Trickster Hunter

Chapter 268 Highway 4218

Sun Hang suddenly remembered something, he ran outside quickly and checked the bodies of the "townspeople" on the street one by one.

As expected, everyone had a similar "hole" on their body - either somewhere in the esophagus, or directly on the stomach...

For these "townspeople", the food they eat will leak out of these holes... No matter how much they eat, they can't relieve their physical hunger...

But if that's the case, why would these weird things, including the store owner, fight for food? The middle-aged woman even went to the store owner who had the ability to kill her in seconds to snatch the bait.

Sun Hang couldn't help but think of a doggerel on the Internet: "Ask you how much sorrow you can have, just like a group of eunuchs going to a brothel."

For them, food is like the women in the arms of eunuchs. They can see and touch, but they can't have any substantial relationship.

Since entering this town, Sun Hang felt that these "people" were not normal.

They all had an almost fanatical obsession with "food", and they demonstrated what "birds die for food" meant - literally "die for food".

But they couldn't digest the food, which made their crazy behavior meaningless. From the perspective of Sun Hang, a bystander, it was both ridiculous and sad.

"That old woman... shouldn't be a resident of Maoyun Town?" Sun Hang thought.

She was so generous... She gave precious food as soon as she said it, and the fifty cents she stuffed into Sun Hang was a huge sum of money...

If this old woman also lived in Maoyun Town, then she must be a local rich man, right?

Sun Hang raised his head and looked around. He found that all the shops that were open before were now closed, and even the windows that were originally lit on both sides of the street were much less... However, the brightness on the street not only did not decrease, but became brighter.

A round white moon hung in the sky at some point.

The moon was very big, giving people a feeling of being very close to themselves, as if they could reach out and touch it.

"Moon?" Sun Hang frowned, "Will there be a moon during the Eternal Night?"

He took out a mirror.

The street reflected in the mirror was also very bright, but unlike what Sun Hang saw with his naked eyes, the entire street was shrouded in a strange red light.

Sun Hang adjusted the angle of the mirror and pointed it at the moon in the sky.

The full moon was blood-red, exuding a strange and ominous atmosphere.

"Oh, it's a blood moon, that's not surprising." Sun Hang closed the mirror.

Today happened to be the 16th, the day when the moon is the fullest in a month.

In the area covered by the Eternal Night, as long as it is a full moon night, the blood moon will inevitably appear - now in Shuzhou, once it enters the middle of the month, the Investigation Bureau and the Public Security Bureau will become nervous... During this period, a strict curfew system will be implemented, and even civil servants are strictly prohibited from going out without a mission.

What they are preventing is the blood moon that will appear on time every full moon night.

"I don't know if Lao Wang will still be affected by the blood moon..." Sun Hang muttered softly and returned to the house.

He used a mirror to check the rags sold by the "shopkeeper" one by one. These things looked almost the same as what he saw with his naked eyes. The only difference was that they were more or less stained with dried blood.

As for the broken rattle that had appeared in the little girl's hand, it was stained red with blood, as if it had been soaked in a pool of blood... Sun Hang was not sure whether the blood was originally stained on it or from the "deceased" "shopkeeper".

Like the townspeople on the street outside, the body of the "shopkeeper" also began to rot and degrade rapidly - this is in line with Sun Hang's basic understanding of weird things: most weird things will degrade rapidly after the memes in their bodies disappear... For a huge weird thing like Tai Sui, the remains will eventually degrade into a pile of fragments that are not much bigger than an eggshell, and the whole process took less than a week.

Song Yarong and Sun Hang said that the power that supports the body of the strange creature that can ignore the laws of physics all comes from memes. After losing memes, this kind of body that should not exist in the world will naturally collapse quickly.

Assuming that these townspeople are the victims of the occupied areas, then it stands to reason that their corpses should have turned into bones long ago... It is under the influence of memes that they can survive in the form of flesh and blood monsters, and now that the memes have disappeared, the only fate waiting for them is dust to dust, earth to earth.

Sun Hang searched the "shop owner's" house. The second floor is the living room, but both the wardrobe and the bed have not been used for a long time, and they are covered with a thick layer of dust. In the drawer of the desk, Sun Hang found some small-denomination coins, which added up to only two or three yuan.

Sun Hang put these coins in his pocket, and then he found a notebook in the innermost corner of the drawer.

This is an account book that records the purchase and sale of goods. Most of the ink has been blurred, and from the few words that can still be recognized, we can know that the owner of this account book seems to have been in the timber business. Judging from the standards of that era, although he was not rich, he was at least a well-off family.

There is also a yellowed old photo in the ledger, which shows a family of five - the host, the hostess and three children.

However, the faces of the hostess and the three children were blurred into a blur, and only the face of the male host could barely be seen clearly.

This is a man who looks honest and honest, with his hands on the child's shoulders and a slightly reserved smile on his face... I don't know why, in this man's eyes, Sun Hang seems to be able to see something called "Hope" thing.

He should have taken this family photo during the happiest period of his life, right?

Sun Hang went downstairs with the photo. He looked at the remains of the strange thing lying in the corner, and then looked at the photo in his hand.

He didn't say anything more, but stuffed the photo into Wrath's arms.

For a moment, he seemed to smile at the sight of the wreckage... But he soon realized that the mouth of the other party's organ that could barely be called a "brain" would not be able to make a smile at all...

Even if it could laugh, its terrifying appearance would not make people think it was smiling.

"Maybe it's psychological?" Sun Hang muttered. He straightened up and looked back at the Buddha statue that was shattered by his own shot - or rather, the mutilated skeleton.

The remaining memes in the fragments have disappeared. They no longer squirm, but lie quietly on the table and on the floor.

Only the candles inserted at the corners of the table were still burning, and the flames were swaying slightly.

