Trickster Hunter

Chapter 40 Sheltering the Long Knife

"I have this idea." Sun Hang took a look at the alien long knife and replied.

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

"I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with. Artifact-type weird things themselves are extremely dangerous. The cost of containment and management is high. Hunters are rarely given artifact-type weird things as equipment unless necessary, let alone carrying them with them." Yang Qi replied.

The Weird Research Institute is very efficient. In just over ten minutes, the container specially customized for the alien long knife was transported to the scene.

This is a huge metal box shaped like a scabbard, fixed on the top of two all-terrain transport vehicles with a bracket. There are also several huge metal barrels piled underneath, as well as a whole set of equipment that Sun Hang doesn't know what they are used for.

A dozen workers in heavy protective clothing carefully pulled the alien long knife out of the ground with a crane, 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 woman with a sullen face.

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 up, and the temperature around it suddenly dropped by several degrees.

"It's liquid nitrogen." Yang Lian said with his hands on his chest in a tone as cold as liquid nitrogen.

"Can low temperature limit weird things?" Sun Hang asked in confusion.

"Most of the weird things, especially those with physical bodies, still have the structure of conventional materials. Low temperatures close to absolute zero can make the movement of particles that make up the material extremely slow, keeping their state stable." Another female researcher who was not wearing protective clothing answered Sun Hang's question. She had wheat-colored skin that was 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, and the eye socket of her left eye was empty, even without the artificial eyeball used to fill it.

"Although it may not be useful, this is one of the standard procedures for containing weird things." The one-eyed female researcher added.

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

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

"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 stagnated." Yang Qi replied.

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

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

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

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

"...I'm not interested in peeking at your screen," Yang Lian's expression suddenly stiffened, "I just received her message, she asked me to take good care of you during this period of time, so that you won't be caught and used as a soldier - these are my sister's original words."

"I think she asked the wrong person." Sun Hang glanced at her, "The scene when you forced me to sign the contract to sell my body is still vivid in my mind."

"I'm just following the procedures." Yang Lian said.

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

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

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

"Why are you asking this?"

"Just asking casually, forget it if it is inconvenient to answer."

"Seven years." Yang Lian said, "I participated in the campus recruitment assessment of the Investigation Bureau right after I graduated from college, and joined the Investigation Bureau with the first place."

"Joined the job with the first place in the campus recruitment, and worked for seven years... Why are you still doing these jobs?" Sun Hang commented, "You are so miserable, I think you have offended a lot of people?"

Yang Lian glared at him and said nothing.

"Okay, the matter has been resolved, I have to find something to eat...To be honest, I am still thinking about the bowl of wontons that I didn't eat a bite of in the morning." Sun Hang said.

Although the kind-hearted old man stuffed a few pieces of brown sugar glutinous 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 the 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, take these to fill your stomach first. We still need you to take a record here... Although it's still in time to do it after returning to the institute, but..."

The female researcher suddenly showed 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 weird creatures, and the battle records between hunters and weird creatures are very important research materials-you take a record here, and she can sign her name at the front of the subsequent research report. If you take a record after returning to the institute, this report will not have much to do with her.

"Why didn't you say it 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 too fast.

Sun Hang had no choice but to briefly describe the battle record just now. But in this way, the matter of the alien long knife could not be concealed.

An artifact-type strange thing could not appear out of thin air, and Sun Hang was too lazy to make up more lies for a lie... Moreover, with the ability of the Weird Things Research Institute, as long as they were given enough time, they should be able to discover the relationship between this alien long knife and himself.

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

Sun Hang's ability and the types of strange things he was infected with were kept secret from the outside world, so he was vague in many places and the other party could not go into it. Under Sun Hang's description, this alien long knife had become a temporary weapon that he used his "ability" to forcibly pinch many steel bars together-and this temporary weapon inexplicably became a strange thing after chopping off the "Tai Sui".

What he said was all true, but it was these truths that could easily lead the other party to believe that the alien long sword was "infected" by Tai Sui and became strange...

As for the ability of "creating strange things", normal people would not think in that direction at all.

Sun Hang suddenly felt that it was thanks to the research institute that the strange thing that infected him was "Taotie", so no matter what kind of ability he had - as long as it was not too outrageous, it would generally not arouse suspicion.

After all, if asked, just say that he swallowed other strange things and gained their abilities, plus the characteristics and abilities of strange things are ever-changing, which makes his defense more reasonable.

However, these things are how others see themselves, and what they want others to see.

But what is the truth?

Sun Hang is a little suspicious... Is the strange thing that infected him really "Taotie"?