Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 728 28: Liusu District Renovation Plan

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Sun Hang watched as vehicles emblazoned with the Dubhe Tower emblem sped past on the opposite lane, then turned his gaze to the further sidewalk, where soldiers in powered armor and mechanical exoskeletons were marching in formation. The long-neglected pavement tiles cracked under the weight of the heavy armor, while the roadsides were crowded with civilians eager to witness the spectacle — perhaps only in a city like Chunming, which has been peaceful for so long, could such a scene be seen. In comparison, in a border city like Tianfu City, civilians would have already shut their windows and stayed indoors for fear of the battle's aftermath reaching them.

Sun Hang let out a long sigh and rolled up the car window.

The Yellow Road Layer Liuxu District may likely become one of the busiest places over the next few days in the entire city.

"Can you... not dissect me?" At this moment, Xue Yue suddenly whispered from the back seat, "I will behave, and I can also help do things... whatever I can do, just tell me and I will do it..."

"Who said anything about dissecting you?" Sun Hang glanced at her through the rearview mirror, only to see the girl's pale face and an expression full of nervousness in her eyes. "I had already promised you before to give you a legal identity, so you can live like a normal person, right?"

"Before... before, I didn't know what... thing I was..." Xue Yue's voice became even smaller. "That Lin Lun says I'm his only... only successful research result... some kind of fruit seed or something... although I don't quite understand it, I think I must be something very important..."

Xue Yue's speech was somewhat disjointed, and her voice was as faint as a mosquito's whisper, but this did not prevent Sun Hang from understanding what she meant—in short, after learning her true identity, she subconsciously assumed Sun Hang would break his earlier promise. After all, during her exposure to human society, she had encountered no shortage of people who broke promises.

That Lin Lun repeatedly claimed he's someone who achieves his goals by any means necessary, and to Xue Yue, Sun Hang seemed to share quite a few similarities with Lin Lun...maybe it was precisely because of this reason that the two originally at odds could come to an understanding...

For someone willing to do anything to achieve their goals, breaking one's previous promises wouldn't seem significant at all.

"Then you can rest assured." Merging from a two-lane road into a four-lane urban highway, Sun Hang slightly increased the throttle, and the vehicle's speed immediately rose from forty to sixty miles per hour—although the floating car can perform unmanned driving entirely under the control of the central brain, Sun Hang still preferred to steer the vehicle himself...after all, in case another attack like the one at the construction site recently occurred, he could react immediately, skipping the step of issuing a command to the central brain or taking control of the vehicle.

"My previous promises still hold. I won't hand you over to the Dubhe Tower or any other research institute. You can choose to stay with me or remain in Chunming City...but before that, I need you to do something for me."

"I choose to stay with you," Xue Yue said without hesitation.

"I haven't even said what I need you to do yet?" Sun Hang couldn't help but ask, "Besides, if you stay with me, you'll probably encounter many more strange things than you did before, far more dangerous than your previous days."

Upon hearing "danger," Xue Yue shrunk her neck slightly, but soon a glint of determination appeared in her eyes: "I still choose to stay with you...at least, you promised me that you wouldn't dissect me?"

"Just because of that?" Sun Hang couldn't help but find it amusing.

This girl seems a bit too easy to fool...if she were an ordinary person, human traffickers could probably lure her into some secluded valley with just a lollipop.

"And...and I also don't want to stay in Chunming City anymore..." Xue Yue murmured hesitantly, "As long as he's still here, I'm scared..."

"That person? You mean Lin Lun?"

Xue Yue nodded vigorously.

"Well, okay...but next, where I plan to take you might even be scarier than Lin Lun."

"Scarier?!"

"Do you know about Lake Baikal City?"

"I know...I saw in the news earlier that it was destroyed by strange entities..." Xue Yue said, "But since it's far from Chunming City, I didn't pay much attention."

Regarding the appearance of the death aurora and the collapse of Lake Baikal City, the Xiazhou Federation did not close off information—but from an ordinary civilian's perspective, they would only know that a border city mainly populated by immigrants from the Siberian Federation was destroyed by strange entities. As for more details, news media would selectively report them, rather than disclose everything that happened in Lake Baikal City to the public.

Later follow-up reports, in order to stabilize public emotions, would emphasize positive news descriptions and try to ignore or downplay the negative news.

"I need you to accompany me to Baikal City for a while." Sun Hang said, "Or to be more precise, the newly emerged geng type eerie entity 'Baikal Remains'."

There's a document stored in the central brain with extremely high access levels; including Sun Hang, the number of people in the Xiazhou Federation qualified to review this document does not exceed two digits—the content of this document is also very simple; it records cases of unforeseen eerie transformations caused by 'negative emotion accumulation' in frontier camps since Lake Baikal City's destruction.