Trickster Hunter

Chapter 210 Mountain Road

"This is my career and job!" Yang Qi said seriously.

"This operation is very dangerous, you may die." Sun Hang said.

"When I applied to be your direct person in charge, the teacher also told me that this job was very dangerous and I might die," Yang Qi said.

"What if it's something more terrifying than death?" Sun Hang asked, "For example, consciousness being assimilated by a strange object and enduring eternal torture?"

"I already had this awareness when I joined the company."

"Okay, it's hard to persuade the damn ghost with good words." Sun Hang gave up and looked back at Zhulong and Zhong Ling, "Are you two so stubborn?"

"If I'm afraid, why don't I stay in Chunming City?" Zhulong asked with a smile.

"Okay, then Yang Qi's safety is up to you... If you encounter something strange, you don't need to take action, just protect them." Sun Hang said.

"Okay." Zhulong agreed.

Sun Hang opened the car's built-in navigation and entered the place name "Liangshuigou" in the search bar.

"We are guiding you to Liangshuigou. The total distance is 297 kilometers. The road conditions are clear. The estimated journey is five hours and twenty minutes. Please fasten your seat belts and make a U-turn at the intersection fifty meters ahead." The voice of the navigation software rang in the car. got up.

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The mountain road was not easy to drive, and the estimated trip by the navigation system was based on normal speed. But in fact, Sun Hang could only drive up to 45 yards... Any faster, and it would be easy to cause a car crash and death.

Nowadays, various places in Shuzhou are implementing centralized energy supply measures. Roads like this with little traffic volume have been blocked one after another, all power supplies have been cut off, and all entrances and exits have been posted with the words "Road closed, civilian vehicles prohibited from entering, illegal entry" The eye-catching warning sign is "Use the consequences at your own risk".

The winding mountain road was completely dark, and the only thing that could be used for lighting was the headlights that came with the car. In terms of the influence of eternal night, there is no difference at all between the weather at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 in the evening.

Oh no, there is still a difference... In the past, thanks to the light pollution emitted by the city, the brightness was a little higher at 9:30 in the evening... But now, those sources of light pollution have become a Another dark, cold forest of reinforced concrete.

The four people in the car were silent. Occasionally, they could see a few twisted figures flashing around the road - they were the treacherous bodies controlled by Zhong Ling. They followed closely around the car, playing " Bodyguard + Living Radar" function.

"Yang Qi," Sun Hang suddenly said after driving for nearly an hour, "can you access the military drone network in Lizhou City?"

"Yes." Yang Qi, holding the laptop, nodded.

In fact, with Sun Hang's current authority, let alone accessing Lizhou City's military drone network, even if all the drones in Lizhou City are transferred to follow their car, they can still do it. arrive.

"How many drones are hovering in this airspace?"

"Six." Yang Qi said, "The drone numbered LZ852SA93 is directly above us."

Yang Qi transferred the picture received by her notebook to the central control screen of the car, and saw a long light spot moving slowly in the pitch-black mountains - this light spot was exactly where they were sitting. SUV.

"The height is too high. Can it be lowered?" Sun Hang asked.

"Yes." Yang Qi's slender fingers were tapping on the keyboard. After modifying the relevant parameters, the drone quickly lowered its height... The outline of the vehicle appeared on the screen, and the long strips of light spots were originally mixed together. It also became two beams - they were the beams of light emitted by the car's headlights, hitting the road dozens of meters away.

"Let this drone follow us all the time, and send the video footage to the Lizhou City Anomaly Investigation Bureau in real time... No, directly to Tianfu City." Sun Hang said, "If the previous investigation team also let the drone If we follow them all the way, they won't disappear."

"It was mentioned in the action plan that the investigation team brought its own reconnaissance drone." Yang Qi said while operating, "It's just that they didn't release the drone before arriving at the target area."

"It is recommended that this incident be regarded as a classic case and included in the teaching materials of the Monster Talent Training Base." Sun Hang said, "With so many people dead, is it true that no lessons have been learned?"

