Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 530 Giant Baby
Upon hearing Sun Hang's words, everyone was taken aback, and then they looked at each other in bewilderment.

Giant Hill is a desert, filled with endless yellow sand and eerie giants that sleep like statues. What could be stuck in the wheel?
“Under the sand…could it be…” a hunter whispered.

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"Can you sense any memes or strange creatures down there?" another hunter nudged his companion with his elbow. "My senses aren't very sharp..."

"Sense my ass... There are giant monsters all around, memes everywhere... How can I sense anything!"

This question is like two people being locked in a completely dark room filled with the stench of feces, and one person asking the other if they can smell whether the soft stuff under their feet smells like poop...

Although the words are a bit rough, that's the gist of it.

"Could it be the bones of some creature?" a mercenary muttered under his breath. "Many people have died in Giant's Hill over the years..."

“Yes, yes, very likely!” A hunter wearing sand-proof goggles nodded hurriedly. “Back then, Tian Shu Tower sent so many survey and exploration teams to Giant Hill. After they were wiped out, they should all be buried under the sand. If you ask me, I wouldn’t be surprised if anything popped up from the sand, let alone bones.”

While the group was whispering, Sun Hang casually conjured two shovels from liquid metal and threw them to the two people who got out of the trapped vehicle.

“Keep digging,” Sun Hang said. “Without digging up the sand, no one can be sure what’s stuck in the wheel underground… Oh, and remember to keep your movements as small as possible.”

The two men who got out of the car exchanged a pained look, picked up shovels from the ground, and started digging.

Sun Hang silently took two steps back.

Not only him, but the hunters who had just been discussing what was stuck in the wheels also stepped back a distance.

Seeing that everyone had moved away, the two men digging in the sand looked even more grim—they certainly knew why others were avoiding the area, and they were just as afraid, but they had no choice but to dig… After all, without their vehicle, they would be unable to move an inch in this Gobi Desert.

The two carefully dug in the sand, their movements as cautious as sappers clearing landmines planted by the enemy during wartime, afraid of accidentally triggering the fuse.

The sound of metal shovels scraping against sand constantly stirred the hearts of the hunters. They were curious about what was buried under the sand, but dared not go closer to look.

Someone tried to take the drone, but was stopped by their companions—the drone's remote control signal could, in some cases, become the trigger to awaken the giant.

As the two were digging, their movements suddenly stopped, and they froze in place.

"what happened?"

"Did you find something?"

"what is it?"

"Could it be..."

The legs of the two men holding the shovels trembled slightly, and everyone instinctively held their breath.

No one dared to make a move, except for Sun Hang.

Sun Hang strode over and peered into the sand pit the two had dug.

A finger, three times as thick as a normal person's, emerged from the sand and gripped the rim of the off-road vehicle tightly.

“It’s…it’s a giant…” the hunter holding the shovel said in a trembling voice.

“I’m not blind.” Sun Hang nodded.

“We’re doomed, we’re doomed…” The other hunter took a half step back. If Sun Hang hadn’t reached out with two mycelium strands to hold him back, he would have already fallen to the ground.

Sun Hang turned around and saw Yang Qiaoxi standing in the distance, frantically signing herself... Unfortunately, Sun Hang couldn't understand sign language at all.

After spending some mental energy to learn sign language, Sun Hang finally understood what Yang Qiaoxi meant—"What did you dig up?"

“The giant’s finger,” Sun Hang immediately replied in sign language. “The wheel hub is stuck by the giant’s finger.”

Yang Qiaoxi's expression changed instantly, while the hunters and mercenaries who could read sign language retreated one after another, and several of them quickly slipped back into their vehicles.

"Don't panic, this guy isn't awake yet." Sun Hang made a few more hand gestures.

Yang Qiaoxi's face showed an expression as if she had made up her mind. She quickly walked over, glanced into the pit, and then immediately lowered her voice to Sun Hang and the two people who were almost paralyzed with fear, saying, "Whatever you do, don't touch it!"

