Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 485 T95
“I’m quite curious, is this black liquid a separate strange object, or part of the remains of Baikal?” Wang Xiyi asked Yan Yu’an.

Yan Yu'an replied, "Based on the information currently available, this black liquid only appears in the strange buildings of the mimicry coffee shop, and without exception, it is produced by coffee machines... Therefore, it can be regarded as one of the 'sub-type strange objects' differentiated from the remains of Baikal. Its information is all under the entry for the remains of Baikal, and it has not yet been assigned a separate number and file."

Does this thing have a code name?

“Yes, we all call it ‘Black Latte’.” Yan Yu paused, then took another step closer to Sun Hang. “It’s starting to spread; we should go out.”

This time, Sun Hang heeded Yan Yu'an's advice, and the three of them left the coffee shop.

Zhong Ling and the ghosts she controlled were on guard in the street. When she saw the three of them come out, she said softly, "In the time you went in, our location moved 65 meters to the southwest, the whole street rotated 17 degrees counterclockwise, four buildings sank into the ground, and seven buildings emerged. I have marked the changes in the street in the video file."

"Where to next?" Wang Xiyi asked.

"Let's check the surrounding terrain first, so we don't accidentally end up in a dead end," Sun Hang said.

Although he and Wang Xiyi both have the ability to break through dead ends, it's definitely better to save some energy in the early stages of an operation.

After learning that there were many other strange creatures like "Black Latte" inside the remains of Baikal, Sun Hang realized that this strange city was far more complicated than he had imagined.

This is most likely not a simple Geng-type monster, but a composite monster composed of many kinds of monsters... or rather, a "monster ecosystem" similar to the occupied area.

If there are any hidden traps in those buildings, then it will be even more troublesome.

When he was alone, Sun Hang was fearless, but now that he had brought a few more people with him, he had to think about Lao Wang and the others.

To reiterate—in the eyes of the three apes and Anna, the life or death of everyone except Sun Hang is utterly irrelevant.

Especially Anna, whose yandere tendencies have made Sun Hang even more wary of her—who knows what kind of conspiracy she's plotting to kill everyone around her now that she's hiding away…

Sun Hang had to be on guard.

"Lieutenant Colonel Yan, you should have brought a drone, right?" Sun Hang asked.

Yan Yu'an nodded.

She skillfully took the drone out of her backpack, unfolded the folded rotors, turned on the power, and with the hum of the propeller blades, the drone quickly rose into the air.

"Send me a topographical scan of the area, and also..."

Before Sun Hang could finish speaking, a gunshot rang out. The drone, which had just cleared the roof of the coffee shop, was hit by a bullet and instantly disintegrated, with a large number of fragments and parts falling onto the street.

"Who fired the shot?!" Wang Xiyi's expression hardened, and she immediately tried to fly into the air, but Sun Hang stopped her in time.

Sun Hang: "Don't rush."

Yan Yu'an walked quickly to the wreckage of the drone and "picked" out a deformed warhead from a pile of metal parts.

“It’s a standard 10mm full-power bullet,” Yan Yu’an said. “This kind of bullet is too common in the Federation, so it’s hard to determine its origin… It would be better if we had the cartridge case; there would be more information on it.”

“It shouldn’t have been another reconnaissance team that fired the shots, right?” Wang Xiyi said. “No one with a normal brain would do something like that.”

“I looked at the reconnaissance mission schedule before we set off. The camp hasn’t sent any reconnaissance teams to the remains of Baikal in the last two days.” Yan Yu’an shook his head. “And those teams that failed to return earlier are presumed dead… No one can spend two nights in the remains of Baikal.”

“Let me add a premise to that last sentence: up to now,” Sun Hang said. “Judging from this, this shot was either fired by a member of the mutated reconnaissance team, or by a mutated creature that was simulated by this mutated city. The original sheriff and army of Baikal City should also have used this type of bullet. If the mutated creature simulated a building like a police station or military camp, it might spawn ‘sub-mutated creatures’ in the form of armed personnel.”

