The debris began to liquify, bound by an invisible force field that continuously fused and reshaped them... Within seconds, a giant drill over three ters in diater and more than twenty ters long materialized in front of Sun Hang.
At the sa ti, the Hunters who had previously advanced close to the Chira rushed to Sun Hang's landing point.
"Are you planning to drill a hole in Chira 17 with this drill?" the Crystal Princess asked, unable to resist as she saw the drill spin faster and faster.
"Why not?"
Sun Hang's right hand was previously pointing in midair, and the giant drill suspended above the ground shot out instantly, drilling toward the place Shinkata Misaki had just pointed out.
The cocoon shell full of cracks shattered instantly, and the drill directly contacted the magma layer below, causing a massive sonic blast.
The Hunters quickly covered their ears.
"It's in! It's in!" a Hunter shouted excitedly, "The drill didn't lt! It's promising!"
Of course, the drill wouldn't lt... Sun Hang had already pushed his tal-controlling ability to the limit, and the blue bar was being consud at an alarming rate. If they were in an online ga, the Hunters would see Sun Hang's avatar's blue bar depleting section by section in the team interface.
Compressing such a massive amount of tal to a critical state while maintaining stability was Sun Hang's first attempt — the drill looked like solidified tal, but in fact, the tal comprising the drill was in a state entirely different from conventional physical forms... In all seriousness, if Sun Hang lost control of his ability, the giant drill would instantly turn into a bomb with power comparable to a tactical nuclear warhead, and few present would survive such an explosion.
"That's odd! The temperature is dropping!" a Hunter holding an optical thermoter exclaid, "The temperature's quickly dropping where the drill is in contact with Chira 17! This isn't scientific!"
"We're already fighting anomalies, so forget about scientific or not," Wang Xiyi glanced at the startled Hunter, "Since an 'anomaly' occurred, it ans Misaki's chosen the right spot... Tsk, this ability is truly useful."
"... Hiss." Dubbed "Misaki-chan" by Wang Xiyi, Shinkata Misaki felt a chill crawling up her spine but didn't protest the nickna, "Just luck... It really has nothing to do with my ability, just a gut feeling that place was a bit off."
"That's because of your ability." Wang Xiyi shook her head, "Otherwise, why wouldn't our intuition pick up on that 'off' feeling?"
"Seems like... you're right." Shinkata Misaki tried to suppress her ability, and sure enough, that sense of "sothing's off" vanished completely.
...
The giant drill gradually stopped, and Sun Hang took a deep breath, the blue bar nearly half-consud. If consumption continued, the blue bar's regenerative rate would be affected.
Sun Hang couldn't quite define the essence of the blue bar but assud it to be a kind of psychic energy since he would pass out if it was overdrawn.
This psychic energy had a notable characteristic; the less consud, the faster it recovered... once consumption exceeded the halfway point, recovery would slow significantly.
He nad this threshold "ltdown Threshold," a term borrowed from a risk control chanism in financial markets, often used in sci-fi to describe scenarios where energy consumption exceeds limits or equipnt overloads.
After nurous experints with different consumption rates, Sun Hang found a pattern: keeping psychic energy above half, he could replenish the consud portion within minutes.
Once consumption reached the halfway mark and crossed the "ltdown Threshold," even a minor overdraw of 50.1% would require hours to recover past 50%.
Complete depletion... would take days to recover.
Of course, a quick way to replenish was by consuming other anomalies.
Without certainty of anomalous "supply," Sun Hang's primary combat rule was never let psychic energy fall below the "ltdown Threshold" unless necessary.
The giant drill retreated, revealing that Chira 17's surface had been drilled with a hole over two ters in diater.
Around the hole's edge, the previously flowing magma appeared solidified, and the temperature dropped from 4,000 degrees Celsius to just 500 degrees.
According to the optical thermoter's scan, it looked like a bottomless black hole appeared suddenly amid large high-temperature yellow and white areas.
In fact, it was indeed a bottomless black hole.
The inside of Chira 17 was hollow.
Once Sun Hang's drill penetrated the magma layer, the "cavity" inside was exposed to everyone.
"Should we throw the insecticide and activator in now?" asked an eager Hunter, "Would that complete our mission?"
"Throw it in now? You sure you can hurt Chira 17?" another Hunter looked at him disdainfully, "Who knows where this hole leads... You might drop it and have it roll out another hole, never touching Chira 17's body."
"What do you suggest, then?"
"I think we need to go in," Sun Hang suddenly said.
"Go... in?" The Hunter who wanted to throw insecticide was stunned, "You an... go... inside Chira 17's body?"
"Not necessarily inside Chira 17's body," Sun Hang shook his head, "This is just a cocoon, a cocoon for incubation... Chira 17's body should be hidden sowhere within the cocoon. We must find that hidden body for the insecticide to work effectively."
"How do we find it?" The Hunter was bewildered.
"Let introduce Shinkata Misaki," Sun Hang pointed to the girl beside him, "You might not be familiar with her na, but her alias you must have heard — 'Death's Eye'."
"Death's Eye? This little girl is Death's Eye?!" The Hunter's eyes widened, scanning Shinkata Misaki up and down several tis, "No wonder... No wonder the higher-ups are confident in this mission. If you are Death's Eye, you must be able to see where this anomaly's weak points are, right?"
"I can't see them," Shinkata Misaki shook her head, "At least not from the outside."
"So I said, we need to go in," Sun Hang stated.
The Hunter's Adam's apple bobbed, he gulped slightly, and then said, "Alright... alright, go in if we must... The fact I'm standing here ans I'm not afraid of death."
"I'll go first." Wang Xiyi folded her wings, heading straight for the opening.
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