Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 462 - 77: The Rain Stops

At this time, outside Building No. 3.

Outside the glass doors on the first floor, two fully armed soldiers dropped the controllers in their hands and shook their heads at the group of people standing behind them.

Beside them stood a heavy laser cutter, with wisps of blue smoke emanating from the laser generator acting as the "blade".

Apart from the laser emitter, the ground was littered with various items: bricks, crowbars, hammers, chainsaws, tactical battering rams…even two bottles of aqua regia and a 60mm caliber rocket launcher.

However, there was not the slightest mark on the surface of the glass doors before them, no more than a centimeter thick, compared to five minutes ago; only the sticker on the door had disappeared. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

"Director!" A soldier sprinted toward a middle-aged man still in pajamas. "The second group has already dug down to twenty-five meters deep..."

"Still can't get in?" The middle-aged man referred to as "director" tightened his pajamas around his shoulders and frowned as he asked.

Seeing the expression on the soldier's face, he had already guessed the result.

"Using the wall of Building No. 3 as the baseline, the barrier extends underground to twenty-five meters...The second group is still trying to dig deeper, but..."

"What about the third group?" The director raised his head and looked toward the rooftop.

"Although the barrier did not extend directly above Building No. 3, it enveloped the entire building. The roof door, like the main entrance, cannot be opened either...With our current tools, the building's structure cannot be destroyed."

There were a total of seventeen individuals with supernatural abilities stationed at the experiment site, yet these seventeen could hardly enter the sealed Building No. 3.

"It seems we'll have to wait for reinforcements from headquarters...Let's hope that boy can hold on," the director sighed.

"Tough," Sun Qiong slightly shook his head. "The footage captured by the drone just now...He was forced back into the room by containment item No. 549, which is a...dead end."

"Didn't the people at the first research institute just give him the Deceitful Equipment? How do you think he can manage against containment item No. 549 with the equipment's capabilities?" the director asked.

"Hard to say...After comparing the observational results with detailed information transmitted by headquarters, my conclusion..." Sun Qiong hesitated.

"What conclusion, just say it."

"The degree of anomaly in containment item No. 549...has completely exceeded the scope of our assessment," Sun Qiong stated. "If not for detecting completely matching memetic fragments...the entity inside Building No. 3 now and containment item No. 549 are two entirely different things," Sun Qiong stated helplessly.

"Moreover, the memetic sequence of containment item No. 549 is constantly changing now. It's difficult for us to determine what it will ultimately become..." another researcher said.

"According to what you've said, is that boy doomed?" The director fixed his gaze on the row of windows on the sixth floor and said, "Leaving aside the boy's identity...Do you know what his abilities are? If he dies, it would be a tremendous loss for us, for the entire Federation..."

"Director, there's one more thing." Sun Qiong leaned in close to the middle-aged man's ear and whispered, "Besides containment item No. 549, there might be more entities present at the site."

"What do you mean?" The director raised an eyebrow, his demeanor immediately becoming more serious.

"The technicians just completed the memetic analysis of the barrier enveloping Building No. 3...The result indicates that the barrier's ability does not belong to containment item No. 549."

"Are you saying there's another entity inside Building No. 3?" The director asked in a voice only audible to the two of them.

"Maybe more than one." Sun Qiong murmured, "It's even possible that the entire Building No. 3 has become an entity—a Type G entity."

"...Since it's a Type G entity, what's Shinkata's take?" The director's gaze shifted to the side, toward a young girl sporting a deep brown windbreaker, with her hair dyed straw-yellow draped down her back—The girl wore a black eye patch over her face, covering her right eye.

Complemented by her fair skin and a stern visage, her overall attire would have been rather cool, if not for the "死ね" sticker on the eye patch, which instantly turned the enigma into a mid-grade melodrama.

Sun Qiong shook his head.

The girl's name was Shinkata Misaki, seventeen years old, of Dongying descent, one of the seventeen individuals with supernatural abilities stationed at the base, and a full-time operative under a long-term contract with the Abnormal Ability Management Department.

Her codename was "Death's Eye", her ability stemming from her right eye hidden beneath the eye patch.

"Death's Eye" was a codename she gave herself, and judging by the name, it might sound like she possesses the power to cause whoever she gazes upon to die...but that's impossible. From a tactical standpoint, however, her ability was indeed quite formidable.

The ability of "Death's Eye" boiled down to one sentence: upon staring at an entity or an infected individual for two to three seconds, weaknesses would appear in her field of vision.

She possessed no inherent combat abilities herself, but with collaboration from others with supernatural abilities, Mysterious Creature Hunters, Deceitful Equipment selectors...or even ordinary people wielding modern weapons, she could yield highly terrifying outcomes.

Though she was only seventeen years old and had only been working at Dubhe Tower for two years, she successfully assisted it in completing over forty assignments during that time.

It was precisely due to her overwhelmingly abnormal abilities that the Abnormal Ability Management Department offered her a revised employment contract—in addition to being on call, she practically enjoyed the highest freedom among full-time operatives, coupled with ten times the pay and benefits.