Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 602 - 151: Another Sudden Mutation

Celestial City Mysterious Creature Research Institute, Operations Command Center.

"Report! Four minutes ago, we lost contact with Forward Observation Post Bunker 1!"

"Deploying unmanned drones to the forward observation post!"

"The drone has arrived at Bunker 2!"

"Drone signal lost!"

"Lost contact with Bunker 2!"

A stream of bad news flowed in from the front lines, and the entire operations command center was thrown into chaos.

"Quick, immediately dispatch a mobile unit to the forward observation post! No, a mobile unit isn't enough, are there any Hunters on standby?"

"I suggest we deploy Garuda directly!" a military advisor said.

"No way! Garuda is too large a target! It could easily provoke an extreme reaction from Chimera 17!" a researcher in a filthy lab coat slapped the table, arguing back, "According to the latest observations, Chimera 17's energy-emitting organs have mutated four times in the past six days. No one knows the current range of its energy beams, and if Garuda is shot down, can you bear that responsibility?"

"Weren't we able to use drones to coax out Chimera 17's stress response the last time we collected meme samples? Can't we just do the same thing this time?" another advisor chimed in.

"Ha... do you think our drones are unlimited? Or that we can just hit Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to make a ton of them appear?" the logistics department head sneered, "Do you know how many drones we've used up in the entire Celestial City since the onset of the Eternal Night? To be honest, we can't deploy even a thousand drones right now, even if you include those toy models..."

The logistics department head rapped the table hard and continued, "As for high-performance military drones that can make long-distance round trips and are immune to radiation and heavy rain... even if you held a gun to my head, I couldn't offer up more than twenty!"

"Calm down, Lao Chen, we're not forcing you to produce that many drones; it's just a suggestion, right?" a familiar officer joked with the logistics head, "Don't keep talking about having a gun pointed at you. If we lose you, where would we find another logistics expert like you? Don't you agree?"

"I'm really fed up with you bunch of idiots! You wouldn't know the cost of living until you manage a household," the logistics head was no less angry, "Always making impulsive plans without considering the current situation in Celestial City... The city's production capability was never comparable to big metropolises like Chunming City or Shen City, and now the whole society is at a standstill. I'm trying to stretch every dollar I've got... never mind, I have no say in these operation meetings. Anyway, it's simple: we've run out of drones, and we can't replenish our stock anytime soon."

"Then we'll have to try something else," the same advisor who initially suggested deploying Garuda said. "What's the status on the Hunters?"

"There are currently four Hunters on standby in Celestial City. They've been notified," the communications officer said. "Two say they can head out immediately, while two haven't responded."

"No response? Are they sleeping?" the advisor asked, somewhat displeased, "Which two Hunters haven't responded?"

"Night Slayer and Sun Hang," the communications officer replied.

The advisor's frustration vanished instantly.

These two are not people he could easily summon.

Not to mention, to ensure the safety of the research institute, one of these Hunters must remain on site; they can't both be deployed simultaneously.

"Contact Mr. Yang and ask if she can send one of them to the forward observation post... The situation might be more severe than we initially thought, and we have to trouble them," the advisor said.

"Mr. Yang said she's calling Sun Hang now."

At least there was one thing the advisor wasn't wrong about.

Those two non-responsive Hunters were indeed sleeping.

And they were sleeping together.

When Sun Hang's phone rang with Yang Qi's exclusive ringtone, he had been asleep for less than ten minutes.

A long dragon tail tightly coiled around Sun Hang's left arm and leg, the chilly scales pressed against his skin, imbued with a penetrating coolness. On the other side, Yang Qi's warm body, like an octopus, stubbornly clung to the other half of Sun Hang's body.

The research on human physiological endurance wasn't progressing well, but at least no one's life was endangered.

Breaking free from the constraints on both sides, Sun Hang rolled out of bed, picked up his phone, and answered the call, "Hello, Mr. Yang? What's going on?"

Being woken up right after falling asleep, Sun Hang was visibly grumpy, but realizing that the younger sister of the person on the other end of the call was asleep right beside him, he immediately became much more polite and sensible.

"There's been an incident at the forward observation post," Yang Qi said, her tone incredibly serious.

"Doesn't the forward observation post have incidents all the time?" Sun Hang asked while getting dressed. In his memory, the attrition rate at the forward observation post was quite high, averaging a loss of one person every five patrols due to radiation, heavy rain, and the scattered Mysterious Creatures roaming near Chimera 17, making that area the most dangerous around Celestial City by far.

"This time it's different... Bunker 1 and Bunker 2 have completely lost contact, and we've lost the signals from all deployed drones," Yang Qi said. "Right now, besides you and Wang Xiyi, there are only two other Hunters available in the entire Celestial City."