Trickster Hunter

Chapter 209 Qiang Village

"Liaison officer of the intelligence department? Why is it at Panlong Airport?" Sun Hang was dumbfounded. "If I remember correctly, the contact point of the intelligence department should be located in the office building of the Management Committee, right?"

"Panlong Airport is the only airport in Lizhou City, and naturally it is also the air transport hub of Lizhou City... The liaison officer's task is to transport various collected samples of strange objects back to Chunming City by air, but no one expected that , as soon as he stepped into Panlong Airport, the entire airport was swallowed up by the sudden appearance of the fireball. "What's wrong with you? Why do you look so ugly?"

"Does that liaison officer have a high authority level?" Sun Hang took a deep breath and asked.

"This is not too high." Yang Qi said, "But he should be aware of the local strange object investigation activities in Lizhou City."

"Including those hunters who were sent out on missions but have not returned yet?" Sun Hang asked again.

Yang Qi nodded.

"What mission are those hunters performing?"

"I have to apply to the Disaster Management Committee for permission to access the files..."

"No need." Sun Hang interrupted her, "Just use my authority."

"Okay... I found it..." Yang Qi looked at the laptop on her lap and frowned, "How about... you'd better check it yourself?"

She handed the laptop to Sun Hang.

The screen was a twenty-seven-page action plan. At the front of the plan was a piece of drone detection data.

Two hundred and thirty kilometers west of Lizhou City is a mountainous area with extremely complicated terrain, where hundreds of Qiang villages are scattered. These Qiang villages maintain relatively primitive features and live a self-sufficient life in this mountainous area with no traffic.

As part of its jurisdiction, the Lizhou City Management Committee has also thought about allowing these Qiang people to move to the city. However, the Qiang people are unwilling to give up their homeland where their ancestors have lived for generations. There are only a few Qiang villages that have frequent interactions with outsiders. After the eternal night fell, they moved into the newly built resettlement area in the west of Lizhou City.

In order to prevent the Qiang villages left behind in the mountainous areas from freezing to death and starving to death, the Lizhou City Management Committee could only regularly send people to deliver grain, oil, coal and other supplies to these villages, and repeatedly persuade them to move into the resettlement areas and accept unified management. …

However, persuasion efforts have had little effect... Those Qiang people who maintain their traditional way of life would rather gather together and shiver around a bonfire to keep warm than give up their village.

In accordance with the "Implementation Regulations for the Management of Qiang Inhabited Areas" of the Lizhou Municipal Management Committee, long-distance drones will regularly inspect these left-behind Qiang villages to ensure that there will be no serious incidents of freezing and hunger... However, just four days ago, , located in a Qiang village called "Liangshuigou", but the people in the entire village seemed to have evaporated, completely disappearing from the drone's field of vision.

Attached to the detection data are dozens of drone aerial videos and hundreds of photos. From these videos and photos, we can see that the buildings in Liangshuigou Village are in good condition, with no traces of damage, and there are no traces of damage inside the village. Seeing traces of battle or things like corpses and blood stains.

There are traces of an extinguished bonfire in the grain drying yard in the center of the village. In the corner of the grain drying yard, there are still a lot of firewood and coal cakes piled up.

The scenes in these photos are almost the same. Except that no one appears in the picture, there is nothing unusual about them.

"It looks like an entire village has disappeared." Zhulong commented from the side.

"There is plenty of fuel for heating... As for food, look at these photos." Yang Qi pointed to the screen and said, "The villagers still have bacon and corn hanging in front of and behind their houses, and there are even piles of corn in the yard. Few potatoes... It can basically be ruled out that the villagers left the village collectively due to lack of fuel or food. "

"If they leave the village, where can they go?" Sun Hang muttered, "Did they plan to come to Lizhou City, but ended up getting lost in the mountains?"

"Impossible." The old police officer who was driving said flatly. "To tell you the truth, there was a previous eviction operation in the mountain I drove into. All the villagers were dead-headed. , there is a fool who refuses to come to the city! The old man, who was already turning pale, was holding up a cane to beat us, saying that even if they starved to death, they would die on the land left by their ancestors... He wanted them to leave the village en masse, unless we found a rope to tie them all up. Then carry them out one by one!"

