Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 654 - 176: Surface High Temperature_2
"What trouble?" Sun Hang glanced at the PFDA units of the tenth team. The engineers were still busy with the final tuning actions. Based on Sun Hang's experience of assembling dozens of PFDA units, he estimated it would take another two or three minutes before it would be his turn to manufacture those fungal components.
"The surface temperature of Chimera 17 is too high. The 'pesticide' injection syringe simply cannot get close," Yang Qi said. "Several advancing teams that have reached the target location have all tried, but without exception, the syringes all melted, and two Hunters have been severely burned due to being too close and have currently lost their combat ability."
"So, you're expecting me, with my 'elementary school level education,' to help solve a problem that even a bunch of Ph.D. and Master's degree holders can't solve?" Sun Hang retorted.
"The composite material used for the syringes is already the most heat-resistant material we could find, but it still cannot withstand the temperature on the surface of Chimera 17. I was wondering if your ability could find a solution..."
"Useless," Sun Hang immediately dismissed, "three or four degrees Celsius is too much for the Taisui mycelium... As for the liquid metal I restructured, although they can withstand this temperature, the problem is, in that state, the internal temperature of the liquid metal would only be higher than the external temperature, so you can't use them to inject the pesticide into Chimera 17."
"I do have an idea," Song Yarong suddenly said.
"What idea?" Sun Hang, Wang Xiyi, and Yang Qi asked simultaneously.
Song Yarong's gaze lingered on Wang Xiyi for a few seconds, then she shook her head: "Forget it, it probably won't work, I'd better not say it."
"At least tell us what the idea is!" From Yang Qi's tone, it seemed she was about to cry.
"...Fine." Song Yarong gritted her teeth, "My idea is to fill the pesticide and activator inside the nanobots, and then inject these nanobots into Wang Xiyi's bloodstream. I've seen Wang Xiyi's medical report. Without using her ability, her blood temperature is below twenty degrees Celsius... Although the Black Dragon is a cold-blooded creature, as long as she's fast enough, she should be able to touch Chimera 17 before the blood temperature rises to a threshold the nanobots can't withstand."
"You're planning to... use Wang Xiyi as the 'syringe'?" Yang Qi's voice suddenly became a bit dry.
"But I've roughly estimated that the success rate is less than twenty percent, and... and..." Song Yarong looked away, seemingly unable to face Wang Xiyi directly, "and doing so, Wang Xiyi's survival rate... is zero."
"Even the Black Dragon meme can't withstand the high temperature of Chimera 17?" Sun Hang frowned.
"It's not Chimera 17's problem... it's the pesticide's problem," Song Yarong shook her head and sighed, "For the infected, both the pesticide and the activator are highly toxic... and to use the body as an injector for this lethal substance, Wang Xiyi... cannot possibly survive."
"Didn't they say this pesticide was reverse-engineered from Chimera 17's meme? How come this precise targeted drug behaves like a broad-spectrum antibiotic in Mr. Wang's case?" Sun Hang asked, puzzled.
"That's because compared to the complexity of Chimera 17's meme, the meme sequence of the infected is too simple and fragile... A targeted drug used to treat human diseases is a deadly poison for lab mice. It's not about hitting the target or not, it's about the dosage... And before Chimera 17's meme, the infected's meme doesn't even qualify as a mouse, let alone an insect," Song Yarong said, "I can't explain this clearly in just a few words... Suffice it to say, once the pesticide is injected into Wang Xiyi's body, no matter the method, she will certainly die."
"Is the success rate really that low?" Wang Xiyi suddenly asked.
"At most... it won't exceed twenty percent," Song Yarong said, "I'm not referring to the overall success rate of the operation, but just the success rate of you injecting the pesticide and activator into Chimera 17."
"Isn't that quite high?" Wang Xiyi suddenly laughed, "Sure! Quickly, hurry and inject that pesticide into my body!"
Saying so, she already rolled up her sleeves, revealing a slender, well-defined arm.
The black scales on the outside of her arm shone with a metallic luster, faintly reflecting the image of Chimera 17, a large fireball in the distance.
Wang Xiyi suddenly looked up at Sun Hang, smiling as she said, "How about a deep kiss for the last time? Otherwise, there might never be another chance. I wouldn't want to leave you with any regrets."
"Two percent probability, forget it," Sun Hang reached out to help Wang Xiyi roll her sleeve back down, "We're not gamblers betting it all, no need."
"But... but..." Yang Qi wanted to say something but hesitated.
"We indeed have no better solution," Song Yarong said the words Yang Qi left unspoken, "If I could, I would unhesitatingly replace Mr. Wang as this human syringe... Unfortunately, I'm infected with the Taisui meme, not the Black Dragon meme."
"Among all the Hunters present, other than Wang Xiyi, the next best at high-temperature resistance is only the Crystal Princess of the second team," Song Yarong continued, "But her limit is only seventeen hundred degrees Celsius... nowhere near enough."
"No, what I mean is... you all seem to be stuck in a mindset," Sun Hang poked Song Yarong's head with his finger, "Why insist on finding a material that can withstand the high surface temperature of Chimera 17?"
"Are you trying to say...?"
"Directly attack Chimera 17! If the magma layer's temperature is too high, blow it up, blast its magma layer open! If the temperature beneath the magma layer is still high, keep blasting! Once it's deep enough, there's no need for a syringe, just throw in the pesticide and activator directly into the hole, no?
Wang Xiyi and Song Yarong exchanged glances, and after two seconds, the latter whispered, "Doing this... is it really feasible?"
"It sounds a bit more reliable than your plan... and crucially, doing this doesn't feel so constrained," Sun Hang said. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖
"But what are we going to use to blast it?" Yang Qi asked, "That's the key! Don't forget our three rounds of diversionary attacks not long ago; with our current weapons, even clearing the maternal cocoon's surface is difficult, so how can we destroy the magma layer beneath it?"
"I'll give it a try," Sun Hang said.
"Are you confident?" Yang Qi asked.
"No. But I want to try," Sun Hang said.
"Alright! Shinkata Misaki's assault equipment is ready. The tenth and eleventh teams will set off together!" Yang Qi said, "Additionally, the organ with which Chimera 17 emits energy beams has regrown... If necessary, you can have them attract Chimera 17's firepower."
By "them," Yang Qi naturally referred to the eight mass-produced Hunters assigned to the tenth and eleventh teams.
[P.S. Regarding typos, I'd like to mention something to everyone. Often, readers ask why I don't correct typos when they're pointed out. It's not that I don't want to; VIP chapters that have been published for more than seven days automatically lock, and the authors have no right to modify them. To make changes, I'd have to contact the editor for unlocking.
More serious issues definitely need to be brought to the editor's attention, but we can't frequently trouble them for one or two typos, especially since they manage a lot of authors and are quite busy.
There's a solution, though, and that is the proofreading feature in the Qidian app—although authors can't modify locked chapters, if readers use the feature and the correction is accepted by the author, it can replace the original text, bypassing the lock issue entirely.
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