Trickster Hunter

Chapter 275 Blessing

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Occupied area,? ? ? Area, "Maoyun Town".

"So, can you take me to see the mayor?" Sun Hang said to the two little girls, "I have some small questions that I would like the mayor to answer."

"No." A little girl shook her head, "The mayor is not in town."

"Then where is it?"

"He is omnipresent." Another little girl continued, "It was the mayor who saved this town, but He also gave everyone in the town a curse. He saved everyone from the tragedy of death, but he saved everyone from the tragedy of death. , only death."

"What does it mean to save only death?" Sun Hang asked doubtfully.

"You will go through everything you need to go through before you die, but death will never come," the little girl said.

Sun Hang felt his teeth sore for no reason.

He suddenly understood what the "curse" the other party meant.

For example, if a person is hacked to death with a knife, then in this town, even if he is cut into pieces, he will still not die - he may faint from the pain, but when he wakes up , the body is still a fragmented piece of flesh.

The pain is only temporary. When the flesh rots and the nerves die, the severe pain that can make people faint will gradually disappear...

But what is coming will be something more terrifying than severe pain.

The cursed person will watch himself rotting, watching maggots burrow in and out of his body, watching his flesh gradually turn into pus, mixed with dust and feces... But he just won't die...

It is also possible that his eyes lost their normal function earlier, and he could no longer see, hear, smell or feel. He had lost everything about himself as a human being, except for the last thing left: living.

This kind of curse makes people shudder just thinking about it.

The so-called "immortality" has always been the most vicious curse, not a blessing.

As for the death threat that the residents of Maoyun Town need to face... it should be a lack of food.

Sun Hang seems to be able to understand the various strange images he has seen along the way... The townspeople of Maoyun Town have become immortal monsters, but as a price, they will always suffer from hunger.

"How can this weird thing be classified into a category?" Sun Hang murmured in his heart, "Is it a regular category or a phenomenon category? It seems that the environmental category cannot be excluded... No, it should not belong to the environmental category. There are regional restrictions for environmental categories. , if the townspeople want to be free, then they just need to leave Maoyun Town..."

"Then let me ask you directly." Sun Hang looked at the two little girls, "Where can I buy food with money in the town?"

"Grain station."

"Where is the food station?"

"You keep walking along this street, and at the end you'll find the grain station."

"Okay, thank you." Sun Hang finished speaking and took out his mobile phone. "To thank you, let me take a picture for you."

He spoke slowly on purpose, and before the two little girls turned their attention, he quickly turned on the camera function of his phone and pointed the lens at them.

He saw two skeletal bodies. Under the disproportionally large heads was a deformed and twisted torso, but only the abdomen was swollen as if it were ten months pregnant. The slender limbs were like dry branches, which always gave people a feeling of disgrace. It feels like it will break at the slightest touch.

When they moved their eyes over, the scene in the camera returned to normal in an instant. What Sun Hang saw through the camera was exactly the same as what he saw with his naked eyes - two white and fat little girls, Wearing white washed homespun clothes, with a braid that was very common in that era on his head, two pairs of eyes without whites stared directly at Sun Hang on his expressionless face.

"You saw that, right?" a little girl asked.

"Do you think it's scary?" Another little girl asked again.

"Uh..." Sun Hang scratched his head in embarrassment. He knew that it was useless to pretend to be stupid now, so he simply chose to break the pot. "From a normal person's perspective, it looks like a monster, but in human society There are definitely some guys who are good at XP. As for me... I think the appearance of a little girl is more scary... There is a saying called the 'Uncanny Valley Effect', I don't know if you have heard of it. Pass?"

The so-called uncanny valley effect means that the closer a thing is to a human in appearance, the more unsettling and frightening it is, but when it becomes exactly the same as a human being, this fear and uneasiness will suddenly disappear. - Dolls, puppets, and even "old actors" such as mummies and zombies that appear in many horror works more or less take advantage of this "uncanny valley effect."

Sun Hang had a similar dream last month - in the dream, he was walking naked through a large empty shopping mall. There were no counters, no exits and entrances, and no passages up and down. As far as the eye can see in the elevator, the only thing you can see is a large number of spotlights and plastic models wearing various fashions under the spotlights.

Sun Hang walked back and forth among the plastic models. He soon discovered that every time he went around, the positions of the models would undergo some subtle changes. Those weird faces with poor carvings and half-smiling faces faced different directions. , but every time Sun Hang turned his head, he could feel that the back of his head instantly became the focus of countless eyes.

As for how Sun Hang escaped from this nightmare, talking about it is a bit inappropriate for children...

He didn't destroy the plastic mannequins, but directly pushed down a mannequin wearing sexy lingerie, and then rode on it...

Just when Sun Hang was trying to turn his nightmare into a dream, he woke up.

The reason why Sun Hang did this was not because he was really that hungry, but because he saw a post on the Internet.

That post said: Jui is afraid of evil people, but Jui is even more afraid of perverts.

Just when Sun Hang was wondering if he would be considered a copper smelting addict if he did some perverted behavior towards these two "little girls", one of the little girls suddenly said: "Do you really think so? Look, Everything you see is fake; but what appears in the mirror is true?"

"I don't think so." Sun Hang replied honestly, "I have always wondered who is true and who is false."

"There is no need to doubt, it depends on your own choice." The little girl said, "Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies, who can tell whether it is Zhuang Zhou who is dreaming or the butterfly?"

