Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 357 - 22: Dark and Windy, No One in the Night (Part 2)
"Understood, we’ll return directly to Celestial City." Wang Xiyi replied, then turned to glance at Sun Hang who was driving, only to find Sun Hang was also looking at her.
"Meeting? What meeting?" Sun Hang asked, "Couldn’t be my criticism meeting, right?"
"Impossible, the Celestial City Mysterious Creature Research Institute doesn’t have the authority to deal with you. If they were to do anything to you, they would directly hand you over to the Dubhe Tower headquarters in Chunming City." Wang Xiyi stared blankly at the road illuminated by the car’s headlights, "Announcing an emergency meeting at this time... I don’t know why, but I have a bad feeling about it."
"Can you get in touch with Yang Qi?" Sun Hang withdrew his gaze and asked while driving.
"I’ll try." Wang Xiyi said, pulling out her phone.
A dozen seconds later, she shook her head: "No, the call won’t go through."
"No signal?"
"No, since we can contact the 198 border outpost, we naturally should be able to contact Celestial City using the outpost as a relay."
"Could Yang Qi be angry and refusing to answer the phone? That doesn’t seem right, Mr. Yang isn’t like that..."
"I’m afraid something really has happened in Celestial City." Wang Xiyi said, "...something even more serious than your disappearance."
"Discussing this is pointless, we should just return and see." Candle Dragon said, in a solemn tone.
A sense of unease spread throughout the team... except for Sun Hang.
He was driving and humming ’Today is a good day, everything will go as planned’, seemingly unconcerned about the ’possibly more serious than his disappearance’ matter Wang Xiyi spoke of.
The two cars quickly drove out of the mountains, and the silhouette of the 198 border outpost appeared in view.
A soldier was waving two brightly lit green batons roadside.
"What is he doing?" Sun Hang asked Wang Xiyi beside him.
"’Don’t stop, pass through at full speed.’" Wang Xiyi interpreted, "Looks like it’s really urgent over there in Celestial City."
"I just received a message." Candle Dragon’s voice came over the communication channel, "A few of my old friends have arrived in Celestial City not long ago."
"Your old friends?" Sun Hang asked, "Are they hunters too?"
"Yes, and they’re all seasoned hunters... Usually, a single hunter of their caliber is enough for typical tasks... sending two means it’s serious trouble... but now they’ve brought practically a whole team..."
"How many people in a team?" Sun Hang couldn’t help but ask, "Apologies, I’ve never really paid attention to this before."
"Different units have different allocations, but hunters directly under Dubhe Tower are organized into teams of eight." Candle Dragon replied.
"So, you’re telling me, eight of your caliber have come all at once?"
"Seven, but there are four more on the way."
"...Didn’t they say what the mission objective is?"
"They don’t know either. I suspect... we’ll see them at the emergency meeting later."
...
With the pedal floored, the two cars soon arrived in Celestial City—Sun Hang noted that the checkpoints at the city’s entry and exit had increased at least threefold, along with numerous heavily armed special operations officers on the roadside. A completely black tank squatted behind the barricade, its pitch-black muzzle aimed straight ahead.
"Something’s wrong, something’s very wrong!" Ye Jiu muttered, "The last time I saw such a scene was when Eternal Night just descended and numerous Mysterious Creatures invaded the city... Celestial City must be in major trouble!"
However, these special operations officers did not block Sun Hang’s group. From two hundred meters away, they completed remote identity authentication, and the barrier comparable to a tank’s barrel rose early. Sun Hang’s group didn’t even slow down, charging into Celestial City at 120 km/h.
The elevated roads in the city were devoid of cars. In the distant sky, large drones hovered, their orange warning lights flashing every few seconds.
"I took a look." Wang Xiyi turned to Sun Hang, the glowing screen of her phone illuminating her fair cheek, "Celestial City is now under the highest level of martial law... Ye Jiu is right, it’s just like that day."
"Quite good," Sun Hang glanced at the silent city, then at the dark sky, before exiting the elevated road.
"You’re going the wrong way." Wang Xiyi frowned, "The route back to the institute should take the next exit, not this one."
"In the dark windy night with no one around, what do you think it’s suitable for?" Sun Hang asked with a smile.
"What?"
"For murder." Sun Hang chuckled, then spoke into the communication channel, "Candle Dragon, Ye Jiu, you guys head back to the institute first, I’ve got a little errand to run and will follow shortly."
After a moment, Sun Hang added half a sentence: "This is an order."
"Are you going to find the person who framed you?" Wang Xiyi frowned, "With the highest level of alert state now, are you sure you can kill him and still make it back for the meeting?"
"Mr. Wang, do you know where you surpass Mr. Yang?"
"Hmm?"
"If Mr. Yang were sitting in my passenger seat now, she would definitely try her best to dissuade me from acting rashly, advocating legal channels to solve problems... you get me?"
"Yang Qi’s thinking isn’t wrong, but since you insist on killing him, then he deserves it." Wang Xiyi brushed her hair, "How about it? Need my help?"
"Just keep an eye on the car downstairs for me. If you were to intervene, it would cause too much commotion and disturb the residents. I’ll try to wrap it up quickly."
"Alright."
The car stopped at the entrance of a high-end residential area. Sun Hang simply showed his hunter license, and the security guard, intimidated, quickly opened the gate for him.
"Building 18, Unit 1, 1801, pretty auspicious numbers." Sun Hang glanced at his phone, the address was obtained using his access rights at Dubhe Tower.
"The car’s in your hands." Sun Hang stepped out, patting the gun holstered at his waist, and entered the elevator.
Watching the elevator rise level by level, Sun Hang pulled out his phone again and dialed a number.
"Mr. Pei, I’m going to kill someone."
"It’s no big deal, just notifying you."
"If your men have nothing better to do, they can come help clean up the scene later."
With three sentences said, the elevator ’dinged’ and stopped at the eighteenth floor.
Sun Hang pressed the doorbell.
A few seconds later, a young man opened the door, looking at Sun Hang with suspicion: "You are...?"
This young man’s features bore a seventy percent resemblance to Lu Hongming, wearing a dark gray cashmere sweater with a pair of exquisite frameless glasses on his nose.
Sun Hang recognized him; he was the one who secretly put the scent diffuser in the SUV.
"I’m your father’s colleague, oh, former colleague, with some private matters to discuss." Sun Hang said kindly.
"Former colleague? Private matters? At this time?"
"It’s about the citywide lockdown incident, very important." Sun Hang replied earnestly and convincingly.
"Really?" The young man obviously didn’t believe Sun Hang’s words, but he still turned and shouted inside, "Dad, someone says they’re looking for you!"
"Who is it? Coming here at this time?" Lu Hongming’s voice came from inside. Shortly afterward, his figure appeared at the entrance of the living room.
The moment he saw Sun Hang, the teacup in his hand dropped straight to the ground and shattered.
"Quick! Quick, close the door!!" Lu Hongming screamed as if he’d seen a ghost.
[P.S. This Chapter was typed on the high-speed rail, posted without proofreading, so there might be a lot of typos. Everyone please help spot them~]
