Trickster Hunter

Chapter 74 Boiling Shadows

Baqu City, a city in the eastern part of Shuzhou, is 320 kilometers away from Tianfu City.

The temporary station of the frontier command of the Strange Object Disaster Countermeasures Committee is located here.

This was originally the municipal gymnasium of Baqu. Now all the sports facilities in the gym have been emptied and replaced with a large number of communication equipment with dark green military paint. Thick cables can be seen everywhere. Staff members wearing uniforms of various departments are busy walking between the equipment and tables and chairs, and the phone rings one after another.

On the big screen hanging in the middle of the basketball court, a huge countdown number is constantly getting smaller-

"10, 9, 8, 7..."

At the same time, three hundred kilometers away, Sun Hang and Ye Jiu's headphones are also counting down.

"3, 2, 1..."

"Light array, turn on!"

The blazing white light suddenly enveloped the sky above the entire Jinjiang CBD, reflecting the night as if it were daytime.

"Report from observation position No. 1, the spherical strange thing in the air has not changed significantly! The shadow strange thing on the ground has not changed significantly!"

"Report from observation position No. 2, the spherical strange thing in the air has not changed significantly! The shadow strange thing on the ground has not changed significantly!"

"Report from observation position No. 7, the spherical strange thing in the air has not changed significantly! The shadow strange thing on the ground has not changed significantly!"

...

The shadowless lamp array has been lit, but the expected disappearance of the shadow did not occur.

Although there was no high expectation from the beginning, both the front-line command center and the personnel at the scene finally revealed a mixed look of loss and solemnity in their eyes.

"No effect?" Ye Jiu took a deep breath and looked at Sun Hang.

He hesitated for a while, and finally asked Sun Hang: "Well... what should we do next?"

Although Ye Jiu himself didn't want to admit it, in his heart, he still hoped that Sun Hang could come up with a feasible "preparatory plan" at this time - when performing tasks in the past, Ye Jiu only needed to cut the strange creatures open, but this time, he encountered a monster that couldn't be killed even by "killing".

Sun Hang squatted down and stretched his hand to the shadow not far away - the shadow seemed to feel the approach of Sun Hang's fingers, and quickly retreated more than ten centimeters, always keeping a "safe distance" of half a meter from Sun Hang.

Sun Hang looked up at the chaotic sphere in the sky that was shrouded in strong light but did not change at all, and a faint light flashed in his mind.

Sun Hang suddenly realized a problem. Now the entire Shuzhou area is under the cover of eternal night. There is no light source in the sky. The visibility of CBD is so high because the light pollution in the urban area is comparable to artificial daylight...

So, there should be no shadow on the sphere hanging in the sky thousands of meters high.

Unless it's the other way around.

"I understand." Sun Hang said, "The shadow on the ground is the conscious monster, and the one in the sky is the shadow..."

"Why would the missile be swallowed by a massless shadow?" Ye Jiu asked immediately.

"I don't know. Since the light array has been arranged, why not try again - please change the direction of the light and point all the lighting devices to the ground."

At the same time, at the Baqu Municipal Gymnasium.

Dozens of programmers were typing frantically on the keyboard, making crackling sounds. They were urgently modifying the program they had just written, adjusting the formation and direction of the drone light array - the light array was mixed with a large number of drones of different brands, models, and operating systems, which made the difficulty of this work more than one level, and the number of dirty words that came out of the mouths of these programmers increased by more than one order of magnitude.

The modification of the entire program took about nine minutes. This time, there was no need for a countdown. After the last check and confirmation, the chief engineer in charge of the light array control hit the enter key without hesitation.

The dense swarm of drones began to move, and the lights gradually turned. During this process, drones that lost control would fall from the sky from time to time. The light beams emitted by the lighting devices installed on their fuselages rotated in the air, like cyber moths that hit the fire.

