Trickster Hunter

Chapter 242 Negative Image

"I have a hunch." Yang Lian looked at Sun Hang and said, "If you keep acting like this, you will make trouble sooner or later."

"Hey, what you said..." Sun Hang glanced at the ruins not far away, "The world of human civilization is now full of big and small fools. If you do nothing because you are afraid of causing bigger troubles, If so, what’s the difference between sitting there and waiting for death?”

"You guy, why are you talking about big principles now?" Ye Jiu praised him from the side, "Look at Comrade Yang Lian who wants to refute but can't hold back the words... Haha Haha, I was laughing so hard.”

During Sun Hang's absence, Ye Jiu was often criticized by Yang Lian's sharp words - although based on his position, Ye Jiu could still be regarded as half of her boss, but Yang Lian was so rude. Don't care about this.

No wonder she had been doing errands for so many years before meeting Sun Hang, but she never got a chance to be promoted.

"You keep laughing, I'm going to work." Yang Lian rolled his eyes at Ye Jiu and left with a stack of files.

"Ling Xiao!" Sun Hang waved to the boy standing aside in a daze, "The place where you met that woman should not be far from here, right?"

"Right next to the resettlement camp." Ling Xiao replied.

"Take me over there and have a look."

…

The ruins are right next to the No. 6 refugee resettlement camp. Ling Xiao once lived here. A family of six people crowded into a low-rent house of less than 50 square meters... They were not the worst in this community. Right next door to them, the family had a total of eleven people including the elderly and children. The room was as crowded as a sardine can, and even a folding bed had to be placed on the three-square-meter balcony to ease the room. pressure.

For them, the conditions in the refugee resettlement camp are actually not much worse than the original living conditions... At least in the resettlement camp, everyone can be assigned a clean sleeping bag, and the space in the tent is much better than the cramped and moldy cubicles before. The room should be spacious.

Sun Hang and Ling Xiao were walking among the ruins. Although he had never been to this place, many things here gave him a feeling of déjà vu because of reading Ling Xiao's memory.

This location used to be a half-collapsed dangerous building. Most of the residents have moved out. At least a few people who cannot afford to move are still living in it. There are many homeless people on the floor in the corridor, and those dirty There were holes everywhere on the bedding, and along these holes you could see the yellow-brown cotton inside.

This is the activity area in the community. However, the sports equipment has long been in disrepair. Many of the equipment even have only a bare base. There are several meters of hemp rope pulled between the horizontal and parallel bars. This is There was a clothes drying rack shared by residents in the community. Ling Xiao's mother often had quarrels with the housewives downstairs over the right to use the clothes drying rack.

Go forward another fifteen meters and turn right. The ruins are Ling Xiao's former "home" - it's not entirely accurate to say it is a "home" because the house is rented and the rent has been in arrears for two months. , if Ling Xiao's parents still cannot pay the rent at the end of this month, the landlord will kick them out of here.

Thanks to Longyan Barrier, they no longer need to worry about this problem at all.

The living conditions of Ling Xiao's family were not bad, and they lived closer to the center of Tianfu City. However, because his father was addicted to stock trading and believed in the guidance of some mysterious gods on the Internet, he not only lost half of his life savings. , even the house and car were all mortgaged.

In Ling Xiao's memory, his father didn't look like a stock investor at all, but more like a gambler who lost his mind.

Ling Xiao's mother, on the other hand, picked up a gold ring on the way back from burning incense in a temple, and she became an extremely devout believer from then on. She even went to the temple to borrow money from relatives and friends. Please bring back the "illuminated" statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Although the mother never told the children how much the statue cost, during a quarrel between his parents, he heard his father roaring and asking his mother, "Why did you spend eighty-eight thousand and eight thousand to buy this thing? It's not as good as the money!" Let me buy the two stocks I was optimistic about before! If I had money at that time, I would have made a lot of money now!"

