Humanoids

Xia Chujian's face paled.

The association's deadline for the mission was from November this year to March next year.

A full five months.

This duration was relatively rare for missions issued by the Dark Night Hunter Association.

If there were any, they would be Grade A, or at least Grade B missions.

For a Geng-level Mission to take so long was indeed unprecedented.

Xia Chujian pursed her lips, unwilling to give up, and said, "Can I try using radar to search, Captain?"

Ye Shijie thought for a moment and said, "Alright, but I must remind you that the possibility of finding it with radar is low, because radar's search effect on static objects is generally poor."

"How about this, Chujian stays at the base. Today, Li Fu and I will be one group, and Song Mingqian and Ping Qiong will be another group. We'll exchange areas and search again. If we still can't find it, should we change locations?"

"Where to?"

"The Exotic Beast Forest is so big, of course, we'll search the southern edge of the Land of the Far North." Ye Shijie said casually, slinging his Frostfall 100 Assault Rifle and walking into the wind and snow.

After Ye Shijie and the other three left, Xia Chujian went to the Small Combat Aircraft alone.

She first turned on the solid-state optical radar system and set the scanning range to maximum.

Then, she activated the super optical brain on the aircraft, input the Blood Kirin's image, and connected it to the solid-state optical radar's imaging system.

This way, when the area searched by the radar was visually converted and appeared on the virtual screen, the super optical brain could assist in image discrimination.

The solid-state optical radar had a detection range of one hundred kilometers.

With the coordinates provided by the association invalid, she could only rely on radar.

Of course, this type of radar search was not as good as manual operation.

After all, compared to searching only for "moving" objects before, now she was searching for everything within a hundred-kilometer radius, and the amount of data to be processed increased almost geometrically, requiring the super optical brain's extreme computing power for a long time.

Ordinary aircraft could not support such intense extreme computing power because it required too much energy.

Once the energy was used up, this type of Small Combat Aircraft was just a useless hunk of iron in the wild.

However, Xia Chujian did not have such worries.

Because the Dark Night Hunter Association had equipped this mission with an aircraft powered by Small-Scale Controlled Nuclear Fusion.

With Small-Scale Controlled Nuclear Fusion as the power source, the super optical brain's extreme computing power could be used without restraint.

Xia Chujian quickly adjusted the connection between the super optical brain and the radar data processing system and began intelligent scanning and searching.

On the virtual screen in front of her, Xia Chujian quickly saw Ye Shijie and the others.

In groups of two, their images were clearly captured by the radar system.

Xia Chujian thought for a moment and decided to exclude the areas searched manually, which could avoid repeated operations and reduce some pressure on the radar system.

After readjusting the search range, Xia Chujian hugged her sniper rifle and began to space out in the aircraft.

Her eyes seemed to be vacant, but in reality, she was constantly staring at the four virtual screens in front of her.

A morning passed, and she found nothing, not even plants that looked similar.

If the Blood Kirin was so difficult, Kong Sang must be even harder.

Xia Chujian's previous ambition gradually subsided.

As expected, that near-zero probability was not so easy to break through.

But no matter what, she had to stay here until March next year.

At noon, Xia Chujian didn't want to eat lunch and continued to stare at the virtual videos in the aircraft alone.

Just as her eyes were almost glazed over, the solid-state optical radar suddenly emitted a series of beeping warning sounds!

This was not the sound she had set for finding the Blood Kirin, but the sound for potential enemies!

Xia Chujian's heart tightened.

Enemies?! Could it be that the Exotic Beasts in the Exotic Beast Forest were attacking her teammates outside?! Xia Chujian quickly projected the warning screen onto the aircraft's built-in display.

At this moment, she clearly saw that it wasn't in the distance where the radar was scanning for the Blood Kirin, but nearby, in the area where her four teammates were conducting a carpet search, a moving "object" had appeared! The image wasn't very clear.

Xia Chujian immediately increased the resolution of the image by an order of magnitude, targeting this "moving object."

A tall, long-haired man quickly appeared on the virtual screen.

No, only his upper body was human; his lower body, however, was that of a horse.

This wasn't a human, but a Humanoid!

Xia Chujian narrowed her eyes.

She wasn't afraid of Humanoids.

In fact, no one in this team understood Humanoids better than she did.

When she was a child, before her aunt found a job, she and her aunt lived in the South District of Mulan City.

That was the only area in Mulan City that allowed Humanoid Lowly People to settle in the city.

In the area where the Humanoid Lowly People lived, she had watched these Humanoids switch between human and beast forms since she was a child, and she was already used to it.

Therefore, Xia Chujian wasn't frightened by the Humanoid's appearance, but observed it carefully.

The horse-bodied Humanoid was holding a bow and arrow, aiming at Captain Ye Shijie, who was ten meters away and completely unaware, and slowly drawing the bow.

Xia Chujian's heart tightened, and she immediately opened the team's communication channel's direct dialogue system and said, "Team Leader Ye, get down!"

Their team had been working together for three years and had a very good understanding.

As soon as she notified him, Ye Shijie immediately jumped to the ground.

While giving the voice notification, Xia Chujian aimed her Judgement Sniper Rifle at the horse-bodied Humanoid who was preparing to shoot with his bow and arrow.

