cylinder. The needles at the front end of the two mechanical arms directly pierced into the injection ports reserved on the left and right arms of the anti-gravity suit.

The hoses were transparent, and one of them had bright red blood flowing inside, while the other one was extracting the light yellow "life-support medium for deep diving" from Miki Fukada's body.

Two needles pierced her artery and vein respectively. In order to protect her blood vessels and internal organs, more than 60% of the blood in Fukada Miki's body was drawn out and stored in a blood bag in the interlayer of the tube wall.

Before she comes out of the metal cylinder, the most important step is to transfuse the blood back into her body and at the same time remove all the life-sustaining media used to replace the blood.

The "life-support medium for deep diving" in the metal cylinder was also flowing out from the filter port at the bottom of the cylinder. Sun Hang curiously dipped a little with his finger and put it to his nose to smell it - the smell of this liquid was like blood that had been diluted many times, with a faint smell of blood, and the smell of blood was mixed with some peculiar smell of chemical agents.

Sun Hang rubbed the tips of his thumb and index finger together, and the life-support medium was quickly absorbed by his skin, and the sticky feeling on his fingertips disappeared.

All the life-supporting media in Fukada Miki's body were quickly drained out, and with a violent cough, all the life-supporting media remaining in her respiratory tract were also coughed out.

Just as Fukada Miki had regained her ability to speak, the helmet that fell from the top of the metal cylinder accurately buckled onto her head. With the sound of the buckle snapping together, the bottom of the helmet and the collar of the anti-gravity suit fit completely together.

“Ahem…hurry up…ahem…let me out!”

The robotic arm pulled the needle out of Fukada Miki's arm, and the locking devices on the sleeves and front of the anti-gravity suit were also unlocked. Having regained her limbs' freedom, Fukada Miki immediately slapped the observation window of the metal tube hard.

"Can we release her now? There shouldn't be any additional inspection steps, right?" Sun Hang asked in the communication channel.

"Well, just let her out... When the life-support medium was discharged, the device actually lost its sealing state." Yang Qi said.

Sun Hang was too lazy to ask Yang Qi how to open this metal tube full of mechanisms. He simply ran his fingertips along the side of the metal tube, and the entire metal tube was cut in half.

“Damn it… I can finally move…” Fukada Miki cursed as she moved her arms and legs, “I’m almost suffocating…”

"Can you walk?" Sun Hang looked at her and asked.

"Yes." Fukada Miki nodded. "To be honest, I feel like the needle gave me some medicine in addition to the blood transfusion... Now I don't feel weak at all. On the contrary, I feel full of strength."

"Four units of slow-release adrenaline." Yang Qi said in the communication channel, "This can restore your ability to move in a short period of time. The effect will last for about an hour."

"Does this mean I can still live for another hour?" asked Fukada Miki with a smile.

"Compared with common military stimulants, the side effects of adrenaline are relatively minor. Dizziness, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and heart rhythm disorders are all common side effects, but they are generally not life-threatening." Yang Qi explained, "I will ask the hunters of the assault team to ensure your safety as much as possible, so you..."

"Don't comfort me, I know my position." Fukada Miki suddenly stopped smiling and said in a rare serious tone, "I also know the order you received - 'at all costs', right?"

"……Correct."

"Let's go then." Fukada Miki waved at Sun Hang, "Aren't we going to meet up with those hunters?"

"No, they are here to join us." Sun Hang raised his head and looked at the giant in front of him - the cocoon shell of Chimera No. 17 on their side had already fallen off, and almost everywhere in sight was filled with slowly flowing red "magma".

These "magmas" were tightly attached to the surface of Chimera No. 17, and it seemed that they would not drip down at all. A strange force was slowly pulling them, causing them to outline meaningless tracks on the surface of Chimera No. 17.

"Can you see where this guy's weakness is?" Sun Hang asked.

Fukada Miki took a deep breath, and his right eye quickly turned into a whole piece of pale green jade, with dark blue ripples slowly rotating in it.

"I can't see it." Fukada Miki shook her head. "Its flaw seems to be hidden deep inside...but..."

"but what?"

"I feel that place is a bit strange. Why don't you try to attack it?" Fukada Miki raised her hand and pointed to a place.

The place she pointed to was less than half a meter from the ground, and the surface was covered with a layer of cracked cocoon shell.

"Yeah." Sun Hang nodded.

The PFDA wreckage scattered around suddenly trembled, and then they were sucked to Sun Hang's side by an invisible force.

The debris began to liquefy, and a force field invisible to the naked eye bound them, constantly fusing and reshaping them... After dozens of seconds, a giant drill with a diameter of more than three meters and a length of more than twenty meters appeared in front of Sun Hang.

At the same time, the hunters who had previously rushed into Chimera also rushed to the landing point of Sun Hang and his team.

"Are you planning to use this drill to drill a hole in Chimera No. 17?" Crystal Princess couldn't help but ask as she watched the drill spinning faster and faster.

"Why not?"

Sun Hang pointed his right finger in the air, and the giant drill floating above the ground shot out instantly and drilled towards the place that Fukada Miki had just pointed.

The cracked cocoon shell suddenly shattered, and the drill bit came into direct contact with the magma layer below, causing a huge noise to erupt instantly.

The hunters covered their ears one after another. "It went in! It went in!" a hunter shouted excitedly, "The drill bit didn't melt! There's hope!"