"Perhaps it is to save energy." Yang Qi said, "After all, the supplies carried by the convoy are limited, and it is against the regulations to use the drones used by the military to monitor mountainous areas..."

"It's not in compliance with the regulations... This kind of mentally retarded regulations has been abolished a long time ago." Sun Hang couldn't help complaining, "Oh, and there is also the one who is not considered missing until he has been out of contact for seventy-two hours... Regulations are dead, people are alive, they Don’t you even understand this?”

"Actually, many people know the unreasonableness of these regulations." Zhulong said, "But in fact, these regulations have taken into account various situations. If these regulations are abolished, it will lead to even more chaos. situation."

"To put it bluntly, you're just lazy?"

"It can't be summed up by the word "lazy". People's abilities and cognitions vary. Unless you can allow all administrative agencies in the federation to share a super brain for thinking, then there is really no need for these restrictions... …But since it can’t be done, the existence of rules and regulations is reasonable,” Zhulong explained.

"...I suddenly feel that your suggestion is quite constructive."

"Um?"

"Let a supercomputer manage the entire federation... As long as it can solve the problems of omnic crises, virus infections, private privileges, and weird intrusions on the computer itself, then this is indeed a good solution." Sun Hang said in a joking way said in a tone of voice.

"You are too idealistic. If the federation is really capable of solving these problems..." Yang Qi looked helplessly at the back of Sun Hang's head in the driver's seat, "We would have started to regain the lost ground long ago."

"I just said that casually," Sun Hang slightly increased the accelerator, "Anyway, I don't need to think about this kind of thing... As a hunter, I only need to be responsible for fighting."

"But it seems to me that Mr. Pei wants to train you to be his successor?" Zhulong said.

"That's an issue he needs to consider, and it's none of my business." Sun Hang muttered, "He can't force me to learn various management and research knowledge, can he?"

"That's not certain..." Yang Qi said quietly.

"Then I'll just pretend to be stupid." Sun Hang chuckled, "I'll just pretend to be illiterate. I'll just hold the Xinhua Dictionary and learn a lot of knowledge!"

"Sun Hang." At this moment, Zhong Ling suddenly said, "It seems like something has sneaked in."

"Sneaking in? What?" Sun Hang was slightly startled, put away his joking expression, and asked in a low voice.

"I arranged eleven skeletons around...but now, there are twelve following us." Zhong Ling said.

"Good guy...it's time to fish in troubled waters." Sun Hang's eyes quickly glanced from the left and right rearview mirrors. However, only bare rock walls and low bushes could be seen on both sides of the mountain road. Even Zhong Ling controlled It's hard to find the skeletal figure, "Can you establish a consciousness link with this 'new' guy?"

"No." Zhong Ling shook his head, "It seems to have another source of control."

"Can't you bully it?"

"The control source has a very high priority, and there seems to be another strange thing inside the corpse." Zhong Ling said.

"Okay, an episode of pure love warrior ecstasy..." Sun Hang slowly stepped on the brakes, "Let your little brothers find that guy out."

"Wouldn't this alert the enemy?" Yang Qi closed her laptop and asked.

"When Zhong Ling tried to control the corpse and failed, the other party already knew that he was exposed. In this case, why should we give it a good look?"

After Sun Hang finished speaking, he pushed open the car door - just when Yang Qi thought he was going to catch the corpse in person, Sun Hang walked directly to the roadside, unfastened his belt and started pouring water.

"You...why are you at this time..." Yang Qi suddenly felt speechless.

"I suggest you solve all your personal problems at this time." Sun Hang shook twice and pulled up his pants, "Because you may not have time to go to the toilet later."

Before he finished speaking, two struggling figures rolled down the slope on the side of the road. Before they fell to the ground, thousands of mycelium bundles swarmed up and wrapped them into two mummies. Things were lifted into the air.

"Is that weird corpse yours?" Sun Hang turned around and asked Zhong Ling in the car.

"The one on your left." Zhong Ling replied.

