Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 526 My knife is coated with deadly poison.

At the rear of the convoy, a van covered in welded armor plates hung at a distance of about fifty meters from the dozen or so vehicles ahead.

"Progress is going well." The bespectacled hunter adjusted his glasses. "Although the operation started a little earlier than expected, it seems to be working well."

"I hope we don't attract the White Tiger ahead of time?" the hunter driving the car said with some concern.

“We’ve already left Sunfall Ridge, and 5198 is right behind us. If White Tiger gets close at this time, everyone will be swallowed up by 5198…” said the Spectacled Hunter.

“Now I’m actually worried that the White Tiger won’t get involved in this matter… If that’s the case, it will take a lot of effort to deal with the White Tiger in the end,” the Spectacled Hunter continued.

"Let's take it one step at a time. Anyway, let's deal with these Tian Shu... Tian Shu... Shu... uh... uh..." The guy in the back row who liked to flatter the bespectacled hunter suddenly seemed to suffocate as he spoke. He gripped his neck tightly with both hands, his body convulsed involuntarily, and his feet kept kicking the back of the seat in front of him.

"What's wrong with you?" The bespectacled hunter turned around and saw a horrifying scene.

Clumps of white mycelium emerged from the hunter's nasal cavity, eye sockets, and ear canals, quickly spreading along his skin and covering his entire body... In just a few seconds, the hunter's body was completely enveloped by these mycelium.

These hyphae then begin to collapse inward until they are completely absorbed by a "new body".

A young man they recognized replaced the hunter in the back seat and gave the others in the car a polite smile.

"It's you?!" The spectacled hunter's pupils contracted slightly behind his glasses—the one who had devoured their companion was one of the three Sky Pivot Tower hunters!
"kill him!!"

Without the bespectacled hunter saying anything more, the old snake had already drawn his dagger and aimed it at the young hunter.

However, the other party's reaction speed was not slow either. The moment the old snake swung his dagger, he had already raised his hand and grabbed the old snake's wrist tightly.

Old Snake used all his strength, but he couldn't move his wrist an inch. He felt as if his wrist wasn't being grabbed by someone, but rather stuck in a heavy vise...

But in the next second, the old snake's shocked expression turned into a sinister smile of triumph.

With a gentle press of his thumb on the end of the dagger's handle, the blade of the dagger instantly sprang forward several centimeters, its sharp tip piercing Sun Hang's chest.

The wound was shallow, only two or three millimeters deep at most, but for the old snake, that was more than enough.

"You are already dead," the old snake said with a cold laugh. "The toxins I secrete, if they touch the wounds of any living creature, even if only one ten-thousandth of a milligram enters the bloodstream, it is enough to be fatal... Not to mention that the poison on this blade has been concentrated hundreds of times. You have at most a few seconds left to live. You should think about what your last words are!"

"Oh, really?" Sun Hang glanced at him, then pinched the dagger with his other hand, and with a gentle twist, the blade broke in two.

Then, holding the severed tip of the dagger, he imitated the old snake's earlier action, sticking out his tongue and licking it, saying in an exaggerated tone, "This knife of mine is coated with deadly poison..."

"You...you..." The old snake's eyes widened in surprise, but soon he discovered something even more terrifying.

The wrist that was being held by the other person had completely lost sensation, and dangerous dark red lines were rapidly extending along the blood vessels under the skin toward the torso.

"You're a poisoner too?!" the old snake exclaimed in shock. "Impossible! No one can resist my toxins! And no one can poison me!"

His screams were tinged with despair. He noticed that his arm was covered with countless blood blisters, layer upon layer, like rapidly multiplying cancer cells, which quickly covered his entire arm.

The old snake opened its mouth wide, but it could no longer make a sound—those deep red, winding lines of blood had crawled up its neck to its face, and soon, even its mouth began to grow those horrifying blood blisters.

"Who...who are you?" the bespectacled hunter asked in a trembling voice—he held his pistol at Sun Hang's head, but his finger never had the courage to pull the trigger.