Ling Xiao didn't know why a 20-centimeter-tall bronze statue was so expensive, but his mother valued this thing more than her own life... And what left Sun Hang most speechless was that Ling Xiao's father was being dragged by his wife. After worshiping the Bodhisattva once, the stocks he held increased unexpectedly the next day, which caused a 180-degree change in his attitude. He worshiped the Bodhisattva every day even more diligently than his wife.

Although this kind of thing never happened again, the couple did not think it was a problem with the Bodhisattva. Instead, they thought it was because they were not pious enough, or the children at home were not pious enough.

At this time, Ling Xiao, who was least concerned about worshiping the Bodhisattva, naturally became the couple's outlet... For this reason, he had been beaten and scolded since he was a child.

Sun Hang could suddenly understand why Ling Xiao had an inexplicable hatred for gods and Buddhas.

The two continued to walk forward for a certain distance. This time, Sun Hang knew that they had arrived without Ling Xiao taking the initiative to speak.

In front of me is a nearly ten-meter-high ruins. The pile of ruins is in an irregular cone shape - this was piled up after the department responsible for rescue and disaster relief used bulldozers to flatten the entire building's remains in order to prevent the ruins from collapsing again. , from a distance, it looks like a mini pyramid.

In Ling Xiao's memory, the woman with the bright white moonlight was sitting so gracefully on the top of the ruins - there was no moon in the sky shrouded by eternal night, but the moment Ling Xiao saw her, she Just like the moon of this world.

"It makes heaven and earth eclipse." This sentence can't be more appropriate to describe it.

"I do have a feeling." Sun Hang nodded silently.

Fortunately, Ling Xiao himself doesn't like things like gods. If it were any other boy who had just entered puberty, he would be obsessed with this guy...

On the Internet, men often call the women they admire as "goddess", but if they see this scene, they will definitely think that there is and can only be one individual referred to by the word goddess... That was Anna sitting on the top of the ruins, overlooking all living beings.

Sun Hang walked up the slope of the ruins, stood where Anna once sat, and looked around.

He didn't find any breath belonging to Anna, not even the breath of other strange things.

It's very clean.

"Could it be that... what appeared in front of Ling Xiao was just a projection?" Sun Hang murmured in his heart, "But if it was just a projection, how could she swallow up Ling Xiao's emotions? If only one projection could If you achieve this level, it would be a bit unbelievable..."

Sun Hang turned around, looked down at Ling Xiao who was standing under the ruins, and asked: "Then do you think I am like a god?"

Ling Xiao shook his head.

The next second, a circle of faint blue flames ignited on Sun Hang's body. The flickering tongue of flames licked the debris at his feet. The entangled steel bars quickly turned into molten iron and seeped into the gaps in the ruins. The broken The concrete blocks cracked one after another and turned into gray-white powder.

"What now?"

"It still doesn't look like..." Ling Xiao thought for a few seconds, and then said, "It doesn't look like the kind of aloof god, but rather like the kind of demon crawling out of hell."

"Huh?" Sun Hang put away the flames and jumped down from the top of the ruins, "Why do you think so?"

"I don't know, it's just a feeling."

"Devils are not bad either. Demons are inherently hostile to gods." Sun Hang said, "Since you think gods are not a good thing, then we should be on the same front, don't you think?"

"Can I gain such an ability?" Ling Xiao looked at Sun Hang and asked calmly.

"Then you have to become an infected person. You just heard that flat-chested elder sister say that doing this is against the rules." Sun Hang said, "But I have a way to make you behave like an ordinary person. Identity, the ability to obtain magic objects.”

"What can I do?"

"Have you ever heard of trick equipment and qualified people?" Sun Hang asked.

Ling Xiao shook his head.

"The guy named Ye Jiu just now, the armor he wore, the wolf's fang and the long knife carried behind his back, are his trick equipment." Sun Hang said, "The essence of the trick equipment is "Tricks are just tricks that can be manipulated by humans, and those who have the ability to control them are called qualified."

"Can everyone become a qualified person?" Ling Xiao asked.

