Baqiu City, Jinya Airport.

It's now 1:25 in the afternoon, typically the time of day when the sunlight is the strongest—yet under the influence of "Eternal Night," the entire sky remains like a heavy black velvet curtain, not a hint of light penetrating through.

The pouring rain shows no sign of stopping, and looking down through the porthole, the runway's guiding lights are hazy and blurred, even the distant terminal building appears strangely unreal through the rain curtain.

The plane has already circled three times over the airport, and the pilot still hasn't decided on the optimal landing route—the visibility and weather conditions are just too poor, even the most skilled pilot wouldn't dare to guarantee a safe landing on the ground.

If Jinya Airport were able to open today, the screen in the departure hall would surely be filled with a large area of bright red "Flight Delays."

Through the cockpit door, Sun Hang could faintly hear the crew repeatedly confirming parameters with the ground control tower, the tone quite tense... For them, a slight negligence could end in a catastrophic disaster.

However, Sun Hang wasn't too concerned about whether the plane would crash... Not only him; most people on this plane didn't care either.

Seventeen Mysterious Creature Hunters, plus three Deceitful Equipment wielders, including Ye Jiu, and two "hunting experts" who were non-infected... With their abilities, even if they were thrown off the plane right now, most of them would survive the landing.

Finally, as it circled the ninth time, the rain began to gradually decrease, and the plane finally landed safely on the runway, coming to a slow stop after taxiing nearly a kilometer, as the indicator light on the cabin door changed from red to green.

The cabin door was lifted, and an aluminum alloy folding ladder was placed at the doorway. Passengers disembarked one by one, stepping into the cold rain curtain.

The location for the combat meeting was not at the forward command post of the Disaster Response Committee, but at a temporary camp only two kilometers away from Jinya Airport.

Passing through heavily guarded checkpoints, Sun Hang and his group finally arrived in front of an enormous tent.

"Is this the meeting place?" Sun Hang turned his head and asked Yang Qi quietly.

"Yes." Yang Qi nodded, "Did you notice the insignias on the soldiers guarding the tent entrance?"

"Yes, I saw them." Sun Hang replied.

The soldiers' insignias lacked stripes or stars, only seven irregularly arranged silver nails, with the one at the end slightly larger than the others.

"They're all from the Dubhe Tower." Yang Qi whispered, "The insignia represents the Big Dipper, and the largest one stands for the α star of Ursa Major, which is the Dubhe Star."

After verifying their identities, Sun Hang and his team were allowed inside the tent, the first thing they saw was an enormous table, with a holographic projection of the entire three-dimensional terrain of Shuzhou suspended above it.

A group of people in various outfits surrounded the table, murmuring about the holographic projection, completely ignoring Sun Hang and the others who had just entered the tent.

"Wow, amazing..." Yang Qi whispered softly, audible only to Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi, "These are all high-level figures."

"I don't recognize any of them." Sun Hang shrugged, saying.

"Same here... I'm not really interested in these matters." Wang Xiyi added on the side.

"The one standing at the head position, wearing a white lab coat, is the number three figure of Dubhe Tower." Yang Qi said, "When I went to Chunming City for further studies, I had the privilege of attending his open lecture. He's absolutely considered an authority in the domestic mysterious creature research field... I didn't expect even him to come to Shuzhou."

"This time it's the 'Eternal Night' emergence, so Dubhe Tower has to give face to the serial number three creature, right?" Sun Hang muttered softly, "It's reasonable to send the number three figure to deal with the serial number three creature."

"You don't know how significant he is; theoretically, he could just direct remotely from Chunming City, no need to personally come to the scene." Yang Qi sighed quietly, "And the person standing behind him, you all should have noticed the first moment you came in, right?"

The person Yang Qi referred to was a giant nearly four meters tall; his head almost touched the tent's top. His entire body was covered in muscles that shimmered with a metallic luster, looking more like an iron wall than a human being from afar.

"The eleventh-ranked mysterious creature hunter in the entire federation, codenamed 'Iron Wall'." Yang Qi softly introduced to Sun Hang.

"So this guy's really called Iron Wall..." Sun Hang thought to himself, recalling that the term 'human iron wall' came to mind the first moment he saw him, and it turned out to be his actual codename.

"And the woman sitting in the corner, be careful, don't look directly at her face." Yang Qi said.

Following Yang Qi's direction, Sun Hang glanced over with the corner of his eye, seeing a woman in a deep red long dress sitting on a folding chair. Her long black hair reached the ground, and a thin red veil made her real appearance vague—Sun Hang merely glanced quickly and felt an inexplicable heat rising from his lower abdomen.

"Cough, cough." Sun Hang coughed lightly twice, looking at the changes occurring in his body, and muttered, "Is this her ability?"

"Yes." Yang Qi's cheeks reddened, shifting her gaze away, speaking in a low voice, "Her Hunter ranking is thirty-seven, codenamed 'Bao Si,' and her ability is enchantment... Anyone who looks directly at her face will be enchanted by her, developing a strong impulse to mate with her... But when you come to your senses, you won't remember her features clearly at all. To avoid causing trouble, she wears a veil all year round—though personally, I think a full-cover helmet would be safer than that thin veil."

"No wonder... But is this ability useful against mysterious creatures?" Sun Hang asked curiously.

"I forgot to mention, her ability's effect targets all genders and races... It has extremely strong control effects against Class C and D mysterious creatures."

"Class C I can understand, but Class D... can she enchant plants too?" Sun Hang couldn't help but click his tongue.

"I've seen her mission records. She even successfully enchanted spirit-type mysterious creatures." Yang Qi added again.

Sun Hang: "Wow."

"These two should be the highest-ranked Hunters present, and besides them, the other Hunters are not ordinary either... A quick scan shows that among these fifty or sixty Hunters, at least half rank within the top three hundred..." Yang Qi turned to Sun Hang, "So, what do you think?"

"Hmm..."

Sun Hang nodded contentedly, then quietly shared his 'thoughts': "Like a full imperial feast."

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