“However…” Yan Yu’an hesitated before speaking.

Sun Hang: "But what?"

"However, we cannot rule out the possibility that there are still survivors inside Baikal's remains..."

"If they were survivors, and the other side saw our drone, instead of sending a distress signal, they shot it down? Isn't that just plain stupid?" Wang Xiyi said.

“The possibility is low, but not zero,” Yan Yu’an said. “There are precedents of reconnaissance team members becoming mentally unstable and attacking their teammates and other teams… and there have been more than one such case.”

"After all that analysis, why don't you just go after them and see who fired the shot?" Wang Xiyi glanced at Sun Hang, who was holding her back, with some dissatisfaction. "If you hadn't been holding me back, I might have already caught them by now."

“By the time you get there, the other party will have already left,” Sun Hang said. “From the difference in the speed of the gunshot and the bullet, we can determine that the person who fired the shot was about one kilometer away from us, and the shooting angle was tilted downwards by about three degrees. That is to say, the other party was sniping from a building about fifty meters high, about one kilometer away.”

Sun Hang paused for a moment, then said, "But in that direction, within a kilometer, I didn't find any buildings of that height at all."

"When did you see it?" Wang Xiyi asked, surprised.

Sun Hang pointed to the building next to him, where a white mycelium climbed up the wall and onto the roof, standing up like a cobra.

At the end of the mycelium, an eyeball is rolling around.

“The entire Baikal Remains is constantly changing; every street and every area is shifting,” Yan Yu’an said. “If you rashly pursue them, not only will you fail to catch them, but you might also get separated from us… The first rule of the reconnaissance team’s investigation guidelines is: ‘It is forbidden to split up within the Baikal Remains. The distance between everyone must not exceed fifty meters, and no teammate must be out of everyone’s sight for more than five seconds.’”

"I can't swallow this," Wang Xiyi said. "They shot down one of our drones, and we can't do anything about it... It's infuriating just thinking about it." "Are there any more drones?" Sun Hang asked.

“I only have one drone with me, the rest are in the trunk,” Yan Yu’an said. “We can still back out and get them in time. We just need to go back along the street and we can get out of the Baikal Remains area in time. The parking spot isn’t too far from us.”

"Forget it, let's just have Lao Wang handle it." Sun Hang reached out and took a recording device off Yan Yu'an's shoulder, handing it to Wang Xiyi. "That bullet shouldn't be able to penetrate your scales, right?"

"Don't you know how hard my scales are?" Wang Xiyi took the recorder, lightly leaped onto the roof, and then flapped her wings, soaring into the air, instantly reaching a height of nearly forty meters above the ground.

No more gunshots were fired.

After recording the surrounding terrain with her recorder, Wang Xiyi said with some displeasure, "What a coward! Looks like he won't dare to fire now that I'm here?"

“This shows that the other party has a clear assessment of your strength,” Sun Hang said. “If they were a hothead, they would most likely shoot you. It would be best if they could kill you, but if they can’t, they can at least see how tough your defense is.”

"This is boring," Wang Xiyi said irritably. "Then I'll stay at this height and hover directly above you to provide you with terrain information. That way you won't have to worry about getting separated from me. Anyway, if things go wrong, I'll just land."

“Okay.” Sun Hang nodded. “Based on the footage you took, there’s a crossroads ahead. The area in front of and to the right of the crossroads is blocked by a bunch of messy buildings. If we go to the left, it seems we can reach a square… but due to the angle, we can’t see anything beyond that.”

“I can’t help you with that. Any higher and your view will be blocked by that ‘membrane’,” Wang Xiyi’s voice came from above. “I’ve tried, and this is the highest I can go.”

“Alright, let’s go check out the square first,” Sun Hang decided.

"There's something I'm not sure if I should say," Yan Yu'an suddenly said.

