Trickster Hunter

Chapter 355 Lurker

Not long after Sun Hang finished saying this, an engineer with his head down walked over slowly. At the moment when he passed by Song Yarong, he suddenly turned around and suddenly rushed towards Song Yarong!

It was also at this moment that Sun Hang felt the extremely strong weird meme aura emanating from him!

This engineer actually transformed from a completely normal human into a powerful weird in less than 0.1 seconds!

The engineer immediately threw Song Yarong to the ground and strangled her neck with both hands!

He put his cheek close to Song Yarong, looking as if he was going to kiss her, but his mouth was already cracked to the roots of his ears, and a tentacle as thick as an arm and full of sharp teeth replaced his tongue, stretched out from his throat, and went straight to Song Yarong's door.

Although Song Yarong is a hunter of strange creatures, she is not a combatant in the strict sense. Neither her fighting skills nor her reaction speed can be compared with those elite hunters who have been fighting strange creatures for many years. After being knocked down by the strange engineer, she just instinctively struggled and tried to push the other party away from her.

But what surprised her was that the power coming from this strange engineer was even more terrifying than herself who had the Tai Sui meme!

The opponent's knees pressed tightly against Song Yarong's lower abdomen, his two elbows opened outward, pressing Song Yarong's arms, and his hands completely clamped Song Yarong's neck, pinching her to death.

If Song Yarong was not infected with Tai Sui, her neck would probably have been strangled.

She didn't even have the chance to suffocate.

Feeling the bloody smell coming towards her, Song Yarong desperately kicked up with her feet - this was the only part of her body that could move now, and the powerful kicks hit the crotch of the strange engineer continuously...but the other party was completely unmoved.

After the engineer turned into a weird creature, his physiological weakness that was unique to men seemed to have disappeared.

"Don't move! Tilt your head back and stick to the ground!" Sun Hang's voice came from the side, and Song Yarong did it without hesitation.

A gust of wind came, and the head that was less than five centimeters away from Song Yarong disappeared in front of her eyes in an instant, and the toothed tentacle that had already stuck to her face left a series of blood marks of varying depths on her face.

Fortunately, with the recovery ability of the Tai Sui meme, this minor injury was not enough to disfigure her - if it weren't for the high-tech artificial eye that could provide a lot of convenience in research, Song Yarong could even grow her missing eye again.

The pressure suddenly eased, and Song Yarong realized that it was Sun Hang who kicked the weird engineer's neck, and the head with long tentacles flew far away like a football, and fell heavily on the frozen soil, making a dull sound.

"Not dead yet?"

Sun Hang frowned, and saw that the headless monster began to change again - its entire upper body split open, forming a big mouth full of sharp teeth, and then leaned down and swallowed Song Yarong's entire head! !

But before the big mouth closed, the monster froze in place.

Tens of millions of hyphae had pierced its body, grabbing all the memes in its body!

"A disgusting smell of rot..." Sun Hang briefly commented on the "food" he had just eaten, and then retracted the hyphae.

The empty shell without the meme suddenly turned into a pool of pus and blood, which fell on Song Yarong's body.

The expensive down jacket was immediately corroded by pus and blood, and the white goose and duck down inside leaked out. When it touched the pus and blood, it made a hissing sound, and a smell of burnt protein soon spread.

Fortunately, the combat uniform Song Yarong was wearing had strong corrosion resistance and water repellency. Once the sticky pus and blood fell on the surface of the combat uniform, they turned into small round droplets and then rolled down from both sides.

"Are you still alive?" Sun Hang pulled Song Yarong up from the ground.

"... Alive." Song Yarong nodded, trying to calm her rapid breathing a little bit.

The surrounding area had become a state of martial law. Soldiers and operators responsible for security and alert rushed in and pointed their guns at the researchers and engineers who had not yet reacted to what was happening.

"Put down your guns!" Sun Hang shouted loudly.

Embarrassingly, these soldiers did not obey Sun Hang's orders.

"All... cough cough... put down your guns!!" Song Yarong repeated Sun Hang's order again.

These soldiers hesitantly put down their guns.

Song Yarong also knew why Sun Hang asked the soldiers to put down their guns. Since Chimera 17 could turn an engineer into a monster, it could also turn a soldier on guard into a monster. Once one of these soldiers was caught, they would shoot at the researchers and engineers... then the development progress of PFDA would instantly go backwards... Especially those precious technicians. It would be almost impossible to select and train another batch in the remaining time.

These people are treasures... In other words, their lives are very valuable.

"Execute emergency plan No. 3, everyone returns to the institute headquarters immediately. In addition, notify the institute to give all members of the project team a comprehensive and detailed physical examination!" Song Yarong said.

"This will waste a lot of time..." Sun Hang muttered quietly.

"There is no way. When something like this happens, everyone is in danger... If we don't conduct a comprehensive examination, I'm afraid no one can do their work." Song Yarong sighed and whispered to Sun Hang, "No one wants to be fully focused when their colleagues around them suddenly become weird, right?"

"Were you shocked just now?" Sun Hang asked.

"I was a little scared... The most important thing is that it was too sudden, the brain didn't react at all, and the whole head was blank." Song Yarong touched the healed wound on her face, "I even forgot to use my ability."

"In the future, add more practical training when you have time... After all, you still have the identity of a weird hunter." Sun Hang said.

"Let's talk about the future later... If we can't solve Chimera No. 17, how can we talk about the future?" Song Yarong said, "Let's get back to the point... Did that guy just now suddenly become weird?"

"Yes." Sun Hang nodded, "I didn't sense his breath until he became a weird thing... Before that, he gave me the same feeling as an ordinary person."

