Trickster Hunter

Chapter 249 Leftovers

"It's hard to say..." Sun Hang shook his head, "Can you let me in?"

"What do you want to do?" Yang Qi asked.

"Try to see if this guy can communicate."

"How are you going to try?" Yang Qi asked again.

"What else can I try? Just go up and ask her questions and see if she reacts." Sun Hang said, "Besides, a large part of the negative emotions that caused her to become a weirdo is resentment towards me. She shouldn't ignore me, right?"

"What you should worry about is whether she will suddenly go crazy when she sees you." Yang Qi said.

"Even if she goes crazy, you should have a way to calm her down, right?" Sun Hang glanced at the several huge aluminum alloy boxes placed in the corner. These boxes were filled with wonderful tools for dealing with weirdos, including but not limited to 12.7 mm caliber lead core armor anesthetics... Although most weirdos have a high resistance to this anesthetic.

"The highest security measure here now is you." Yang Qi said, "I advise you to take it easy."

"It's not a big problem... You didn't put this thing in the Class A containment area, which means that in your eyes, it doesn't pose much of a threat, right?"

"Do you really want to go in?" Yang Qi confirmed again.

"Otherwise, do you plan to bombard it with noise all night?" Sun Hang asked back.

"Okay... If there is an emergency, try to keep it alive, you should be able to do it, right?" Yang Qi asked.

"If I want to kill it, I would have killed it at the resettlement camp."

...

Yang Qi took Sun Hang around to one side of the laboratory, where there was a secret door. Open the secret door, then walk through a dark and narrow corridor, open a 340mm thick alloy gate at the end of the corridor, and you can enter the experimental area where Chen Hongjuan is.

Yang Qi fumbled on the wall of the corridor for a while, found a hidden lock and pressed it, and then the wall opened, revealing the locker hidden in the wall.

"There are four-level standard all-purpose protective clothing in the cabinet, as well as some emergency tools and weapons." Yang Qi said.

"No need." Sun Hang waved his hand.

"Then you should be more careful." After saying this, Yang Qi left the corridor.

After the secret door was closed, Sun Hang put his palm on the induction lock of the alloy gate.

"Scanning palm prints... Comparing with the database... Identity confirmed, weird hunter Sun Hang, serial number 0420, authority level: highest."

Accompanied by the sound of a hydraulic rod piston pushing in the gate, the door panel weighing several tons retreated half an inch, and a ray of light came out from the crack of the door.

Sun Hang slowly pushed open the gate and walked in.

The walls of the laboratory are made of one-way glass, just like the room where Sun Hang was imprisoned. Looking from the inside to the outside, the walls are all large mirrors, and looking from the outside to the inside, you can see the scene in the room.

Sun Hang's mind moved, and the large mirror not far away suddenly turned into transparent glass. He could see Yang Qi and a group of researchers standing behind the glass, staring at him nervously.

"Relax." Sun Hang said to the glass.

The sound from outside could not come in, but the sound from inside could come out.

Sun Hang walked in front of Chen Hongjuan, first took off her earmuffs, and then took off her VR glasses.

The blood bubbles that originally covered Chen Hongjuan's face had all burst, turning into layers of dead skin sticking to the surface. A pair of red, swollen and pus-filled eyes stared like copper bells, staring at Sun Hang who appeared in the field of vision...

The next second, Chen Hongjuan struggled violently, and a meaningless roar came out of her throat, as if she was in an extremely violent state.

"What's the situation?" Sun Hang turned his head and glanced at Yang Qi outside with the corner of his eye.

"The brain waves fluctuated violently! It was more obvious than when it heard those key points and saw those files before... In addition, its meme frequency also began to change. Although it was not obvious, it was indeed changing... This seemed to be a sign of the second degree of weirdness." Yang Qi's voice came from Sun Hang's headphones.

"Secondary weirdness? What is that?"

