Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 74 Boiling Shadow

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

The temporary headquarters of the forward command center of the Strange Treasure Disaster Countermeasures Committee is located here.

This was originally the municipal gymnasium of Bachu. Now all the sports facilities in the gymnasium have been emptied and replaced with a large number of communication equipment with dark green military paint. Thick cables can be seen everywhere. Staff wearing uniforms of various departments are busy moving 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 getting smaller and smaller.

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

At the same time, three hundred kilometers away, countdown was also going on in Sun Hang and Ye Jiu’s headphones.

"3, 2, 1..."

"Light array, turn on!"

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

"Report from observation position No. 1, there has been no obvious changes to the spherical object in the sky! There has been no obvious changes to the shadow object on the ground!"

"Report from observation position No. 2, there has been no significant change in the spherical object in the sky! There has been no significant change in the shadow object on the ground!"

"Report from observation position No. 7, there has been no obvious change in the spherical object in the sky! There has been no obvious change in the shadow object on the ground!"

……

The shadowless lamp array had been turned on, but the expected disappearance of the shadows did not occur.

Although they didn't have high expectations from the beginning, both the front-line command center and the personnel on the scene finally revealed a mixture 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?"

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

Sun Hang squatted down and stretched out his hand towards 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 maintaining a "safe distance" of half a meter from Sun Hang.

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

Sun Hang suddenly realized a problem. The entire Shuzhou area was now shrouded in eternal night. There was no light source in the sky. The visibility in the CBD was so high because the light pollution in the urban area was comparable to artificial daylight...

So, a sphere hanging thousands of meters in the air should not have any shadow.

Unless it's the other way around.

"I understand." Sun Hang said, "The shadow on the ground is the conscious body of the weird creature, and the one in the sky is the shadow..."

"Then why was the missile swallowed by a massless shadow?" Ye Jiu asked immediately.

"I don't know. Now that the light array has been set up, why not give it another try? Please change the direction of the lights and aim all the lighting devices at the ground."

At the same time, Baqu Municipal Gymnasium.

Dozens of programmers were typing frantically on their keyboards, making crackling sounds. They were urgently revising the program they had just written, adjusting the formation and direction of the drone light array - the array contained a large number of drones of different brands, models, and operating systems, which made the task more difficult by more than one level, and the number of swear words uttered by these programmers also increased by more than an order of magnitude.

The entire program modification took about nine minutes. This time there was no need for a countdown. After the final 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 would occasionally lose control and fall from the sky. The light beams emitted by the lighting devices installed on their fuselages rotated in the air, like cyber moths flying into fire.

The strong light that was originally directed to the sky instead hit the ground. Even if Sun Hang, who was in the middle of the irradiation area, closed his eyes, the light could still penetrate his eyelids and hit his retina. The burning sensation was just like looking up at the sun. If it weren't for the strong self-recovery ability given to him by Tai Sui, Sun Hang's eyes would have been burned blind by now. "I should have gotten a pair of goggles first..."

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

But soon, excited voices rang out in the headphones.

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

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

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

"Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute reports that the frequency of the ground shadow meme in Jinjiang CBD has changed. The reason is currently unknown!"

"It seems that what is in the sky is really a shadow." Sun Hang took a deep breath, and hundreds of hyphae shot out in all directions with his body as the center, directly drilled 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 after the chaotic sphere disappeared, Sun Hang could clearly feel that the shadow at his feet had changed.

This change is like water freezing at low temperatures. The liquid that would originally flow through the fingers has now solidified into a tangible solid.

A strange sticky feeling came from the end of the mycelium, and the spreading shadows were like a layer of gum covering the ground, which was extremely fluid and sticky at the same time. It could adhere to the surface of any object and cause it to age rapidly.

For some reason, an idea suddenly popped up in Sun Hang's mind - this thing was like the substance after time was materialized, but in it, some inexplicable impurities were mixed in.

There is an old saying in Xiazhou that "Heaven and Earth are unkind." Heaven and Earth are a general term for this world, and unkind refers to the lack of the ability to perceive, think, and have self-awareness. Time, as the "fourth axis" of space, should not have consciousness, but the existence of this strange creature breaks this cognition.

Even time can be infected by the strange virus.

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

"Oops!"

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

Three statues more than one meter tall suddenly appeared on the originally empty street, and the main bodies of the statues made Sun Hang feel extremely familiar.

There were 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 its hands that were covering its mouth.

A shrill 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 already swallowed was pulled out of his body and disappeared into the void... In just a few seconds, the shadow that had expanded to the size of three blocks had disappeared, leaving only those dilapidated and dangerous buildings that looked like they had been abandoned for hundreds of years.

A strand of hyphae accidentally rubbed against a trash can on the street, and the trash can instantly turned into pieces, with whitish plastic powder 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 monkeys has disappeared. Judging from Ye Jiu’s words, the statue should have never appeared in his sight from beginning to end.

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

"The damn monkey... its screams are worse than those of a ghost."

　Yesterday at noon, I drank a cup of Oribai and had diarrhea until now... I am almost exhausted... What the hell, I drink coffee all year round and I don’t have lactose intolerance, how did I get it? I can’t figure it out.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)