"Well, have you been to Liangshuigou Village?" Sun Hang asked.

"I've never been to Liangshuigou, but the attitudes of the villagers who stayed here are basically the same." The old sheriff sighed, "In their eyes, violating the rules of our ancestors is more terrifying than being a monster... I don't know. What are they thinking... No matter how strict the rules are, how can anyone lose their life? "

"It is for this reason that the Disaster Countermeasures Committee determined that the collective disappearance of villagers in Liangshuigou Village may be related to strange objects." Yang Qi said, "Two days ago, Lizhou City sent a team of six hunters and four An investigation team composed of 25 investigators and 25 police officers went to Liangshuigou Village to investigate. "

"Two days ago?" Sun Hang continued to ask, "How long does it take to get from Lizhou City to Liangshuigou?"

"Before the roads were built in the mountains, it took at least three days and two nights to walk, but now the roads have been repaired, and it only takes half a day to drive." The old sheriff who was driving recalled, "I remember that I went to a place called Shabaiping at that time. I set out after lunch at 7 o'clock in the morning and arrived at the destination at noon. I ate some dry food in the car and went into the village... Liangshuigou is a little deeper than Shabaiping. I estimated that it would take about half an hour to drive there."

"In other words, this missing investigation team should have arrived at the investigation site on the day of departure?" Sun Hang 's finger gently swiped on the touchpad, "Why didn't Lizhou City report this situation in time?"

"You can only report missing after losing contact for more than 72 hours." Yang Qi explained on the side, "It's only been more than 50 hours now."

"This investigation team is obviously in trouble... These officials are too rigid. Do they have to follow the regulations?" Sun Hang complained a little unhappy, "What about the drone? Didn't the drone capture the whereabouts of the convoy?"

Before Yang Qi had time to answer, Sun Hang had already scrolled to the relevant paragraph in the report file.

According to the description in the file, the last time the investigation team's convoy appeared in the drone's picture was four hours after departure, on a winding mountain road more than 60 kilometers away from Liangshuigou Village in a straight line.

After that, the investigation team's convoy, like the villagers of Liangshuigou Village, completely disappeared.

"Master." Sun Hang reached out and patted the old sheriff on the shoulder, and asked, "Can we go to Liangshuigou Village instead?"

"Ah? What did you say?" The old sheriff was shocked, "Aren't you going to Panlong Airport? Why are you suddenly going to Liangshuigou?"

"The center of this strange attack is not Panlong Airport at all... Liangshuigou is probably the only clue we can investigate."

"This... I can't make the decision on this matter!" The old sheriff stammered, "You have to report to the Lizhou City Public Security Bureau... No, the director and others probably can't make the decision, you probably have to report directly to the Lizhou City Management Committee or even directly to the Disaster Management Committee. "I have ordered the Disaster Countermeasures Committee to approve my application. Only if they approve it can you go to Liangshuigou..."

"I use my authority to order the Disaster Countermeasures Committee to approve my application." Sun Hang said, "Okay, they have agreed, Master, you and this car have been temporarily requisitioned by me... By the way, we should have enough gasoline, right?"

"Ah? Are you planning to go now?" The old sheriff was completely dumbfounded, "Only our car? No preparations?"

Just a few seconds ago, the old sheriff received an order from his direct superior, asking him to unconditionally obey all orders from the young man named Sun Hang in the car.

"That's enough. Do we need to do any more preparation?" Sun Hang asked, "Everyone has their own things to do. We are probably the most idle people in Lizhou City."

"Sun Hang, isn't your decision a bit too hasty?" Yang Qi's tone revealed a trace of worry, "The investigation team sent by Lizhou City has six hunters, four investigators, and 25 fully armed sheriffs... and we don't have any preparations now, not even a detailed action plan..."

