Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 579 Marking Bullets

"Do you know the Sphinx?" Sun Hang asked, staring intently at her.

"Sphinx...the Sphinx?"

“Yes, the purpose of this trip to Egypt is to hunt the Sphinx,” Sun Hang said. “As for why we want to hunt it, that’s a top secret of the Federation, and I advise you not to ask.”

"It's actually a Sphinx... I never thought that a legendary creature would become a monster." Bai Lingqiu murmured.

“I think you might have reversed cause and effect. It’s not that the legendary creatures became monsters, but rather that those legends were passed down because these monsters appeared in ancient times… Haven’t many of the spirits and monsters that appear in Xia Zhou’s myths and legends been proven to be monsters?” At this point, Sun Hang’s eyes suddenly lit up. “Speaking of which, does the monster you summon include the Sphinx? If you could summon the Sphinx directly, then the Egyptian operation could be canceled!”

"The image of the Sphinx appears in the myths of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and West Asia, but it has never appeared in the mythology of Xiazhou... My book is called 'Tales of the Strange and Mysterious in Xiazhou,' and its content is limited to the local legends of Xiazhou..."

"What was the bird-headed, human-bodied monster you summoned the first time?" Sun Hang asked. "I remember there was such a monster in Egyptian mythology... I think it was called 'Thoth'."

“That’s the ‘Wei’ constellation, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions,” Bai Lingqiu said. “In the picture book, it’s depicted as killing Yayu. Later, Yayu was resurrected, but it turned into a bloodthirsty man-eating monster.”

"Is this book really a children's book? It feels more like a children's cult classic..." Sun Hang couldn't help but complain, "Is there a story about the Kui Niu in it?"

“Yes… but the Kui Niu is one of the strongest monsters with the lowest summoning probability,” Bai Lingqiu said.

Upon hearing Bai Lingqiu's words, Sun Hang gasped in shock.

He had only consumed a small piece of the meme contained in the bone marrow of the Kui Niu, yet he had gained such powerful abilities. If this young lady were to summon a complete Kui Niu... its combat power would probably be no less than that of a fully hatched Chimera Seventeen...

Although Bai Lingqiu's abilities are very unstable, her potential is definitely in the top ten of the current hunter rankings... no, she could even be in the top three!
If only she's lucky enough!
"Of all the monsters I've summoned so far, 'Wei Su' is already the strongest. With my current mental abilities, I can only control it for a dozen minutes at most before I fall into a coma... If I were to actually summon something like the Kui Niu, I can't guarantee whether it would attack your enemies first or you first," Bai Lingqiu said.

"Do these monsters you summon have a time limit? Are they generated out of thin air in this material world, or are they just projections with mass that will dissipate after a period of time?" Sun Hang asked again.

“They are real… After ‘Wei Su’ was killed, its remains are still kept in a secret room of the Bai Group,” Bai Lingqiu said. “But I can use my mind to send the summoned monsters back… Also, if the summoned monster is killed or still exists in this world, the pages in the picture book that record its story will become blank…”

"Now that you mention it, I feel like what you're doing isn't so much a gacha pool as a sealing artifact. These monsters are sealed inside the picture book, and your gacha pulls are like freeing them from that seal," Sun Hang analyzed.

“I’m not entirely sure either… Because of my father, the Mysterious Object Research Institute in Dragon City didn’t conduct any further research on me, nor did they submit a research report to the Heavenly Pivot Tower…” No wonder the mainframe couldn’t find Bai Lingqiu’s file, and the hunter’s bracelet on Bai Lingqiu’s wrist was also very different from the standard bracelet… Sun Hang muttered to himself.

It seems that besides the Dragon City Hunter Management Bureau, the Dragon City Monster Research Institute also has a lot of "problems"...

At this very moment, some people in Dragon City are completely unaware that their careers have entered their final countdown... and even their lives have entered their final countdown.

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The preparation time passed quickly overnight. At seven o'clock the next morning, twenty-five armored vehicles bearing the emblem of the Bai Group had formed a firing array about one kilometer away from the pit. A total of one hundred 120 mm caliber gun barrels were raised high, gleaming with a violent metallic luster under the sunlight.

"So many armored vehicles... This is far beyond the limit of armed forces that civilian organizations are allowed to possess, isn't it?" Sun Hang muttered, looking at the artillery formation in the distance.

“Theoretically speaking, it’s not allowed, but the Bai Group is a military industrial enterprise,” Zhulong said. “These armored vehicles, including the weapons on them, are all their products… They can use the guise of testing to send these things into the no-man’s land, which is completely compliant and legal.”

"First phase of operations, commence!" With Chen Jing's command, more than 300 drones instantly flew out of the container-style hangar and arrived directly above the collapsed area in the blink of an eye.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of "bombs" were dropped into the pit by drones—but what puzzled the hunters watching from a distance was that there was no sound of any explosion coming from the bottom of the pit.

“We’ve dropped over a thousand bombs already, they can’t all be duds, can they?” Charles said blankly. “Or did that monster down there intercept all of them?”

“This is not a bomb, but a marking bullet,” Zhulong explained patiently. “It is a new weapon developed by Bai’s Military Industry. The bullet does not contain a bomb, but a gel. This gel will evaporate rapidly after contact with oxygen and then adhere to the surface of the monster. Those that do not adhere will decompose on their own after turning into a gaseous state. In the field of vision of special equipment, these successfully marked monsters will be highlighted.”

Zhulong raised his tablet computer, which displayed the monitoring data that Chen Jing had shared with them. Even from several meters away, Charles could see a dense array of bright spots on the screen.

"Good heavens, are these all strange creatures from the bottom of the pit?"

"They should all be some kind of mycelial puppets. There are so many of them that they're blocking the view of the giant fungal monster below," said Zhulong.

(End of this chapter)