Trickster Hunter

Chapter 211 Qiujiawan

"Yang Qi," Sun Hang raised his head suddenly, "Is the meme frequency of Chimera 17 recorded in the database?"

"Yes, there is..." Yang Qi nodded, "Tianfu City recovered the shed wreckage of Chimera 17, and the remaining memes in the wreckage completely disappeared, and they were recorded... But these meme fragments are incomplete and not complete..."

"Compare the meme fragments of Chimera 17 with the memes of this thing." Sun Hang said, "Now, immediately, right away."

"I am connecting to the core host of the Tianfu City Weird Research Institute. The comparison process may take a few minutes." Yang Qi replied while typing on the keyboard, "Do you doubt this? Is it related to Chimera 17?"

"Don't you think it looks similar?" Sun Hang pointed at the thing attached to the brain tissue of the weird skeleton, "This thing is almost exactly the same as the symbiotic offspring of Chimera 17, that is, the little spiders we saw in the video."

"Exactly the same?" Yang Qi was stunned for a moment, "Now that you mention it... the shape of this thing does look a bit like a spider, but the style is a bit abstract."

Sun Hang did not stop his actions, he dissected the entire weird skeleton - except for the foreign matter attached to the brain tissue, this weird skeleton is simply unremarkable, and even the memes it is infected with are the very common residual meme fragments.

In academia, this kind of meme fragment is generally called "scraps", just like the fragments of DNA that become fragmented after a living organism is exposed to high-intensity radiation. Things infected by this kind of meme fragment rarely can be completely transformed into weird things... Either they become weird skeletons, or they are destroyed in the process of weirdness.

In the eyes of "weird gourmets" like Taotie, there is a more vivid word to describe this kind of thing.

"Offal".

Sun Hang resisted the nausea and absorbed the meme of the weird skeleton, but as expected, the memory "stored" inside the meme was empty... Long before Sun Hang took action, all the memories had been absorbed by other things first.

"Bad luck."

Sun Hang spit on the ground, returned to the car to get a bottle of water, and drank half of it in one breath, and the nausea was slightly relieved.

But it was only a small part... After all, memes are not food, and no matter how much water Sun Hang drank, it is impossible to completely dilute the fishy smell.

This feeling is like eating a bowl of pig offal that has begun to go bad.

"Are you okay?" Yang Qi looked at Sun Hang with some concern, "You look a little uncomfortable."

"Nothing, it's just that the meme of this thing... tastes terrible." Sun Hang sighed, "I feel like I'm eating shit."

"Uh... are you sure you're really okay?"

Sun Hang waved his hand, shook the remaining half bottle of water, walked to the side of the strange body, picked up the thing attached to its brain tissue with a scalpel, and stuffed it into the bottle.

This thing looks palm-sized, but the body is very soft, and the bottle mouth with a diameter of less than three centimeters can easily pass through it-no wonder there is no external injury on the head of this strange body, this thing is probably drilled into his nasal cavity or ear canal...Sun Hang suddenly thought of the infamous prefrontal lobotomy back then, those quack doctors inserted the ice cone into the nasal cavity or eye socket of the "patient who needs treatment", and then cut off the patient's frontal lobe by swinging.

This surgery will create a silent zombie, but this little thing that can only drill into the brain of a creature can create a zombie that can obey orders.

The parasite with eight synapses immediately showed a stress response after it came into contact with water. It first began to twitch, and then kept rolling in the water. The synapses whipped the wall of the plastic bottle again and again, as if trying to tear the bottle open and escape from it.

At the front end of the synapse, there are extremely sharp saw teeth - obviously, it used this thing to pierce the bones and diaphragm of the skeleton and drill into the cranial cavity... Logically speaking, the thin plastic bottle can't stand such a toss, but no matter how hard the parasite's synapses try, it can only create white marks on the inner wall of the plastic bottle, and can't cut this seemingly soft but actually tough bottle.

