Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 301: Three Days of Hunger and Nine Meals

"Ah?" The exorcist obviously didn't react.

"Forget it..." Sun Hang was too lazy to explain. He walked directly to the collection equipment. The collection operation had been completed. All the indicator lights on the control panel were off, leaving only a green light representing "completed" flashing.

The drill that had penetrated the giant cocoon had broken off, and the entire device was making disturbing noises from all over. A strong smell of burning wafted out from inside the mechanical structure.

The two tanks used to store coolant were both broken, and the sticky coolant flowed all over the floor... Sun Hang couldn't help but sigh that he was really lucky - if the time required for collection increased by another one third, the whole machine would probably explode.

Although these collection devices are disposable and were rushed out in a short period of time, there is no reduction in materials and craftsmanship - Yang Qi and Sun Hang said that even at the federal government's lowest purchase price, the cost of these sample collection devices still reached 12 million per unit.

This does not include the price of the drill and battery - because these two components are strictly speaking man-made artifacts, and their actual cost cannot be measured in monetary terms.

According to the technicians, this collection equipment can operate continuously for at least 48 hours...but the actual situation is far from this estimated value.

But no matter what, as long as it can complete the task, it is a qualified device.

Sun Hang manipulated the liquid metal blade to cut open the pile of scrap metal worth twelve million, and then took out the strange battery.

In addition to being the driving source for the collection equipment, this strange battery also serves as a storage container for the collected samples.

At this time, the remains of the eel monster inside the battery have disappeared completely, even the cotton-like meat residues are no longer visible, and the liquid filled in it has turned into a chaotic state between black and smoky gray. When shaking the container, a hint of black-gray smoke can be seen flowing slowly in it.

This is like putting a water-soluble solute into an oily solvent. The two cannot dissolve in each other, so they can only present this entangled yet distinct state.

"Mission accomplished, time to withdraw." Sun Hang unzipped the back of his combat uniform and stuffed the container into the sealed interlayer inside. "Oh, I almost forgot. I'll give this back to you."

He handed the shotgun back to the still dazed exorcist.

"Oh..." The exorcist took the shotgun in a daze, and subconsciously wanted to put it back into the sealing box, but two seconds later, she suddenly realized something was wrong.

The reason why the gun was sealed in a box was because it was always in a state of "desire dissatisfaction", just like a hungry man, howling all the time, loudly expressing his hunger...

But now, after this gun passed through Sun Hang's hands, it became extremely docile... just like a well-fed cat, lazily lying on the windowsill, basking in the sun...

What about rage, what about madness, what about bloodthirsty killing... Those emotions that existed in the exorcist's memory seemed to be all her hallucinations.

Right under her eyes, a hungry tiger that could never get enough food turned into a fat, well-fed orange...

This contrast caused the exorcist, whose mind was barely functioning, to crash again.

Sun Hang seemed to have guessed the exorcist's idea. He pointed at the box and said, "It's just full temporarily. If you let it starve for two days, its true form will be exposed... So I suggest you put it back in the box. Also, it's better to put more talismans... No, it's better to put several times more."

"Why?" the exorcist asked subconsciously.

"It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality. Once you've seen the ocean, you'll never be satisfied with the water again, don't you understand?" Sun Hang said. "If you feed it too much today, in a few days, it will have to go hungry for nine meals in three days. Guess how resentful it will be?"

"Three... Three days of starvation for nine meals?"

"If all else fails, we can feed it with some death row prisoners." Sun Hang shrugged. "Anyway, general anesthesia is required before execution, so the prisoners won't feel any pain. There's no difference between using this thing and lethal injection or shooting."

As for ethics and morals...Sun Hang didn't think that the researchers at Tianshu Tower and the federal government officials would care about these things.

"Let's go." Sun Hang patted the sample container wrapped in the interlayer of the combat uniform behind him. "If we hesitate any longer, who knows what tricks Chimera No. 17 will come up with... If it's a spirit-like weirdo, it's easy to deal with. If it's something that doesn't match our professional expertise, then it will be a lot of fun."

"Just retreat like that?" Perhaps because he was shocked too much in such a short period of time, the exorcist's brain kept jumping back and forth between the two extremes of overclocking and freezing, and even his normal logical thinking was obviously affected. "I...should we collect some more information? After all...after all, we finally got such a close contact with Chimera No. 17..."

"Isn't all the information we need to collect in this jar?" This time it was Sun Hang who was stunned. "Are you crazy?"

Even Sun Hang himself did not realize that his casual joke actually revealed the truth.

"I... my mind is a little confused." The exorcist held his forehead and said, "Can you give me some time to sort it out... let me calm down."

"If you want to slow down, then slow down on the way." Sun Hang walked quickly to the boundary between the rain curtain and the dry area, but when he was about to step into the rain curtain, he paused for a moment.

"The next section of the road should be the most difficult. We may provoke a stress response from Chimera 17 at any time." Sun Hang turned to the exorcist following behind him and said, "So my suggestion is to act separately. My hatred value is relatively high, and I have a meme sample of Chimera 17 on me, so I should be the priority target. Don't follow me."

"Then...what should I do?" asked the exorcist.

"Get out the same way you came in," said Sun Hang.

"I...I didn't cause any stress response from Chimera No. 17 when I came in..." the exorcist said innocently.

"...That's probably because I helped you attract all the firepower." Sun Hang sighed helplessly, "Then it's still the same. I'll rush out first, and wait until the Chimera has fired a few energy streams and entered the cooling period, then you come out, do you understand?"

Before Sun Hang finished his words, a stream of blazing white energy suddenly passed over his head, illuminating a large area.