“Just say what you have to say. You’re not the kind of person who talks nonsense. Asking for my opinion again is just a waste of time,” Sun Hang said.

“The intersection is blocked in front and to the right now, but it may not be blocked when we get there… Anyway, what looks like a clear road now may turn into a dead end later,” Yan Yu’an said. “We should adjust our route according to the real-time terrain.”

“I know. Anyway, let’s head towards the intersection first. If it gets really congested, we can take another route. If both sides are passable, then we’ll do as I said before and choose the left fork in the road,” Sun Hang nodded.

However, before he could take a step, Wang Xiyi exclaimed in a low voice, "Don't rush! The intersection has changed!"

"What changes? It can't be that all three roads are blocked, can it?"

"No! It's the ground! Look at the footage I sent you, the ground is rising up, as if something underground is about to break through the soil!" Wang Xiyi shouted.

"Could it be a strange building?" Sun Hang glanced at both sides of the street. During the time they entered the coffee shop, many buildings had appeared on both sides of the street. Some of these buildings emerged from underground, squeezing the existing buildings on the street to one side—just like when a child is losing their baby teeth, the new teeth are pushed out from below before the old ones have fallen out.

"It could also be an aggressive monster!" Yan Yu'an raised his weapon and pointed the gun at the intersection.

The several monstrous creatures controlled by Zhong Ling also assumed a defensive stance, surrounding her in the middle.

As for the No. 1 monstrous object, it silently leaped onto the roof and activated the optical camouflage function of its armor—to the naked eye, one could only vaguely see a blurry shadow rapidly approaching the intersection.

"Holy shit." When Wang Xiyi saw what was crawling out from underground, she couldn't help but curse.

That's a T-95 main battle tank!

These are weapons from the former Siberian Federation. They went into production in the middle of the First Monster War, but failed to achieve large-scale production before the Siberian Federation was destroyed. The total number of T95 tanks in service was less than one hundred, and more than 95% of them were destroyed or lost in the war. Only a very small number of T95s were evacuated to the shores of Lake Baikal with the refugees.

The tanks developed by the Xia State Federation were far more advanced than the T95, so they had little interest in these Russian tanks. After serving in the Baikal City garrison for decades, all of the surviving T95s were retired. A few T95 tanks with special deeds and commemorative significance were sent to the Baikal City Military History Museum, while the rest were scrapped.

This T95 is most likely a "relic" left behind by a "meritorious owner" from back then.

“If we blow this thing up…wouldn’t that count as damaging cultural relics?” Sun Hang muttered.

"On the premise that it is still considered an antique!" As soon as Wang Xiyi finished speaking, she threw out a dark blue dragon breath fireball, which quickly smashed into the tank that emerged from the ground.

"BOOM!!!" A huge explosion rang out as the dragon's breath fireball exploded, instantly engulfing the entire tank in a dark blue flame, sending plumes of smoke and dust billowing into the sky!

"Be careful!" A sense of crisis flashed through Sun Hang's mind, and he immediately warned him.

"Oh!"

A shell shot out from the smoke and dust, hitting Wang Xiyi squarely in the air!
Wang Xiyi's body was instantly propelled backward dozens of meters by the kinetic energy of the shell. She desperately flapped her wings to barely offset the impact, and then landed unsteadily on the ground.

"Are you alright, Lao Wang?" Sun Hang turned around and looked at him.

"It's alright! Luckily, I reacted quickly and managed to grab the shell with my claws!" Wang Xiyi raised her hands, and everyone then saw that she had firmly gripped the shell with her dragon claws, and the fuse at the front of the shell had not been triggered.

“Wait, something’s not right…” Wang Xiyi put the shell down. “This fuse seems to be just for show, and this shell… this shell is solid! No wonder it’s so heavy!”

"Solid shot?"

“My claws were embedded seven or eight centimeters deep; I was just a hair’s breadth away from cutting the shell in two,” Wang Xiyi said. “It was solid.”

(End of this chapter)