Trickster Hunter

Chapter 212 "Thief"

"Sun Hang!! What happened?!" Yang Qi shouted eagerly, "What dirty thing?!"

"Just behind this window, there are several Nuo opera masks hanging on those shelves." Sun Hang said while slowly stepping back, "I can see them, but in the photos I took with my mobile phone, They don't exist at all."

"Can't be recorded by camera equipment?!" Yang Qi took a breath, "Chimera No. 17 also has this characteristic. Could this be..."

"But I can't feel their breath." Sun Hang said, "In my perception, they are just ordinary masks."

"Don't act rashly! Exit first!" Yang Qi said, "We will rush over immediately!"

"I'm thinking about a question." Sun Hang suddenly said.

"What's the problem?"

"Tell me, if I set this house on fire, can anything interesting be burned out?" Sun Hang asked.

"We don't need to take that risk!" Yang Qiyu said quickly, as if she was afraid that she would be too late, so Sun Hang took direct action. "Although Chimera No. 17 was severely damaged, its ability is too weird. It is not recommended to fight it without being completely prepared.”

"But these masks don't seem to be moving. Why do I feel that the other party is playing an empty city trick with me?" Sun Hang said, but he still slowly retreated towards the courtyard gate.

He could vaguely feel something amiss in his subconscious, but he couldn't be sure whether it came from these weird masks that couldn't be captured by the camera, or something else.

But just when Sun Hang was still a few steps away from the courtyard door, the courtyard door closed automatically with a "squeak" without wind.

Sun Hang even heard the sound of the gear inside the door lock turning and the lock tongue biting.

"No, buddy..." Sun Hang was speechless, "Can't there be something new for such a clichéd horror movie plot?"

"Sun Hang? What's going on? Why did I see the courtyard door closed? Did you close it?" Yang Qi's voice rang in the headphones.

"No, it closed by itself." Sun Hang replied, "And it's also locked."

"Did the monster do it? Then leave this courtyard quickly! You can probably climb over the courtyard wall, right?"

"It doesn't feel necessary." Sun Hang shook his head, "Since it insists on me staying, I might as well just do as the guest does."

After Sun Hang said this, he squatted down and put his hands on the ground.

Countless mycelium protruded from his palm, penetrated into the ground, and quickly approached the main house - these hyphae penetrated directly from under the wall, broke through the indoor floor, and shot at the hanging objects on the brackets. Nuo opera mask!

The front end of each mycelium is wrapped with a metal flying blade. With the mycelium as a medium, Sun Hang can control these flying blades more easily, as if they are all extensions of his own limbs - in some extreme situations Under the circumstances, the advantages of line control are indeed irreplaceable by wireless remote control.

A flying blade cut a Nuo opera mask painted in ocher red in half from bottom to top, and thick plasma suddenly spurted out from where the mask was cut!

The plasma sprayed out more and more, as if there was a different-dimensional space inside the mask... Soon, the room used to display Nuo opera masks turned into a blood pool... As the blood pool level rose , the blood began to overflow the window sill and flow into the yard.

Sun Hang finally smelled a breath of something strange... Unfortunately, this breath was weak and fragmented, just like the meme fragments in the Qiang corpse.

The plasma gradually covered the instep of Sun Hang's feet, and the mucous liquid seeped in along the gaps between his shoes and socks. This made Sun Hang feel a little uncomfortable. He simply kicked off his shoes and tore them off, which were already soaked in plasma. The heavy socks stepped directly into the blood pool with bare feet.

"Sun Hang, what happened again?" Yang Qi's voice not only rang in the earphones, but also outside the courtyard - she, Zhulong, and Zhong Ling had already run to the entrance of the courtyard, and there was only one door between them and Sun Hang. The courtyard wall is more than two meters high. "What is that flowing out of the window? Is it blood?"

"Maybe." Sun Hang replied, "Judging from the smell and texture, it should be the plasma of some kind of creature. However, its temperature is very low. I feel like I am stepping in ice water... If it is If it’s plasma, it should have solidified long ago, right?”

