Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 455 "Spiderman"

“If you think I’m an imposter, feel free to call the Chunming City Anomaly Investigation Bureau’s hotline,” Sun Hang said. “As for the hotline number, I forgot what it is. Why don’t you look it up online? I’ll be waiting for you.”

"No...that's not what I meant..." the office lady waved her hands repeatedly to explain, "I...I just wanted to ask, since the monster hunter is here...does that mean there are...monsters in our company?"

Her voice trailed off, as if she were afraid of being heard by that possible, eerie creature—who knows, maybe it was hiding next door right now.

“It’s not on your floor,” Sun Hang said, continuing to stare at the movement of the black mist on the ceiling.

The office lady followed Sun Hang's gaze and looked up at the ceiling. Of course, she couldn't see the black mist formed by the materialization of negative emotions, but she could understand Sun Hang's action. She immediately lowered her voice and asked, "The ghost... is upstairs?"

"I'm not sure, I'm just conducting an investigation." Sun Hang shook his head.

"Should I inform our boss... By the way, will this office building be sealed off? Is it too late for us to evacuate now? Or do we have to wait until your investigation is finished before we can leave?" The OL asked a series of questions.

“No need. Before we’re sure the ghost is really hiding in this building, let’s try not to cause panic,” Sun Hang said. “You don’t need to notify the boss, and I don’t need your cooperation. Just pretend you’ve never seen me.”

"Okay, okay," the office lady nodded vigorously in response, then asked hesitantly, "Then... will we be in any danger?"

Sun Hang originally wanted to answer "I don't know," but considering that people might do something stupid when they are in a state of extreme fear, he could only say, "As long as you don't leave this floor, you should be safe."

"Okay, okay," the office lady quickly replied. "I'm going back to my office now, I'll even use the restroom there..."

Sun Hang imagined the image of the office lady in black stockings and a skirt taking care of her business in the office, then shook his head: "That's not necessary... As far as I can see, at least your floor is safe."

"But...but the toilet has pipes connecting the upper and lower floors..." the office lady murmured. "I've heard that some strange creatures can travel through the building's sewage pipes, and they can even suddenly crawl out of the toilet while people are using it..."

"And then get a pile of poop smeared all over your face?" Sun Hang glanced speechlessly at the imaginative office lady in front of him. "Based on the information I have, this monster shouldn't be interested in eating poop..."

Sun Hang suddenly stopped speaking because he noticed that the flow of the black mist had suddenly slowed down.

Was the strange creature full, or did it sense my presence and prepare to run away?
"Goodbye," Sun Hang said to the office lady, turned and entered the fire escape staircase, quickly and silently running upstairs.

The office lady, left standing there, stared blankly at the fire door slowly closing at the bottom of the stairs. A sense of fear welled up inside her—the monster hunter had been talking to her just a second ago, but the next second he seemed to be facing a formidable enemy… Could something have gone wrong?

If something unexpected happens, has this floor become unsafe?
Should I take this opportunity to leave the company as soon as possible?

Should I notify the others in the company...? But if it really causes panic among the crowd, the Public Security Bureau and the Bureau of Abnormal Investigation will probably hold me accountable... Will I end up in jail?

I heard that in women's prisons, the prettier the inmate, the more likely they are to be bullied. Does that mean I'm doomed?
Just as the office lady was lost in thought, her legs involuntarily carried her back to her workstation. As the company boss's personal secretary, she had her own office, but it was only eight square meters in size. It was a small cubicle separated from the regular employees' work area by frosted glass, and naturally, there was no rest room or restroom inside.

The office lady had just sat down when she felt a strange sensation in her bladder.

This immediately put her on edge. She tried desperately to erase the feeling from her mind, but the more she focused on it, the more pronounced the feeling became.

She had to cross her legs and try her best to suppress the urge to urinate.

"I can't go to the bathroom...it's too dangerous...what if that monster really crawls out of the sewage pipes or water pipes..."

Thinking about this, the OL suddenly realized a problem.

What should I do if that monster hunter never comes back?
Are we just going to keep holding it in like this...?

She suddenly felt everything go black.

……

Meanwhile, Sun Hang was running wildly up the fire escape stairs—based on the direction of the black mist, the floor where the strange creature was located should not be low. Sun Hang went up to the nineteenth floor in one go, and only then did the materialized negative emotions change from a vertical flow to a horizontal flow.

"It's on this floor," Sun Hang thought to himself. "It shouldn't be wrong."

The first to seventh floors of this office building are shopping malls. From the eighth floor onwards, various companies and organizations rent space for office use. There are also board game stores, murder mystery game stores, and other niche shops located in this office building.

Sun Hang pushed open the fire door, and in front of him was a corridor with doors on both sides—some were double glass doors, offering a clear view of the interior, while others were the original security doors of the office building, looking no different from the doors in ordinary residential buildings.

The room to Sun Hang's left had a sign that read "Boyuan Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd." on the door. However, judging from the thick dust on the sign and doorknob, as well as the seal on the door, the company had probably been defunct for many years. After all, now that there was only one Xia State Federation left in the world, there was no such thing as import and export trade.

Sun Hang had seen some so-called import and export trading companies in Tianfu City, but these companies were just buying and selling, and were completely different from the real import and export trading companies of the old era.

To Sun Hang's right were two bright glass doors, with the silhouette of a long-haired woman printed on them. Inside, there was a row of barber chairs, and a "Tony" with dyed yellow hair was sitting on the sofa playing on his phone, looking bored. A little further away, a customer was getting her hair permed. The huge perm cover completely enveloped her head, making it impossible for Sun Hang to see her face.

