Trickster Hunter

Chapter 332 Containment No. 549

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Tianshu Tower, Containment Area No. 1.

Sun Hang and Yuri were about to go to the containment room of B423 when a panicked researcher suddenly ran over and whispered a few words in Yuri's ear.

Yuri suddenly frowned and his expression became very ugly. He asked in a deep voice: "There are really no traces?"

The researcher nodded: "There is no sign that the storage container has been opened, and all seals, locks and sealing fluid are intact."

"What's going on?" Sun Hang interrupted, "What happened? Why do you look so nervous?"

"Containment No. 549 in Containment Area No. 2 disappeared out of thin air." Yuri said directly without intending to hide it from Sun Hang.

"Breaking containment?" Sun Hang asked.

He heard this word often, but he had never encountered a real breach of containment.

Oh, no... I should have encountered it once, that time at the Wuming Island Research Institute... But at that time, Sun Hang thought "Anna" was dead, but he didn't expect that she actually broke through the shackles of the container. Freedom was regained.

In other words, that withered body was the shell used to imprison her.

"It is not yet certain whether the containment was breached." Yuri shook his head, "Because neither the containment container nor the containment room showed signs of being opened, and the surveillance video did not record the escape of the contained objects..."

At this point Yuri paused for a moment, probably after experiencing the "television incident". Even he himself felt that the surveillance video seemed unconvincing, but after half a second, he continued: "Containment area The surveillance video of each channel inside shows that everything is normal except for the accident 549 Outside of the containment room No. 549, the alarm devices elsewhere have not been triggered... The most important thing is that Containment Room No. 549 does not have any special abilities such as hiding or traveling through solid interiors... From all the information available, Look, it looks like it degraded itself inside the container..."

"Did the camera capture the disappearance of this strange thing?" Sun Hang asked.

The researcher who came to report shook his head: "The signal of the camera directly used to monitor the target in the containment vessel was interrupted for 0.5 seconds. After the signal was restored, the target disappeared... At the same time, all the instruments used to monitor the target read out All returned to zero..."

"Then this is obviously an escape..." Sun Hang said, "Maybe he knew that I was coming to pick the ingredients and was afraid of being selected by me, so he decided to escape from this place - it cannot be ruled out that some monsters are tired of being outside. They were beaten and killed, and they wanted to take care of themselves in the Tianshu Tower containment area. But now you tell them that this is not a nursing home, but a food storage warehouse for a guy named Sun Hang... It would be weird if they don't run away. !”

"B-but...except for the surveillance camera inside the container, all other surveillance cameras are not malfunctioning..."

Seemingly feeling that words alone were too weak to explain, the researcher took out a platform directly from the big pocket of his white coat and called up the surveillance video inside the containment room at the moment Containment 549 "mysteriously disappeared" .

It was a five-meter-square room, and there was a one-meter-square black metal box in the room... One second there was silence, and the next second the red warning light in the corner of the box suddenly started flashing, and the piercing alarm started. echoed around the room.

"When the alarm sounded, Containment No. 549 had disappeared from the box," the researcher said.

"Why use a black box? If you build a transparent box, wouldn't you be able to see the whole process of its disappearance?" Sun Hang asked.

"Contained object No. 549 is extremely sensitive to light, and will become extremely manic once it sees a light source, so the containment environment must be absolutely light-free." Yuri explained, "Furthermore, in the case of a malfunction of the internal camera of the containment vessel, Judging from the situation, even if we use transparent containment equipment, I am afraid that the surveillance cameras in the containment room will also 'break down'. "

"Tsk, your mind is running pretty fast this time..." Sun Hang praised, "Speaking of which, what is Containment No. 549? Is it a monster?"

"She is a completely transformed female infected person." Yuri said.

"Trick hunter?"

"No...not a hunter." Yuri shook his head. "Although this infected person had a stable infection process and was very conscious in the early stages of infection, after communication, she refused to become a hunter and chose to hunt local monsters. She lived an 'ordinary' life within the living limits defined by the institute and under strict surveillance."