"Bang!" A loud sound came from the door of the courtyard, and a large dent appeared on the door made of welded steel plates - Zhong Ling controlled a powerful corpse that was hitting the door, while several others The corpse has climbed up the courtyard wall, looking down at the situation in the courtyard.

"Where are those masks?"

"I chopped him to pieces, and the plasma flowed out from inside the mask." Sun Hang said, "I have to say, the amount of bleeding was really huge."

"Besides the mask, plasma and the automatically locked courtyard door, are there any other abnormalities?" Yang Qi asked again.

"I haven't found it yet." Sun Hang shook his head to himself and walked back and forth in the yard twice with the blood that had reached his calf. "I can only perceive some fragmented meme fragments... Hmm ? It seems like things are starting to change..."

"What changes?"

"The meme fragments carried in these plasmas seem to be merging into the ground and walls... They are beginning to combine and reorganize... The aura is also getting stronger..." Sun Hang closed his eyes and used the ability of Taotie to sense the changes around him, "Wow, is this the change in quantity leading to a qualitative change... A large number of meme fragments can actually be combined into a complete meme segment..."

In just a few seconds, a brand new weirdo was born in front of Sun Hang.

"Sun Hang! The equipment has responded! This yard has been completely weirded and turned into a G-type weirdo!" Yang Qi shouted outside, "Get out of it!"

"..."Sun Hang once again stood in front of the door, then kicked the door of the house with his bare feet.

If the previous meme fragments were equivalent to the offal and scraps of cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and ducks, then now they are equivalent to being reprocessed by some black-hearted factories and reappearing in the world as "synthetic meat"...On the Internet, this kind of thing is generally called "technology and hard work" by netizens.

"Sun Hang! Why haven't you come out yet?!" Yang Qi's voice became more and more anxious, and the frequency of the strange skeleton hitting the door began to increase.

The courtyard door had been severely deformed, but in this case, the metal material showed unexpected ductility - not only was the courtyard door not broken, but it was still tightly connected to the ground and the courtyard walls on both sides, so that the plasma in the courtyard, which had almost reached the height of people's knees, did not leak out of the courtyard at all.

This courtyard wall completely separated the inside and outside of the courtyard... Sun Hang was a little curious. If these plasma rose to the same height as the top of the courtyard wall, would they overflow the courtyard wall and flow out of the courtyard?

It's a pity that I probably won't give it such a chance.

Sun Hang had already sensed the "core" of this new Geng-type monster. He walked straight forward, and the Tai Sui mycelium and metal flying blades helped him clear all obstacles on the way - all the tables, chairs, and screens were torn to pieces, and even the wall at the end of the hallway was smashed open by the mycelium twisted into a sledgehammer.

Sun Hang finally saw the first villager since entering the village... or rather, the remains of the villagers.

A woman wearing traditional Qiang costumes sat on a chair, her head lowered, with a green-faced and fanged Nuo opera mask on her face, and her long black hair hanging down, soaked in the blood plasma that reached above her knees.

Her arms were stretched out to both sides, and there was a cut on the inside of her arm that extended from the armpit to the palm. The skin around the cut was turned outward, and the blood vessels underneath were picked out one by one...

These blood vessels were obviously mutated... They were like wildly growing vines, connecting the corpse to the blood pool.

All this blood plasma seemed to flow out of the body.

"Tsk... so much blood, if it was normal human plasma... those blood stations in Tianfu City would be jealous, right?" Sun Hang complained in a low voice.

The successive disasters after entering the Eternal Night have caused the supply of blood products in Tianfu City to be very tight. In the West City District alone, which was affected by the Longyanlei incident, there are tens of thousands of injured people who need blood transfusions... Although the Xiazhou Federation has urgently mobilized blood products from various city-states to Tianfu City, this little assistance can only be said to be a drop in the bucket for the huge blood shortage in Tianfu City.

