Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 606 - 153: New Teammate

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When Sun Hang arrived at the helipad on the roof of the research building, there were already two Mysterious Creature Hunters waiting for him.

Both of them were wearing heavy rain cloaks, but the difference in their body sizes was enormous—the person on the left was like an iron tower. Among the Hunters Sun Hang had seen, only Iron Wall could surpass him in size; the person on the right was extremely petite, looking like a child who hadn't started to grow yet.

On the way here, Yang Qi had already sent Sun Hang the profiles of the cooperating Hunters for this mission. The two Hunters were a man and a woman; the man was named Liu Li and unlike most Hunters, he didn't choose a crazy cool code name, whereas the female Hunter used the code name "Crystal Princess."

"Are you Liu Li?" Sun Hang pointed at the nearly three-meter-tall giant, then looked at the petite Hunter, "Then you must be 'Crystal Princess'?"

"You've got the wrong person." The petite Hunter removed his cloak's hood, revealing a handsome youthful face. His looks were absolutely of a kind that would drive European priests wild—a fact Sun Hang was sure of: this was a boy, not a girl.

The profile clearly stated that Hunter "Crystal Princess" was female, genuinely female, not some random English letters, nor an armed helicopter or Walmart shopping bag.

"I am the Mysterious Creature Hunter, Liu Li," said the small boy.

"You're Liu Li? Then you..." Sun Hang looked at the other burly Hunter, feeling a wave of chill, "You must be the legendary 'Crystal Princess'?"

"Many people find it hard to associate my code name with my image when they first hear it, but that's fine; I'm used to it," Crystal Princess said casually after taking off her hood.

To be honest, from a normal aesthetic point of view, just judging by the face, Crystal Princess was actually quite good-looking... it's just that when this head was attached to such a body, the extreme contrast always gave people a sense of surrealism.

"It's all the elevator's fault, it was too fast," Sun Hang immediately passed the buck, "Mr. Yang sent me your profiles, and I only had time to see one name and gender before the elevator arrived."

"It's okay." Unlike Liu Li's aloof demeanor, Crystal Princess seemed more approachable, "My brother filled in this code name for me; I later wanted to change it but couldn't think of anything better at the time, so it stayed. For convenience, you can just call me Crystal."

"I think I've come up with a pretty fitting code name for you," Sun Hang suddenly said as an idea flashed in his mind.

"Is it 'Valkyrie'?" Crystal asked.

"How did you know?" Sun Hang couldn't help but wonder—could it be that Crystal Princess's ability is also 'Mind Reading'?

"Because that's the code name my brother originally wanted for me, but when entering it into the system, he found someone else was already using it, so it got changed to Crystal Princess," Crystal explained.

"Someone's using that kind of code name?" Sun Hang was slightly surprised.

"Yeah, and that Hunter has already died… although there's no clear rule about whether a fallen Hunter's code name can be reclaimed, my brother said it wouldn't be auspicious to do that, so he chose another one."

Sun Hang suddenly thought of Candle Dragon, a code name passed down through generations in their family, and it didn't seem to have any taboos about auspiciousness or not...

"You guys can discuss code names slowly." Liu Li suddenly spoke up, his voice slightly impatient, "For now, let's not waste valuable mission time."

"Let's get on the plane first; we can talk about other things on the way," Crystal said. She bent low to crawl into the cabin—given her size, she couldn't stand upright inside this helicopter cabin and had to stay hunched the whole time. Even then, her head was still pressed against the ceiling.

"Okay." Sun Hang and Liu Li also climbed into the cabin.

The three helicopters took off simultaneously. Besides the one Sun Hang and his team were on, the other two helicopters were carrying an elite special forces team and a load of sophisticated, expensive monitoring equipment.

"Speaking of which, can I ask a question?" Sun Hang looked at Crystal and asked.

"Go ahead."

"Who is your brother?" The ability of Thought Peeping, when used on infected individuals, would give them a noticeable "discomfort," so Sun Hang refrained from using Mind Reading Technique on them unless necessary.

But for some reason, he subconsciously felt that Crystal Princess's brother should be someone he knew.

"Iron Wall," Crystal Princess replied.

Of course.

Sun Hang couldn't help but internally comment, thinking that it was unexpected for the otherwise stern Iron Wall to have such a quirky side when it came to his sister.

But speaking of which, judging by the size of these two, they really are siblings.

One can only wonder what their parents look like... could their whole family be this "imposing"?

"You just said you didn't have time to look at our profiles, right?" Liu Li, sitting across from Sun Hang, asked coldly. "While we have time, we should inform each other of our abilities, so I can tailor an action plan suited to your strengths in the upcoming mission."