"Yes, yes..." The old sheriff also immediately took over, "To be honest, I only know how to drive, and I'm really not good at fighting and killing... We don't even have a gun in this car... In my opinion, you might as well go to the city defense guard to borrow an armored vehicle and a few dozen People... this is at least safer!"

"People are more valuable than quantity. In front of strange things, no matter how many soldiers the city defense guard has, it is meaningless." Sun Hang said, "As for the action plan... the action plan of this investigation team is 27 pages long, detailed enough... but what's the use?"

"Then you have to at least give me a reason, right?" Yang Qi said, "From just now, I felt that you seemed a little abnormal... especially after knowing that there was a liaison officer from the intelligence department among the dead. Sun Hang, can you tell me, what is the connection between the fireball at Panlong Airport, the liaison officer who died, and the disappearance of villagers in Liangshuigou?"

"If I say it's intuition, do you believe it?" Sun Hang turned his head and looked at Yang Qi seriously.

"..." Yang Qi bit his lip, looked at Sun Hang for several seconds, and then exhaled forcefully, "Okay, I'll believe you once!"

"Don't be so serious, it's not entirely intuition... but a sense of smell, a sense of smell for memes." Sun Hang said.

"...Didn't you say that you didn't sense any weird memes at the scene of the fireball?" Yang Qi asked with a puzzled look.

"How should I put it? Memes are very mysterious... You are studying this thing, so you should know more about it than me, right?"

"Go on."

"I don't necessarily need to get close to it... Sometimes, I just need to know that it exists, and I can connect these seemingly unrelated things together. This feeling is like an electric current in the brain. With a 'hiss', you can see an arc connecting some fragmented information into a string..."

"Isn't this intuition?" The old sheriff who was driving couldn't help but say.

"It's different from intuition." Sun Hang emphasized again.

"Okay, okay, you are a high-ranking official, whatever you say is right..." The old sheriff said helplessly, "But this driver, can you change someone else... I will retire in two years..."

"Are you afraid?"

"How can I not be afraid? More than 30 people disappeared inexplicably, and we are the only ones running to the mountains, isn't that just delivering food?" The old sheriff said with a sad face, "I still want to retire peacefully..."

"How about this, you stop the car now, go back to the bureau to report, and say that the task I gave you is to stay in Lizhou City to prevent the invasion of strange creatures." Sun Hang said, "I will drive this car, anyway, those mountain road navigation software can be found, I will not drive the car into the ditch."

"Really?" The old sheriff stepped on the brake and asked.

"Really, don't worry, I will pretend that I didn't hear your complaints just now." Sun Hang opened the car door first.

"Thank you, thank you!" The old sheriff let go of the steering wheel and jumped out of the car, "Then I'll go first!"

"Yeah." Sun Hang nodded and took over the driver's seat.

The old sheriff took a few steps, then turned back, took off all the electric batons and tear gas sprays from his waist, and stuffed them into Sun Hang: "I don't know if these things can be used, but it's always good to bring them."

"Thank you." Sun Hang took the equipment and threw it into the glove box.

"Huh? Why don't you get out of the car?" Sun Hang looked back at the three people sitting in the back and asked.

"What do you mean?" Yang Qi was startled and asked.

"I mean, I can go alone for this operation." Sun Hang tilted his head and glanced at Yang Qi and the other two. "You are all burdens to me."

"I disagree!" Yang Qi hit Sun Hang on the back of his head with a slap. "Don't try to use your authority to pressure me. If you don't agree, you don't agree!"

"Your acting is a bit poor." Zhulong also said with a smile, "You are worried about dragging us into danger, so you plan to act alone, right?"

"No, I really think you are a burden." Sun Hang said seriously.

Judging from Anna's special attitude towards herself, she is unlikely to hurt herself... What's more, she still has the trump card of the three monkeys, which can absolutely suppress Anna... But if Yang Qi and others are targeted by Anna, or Anna uses this to threaten herself, I am afraid I will fall into a passive situation.

Sun Hang dare not guarantee that the good luck of the fisherman and Yano will continue to Yang Qi and others.