Before Sun Hang set off for Chunming City, Yang Qi, Yang Lian, Ye Xuan, Ye Jiu and others had been dragged to donate blood... If Sun Hang was not an infected person, he would probably have been "forced to voluntarily" donate blood.

"What a waste." Sun Hang walked in front of the corpse.

A few hyphae slowly climbed up along the back of the chair and lifted up the drooping head of the corpse.

Sun Hang wanted to take off the Nuo opera mask on the corpse's face, but after trying several times, he found that the mask seemed to grow on its face and could not be taken off at all... With a little more force, blood plasma continued to drip out from the gap of the mask... Sun Hang estimated that if he really used brute force to tear it off, the face of the corpse would probably be torn off along with it.

The speed of "bleeding" seemed to have slowed down a lot. According to the initial rising speed, the blood plasma should have reached Sun Hang's waist, but now nearly half a minute has passed, and the liquid level is still about one centimeter above the knee.

"Is the blood finally drained out?"

Sun Hang heard a noise coming from behind him. He did not look back. Two eyeballs growing at the end of the hyphae passed over his shoulders and "saw" the situation behind him clearly - two strange skeletons trudged through the blood plasma and walked into the room.

The two skeletons were wearing the "combat uniforms" specially made by Tianshu Tower - this "combat uniform" is both their protective gear and their restraints. One of the skeletons has the number "002" printed on its shoulder, and the other has the number "013".

"He's fine." Zhong Ling's voice was faintly heard in the headset, and Yang Qi exhaled a sigh of relief.

"Sun Hang, what's the situation over there now?" Yang Qi spoke again, "If you don't respond, we will force our way in."

"I found the core of this Geng-type weirdo." Sun Hang said, "The place with the highest density of memes."

As Sun Hang said this, he took out his mobile phone - but this time before shooting, he previewed the picture captured by the camera.

There was only one chair soaked in plasma in the room, and the chair was empty.

"There is a chair in the room, and sitting on the chair is the body of a female villager. She has a mask on her face... or to be precise, the mask is on her face." Sun Hang said, "I tried to take it off He tried to remove her mask, but unfortunately failed... Like the masks in the showroom just now, the body could not be captured by the cellphone camera."

"I know... Zhong Ling told me," Yang Qi said, "Her corpse can see this body."

Sun Hang turned his head and glanced at the "left and right guardians" standing behind him, and complained: "I didn't expect them to be better than my mobile phone camera."

"This ability to be invisible in front of electronic devices, coupled with the parasite in the skull of the Qiang villager... basically it can be determined that this series of events was caused by Chimera No. 17." Yang Qi said, "The tunnel dug by Chimera No. 17 when escaping was broken after extending for three kilometers... I didn't expect it to run into this mountain. I don't know what its purpose was. …”

"Recuperate, hunt, and recuperate." Sun Hang said, "It's nothing more than these..."

However, what Sun Hang was more concerned about was not Chimera No. 17 who escaped to the mountains, but Anna Demoshena who appeared in his dream last night... and the relationship between the two.

But just when Sun Hang thought of Anna, the body sitting on the chair suddenly moved, and a voice that only Sun Hang could hear sounded in his ears.

"Mom...are you looking for me?"

"Are you here?" Sun Hang took a deep breath, put back all the scattered metal blades and hyphae, and at the same time said into the headset: "Zhong Ling, take back your skeletal remains first."

The two corpses didn't stay too long and quickly left the room.

On the contrary, Yang Qi kept asking questions on the communication channel... But fortunately, Zhulong caught her in time, otherwise, she would have probably climbed over the courtyard wall and rushed in by now.

"No, I'm not here." Anna's voice seemed to be close to her ears, but also seemed to be far away. "I have been here, and what you have come into contact with is just a trace of my thoughts left here."

"The purpose of your coming here is to kill these villagers?" Sun Hang asked, "Or, in other words, have you given them 'eternal life'?"

He didn't dare to ask the question too directly for fear of attracting the attention of the three apes.

"No, it's not me," Anna replied. "I'm tracking a thief, a notorious thief."