Trickster Hunter

Chapter 285 Zhong Jun

"You should ask Yang Qi this question." Sun Hang replied.

"Actually, I'm not interested in the answer to this question." The woman suddenly laughed, "No matter what method the little girl plans to use to inject 'insecticide' into the target's body, I don't care... I just want to Let me tell you, the success rate of this combat plan is very, very low.”

"With your identity and position, it's not appropriate to say something like this, right?" Sun Hang glanced at the identity tag hanging on his chest.

Zhong Jun is a senior researcher at Tianshu Tower and the leader of Project 5509.

"If I could ignore my identity and position, I would never let Xiao Ling'er participate in this operation." Zhong Jun smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I don't care whether the operation fails, I just want to Please do something."

"Take care of Zhong Ling's safety?" Sun Hang tilted his head, "The direction of the plot is a bit too easy to guess."

"There are some things that her father can't say, but I, the aunt, can." Zhong Jun looked at Sun Hang seriously, "Although this is just my personal request, if you can do it, the Zhong family will... …”

"Let's be honest, what benefits will the Zhong family give me?"

"We can satisfy you with all requirements that are within our capabilities and do not violate federal laws," Zhong Jun said.

"Oh? What if I want to be the head of your Zhong family? Will you give it to me?" Sun Hang asked half-jokingly.

"Yes, but the prerequisite is that you must marry into the Zhong family." Zhong Jun said.

Zhong Ling lowered his head instantly.

But what Zhong Ling didn't expect was that Sun Hang suddenly said: "I see that you are still charming, aunt. I wonder if you are married?"

Zhong Jun was stunned for a moment, and then a trace of anger flashed in his eyes: "Are you teasing me?"

"If you think so, then it is." Sun Hang said.

"Except for research work, I have no interest in anything else." Zhong Jun's tone was slightly stiff. She wanted to ask Sun Hang, don't you even like Zhong Ling? But seeing the look on his niece's face as if she was about to burrow into the ground, she finally didn't say anything.

"Don't mind, just kidding." Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit delicate, Sun Hang waved his hand, "To be honest, I didn't plan to take anyone with me in this operation."

"What do you mean?" Zhong Jun asked confused.

"It's just collecting samples, I can do it by myself." Sun Hang said, "The more people there are, the easier it is to cause Chimera No. 17's stress response, so the best strategy is for everyone to choose to act alone—— Of course, people like Zhong Ling who lack individual skills should not participate in this operation at all."

"No." As soon as Sun Hang finished speaking, Wang Xiyi was the first to jump out and object, "You must act with me!"

"Then it's a two-person team, Zhong Ling, you..."

"I'm going." Zhong Ling raised her head, "Collecting meme samples requires a lot of equipment, and the two of you can't handle it."

"I can drive there." Sun Hang said.

"Those devices require at least four people to operate them at the same time." Zhong Ling added.

"Really or not?" Sun Hang was stunned for a moment and looked at Zhong Jun.

"It's true... It is for this reason that each team has at least five people." Zhong Jun said.

"If that doesn't work, I'll just bring four operators from the field department." Sun Hang thought for a while and said.

"In your eyes, am I that much of a burden?" Zhong Ling's face tightened and she asked in a low voice.

"It's not that I think you are a burden, it's that your aunt is worried that something will happen to you." Sun Hang shrugged.

"Yes, Xiao Ling'er, this mission is too dangerous..." Zhong Jun also advised from the side, "If you want to carry out the mission, you can..."

"If that's the case, then why did my mother have to participate in such a dangerous mission in the first place?" Zhong Ling suddenly raised her head and stared at Zhong Jun and asked.

"How...how did you know..." There was obvious panic on Zhong Jun's face, and he said incoherently, "Your mother...your mother is because..."

"I know, I know everything." Zhong Ling murmured.

"Xiao Ling'er, please listen to my explanation. The reason why adults didn't want to listen to your explanation at that time was because you were still young... We feel that some things should wait until you grow up before we tell you..." Zhong Jun said.

"Then am I grown up now?" Zhong Ling asked.

"Are you now..." Zhong Jun was asked and was speechless for a moment.