"If everyone could do it... the federal government would have launched a major counterattack long ago." Sun Hang said, "But I have a plan. If it succeeds, maybe it can be done... But this plan requires your cooperation. , I need you to trust me unconditionally and without reason.”

"I will cooperate." Ling Xiao nodded, "It doesn't matter even if I become an infected person."

"I told you it was against the rules." Sun Hang patted him on the shoulder, "You will be my first experimental subject... But you don't need to be nervous. This experiment does not require dissection, no need to drink medicine, and no need to even smoke. No blood is needed. As for what you need to do specifically, you will know when the time comes."

"A blood draw? Doesn't a physical examination require a blood draw?"

"A physical examination is a physical examination, and an experiment is an experiment. These are two different things." Sun Hang glanced at Ling Xiao helplessly. This guy was good at everything, but he was a bit stubborn. "Okay, let's go back. It's almost noon, and it's time to look for food. ”

"Foraging...are you going to catch people to eat?"

Ling Xiao's question directly confused Sun Hang. Although Sun Hang had indeed devoured other infected people, how could this little kid put the words "foraging" and "eating" in the same place? No.?

"Uh... do you have any misunderstanding about me?" Sun Hang scratched his head, "You can't think that I looked like a devil just now, and I am really a devil, right?"

"My classmates at school told me that in order to maintain their lives, infected people need to eat a living person every once in a while, otherwise their bodies will be quickly overwhelmed by the devious virus." Ling Xiao replied seriously, "My father and my mother occasionally talk about infected people eating people. Let us try to stay away from infected people - even if the infected person is a registered hunter with a legal license."

"Good guy, you are spreading rumors..." Sun Hang rubbed his brows helplessly, "The image of this monster hunter among the people is extremely negative... We have to find a way to reverse the status quo... "

"This is not a rumor, it is something that really happened in Tianfu City." Wang Xiyi suddenly flashed out from the side. She had taken off her heavy power exoskeleton and changed into a light sportswear.

There was a hole the size of a bowl on the back of her pants, and the scaly tail stretched out from the hole and swayed behind her.

"It really happened?" Sun Hang was stunned, "Didn't I say that I was the first human confirmed to be infected by Taotie?"

"That guy was not infected by Taotie, but a meme of a strange creature similar to a vampire. His code name is 'Dracula', and his physical characteristics, abilities and weaknesses are also similar to the vampires described in various legends, such as pale skin, fear of natural light, amazing strength and recovery ability, etc. At the same time, he also has to drink human blood regularly, otherwise his body will age rapidly..."

"There really is such a meme?" Sun Hang was a little surprised.

"He is also a registered hunter in Tianfu City. In order to meet his needs, the blood bank in Tianfu City will regularly provide him with blood pulp... But within three years of his employment, his 'appetite' gradually increased, and his taste became more and more picky. The blood bank in Tianfu City began to be unable to satisfy his appetite..."

"Then he began to hunt humans?"

"Yes, human blood has an unparalleled attraction to him, especially the blood of young and beautiful virgins... The situation at that time was somewhat similar to the previous Bloody Mary case, both of which involved young women disappearing... But this guy's ability to hide his whereabouts is much worse than those cultists, and he was caught by the investigation bureau in less than half a month."

"What happened later? How did this guy deal with it?"

"The task of arresting him was carried out by me. The order I received was to kill him on the spot if he was resisted." Wang Xiyi shrugged, "He naturally would not sit and wait for death, so I can only help the federal government save a sum of cremation fees."

"You are worthy of it." Sun Hang gave Wang Xiyi a thumbs up.

"This matter should have been kept strictly confidential. After all, it would have a very bad impact on both the federal government and the monster hunters... But there happened to be reformists among the investigators and sheriffs involved in the case. Although they all signed a confidentiality agreement, the matter still spread among the people, and the rumor that the infected people eat people spread. The research institute and the investigation bureau publicly refuted the rumor several times, but it was useless."