This is not because the bottle is so magical, but Sun Hang has attached a thin layer of liquid metal coating on the outside of the bottle that is almost transparent. The parasite's synapses can cut through plastic, but they cannot cut through the metal film that is close to the plastic.

"This guy seems to be a little restless." Zhu Long came over and took a look at the parasite in the bottle and said.

"Then let it be a little more peaceful." Sun Hang bit his tongue lightly and spit a small drop of blood into the bottle.

This drop of blood instantly spread in the water, and the parasite that came into contact with the blood seemed to be paralyzed and stopped moving all of a sudden.

Sun Hang screwed the bottle cap, sealed it with a metal coating, and then threw the bottle into the car.

"What are you going to do with it?" Zhu Long asked curiously.

"I don't know, I just think it might be useful to keep it." Sun Hang shook his head and returned to the driver's seat.

"The drone sent the picture back." Yang Qi's face was very ugly. "Similar to Liangshuigou, Qiujiawan did not find any traces of villagers' activities... The whole village was dead silent."

"What should I say? Should we continue to Liangshuigou, or should we go to Qiujiawan first?" Zhulong asked.

"Qiujiawan." Sun Hang turned the steering wheel all the way, and the car turned 180 degrees and turned back to the direction it came from.

…

Compared with most closed Qiang villages, Qiujiawan is a relatively open type. Not long after Sun Hang and the others entered the side road, they saw a large billboard standing on the roadside with eye-catching words. The words "Farmhouse with Qiang Characteristics" are written in orange fonts, and underneath are photos of beautiful Qiang girls in national costumes.

The girl held a finely crafted porcelain plate in her hand, which seemed to contain dishes such as fried bacon.

"Aren't the villagers of Qiujiawan willing to leave the village and seek refuge in the city?" Sun Hang asked while driving, "It seems like they don't look like a backward and isolated Qiang village. "

"I checked, and indeed, as you said, Qiujiawan is an outlier among these Qiang villages." Yang Qi's voice came from the back seat, "But the reason why they are unwilling to leave is not because of the ancestral precepts. …”

"What's that for?"

"Because of the vigorous development of tourism and farmhouse projects, Qiujiawan is one of the richest villages in this mountainous area. Many villagers have built small villas in the village, as well as various restaurants, farms and restaurants used to attract tourists. Retro Qiang Village...”

"Don't tell me that they are unwilling to leave because they are reluctant to part with these real estate properties." Sun Hang immediately guessed the answer in his heart.

"Although the Lizhou City Public Security Bureau's action file didn't say it clearly... but that's pretty much what it means." Yang Qi nodded.

"People die for money." Sun Hang couldn't help but sigh.

He thought of the uncle driver from the Tianfucheng Research Institute...

Eternal night envelopes the entire Shuzhou, but there are very few people who want to escape from this place...

The reason is also very simple. Their families, houses, jobs, and careers are all rooted in this land. If they go to other places, they can only become refugees with nothing... What's more, with the current situation in Shuzhou, if you want to It is extremely difficult to sell real estate, and it is too difficult to start a new life in another city with only the little savings on hand.

The federal government will only provide the most basic survival guarantees to the refugees, but apart from that, there is nothing else... For the people of Shuzhou, leaving Shuzhou means that they will never return to the life they once had. , their efforts in the first half of their lives will be in vain...

And if you stay, you might be able to see the day when the sun rises again.

With a slight sound of brakes, the car stopped.

Sun Hang got out of the car and glanced at the five-meter-high stone next to him. The stone was engraved with the six characters "Welcome to Qiujiawan" and the palm-wide groove was filled with bright red paint... ...This tone was originally quite festive, but in this dark and silent atmosphere, the big blood-red characters illuminated by the car lights suddenly became a little scary.

Especially in conjunction with the few shabby red lanterns hanging at the entrance to the village, Sun Hang suddenly felt that if a pair of exquisite embroidered shoes were placed in the middle of the road, it would be perfect.