“I’m puzzled. The vehicle should be able to get stuck while driving normally.” Sun Hang pointed to the sand pit. “Look, that finger is already hooked into the wheel rim… It feels like the car was driving over it and suddenly it stuck out a finger and caught the wheel rim.”

“But it didn’t wake up.” Yang Qiaoxi shook her head vigorously. “If the giant were to wake up, its skin wouldn’t have this stone-like color and texture.”

“In any case, at least it’s not awake yet,” Sun Hang said. “Perhaps it just woke up, but is now asleep again… Speaking of which, isn’t this giant one of the 144 giants?”

“I’m not sure… The 144 giants refers to the number observed above the sand. Even if most of these giants are buried, there must be some of their bodies exposed. That’s why people who cross Giant Hill can avoid them… I’ve never heard of giants that are completely buried in the sand,” Yang Qiaoxi murmured.

"Maybe it was caused by exploiting a bug," Sun Hang muttered.

Yang Qiaoxi: "BUG?"

“An extra giant accidentally floated up, and to maintain the ‘lucky number’ of 144, we buried it in the sand and pretended it didn’t exist,” Sun Hang said. “Logically speaking, even if we cut off this finger, it shouldn’t wake up, right? When you were digging in the sand just now, your shovels should have touched it, right?”

The two hunters immediately shook their heads, hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and then shook their heads again.

They didn't even know if the shovel had accidentally touched the finger—the moment the finger appeared, both of their minds went blank.

“But then again, even if you didn’t touch it now, when the car got stuck and when I lifted the rear bumper, I must have touched this finger—or rather, I must have felt some force transmitted to this giant, but it still didn’t wake up…maybe it just won’t wake up?” Sun Hang said.

“Sun Hang, this is too risky…” Yang Qiaoxi advised. “Try it, cut it off,” Sun Hang urged.

"No, please! My suggestion is to abandon the car." Yang Qiaoxi grabbed Sun Hang.

"Well, you can choose for yourselves then." Sun Hang glanced at the two hunters, then turned the shovels in their hands into saws. "I've already provided you with the tools; I've done more than enough."

Several braver hunters and mercenaries also came over to take a look, and finally came to the same conclusion: abandon the vehicle—although the owner of the finger was not awake now, no one could guarantee that it would not wake up after its finger was sawed off.

It's like if you touch someone who's asleep a few times, they might not wake up. But if you take a saw and cut their finger until it's a bloody mess... they'll not only wake up immediately, but they'll also likely launch an indiscriminate attack on everything moving in their field of vision under the influence of excruciating pain and adrenaline.

"If we abandon the vehicle, what will happen to the rest of us?" Besides the two people digging the sand pit, there were three other people in the vehicle.

"Sorry, there are no extra seats in the convoy," a hunter said indifferently.

“Even if you were willing to tie yourselves to the roof of the car, I don’t think anyone would accept having you tied to their vehicle.” Another mercenary shook his head. “You know the rules in the no man’s land… At most, we can only provide assistance to you as long as it doesn’t jeopardize our own interests, but in the current situation, we’re probably barely able to protect ourselves.”

“Perhaps you can wait for the next convoy to arrive and hitch a ride with them,” Yang Qiaoxi said.

"You mean... you want us to wait here alone?" the hunter with the shovel—no, now it should be the saw—astonished.

“It shouldn’t be too long…” Yang Qiaoxi muttered. “Although we can’t pinpoint their location right now, according to the route we set before the diversion, the second convoy should cross Giant’s Hill in at most half an hour.”

"Since you've proposed this plan, then you can stay here and wait!" a female hunter in the stuck vehicle said angrily. "You stay here and wait, I'll leave in your car! Anyway, you said it would only take half an hour at most!"

"What did you say?" Yang Qiaoxi looked at the other person in disbelief. She found it hard to believe that these words came from the mouth of a mentally sound person.

“I say, since you think it’s safe to wait here, then you can wait! I’m not staying here!” The female hunter raised her voice, making the others around her tense up—afraid that she would wake up the sleeping giants around them.