This stream of energy penetrated directly into the rain curtain and shot into the distance.

"Huh? What's going on?" Sun Hang looked at the direction of the energy stream with some confusion, "It's already this time, is there a complete hunter team approaching this way?" Immediately afterwards, the second and third energy streams were also shot out. After the three energy streams were shot out, Chimera No. 17 once again fell into a "cooling-off period" that lasted for several minutes.

"Three energy flows, three different directions?" Sun Hang's inner question mark became bigger and bigger, "Which teams caused the stress response? I have already finished my work here, and you guys came here late to die?"

Soon, Sun Hang's doubts were answered.

Dozens of large military drones swayed into his field of vision. These large drones either had a mount filled with fully armed soldiers underneath, or were carrying disassembled and packaged collection equipment parts. They flew towards the giant cocoon like moths to a flame.

Under the influence of strong radiation, the electronic components of drones became very unreliable. In just a few seconds, Sun Hang witnessed the crash of several drones. Fortunately, the soldiers on board these drones were equipped with parachutes, so no serious casualties were caused.

"What's going on?" Sun Hang quickly walked to a soldier who had landed, grabbed his arm and asked.

"We are ordered to come to support!" The soldier said in an unclear voice while cutting the parachute rope wrapped around his body with a dagger, "The superiors asked us to deliver the latest batch of collection equipment to the target area at any cost!"

"Saturation reinforcement?" Hearing the soldier say this, Sun Hang roughly guessed the headquarters' decision - it was probably the continuous energy stream he had triggered earlier that made the headquarters realize that Chimera No. 17's stress response had a "cooling-off period", so they decided to use human wave tactics, using human lives to attract Chimera No. 17's firepower and buy enough opportunities for the hunters.

Sun Hang didn't know how many soldiers' lives were taken by the three consecutive shots just now.

These people all boarded the drones with the determination to die... their only value is to serve as cannon fodder to attract firepower.

"Do you have an internal communication channel? Tell everyone that the mission has been completed. Evacuate, evacuate immediately." Sun Hang waved his hand, and the flash of liquid metal blade helped the soldier cut all the parachute ropes. "There is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices."

"Mission accomplished?" The soldier was delighted at first, then said with difficulty, "The interference in the radiation zone is too serious. The distance of radio communication is very limited. I can only notify nearby comrades."

"Then pass it on one by one. With everyone's communication terminal as a transfer station, the news can always be passed on bit by bit." Sun Hang patted the soldier's shoulder, "Let's go, hurry up, don't let those people die in vain."

Although the mission had been accomplished, the lives of those who had just died were not meaningless - their deaths at least opened an evacuation window of several minutes for Sun Hang and others.

"You, and you, all follow her!" Sun Hang pointed at the exorcist, "Don't follow me. The collected meme samples are on me. When Chimera 17's skills are cooled down, I guess it will only attack me!"

As early as the first hunt for Chimera No. 17, everyone already knew that this guy could steal human memories by devouring human brains... Those hunters who were killed had obviously exposed the "Pesticide Plan". With the intelligence of Chimera No. 17, it could definitely understand the importance of the meme sample on Sun Hang.

"The sample is with you?" Several soldiers nearby were shocked. "Then we should follow you. Protecting the sample is the highest priority!"

"Are you following me useful other than causing more deaths?" Sun Hang couldn't help cursing. "Do you have the ability to block the energy flow for me or to kill the monsters that block the way? Wouldn't it be better to save a few lives?"

"But...but...this is an order..."

"Fuck your orders," Sun Hang cursed. "I'm ordering you as the captain of the first squad. Stay the fuck away from me. The farther the better. Also, I've requisitioned this thing!"

After saying that, Sun Hang got on an air-cushion motorcycle that had just been airdropped and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.

……

Sun Hang's guess was correct. Not long after he left the dry area, he was attacked by a series of energy streams. Fortunately, before each energy stream was launched, Sun Hang's intuition would warn him in advance, allowing him to safely avoid the attacks that were enough to evaporate him and his car every time.

Finally, in the few seconds before the fourth round of energy flow cooled down, Sun Hang finally drove out of the maximum range of the energy flow.

He turned around and saw a stream of energy hitting him about a kilometer away, while the next two streams of energy shot randomly to other places.

There is a feeling of impotent rage.

Sun Hang, the primary target, was out of range, and the ones left to suffer were those who had not had time to evacuate.

I don’t know if the exorcists were affected by the energy flow.

"May the best of luck to you... I should have brought that shotgun with me earlier."

Sun Hang started the hovercraft again. The concrete platform of Observation Post No. 7, which was like an isolated island, was already visible. The platform was densely packed with people in protective clothing. Dozens of large drones were hovering above the observation post, and the high-lumen searchlights illuminated the area as if it were daytime.

Before Sun Hang's hoverbike got close, a large group of people drove vehicles to meet him.

A familiar figure flapped its wings and dropped from the sky, landing directly on the back seat of the hoverbike.

"Are you in any danger?" Wang Xiyi put her arm around Sun Hang's waist and asked.

"It's okay. All the weird creatures we encountered later were spirits. Fortunately, a professional hunter arrived at the scene, otherwise we might not be able to collect the meme sample." Sun Hang said.

"Spiritual creatures? The professional hunter you mentioned... couldn't he be an 'exorcist'?" Wang Xiyi was stunned. "I remember she was in the eighth team."

"You know her?"

"We've met a few times and chatted once." Wang Xiyi nodded. "She gave me the feeling... a bit like me in the past."

(End of this chapter)