Sun Hang recalled what the "shopkeeper" said to him before his death - "They are the food raised by the mayor's family."

In other words, those two chubby little girls... are the "food reserves" of the mayor of Maoyun Town?

So who is this mayor?

Ah, you said it wrong, it should be something weird.

The townspeople at the bottom are fighting for a piece of carrion turned into bait, but the mayor can enjoy such "meat"... Not only that, just because he mentioned it, the owner of this shop suffered a sudden disaster... Look at it this way Come on, the mayor seems to have absolute control over Maoyun Town.

It's just that Sun Hang has a problem that he can't figure out - in this case, why doesn't the other party do something to him?

Different from being cautious at the beginning, since Sun Hang entered the town, he has become more and more bold, and he has done no less "offensive" things - but the other party did not take any restraint or punishment on him. Instead, the anger was directed at the "innocent" "shopkeeper".

"Is it possible...are you afraid of me?" Sun Hang muttered.

Although he has lost all his abilities, there may still be a part of the aura of the three apes in his body... Sun Hang himself can't feel this aura, but it doesn't mean that the mayor can't feel it... Maybe the other party was affected by this. Scared by the remaining breath?

"What kind of fox is pretending to be a tiger's power..."

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Shuzhou, southwest border, Hengduan Mountains.

Highway 4218 is a highway that crosses the Hengduan Mountains and connects Shuzhou and Yunnan. This highway is 135 kilometers long and took four years to build. Eighty-two percent of the entire highway is viaducts. And the tunnel... It can be said that the Xiazhou Federation invested a huge amount of resources in order to build this highway and interrupt the traffic lifeline between Yun and Shu. But later, with the fall of the Yunnan and Dian areas, this highway was permanently blocked and no private vehicles were allowed to enter.

Border Post 198 is located at the entrance to this road.

At this time, the entire outpost seemed to have been burned by flames. The walls that were originally painted white with lime were scorched black, the wooden beams were broken, the entire roof collapsed, and the facilities inside the outpost were burned to a complete mess.

According to reports from the first troops to arrive at the post, none of the soldiers stationed at the post survived. As for the surveillance equipment and drones at the post, all were destroyed, leaving no image data of the attackers.

Wang Xiyi and Yang Qi stood among the ruins, looking around at the ruins.

The bodies of the fallen soldiers have been carried away, leaving only a dozen outlines circled in white chalk. From these outlines, it can be seen that when the outpost was attacked, most of the soldiers had not yet reacted. Everything has been killed... This is consistent with what was mentioned in the on-site report: experts checked the remains of the alarm device in the outpost and found that the device had not been activated.

"Destroy the dead." Yang Qi murmured, "Thankfully, because of the matter in the underground palace, the fact that Sun Hang obtained your dragon flame ability has not yet been reported... Otherwise, this will be a very unfavorable piece of evidence against him. "

"This can't be done by Sun Hang." Wang Xiyi said firmly.

"Why?"

"If he had used my Dragon Flame, these ruins would not have existed at all." Wang Xiyi said, "The flames that attacked this outpost were far worse than my Dragon Flame."

"Then what if Sun Hang intends to control the intensity of the dragon flame?"

"You don't believe him either?" Wang Xiyi stared into Yang Qi's eyes and asked seriously.

"I believe in him, but I can't make others believe in him like I do." Yang Qi said, "The top priority is to get the person back."

"The fleet is ready and can set off at any time." Wang Xiyi looked in the direction of the highway.

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A total of eleven people participated in this operation, riding in three armored off-road vehicles and a multi-purpose engineering vehicle. The team leader was Wang Xiyi, and the deputy leaders were Zhulong and Ye Jiu. In addition, Zhong Ling, Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu also took the initiative to sign up for this operation. The rest were elite operators selected by Ye Jiu from the field department.

Yin Xiang wanted to participate, but was kicked off the car by Wang Xiyi.

"Why don't you let me go! I'm different from before. I'm not afraid of death! I'm really not afraid!" Yin Xiang, who was lying on the ground, shouted at Wang Xiyi in the driver's seat.

Wang Xiyi rolled down the window, pushed the goggles on the bridge of her nose, and said to him: "Do you want to hear nice words or bad words?"

"What, what do you mean?" Yin Xiang was stunned and asked.

"To put it nicely, I don't want you to die in vain; to put it bluntly... you are a burden, and you will only hinder us if we take you with us."

"What about him? Why would he rather take a little kid than me?" Yin Xiang pointed at Ling Xiao in the back seat and asked.

"He is a qualified person for the strange equipment, what are you?" Wang Xiyi asked directly.

"I...I..." Yin Xiang was speechless.

He suddenly realized that when he jumped off the roof of the institute and his inner courage was defeated by fear and regret, he might never be able to stand on the same front with Sun Hang and others in his life.

"You're right." Yin Xiang nodded after recognizing the facts. "I'm a burden. If I go with you, I'll be a drag... Maybe, as soon as the car enters the occupied area, I'll start to regret that I shouldn't have acted so impulsively..."

"It's good that you understand." Wang Xiyi nodded. "Although the words are unpleasant, you don't have to be sad at all... I think there is probably nothing in this world that makes people happier than living a good life."

"I know, I will do what I can." Yin Xiang stood up and clenched his fists hard. "I'll wait for you here. I hope you can bring Sun Hang back intact!"

Border Post No. 198 also needs people to stay behind. As a border post close to the occupied area, it can be said to be one of the most dangerous places in Shuzhou. No one is sure whether they will wait for the triumphant return of the convoy or a group of terrifying monsters pouring out of the occupied area.

On both sides of the highway, a temporary outpost is being built - this is the first official investigation operation of mankind into the occupied area since the end of the strange war that year... Although the action was a bit hasty, its significance was extraordinary.