Hunter of Mysterious Creature

The fireball directly wrapped around the mysterious creature and crashed into the building once more, followed by a continuous series of explosions, then smashed diagonally through another side of the building—

With a tremendous "boom," smoke and dust suddenly rose tens of meters high.

"All reinforcement units, change the mission target to aid and evacuate the residents within the community! The area within a three-hundred-meter radius of the battle zone between 'Night Slayer' and the creature is a no-entry zone!" The doors of the temporary command center opened, and the elderly director entered, sitting in an electric wheelchair, "Colonel, have your people escort Yang Lian and Ye Xuan, and quickly leave that place."

"Doesn't the hunter named 'Night Slayer' need support?" the officer asked in confusion.

The officer was not part of the local garrison in Shuzhou but was reinforcement summoned from Chunming City. He only knew that 'Night Slayer' was a highly skilled mysterious creature hunter, but he hadn't had the time to read the detailed mission files.

This wasn't due to arrogance but simply because time was incredibly tight—they had been busy nonstop since being transferred to Celestial City. Remembering the names of the main authorities in Celestial City was challenging enough, let alone the specific abilities of subordinate hunters.

"She doesn't need it." The old director shook his head, "Allies would only inhibit her performance."

...

A pit with a radius of over thirty meters and a depth of nearly two meters appeared out of nowhere in the green area between buildings thirteen and fifteen at Star City Garden. The shrubs and trees planted around were razed by the explosive shockwave, and blue flames were fiercely burning inside the pit.

"It's blue flames!" Song Yarong's heart tightened when she saw the blue flames on the surveillance footage. "Night Slayer, why did she go all out right away?"

"For a fatal blow," the old director said slowly, showing no emotion on his face. After saying this, he pressed his lips together and silently stared at the largest screen hanging on the wall.

Only those familiar with Wang Xiyi in the room, like the director and Song Yarong, understood the significance of the blue flames—if Wang Xiyi's activation of her beast mode was burning her life, then upgrading the flames from the usual "orange flames" to "blue flames" amounted to overdrawing her life.

This was a life-risking move, indicating Wang Xiyi was ready to perish together with the enemy.

The Celestial City Mysterious Creature Research Institute had tested Wang Xiyi's Dragon Breath Flame, finding the temperature of the orange flames was around 1000 to 1100 degrees Celsius, while the temperature of the blue flames could soar above 1500 degrees Celsius.

The last time Wang Xiyi used the blue flames was against "Ding Thirty-Seven·Bloody Mary," when a large blue-white fireball evaporated the entire blood pool along with Bloody Mary's body within it.

In that operation, within fifty meters of the blood pool, the only intact thing was Sun Hang—at the moment before the fireball exploded, Wang Xiyi flashed in front of Sun Hang, shielding him from the scorching shockwave with her wings.

And after the operation ended, Wang Xiyi's infection process accelerated by a full 0.9 percent.

"If you use the blue flames again, the infection process could become uncontrollable," the old director had privately advised her, "Increasing the dosage of inhibitors alone can't stop the acceleration of the infection process. Not only blue flames, but even the beast abilities should be used sparingly."

"Wouldn't that make me useless?" Faced with the director's advice, Wang Xiyi merely shrugged and said indifferently, "Consumables should be used to their fullest extent, shouldn't they?"

...

"Zoom in the camera," the old director said in a deep voice.

As the smoke dissipated, the blue flames inside the pit grew even fiercer, vaguely revealing a winged figure wrapped within the flames, continually punching at whatever was beneath her feet.

"Is... is that thing really human?" a support staff officer couldn't help but whisper.

"...She's a hunter, an infected." Another person replied.

"But even for a hunter... still..."

The blue flames gradually extinguished, the wings folded and retracted into the hunter's body... she staggered back a few steps, then found a relatively flat spot and slowly sat down.

The stitched monster creature's body had been torn apart, whether the humanoid torso, spider-like abdomen, or scorpion tail, all had turned to chunks of charcoal, almost merging with the scorched earth in the pit.

"The target's meme frequency has disappeared," a researcher watching the monitoring device loudly reported, "The mysterious creature has been eliminated!"

"Is the operation a success?" The colonel officer blinked forcefully, somewhat dazedly staring at the pit image.

He felt a strong sense of unreality.

Just minutes ago, everyone thought the lure and kill plan had failed, and what they needed to consider was minimizing losses and ensuring Ye Xuan's safety... But after the appearance of the hunter code-named "Night Slayer," she single-handedly turned the entire situation around and annihilated the absurdly powerful stitched monster in just over ten seconds.

"The operation isn't completely over, don't let your guard down," the old director said, "The target creature has symbiotic progeny. Your next mission is to eliminate those symbiotic progeny while rescuing survivors. Although individual symbiotic progeny may not be very strong, they are numerous, so don't underestimate them."

"And... what about her?" The colonel pointed to Wang Xiyi on the screen.

"My team will handle the recovery of 'Night Slayer,'" the director said, "She is... very dangerous now, far more dangerous than the mysterious creature just destroyed. A piece of advice, when passing near her... try to give her a wide berth."

"Oh... oh, okay," the colonel nodded repeatedly, passing the order down.

Witnessing that scene earlier, he dared not doubt the hunter's abilities... or rather, her "danger."

The atmosphere in the temporary command center had just eased when the researcher monitoring the equipment suddenly shouted again: "Something's wrong! The target creature's meme wave is appearing again! Although weak! It's definitely the target's main body, not the symbiotic progeny!"

"Not dead?" The colonel's eyes widened.

Everyone shifted their gaze to the large screen.

Suddenly, the charred surface of the mysterious creature's remains began to crack, revealing the pale new body underneath—after shedding the previous shell, this new body quickly burrowed into the soil, disappearing without a trace.

"Target escape! Has left the monitoring range!"