Trickster Hunter

Chapter 279 Aromatherapy Bottle

"Food stamps..." Sun Hang muttered.

Food stamps are "special tickets" for the quarantine area - unlike ordinary towns that adopt a market economy, most of the material supplies in the quarantine area come from supplies shipped in regularly from the outside world.

This means that the goods that people in the quarantine area can buy are limited.

Except for a few people who are related to the military and can obtain some unplanned goods through smuggling channels, for the vast majority of residents in the quarantine area, if they buy out the same goods, they are gone, unless they wait until the next time Supplies are delivered, otherwise no matter how much money you have, there will be nowhere to buy them.

In order to prevent hoarding, in addition to issuing common currency across the entire federation, "special coupons" will also be issued in the quarantine area based on a per capita quota. In addition to paying for goods, you also need to use coupons of designated product types. You need food stamps to buy rice and noodles, salt stamps to buy salt, and even a bicycle ticket to buy a bicycle.

The purpose is to prevent someone from buying up all the necessary items in one go and then selling them at a higher price.

Of course, in order to prevent the special tickets from turning into another form of currency, all tickets in the quarantine area have a time limit - if they are not used this month, they will be invalid next month.

The invalidated ticket will be stamped with a square red seal with the word "voided" just like the one in Sun Hang's hand.

"From a certain day on, there will be no more supplies coming in from the outside, and the people in the town who are responsible for managing the distribution of supplies can no longer contact the troops outside. There is no food, and there is no food stamps. What's the use?" said the old woman. He said slowly, "But no one dares to leave Maoyun Town... not even the most powerful people in the town dare. Especially Whether it is power or smuggled goods, these are all trivial matters. As long as the relationship is established, the garrison will turn a blind eye... But if someone attempts to escape from the quarantine area, even if the person bribed the officer the day before And soldiers, they will shoot them without mercy... This is the bottom line, no one dares to violate it.”

"Time passed day by day." The old woman continued, "Finally the first person starved to death appeared in the town, and then the second... Someone rushed into the yard of the rich man's house with a hoe, only to find that even On weekdays, wealthy families who are superior to others spend their days counting grains of rice.”

"People gradually realized that something was wrong. Some people said that something might have happened to the outside world and that the garrison outside the town had withdrawn... Instead of starving to death in the town, it was better to try their luck outside."

"This idea soon gained support from most people. A team of more than a dozen young adults left the town carrying a small amount of rations, but they never came back."

"Some said they were killed by the army, some said they betrayed Maoyun Town and escaped for their lives, and some said they might have encountered strange things outside and died unexpectedly."

"A second and third team were organized in the town. The number of people in the team is getting smaller and smaller, and the rations they can carry with them are getting smaller and smaller."

"No one who leaves town comes back."

"No one is willing to step out of the town anymore. Everyone is suspicious of each other. People die of hunger every month... In the beginning, the dead person's home would hang a white cloth at the door and listen to music at night. I heard the sobs of relatives... But later, even death became a common thing, and there were fewer and fewer new white cloths... Or the living people were so hungry that they couldn't even hang a white cloth at the door of their home. It can’t be done, or the last living person in this family will starve to death.”

"It wasn't until the crazy butcher Zhao who lived in Qiaotou walked into his neighbor's house with a butcher's knife... that the people in the town realized one thing. They still had the last 'food' to eat."

The old woman stopped here. She stood quietly, watching the carnival in the square silently.

The townspeople happily stuffed the "food" in their hands into their mouths, pushed their cheeks desperately, and chewed. The smelly blood flowed down the corners of their mouths, but they were completely unaware of it.

People eat people.

"It's boring, I have to leave." Sun Hang waved his hand, "Please help me show the way."

"Where are you going?" asked the old woman.

"Go back to where I should be." Sun Hang said, "Someone is waiting for me, and they are probably already waiting impatiently."

"This is the place you should come back to...For you, this land is your 'homeland'."

"Do you mean to say that I am a descendant of Yunnan refugees...or that I was born in the occupied area?"

"I don't know, but the person who sent you here said so." The old woman shook her head slowly.

