Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 633 - 166: Feint Attack (Part 2)

Sun Hang didn't continue to stare at Shinkata Misaki, but looked into the distance—instead of needing a telescope, he simply issued a few commands in his mind, and Chimera 17, thirty-seven kilometers away, would appear right before his eyes...

The only issue was that maintaining this "clairvoyant" state consumed a considerable amount of mana.

Sun Hang glanced at his wristband; there were still more than four minutes left until the scheduled feigned attack.

He temporarily shut down his ability and stood quietly beside Shinkata Misaki, waiting as the time approached the moment of the feigned assault, second by second.

"Can you see clearly?" Sun Hang asked.

"Very clearly... Ugh, those faces look absolutely unsettling," Shinkata Misaki mumbled.

"You'll get used to it."

"I even see a face being squeezed out of another face's mouth, and it's almost split in two, yet it's still fucking smiling... I consider myself brave, but looking at these things always makes me feel uneasy," Shinkata Misaki complained.

"You should be glad their eyes are closed," Sun Hang said. "If they weren't, and stared back at you through the telescope, wouldn't you feel worse?"

"That would cost extra, no, more vacation time," Shinkata Misaki said, "After this job, you have to give me at least six months off, or this psychological shadow might never go away."

"You say that like you're making a prediction," Sun Hang couldn't help but tease.

"Pff, then I wish you two defeat Chimera 17 and then walk into the wedding chapel. Happy nuptials, alright!" Shinkata Misaki said in a curse-like tone, "Just a prediction, who's afraid of that!"

But to her surprise, before Sun Hang could respond, Zhong Ling said, "Thanks."

Shinkata Misaki fell silent again.

"One minute left until the feigned attack begins," Sun Hang said, staring at his wristband, "Fifty-nine seconds."

"I'm watching, I'm watching," Shinkata Misaki said. "Don't bug me! Who starts a countdown from sixty anyway?"

Just as she spoke, the roar of engines and the sound of wings slicing through the air came from behind. Sun Hang turned toward the sound and saw a formation of twelve aircraft speeding past overhead, heading west along the boundary of the restricted area.

Sun Hang: "Thirty seconds."

"Who's executing the first wave of the feigned attack? Those planes that just flew by?" Shinkata Misaki asked, "What's their target?"

"No, they're the second wave," Sun Hang said.

"Then who's the first wave?"

"You'll know soon enough... fifteen seconds," Sun Hang said, "A friendly reminder, remember to lower the brightness."

"Huh?"

"Ten seconds."

"Hey, I'm asking you, what does lowering the brightness mean? Are you referring to being cautious about a nuclear explosion's light radiation?" Shinkata Misaki asked.

"Final three seconds."

A dazzling beam of light shot out from a valley on the west side of Chimera 17, spanning dozens of kilometers in an instant, hitting the giant cocoon of Chimera 17 precisely!

"Oh shit, my eyes!" Shinkata Misaki cursed immediately.

"I did remind you to lower the brightness... any changes with Chimera 17, or rather, those apparitions?"

"They seem to be melting... quickly... no, slowly."

"So which is it, fast or slow?"

"The speed is like putting a whole block of butter into boiling water," Shinkata Misaki said. "But for this level of laser exposure, the melting speed is actually quite slow... I once participated in a hunting operation using a similar large-scale laser weapon, and it melted a big hole in a half-meter-thick alloy wall in just 0.2 seconds... Compared to that, these grotesque faces are melting quite slowly."

Sun Hang stopped talking and reopened his "clairvoyant" ability.

The brightness of the irradiation area was very high, and without a specialized optical filter, his vision was almost a blinding white, seeing nothing at all... Sun Hang had to adjust the scope of his clairvoyant ability to some extent, barely allowing him to see the state of those apparitions in the irradiation area.

Just as Shinkata Misaki said, the apparitions were melting rapidly like wax statues under flame... but once the surface layer of apparitions melted away completely, a new layer was exposed underneath.

These apparitions weren't just one layer, meaning that the number of apparitions on the surface of Chimera 17 far exceeded the AI's estimated ten thousand.

The laser exposure lasted only fourteen seconds, yet even so, the high brightness left a white afterimage on Sun Hang's retinas, which only faded after blinking several times.

Sun Hang counted; fourteen seconds of continuous exposure only melted away four layers of surface apparitions, beneath which more apparitions remained concealed.

At least from the last second of exposure, beneath the not completely melted fifth layer of apparitions, there was a sixth layer.

These layers were ridiculously thick.

"The laser exposure was ineffective," Sun Hang said in the communication channel. "Based on our observation results, there are many layers of apparitions on Chimera 17's body surface, with at least six observed so far... is there a way to extend the laser exposure time?"

"No, there isn't," Yang Qi replied in the communication channel. "Fourteen seconds is currently our limit; the laser emitter's core is already burned out and even caused a small explosion with personnel casualties... Increasing the exposure time would require higher-grade cores and more complete cooling systems, which we can't quickly procure."

"During the final operation, how many seconds can the laser exposure be increased to?" Sun Hang asked.

"I asked the technicians responsible for this project, and they said they could probably push it to twenty-five seconds within the time limit."

"Twenty-five seconds, probably not enough, pass on that plan," Sun Hang said.

"The bomber squad executing the mission has reached the target area; the second wave of the feigned attack will commence in thirty seconds. In four seconds, they will launch six hundred laser-guided missiles at Chimera 17, seventy-two of which are equipped with tactical nuclear warheads... they are the main act of the second wave, while the remaining five hundred missiles serve as decoy targets to draw Chimera 17's firepower..."

Before Yang Qi could finish, the second wave of the feigned attack had already begun.

A dense barrage spread out like a giant net, enveloping Chimera 17 from all directions.

In the next second, dozens of energy beams shot out from Chimera 17, accurately detonating dozens of missiles among the barrage that looked no different from others. However, the explosion light from these missiles instantly engulfed a large area of airspace and all the missiles within it.

Yang Qi didn't even need to remind Sun Hang; he could tell all the missiles detonated by the energy beams were, without exception, those equipped with tactical nuclear warheads. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"Second wave of the feigned attack, failed..." Yang Qi's voice carried a hint of helplessness, "Chimera 17's sensory ability is too acute... blending nuclear warheads with conventional missiles can't fool it at all..."

"I have a suggestion," Sun Hang said.

"What is it?"

"Stop trying to mix and disguise them; just equip all missiles with tactical nuclear warheads, wouldn't that work?"

"I'd love to, but the airforce base doesn't have that many tactical nuclear warheads in stock," Yang Qi sighed. "These seventy-two are all we have."