"What is the cause of the weirdness? Is there something unclean here in the test site, or has he been infected for a long time but has been in the 'incubation period'? Or..."

Song Yarong couldn't help but lower her voice when she said this: "Is it because of... emotions?"

Emotions can cause humans to become weird... For the academic community, it is already a semi-open secret, especially after the Chen Hongjuan incident. Every researcher who has come into contact with this matter has signed a confidentiality agreement at the request of Tianshu Tower, and Song Yarong is one of them.

In order to avoid panic among the people, this point cannot be made public... But quietly, both the federal government and weird research institutions in various places have been conducting research on the effect of emotions on human weirdness.

The most notable point is that a large number of psychological counseling institutions have been set up in Tianfu City, and dozens of hotlines for psychological counseling and emotional counseling have been opened. On the surface, it is to ensure the mental health of Tianfu City citizens in special times and special environments, but in fact, these investments are entirely for early detection of signs of abnormality and collection of data for subsequent research.

"It doesn't look like emotion." Sun Hang shook his head.

If this engineer turned into a weird creature because of negative emotions, Sun Hang should have seen the shadow rising behind him a long time ago. Everyone has negative emotions, but if the negative emotions are so strong that they make people weird, then the shadow of this person's figure will become extremely huge and blazing, and Sun Hang can't help but notice it.

"Is he an infected person in the incubation period?" Song Yarong frowned, "There should be no 'dirty things' in the test site... We have checked this place countless times, and drones are used for carpet scanning every day..."

"My suggestion is to check the people this guy has recently contacted." Sun Hang said.

While devouring the weird engineer meme, Sun Hang also devoured the remaining memories in the other party's meme.

There are not many memories left in the meme, and there are only 48 hours of stock in retrospect.

The engineer was busy all day today - he was responsible for the fuel of the PFDA thruster, and he belonged to the fourth group. In addition to dealing with people in the PFDA project team, he did not come into contact with any outsiders. The only time he left the institute was when he came here with Sun Hang, Song Yarong and others to test the PFDA "Trial No. 1".

The food he ate was also very clean, all meals and drinking water were uniformly provided by the institute... If the source of infection came from food, then everyone present would be at risk of infection.

The engineer's memory went back to the day before, and he took half a day off on this day.

The reason for the leave was also very simple - the ratio of the thruster fuel had been finalized, the simulation test and the actual machine test had been completed, and the remaining projects of PFDA only had those unresolved problems on the mecha body, and the work on the thruster part was considered to have come to an end. For this reason, the engineer asked for half a day off to go back and spend time with his family, whom he had not seen for more than a month because of the high intensity of overtime work.

The engineer has a nine-year-old daughter and is from a single-parent family. The engineer's wife died of illness when the child was very young. In addition, yesterday was the little girl's birthday, so Song Yarong agreed to this "reasonable but not very reasonable" leave application.

The memory continued to go back, and as the time interval gradually lengthened, the memory fragments began to become intermittent, mottled and blurred. Sun Hang could only vaguely see that the engineer asked the institute's cafeteria to help him make a cake base, and then went to the warehouse to get some candles... The next scene was already in his own home.

The father and daughter used a spoon to spread the whipped cream on the cake base... Insert the candles, light the candles, make birthday wishes, and then blow out the candles...

At the moment the candles were blown out, the entire memory picture suddenly fell into darkness.

Sun Hang shuddered involuntarily.

"What's wrong with you?" Song Yarong noticed Sun Hang's coldness and asked immediately, "You shouldn't feel cold, right?"

"It's not cold... Where is the head of that guy just now? The head that I kicked off?" Sun Hang asked.

"The people in the field department are dealing with it." Song Yarong said.

"Bring that head here! Quick! Hurry!" Sun Hang said.

He suddenly realized a problem... In the images of those memory fragments just now, the engineer's daughter, the nine-year-old girl... has never had a face!

A container that looks like a large protein powder jar was brought over. When the container was opened, a bloody head appeared in front of Sun Hang's eyes-Sun Hang kicked the neck of the monster, but the head of the monster was not seriously damaged, and the basic structure was still intact.

"Fortunately, I didn't kick this head to pieces, otherwise it would be troublesome." Sun Hang said in his heart.

The body of the strange creature had been sucked dry by Sun Hang and turned into pus and blood, but the head was still "alive" - ​​when Sun Hang opened the container, it still tried to attack Sun Hang with its tentacle full of teeth and like a cactus, but was grabbed by an "iron hand" condensed from liquid metal and pulled out of its mouth.

"What are you going to do?" Song Yarong couldn't help asking, and Fukada Miki on the side also looked interested.

Sun Hang didn't speak, but drove the hyphae into the eye sockets of the head and went straight to the brain.

The brain and memes are both carriers of the infected person's memory, but there are some differences in the memories they carry.

"Are you going to devour it? But I think... if you leave this head, it may be helpful for the subsequent investigation? The research institute can also rely on it to determine whether the initiator of this incident is Chimera No. 17..." Song Yarong said, but her hands did not intend to stop Sun Hang's actions at all.

"What I'm doing now is investigation work." Sun Hang didn't explain much, but continued to "browse" the remaining memories in the engineer's brain.

The memories in the brain and the memory images in the meme were almost the same, except that some vague details were clearer... Sun Hang roughly glanced at today's content, and quickly fast-forwarded his memory to the previous day, when the little girl celebrated her birthday.

He finally saw the little girl's face.

She was smiling, but that weird smile... shouldn't appear on the face of a nine-year-old girl.