Trickster Hunter

Chapter 21 Blood Moon

Although this hill is barren, it is not desolate - at this moment, the hills are full of people with lighting equipment. Judging from their uniforms, there are people from the Public Security Bureau, people from the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, soldiers from the Tianfu City Guard, and regular soldiers from the Xiazhou Federation.

Sun Hang and the other two jumped out of the car, and two investigators came to greet them immediately - both of them had the badge and identity code of the Investigation Bureau on their uniforms, and it was obviously a regular investigation bureau.

"Are there any new discoveries?" Yang Qi asked.

The two investigators shook their heads at the same time.

"I have a question to ask," Sun Hang said, "How did you confirm that this place has become the undeveloped appearance of decades ago - rather than the entire cemetery disappearing and leaving only a barren hill?"

"Because they found this at the scene." Yang Qi took an opaque evidence bag from an investigator and threw it to Sun Hang.

"Can you open it and take a look?" Sun Hang asked.

Yang Qi nodded.

In the bag was a tinplate biscuit can. The paint on the surface of the can was a little scratched, but there was no rust on the scratched areas. Sun Hang turned the biscuit can over and found a line of text printed on the bottom of the can.

"Production date: January 10, 4653 in the lunar calendar. Shelf life: 24 months."

This is a can of butter cookies. The lid of the can is obviously deformed and almost not sealed. Even at the bottom of the evidence bag containing it, there are a lot of golden biscuit crumbs piled up.

Sun Hang gently pried open the deformed lid with his fingernails and found that there were several pieces of broken biscuits in the can.

This kind of butter cookie is not independently packaged inside, and the tinplate can outside is their only packaging.

Sun Hang picked up one of them and found that the biscuit was not only not spoiled and moldy, but also not damp. With a slight force on his fingertips, he could hear the crisp sound of the biscuit being squeezed.

"Biscuits produced sixty-six years ago, even those kind of storage-resistant compressed biscuits, cannot maintain this state." Yang Qi said.

"Tsk." Wang Xiyi took the can and also picked up a biscuit... The next second, the biscuit turned into powder in her palm and fell back into the can.

"We initially thought that the space where the cemetery is located might have undergone a time-space replacement with the scene decades ago." Yang Qi said, "But according to your description, those missing people may not have gone to decades ago, but to the future time and space."

"No, I don't think so." Sun Hang shook his head, "If it's just time travel, the traveler himself shouldn't become so old... From the picture I saw, I think the time flow rate in the space they are in has been accelerated by thousands or even tens of thousands of times."

"If it's just that the time flow rate has increased, you should see a skeleton instead of an aging living person." Yang Qi frowned, "Humans need to eat and breathe to maintain their body metabolism. If the time flow rate suddenly becomes thousands of times faster, those people would have died long ago."

"But aging is one of the manifestations of metabolism." Sun Hang retorted.

"...You are right." Yang Qi sighed, "The abnormal phenomena caused by the weird things cannot be explained by the scientific theories we know... It is precisely for this reason that only people like you who are infected with the weird virus can compete with the weird things."

"Then what do you think I should do now? Like this group of people, turn this barren mountain upside down?"

"Wait, no matter how urgent we are, we can only wait." Yang Qi said in a deep voice, "Wait until the resonance induction appears again."

Just then, a familiar voice suddenly came from not far away: "0420? You are still alive?!"

Sun Hang turned his head, and sure enough, 0401, wearing a gray uniform without an emblem, was leaning on a shovel, standing on the hillside and staring at him in astonishment.

"You seem to wish I was dead?"

"No... no no no, I don't mean that, I'm just surprised..." 0401 waved his hands repeatedly, "It's just that you didn't run out of the basement that day, and didn't return to the investigation bureau later, I thought you had... Wait, what's on your shoulder - they actually gave you a gun?"

"There are wild beasts in the wilderness at night, isn't it normal to have a gun?"

"Fuck, why don't I have one? No! You are no longer a temporary investigator! What happened that day?" 0401 wanted to ask more, but a layer of ominous dark red light suddenly covered the entire hillside, interrupting 0401's words.

He turned his neck stiffly and looked towards the sky.

A bloody full moon hung high in the gloomy clouds, emitting a weird blood-red light.

"Damn it." Wang Xiyi cursed in a low voice.

"Why is it at this time... This is trouble." Yang Qi also frowned.

"What is that?" Sun Hang looked at the blood moon in the sky and asked.

In his remaining memory, there was no information related to the "blood moon".

"'Phenomenon' strange thing, blood moon, serial number 'Yi Liu'." Yang Qi said, "According to the observation records over the years, there is a certain probability that the blood moon will appear on the full moon night of each month... Today is May 15th, 4719 in the lunar calendar, which happens to be the full moon night."

"Blood moon... is it dangerous?" Sun Hang asked.

"The blood moon itself does not cause direct damage, but every time the blood moon appears, the beasts in the wasteland will become particularly violent, and the abilities of various monsters will also be increased... The most deadly point is For those infected with the devious virus, the infection process will also be aggravated." Yang Qi. Explained, "So every time the blood moon appears, every city-state will be facing a formidable enemy. Curfew, strengthening patrols and city defense are the most basic measures. At the same time, investigation missions and monster hunting missions in various places will also be urgently suspended. All investigators and hunters will be recalled and on standby."

"Calling hunters back is not actually to guard against possible monsters," Wang Xiyi added with a frown, "but to guard against unstable hunters turning into monsters... Hunters whose infection process is close to the dangerous threshold will be infected Locked up in a special room, once a mutation occurs, it will be immediately 'harmless'..."

"Have you ever been imprisoned?"

"I was imprisoned once. When the blood moon appeared, I had just released my beastly state. I injected five inhibitors in a row to maintain my human form. I almost died." Wang Xiyi said in an understatement, as if she almost died in the story. It's others, not herself.