Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 88: The Source of Propagation
"Ah?" Yang Qi was stunned for a moment, then immediately tugged at the corner of Sun Hang's clothes, "It's better not to make such a joke... If someone takes it seriously, it will be troublesome."

"This is what I really think." Sun Hang said helplessly, "Thoughts and actions are two different things. Look, I have been with Lao Wang for so long, and I didn't eat her."

"...In any case, it's better to be careful with your words and actions." Yang Qi advised earnestly like an old mother, "This is not Tianfu City. My teacher and I can't protect you. Besides, there are quite a few hunters with weird tempers among them. You'd better try not to provoke them."

"What if someone comes to provoke me?" Sun Hang asked.

"People who come here usually don't do such stupid things." Yang Qi looked at Sun Hang speechlessly, "If you really do, come and tell me immediately. I won't let you suffer any injustice."

"Researcher Yang, you are wrong about one thing... The hunter under your command is the one they can't afford to offend." A familiar voice came from behind. Sun Hang turned around and saw that it was Ye Xuan who arrived here on the same flight as them.

Ye Jiu, who had taken off his strange equipment, followed closely behind her, looking at everyone in the venue with a vigilant look on his face.

"It's better to have less trouble than more." Yang Qi said seriously, "We all don't like trouble, so we naturally won't cause trouble."

"That's right." Ye Xuan nodded and asked Ye Jiu, "What time is it now?"

Everyone's communication devices were handed in when they entered the camp. The only electronic products they had left were the monitoring bracelets on the wrists of the hunters and qualified personnel.

Ye Jiu raised his wrist and glanced at it, then said, "There are still two minutes until three o'clock."

"The meeting has been delayed by almost an hour from the scheduled time. Who else hasn't arrived yet?" Ye Xuan's eyes revealed a hint of annoyance.

"The hunters who are going to reinforce the Emei area haven't arrived yet." A hunter under Ye Xuan whispered, "It is said that they haven't been contacted yet."

"Emei? Did some powerful monster appear there?" Ye Jiu frowned.

“Not sure… Due to the influence of the Eternal Night, communications have been cut off in many places. The coverage of the military’s high-power radio lines is not that wide, and some remote towns are still out of contact.” The hunter shook his head.

Just when Sun Hang and his companions thought they would have to wait any longer, an old man with silver hair and wearing a general's uniform came over, put his hands on the edge of the table, and said in a deep voice: "Time is running out, we can't wait for latecomers, the combat meeting will begin immediately!"

In an instant, the noisy conversations in the tent disappeared, leaving only the sound of raindrops hitting the top of the tent, as dense as a military drum.

"Professor Li, it's up to you next." The elderly general looked at the old man standing in the main seat who was not much older than him, and nodded solemnly.

"Okay." The old man called Professor Li nodded slightly, looked at the people around the table, and said in a deep voice: "I don't like to keep you in suspense. I will tell you now that you are gathered here to carry out the task of 'searching for the source of breeding' - this task is extremely important and will even directly affect whether Shuzhou will fall... According to the rigorous calculations of many experts in Tianshu Tower, if we can find the source of breeding and eliminate it, even if the eternal night lasts, with the current material allocation capabilities of the Federation, we can at least hold Shuzhou for more than 30 years."

"The source of breeding?" Ye Jiu muttered, "Is it similar to the 'monster spawning point' in the south city cemetery?" His voice was very low, but because the environment was too quiet, this sentence still reached Professor Li's ears. He nodded at Ye Jiu: "Yes, but not completely."

"Ah?" Ye Jiu was stunned for a moment, "Then...what does that mean?"

"The large number of strange creatures that emerged from the South City Cemetery were transferred to our world by the time and space strange shadow numbered 'Lin 191'." Professor Li said, "But the 'origin' is different."

Sun Hang only now realized that the strange creature destroyed by the "Three Monkeys" has been named "Time and Space Ghost" and the serial number is "Lin 191" - this is a temporary number. As for why it does not have the conventional "甲乙丙丁" prefix, it is because even the experts of Tianshu Tower cannot temporarily define what kind of creature this strange creature belongs to.

"If the South City Cemetery is compared to a teleportation device, then the 'Breeding Source' is a breeding ground for strange creatures." Professor Li continued, "If the 'Breeding Source' cannot be destroyed, countless new strange creatures will crawl out from there and flock to our human territory."

Everyone present looked at each other in bewilderment. Except for a few core members of the Disaster Committee, most of the people present were obviously hearing the term for the first time. Sun Hang glanced around and saw that almost everyone had a look of deep doubt in their eyes.

"Excuse me, where does the information about the 'source of reproduction' come from?" asked a hunchbacked hunter.

His voice was old and hoarse, and sounded like two pieces of rusty iron rubbing against each other.

The hunter was wrapped in a dark grey cloak and holding an alloy cane. From Sun Hang's angle, he could see the bony spine protruding from behind the cloak - it was unknown whether it was some kind of exoskeleton or some kind of mutated sign of the man himself.

He also had a monitoring bracelet on his wrist, which was standard for monster hunters, but the screen of the bracelet was constantly flashing orange-red warning lights - this was a warning that the wearer's vital signs were extremely weak. Generally speaking, if the hunters' bracelets started to light up this color, it basically meant that the person was no longer worth rescuing.

But the hunter didn't care at all, and even the people around him looked like they were used to it.

"We gathered all the documents and materials related to 'Eternal Night' from all over the Federation to the Tianshu Tower at the fastest speed. With the help of supercomputers, we analyzed a crucial piece of information - every time 'Eternal Night' descended in history, a 'breeding source' would appear in the area it covered."

The holographic map on the table suddenly flashed a few times and changed into another appearance. Sun Hang stared at it for a few seconds before he realized that it was a topographic map of the Hexi Corridor area north of Shuzhou.

"In the 4533rd year of the lunar calendar, eternal night descended on the Xihe Corridor. Based on the records of strange creature attacks that year, we have compiled the recorded movements of strange creatures that have appeared and presented them on this map."

As soon as Professor Li finished speaking, dense red arrows appeared above the holographic projection.

Sun Hang noticed that although these arrows all pointed to different areas, if the direction of the arrows was reversed, it would be found that they all vaguely converged in the same direction.

"During the eternal night in the year 4533 of the lunar calendar, the 'source of reproduction' was located in the 'Yadang Ghost City', kilometers west of Shadu."

(End of this chapter)