Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 459 Tower Crane
In terms of efficiency in Chunming City, if the mainframe claims to be second, probably no one would dare to claim to be first. Less than twenty seconds after Sun Hang uttered these words, a brand-new, unmanned hovercar rushed into the cooling pump duct and stopped in front of him.

Sun Hang got into the car and waved to Xue Yue, who was still standing there in a daze.

Xue Yue hesitated for a moment before climbing into the back seat of the hovercar.

Before Sun Hang's fingers even touched the steering wheel of the hovercar, the car started up again, carrying the two of them towards the outlet of the cooling pump channel.

"This is... my first time riding in a hovercar..." Xue Yue's ten fingers gripped the edge of the car window tightly, her expression a mixture of nervousness and excitement.

"You've never ridden a hovercar before?" Sun Hang was taken aback. Chunming City is a "three-dimensional" city, so hovercars are a very important means of transportation in the city. In order to facilitate the travel of citizens, with the key support of the federal government, many car companies have launched hovercars at different price points. The cheapest hovercar has even been reduced to 200,000 yuan a unit, which is about the same price as those mid-range cars.

Even families who can't afford to buy a hovercar can choose to rent one from a public hovercar rental shop, which is almost everywhere in Chunming City. Although the rented hovercars are all driverless and can only travel along a pre-set route, so you can't experience the fun of driving yourself, the rental price is so low that it's almost the same as taking a taxi... As someone who has lived in Chunming City for many years, Sun Hang was genuinely surprised when Xue Yue said that this was her first time riding a hovercar.

Has this guy... become this frugal?

“I run very fast… so I usually travel on foot,” Xue Yue explained. “As for those high-rise areas, I rarely go there, and there are free public elevators anyway… The airships are too expensive; the starting price alone is enough to buy a pound of pork…”

“It’s a pity you didn’t have legal status before, otherwise, with your physical abilities, you wouldn’t have ended up in such a miserable state if you had become a sports student,” Sun Hang said.

"Infected individuals and those with superpowers are prohibited from participating in regular sporting events," the mastermind immediately stated. "If an athlete is found to have used the power of a monster during a competition, the minimum punishment is a lifetime ban. As for monsters participating directly, there has never been such a precedent in the Federation's history."

“I was just joking.” Sun Hang’s face darkened. “Your AI has absolutely no sense of humor…it’s far worse than Pei Zongjun.”

"My database contains all the memories of the previous controller, Pei Zongjun. If you need, I can simulate a Pei Zongjun personality to communicate with you," the mainframe replied.

"Forget it, the simulation is pointless." Sun Hang sighed. "But you'll probably use this simulated personality to continue creating the illusion that Pei Zongjun is still alive, right?"

“Yes,” the mastermind replied, “In order to ensure the stability of the situation, the news of Pei Zongjun’s death cannot be made public for the time being.”

As the airship approached the exit of the cooling pump channel, the surrounding environment brightened from dim. The diamond-shaped perforated panels divided the sunlight from the sky into countless small pieces, which were then imprinted on the airship's windshield.

"This sunlight...it's so realistic!"

Sun Hang looked towards the exit and saw the clear blue sky and the sun hanging in the sky. The sunlight filtered through the windshield, making it not only not dazzling, but also giving people an extremely soft touch, like a brand new, warm towel gently brushing against the skin, allowing every pore to be immersed in that warmth...

However, the sky is fake, the sun is fake, and the sunlight is fake too.

Because of the superstructure, only a pitiful 7% of the area of ​​the sky visible from the Heavenly Market Wall of Chunming City is actually a holographic simulation of the sky and the sun that people see when they look up in the remaining 93% of the area.

When Sun Hang first came to Chunming City, he asked Yang Qi if it was too extravagant to go to such great lengths to create this fake sky and fake sun. However, Yang Qi told Sun Hang that "all of this is necessary."