"If you want to protect me, then why did my father immediately put me into that airtight glass container after I showed a special connection with my mother?" Zhong Ling continued to ask.

"That...that's to protect you..." Zhong Jun murmured.

"The one you want to protect is not Zhong Ling at all, but the 'Puppet Master'." Zhong Ling said words that should have been full of anger in a calm tone, "In the eyes of my father, I am not his daughter, I am just His most perfect work. The reason why you are unwilling to let me participate in dangerous missions is not because you are worried about me being harmed, but because you are afraid that this perfect work will be damaged. Am I right? "

"Xiao Ling'er, how can you say that? After all, he is also your father..." Zhong Jun's face gradually turned ugly.

"If you ask me to withdraw from the operation in the name of Tianshu Tower, I will accept it." Zhong Ling said with a cold face, "If it is in the name of private individuals, then..."

"I...I didn't say I wanted you to withdraw from the operation." Zhong Jun said with a bitter smile, "I just wanted to entrust Sun Hang to protect you..."

Zhong Jun said and looked at Sun Hang: "With your ability, it shouldn't be difficult to do it, right?"

"Do you know me well?" Sun Hang narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhong Ling's aunt again.

"We will conduct detailed investigations on anyone who has had contact with Zhong Ling, not to mention that the relationship between you and her is so special..." Zhong Jun said.

"Oh? Is it special?"

"She has never had such a strong dependence on someone, even her father, and you are an exception." Zhong Jun said.

"Tsk, so you have figured out my details? Didn't Old Man Pei warn you?" Sun Hang deliberately mentioned Pei Zongjun - when he was at Tianshu Tower, Pei Zongjun had promised Sun Hang that he would His file is divided into two parts: light and dark. In the Ming file, Sun Hang is just an ordinary hunter of the same level, and has only participated in a few operations. The entire file adds up to less than a thousand words. As for the more detailed "dark file", only those with the highest level of decryption authority in Tianshu Tower are eligible to view it.

Sun Hang asked this question because he also wanted to test how much power the "Zhong Family" behind Zhong Ling had within the Xiazhou Federation.

Although the federal government adopts a parliamentary system, the surname of each member represents the family power behind them. And between families, different power factions will form. These power factions restrain each other and can also prevent the Xiazhou Federation from being dominated by one family.

Although this approach can easily lead to bloated institutions and low efficiency, from another perspective, it can also avoid the emergence of dictators to a certain extent.

Zhong Jun lowered his voice: "We were indeed warned...but this makes me even more convinced that you have that ability...otherwise, Mr. Pei wouldn't value you so much."

"Okay, I will try my best to protect Zhong Ling... As for the position of your family head, remember to keep it for me." Sun Hang said.

"Do you really want to be the head of the Zhong family?"

"Otherwise? Do you really think I'm joking with you?"

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After finishing this not-so-pleasant conversation with Zhong Jun, Sun Hang took the two women out of the gate of the research institute. He originally planned to go shopping in the business district, but suddenly remembered that Tianfu City had entered again. With the whole city under martial law, various commercial activities that had just begun to recover have been urgently stopped. Now when I go to the commercial district, I can only see those closed and dark shops.

If you're lucky, you might even run into some criminals sneaking out to carry out "zero-yuan purchases" - according to the Public Security Bureau's report, more than two hundred such guys were arrested in Tianfu City last week alone. None of the major business districts in the area were spared.

"Where are you going?" Wang Xiyi asked.

"Just strolling around on the street." As soon as Sun Hang spoke, a breath of white breath came out of his mouth - even with large heating equipment, the outdoor temperature in Tianfu City was still dropping day after day. In addition, a large number of high-energy-consuming lighting equipment has been turned off, and the urban heat island effect has been greatly weakened. Now the average temperature in Tianfu City has reached minus nine degrees, and it is just around the corner to break through double digits below minus.

"Speaking of which, do you really plan to become the head of the Zhong family?" Wang Xiyi asked again.

"It's not bad to be the head of the family for fun, but I guess the position of head of the family they gave me is probably just a false name, and I'm afraid it won't have any real power." Sun Hang said.