"Then how did she become completely deceitful? If she didn't use her abilities, wouldn't the infection process progress very slowly?"

"Not necessarily. There is absolutely no pattern in the development of the infection process. It varies from person to person... ability to use, secondary infection, physical trauma, drug use, women's menstrual period, work and rest and diet... and even mood changes. "It may be the cause of changes in the infection process," Yuri said, "Containment No. 549 is confirmed. Sixteen months after she was diagnosed as an infected person, while reading a classical novel in her residence, the infection process suddenly intensified. By the time field operators and investigators arrived, she had lost her self-awareness... The researchers immediately determined that she was no longer worth saving, and after simple treatment, she was sent here."

"Classical novels? What book is so awesome? Can it turn people into monsters?" Sun Hang asked curiously.

"The Count of Monte Cristo." Yuri replied, "However, we have conducted detailed inspections of all the books and even daily necessities in Containment No. 549, including that book, and found nothing unusual... We also don’t know for sure whether her memetic mutation is related to reading.”

Yuri continued: "Before she was diagnosed, she was a teaching assistant and intern lecturer in the language and literature department of a local university. She had to deal with this kind of classical literature all year round. This was not the first time she read the "Count of Monte Cristo"... Even after she became infected, she read a series of books, including this one, "The Count of Monte Cristo," and it never happened."

"Where is this book now?" Sun Hang asked casually.

"The local Occult Research Institute... they have studied this book for several years, and finally came to the conclusion that it is just a mediocre paper print." Yuri replied.

"Okay... I feel like the topic is a bit far off topic." Sun Hang scratched his head, "Then let's get back to the topic... Do you think this guy might have been released by other 'people'?"

"You mean..." Yuri narrowed his eyes.

"Since that weird TV can distort reality and tamper with the surveillance video of Tianshu Tower... then it is easy to cause a brief malfunction of the surveillance camera... maybe it helped Container No. 549 escape." Sun Hang Said, "Of course, I have a bolder guess."

"What guess?"

"Have you opened that black box?" Sun Hang turned to the researcher and asked.

"No." The researcher shook his head.

"Since the TV trick can interfere with reality... maybe Containment No. 549 is now in a state of 'Schrödinger's Cat'... After you open the box, it may or may not be inside... You can't tell. After one night, you will find that Containment Object No. 549 appears on the surveillance camera screen again... After all, you can't even be sure whether the malfunctioning camera is really 'back to normal', right?"

Sun Hang spoke a lot in one breath, and then exhaled a breath of turbidity very happily.

Although after careful consideration, this set of logic cannot form a closed loop at all, but at the level of complicating things, I am definitely a good hand... Or why not stop being a monster hunter and become a screenwriter for a suspense TV series? ? Maybe he can also make a name for himself...

"But..." Yuri's "but" sentence directly brought Sun Hang back to reality, "Why did Containment No. 999 do this?"

Contained object No. 999 naturally refers to the strange TV set that was devoured by Sun Hang.

To be precise, the containment number of the TV set in Containment Area No. 1 is "1-999", while the number of the mysteriously missing contained object is "2-549"... The latter is located in a more dangerous and important area. In the lower No. 2 containment area, the two should not be able to reach each other...

"Perhaps it wants to find a helper?"

"But, Containment Object No. 549 is not suitable as a helper?" Yuri said, "Its combat ability is not very strong... Although unarmed ordinary people may not be its opponents, Tianshu Tower can randomly recruit a guard Come here...or anyone who is proficient in using firearms can easily solve it."

"So weak? Are you still going to contain this weird thing in the pivot tower that day?" All previous guesses were invalid. Even the shameless Sun Hang was a little embarrassed at this time, "I thought the things that were qualified to enter the No. 2 containment area were the last ones. You have to be a guy like Wang Xiyi to be weak, right?"