This statement resonated deeply with the people of Shuzhou who had lived under the eternal night for several months. For humans, the sky and sunlight are not direct conditions necessary for survival, but if these two things are not seen for a long time, the incidence of various physiological and psychological diseases will increase exponentially, and the stability of society will become extremely fragile and vulnerable.

Imagine this: every time you look up at the sky, all you see is endless darkness, or cold, oppressive concrete structures. Day after day, year after year, just thinking about it makes your breathing feel much heavier.
The hovercar drove out of the cooling pump channel and was once again bathed in "sunlight"—although the "sunlight" was not dazzling, Sun Hang still habitually squinted his eyes.

He vaguely sensed that something was amiss.

Sun Hang suddenly turned his head and saw a tower crane hook hanging directly above the floating car, with hundreds of steel bars tied together on the hook.

Why are there steel bars hanging from the hook of the tower crane? Isn't today a rest day? Did the tower crane operator just leave halfway through the get off work when his shift ended? Are the safety officers on this construction site blind?

wrong!

No! No! No!
Sun Hang suddenly remembered that when he entered the construction site, the boom of the tower crane was facing in another direction! And there was nothing hanging on the hook!

"Get out of the way!" Sun Hang shouted immediately, "Avoid overhead!"

Almost at the same moment he shouted those words, the crane's boom suddenly moved.

The delicate balance of forces was instantly broken, the entire bundle of steel bars began to tilt, and with a loud bang that could make a construction site safety officer faint, the cable binding the steel bars snapped instantly, and the hundreds of steel bars slid down from one side!

These steel bars are like hundreds of spears thrown by spearmen. In just a moment, they can pierce the floating car below into a honeycomb-shaped iron disc!
Sun Hang slammed on the accelerator, and his "wish fulfillment" ability activated instantly. Before the mainframe could react, he forcibly took control of the hovercar—the hovercar's motor power was boosted to its maximum within half a second, propelling the entire vehicle forward like an arrow.

This hovercar has excellent performance, accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 1.5 seconds—but that's far from enough for Sun Hang!

When these hundreds of steel bars fell, they seemed to be affected by an invisible force, forming a "scattering of flowers" pattern, with the radius of the affected area expanding to more than seventy meters!
There was no time to dodge! Sun Hang's brain immediately came to this conclusion—he immediately pressed his palm on the top of the hovercar, and the hovercar's metal shell was instantly liquefied and then quickly reorganized, forming a special reinforced structure that could withstand piercing attacks.

"Boom! Boom!"

A series of loud bangs echoed overhead as the hovercar, suspended in mid-air, was repeatedly pounded downwards by immense forces—if Sun Hang hadn't directly controlled the entire metal frame of the vehicle, it would probably have already lost its balance and overturned.

Sun Hang glanced at the rearview mirror and saw Xue Yue huddled in the back seat, her hands tightly covering her head—she was very frightened, but fortunately, she was not injured.

"Anna, are you crazy?!" Sun Hang shouted fiercely, twisting the steering wheel with both hands, intending to control the aerial vehicle to rush out of the construction site. But at this moment, the boom of another tower crane turned around while Sun Hang was busy dealing with the falling steel bars, heading straight towards the aerial vehicle that was making a sharp turn in mid-air.

From a third-party perspective, it looked as if Sun Hang had deliberately driven the hovercraft into the boom of the tower crane.

The tower crane's massive boom resembles a baseball bat, while this floating vehicle is the baseball flying towards it. The next second, this "baseball" will be powerfully knocked away.

"Prepare for the impact!" Sun Hang shouted, gripping the steering wheel tightly with both hands. At the same time, countless mycelia extended out, enveloping Xue Yue in the back seat in a large cocoon.

Sun Hang desperately lowered the front of the vehicle, while simultaneously reshaping the frame structure of the hovercar, concentrating all the weight under the front, causing the entire hovercar to perform a half-cobra maneuver like a fighter jet, and suddenly plummet towards the ground!

