Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 73 Light Array
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." The man who claimed to be the person in charge on the other end of the line agreed without hesitation or even asking the reason for doing so.

After the call ended, Ye Jiu stuck the wolf-fang spear into the ground, sat down, raised his head and stared at the spherical strange thing in the sky. After a few seconds, he suddenly said, "That hunter from Tianfu City... Do you think the shadowless lamp will really be effective against this thing?"

"I don't know." Sun Hang answered straightforwardly, "But whether it works or not, you have to try it to know."

"That makes sense. You have to try it to know." Ye Jiu nodded, followed by another violent coughing fit.

"It's time to move to another place." Sun Hang glanced at the edge of the rooftop. "The shadow of this thing will soon spread here. Judging from the buildings affected, if a human is swallowed by this shadow, he will die of old age in a few seconds. You don't want to experience this feeling, do you?"

"Let's go..." Ye Jiu forced himself to stand up, leaning on his wolf-fang spear, but when he reached the edge of the rooftop, he stopped.

"I can't use the power of the Trickster Equipment for now. If I just jump down like this..."

"One million." Sun Hang raised a finger.

"what?"

"Give me one million and I will take you to a safe place." Sun Hang said.

"A strange hunter shouldn't be short of money, right?"

"Two million. If you ask me again, I'll double it."

"make a deal."

The white mycelium directly entangled Ye Jiu, including his armor, and wrapped him into a mummy in the blink of an eye. Before Ye Jiu could even ask Sun Hang to leave a gap for him to breathe, he felt a huge force coming from the mycelium, followed by a dizzying feeling of weightlessness.

"Bang!!"

Ye Jiu fell heavily to the ground, and the mycelium was immediately peeled off from his body.

When he got up from the ground in a daze, he was shocked to find that he had been thrown nearly three hundred meters away from where he was just now - but the hunter who had extorted two million from him in just a few seconds was still standing there, not moving.

"Hey - aren't you coming over?" Ye Jiu took a breath and shouted loudly at Sun Hang.

Sun Hang ignored him.

Sun Hang stared at the shadow that had spread to his feet.

He wanted to do an experiment, a somewhat risky experiment.

Sun Hang took a step forward and stepped into the shadow.

"That hunter—are you fucking crazy?!" Ye Jiu was still shouting from a distance, "Come here quickly! Do you want to die?!"

Sun Hang stepped down.

Suddenly, a gap appeared in the shadows, just like the blood mist that Sun Hang had been avoiding in the basement of the abandoned amusement park. "..." Sun Hang looked at the shadows that "circled" past his feet and fell silent.

Ye Jiu in the distance was completely dumbfounded. He stared blankly at the "blank area" under Sun Hang's feet. The expression on his face changed several times in just one second, and finally froze on an expression of astonishment mixed with confusion.

"I need information about this hunter... What exactly are his abilities?" Ye Jiu hesitated for a moment, then pressed an inconspicuous small button on the side of the intercom and said in a low voice.

"What do you mean by confidentiality? Not even my authority is enough?" Ye Jiu frowned. "But, his ability is too suspicious! When did such a freak appear in this border city? In my impression, in the entire Shuzhou area, only the 'Night Fury' has some ability... Is this person really a legally registered monster hunter?"

"His hunter identity is completely legal." The person on the other end of the headset said to Ye Jiu, "Old Jiu, let me tell you the truth. His file was sent directly to Tianshu Tower by the director of the Tianfu City Research Institute, skipping all the first and second level review procedures. You should understand what this means, right?"

"Directly to Tianshu?" Ye Jiu's eyes twitched suddenly, "The weird thing that infected this person... is the serial number in single digits?"

"That's the only possibility. Lao Jiu, listen to my advice. You'd better not provoke this person."

"I didn't provoke him..."

"Don't I know your bad temper?" The person on the other end of the headset interrupted Ye Jiu directly, "He is very dangerous. Whether it is to humans or monsters, try to keep a distance from him, but don't show excessive alienation or fear towards him... You should know what to do, right?"

"Brother, can you tell me what the weird thing that infected this guy is..." Ye Jiu asked, "There shouldn't be any records of weird things with single-digit serial numbers in recent years, right?"

"It's true that the weird creatures with single-digit serial numbers have not made any movement for a long time, but just over a month ago, the clone of 'Bingjiu·Taotie' attacked a small town in the border area of ​​Shuzhou... However, according to reports, the Taotie clone only caused a small amount of damage and then disappeared. Judging from the registration time of this person, it is very likely that he was infected during this attack."

"Taotie? Are you saying that the monster that infected him was Taotie?" Ye Jiu's eyes widened. "But... aren't Taotie's memes never contagious?"

"Strange creatures are constantly changing. Don't apply past experience." The other party said seriously, "It is possible that Taotie has changed during the period when it has not been observed by humans. It is also possible that he just happens to be the exception."

"Taotie..." Ye Jiu muttered as he looked at Sun Hang in the distance, "Taotie's ability is... to devour?"

While Ye Jiu was communicating privately with the mysterious man, Sun Hang had already walked step by step towards the depths of the shadows. Wherever he went, the shadows retreated and then immediately gathered behind him.

It felt like Sun Hang was a human-shaped self-propelled luminous body - except that the light he emitted could only spread to a space of half a meter around him.

The sound of helicopter blades rotating came from a distance. Sun Hang looked up at the source of the sound and saw more than a dozen military helicopters of different models flying towards this side with huge lighting equipment hanging from them.

In addition to helicopters, there were thousands of drones—not only military drones, but all nearby civilian drones were also urgently requisitioned, even the low-end toy drones. All drones were equipped with lighting equipment of varying sizes according to their load-bearing capacity. Under the control of a specially written program, they formed a triangular array of lights and slowly approached the spherical monster in the air.

From time to time, a few drones in this light array would malfunction and fall from the sky - but this was of no importance, as the number of drones mobilized far exceeded the required number. This was an "oversaturated light array" that was several times the minimum standard, and as long as the loss rate of drones could be controlled within 40%, the "shadowless light" plan could be carried out normally.

"They move quite quickly." Sun Hang glanced at the bracelet. From the time Ye Jiu proposed the plan to now when the light array was initially in place, the entire process had only taken seven and a half minutes.

This is the efficiency we should have when fighting against monsters.

Sun Hang stood in the middle of the street, looked up into the sky, and waited quietly for the moment when the "shadowless light array" would light up.

(End of this chapter)