"The one who sent me here? Who?"

"Don't ask, don't ask..."

"Is her name Anna?"

"..."

"Damn it, I knew it." Sun Hang cursed and said, "Did that guy tell you what her purpose was?"

"..."

"Forget it, after all, you don't have the right to know." Sun Hang took a deep breath, "You'd better tell me how to leave."

"If you want to leave, you can leave at any time." The old woman said calmly, "What you see is what you think of... Maoyun Town has long since ceased to exist."

Sun Hang looked at the square in front of him, thought for a moment, and then closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, the square disappeared, the stage disappeared, and the townspeople who were waiting in line to receive "food" also disappeared.

As far as the eye could see, there was only a desolate ruin.

Sun Hang turned his head to look at the place where the "old woman" had just stood, and saw some white bones occasionally glimpsed among the overgrown weeds.

"Is this the ruins of Maoyun Town..." Sun Hang looked around, and at this moment, he unexpectedly discovered that all his lost abilities had returned.

Sun Hang felt itchy between his eyebrows, as if something was sticking to him. He stretched out his hand and scratched it, and a yellow leaf suddenly fell down.

"What is this? 'One leaf blinds the eye'?"

Sun Hang walked forward, and the stage, which was more than one person tall, was now only a circle of ruins surrounded by wooden stakes. On these wooden stakes, traces of knife and axe chisel could still be vaguely seen, as well as black stains - I don't know if it was the remaining paint or the blood that seeped into the deep wood.

"Forget it, it's none of my business." Sun Hang reached out and wiped the wooden stake. "It's just eating people. What kind of eating is not eating? At least you know to spit out the bones after eating."

Sun Hang turned and walked out of the town.

Yang Qi's off-road vehicle was still parked in the original position, but the muddy path had long been dry and covered with weeds that were higher than the instep. Sun Hang stepped on it, and the dry grass leaves immediately made a series of crisp sounds.

The rusty steel structure sentry tower in the distance was still there, but the "Ganoderma lucidum" wrapped around the sentry tower disappeared, leaving only a tattered doll sitting at the bottom of the tower with a baton nailed in his hand.

The rubber coating on the outside of the baton had aged and cracked, revealing the rusty steel pipe inside.

Sun Hang walked straight to the side of the off-road vehicle, but when he opened the door, his movements suddenly stopped.

The next second, he closed the door again and walked around to the left rear side of the off-road vehicle.

There were a few not-so-obvious fingerprints on the left rear window, and judging from the dust accumulated near the fingerprints, these fingerprints were obviously printed recently.

Sun Hang reached out and printed a few more of his own fingerprints on the window, and compared them with them - these fingerprints did not belong to Sun Hang.

Yang Qi's car had a small problem, that is, the left rear window was always not closed tightly, and the window could be pushed down by holding the window with his hand.

However, considering that Yang Qi rarely put anything valuable in the car, in Tianfu City where there were cameras everywhere, no thief who was tired of living dared to steal the car with the emblem of the Weird Research Institute, so this harmless little problem had not been repaired.

Sun Hang opened the rear door, leaned his upper body in, and began to grope under the back seat.

Soon, he touched a flat, round, hard object.

He took it out - it was a glass aromatherapy bottle, the cap used for sealing had disappeared, the seal at the mouth of the bottle was pierced with a dozen small holes with toothpicks, and the inside of the aromatherapy bottle was empty, and no one knew what was originally in it.

"With Yang Qi's personality... she shouldn't put aromatherapy in the car, right?" Sun Hang thought.

Yang Qi didn't even put on makeup, let alone aromatherapy and perfume. She walked in and out of the institute with a plain face all day long - but it was also fortunate that her appearance was still natural. At least she wouldn't be like some Internet celebrities, who could directly transform from a human to a ghost with a beauty filter and makeup remover.

Sun Hang had never smelled any fragrance on Yang Qi. Even if there was, it was at most the smell of laundry detergent or shampoo.

As for Sun Hang himself, it was even more impossible for him to buy such things.

"Who put this thing... in the car?"

Sun Hang weighed the bottle in his hand, and a wonderful idea popped up in his mind: Since I can trace the memory of humans, can I trace the memory of dead things?