"But you have to get married." Wang Xiyi's eyes moved to Zhong Ling, who had been staring at the road with her head down, "Are you planning to marry Zhong Ling?"

"Jealous?"

"It's not that I'm jealous... I just think that there is nothing so cheap in the world." Wang Xiyi rolled her eyes at Sun Hang and complained.

"You are obviously jealous." Sun Hang said firmly.

"I'm just wondering... You know, we are infected, but Zhong Ling is not... I have never seen a normal family willingly marry their daughter to an infected person, let alone a powerful family like theirs. Yes." Wang Xiyi said.

"If you want to marry me, my father will agree." Zhong Ling said suddenly.

"Why?" Before Sun Hang asked, Wang Xiyi asked first.

"This is also part of the experiment." Zhong Ling said, "The source of my special ability is still a mystery. Tianshu Tower has examined me countless times, but they have never found any strange memes in my body—— After I had menarche, my father extracted mature egg cells from my body for six consecutive months. Although he never told me what he did with these egg cells, it was probably some experiments related to genetics. "

"He wants to test whether your ability can be inherited through inheritance?" Sun Hang rubbed the short stubble that had grown on his chin, "Those egg cells were probably used for in vitro fertilization... Ha, You must have become a mother without knowing it, right?”

Zhong Ling: "..."

"But having said that, your father tacitly allowed you to follow me, maybe he also wanted to see what kind of abilities the offspring born after my union with you will have... I have to say that your father is really a scientific research madman. For him, After all, for the sake of your own research, you can probably give up anything, right?"

Zhong Ling nodded.

"Suddenly, I feel that the three of us are quite similar." Wang Xiyi hooked one hand around Sun Hang's neck, and one hand around Zhong Ling's shoulder, "I have no father or mother, and Sun Hang can't even remember it. Who are your parents’ names? As for you, do you have the same kind of father? Ha, that’s really interesting!”

"You're wrong. At least she still has a mother who cares about her." Sun Hang glanced at an inconspicuous corner - all Zhong Ling's remains are usually sealed in the coffin, out of reach of Zhong Ling. Ling's summons will not wake her up. Only the corpse transformed by her mother has a certain degree of self-awareness and will follow her daughter all the time, relying on the remaining "memory" and "instinct" "Protect Zhong Ling.

"Yeah, damn, I'm so enviable." Wang Xiyi slapped Sun Hang's butt hard with her tail, "There's nowhere to go anyway, why not go home and drink? Oh no... It's been less than twenty years since the action started. It’s been four hours. According to regulations, alcoholic beverages are not allowed during this period..."

Wang Xiyi suddenly felt a little downcast.

"Go to the underground palace." Sun Hang said, "I plan to make two pieces of defensive equipment for Zhong Ling. In this way, even if her corpse is contained, she will not be able to protect herself at all. No."

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At the same time, it was 180 kilometers north of Tianfu City and 20 kilometers away from "Chimera No. 17 Cocoon Body".

"Observation Post Zero".

Ever since the military carried out a nuclear strike on Chimera No. 17, it has started to rain in this area, and it has been raining non-stop.

No one knows where these cumulonimbus clouds come from, and no one knows how they are related to the nuclear explosion and Chimera 17.

Rainfall is still increasing.

Two orange power armors trudged through the mud, relying on the milky white fluorescent lighting emitted by the giant cocoon not far away, one foot deep and one foot shallow to get into the tent.

"The sixteenth close-range detection." A somewhat dull voice came from a powered armor, "We arrived at a distance of seven kilometers from the target. The environmental radiation intensity is still increasing, and the specific value has exceeded the limit of the detection equipment."

"By the way, will we die here?" The person in the other powered armor said, "Even if I wear several layers of protective clothing, I can still feel a clear tingling sensation on my skin when I get close to that thing... "

"As long as anti-radiation drugs are injected regularly, there shouldn't be a big problem." The first person said, "What we should worry about are the cumulonimbus clouds above our heads... It would be fine if they don't move, but if these clouds float over the city , I can’t even imagine how many people will suffer from radiation sickness after a dirty rain.”

"Maybe not? Speaking of which, why haven't Lao Li's group come back yet? I thought we had timed out, but I didn't expect them to be slower than us."