Anna reacted quickly, but the tower crane's reaction speed had its limits. Even if she could control those mechanical components, it was impossible for her to lower the tower crane's boom by several meters in such a short time and intercept the floating car's flight path again.

"Hoo..." Sun Hang had just exhaled half a breath when his eyes suddenly froze.

The floating car did avoid the crane's boom, but it couldn't avoid the huge hook hanging below the boom.

The hook had slid to one-third of the way down the front of the boom, blocking the way in front of the floating car.

There is no way to avoid it.

Sun Hang felt a chill in his heart—the hovercraft he was operating could indeed use its maneuverability to avoid these cumbersome engineering machines, but Anna had anticipated his evasive maneuvers and set up obstacles in his evasive path in advance.

Is she reading her own mind?

No, even if he could read his own thoughts, it would be impossible for him to react in time—Sun Hang's emergency evasive maneuvers were entirely instinctive, and many of his actions were not even thought through…

Instinct... damn it, instinct!

Sun Hang couldn't help but curse under his breath.

He suddenly realized a problem—human instincts are the easiest things to predict.

Just like how you instinctively gasp for air when you're scalded by boiling water, or instinctively reach out to brace yourself when you lose your balance and fall... Anna predicted all of these instinctive actions I took.

We have no choice but to confront them head-on.

However, the expected violent impact did not occur. The liquid metal shell, which had been reinforced by Sun Hang, collapsed without warning the moment it came into contact with the hook. The entire shell was torn apart like a piece of paper, exposing the occupants inside.

The next thing to "collapse" was the large cocoon that wrapped around Xue Yue.

The mycelium of the Tai Sui withered and shattered in less than 0.1 seconds. Then, the not-so-sharp hook, driven by tremendous force, pierced through Xue Yue's slender body, hanging her on the hook and smashing open the other side of the car body.

The front half of the hovercraft where Sun Hang was located was almost undamaged, while the back half was torn into strips of metal – some were attached to the front half, some were stuck between the hook and Xue Yue's body, and many more metal strips fell from the sky and crashed onto the messy construction site.

Before Sun Hang could continue cursing, he leaped out of the half-destroyed carriage, sending out dozens of mycelia that instantly entangled themselves around the rising hook.

A pulling force came from the mycelium, and Sun Hang's body flew towards the hook.

However, the "power" Anna had applied to the hook had not yet faded. The mycelium that had entangled the hook withered and turned into white powder that scattered everywhere, just like the large cocoon that had just wrapped around Xue Yue.

More mycelium was emitted from Sun Hang's body.

A flash of cold light, and the huge metal hook was cut in two. Sun Hang landed on the ground with the girl, who was almost broken in two, in his arms.

Abundant life force is continuously flowing into the girl's body, and those horrific wounds are healing at an even more terrifying speed. Damaged organs are regenerating rapidly, and tiny, horrifying granulation tissue is growing wildly from the flesh, filling in the torn areas.

The girl's breathing gradually returned to normal, and her newborn heart began to beat again in her chest cavity.

Sun Hang looked up at the tower crane in the distance.

He was really a little angry.

He raised his hand and made a downward pressing motion.

"Kaka...kaka..."

The tower crane groaned under the weight, as if a thousand pounds were pressing down on it. The steel structure began to deform and collapse. After the load-bearing structure was completely destroyed, the entire tower crane, like a giant whose bones had been removed, crashed to the ground with a deafening roar.

Sun Hang felt that his ability to manipulate metal had increased dramatically in an instant, but as a price, the mental energy consumed to activate the ability also increased by more than ten times.

“Ah…is this the power of anger?” Anna’s voice rang in Sun Hang’s ears. “This feeling is so wonderful…the only flaw is…”

"Have you had enough fun?" Sun Hang interrupted her, shouting sharply, "Are you trying to kill me?!"

“I don’t want to kill my mother, only this,” Anna replied.

(End of this chapter)