At the moment when this idea came up, a blurry picture gradually emerged in his mind.

The picture was blurry and the camera was shaking a lot, but Sun Hang could still recognize that this scene was in the underground garage of the Tianfu City Weird Research Institute, where he parked the SUV.

A sneaky figure broke into the picture. This person looked around for a while, walked quickly to the SUV, and pushed down the left rear window with his hand.

Then he took out the aromatherapy bottle from his pocket, unscrewed the bottle cap, and quickly threw the bottle through the car window, and then pushed the car window back to its original position.

"Who the hell is this guy?" Sun Hang replayed the scenes over and over again. He didn't know the man who threw the aromatherapy bottle into the car... But for some reason, he always felt that the facial features of the man looked familiar.

"Can't you go back a little further?" Sun Hang complained.

As soon as he finished speaking, the scene suddenly shifted to a study room with exquisite decoration, and a middle-aged man with sparse hair pushed the door and walked in.

Sun Hang knew this man, the member of the Tianfu City Management Committee who had "talked" to him before, Lu Hongming.

Sun Hang remembered very clearly that after a series of subsequent events, Lu Hongming was removed from the position of member of the Tianfu City Management Committee and took up an insignificant idle position - Yang Qi also talked to Sun Hang about this matter. Of course, her main purpose was not to tell Sun Hang that Lu Hongming was demoted, but to warn Sun Hang not to threaten a federal government official in that way in the future.

After entering the study, Lu Hongming hesitated for a few seconds, then walked quickly to the desk.

In the middle of the desk, there was a package packed in a cardboard box, with a black marker writing on it: Mr. Lu Hongming.

"A package for me? Why is it on the desk?" Lu Hongming turned his head to look at the door. From his expression, he seemed to want to call his family, but he gave up the idea the next second, took out a paper cutter from the pen holder beside him, and cut the tape that sealed the carton.

There were only two things in the carton.

There was also an aromatherapy bottle with half a bottle of transparent liquid, and a letter.

Lu Hongming unfolded the letter.

Although Sun Hang couldn't see the handwriting on the letter from the blurry picture, the content of the letter also appeared in Sun Hang's mind as Lu Hongming read it.

"Hello, Commissioner Lu Hongming.

I need your help.

Please put this bottle of aromatherapy into an off-road vehicle with a license plate number of XXXXX in the underground parking lot of Tianfu City before XX o'clock on X month X day.

The window on the left rear side of this car is faulty and cannot be locked. It can be opened and closed by hand.

After doing all this, you will get everything you lost before. In addition, the hunter named Sun Hang will completely disappear from your life.

Please don't refuse my request, don't trace the source of this letter, and don't take the contents of the aromatherapy bottle for testing, which will have very bad consequences for you.

Please believe me."

At the end of the letter, a very detailed bill was attached.

This bill is very strange. Each line has only a date and the names of some things - for example, X month X day, X bottle of XXX liquor; X month X day, a gilded incense burner, two pairs of Hetian jade pendants and other contents. In addition, the origin, destination and purpose of these things are not stated.

But for some reason, after seeing this bill, Lu Hongming's expression suddenly became as if he had lost his parents.

"This bill... Could it be your old man's record of corruption?" Sun Hang was stunned for a moment, and immediately guessed the correct answer.

As for the person who wrote this letter, although it was not signed, Sun Hang had already guessed who it came from.

Anna Dimoshin.

Although I don't understand why Anna, with her ability, still asked Lu Hongming to do this, but apart from her, I'm afraid no one can lure Sun Hang to this place.

Coupled with the glimpse of Xu Dasheng's house, this is almost a clear indication.

The person who wrote the letter and provided the aromatherapy was Anna, and the person who carried out this action was most likely Lu Hongming's son... As for the purpose of Anna's doing this, is it just to let me experience the customs and customs of Maoyun Town?

She seemed to be conveying some information to me... Sun Hang recalled the conversation between him and the old woman, and there was a sentence that caused Sun Hang to ponder.

"This is where you should come back to... This land is your 'homeland'."