Hunter of Mysterious Creature

"Three? Three?!"

"Quick, send the drone over! I need to know what's happening at positions three and four! Immediately! Now!!"

The operator in the command room quickly pushed the joystick, redirecting the drone's camera.

At those two sniper positions, both snipers and observers were already on the ground, covered by hundreds of palm-sized, spider-like mysterious creatures, biting the flesh of the corpses with sharp mandibles.

Seemingly aware of the drone camera, these small spiders began to emit a faint white glow before quickly vanishing from view.

"The target seems to have a group with a symbiotic relationship... No, I strongly suspect the target has the ability to spawn offspring! These small spiders have perfectly inherited the target's 'stealth' ability! When this ability is activated, a pale white glow emanates from the body surface, erasing itself from electronic recordings..." Song Yarong stared at the monitor intensely, speaking rapidly, "I'm really curious about which meme fragments these offspring inherited from the parent... If we want to express this trait, perhaps... Can the field personnel try to capture live samples? This is crucial!"

"Rescuing people is more important!" a high-ranking officer shouted harshly, "The highest priority now is ensuring Mr. Ye's safety! She knows too much critical intelligence. If she gets consumed by this mysterious creature, the Countermeasure Committee will have no secrets left!"

The officer had another unspoken concern—after all, Ye Xuan is the daughter of a Federation senator and a key candidate groomed by the Chunming City Mysterious Creature Investigation Bureau and the Federation Military. If she dies here, everyone in this command room will face severe consequences.

The decoy plan was first suggested by Ye Xuan, and she firmly believes that, as the proposer, she should execute the plan herself... This theory she brought from the military camp, where in the Xiazhou Federation, officers responsible for executing missions must lead by example—"Follow me!" and "Get going!" differ by just one word, but the impact on morale is worlds apart.

"Should've opposed it from the start…" The officer grimaced as he rubbed his temples, "How soon can the nearest Hunter reach the scene?"

"At least another half minute…" the operator responded, "Falcon One and Falcon Two have arrived and are applying fire suppression on the target!"

"Have Falcon One continue fire suppression on the target, Falcon Two focus on personnel rescue!" the officer instructed immediately, "Do whatever it takes to rescue them!"

"Understood!"

The two helicopters positioned themselves on the left and right of the building. The six-barrel 25mm cannons started spinning, with deafening roars as the cannon muzzle spewed meter-long flames, blocking all movement paths of the stitched-together mysterious creature!

"Fire suppression successful! Missiles locked on! Launch!"

"Wait!"

Two small air-to-ground missiles shot out from their launch tubes, trailing long smoke tails towards the creature, but as the missiles fired, the creature suddenly sank, crashing through the rooftop and into the building!

"Target lost! Attempting to redirect guidance... No, it's too late!"

The two missiles collided with each other, and the blast wave flung Yang Lian and Ye Xuan far away.

"Damn, who authorized missile use!" A curse echoed in the temporary command room, "Falcon Two! Go down and rescue them now!"

"They should be okay, right…" another officer muttered quietly, "'Fireball Four' missile's kill radius is only twenty meters, they're at least thirty meters away from the blast center…"

"What do you mean, 'should be okay'!?" The officer glared angrily at his colleague, "You better hope they're not seriously injured… or else…"

A diameter over ten meters hole appeared on the rooftop, thick smoke rising from the hole, nearly obscuring all views.

This hole was originally smashed through by the creature, but the air-to-ground missiles expanded the hole diameter considerably. The edges were littered with twisted, broken steel bars and glowing shell fragments.

Falcon One hovered above the hole, four high-lumen spotlights beneath the fuselage illuminating the rooftop like daylight; Falcon Two descended slowly, several soldiers with medic armbands jumped out from the cabin, sprinting towards the two fallen bodies.

But before they reached Ye Xuan and Yang Lian, two laser-like webs pierced through the rooftop, entwining Falcon Two's tail and landing gear, pulling the helicopter down hard before the pilot could react, crashing it onto the ground!

Broken rotor blades flew, knocking the medics to the ground.

Mangled limbs drooped, blood splattered.

"Falcon Two has crashed! Repeat! Falcon Two has crashed!!"

"Quick! Have Falcon One ascend height!"

"Can we determine the target's current position?!"

"Can't lock on! Neither radar, thermal imaging, nor sonar can capture the target's traces!"

In the chaos of the temporary command room, astonishingly, the creature leapt out from the large hole!

Its target was clear, Falcon One, which had not yet ascended to a sufficient height!

Silver webbing shot from its abdomen, quickly entwining Falcon One's landing gear, but instead of pulling the helicopter to the ground, it rapidly tightened the webs, lifting itself into the air.

"I... Oh shit!" Falcon One's pilot managed only a curse before the scorpion tail smashed through the cockpit windshield, pinning him to his seat.

"The creature is attached beneath Falcon One! Falcon One's pilot's vital signs are gone!"

"Falcon One is losing balance! It's about to crash!"

"High-energy reaction approaching from southeast… fast! Unable to identify friend or foe…" A researcher monitoring meme devices suddenly exclaimed, "Wait! Not an enemy! It's Night Slayer!!"

The officer's brain couldn't even process "Night Slayer" as a Hunter's code name before seeing a meteor-like fireball streak into the monitor, colliding fiercely with the mysterious creature!