Their team had been working together for three years and had a very good understanding.

At this moment, the horse-bodied Humanoid finally released the bow and arrow.

Whoosh! The sound of the arrow piercing through the air rang out above Ye Shijie's head.

Before that, Xia Chujian had already pulled the trigger in her hand.

The arrow hadn't arrived yet, but the bullet had already arrived first.

"Ah!" The Humanoid cried out miserably and fell to the ground.

Xia Chujian saw this scene in the radar-converted video and couldn't help but sigh inwardly. Bows and arrows in the hands of Humanoids still couldn't compare with hot weapons like sniper rifles.

But just as she was sighing, a scene of a golden arrow piercing through the night sky and shooting into the rectangular moon gate flashed through her mind.

If it was that kind of arrow, perhaps hot weapons wouldn't be able to handle it...

But what about her Judgement Sniper Rifle?

Xia Chujian felt that she still had a chance to fight.

While she was thinking wildly, she carefully searched the radar image.

She didn't see any other dangers for the time being, but she was still very worried, so she notified the entire team and said, "There's danger outside, come back quickly."

Ye Shijie was worried, so he signaled the entire team to lie down and waited for a few more minutes before slowly looking up at his surroundings.

Xia Chujian was anxious.

If she were on the scene, she would definitely raise her hand and fire a burst of shots in all directions to clear the area before running away.

This way, even if the other party still had an ambush, they wouldn't be able to escape their subsequent firepower suppression.

But Ye Shijie was used to being meticulous and was reluctant to waste bullets by shooting at the air.

He turned on the far-sighted glasses on his helmet and looked around before waving his hand, "Go see what's going on."

The four people crawled forward on the ground and came to the horse-bodied Humanoid that Xia Chujian had shot.

"...A Humanoid?" Ping Qiong raised her eyebrows, half-kneeling up from the ground, wanting to stand up.

At this moment, a countdown ticking sound suddenly rang out from the Humanoid's body.

Song Mingqian's face turned cold, and he shouted loudly, "Retreat! Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

Seeing that it was too late, he leaped up, pulling Ping Qiong towards a large rock at the edge of the woods.

Only then did Ye Shijie and Li Fu realize there was a problem, and they covered their heads, rolling and lying down on the ground.

*BOOM!* A cloud of black smoke mixed with fire erupted as the horse-bodied Humanoid that had been shot dead exploded with a loud bang! It was a remote-controlled bomb! Someone had actually planted a remote-controlled bomb on this horse-bodied Humanoid!

Xia Chujian, watching from the Small Combat Aircraft, turned green with anger. She immediately picked up her Judgement Sniper Rifle and kicked open the button beneath her seat.

The semi-transparent canopy of the Small Combat Aircraft slowly rose.

A blast of cold air rushed in from outside.

Xia Chujian was so furious at this moment that she didn't even feel the cold.

She set up her sniper rifle on the edge of the Small Combat Aircraft's canopy and said calmly to her teammates, "You retreat, I'll cover you."

Hearing her say that, her teammates knew she had already set up her Judgement Sniper Rifle.

Based on their previous mission experience, Xia Chujian had always provided long-range fire support, whether it was taking potshots or covering their retreat, she always delivered a one-shot kill.

"Retreat!" Ye Shijie also felt that there were still enemies lurking in the shadows, and they were insidious, cunning, and full of tricks. They needed to go back and discuss it properly.

The four of them continued to maintain a bent-over posture, slowly moving backward, retreating towards the woods.

Xia Chujian, with her Judgement Sniper Rifle set up, monitored the situation of the team under the surveillance of the solid-state optical radar.

Just as Ye Shijie and the other three had retreated into the woods, the radar system began to beep and alarm again.

Xia Chujian followed the coordinate address transmitted by the radar and adjusted the scope of the sniper rifle.

Soon, through the objective lens of the scope, Xia Chujian saw the second Humanoid.

This was a pig-headed Humanoid, with a head resembling a pig, but not as terrifying as a Wild Rhinoceros Pig, nor did it have long tusks.

Perhaps because it had a human expression, it looked a bit simple and honest, but below the neck, it had a human body.

What surprised Xia Chujian was that this pig-headed Humanoid was dressed very poorly and raggedly, much worse than the horse-bodied Humanoid from before.

The outside temperature was as low as minus eighty degrees Celsius, but he was only wearing a piece of clothing that looked like a broken sack, with a straw rope tied around his waist.

The hem of the clothing only reached his knees, not even covering his calves.

And he was barefoot, with no shoes on his feet.

Although his calves were covered with coarse hair, and his feet were calloused, it was still clear that he was very cold, so cold that his toes were constantly curled up, making his gait unsteady.

She looked at this pig-headed Humanoid, her hand gradually tightening on the trigger, but she did not act.

The horse-bodied Humanoid who had tried to attack Ye Shijie, but was shot dead by Xia Chujian, had not transformed back into a complete human form even in death.

Xia Chujian had seen some Humanoids like this before.

They were the kind of Humanoids who could only maintain a full beast form or a partial beast form, unable to switch back to a complete human form.

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