"Do you know the Sphinx?" Sun Hang looked at her intently and asked.
"Sphinx... the Sphinx?"
"Yes, the purpose of going to Egypt this time is to hunt the Sphinx," Sun Hang said, "As for why we need to hunt it, that’s the highest secret of the Federation. I advise you not to inquire about it."
"It’s actually the Sphinx... I didn’t expect legendary creatures to have become mysterious creatures," Bai Lingqiu murmured.
"I think you may have reversed the cause and effect. It’s not that legendary creatures became mysterious creatures, but because these mysterious creatures appeared in ancient times, those stories were passed down... Haven’t many of the mythical creatures in Xiazhou’s legends been proven to be mysterious creatures?" At this point, Sun Hang’s eyes suddenly lit up, "Speaking of which, does the monster you summon include the Sphinx? If you can directly summon the Sphinx, then the Egypt operation can be canceled!"
"The image of the Sphinx appears in mythological stories from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, and Western Asia. But it doesn’t appear in Xiazhou’s mythology... My book ’Xiazhou Strange Tales’ only involves local myths from Xiazhou..."
"Then what’s the bird-headed, human-bodied monster you summoned the first time?" Sun Hang asked, "I remember there seems to be such a monster in Egyptian mythology... it should be called ’Thoth’."
"That’s one of the twenty-eight Mansions, known as ’Wei Mansion’," Bai Lingqiu said, "The story illustrated in the book describes it killing Yuyu. Later, Yuyu was resurrected but turned into a bloodthirsty, man-eating beast."
"Is this book really for children? It feels more like children’s horror classics..." Sun Hang couldn’t help but quip, "Does it have a story about the Kui Niu?"
"Yes... but the Kui Niu is one of the strongest monsters with the lowest summoning probability," Bai Lingqiu said.
Hearing Bai Lingqiu say this, Sun Hang couldn’t help gasping inwardly.
He had only absorbed a small portion of the meme contained in the Kui Niu’s bone marrow and gained such powerful abilities. If the young lady summoned a complete Kui Niu... its combat power would certainly rival the fully incubated Chimera 17...
Bai Lingqiu’s abilities may be unstable, but her upper limit could definitely rank in the top ten of the current Hunter rankings... no, even the top three is possible!
As long as her luck is good enough!
"Among the monsters I have summoned so far, ’Wei Mansion’ is already one of the strongest. With my current mental ability, I can control it for at most ten minutes, and then I will fall into a coma... If I actually summon a creature like the Kui Niu, I can’t guarantee whether it will attack your enemies or you first," Bai Lingqiu said.
"Do the monsters you summon have a time limit? Do they materialize in this world, or are they just mass projections that dissipate after a while?" Sun Hang asked again.
"They exist in reality... ’Wei Mansion’ was killed, and its remains are still stored in the Bai Group’s secret room," Bai Lingqiu said, "But I can use my mind to send the summoned monsters back... Also, if a summoned monster is killed or still exists in this world, the pages documenting its story in the illustrated book will turn blank."
"The way you put it makes me feel these aren’t card draws but rather a sealing tool, and these monsters are sealed in the book, with your summons releasing them from their seals," Sun Hang analyzed.
"I’m not quite sure myself... Because of my father, the Dragon City Mysterious Creature Research Institute hasn’t done further research on me, nor have they submitted research reports to Dubhe Tower..."
It’s no wonder the main brain couldn’t find Bai Lingqiu’s records, and her Hunter wristband differs significantly from the standard ones... Sun Hang thought to himself.
It seems, besides the Dragon City Hunter Management Bureau, the Dragon City Mysterious Creature Research Institute has significant "issues"...
At this moment, some people in Dragon City are completely unaware that their career is already counting down... even their life is on countdown.
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A night of preparation quickly passed, and by 7 AM the next day, twenty-five armored vehicles adorned with the Bai Group’s emblem had formed a firing line about a kilometer from the pit, with a total of one hundred 120-mm caliber barrels raised high, gleaming violently in the sunlight.
"So many armored vehicles... this far exceeds the upper limit of armed forces allowed for civil organizations, right?" Looking at the firing line in the distance, Sun Hang muttered.
"Theoretically, it’s not allowed, but the Bai Group is a military industrial enterprise," Candle Dragon said, "These armored vehicles, including the weapons on them, are all their products... They can totally send these into uninhabited areas under the guise of testing, entirely compliant and legal."
"Phase one of the operation, commence!" Following Chen Jing’s command, over three hundred drones instantly flew out from the box-type hangars, reaching right over the collapse area in the blink of an eye.
Subsequently, a large number of "bombs" were dropped into the pit by the drones—yet no explosion sound came from the pit, puzzling the Hunters watching from afar.
"They’ve dropped thousands of bombs, they can’t all be duds, right?" Charles said in shock, "Or did the mysterious creature below intercept them all?"
"These aren’t bombs but marking rounds," Candle Dragon explained patiently, "It’s a new weapon developed by Bai’s Military Industry, where the projectile is filled with a kind of gel that quickly vaporizes upon contact with oxygen, then attaches to the surface of the mysterious creature. Those unsuccessfully attached would decompose into gas. On specialized equipment, these successfully marked mysterious creatures would appear highlighted."
Candle Dragon held up the tablet in his hand, displaying the monitoring data shared by Chen Jing. Even from several meters away, Charles could see the dense cluster of bright spots on the screen.
"Wow, are all these mysterious creatures at the pit bottom?"
"They should all be fungous puppets or similar entities. There are too many of them, blocking the view of the gigantic fungal mysterious creature’s body below," Candle Dragon said.