He didn't know why, but his intuition told him that even if he shot at the hunter, he wouldn't be able to kill him.

Pointing a gun at someone can give you a sense of security, but once you pull the trigger, if the other person doesn't die, you'll probably be the one who dies.

"Who am I?" Sun Hang released the old snake's wrist, tossing aside the "seedbed" that had been completely parasitized by the crimson spores. "Good question. I'd also like to know who I really am."

"What do you mean?" The bespectacled hunter's breathing quickened. "What exactly do you want?"

“You’ve already spent 15 million to save my life, and you’re still asking me what I want to do?” Sun Hang couldn’t help but find it a little funny.

"How...how did you know?" At this point, the Spectacled Hunter knew there was no point in continuing to play dumb. Rather than denying it to the death, he might as well die knowing the truth.

"You want to die knowing the truth?" Sun Hang asked.

"I……"

"Then keep thinking about it." With that, Sun Hang opened the car door and jumped out of the car, which was speeding along.

"Huh?" Seeing Sun Hang jump out of the car, the bespectacled hunter was stunned for a moment, then his gaze suddenly turned to the old snake.

"He...he let us go?" the hunter driving the car asked in a trembling voice.

“No…no…” The bespectacled hunter shook his head in despair.

The old snake's corpse had now turned into a large pile of layered blood bubbles, looking like a pool of blood-red human-shaped foam. The larger blood bubbles had expanded to the size of a fist, and the thin film on the surface was completely transparent, allowing one to clearly see the liquid inside constantly bubbling as if boiling.

"Quick! Stop the car!" The bespectacled hunter immediately reached for the car door, only to find it completely welded shut, refusing to budge no matter how hard he tried. "Brake...it won't stop!!" the driver cried out, "The brakes seem to be malfunctioning!"

"It's over!" The bespectacled hunter's face turned ashen.

With a soft "pop," the largest blood bubble burst open, and the deadly spores it contained instantly gushed out like a blood mist.

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"Hand me the rocket launcher!" the energetic young woman standing on top of the all-terrain vehicle shouted angrily. "I refuse to believe that this ice wall can stop machine gun bullets, let alone rockets!"

"Didn't we say we were going to spare that little girl's life?" the fully armed female mercenary in the passenger seat asked hesitantly.

"At this point! If we can't defeat Zhulong, we'll all die! Hmph, you think you can spare her life now? The Heavenly Pivot Tower won't show you any mercy later!" the spirited young woman shouted. "Listen up, everyone! Now that we've started, we've embarked on a path of no return! It's either them or us! There's absolutely no possibility of compromise!!"

In fact, Zhulong's defensive capabilities far exceeded the expectations of these free hunters and mercenaries... According to the original plan, they should have taken advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to kill Zhulong as soon as they made their move, and then dealt with Yang Qiaoxi and the other Tian Shu Tower hunter...

"You son of a bitch, Fifteen!" The spirited young woman couldn't help but curse her teammate in her heart. In her opinion, if Fifteen's first shot hadn't been blocked by another Tian Shu Tower hunter, which made Zhu Long wary, Zhu Long would already be dead. She had completely forgotten that the assassination operation had been leaked to the people of Tian Shu Tower. The increasingly stalemate in the battle had pushed her rationality and patience to the brink of collapse.

Not only her, but the others involved in the siege also became anxious... Seven or eight minutes had passed since the Seabuckthorn Roses fired the first shot, but apart from the Sky Tower Hunter who was killed at the beginning, they had not gained anything else - the Sky Tower Hunter's off-road vehicle was riddled with bullet holes, but the inside of the vehicle was covered with a layer of ice harder than steel, which neither armor-piercing rounds nor high-explosive rounds could penetrate.

“Okay.” The female mercenary in the passenger seat pulled a box from under the seat, opened it, installed the three-section rocket launcher inside, loaded a rocket into the launcher, and handed it up through the sunroof.

"Watch the direction of the exhaust flames, don't hurt your own people," she warned.