"Have any fluctuations in the strange creature meme been detected?" Sun Hang asked.

"No." Yang Qi shook her head, "I have maximized the search range and power, but still haven't found anything."

"Absolutely, I can't smell anything." Sun Hang patted the hood, "You stay in the car for now, and I'll go into the village to take a look."

"Try not to enter the room and stay out of the drone's surveillance range." Yang Qi instructed, "If there is an emergency, send the predetermined code and we will immediately enter the village to support you."

"clear."

Sun Hang snapped his fingers, and liquid metal immediately flowed out of his sleeves, condensing into a dozen sharp flying blades, floating around him, and then slowly walked into the village.

There are two farmhouse hotels at the entrance of the village. From the cars parked in front of the hotels, it can be seen that the affluence and living conditions of Qiujiawan are indeed unmatched by other Qiang villages.

Sun Hang pushed open the courtyard door of the farmhouse on the left - the space inside the courtyard was very large, with a heavy stone mill in the corner, two motorcycles leaning against the wall, and a few small benches scattered around the courtyard. ...The yard was full of traces of human life, but Sun Hang couldn't see any living person.

Oh, correct me, dead people can’t see it either.

Sun Hang walked to the door of the room and was about to open the door when Yang Qi's reminder came from the earphones: "Don't leave the drone's field of view, be careful!"

"Okay." Sun Hang took half a step back, opened the door instead of knocking on the door, and asked loudly, "Is anyone home? I'm from the Lizhou City Public Security Bureau, making a routine visit."

No one answered.

"Yang Qi, military drones should have the function of scanning heat sources, right?" Sun Hang said to the headset, "Scan this house to see if there are any living things inside."

"Yes, it does, but this function consumes a lot of power... If you have to scan every house, the drone will probably have to return soon."

"Sweep this building first," Sun Hang said. "If there is no one in this building, the other houses will probably be the same."

"OK... scanning is in progress." Yang Qi said softly, "The results are out, as expected, no heat source was found in the house."

Sun Hang did not stay at the door for long, but walked to the window beside him and stood on tiptoe to look inside.

Through the glass with purple sunscreen film, Sun Hang could vaguely see a few faces behind the window looking at him.

That was not a human face, or rather, not a normal human face.

The proportions of their facial features were extremely exaggerated, like gods, like ghosts, but not like humans.

Sun Hang was not panicked, because he did not feel any breath of life or any threat on these faces.

The metal blade cut the glass window silently and removed the entire piece of glass. Only then did Sun Hang see clearly that the strange faces behind the windows were actually Nuo opera masks displayed on the shelves...

Nuo opera performance is also one of the entertainment activities provided by Qiujiawan Farmhouse. Sun Hang remembered that he had seen it on the price list at the door. The fee is quite expensive. The ticket price is 240 yuan per person, and children are half price. Moreover, there must be more than 20 people before the performance will start.

"City people are really full and idle." Sun Hang took another look at these Nuo opera masks with the uncanny valley effect. "I'm afraid that children will wet their beds at night after seeing this thing."

"What did you see?" Yang Qi couldn't help asking, "Why did you stay in front of the window for so long?"

The drone's field of view is almost vertical, so Yang Qi can only see Sun Hang standing in front of the window and cutting the glass with the metal blade, but can't see what's inside the window.

"Here, let me show you."

Sun Hang took a few photos of the Nuo opera mask and sent them over.

"What?" Yang Qi's voice in the headset suddenly sounded a little strange, "There's nothing here?"

"Nothing?" Sun Hang was stunned and quickly turned out the photos he had just taken.

The photos only showed empty display racks, without those weird and creepy Nuo opera masks.

Sun Hang raised his head suddenly, and the masks were still hanging on the racks, staring at him with a smile or angry eyes.

Sun Hang slowly took two steps back.

"What's wrong?" Yang Qi's tone was a little anxious, "What did you see?"

"Damn, there's something dirty." Sun Hang said.