Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 137 Predation
"Du Cheng, Lou Haoyong." The team leader shouted into the intercom, "I am Yan Li, the leader of the second investigation team. What is the situation over there now?"

There was no response on the other end of the intercom.

"Hello? Hello?" Team Leader Yan's expression suddenly turned ugly. "Can you hear me? Hello? Du Cheng? Lou Haoyong?"

After a long while, a "click" sound came from the receiver, as if the intercom on the other end was picked up from the ground. Two seconds later, Wang Xiyi's voice rang out: "I am 'Night Fury', now on the roof of Building A of the Investigation Bureau. The two security guards have been confirmed dead."

There was an uproar in the main monitoring room.

“How could this happen?!” The security guard who had escaped by chance turned pale, “In just a few minutes…”

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Investigation Bureau Building A, rooftop terrace.

Wang Xiyi turned the two bodies over and examined them, then said into the intercom: "A hole was drilled in the back of their heads, and their brains have been sucked out. This should be the direct cause of their death. In addition, there is some mucus left at the scene..."

Wang Xiyi touched a little bit of mucus with her fingertips, and immediately a strong sense of numbness came from the surface of her skin.

"This mucus has a very strong paralyzing effect. I guess the two people were paralyzed by the mucus first, and then the weird thing sucked their brains without any resistance... The purpose of that thing appearing here is to find food."

"Have you found any other traces?" Team Leader Yan asked again.

"not yet."

Wang Xiyi looked up in the direction of Building C - the structure of the Investigation Bureau building was in the shape of a "匚". Building A, which had the largest area, was located in the middle, with Building B and Building C on the left and right. The three buildings were connected by a suspended corridor, but the rooftops were not interconnected.

There is a distance of nearly thirty meters between Building A and Building C. Assuming that the monster can cross these thirty meters silently and paralyze the two security guards with mucus without them noticing... then the mobility of this monster may have reached an extremely astonishing level.

"Ye Sha, have you found any trace of Bai Ying?" Team Leader Yan's voice came from the intercom.

"No, even the meme detection device I carried with me didn't react." Wang Xiyi replied, "I have a feeling... that thing has left here after completing its prey."

"Is its purpose just to hunt?" Team Leader Yan's tone was a little confused. "If it was just to hunt, why didn't any residents get killed near Shengshu Securities before... It came to the Investigation Bureau's territory specifically to hunt. Is it demonstrating to us?"

"In addition to hunting, its other purpose should be to collect intelligence." Wang Xiyi turned the head of the corpse over. The expressions of the two security guards were extremely wooden. The mucus paralyzed their nerves all over their bodies. From the morning to the attack until death, the two people should not have felt any pain. "In my opinion, the purpose of the strange creature is not to suck the brains of the two people, but the information in their memories... We should be thankful that the level of the two victims is not too high, and they don’t know much confidential information."

"In other words, the strange creature attacked them in order to obtain our intelligence?" Team Leader Yan's eyes widened, and he looked at everyone in the main monitoring room. "It seems... the enemy we are facing this time is not low in intelligence."

"My suggestion is to gather the senior leaders and confidential personnel of the Management Committee, the Research Institute, and the Investigation Bureau in a safe place for protection... This time the strange creature only attacked two security guards. Next time, it should choose its targets from the 'leadership list' known to the two security guards."

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Chunming City, "Useless" Tavern.

Sun Hang had just finished drinking the sugar-free version of butter beer when the researcher who couldn't pay before came to him again. "What's the matter?" Sun Hang looked at him and asked.

"The situation of 'Overlord' is somewhat special. Research Institute No. 1 requires the puppeteer to return to the headquarters immediately to cooperate with subsequent research work." said the researcher.

"Are you making up a new excuse to try to trick the hostage away from me?"

"No, this is true." The researcher said with a bitter face, "If you want to transform the skeleton into a puppeteer's strange equipment, you must adjust its meme frequency at the first time. The puppeteer himself must be present during this process... Otherwise, as time goes by, the induction between the puppeteer and the skeleton will become weaker and weaker until it disappears completely."

"Really?" Sun Hang looked at Zhong Ling.

The latter nodded.

"Then please replace it with a hostage of equal rank, who is quiet and well-behaved and won't run around." Sun Hang said, "In that case, I can consider it."

"Uh... Tianshu Tower means that you will be considered to have passed the first round of the trial. This way, you will no longer need hostages, and the puppeteer can rush back to the No. 1 Research Institute immediately. As for the second round of the trial, it will officially begin tomorrow."

"What about my ID code and personal account?" Sun Hang raised his wrist and saw that the screen of the bracelet had returned to normal, but the sundial that symbolized the countdown to the positioning had disappeared.

“They have all been thawed,” said the researcher.

"The second round of the trial can't be another urban battle royale, right?" Sun Hang asked again.

"Of course not!" The researcher shook his head repeatedly. "In the second round of the trial, you will work together with several other batches of advanced trialists to overcome the difficulties together. In this round, both the Tianshu Tower and the federal government will stand on your side and provide you with the necessary assistance."

"In other words, it's changed from PVP to PVE?" Sun Hang rubbed the hair on the back of his head. "Can you tell me the content of the second round of the trial?"

"This..." The researcher suddenly looked embarrassed.

"Is it inconvenient? If it's inconvenient, I won't return it." Sun Hang threatened in a low voice.

"Well... I only know that the trial site is not in the city..." the researcher said, "As for other information, please wait until tomorrow..."

"Give me your headphones." Sun Hang stretched out his hand to him.

"Ah?" Before the researcher could react, several hyphae had already snatched away the earphones he was wearing.

Sun Hang put on his headphones and got straight to the point: "Tell me, what is the content of the second part of the trial?"

"How can you be sure that I know that?" A strange male voice came from the headset.

"I guessed it." Sun Hang replied, "Besides, even if you don't know, there must be someone in the Tianshu Tower who knows... Then please go and find out for me."

(End of this chapter)