"Contained object No. 549 is not very powerful in combat, but her memetic mutation is very special, and she is contained here as a precious research sample..." Yuri patiently explained, "Containment area No. 1 and Containment area No. 2 are the largest. The difference lies in the different levels of danger of the contained objects, but in terms of the research value of the contained objects, the difference is actually not very big.”

"Then shouldn't Containment No. 999 be in Area 2 instead of Area 1?" Sun Hang complained in his heart, "Before I came, it didn't show any danger?"

"If Containment Object No. 999 is to disturb the containment area, there are many tricky things in Area 1, and releasing one at random is enough to cause us big trouble... But it didn't do that, it just released it Contained object No. 549 is inconspicuous among many contained objects... This doesn't make sense." Yuri seemed to be talking to Sun Hang, but also to himself, "There are other clues at the scene. ”

"That's all we have at the moment. For fear of damaging the scene, none of us have entered the containment room 549 yet. Further actions will have to be decided by you," the researcher said.

"Then why don't we go over and take a look first?" Sun Hang suggested, "It's not like Yi, four, two and three disappeared so mysteriously in just a short while, right?"

The corners of Yuri's eyes suddenly jumped violently: "Your joke... is really not very funny."

"Simple, you send a few people over to keep an eye on B423, while we go to the containment room No. 549... There is a saying, it's going to rain and the mother wants to get married. If B423 really wants to open Come on, there’s nothing you can do about it, right?”

Yuri: "..."

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The No. 1 and No. 2 containment areas are not adjacent to each other. Sun Hang and others took a rail car in the vast underground space and drove along the rock wall for nearly 20 minutes before arriving at the "incident area" - containment room No. 549.

Compared with the No. 1 containment area, the No. 2 containment area has a higher utilization rate of space. Standard-sized containment rooms are neatly arranged in the space like cubicles, giving people the feeling that it is a "resettlement housing community" specially equipped for weird things.

However, just as he approached the No. 549 containment room, Sun Hang stopped.

His originally relaxed look disappeared in an instant.

In this place, he felt an extremely familiar breath.

"Anna Dimoshin... Did you follow me all the way from Tianfu City to here?" Sun Hang muttered to himself.

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Chunming City Suburbs, Superpower Management Department, Temporary Dormitory

The soft fluorescence on the girl gradually dimmed, and her fascinating body lines gradually became blurred... Soon, there was only a barely recognizable black shadow in the corner.

Ling Xiao suddenly discovered that at some point, the cold flame on the ulnar sword burned again, replacing the girl as the only light source in the room.

Just as Ling Xiao once again moved his sight from the ulnar sword to the black shadow in the corner, the black shadow had left the corner and rushed towards him! !

With the light of the cold flame, Ling Xiao could barely see that the black shadow was a woman - but it was definitely not the flawless girl just now.

This woman's figure was extremely thin, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe her as skin and bones.

She was wrapped in a dirty white robe, and her long black hair, which seemed to have not been washed for a long time, was greasy and matted, falling on both sides of her cheeks...

And the most horrifying thing was that this woman had no chin.

Not only was her chin missing, but the part below her upper lip was completely missing. From the front, one could see the bright red mouth and the dark throat...

But in sharp contrast to the missing jaw was her upper jaw - in addition to the upper part of the gums, her upper jaw was also full of sharp teeth, just like the mouth of some monster.

Fortunately, facing such an abstract "woman", Ling Xiao did not feel fear.

He quickly jumped back a step, avoiding the woman's attack, letting her fall on the edge of the bed, and then Ling Xiao reached out to the side and turned on the light switch at the head of the bed.

The whole room was suddenly brightly lit.

But the next second after turning on the light, the woman let out a piercing scream that was enough to rupture the eardrums. At the same time, the skin on her/its body that was exposed to the light began to become congested and red, and then large and small herpes appeared.

"Afraid of light?" Ling Xiao was stunned for a moment, and glanced at the suitcase next to the hanger.

There is a tactical flashlight in the suitcase, with a maximum brightness of 4000 lumens.

Or... can this thing be used to restrain the enemy in front of you?