Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 619 - 159: "Homecoming"_2 Advertisement

"Thanks a lot." Sun Hang nodded and stepped on the accelerator.

With the low roar of the engine, the car suddenly accelerated and charged out of the underground parking lot along the upward slope.

The checkpoints along the way were all opened, and Sun Hang quickly drove out of the park, heading towards his "former home."

It had been several months since the eternal night descended, and more than a month since Tianfu City re-entered martial law after loosening its restrictions. The once-bustling main streets now had only Sun Hang's solitary car driving along, making the emptiness all the more apparent.

Security Bureau patrol cars occasionally appeared on the sides of the road, sheriffs wearing thick cold-weather gear leaned against car doors smoking. Upon hearing the sound of the car, they immediately turned their gaze toward Sun Hang, but after seeing the research institute plate on the front of the car, they quickly lowered their arms and continued smoking.

This was once one of the most prosperous commercial districts of Tianfu City. A few months ago, the brightly lit skyscrapers now stood like the remnants of giants in the darkness, with only the aviation obstruction lights on top flashing at two-second intervals.

Sun Hang felt that the life force of the entire city was gradually draining away, dying... A sense of loneliness and desolation gradually enveloped this wealthy area in the southwest of the Federation.

He didn't know how long the eternal night would last, nor how long Tianfu City could hold out.

Ever since the appearance of Chimera 17's giant cocoon, everyone's attention had been drawn to it, and the various negative impacts the eternal night had brought to Shuzhou were no longer the most pressing issues to solve.

The car drove past a supermarket, its glass storefront shattered, the sidewalk littered with shards of tempered glass, and the supermarket shelves inside completely empty. Two shopping carts lay overturned at the entrance, with a child's shoe the size of a palm quietly lying inside the wire frame of one cart.

These scenes had become all too familiar to Sun Hang.

The order in Tianfu City was gradually collapsing. Although the Security Bureau and the military could barely control the city, as the apocalyptic atmosphere grew more intense, various kinds of unrest were almost unavoidable.

Sun Hang suddenly thought, if Chimera 17 really destroyed Tianfu City, wouldn't all these problems cease to exist?

Even if the pesticide plan succeeded, and they could eliminate Chimera 17, Tianfu City's situation probably wouldn't improve... With the Xiazhou Federation's productivity, they might barely hold on by providing support to Shuzhou for ten years, but what about twenty, thirty years?

What if similar major supernatural invasion events broke out elsewhere, like in Lake Baikal City?

Sun Hang suddenly remembered jokingly saying once that Shuzhou might become the last bastion of human civilization during the second supernatural warfare... Yet the question circled back: how long could a bastion that never saw daylight last?

From the perspective of human civilization, things seemed like they couldn't get any worse.

"Screech..."

Sun Hang hit the brakes, the sound of rubber scraping on the ground echoed, and the car stopped less than three meters from a roadblock.

The bombed district was cordoned off, with yellow and black caution tape behind the roadblock. Four fully armed soldiers, who had been sitting around a military vehicle chatting, stood up immediately upon seeing Sun Hang's car and jogged towards him.

"Comrade, up ahead is a restricted area." A soldier approached the car window. "Even if you're from the institute, you can't go in without the proper permits."

"Moreover, the restricted area was just bombed, those ruins could collapse at any moment... The supernatural threats inside might not all be eliminated yet, it's very dangerous to go in now," another soldier added.

"My mission is to investigate the restricted area," Sun Hang said as he got out of the car.

The road ahead was so severely damaged that even without the roadblock, this sedan couldn't drive through.

"Do you have the necessary permits?" the first soldier asked. "Also, to investigate the restricted area... is it really just you alone? That's absurd!"

"I can't get a permit right now, but maybe this could get me through." Sun Hang pulled out his Hunter license.

Seeing the Hunter license, the expressions of the four soldiers changed immediately.

"Please allow me to make a call to my superiors!"

Half a minute later, the soldier who went aside to make a call returned to Sun Hang, handing back his Hunter license: "You may proceed. If you need our assistance, please contact us anytime."

"Alright, thanks in advance then." Sun Hang put away his license and strode into the ruins.

He had just taken note of the weapons the soldiers carried, each configured with three standard issue assault rifles and one shotgun, with two of the soldiers also having collapsible riot shields on their backs. The most powerful weapon in the squad was the 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun mounted on the vehicle's roof. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

There must be some throwables as well, but not many, probably.

The firepower of this squad would be more than enough to deal with those zombie-like humanoid supernatural threats... but if they encountered something like a sludge monster, they'd possibly be slaughtered within minutes.

Sun Hang continued walking forward, his boots making a crunching sound on the shattered debris.

The air was thick with the acrid smell of smoke and scorched earth. Although the bombing hadn't used incendiary bombs, it had ignited considerable fires afterward. Fortunately, the surrounding blocks were well isolated, preventing the fire from spreading.

Every now and then, Sun Hang would see the charred bodies lying sprawled on the ground, these were ordinary citizens who had been infected and transformed... their actual combat capability was no different from the weakest zombies in the early stages of those commercial zombie movies.

A whimsical thought flashed through Sun Hang's mind—if Tianfu City didn't flatten this area and instead cordoned it off as a "biohazard experience zone," perhaps the thrill-seeking wealthy from Chunming or Shen City would pay for it?

This would be an alternative way to generate revenue for an economically paralyzed Tianfu City... Just a pity, anyone daring to propose such an idea would probably be arrested for crimes against humanity and the like before it even saw the light of day.

"In that case, I guess I'm quite a villain," Sun Hang muttered in self-mockery. "But there's nothing wrong with that, after all, the eerie fears villains..."

He suddenly stopped walking.

To his right stood the remains of several high-rise residential buildings, while to his left stretched a charred lawn interspersed with villas… Though now, all the villas had turned into ruins, some of which were made with a lot of flammable materials and hadn't completely extinguished yet.

Along a familiar yet unfamiliar cobblestone path, Sun Hang walked to a certain ruin.

He was home.

With the capture of the paranormal, the sludge monsters she created also dissipated. Other than dozens of charred bodies, there was almost nothing related to the supernatural near the ruins.

The faint presence Sun Hang had sensed earlier in the helicopter had yet to appear.

"Could it... have been a misconception?"