Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 423 - 56: Waste Liquid Pool (Part 2)

"You won't find that kind of thing here." Ling Xiao suddenly pointed at a triangular warning label attached to the factory door.

Inside the label was an icon of a flame, with a big red cross striking through it prominently.

"Damn, I almost forgot. This crappy factory strictly prohibits flammable and explosive items... Even the materials used in production are all fireproof... Is it really going to come down to scavenging through the oil tanks?" Lilith said, while constantly altering the terrain beneath and around the monster's feet, trying to disrupt its movements.

But the monster seemed to possess the ability to adjust its form according to the environment—when the solid ground turned into a swamp, its legs began to mutate, sprouting many tendril-like thin tentacles from them. The edges of these tentacles unfolded into a layer resembling fish fins, providing the monster with enough buoyancy and support to move as though walking on level ground across the swamp.

And when the ground turned into a nearly frictionless smooth mirror-like surface, the monster's leg skin started secreting a highly corrosive liquid, corroding the smooth surface into a pitted, rough mess...

"If flames won't work, how about freezing?" Ling Xiao suddenly asked.

"Freezing?" Lilith was taken aback. "If you have a way to freeze it... it's not impossible!"

"Use that!" Ling Xiao pointed at a small door on the side of the No. 4 workshop.

On the door were five words in Song font: "Liquid Nitrogen Storage Room."

FL09 reagent needs to be prepared, stored, and transported in a low-temperature environment, making liquid nitrogen an indispensable material for Factory No. 105.

To meet the demand, Factory No. 105 even has a workshop dedicated to producing liquid nitrogen inside.

And that workshop is located right inside the adjacent No. 4 workshop.

"You two, open the door to the storage room!" Lilith said, "I'll lure the monster over to the waste pool!"

As the words fell, Lilith instantly moved to the left side of the monster, forming a fist-sized Fireball in her hand and smashing it directly onto the monster's exposed brain.

The Fireball fizzled out with a puff—although it didn't cause any substantial damage, it successfully caught the monster's attention.

It turned around and began crawling towards Lilith.

Its skinless face showed no expression, crooked teeth grew helter-skelter on the gums, with lips torn all the way to the ear roots, a tentacle-like tongue constantly thrusting in and out... Each time it did, its crawling speed increased slightly.

"Did I just anger this creature?" Lilith thought to herself. "But that's good, an enraged monster is easier to bait."

She continued leading the monster towards the waste liquid pool, conjuring various objects to hurl at the monster.

Meanwhile, Jiang Yu rushed to the storage room door and directly thrust a hunting knife into the crack, using the blade as a lever to pry forcefully—luckily, this knife was forged from costly special alloy; if it were a standard military knife, with the augmented strength of the Ta Sui power, the moment Jiang Yu exerted force, the blade would have already bent into an L shape.

Accompanied by a piercing sound of metal tearing, the iron door of the liquid nitrogen storage room slightly deformed, revealing a gap.

Compared to the workshop's two-meter-thick main door, this storage room door was merely an ordinary iron door; otherwise, Jiang Yu would indeed have had no way to deal with it.

"I can open it!" Jiang Yu excitedly wedged the short bow into the gap, grasping the iron door handle with one hand while stabilizing the end of the short bow with the other, then lifted a foot to press against the bow limb.

With a low grunt, the muscles in Jiang Yu's legs suddenly tensed, and the short bow wedged in the gap emitted a series of hoarse friction sounds.

With a "bang," the handle, fixed on the iron door with screws, was forcibly yanked off by Jiang Yu, while the completely deformed iron door was thrown heavily inward, producing a "clang" sound.

A rush of slightly cold and dry air immediately hit.

Inside the liquid nitrogen storage room were storage containers resembling gas tanks, judging by each having a fifty-liter capacity, there might be tens of thousands of liters of liquid nitrogen in this room!

"Lilith! We've opened the door! What next?" Jiang Yu shouted loudly towards Lilith.

"Once the door is open! Everyone stand aside, watch out for getting hit!" Lilith responded.

By this time, she had already led the monster to the top of the waste liquid pool—a layer of ice about two fingers thick had formed atop the pool, walking on it was like walking atop a frozen lake in the northern winter.

"If my abilities could support freezing the entire pool, I wouldn't need to rely on something like liquid nitrogen…" Lilith muttered inwardly. The next second, the ice atop the waste liquid pool vanished, while she suddenly blinked to the pool's edge.

The monster instantly fell into the waste liquid pool, but it didn't sink—previously grown 'fins' for dealing with swamp terrain were once again engaging, allowing the monster to float atop the water, hastily swimming towards Lilith.

"Get down there!" Lilith glared fiercely at the monster, as a massive hand formed from liquid emerged from underwater, grabbing the monster's giraffe-like curved neck forcefully, yanking it directly to the pool's bottom!

At the same time, the steel bottles inside the storage room all flew out, falling into the waste pool.

As soon as the steel bottles hit the pool, they ruptured and disassembled, with liquid nitrogen inside dispersing throughout the pool, a mass of white fog rising! 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The monster dragged to the pool's bottom began to struggle less... When nearly half the stock in the storage tank was depleted, the entire waste pool finally froze into a massive chunk of ice, with the monster becoming a "living specimen" encased inside.

"Phew... finally..." Lilith breathed a sigh of relief standing by the pool. Her legs were a bit weak, she almost collapsed to the ground like Jiang Yu not long ago—fortunately, in the nick of time, she teleported a liquid nitrogen steel bottle behind her, using it as support to avoid falling.

"The Magic Power consumption... is so much?" Lilith sensed her remaining Magic Power, her expression changing slightly, "For an 'elite monster' to consume so much, I wonder if the remaining Magic Power will suffice for the BOSS battle... Can't really let that little brat trade life for life, can I?"

While pondering this issue, Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao also ran up to the edge of the waste pool.

Jiang Yu glanced at the monster frozen at the pool bottom, asked worriedly: "It won't break out, will it?"

"Not for now." Lilith shook her head.

This waste pool is ten meters wide, one hundred and twenty meters long, with a depth of thirty meters, like a gigantic block of solid ice; even if Lilith wanted to break it open, she'd need to exert considerable effort... Moreover, low-temperature environments by themselves inhibit the activity of monstrous meme, inducing a near dormancy state.

As long as the creature's meme doesn't have the characteristic of "adapting to extreme cold," it likely won't escape anytime soon.

"The environment is similar to containment rooms at research institutes; if this creature can escape, it would mean most of the Federation's containment rooms in research institutes couldn't hold it now." Lilith remarked.

She then stomped on the ice surface with force.

"And you, I noticed earlier, seemed to be struggling," Jiang Yu asked with concern, "Is your Magic Power depletion serious?"

"Damn, why's your eyesight so good?" Lilith cursed inwardly, but posed a light-hearted front: "It's no big deal, just used it too heavily for a moment, a breather will do... Handling the remaining creature, more than capable."