Of course this drill will not melt... Sun Hang has already exerted his ability to control metal to the extreme at this time. The blue bar is being consumed at an extremely terrifying rate. If the world they are in is an online game, those hunters should now be able to see the blue bar under Sun Hang's avatar in the team interface decreasing bit by bit.

It was Sun Hang's first attempt to compress such a large amount of metal to a critical state while maintaining a stable state. This drill looked like it was condensed from solid metal, but in fact the metal that made up the drill was in a state completely different from its conventional physical form... It was no exaggeration to say that if Sun Hang's ability got out of control at this time, this giant drill would instantly turn into a bomb with a power no weaker than a tactical nuclear warhead, and few people present would be able to survive the explosion.

"Strange! The temperature is dropping!" a hunter holding an optical thermometer exclaimed, "Where the drill bit touches Chimera 17, the temperature is dropping rapidly! This is unscientific!"

"We're already fighting against weird creatures, so stop talking about science." Wang Xiyi glanced at the hunter who was making a fuss. "Since something 'abnormal' has occurred, it means that Mixi-chan chose the right location... Tsk, this ability is really useful."

“…hiss.” Fukada Miki, who was called “Miki-chan” by Wang Xiyi, suddenly felt goose bumps crawling on her back, but she did not protest against the name. “It’s just luck… It actually has nothing to do with my ability. It’s just that my intuition tells me that there’s something wrong with that position.”

"That's because of your ability." Wang Xiyi shook her head. "Otherwise, why can't our intuition sense that something is 'wrong'?"

"It seems... so." Fukada Miki tried to suppress her own ability, and sure enough, the feeling of "something is wrong" disappeared completely in an instant.

……

The giant drill slowly stopped, and Sun Hang took a deep breath. The blue bar had been consumed by nearly half. If it continued to be consumed, the self-recovery speed of the blue bar would be affected.

Sun Hang couldn't tell what the nature of the blue bar was. Considering that he would faint when the blue bar was overdrawn, he tentatively believed that the so-called blue bar was probably a kind of spiritual energy.

This kind of spiritual energy has a very significant characteristic, which is that the less it is consumed, the faster it recovers... and once the consumption exceeds one-half, the recovery will become extremely slow.

Sun Hang gave this node a slightly childish name, called "circuit breaker threshold".

This term was originally used to describe a risk control mechanism in the financial trading market, but many science fiction works like to use this term in the settings of mechas, engines, and energy shields to describe situations such as energy consumption exceeding the limit or equipment overload.

After Sun Hang tried many times to test the recovery speed of "spiritual energy" under different consumption, he found a pattern. As long as he ensured that the "spiritual energy" was always maintained at more than half of its peak state, he only needed a dozen minutes to replenish the half of it.

Once the consumption of mental energy reaches one-half, that is, after breaking through the "circuit breaker threshold", even if only 50.1% is consumed, it will take several hours to fill the excess 50% to recover to more than 0.1%.

As for being completely overdrawn…it would be impossible to recover in just a few days.

Of course, there is also a way to quickly replenish the consumption, which is to devour other monsters.

Unsure whether he could get "supplies" from the monster, Sun Hang set himself the first combat rule, which was that he must never let his mental energy fall below the "fuse threshold" unless necessary.

The giant drill retreated, and everyone was shocked to find that a large hole with a diameter of more than two meters had been drilled on the surface of Chimera No. 17.

At the edge of this big hole, the magma that was originally flowing continuously showed a solidified state, and the temperature dropped from 4,000 degrees Celsius to only 500 degrees Celsius.

From the scanning image of the optical thermometer, it seems that a bottomless black hole suddenly appears in the middle of a large yellow and white area representing high temperature.

In fact, this is indeed a bottomless black hole.

The interior of Chimera No. 17 is empty.

After Sun Hang's giant drill drilled through the magma layer, the internal "cavity" was immediately exposed to everyone.

"Then let's throw the pesticide and activator in now?" a hunter asked anxiously, "Does that mean our mission is accomplished?"

"Throw it in now? Are you sure you can hurt Chimera 17?" Another hunter looked at him with some disdain. "Who knows where this hole leads to... Maybe the insecticide you threw in from here will fall directly out of the other hole and won't even touch the body of Chimera 17."

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"I think we have to go in." Sun Hang said suddenly.

"Go...go in?" The hunter who had said he wanted to throw insecticide froze in his tracks. "You mean...you want us to go...into Chimera No. 17's body?"

"It's not necessarily the inside of Chimera 17's body." Sun Hang shook his head. "This is just a cocoon, a cocoon for hatching... Chimera 17's body should be hidden somewhere in the cocoon. If we want the insecticide to work, we have to find the hidden body."

"How to find it?" the hunter asked in astonishment.

"Let me introduce you, Fukada Miki." Sun Hang pointed at the girl standing next to him, "You may not be familiar with this name, but you must have heard of her code name - 'Eye of Death'."

"Eye of Death? This little girl is the Eye of Death?!" The hunter couldn't help but widen his eyes and scanned Fukada Miki's body several times. "No wonder... No wonder the superiors are so confident about this mission. Since you are the Eye of Death, you must be able to see the weakness of this monster, right?"

"I can't see it." Fukada Miki shook her head, "At least I can't see it from outside."

"So I said, we have to go in." Sun Hang said.

The hunter's Adam's apple slid up and down, and he swallowed with some difficulty, then said, "Okay...Okay, let's go in...The fact that I can stand here proves that I am not a person who fears death."

"I'll take the lead." Wang Xiyi folded her wings and walked straight towards the cave entrance.

(End of this chapter)