Chapter 323 "Reaper" Lucas
"Oh? Tell me in detail?" Sun Hang suddenly became interested.
"Lucas, hunter number 0109, nicknamed 'Reaper', Tianshu Tower is directly under the hunters." Yuri said, "He is a first-level hunter, and his highest ranking on the hunter rankings was ninth place."< br>
"Ninth place..." There are only two ranked monster hunters that Sun Hang knows. One is the dedicated bodyguard of the top of Tianshu Tower and the ninth-ranked "Iron Wall"; the other is even Longyan Barrier. "Bao Si", the owner of regular meme that can charm, ranks 37th.
And this Lucas's ranking is even higher than the iron wall.
"So, what is the ability of this 'Reaper' Lucas?" Sun Hang asked.
"Just like his nickname, Harvest Life." Yuri said, "His ability is very strange, that is, when he uses any weapon that is very similar in shape to a sickle, as long as it hits the target, regardless of whether it causes effective damage to the target, This attack will absorb part of the target's vitality and feed it back to Lucas... He is the trump card used by Tianshu Tower to deal with biological monsters. No matter how powerful the monster is, as long as it is a living thing, it will Restrained by Lucas ”
"Let me think about it... If nothing happens to this guy, wouldn't it be easier and more enjoyable to send him to deal with Chimera No. 17?" Sun Hang said, "He doesn't have to do anything, he just needs to run under the giant cocoon. Using a sickle to scrape the giant cocoon one by one can kill Chimera No. 17 with the 'real damage' to the creature?"
"Theoretically, that's the case...but in fact..." Yuri hesitated, "Oh, you'd better come with me and take a look and you'll understand."
After saying that, Yuri walked to the door lock. After entering six passwords of more than ten digits, he turned around and said to Sun Hang: "Everyone who enters this room needs to undergo iris and DNA information authentication. , blood samples need to be collected during the process, please do not resist.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a laser scanned Sun Hang and Yuri from beginning to end, and then the laser stayed on their faces for a few seconds.
"How to collect blood samples?" Sun Hang asked, "Isn't it said that taking off the protective clothing will contaminate the container?"
"No need to take off the protective clothing." Yuri shook his head.
A hidden groove on the ground opened, and two mechanical arms poked out. The two robotic arms moved to the sides of Sun Hang and Yuri respectively, and connected the collection head at the end of the robotic arm with a valve on the arm of the two protective suits.
There was only a soft "click" sound, the collection head and the valve were connected, and a cold needle entered the inside of the protective suit and pierced Sun Hang's arm.
"Identity information verification completed." AI synthesized voice came from inside the smart door lock, "Head of Containment Area No. 1, Yuri Alexei Ivanov, authority level: S level; registered hunter in Tianfu City, Sun Hang, authority level: 'Confidential'; two people applied to enter the B423 containment area...The application has been approved by the highest authority of Tianshu Tower, please step back."
"Please step back a little distance." Yuri also reminded, "The containment area of B423 is usually in a full vacuum state. The instantaneous negative pressure generated after the valve is opened may suck people who are too close. Go in.”
"Oh." Although Sun Hang was not afraid of any vacuum or negative pressure, he still took a step back obediently.
A strong suction force came from the gap of the opened valve. When the internal and external air pressures were balanced and the suction force disappeared, a biting chill suddenly floated from inside... Even the temperature inside the protective suit with a thermostatic device It dropped several degrees in an instant.
Sun Hang glanced at the place where the valve was open and saw that the water vapor in the air had condensed into a layer of white frost on the ground and near the door frame, and the white frost was still spreading into the distance.
"The temperature in the containment area is minus 205 degrees Celsius. Please check whether the extreme environment adaptation function of the protective clothing has been automatically turned on." Yuri said.
Sun Hang glanced at the readings projected on the helmet visor. After dropping a few degrees, the temperature inside the protective suit quickly returned to its original constant temperature, and the temperature adjustment device located inside the backpack began to emit a higher temperature than before. Noticeably a lot of noise.