"But the car that got stuck in the sand pit is yours, and mine didn't break down." Yang Qiaoxi frowned. "How can you be so unreasonable?"

She wanted to argue a few more points, but Sun Hang stopped her and said in a low voice, "There's no need to argue with this kind of person. You can try to reason with her, but she might not listen to you... Perhaps we shouldn't have offered them help in the first place."

"Damn it, now I understand where the saying 'a little kindness is appreciated, but too much kindness breeds resentment' comes from..." Yang Qiaoxi said through gritted teeth, "We kindly helped her, and she treated it as our obligation... I'm so angry, how did this kind of giant baby end up in the no-man's land..."

"What do you call me?" The female hunter lunged at Yang Qiaoxi with an angry expression. Her companion quickly reached out to pull her away, but she pushed her aside.

"Ouch!"

The female hunter was quite strong; the hunter who was pulling her lost his balance and fell hard on his backside at the edge of the sandpit.

The worst part was that the saw Sun Hang had conjured from liquid metal unfortunately fell onto his leg.

To ensure cutting efficiency, the saw blades were extremely sharp, capable of easily cutting through metal. The moment the blades made contact with the hunter's thigh, the saw sliced ​​through the thick jeans almost without resistance, and then made a shallow cut on the hunter's leg.

Warm blood spurted from the wound, and unfortunately, it fell into the sand pit next to it.

"Holy shit!" One of the hunters watching the show cursed and ran towards his car without looking back.

Then, the ground began to shake violently!

"The giant has awakened!!!" Yang Qiaoxi's pupils suddenly contracted, and the next second she felt herself being swept up in Sun Hang's arms.

The sandpit was more than 30 meters away from Sun Hang's car, but Sun Hang returned to the car with Yang Qiaoxi in less than half a second.

Sun Hang shoved Yang Qiaoxi into the back seat and got into the driver's seat.

Meanwhile, in the sandpit, the blood on the surface of the severed finger was quickly absorbed. Then, the rocky texture on the finger's surface completely disappeared, turning into bronze skin covered with strange patterns.

The female hunter who had caused the trouble took off running. She grabbed a hunter who hadn't yet gotten into the vehicle, but the latter mercilessly shot her in the abdomen and then kicked her towards the sandpit.

The convoy started again, and this time, all the vehicles stopped holding back and rushed towards the exit of Giant's Hill at top speed.

"Hurry! Hurry up!" Yang Qiaoxi pushed aside her long hair that fell in front of her and urged loudly, "Don't worry about waking up the other giants! They'll all wake up anyway!"

"Why?" Sun Hang asked as he drove.

"Because of that idiot woman!" Yang Qiaoxi couldn't help but curse again, "Of all the ways to awaken giants, blood is the most dangerous! Because a giant awakened by blood will also awaken the other 143 giants, turning the entire Giant Hill into a forbidden zone!!"

Sun Hang glanced at the rearview mirror and saw a bronze-colored giant hand reach out from the sandpit and lift the car into the air.

The giant hand expanded nearly tenfold in size in just half a second, grasping the entire car in its hand.

Then, the five fingers, as thick as bronze pillars, suddenly tightened, instantly crushing the car into a lump of scrap metal!
The hunters who had abandoned their vehicle were chasing after the convoy, but they hadn't gone far when another bronze-colored giant hand emerged from the sand and swept them all to the ground.

“They’re dead.” Yang Qiaoxi’s words sealed their fate. “We don’t need to worry about them…we should be worried about ourselves.”

The entire Giant Hill began to tremble, and one bronze giant after another rose from the yellow sand, looking around.

A car couldn't avoid it and crashed directly into the giant's raised knee, exploding into a dazzling burst of fire.

“I suddenly thought of something,” Sun Hang said.

"What is it?" Zhulong asked.

"With this mess at Giant's Hill, is this road now completely blocked? What about the other convoys behind us?"

(End of this chapter)