The strong light that originally shot high into the sky turned to hit the ground. Even if Sun Hang, who was in the middle of the irradiation area, closed his eyes, the light could still be projected onto his retina through his eyelids. The burning sensation was like looking up at the sun directly - if it weren't for the strong self-recovery ability given to him by Tai Sui, Sun Hang's eyes would probably have been burned blind by now.

"I should have gotten a pair of goggles first..."

Sun Hang lowered his head, put his palms over his eyes to block the light, and looked at the ground - he saw that the whole street became extremely bright... However, in this bright environment, the black shadows still covered the ground and buildings like a thorn in the flesh.

But soon, an excited voice sounded in the headphones.

"Report from observation position No. 1! The spherical strange thing in the air has disappeared!"

"Report from observation position No. 4! The spherical strange thing in the air has disappeared!"

"Report from observation position No. 9! The spherical strange thing in the air has disappeared!"

"Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute reports that the frequency of the ground shadow meme in Jinjiang CBD has changed, and the reason is not yet clear!"

"It seems that the shadow in the sky is really a shadow." Sun Hang took a deep breath, and hundreds of hyphae shot out from his body to the surroundings, directly drilling into the ground and entangled with the "shadow".

Before the chaotic sphere in the air disappeared, the shadow on the ground was completely in an untouchable state... But when the chaotic sphere disappeared, Sun Hang could clearly feel that the shadow at his feet had changed.

This change was like water being frozen at low temperatures. The liquid that would have flowed through the fingers has now condensed into a tangible solid.

A strange sticky feeling came from the end of the hyphae. The spreading shadows were like a layer of colloid covering the ground. While it was extremely fluid, it also had extremely strong viscosity. It could adhere to the surface of anything and make it age quickly.

For some reason, Sun Hang suddenly had an idea in his head - this thing was like a substance after the embodiment of time, but in it, some inexplicable impurities were mixed.

There is an old saying in Xiazhou called "Heaven and Earth are not benevolent". Heaven and Earth are the general name of this world, and being unkind means not having the ability to perceive, think, and self-awareness. Time, as the "fourth axis" of space, should not have consciousness, but the existence of this weirdo breaks this cognition.

Even time can be infected by the weird virus.

More mycelium shot out of Sun Hang's body. Before other hunters arrived, he had to "swallow" as many of these shadows as possible... After digesting this weirdo, maybe he could...

"Oops!"

Just when Sun Hang realized the problem, it was too late.

Three statues more than one person tall suddenly appeared on the originally empty street, and the main body of the statue made Sun Hang feel very familiar.

Three monkeys, one covered his eyes, one covered his ears, and the last one covered his mouth.

Before Sun Hang could make any move, the third monkey statue put down his hand covering his mouth.

A piercing whistling sound rang in Sun Hang's ears. Even if he covered his ears, the sound could still penetrate into his brain - or to put it more accurately, the whistling sound seemed to come from the depths of his mind.

The shadow covering the street began to boil like a heated liquid, and then evaporated. Even the part that Sun Hang had swallowed was pulled out of his body and disappeared into thin air... In just a few seconds, the shadow that had expanded to the size of three blocks had disappeared, leaving only those dilapidated buildings that looked like they had been abandoned for hundreds of years and were about to collapse.

A mycelium accidentally rubbed against a trash can placed on the street, and the trash can instantly turned into fragments, and whitish plastic powder was scattered all over the ground.

"You...you eliminated the monster?" Ye Jiu's shocked voice rang out in the headset, "How did you do it? Why did those shadows seem to be on fire just now...what on earth is going on?"

The statue of the three apes has disappeared. Judging from Ye Jiu's words, the statue should have never appeared in his field of vision from beginning to end.

Sun Hang stood in place, glanced at the place where the statue just appeared, and couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

"Fuck monkey...the sound is worse than ghosts."

I drank a cup of Ao Rui Bai at noon yesterday, and I have diarrhea until now...I am almost exhausted...I have seen a ghost. I drink coffee all year round and I am not lactose intolerant. How could I be infected? I can't figure it out.