Trickster Hunter

Chapter 142 Curse

"A person cannot drown himself in the bathtub. The water in the bathtub is too shallow, and the survival instinct will make him struggle to raise his head." Sun Hang said, "Unless there is a sudden heart attack or high blood pressure, it will not be possible." Or he accidentally hit his head and fainted, but these are accidents and not suicide. "

"But we don't rule out another possibility. His will is controlled by a strange thing." Yang Qi said solemnly, "This kind of control can overwhelm the human survival instinct."

"In my opinion, the cause of death of these people is the same." Sun Hang said.

"Same?" Yang Qi was slightly startled, "Have you seen these files a long time ago? Or..."

"I haven't seen their death files, but based on your description, anyone with a discerning eye can tell." Sun Hang continued, "There is only one cause of death: curse."

"Curse..." Yang Qi silently repeated these two words.

"The curse of the Nameless Island. Anyone who escapes from that island cannot escape this curse. Death will eventually find them, no matter what form it takes." Sun Hang murmured, "They can only choose to stay. , become part of the curse; or flee that place with the curse, and then wait for death to come. "

"Why do I feel...you seem to be more familiar with this nameless island than me?" Yang Qi asked doubtfully.

"No, I just think it's very cool to speak like this." Sun Hang chuckled and returned to his normal tone.

"You guy..." Yang Qi suddenly became angry, "But then again, if there is really a curse on Wuming Island, then wouldn't it mean that you, the hunters who are about to land on the island..."

"Are there any hunters among those who escaped?"

"No...they are all researchers and logistics personnel. The two infected people were also infected with memes in the 'accident'. Before that, they were normal humans." Yang Qi said, "Standing on the island There were a total of six monster hunters, all of whom were missing in the accident.”

"That's right, for ordinary people, this is a fatal curse, but for hunters, it is not necessarily." Sun Hang said, "Just like the synchronization rate between infected people and magic equipment is very low, That's because the hunters already have memes of other monsters in their bodies, so It cannot fit with the meme of the artifact equipment itself... The same is true for curses. There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Since the curse wants to kill the hunter, the meme in the hunter's body will inevitably fight hard... After all, the death of the host also means that The death of memes.”

Sun Hang paused and then said: "Although memes do not necessarily have self-awareness, you have to know that viruses and human immune cells also do not have self-awareness, but the law of nature will make them fight against each other for the survival of the host. Fighting... you can also think of them as natural selection. As a result - the memes that did not know how to protect their hosts have long since died out, and the memes that allow the hosts to become hunters have actually become part of the 'immune system' of the hunters... except that this immune system is not immune to bacteria. and viruses, but ‘other memes’ that invade from the outside.”

It seemed that Sun Hang's long words were difficult to digest for a while. Yang Qi was silent for more than ten seconds before speaking: "... Based on my professional knowledge, what you said is simply unreasonable, but I think about it carefully. After thinking about it, I think what you said seems to make some sense... Where did you get these things? "

"Half of it is what my intuition tells me, and the other half is the result of my thinking." Sun Hang said with a smile, "Who makes me so talented and smart?"

"Don't be so talkative." Yang Qi said angrily, "But from another perspective, your idea may be right... Among the regulations of this trial, Tianshu Tower prohibits any non-infected humans from entering. Go to an uninhabited island... In other words, apart from some supplies, the only support they can provide you is drones in the sky...

"But don't rely too much on drones. I looked at the drone patrol records in the blockade area during this period. The loss rate of drones near the uninhabited island area is more than 70%, while those of the surviving drones have no No meaningful information was collected."

"What about communications? If nothing else, there should be a shielded area, right?"

"Well, remote-controlled drones cannot enter the blocked area. All drones used to collect intelligence are autonomous. They set the round-trip route in advance, and the videos they captured can only be obtained after returning. So the reason for the loss of those drones It’s impossible to find out.”

"In other words, when we get to the island, we have to rely on ourselves for everything?"

"The warship that will send you to the island will stay on the sea five kilometers away from the island. You can transmit information through signal flares, or you can use signal flares to call for artillery support."

"What's the firepower of that warship?"

"It is a 'Merker-class' guided missile destroyer. The firepower of the entire ship is enough to level the ruins of the research institute on the island, and even the underground structure can be completely destroyed." Yang Qi said.

"I'm very curious about one thing. Why didn't the Federation just destroy the uninhabited island? This island has been left for more than a hundred years just to be used as a training ground for us?"

"It is said that there are very valuable research materials in the institute that could not be brought out... In those days, there were no computers and networks, and there was no such thing as a central database. Most of the information was paper files, all locked in the research In the steel safe in the basement. If I guess correctly, the goal of your trip should be these documents. "

"...If these documents are so valuable and important, how could the Federation delay for so long?"

"Over the past 100 years, the Xiazhou Federation has sent people to the island four times. The first two times were investigation teams composed of ordinary people. The third investigation team brought two hunters, and the fourth time was an elite team composed of pure monster hunters." Yang Qi sighed, "The first three investigation teams were wiped out. After the three hunters of the fourth hunter team disappeared inexplicably, the leader decided to abandon the mission and leave the island... After that, the operation to explore the island was shelved. I don't know why the Tianshu Tower restarted this investigation mission this year, and it was carried out as a part of the promotion trial."

"Maybe there are not enough cannon fodder willing to die..." Sun Hang teased.

"This is all the information I can provide you. I got it by mobilizing the resources of my teacher..." Yang Qi paused and said seriously: "Be careful... If you find that the situation is out of control, don't hesitate and evacuate the nameless island immediately. It is better to give up the promotion trial than to take risks."