Trickster Hunter

Chapter 316 Another face

"Let's go, let's go." Lilith raised her hands above her head and patted her hands, "It's best to finish everything here before this waste pool melts... Tsk, I don't want to be a humanoid refrigerator again. ”

"Do you want... to take a rest?" Jiang Yu asked.

She suddenly had a bad feeling.

"No, hurry up." Lilith strode towards the open door of Factory No. 5. After walking a few steps, she suddenly turned back to look at Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao, "I also made an appointment with my person in charge to get off work today. Let's go to the sauna together... Do you two want to go together?"

"Sauna?" Jiang Yu was startled, "But aren't all the public baths in Tianfu City closed now? Where are you going..."

"Can't you just take a hunter's license and commandeer a sauna in a certain bathhouse? Everything is ready. As for the energy supply, I can solve it with the snap of a finger! How about it? Do you want to come? I'll tell you You tell me, every time I finish a mission and I’m full of sweat, it’s always nice to go to a sauna..."

"It's... let's forget it." When Jiang Yu thought that the red-haired witch in front of him was once a man, he felt a little awkward...

If he really wants to go to the bathhouse, should this guy go to the men's bathroom or the women's bathroom?

"Complete the mission first." Ling Xiao said coldly. He put the "God-killing Spear" back into its holster, and then picked up a severed limb of a fluorescent spider from the ground.

This broken limb is about thirty centimeters long, slightly thicker than chopsticks, and has an irregular octagonal cross-section - except for the sharp tip of the limb and a small row of barbed saw teeth near the tip. , the surface of the limbs is very smooth, and even has a "shining like jade" feeling. The gripping feel cannot be said to be good, but at least it can be said to be very comfortable.

"Are you going to use this thing as a weapon?" Lilith glanced at Ling Xiao and asked.

Ling Xiao waved the spider's ring towards the street light pole nearby, and the sharp front end instantly cut a smooth-edged cut on the metal light pole. There was not even a moment of pause or stagnation in the whole process.

"Tsk, it's quite sharp." Lilith nodded, "I feel like you can throw away your standard dagger."

While talking, Lilith had already entered Factory Building No. 5.

A layer of pale golden shield enveloped her whole body.

Although Lilith has always given people a careless vibe, she can be considered a veteran hunter who has experienced hundreds of battles... If she is as neither reliable nor as good as the first impression. To be cautious, no matter how powerful she was, she wouldn't be able to survive until now.

If Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao check Lilith's files, they will be surprised to find that... this "female" hunter who looks to be in her twenties has the earliest publicly available mission record seventy-five years ago. .

Excluding those mission records that have been sealed for various reasons, there are more than 300 completed missions that can be found under Lilith's name. Even if Zhulong is here, he has to respectfully call out "Senior" .

"Safe." Lilith stamped the metal floor with the heel of her boot, "Come in."

Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao guarded the left and right sides respectively, alternately covering their way into the factory.

"The tactical movements are completely substandard." Lilith commented nonchalantly, "Even if you are a newcomer, you won't be so bad, right?"

"Ah?" Jiang Yu was a little confused, "We followed the standard moves in the CQB tutorial... Why did we fail?"

"CQB? Who taught you CQB?" Lilith asked.

(Note: CQB, Close Quarter Battle, an acronym for indoor close quarter battle.)

"Tianfucheng Emergency Tactics Team..." Jiang Yu replied, "They should be considered the strongest among Tianfucheng's special forces, right?"

"Emergency tactical team? Haha." Lilith let out a burst of disdainful laughter, "This group of people may be able to deal with kidnappers and KB elements, but in operations against monsters, they can only be regarded as a group of thugs at best... …The CQB tactics they teach you simply don’t apply to monster hunters.”

"Why?" Ling Xiao asked immediately.

"When the two of you came in, one stared at the left and the other stared at the right. The focus of your eyes was on the windows and doors of those rooms, followed by the baseboards close to the ground... But you think the strange things will come out of the windows. Will they stick out a gun and shoot at you, or will they set up trip mines or something like that on the ground?" Lilith gestured on her head with her right hand, "Do you know where you missed it? Above! Directly above the head! Damn it, CT has never looked up since ancient times!”

After Lilith said this, Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao raised their heads and looked upward, but it was better not to look up. Jiang Yu was shocked at this sight - the entire inside of the dome of Factory No. 5 was full of people. It is covered with a layer of fleshy membrane, and the surface of this layer of fleshy membrane is covered with large and small vesicles. These vesicles are beating rhythmically like breathing. Through the translucent membrane of the vesicles, You can still vaguely see something curled up inside the vesicle.

Near the door, the vesicles had burst, and the mucus inside hung down, condensing and hardening in mid-air, forming a stalactite-like landscape.

"What...what is this?" Jiang Yu was shocked.

Against the backdrop of these flesh membranes and vesicles, the No. 5 plant seemed to have been transformed into a nest of some alien creatures... and it was the most terrifying "living nest".

Jiang Yu felt that he did not walk into a plant, but into the body of a monster.

"It is a seedbed for hatching those weird creatures." Lilith said calmly, "Those small vesicles contain those little spiders just now, and as for the big vesicles... it seems that there are people in them."

"People?!" Jiang Yu subconsciously looked back in the direction of the waste liquid pool.

"Yes, the 'deputy factory director' should have been hatched from these vesicles." Lilith nodded.

"Then... if the things in these remaining vesicles come out..." Jiang Yu had already begun to retreat.

"Not for the time being." Lilith shook her head. "I can feel that it will take some time for them to hatch... Otherwise, after we just dealt with those monsters, more monsters will run out of the factory."

"How long is a period of time?" Ling Xiao asked.

