Trickster Hunter

Chapter 200 Useless effort

"Yes, what you said makes sense." Iron Arm nodded, "Even if you really created a skeleton, it would not be able to survive in this place for more than five seconds."

"Now that the fight has been fought, can you let me go in and see the big boss?" Sun Hang asked, "I'm actually quite curious. I've written all the things that happened on the Nameless Island in such detail in the mission report. Even if you ask me personally, that’s all I can say. I really don’t know why he came to me.”

"You have to ask Mr. Pei yourself about this." Iron Arm stepped aside and pointed to a door at the other end of the hall, "Go in yourself."

"Myself?" Sun Hang turned to look at Yang Qi, then at the two entourage members who had no intention of leaving, and finally looked at Tieju, "Just me?"

"Well," Iron Arm nodded, "This is also Mr. Pei's request. He wants to meet with you alone. During the meeting, no matter what happens, no one is allowed to enter."

"No one is allowed in? Including you?" Sun Hang asked.

"I will guard the door." Iron Arm said.

Sun Hang suddenly felt that what he said jokingly at the beginning was right. This guy had really changed his job from a bodyguard to a security guard.

"If I were an assassin, wouldn't something big happen?" Sun Hang rubbed his chin, "No matter what happens...then if there are any explosions, screams, etc., you won't Come in?"

"My mission is just to guard this door. I am not qualified to take care of other things." Iron Arm replied.

"Sun Hang!" Yang Qi on the side finally couldn't stand it anymore, "You won't die if you stop saying a few words!"

"Aren't I pointing out the security loopholes inside the Tianshu Tower?" Sun Hang said with an aggrieved look.

Yang Qi: "..."

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Two minutes later.

Looking at the humanoid holographic projection with a faint blue light in front of him, Sun Hang finally understood why Tianshu Tower was not worried that he might be an assassin...

The boss known as "Mr. Pei" is not in this room. There is only a projection controlled by him remotely.

The misunderstanding has been resolved. It seems that the security measures of Tianshu Tower are still very strict.

"You are much younger than I thought." Sun Hang was the first to speak. "I thought I would see an old man with a white beard. At worst, he would have to be a middle-aged and elderly person with high moral standards."

The humanoid projection in front of me has a very young appearance, looking to be in his early thirties at most. He is wearing a white coat that is no different from an ordinary researcher, and has a hair style that was very popular decades ago.

"The aging of the physical body cannot be reversed, but now that I have the opportunity to reshape my virtual image, I still prefer the way I looked when I was young." The humanoid projection motioned Sun Hang to sit on the sofa aside, while he walked around the table After walking around, a mechanical arm reached down from the ceiling and placed a goblet in front of Sun Hang, "What would you like to drink?"

"Coke, iced." Sun Hang said, "I want Coca-Cola, not Pepsi, and something with sugar, not sugarless."

Two ice cubes landed on the bottom of the card, making a crisp collision sound. Then, a hose stretched out from the inside of the mechanical arm and filled the goblet with brown liquid with bubbles.

Sun Hang picked up the cup and took a sip. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of the bubbles exploding in his mouth. If you didn't look at the fine bubbles on the wall of the cup, people who didn't know would think he was tasting some high-end red wine. .

"Are you a little disappointed?" The humanoid projection looked at Sun Hang with a smile, "I can see what is happening outside. What you said does make some sense... But please don't misunderstand me. I am not afraid of assassins. But because my physical condition has deteriorated to a very bad level, I have to use the help of holographic projection equipment to conduct this conversation."

"...Are you about to die?" Sun Hang said bluntly.

"At my age, I should have died a long time ago." The other party was not angry, "But fortunately, I have caught up with an era of rapid technological development. In view of the fact that I can still be of some use to human civilization, Xiazhou The Federation has consumed a lot of resources to extend my life to this day... but according to the current situation, unless there is a major breakthrough in related technology, this extension has almost reached its limit. "

"Can you talk about this kind of thing casually?" Sun Hang tilted his head, "The health status of people of your level should be the top secret of the federation, right?"

"Of course you can't say it casually. If you relay these words to others, it may cause you a lot of trouble." The humanoid projection sat down opposite Sun Hang, "I need to ask you something. Please keep all conversations that take place in this room private.”

"Okay." Sun Hang responded.

"You may have guessed the reason why I want to see you." The humanoid projection said again.

"It can't be that you want to find a successor, right?" Sun Hang remembered the last conversation between himself and Professor Li.

"Why can't it be?" The humanoid projection asked with an interested smile on its face.

"I am an infected person, let's put this aside for now." Sun Hang said, "As the number one figure in Tianshu Tower, the reason why the Xiazhou Federation has to spend so much money to extend your life is because You have made great achievements in the study of strange objects that ordinary people cannot match, not because of how good you are at fighting... Even if you want to find a successor, you should choose from the group of researchers wearing white coats, not me. A person who can’t even recite a list of known monsters.”

"Do you think it's really possible to defeat those monsters that are getting stronger and weirder by relying on researchers?" The smile on the face of the humanoid projection faded slightly, and he asked Sun Hang in a very serious tone.

"I don't know, I'm just a hunter, this kind of problem is not something I need to consider." Sun Hang threw away all the burden in an instant.

“When I was young, I always believed that as long as our science and technology develops fast enough, those things that cannot be understood will eventually be scientifically explained, and all thorny problems will be solved with the progress of civilization... I have witnessed that generation after generation The emergence of a generation of geniuses, each of them is an amazing talent Stunning people, each of their research results was enough to win a Nobel Prize in the past... With their efforts, we know more and more about weird things, and we classify various weird things into categories. , we also deciphered a large number of meme fragments... and even applied them... but the result? "

"But what's the result?" Sun Hang took a sip of Coke and asked.