The mycelium spread out, and a thin skeleton with a row of dorsal fins similar to Godzilla's on its back fell down - as soon as it hit the ground, the skeleton rolled up and got up, hunched over. , staring intently at another corpse that was still in a mummified state.

Along with a rustling sound, several more corpses of different shapes squeezed out of the bushes on the roadside, walked to the middle of the road, and surrounded the mummy.

"It's rare to hit more and less once." Sun Hang said, "I'm going to loosen it. Brothers, please give me some strength and don't let it go."

"Don't worry, you can't run away." Zhulong also got out of the car at this time, and a chilling aura spread out around him, completely wrapping this section of the road.

"Collect it." Sun Hang imitated the appearance of Sun Wukong in Journey to the West and raised his hand to make a retracting motion. The hyphae that were tightly entangled one second suddenly scattered and were taken back to Sun Hang. Hang's body.

A corpse with no obvious mutated features fell down, and the surrounding skeletons that were ready to attack immediately swarmed up and threw it to the ground.

"Why do you feel... this corpse is a bit weak?" Sun Hang looked at the corpse that was unable to struggle, and couldn't help but feel like a cannon hitting a mosquito.

If we judge based on the strength of the aura alone, this corpse is slightly stronger than the girl who was infected with the Tai Sui meme that Sun Hang met at the breakfast stall.

"This strange corpse seems to have just been transformed, and the memetic frequency is still very unstable." Yang Qi stared at the laptop screen and said - the equipment used to detect memetic fluctuations was placed on the back seat, with a large A cable as thick as a thumb is connected to the computer, "and it has not been specially modified, so it is naturally incomparable to the puppet master's trick equipment."

"Speaking of which, Zhong Ling just said that there is another strange thing inside this strange corpse. Can your equipment detect it?" Sun Hang asked.

"There is indeed another memetic fluctuation in the body of this strange corpse with completely inconsistent frequencies, and the intensity is not high." Yang Qi said, "But you'd better be careful."

Sun Hang walked closer and noticed that although the body was wearing clothes similar to those of the city dwellers, it had a green turban wrapped around its head - this was a characteristic dress of Qiang men, which meant that the body was most likely a villager from a nearby Qiang village.

"It's a Qiang." Zhu Long also noticed this, "It's quite a distance from Liangshuigou, how could it appear here?"

"It may not be a villager from Liangshuigou Village..." Sun Hang murmured, "Which Qiang village is closest to our current location?"

"Qiujiawan." Yang Qi opened the electronic map, "It's at the intersection we just passed, and it's five kilometers away from the fork on the right."

"Send the drone to Qiujiawan!" Sun Hang said immediately.

"You suspect Qiujiawan also..."

"Not suspicion, but certainty!" Sun Hang said, "That group of good-for-nothings who only follow rules and regulations has wasted too much time... If it drags on, there will be no living people on this mountain!"

"The drone will arrive over Qiujiawan in about four minutes." Yang Qi said with a heavy look, "I have notified the Lizhou City Urban Management Committee, but..."

"Don't say buts, didn't they tell you that if we want to find definite evidence, we need at least enough video data to prove that other villages have also had abnormalities, right?"

"Uh..." Yang Qi nodded.

"Directly transmit this information to Tianfu City!" Sun Hang flipped his right hand, and a sharp liquid scalpel instantly appeared at his fingertips, "Where is the thing in this strange body?"

"Brain." Yang Qi said immediately.

"Help me hold this guy down, don't let it move around." After Sun Hang finished speaking, he raised his hand and cut the skull of the strange body directly like cutting plasticine.

On the withered and shrunken brain tissue, there was a sticky mass of stuff... This thing looked like a semi-dehydrated starfish, and also like a neuron cell magnified countless times.

It was translucent, with eight synapses (or tentacles) tightly wrapped around the skeleton's brain, and the ends of the synapses penetrated deep into the brain tissue.

"Eight synapses..." Sun Hang tilted his head and looked at this strange mass of tissue carefully.

The more he looked at it, the more he felt... This thing was like a melted spider.