Hunter of Mysterious Creature

Chapter 753 43: Old Medals_2

"But how are you supposed to report to the higher-ups?" The truck driver picked up the microphone from the driver's seat and looked at the fisherman with a troubled face, "There is no obvious change in the Baikal Remains now. Just a little girl saying this city is angry... Even if she is a Hunter, where is the anger of the Baikal Remains manifested? Are we supposed to just call the Disaster Response Committee and tell them the Baikal Remains is angry... Even if they believe it, if they ask further questions, we won't be able to answer anything."

"Just report it truthfully first! I believe in this little girl's ability!" The fisherman decided decisively, "As for the changes in the Baikal Remains, we can't feel them simply because we're outside right now! Sun Hang and the others must be in big trouble!"

"Alright, I'll contact the Disaster Response Committee immediately... Also, do we need to send reinforcements from the camp over there?"

"Send them!" shouted the fisherman, "Apart from the regular troops, tell them to bring all the Hunters they can gather! You have no idea how important the group that just went in is! Even if we launch a full-scale assault on the Baikal Remains, we must rescue them! Trust me, the Disaster Response Committee will definitely agree!"

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Meanwhile, inside the Baikal Remains, at some unknown coordinates.

The people referred to as "in big trouble" by the fisherman, including Sun Hang, had already finished the battle. A total of over thirteen hundred eerie soldiers were completely annihilated, with fragmented bodies almost covering the entire street. Severed limbs hung down from the eaves of houses, and rigid fingers still gripped weapons resembling the standard firearms of the Former Siberia Federation.

Sun Hang had already examined several corpses of the eerie soldiers—like the eerie tanks, they were also mimetic creations of the Baikal Remains. These eerie soldiers only looked like humans, yet they couldn't even be considered "organisms."

Sun Hang tore off the masks covering their faces and discovered, to his surprise, that they didn't even have facial features, with a bald and featureless face propping there, making one suspect they were seeing the back rather than the face.

The examination naturally involved anatomical investigation; the eerily soldiers' bodies were composed of a "material" between dried meat and plant fiber, with calcified "bones" inside, but the bone structure was vastly different from humans or any known primates... The bones seemed to only serve for support, bearing no relevance to the eerie soldiers' mobility.

Sun Hang even discovered fractures within some of the eerie soldiers—these fractures weren't caused by them but occurred when the eerie soldiers moved, their limbs bending while the bones inside lacked corresponding joints, forcibly breaking them.

This reminded Sun Hang of a type of toy called encapsulated soldiers, which contain no internal organs, only a metal skeleton enveloped in a silicone body. Players can manipulate the internal metal skeleton to pose the toy, with the soft silicone enveloping the skeleton providing excellent mobility to the body.

These "fractured" eerie soldiers seemed like defective encapsulated soldiers, missing joints in their skeleton or having joints incorrectly installed causing them to get stuck... When players fiddle with these defective toys too forcefully, that's when the miracle happens, directly snapping the skeleton in those areas.

But here's the problem: the force allowing encapsulated soldiers to pose comes from the players' hands, yet these eerie soldiers had no large hands constantly maneuvering them... So how were they moving?

Their bodies, akin to silicone, obviously lacked any mobility; their interiors lacked the organs typical of animals, and even the weapons in their hands, initially appearing held, were only discovered to be "grown" out of their hands when cutting their fingers off with a knife...

The weapon's shape resembled the "ten-millimeter caliber Kalashnikov rifles" produced by the Former Siberia Federation during the eerie army wars, but with numerous discrepancies in detail. These weapons looked like the result of feeding an image of a Kalashnikov rifle to AI repeatedly, yielding a twisted barrel, a gun mechanism integrated with the stock, a nonexistent trigger, and a completely solid magazine... It's hard to imagine how bullets could be fired from such "model guns."

Sun Hang severed the wrist of an eerie soldier and picked up that "gun," trying to pull the trigger, only to find the trigger completely immobile. He then reversed the rifle and looked into the barrel—"Well, this barrel is clearly a solid steel rod."

"Doesn't this thing look like those toy guns sold online, where any image featuring a gun shape has a disclaimer beside it, saying 'not an accurate model, no firing function'?" Sun Hang tossed the "gun" to Wang Xiyi, "This thing indeed appears to lack a firing function, but who would have thought that all of these bullet holes scattered around were shot by this thing?"

"Did you notice where the bullets were coming from earlier?" Wang Xiyi caught the "gun," attempting to pull the trigger—using more force, she finally succeeded in doing so... or more accurately, she directly broke the trigger.

"They were shot from the barrel, even having muzzle flash," Sun Hang recalled the scenes from the recent battle, "These eerie soldiers have too many unreasonable aspects to investigate thoroughly."

"That's why they're called eerie soldiers, precisely because they're unreasonable," Wang Xiyi shrugged, casually tossing aside the "gun."

"Do we need to clean up the battlefield?" Wang Xiyi asked again, "These 'fake guns' look like they're made of metal. Doesn't your ability allow you to manipulate metal?"

"It's enough," Sun Hang glanced at the tank wreckage not far away—if he wished, he could even create a perfectly duplicated T95 heavy tank, but there was no necessity for it.

At this moment, No. 1 Eerie Remain suddenly jumped down from the roof and walked up to Zhong Ling, handing her something. Zhong Ling immediately waved her hand to Sun Hang.

"What's up, have you discovered anything?" Sun Hang flashed over, instantly appearing beside Zhong Ling.

"We found this inside an eerie soldier dressed as an officer," Zhong Ling handed the item to Sun Hang.

This was a piece of resin—derived from a portable containment device carried by No.1 Eerie Remain. This device, when encountering small eerie objects needing containment, sprays a special resin to encapsulate the eerie object, forming an "eerie amber." A corresponding solvent is then needed to "thaw" the amber, dissolving the coagulated resin again.

Encapsulated inside the resin was a rusted medal.

The medal was inscribed with the Former Siberia Federation's official language Russian—apparently aware Sun Hang didn't understand Russian, Zhong Ling helpfully translated for him, "This is a National Hero Medal, proof of honor awarded by the Former Siberia Federation to soldiers who participated in the Siege of St. Petersburg. Most of the soldiers with this medal died in the Surrendered Area, with only a few managing to retreat to the Lake Baikal Region."

"You know Russian too?" Sun Hang glanced at Zhong Ling with some surprise.

"Not much," Zhong Ling modestly replied or spoke truthfully, pointing at the inscription on the medal, "This should be the first instance of normal text we've seen since entering the Baikal Remains, right?"