"Got it!" The young woman impatiently took the rocket launcher. Without even using the sights, she raised the launcher, aimed it at the off-road vehicle in front of her, and pulled the trigger!
The rocket roared out, but at the same time, a giant arm made of cold, damp water stretched out from the off-road vehicle.

When the rocket was five meters away from the off-road vehicle, the giant, flowing hand intercepted it in mid-air and then crushed it!
"boom!!!"

A scorching shockwave hit her in the face, and flying metal fragments cut a deep, bone-revealing gash on the young woman's face. She was thrown back by the shockwave and rolled heavily to the ground.

"I... damn it!" The blood-covered young woman got up from the ground and let out a non-human roar. The muscles in her limbs and torso swelled up as if inflated, and the hair on her body began to grow wildly. In just a few seconds, she had transformed from a human into a monster that looked like a chimpanzee.

"Third Sister has entered her beast form." The woman in the cheongsam opened her briefcase and took out a pistol.

"You should have brought enough suppressants, right?" The female mercenary gasped. "When she transformed into a beast last time, she tore several of her sisters apart with her bare hands..."

"So this time we changed the injection method." The woman in the cheongsam lifted the hem of her cheongsam, revealing two smooth, long legs.

She shoved the pistol into its holster on her thigh, then opened the second compartment of the briefcase.

The second layer of the suitcase contained a row of oddly shaped bullets, two medicines in sealed containers, and a syringe.

She first mixed the medicine in the two containers with a syringe, and then inserted the needle of the syringe into the rubber hole at the tail of the special bullet one by one, and slowly pushed the mixed medicine into the bullet.

"We've prepared twenty-four standard units of inhibitor this time," the woman in the cheongsam said as she injected the bullet with the agent. "If this still can't calm Third Sister down..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but the other two members of the Seabuckthorn Rose group in the car had already guessed the second half of her sentence.

The transformed Spirit Sister used both hands and feet to quickly catch up with the convoy that was still besieging the Candle Dragon. She suddenly leaped and landed on the roof of a car next to her.

With a loud bang, a large section of the car's roof caved in instantly. The person inside had just poked his head out and hadn't even had a chance to curse when a huge, hairy hand smashed his head to pieces!
"Hiss..." The female mercenary clenched her fists upon seeing this. "Third Sister after her beast transformation... can she... can she still distinguish friend from foe?"

"I don't know." The woman in the cheongsam shook her head.

The female hunter driving the vehicle applied the brakes slightly, and the sudden drop in speed immediately created some distance between the all-terrain vehicle and the convoy caught in the melee.

"Whether you can distinguish friend from foe is not important," the female hunter driving the car said coldly. "As long as the mother gorilla can kill all these people, her mission will be complete."

As she spoke, the beast-like huntress had already dragged the last survivor from the vehicle and slammed him to the ground, killing him instantly. Then, she let out a low growl and leaped towards another vehicle!

"Have the Seabuckthorn Rose people gone mad?!" the other free hunters participating in the siege roared. "What do you mean by this?! Are you planning to double-cross us?!"

The beast-like huntress didn't respond. Instead, she climbed her upper body through the car window and bit off the heads of the two mercenaries inside!

Soon, in addition to Zhulong's off-road vehicle, the beast-like female hunter also became the target of the group's attack.

A barrage of bullets rained down on her. Her defenses were far weaker than Zhulong's ice wall, and she was instantly blasted apart, blood splattering everywhere.

However, every infected person after being transformed into a beast has extremely strong vitality. Even if they are hit in vital areas, they can still fight for a long time... These bullets fired at the beast-transformed female hunter not only failed to kill her, but also aroused her ferocity a hundred times more!

[P.S. I had a fever of 39 degrees Celsius for three days straight and couldn't take it anymore, so I was hospitalized today. This chapter was typed on my phone in the hospital, so please help me find any typos... I'll probably be staying for several days, so updates will likely be a bit less frequent during that time.]

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