"We call the transformation of normal things into weird things the first weirdness, and the second weirdness is when the weird things have been completely weirded, and the meme mutates in another direction... You can think of it as the evolution or mutation of the weird things. The Bloody Mary you met in the basement of the amusement park was the product of the second weirdness of the first generation Bloody Mary. Although its changes are not big, it has eliminated the fatal weakness of fearing fire, which is more difficult to deal with than the first generation Bloody Mary."

"But that thing was still burned to ashes by Lao Wang?"

"It was not the dragon flame that killed Bloody Mary, but the black dragon meme attached to the dragon flame." Yang Qi said, "You should be careful, it is completely unpredictable what Chen Hongjuan will become in the future... To be on the safe side, after the experiment is over, maybe it should be transferred to the Class A containment area."

"Are there any conditions for the second weirdness?" Sun Hang asked again.

"Not sure, there are both external and internal factors, there is no unified explanation." Yang Qi replied, "Some monsters will self-collapse during the second weirding process, and then completely die; some monsters will become completely different forms after the second weirding... But for most monsters, the second weirding is equivalent to a strengthening, just like the spontaneous evolution of organisms to adapt to the environment."

"I see, that is to say, this guy intends to evolve himself in order to kill me?" Sun Hang nodded, "Isn't there any cost for this second weirding? You can become stronger if you want? If that's the case, I will just stay in the mountains for a hundred years, set a powerful imaginary enemy for myself every day, and directly change to the second, third, fourth... hundreds of thousands of degrees, I will be invincible ?”

“Of course there is a price! Secondary transformation is very risky for a monster. The higher the degree of strengthening, the greater the probability of failure... Let's take Bloody Mary as an example. It is iterated in the form of seeds and absorbed the living sacrifices offered by human believers, so that it evolved to be not afraid of fire... I also said that Chen Hongjuan only showed signs of secondary transformation, but it is still far from the real secondary transformation. ”

“It would have been over if you had said it was far away... I thought it was going to transform on the spot, which made me a little nervous just now. ” Sun Hang glanced at Chen Hongjuan who was still struggling on the shelf. The movable base of the shelf was shaking and clanging, but the locks stuck on its limbs did not move at all, and there was no possibility of brute force to break free.

“You don’t look nervous at all.”

“By the way, speaking of it, is Lao Wang that day considered a secondary transformation?” Sun Hang suddenly asked.

"It shouldn't be considered... The concept of secondary weirdness only applies to weird things that have been completely weirded, and will not be used on infected people... In the case of Night Fury, it can only be said to be a meme adjustment at most."

"Oh..." Sun Hang nodded, and a silver light flashed at his fingertips, and the locks that imprisoned Chen Hongjuan were instantly cut off!

"What are you doing?!" Yang Qi shouted immediately.

After the restraints were released, Chen Hongjuan almost didn't hesitate at all, and rushed directly towards Sun Hang... However, before she could touch Sun Hang, she was kicked back by Sun Hang and fell heavily on the shelf that originally imprisoned her.

"Strange..." Sun Hang held his chin, looked at Chen Hongjuan carefully, and murmured.

"What's strange? Also, lock it back quickly! Don't mess around!"

"I remember that it had the ability to change its limbs when it was in the resettlement camp." Sun Hang said, "It turned one of its arms into a long whip to attack me at that time, and later it grew various offensive organs... I should have sliced ​​those organs. I remember that you put more than a dozen large bags just to pack these meat slices... Why did it lose this ability now?"

Yang Qi was slightly stunned and fell silent.

Liquid nitrogen is very effective for Chen Hongjuan. After being put into the permafrost coffin, Chen Hongjuan stopped moving... But now it has been thawed for more than an hour. Logically, that ability should return to it.

In this case, the physical locks on the imprisonment device alone cannot lock it... Unless liquid nitrogen is sprayed on it all the time.

"Not only that, I feel that its power is much weaker than when it just turned into a weird."

Chen Hongjuan pounced on him again, and was kicked back by Sun Hang again.

"Don't move it yet! I'll check the previous records... I remember that when I just took it in, the data that should have been recorded should have been recorded. I should be able to find out the problem by comparing it..."