"The scope of human activities is still shrinking... I once witnessed the fall of the Yunnan region, and hundreds of thousands of refugees flowed into Shuzhou; on the east side of the federal territory, the boundary line that symbolizes the safe sea area changes every year After shrinking towards the mainland; and now, Shuzhou has completely fallen into darkness and cold... Sometimes, I wonder, is everything we have done over the years really meaningful? "

"If nothing was done, human civilization would have perished long ago, right?" Sun Hang glanced at the humanoid projection, "It takes hard work to survive. What's more, if you look away from the border areas, people seem to be living quite well. Not bad... at least much better than during the Great War."

"People can indeed look away from the border area, but we can't." The humanoid projection sighed, "Under the room we are in now, buried is the most powerful supercomputer in human history. , Tianshu Tower spent four years using this supercomputer to build a mathematical model - if we want to maintain the status quo, we must increase the speed of technological development by more than twenty times. "

"Twenty times? To be honest, I can understand you saying that the capacity of drinks has increased by twenty times. The speed of technological development has increased by twenty times... This statement is really a bit abstract." Sun Hang said, "If it can be done, human beings will You’ve probably abandoned this earth and gone to outer space for interstellar colonization, right? Why stay on the ground and fight with those weird things?”

"There is one thing you may not know... Of course, most people don't know either." The humanoid shadow said, "Based on so many years of observations and calculations, we have discovered that strange objects do not only exist on the earth. "

"There are also weird things in the universe?"

"Yes." The other party nodded, "So, escaping is not the solution."

"Then according to what you just said, if the speed of technological development is increased by twenty times... can it be achieved?" Sun Hang asked again.

"It can't be done." The human figure shook his head with regret, "Since the explosion of science and technology in human civilization at the end of the last century, until now, our development speed has fallen into a bottleneck... We are trying to use the research on strange objects as a New breakthroughs, but the progress is extremely slow, and the biggest problem is...many of these research results cannot be directly put into practice. "

Sun Hang couldn't help but think of those "meme bullets" that "Professor Deng" had boasted about at the press conference.

"To fight against monsters, apart from the armies and weapons of the old era, the main force is you monster hunters... In comparison, whether it is Tianshu Tower or the research institutes of various city-states, what has been actually researched is of no use to you. This war between humans and monsters has not been of any real help.”

"It seems... that's really the case." Sun Hang nodded thoughtfully, "Those research institutes... are more like a management organization than a research institution."

"So, what we need more now is not research talents, but..." The humanoid shadow paused, and then said, "Strong enough combat power."

"Is this a show off?" Sun Hang couldn't help but cursed secretly.

If you don’t understand the research, just don’t study it at all. As long as you can take advantage of the power of strange objects, you will no longer consider those that are there or not... Sun Hang really doesn’t understand how such a simple and crude idea could appear in this world. In the mind of the No. 1 person in Tianshu Tower?

After thinking about it, I can only attribute it to the fact that this group of researchers have been studying for so much of their lives that they have broken their defenses and broken their hearts... Just like the dangerous knowledge in the Cthulhu Mythos, the more they study, the more they study. The easier it is to fall into madness, sometimes the kind of character who kicks the door open, picks up a gun and shoots, can survive to the end.

"Do you think I'm the kind of 'decisive force' that can turn the tide of the battle?" Sun Hang spat out the half-melted ice cube into the empty cup, and the mechanical arm beside him immediately refilled his cup. "Not really? I can't even beat the big guy standing guard outside. Besides, he's ranked eleventh, and there are ten stronger than him... No matter how you count, it won't be my turn, right?"

"But you're growing very fast." The humanoid phantom said seriously, "From the time you were infected to the time you passed the test and registered as a hunter, it was only more than a month. But you have been able to fight back and forth with 'Iron Arm', which can explain a lot of problems. "

"Maybe I'm just lucky."

In the report submitted by Sun Hang, he did not mention that he had memories related to the Nameless Island Research Institute in his head, and the fisherman and Yano who were rescued by the search and rescue personnel afterwards seemed to have lost their memory and completely forgot about anything related to "Anna"... After reading the reports submitted by the two of them, Sun Hang found that his "heavily deleted" version of the report turned out to be the most detailed one among the reports of the only three survivors.

He didn't know whether "Anna" erased their memories or the three monkeys took action... But what puzzled Sun Hang the most was that the nameplate engraved with the name "Anna Dimoshen" that he brought out from the research institute disappeared without a trace at some point.

Sun Hang checked his pocket several times. This is a sealed pocket with a waterproof zipper, which is specially used by hunters to store important items. There is no hole inside or outside the pocket, and the waterproof zipper is intact, but the nameplate in the pocket disappeared without a trace.

Sun Hang remembered very clearly that when he returned to the beach of the nameless island on the landing craft sent by Yamata no Orochi, he pressed the pocket with his hand to make sure that the nameplate was lying in it and was not lost in the sea.

But when he was taken back to the warship, the pocket became empty...

Not only that, he also asked the officers on the warship, and the officers said that they did receive several drones carrying rescue information, but the content of the information only mentioned that the trial participants who landed on the island were attacked by strange creatures... The name of Yamata no Orochi was also "erased" from the rescue information.

The only thing that was certain was that the "curse" on the nameless island had really been lifted. A large number of people had landed on the island and started excavating the ruins of the research institute... But in Sun Hang's opinion, what these people were doing was undoubtedly useless.

Even if there was any important information in the ruins, it would probably be erased by that invisible force like Anna's nameplate.