"Please be more careful and try not to touch anything in the containment area, including the walls." After Yuri said this, he took the lead in passing through the valve.
The structure of this containment room is somewhat similar to that of the laboratory used by Tianfu City's Institute of Monster Research to observe Chen Hongjuan. It is also a relatively narrow corridor when you first enter - but the mechanism in the corridor does not hide protective clothing and equipment. Instead of hidden cabinets for weapons, there were a lot of shower heads emerging from the top of the head, the sides, and the bottom of the feet.
Through the helmet, Sun Hang heard some kind of liquid spraying out from these shower heads - these liquids quickly solidified after contacting the surface of the protective clothing, forming a layer similar to a coating on the surface of the protective clothing. thing.
"Please raise your arms, and then alternately lift your feet for a period of time, so that the isolation fluid can be sprayed into dead corners such as the armpits and soles of the feet as much as possible." Yuri, who was walking in front, said, "After the isolation fluid solidifies, it will form a layer The solid protective layer, when we leave the containment room, this channel will clean the solid protective layer and then peel it off.”
"Isn't protective clothing enough?" Sun Hang asked.
"There were some accidents in the early years that I don't want to mention, so we would rather have a little more trouble and ensure safety as much as possible." Yuri sighed, "Especially when facing these extremely dangerous monsters."
The two "showered" in the isolation fluid for about five minutes before Yuri opened the last door to B423.
This is a pure white room shrouded in high-brightness lights - the ceiling, walls and floor are all white. After Yuri closes the door, the pure white walls and door instantly merge into one, and the two cannot be seen with the naked eye. the gap between them.
There are no lights in the room. These pure white walls are the light source in the room. The light they emit turns the entire room into an area with almost no shadows, just like the shadowless lamp on the operating table.
In the middle of the room, there was a two-meter-square completely transparent box suspended. The box was filled with clear liquid. A thin, naked man was curled up in it, his eyes closed. On this man's back, there are eight glass cups turned upside down. At first glance, it looks like cupping.
But if you look closely, you will find that the edges of these eight glass cups are actually cut into the man's skin... It is not so much that they are upside down on the man's back, but that they are "growing" on the man's back. on the man's back.
There is a long copper-colored needle fixed at the inner bottom of each glass. The other end of the long needle is inserted directly into the man's body. Every few seconds, a group of purple-black mist will emerge from the edge of the needle hole. It gushed into the cup, and after swirling around in the cup for a few times, it was sucked back into the man's body.
"Is this cupping?" Sun Hang wondered, "What is that purple-black thing?"
"The 'vitality' condensed into substance." Yuri said, "In other words, the vitality after being 'materialized' by Lucas' ability."
"So that invisible and intangible vitality looks like this?" Sun Hang nodded slightly, "But having said that, this color always gives people a sense of immediate visibility of an evil villain..."
"Actually, it should be bright red like blood, but in the 'inhibitory fluid' it will appear purple-black like lack of oxygen." Yuri said.
"Inhibitory fluid?" Sun Hang asked, "Is it similar to the 'beast transformation inhibitor' that Lao Wang... uh, similar to the 'Night Fury' once injected?"
"The principle is similar. They are all products of memetic reverse engineering." Yuri nodded.
"Okay, can we continue telling this guy's story?" Sun Hang said, "I'm quite puzzled, how did he turn into a phenomenal monster... What kind of phenomenon is he? The essence of vitality The phenomenon of transformation? Or the phenomenon of this purple-black thing going in and out of his body?”
"That was a difficult hunting mission. The mission target was a plant-like creature located in the swamp area of southern Xinjiang." Yuri sighed and said, "The reason why I didn't answer your mission directly just now , because in that mission, the target monster was very similar to Chimera No. 17..."
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"That strange plant thing is also hatching?"
