Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 40 Sheltering the Long Knife
"I have this idea." Sun Hang took a look at the alien long sword and replied.

This thing was originally "created" by him, and the most suitable user is naturally Sun Hang himself.

"I'm afraid it's difficult. Artifact-type monsters are extremely dangerous in themselves, and the cost of containing and managing them is high. Hunters are rarely issued artifact-type monsters as equipment unless it is necessary, let alone carrying them with them." Yang Qi replied.

The Weird Things Research Institute was very efficient. In just over ten minutes, the container specially customized for the alien long sword was delivered to the scene.

This is a huge metal box shaped like a scabbard, fixed to the top of two all-terrain transport vehicles with a bracket. There are also several huge metal barrels and a whole set of equipment whose use Sun Hang has no idea.

A dozen workers wearing heavy protective clothing carefully used a crane to pull the alien long knife out of the ground, and then slowly pushed it into the tailor-made "scabbard" bit by bit. Although Sun Hang wanted to help them complete this process directly, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he finally chose to stand aside and be a spectator with the stern-faced woman.

The liquid stored in the metal barrel was poured into the interlayer of the "scabbard". As soon as the liquid came into contact with the air, white mist rose immediately and the temperature around it suddenly dropped by several degrees.

"It's liquid nitrogen." Yang Lian crossed his arms over his chest and spoke in a tone as cold as liquid nitrogen.

"Can low temperature restrict strange creatures?" Sun Hang asked doubtfully.

"Most of the weird things, especially those with physical bodies, still have conventional material structures. Low temperatures close to absolute zero can make the movement of particles that make up the matter extremely slow, keeping their state stable." The person who answered Sun Hang's question was another female researcher who was not wearing protective clothing. She had wheat-colored skin, which is unique to mixed-race people, and three-dimensional facial features like sculptures. Her long hair dyed silver-white was tied into a high ponytail on the back of her head. The only pity was that she only had one right eye. The eye socket of her left eye was empty, without even the prosthetic eyeball to fill it.

“Although it may not be useful, it is one of the standard procedures for containing strange creatures.” The one-eyed female researcher added.

"Oh." Sun Hang nodded, took out his cell phone and sent another message to Yang Qi.

"What's the situation at the South City Cemetery now?"

"It's not optimistic. The time in the abnormal area does not seem to be synchronized with the outside world. It is still night and the blood moon has not disappeared. All personnel involved in the operation have returned to the camp and the search and rescue operation has temporarily come to a standstill." Yang Qi replied.

"So there shouldn't be anything for me to do now, right?"

"Continue to stay on standby in the city. Also, be careful of the people from the Tianfu City Management Committee... They may put pressure on the research institute or hunters and force you to enter the abnormal area." Yang Qi said.

"Are you texting with my sister?" At this time, Yang Lian suddenly came over and asked in a low voice.

"You look quite cool and aloof, but why do you like to peek at the screen?" Sun Hang put away his phone and made a disgusted expression.

"...I have no interest in peeking at your screen," Yang Lian's expression suddenly stiffened. "I just received a message from her. She asked me to take good care of you during this period of time, so that you would not be captured and forced to serve as a soldier. These are my sister's exact words."

"I think she asked the wrong person for help." Sun Hang glanced at her. "I can still remember clearly the time you forced me to sign the indenture."

"I'm just following the procedure," said Yang Lian.

"So your sister's personal commission is also your work process now?"

"No, but she is your direct supervisor. No one can give you orders without her permission until she is dismissed or dies." Yang Lian said expressionlessly, "And what I hate most is when someone abuses their power and does something that is not in compliance with the rules and regulations for the sake of their own career."

"...How many years have you worked in the Investigation Bureau?" Sun Hang suddenly asked a question that seemed unrelated to the current topic.

"Why are you asking this?" "Just asking casually. If it's inconvenient to answer, forget it."

“Seven years.” Yang Lian said, “I took part in the campus recruitment assessment of the Investigation Bureau right after I graduated from university and was admitted to the Bureau with the first place.”

"You got the job with the highest score in the campus recruitment, and you've been working for seven years... Why are you still doing this kind of work?" Sun Hang commented, "You're doing so badly, I guess you must have offended a lot of people, right?"

Yang Lian glared at him and said nothing.

"Okay, the problem has been solved. I have to go find something to eat... To be honest, I'm still missing the bowl of wonton that I didn't even get to eat this morning." Sun Hang said.

Although the kind-hearted old man stuffed a few pieces of brown sugar rice cake into his mouth, Sun Hang only had time to put one piece into his mouth, and the rest was cut into pieces along with his clothes. The clothes he was wearing now were the ones he had dug out from the ruins.

Swallowing strange creatures can bring Sun Hang an inexplicable sense of satisfaction, but it cannot fill his empty stomach in reality.

"Uh, please wait a moment." The one-eyed female researcher suddenly said, ran back to the car, brought a large bag of snacks, and stuffed it into Sun Hang's hand, "If you haven't had breakfast, use these to fill your stomach first. We still need you to take a statement... Although there is still time to do it after returning to the institute, but..."

The female researcher suddenly gave Sun Hang a somewhat flattering smile, which made Sun Hang a little confused.

"She is bribing you." Yang Lian's voice interrupted. If researchers in the institute want to be promoted, the most important assessment indicator is the research reports on various monsters, and the battle records between hunters and monsters are very important research materials. If you take notes here, she can put her name at the front of the research report later. If you take notes after returning to the institute, this report will have little to do with her.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Sun Hang glanced at the bag of potato chips in his hand that he had just torn open, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart... his hand speed was still a little too fast.

Sun Hang had no choice but to give a brief description of the battle record - but in this way, the matter of the alien long sword could not be concealed.

An artifact-type strange object cannot appear out of thin air, and Sun Hang is too lazy to make up more lies for the sake of one lie... What's more, with the capabilities of the Weird Object Research Institute, as long as they are given enough time, they should be able to discover the relationship between this alien long sword and themselves.

The reason why he chose to remain silent before was that he was thinking about how to report the matter so as to minimize the adverse effects on himself.

Sun Hang's abilities and the types of monsters he was infected with were kept secret from the outside world, so he was vague in many places and the other party could not delve into it. According to Sun Hang's description, this alien long sword had become a makeshift weapon that he used his "ability" to force many steel bars together - and this makeshift weapon inexplicably turned into a monster after chopping off the "Taisui".

What he said was all true, but it was these truths that could easily mislead the other party, making them think that the alien long sword had been "infected" by Tai Sui and thus became strange...

As for abilities like "creating weird things", normal people would never think in that direction.

Sun Hang suddenly felt that thanks to the research institute’s determination that the monster that infected him was a “Taotie,” no matter what kind of abilities he possessed - as long as they were not too outrageous, they would generally not arouse suspicion.

After all, if asked, he could just say that he had devoured other monsters and gained their abilities. In addition, the characteristics and abilities of monsters were ever-changing, which made his explanation more reasonable.

However, these things are how others see you, and how you want others to see you.

But what about the facts?

Sun Hang was a little doubtful... Was the monster that infected him really "Taotie"?

(End of this chapter)