"No need to be so troublesome..." Sun Hang muttered in his heart. He walked forward and stepped on Chen Hongjuan on the ground. Two hyphae stretched out from behind like tentacles and pierced into Chen Hongjuan's brain.

Sun Hang instantly realized the problem... The meme in Chen Hongjuan's body seemed to be missing a large part.

"Sun Hang, I found the problem!" Yang Qi's voice also rang at the same time, "The length of the meme segment is wrong! Compared with the time just recorded, the length of each unit of Chen Hongjuan's meme segment is at least one-third shorter! Its meme has serious defects!"

One-third?

Sun Hang couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

It seems that the accuracy of human civilization's detection equipment is still not good enough...

The meme segment that was shortened by one-third is just the appearance that the equipment can detect, and under this appearance, the meme in Chen Hongjuan's body has almost been emptied!

Now locked in the laboratory, to put it bluntly, is just an empty shell!

Sun Hang began to receive the information carried by the absorbed memes, and some blurred images began to flood into his mind.

These images seemed to be the memories of Chen Hongjuan after she was put into the eternal freezing coffin, blurred, abstract, intermittent... even time seemed to become extremely chaotic.

But among these blurred images, Sun Hang still captured a few frames of key information.

It was a pale figure that flashed across the screen.

Then he felt a great sense of fear... This emotion came from Chen Hongjuan's panic about her own demise... That is to say, during that period of time, something almost took her life.

"It was still beaten to the punch." Sun Hang sighed and withdrew from those blurred memory fragments.

The pale figure was most likely Anna, who was wandering around Tianfu City like a ghost.

She didn't know when she sneaked into the underground containment area of ​​the institute and "ate" most of the memes in Chen Hongjuan's body, leaving a lingering empty shell here...

No wonder Sun Hang felt that something was wrong with Chen Hongjuan when he first saw her.

The real Chen Hongjuan had already become Anna's nourishment.

"It seems that she didn't attack Chen Hongjuan that night, and planned to wait until she was completely weird before having dinner?" Sun Hang muttered in his heart.

Compared to human negative emotions, the transformed weird memes are obviously better ingredients.

But how did Anna predict that Chen Hongjuan would become a weird?

At that time, Sun Hang had not even announced the plan to recruit refugees, nor had he designated the No. 6 resettlement camp as a pilot area.

If he hadn't come to the No. 6 resettlement camp to recruit soldiers, if he hadn't talked to Ling Xiao on a whim, learned about his family situation, and asked him to sever his parent-child relationship with Chen Hongjuan...then none of this would have happened.

Chen Hongjuan might continue to live in the refugee camp with Ling Xiao; or maybe Ling Xiao will be admitted to the training base, and Chen Hongjuan can enjoy the generous welfare benefits alone with the status of guardian and direct relative...

In either case, Chen Hongjuan is unlikely to become a weirdo in a short time.

What's the point of Anna keeping her?

Is it possible that Chen Hongjuan will become a weirdo in the process of quarreling with neighbors?

Or, can Anna... predict the future?

Sun Hang couldn't help but think of a sentence Anna said to him when she "died physically".

"This is not a farewell forever. In the long river of time, we will meet again."

At first, Sun Hang thought it was just a line Anna created to maintain the image of a riddle man, and the pretentious component was far greater than the actual component...

But the facts proved that not only did they meet, but it was only a few days since the last separation.

And after that, Anna would occasionally show her presence in front of Sun Hang, just like a sickly female ghost who lingered.

So, what does the "long river of time" in this sentence refer to?

Does it mean that Anna has the ability to travel freely between different timelines?

So she can predict the future?

Or, at different points in time, there are countless different Annas?

The Anna of the last second is dead, but the Anna of the next second is still alive?

If time is compared to a river, Sun Hang touched a stone called Anna in the river... and after he drifted downstream for a long distance, he reached his hand into the river and touched another identical stone... Is that what it means?

Then what kind of form does Anna, who Sun Hang just saw outside the window of the operating room, exist in?

Projection? Or entity?

"Oh no, my scalp is itchy, I really need to grow a brain now..."