However, it doesn't matter if you can't see it clearly, because the "source" of the black mist is still ahead, not in this barbershop.

"A barbershop on the nineteenth floor... and it actually gets customers..." Sun Hang thought to himself before continuing to walk forward.

Most of the offices on the 19th floor were rented by small companies with a few people or small studios. Sun Hang even saw a studio that made Ultraman suits. The suits displayed in the window looked a bit old, but they were very similar to the original ones in the show. "I'll buy two suits to give to Lao Wang after I get things sorted out. She should like them," Sun Hang thought to himself.

Sun Hang didn't linger at the studio entrance, but continued walking forward with the flowing black mist—finally, he stopped in front of room number 1925. The black mist, coming from all directions, gathered around Sun Hang and entered the room.

"here?"

Sun Hang was puzzled. If the strange creature was hiding behind the door, why couldn't he sense even the slightest trace of its presence?

Is it that the other party is too good at hiding, or has my own perception deteriorated?

However, even for such highly elusive creatures, it would be virtually impossible to avoid revealing their presence while feeding—especially when they are drawing upon such a large range of negative human emotions.

Using any ability will inevitably affect the effectiveness of the disguise, especially at such close range. It's simply impossible to hide from Sun Hang's perception.

But Sun Hang's senses kept telling him that there were no monsters behind that door.

Sun Hang originally planned to sneak the mycelium through the crack in the door to scout around, but considering that doing so might alert the enemy, he simply grabbed the doorknob of Room 1925 directly.

Liquid metal, like mercury, flowed from his sleeve, running down Sun Hang's forearm, wrist, and fingertips, slowly seeping into the keyhole and quickly filling the gaps inside.

The liquid metal solidified, and Sun Hang gently turned the doorknob. With a "click," the door opened.

Room 1925 was an unfinished, bare-bones room. The walls and floors were still the original color of cement, and various pipes and electrical connections were exposed. Against the wall, there was a lot of construction waste that had been transported from somewhere.

There were no partitions in the room, and the entire space was completely visible.

There are no people here, and no strange creatures.

A stream of black mist gathered and shot out of the window, cascading down like a waterfall.

"Damn, it seems we've been tricked." Sun Hang then realized that room 1925 was a bait used by the strange creature to mislead its trackers... and its real hiding place was somewhere else!
Since room 1925 was the bait, Sun Hang's entry into that room would inevitably alert the other party...

Sure enough, a few seconds after Sun Hang opened the door, the strange creature stopped absorbing negative emotions, and the black mist that had gathered together began to spread out. Then, the last wisp of black mist drifted out of the window along the previous trajectory and fell rapidly against the glass curtain wall of the office building.

"Oh no, we're going to lose them!"

Without much thought, Sun Hang silently sliced ​​a one-meter-diameter hole in the glass window with the liquid metal blade enhanced with the "Sharp Blade" effect. He then leaped out of the hole.

The black mist was falling much faster than it was free-falling, so Sun Hang had to use the mycelium to accelerate himself, just like Spider-Man, and keep up with the black mist. Using electromagnetic acceleration in such a busy urban area would inevitably cause him to bump into some plants and flowers, and it was quite normal for him to accidentally kill a few people if he was unlucky.

Sun Hang, who was falling rapidly against the glass curtain wall, was quickly spotted by people on Yong'an Street. With a gasp, many people took out their mobile phones and pressed the shutter button on Sun Hang.

Left with no other option, Sun Hang applied a "fogification" effect to his face, manually blurring his features, and continued chasing after the last wisp of fleeing black mist.

The black mist did not fall directly to the ground. Instead, when it was about ten meters above the ground, it suddenly braked and began to move at high speed in a horizontal direction.

Two mycelium streams shot out from Sun Hang's palm, attaching to the top of a street lamp and the bottom of the overhead track directly above the street, respectively.

With a strong pull, Sun Hang straightened the two mycelia. After the length of the two mycelia was stretched dozens of times, Sun Hang launched his body out like a slingshot using the force transmitted through the mycelia.

"Holy crap, Spademan!"

"Mom, look! That's Spider-Man! The movies aren't fake!"

"Is this...is this an action movie shoot? I see a camera nearby."

"A monster hunter! That person must be a monster hunter, right?"

The streets of Yong'an were immediately in an uproar, and the flow of people reversed instantly, with many chasing after the direction Sun Hang had moved.

This left the traffic control personnel who were maintaining order at the street corner dumbfounded. Yong'an Street was already crowded during the holidays, and they had to be on high alert at all times to prevent pushing or stampedes. But now, a "Spider-Man" who suddenly appeared out of nowhere had ignited the entire crowd.

"Requesting backup! Requesting backup at the intersection of Yong'an Street and No. 4 Street!"

"There is a disturbance in the crowd. I repeat, there is a disturbance in the crowd!"

"A young man, suspected to be a monster hunter, is moving at high speed above Yong'an Street using silk threads! Immediately contact Tian Shu Tower and the Anomaly Investigation Bureau to inquire if any hunters are currently on missions in Yong'an Street!"

"We need four times... no, five times more manpower! We can't stop the frenzied crowd right now; they're all chasing that young man, and unsuspecting tourists from further away are also surging towards us!"

"Block the news! Block the news immediately! Maintain order! Non-lethal weapons may be used if necessary!"

For a moment, the traffic control bureau and the public security bureau were in complete chaos. The traffic controllers wearing reflective vests joined hands to form a human wall in an attempt to stop the crowd. However, they only lasted for less than twenty seconds before the fragile human wall was broken by the crowd.

As for the instigator of all this, after several ups and downs, he has already disappeared from their sight.

(End of this chapter)