"It can be as long as a few hours or as long as a dozen seconds." Lilith said, "So from now on, we have to seize every minute and every second! You two follow me closely, don't act separately, don't look around, keep your ears open, and listen carefully to any noise around you-Ling Xiao, if the situation is not right, just use the rune stone I gave you, don't hesitate!"

After speaking, Lilith ran directly towards the stairs.

Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu hurriedly followed.

Jiang Yu stared at Lilith in front of him, and couldn't help but have a question in his heart-Why did Lilith say that she had to seize the time, but she didn't use the magic of teleportation anymore?

Was she worried that the two of them couldn't keep up, or was there too many obstacles in this scene that would affect teleportation?

Or... Lilith's remaining magic value was running out?

Jiang Yu was a little unsure.

During the time she spent with Lilith, she realized that as a hunter, she was too immature. No matter her experience, tactics or mentality, none of them could be called "qualified"... She didn't dare to think about how she and Ling Xiao would complete the next mission after losing Lilith.

No... not completing the mission, what she should think about is how to leave this place alive.

Lilith ran all the way on the steel structure stairs, and her leather boots made a crisp sound on the steel plate, which echoed in the empty factory.

Every time she ran a distance, Jiang Yu would look up at the vesicles hanging on the dome membrane, fearing that the things hatched in the vesicles would break out of the shell and pounce on her.

"Don't look with your eyes, these things are all weird things, you just need to feel their meme fluctuations." Lilith's voice came into Jiang Yu's ears, "When they are about to hatch, the meme fluctuations will have very obvious characteristics, I think you should be able to feel it."

"Meme... fluctuations? Feel?" Jiang Yu fell into confusion again, "How to feel?"

"Calm down, for the infected, everyone has such perception ability, but some people are stronger and some are weaker... They are like eating and drinking, no, it should be as natural as breathing, it is your innate ability. Damn, who is your direct supervisor? Didn't he teach you anything?"

"I... I don't have a supervisor yet." Jiang Yu replied, "I just became a hunter not long ago."

To be precise, Jiang Yu's direct supervisor is Sun Hang... But Sun Hang himself was so busy some time ago that he had no time to teach Jiang Yu something that was almost instinctive for the infected in Sun Hang's view.

"Damn it, breathe... Try to breathe, and try to get rid of all distractions. While breathing, feel the 'other breath' of those weird things... The frequency of the meme is like breathing, it has a rhythm, as long as you can find this rhythm, you can naturally sense the other person's breath, understand?"

"I... I'll try."

As soon as Jiang Yu finished speaking, Lilith, who was running in the front, suddenly stopped.

"We're here." Lilith said.

In front of her was a solid wooden door with exquisite decorations. There was a sign hanging on the door with the words "Reception Room" written in gilded font.

Faintly, the sound of a violin could be heard coming from behind the door.

"You two, step back a little." Lilith said.

Lilith reached out and held the door handle.

She turned the door handle gently-for some reason, she always felt that this action was familiar.

As if she had done it somewhere else.

But Lilith quickly put this thought behind her - it was just turning the doorknob to open the door. Ordinary people do this action countless times a day, so it is completely normal to feel familiar.

The door of the reception room was not locked, and the lock tongue retreated smoothly from the keyhole. But when Lilith tried to push the door, she found a resistance from the back door, as if something was pushing against the door panel from behind.

Lilith let go of her hand, took two steps back, then suddenly accelerated, kicked the door hard with a flying foot.

"Puff--"

Accompanied by a sound like rotten cotton wool being torn into pieces, the door opened.

Lilith then saw that the entire reception room was covered with the same flesh membrane as the factory dome. It was the flesh membrane that stuck to the door that blocked the door gap and hinges, which made her feel the strange resistance.

The flesh membrane on the dome looked very thin, but when you get closer, you will find that they are actually five or six centimeters thick. Spreading this layer of flesh membrane in the reception room looks like a Cthulhu-style soft-packed wall.

"Meat carpet, it feels good." Lilith sneered and stepped on it directly.

The flesh membrane under her feet squirmed and made a "puff" sound.

"Alive, alive?!" Jiang Yu subconsciously took a step back.

In order to crawl in the ventilation duct, she and Ling Xiao took off their boots. Now both of them are still barefoot - to be honest, she really doesn't want to step on this thick flesh membrane barefoot.

"Of course it's alive. If it's dead, how can it provide nutrients to those hatching monsters?" Lilith said.

As she spoke, she had already walked to the center of the reception room.

On the coffee table in the middle, there was a retro-style vinyl record player. As the round record on the machine turned, the melodious violin and the light sound of the keys echoed in the room, and the harmony of woodwind and brass instruments could be faintly heard.

Compared with the "messy" reception room, this record player and the coffee table used to place the record player were particularly clean - the sofa next to it was almost completely covered with flesh membranes, and the dark red blood-like substance had stained the surface of the sofa red and black, but on the coffee table and the record player, there was not a drop of blood or a piece of flesh to be seen.

"Strange... why is this room empty?" Lilith muttered to herself, "The projection of the strange creature should be here? Why is it empty?"

"Will it leave?" Jiang Yu asked tentatively, "Or, will it...will it hide in a corner, waiting to ambush us? Just like it attacked you before?"

"Ah... yes!" Lilith's tone suddenly became strange, "I remember it, I remember it!"

"What did you remember?" Ling Xiao asked.

At some point, he had pulled out the "God-killing Gun" and pointed it at Lilith who was standing in front of the record player.

"It didn't leave, it's in this room now." Lilith's voice had completely turned into a hoarse male voice.

She turned her back to Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu and slowly lifted her hair behind her head.

Under the long crimson hair, there was a man's face.

Jiang Yu recognized this face - it was the missing director of Factory No. 105: Wu Zhiyuan!