"That's not true. The closest thing between the two is that they both have extremely majestic vitality." Yuri said, "That is a vine hidden under the swamp. It almost wipes out all the people in that area. Creatures - including monsters, hunted and killed Tianshu Tower was worried that the monster's strength would lose control and pose a threat to the towns around the swamp, so it decided to send Lucas to hunt this monster. Just a weird thing.”
"Then what?"
"Lucas has completed the mission, but..." Yuri said, "I just said that Lucas's ability is not to simply weaken the target's vitality, but to absorb... In other words, he will lose the target. At that time, some people inside Tianshu Tower had questioned whether the absorbed vitality exceeded the limit that Lucas could bear. It will lead to uncontrollable consequences... But because Lucas has completed many missions and hunted many extremely powerful monsters... so more people believe that this risk does not exist - after all, Lucas What is absorbed is only the vitality, not the memes of the monster, and his own infection process will not increase due to absorbing too much vitality..."
"Then this mission...he stretched himself?" Sun Hang asked along.
"...The volume of the vine monster exceeded our budget." Yuri nodded, "We thought that its mass would not exceed two hundred tons at most, but no one expected that the part detected by the instrument was just The strange thing is just the tip of the iceberg exposed on the surface of the swamp. ... In fact, the body of the vine monster has occupied more than 90% of the space in the swamp... Except for the surface layer of silt that is seven or eight meters deep, all the space underneath has been covered by this vine monster. Filled with things.”
"That swamp...how deep is it?"
"According to subsequent measurements, the deepest point of the swamp is one hundred and seventy meters... In fact, this is no longer a swamp, but a giant underground cave carved out by the corrosive liquid secreted by the vines," Yuri said. .
"Then after discovering something is wrong, wouldn't it be enough to ask Lucas to stop?" Sun Hang asked again.
"We thought so at the time... But we don't know why, no matter what the command said, Lucas turned a deaf ear, let alone stopped absorbing the life force of the vine monsters... We are not sure, at that time, he... Is it because the ability is out of control and it is difficult to get off the tiger? Or is it because the subjective consciousness is unwilling to give up the task? ”
"I think 80% of the time it's the former."
"I think so too... I know Lucas very well. He is a very calm person. He has never been impulsive and has never disobeyed the orders of his superiors. What's more, at that time, he had refused to communicate with the rear. This is definitely not the case. Normal phenomenon." Yuri continued, "In that situation. Under this circumstance, we have no way to interrupt the absorption process without harming Lucas... After forty-one hours of absorption, the vital signs of the vine monster completely disappeared, and the meme began to disintegrate on its own, but Lu Cass fell into a very strange state."
"How weird is it?" Sun Hang asked.
"His body seems to be unable to withstand the huge amount of life force he has absorbed. The life force that has been compressed to 'substantial' is constantly spurting out from his pores, and then being sucked back by him... As you can see' It's the same process as in the Pressure Relief Cup. We tried to send people close to him, but if the people we sent were still a few meters away from him, their whole bodies would rapidly expand like a balloon, and finally explode into a bloody mist. .”
"Exhausted by the life force?" Sun Hang asked.
Yuri nodded: "A large amount of vitality that has not yet been 'substantial' is still escaping around Lucas... Although compared with the substantial vitality that goes in and out of his body, these scattered vitality are not connected. It's not even a drop in the bucket, but it can push ordinary humans to death. It's more than enough... The most terrifying thing is that at that time, we couldn't find any way to isolate this life force from entering the human body. No matter it was protective clothing or mecha vehicles, as long as it got close to a certain range, it would be squeezed alive. Explode.”
Yuri paused for a few seconds and continued, "Then we discovered that Lucas's own infection process increased sharply, and soon exceeded the danger threshold... On the ninth hour after the vine monster was confirmed to be eliminated, Lucas himself was judged to be 'completely deceitful'."
(End of chapter)