"What idealist theory..." Sun Hang rubbed the tip of his nose, "But there is one thing to say, and what you said makes sense. If you want to live a normal life, then you don't have to do anything; if you want to pursue novelty or... To stimulate, then observe the world through the mirror... Anyway, whether it is beautiful skin or deformed flesh, it is just a kind of information received by the brain. For those whose cognition is distorted, it may be deformed. The flesh and blood are even more fragrant."

"You have good comprehension skills." A little girl said.

"The mayor might like you very much." Another little girl continued.

"Just now, a new question popped up in my head." Sun Hang knelt down and looked straight into the little girl's white-less eyes, "Do you know Anna Demoshena?"

The two little girls looked at each other, then shook their heads in unison.

"That's okay, I thought you were transformed by her." Sun Hang stood up and said with some disappointment.

"Why do you think so?"

"You know too much. You even know the allusion of Zhuang Zhou's Mengdie. It's not like you have the amount of knowledge you should have at this age." Sun Hang said.

"There is a library in the town. There are many books in the library." A little girl said.

"The book not only contains allusions about Zhuang Zhou's dream of butterfly, but also many other things." Another little girl continued.

"Something else? Like a metaphor?"

"Newton's classical mechanics, Einstein's general theory of relativity and special theory of relativity, Maxwell's equations..." the little girl said with great familiarity.

"Let me go, are you a top student?" Sun Hang was slightly startled, "I feel like I am illiterate compared to you."

"Actually, we haven't read any of these things. I'm just reporting my name." The little girl suddenly made a sharp turn. "People in the town would also pass the time by reading books at first, but as time went by, everyone began to It became more and more abnormal. Some people would tear the book to pieces while looking at it, and some would roll up the whole book and stuff it into their throats... Until someone burned down the library, people Then I turned my attention to other things.”

"Something else? What?"

"Anything they can find," the little girl replied.

Sun Hang suddenly remembered the "garbage" sold on the stalls of those shops.

"You are very special." The little girl suddenly said, "You seem to have the power to resist the curse."

"Ah? Countering the curse? What do you mean?" Sun Hang was a little confused by this sentence.

"Now that you have become a member of Maoyun Town, you should feel hungry." The little girl said.

"A member of Maoyun Town? When? I'm just a passing outsider. My car is still parked outside the town." Sun Hang said.

"When you accept a gift from the mayor, it means you have shouldered the curse of this town." The little girl said.

"Gift...you mean the bait and the fifty cents?" Sun Hang curled his lips, "Sure enough, that old woman has no good intentions."

"No, He is saving you." The little girl shook her head. "Without food, you will never be able to leave this place. You will starve to death in the wilderness."

"I have something to eat." Sun Hang said, taking out a piece of compressed biscuit, tearing open the package in front of the little girl, then biting off a piece, chewing it and swallowing it.

But the next second, this ball of biscuit crumbs mixed with saliva rolled down Sun Hang's chest.

Sun Hang was startled and reached out to touch his throat - only now did he realize that at some point, a large hole appeared in his throat that was not painful or itchy.

"Is this a curse..."

"If you don't become a member of Maoyun Town, you will never find Maoyun Town." The little girl said, "Although you have been cursed, at least you can survive."

"Then can I leave here?"

"Of course, but leaving doesn't mean the curse is lifted." The little girl said, "There once was an outsider who lived in the town for a while and then left. I don't know if he ever returned to the place where he belonged. his world'.

"Outsiders? Are you talking about...human beings?" Sun Hang was slightly surprised. Could it be that someone had broken into this weird town before him?

"He said that he killed someone and was wanted. He ran all the way, crossed countless rivers, climbed over countless mountains, and finally collapsed in the wilderness from exhaustion... The mayor found him dying of hunger on the roadside. The mayor gave him food, kept him alive, and made him a member of the town."

"Why does it sound like this mayor is a good person?" Sun Hang complained.

"The mayor is a good person. He just wants everyone to live." The little girl's tone was still emotionless, but for some reason, Sun Hang vaguely heard a sigh between the lines, "But the mayor Without the ability to conjure food, everyone can survive, but there is still nothing to eat.”

"Where did this food...the bait that the old woman gave me...come from?" Sun Hang asked, but he had almost guessed the answer in his heart.

"That's meat cut from yourself and other people," the little girl said. "No one remembers who started doing it first, but it is indeed the only food available in the town. These foods cannot digest people. Hungry, but it at least reminds people of what it feels like to eat.”

"If food is so easy to obtain, why do the townspeople still fight for it? Can't they just cut a piece off themselves when they are hungry?"

"What is cut off is bloody carrion. Only with the blessing of the mayor can the carrion be turned into food, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks... Carrion can be seen everywhere, but there are only a few blessed meat... Only at the monthly sacrificial ceremony, the mayor will give a blessing. The blessed 'food' can be stored for a month, so even if it is just a comfort thing, not everyone can enjoy it. Yes." the little girl replied.

"Then you..."

"We are the food reserves, and we will dedicate ourselves at the next sacrificial ceremony." the little girl replied.

"How many days are left until the next sacrificial ceremony?"

"Just tomorrow."

"It seems that I have caught up with a good time." Sun Hang muttered, "By the way, how did the last outsider leave?"

"He couldn't stand the never-ending hunger. He said he wanted to return to the original world to find food...even if he had to spend his whole life in prison."

"Then you let him go?" Sun Hang was stunned, "You didn't even stop him?"

"Why do you want to stop him?" the little girl asked. "The mayor took him in because he couldn't bear to see him starve to death. He didn't want to imprison him forever."

"...can I go to the sacrificial ceremony tomorrow?"

"certainly."