Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Yang Lian also ran towards the stairs with her. At the same time, she threw away the gun in her hand that was already out of bullets. She had to admit, her shooting skills were terrible, but her aim when throwing things was unexpectedly accurate. The handle of the pistol struck the down button for the elevator five meters away with perfect precision!

Immediately, the elevator doors closed, and the last bit of power from the backup system lowered the car, pressing down the paranormal entity hanging from the bottom of the car.

Two barefoot girls sprinted along the fire escape, not daring to slow their pace at all—the elevator shaft was echoing with continuous banging sounds. The paranormal entity had evidently overcome the car's obstruction and was now madly chasing them through the shaft.

"We've encountered the target! It's currently inside the shaft of Elevator One and moving rapidly upwards towards the rooftop!" Ye Xuan shouted into her headset as she ran, "We need support! We need air support!"

"Falcon One and Falcon Two are on their way to your location, estimated arrival in two minutes!" The headquarters replied swiftly, "Ground units have also entered the residential area, and in addition, snipers positioned on top of buildings six and eleven are in place! You must hold on! As long as you can lure the entity to the rooftop, we can snipe it!!"

"There's something else!" Ye Xuan continued to report, "'Li Fire' is ineffective against this entity, don't expect to take it down with conventional ammunition. Have the snipers switch to heavy-caliber rounds, use the kinetic energy of the rounds to contain the target!"

"Copy that!"

Ye Xuan glanced up at the sign hanging in the stairwell, and in no time they had run up to the twenty-sixth floor, just over twenty steps away from the rooftop!

At that moment, the wall on one side of the stairwell shattered with a huge crash, as if a heavy truck had rammed into a giant wafer. A massive paranormal entity landed heavily behind them, finally revealing the full sight of the eerie "white shadow."

This was a bona fide "Frankenstein Monster"—the upper body was an extremely swollen female human torso, while below the waist was the body of a gigantic spider, with eight furry appendages that, if fully extended, would likely stretch over ten meters.

The spider's abdomen was greatly swollen, emitting a faint white phosphorescence through its nearly translucent exoskeleton, while underneath, an organ resembling a cloaca open and closed rhythmically like a mouth.

Further back, a giant scorpion-like tail could be seen, with the sharp tip, which had pierced the elevator car, attached to its end.

This Frankenstein Monster didn't hesitate in the slightest. After smashing through the wall, it rushed towards the two at lightning speed—in the narrow confines of the stairwell, the pair had virtually no room to dodge. At this critical moment, the door to Room 2601 suddenly burst open from the inside, and a blood-covered figure rushed out.

"Go—quickly—" the person shouted to the two girls with all their might, then leaped at the paranormal entity monster!

"Splat!"

At the moment he jumped from the stairs, the entity's tail had already pierced through his body, pulling him forward.

The brave field agent lowered his head, a smug smile frozen on his bloodstained face.

He released his grip, and two grenades with their safety pins removed dropped from his hands, rolling beneath the belly of the Frankenmonster entity.

"Boom!!!"

The massive explosion sounded, the shockwave pushing Ye Xuan and Yang Lian through the safety door to the rooftop.

Yang Lian hit the ground hard, taking a while to come to her senses. She vigorously patted her dizzy head and struggled to get up.

Blood trickled from Yang Lian's ears, and a buzzing sound echoed in her mind; she couldn't hear anything else.

The whole world seemed to sway violently, the lights on the distant tower stretched out like blurry neon glow sticks held by fans at a concert.

Yang Lian could only manage a few steps before losing her balance and tumbling to the ground again.

Nearby, Ye Xuan staggered forward, holding onto a pipe—despite most of the blast wave and shrapnel being absorbed by the body of the Franken monster entity, a stray fragment had grazed Ye Xuan's calf, cutting deep enough to expose bone.

At first, she didn't feel much, but as she recovered from the explosion's impact, excruciating pain surged forth, almost causing her to black out.

Blood flowed profusely, and Ye Xuan could feel the hot current running down her leg, but she dared not stop, forcing herself to persevere forward inch by inch despite the searing pain.

She too was deafened by the explosion in the stairwell and couldn't hear anything, but she could still feel the vibrations of the ground—the Franken monster entity wasn't dead, it might not even be injured. It was furiously smashing through the stairwell, destroying the barriers to its progress... it wouldn't be long before it tore open the narrow passage leading to the rooftop and came too close to her.

The survival instinct spurred an adrenaline rush, seemingly dulling the pain in Ye Xuan's leg. She managed to glance back just in time to see the monster shatter the sidewall at the exit, emerging from inside the stairwell.

A powerful gust swept past Ye Xuan, a heavy sniper round hit the Franken monster entity's huge spider abdomen precisely, causing it to stagger back several steps.

This shot was fired from a 25mm anti-tank weapon, the 1200-gram custom sniper round capable of flipping a ten-ton light armored vehicle, yet it only made the creature retreat a few steps.

"Hi... this is Ye Xuan..." Ye Xuan pressed her headset, unable to hear the command center on the other end, speaking to herself, "Tell the snipers... aim for the humanoid and spider body connector... continue to use heavy rounds... might be able to... sever it in half..."

The spot where the heavy round hit the entity showed a dent the size of a basin, with the tungsten-steel core round sunk deep into the center. Yet even so, the shot failed to penetrate the entity's body.

Another powerful gust whipped through, but this time, the Frankenstein Monster leapt into the air... its massive body was unexpectedly agile, soaring several meters high in one bound, causing the shot to pass underneath without hitting the target!

"Sniper Position Four reporting... sniper trajectory anticipated by target! Additionally... Ah!"

A scream echoed through the comms channel, sending a wave of tension through the temporary command center at the research institute!

The Franken monster entity had already appeared on the rooftop, what then attacked the sniper spot on the other building?

"Sniper Position Four! Report your status immediately! Sniper Position Four? Sniper Position Four?!"

There was no response from the other end of the comms channel.

"Sniper Position Three, you're closest to Sniper Position Four, what happened there?!"

"Sniper Position Three reporting... I only see a sniper rifle propped on the edge of the rooftop, the sniper and spotter from Position Four are nowhere in sight, and the safety rail along the rooftop edge obstructs my view, I can't observe anything more! Hold on... there's—"

The comms cut off once again!