Trickster Hunter

Chapter 262 Banknotes

Sun Hang once again picked up the container of rotten meat and held it in front of the rearview mirror.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that rotten meat didn't seem so disgusting... He even had a desire to taste it.

"I must be out of my mind."

Sun Hang sighed, put the container aside, took another bite of compressed biscuits, and forced himself to swallow it.

But just as Sun Hang swallowed the biscuit, he suddenly found that the "old woman" walking in front of him had disappeared.

The high beam was on, and the range of 100 meters in front of the car was within the field of vision. This wasteland was not only barren, but there was not even a big stone. There was no hiding place at all...

"Where did it go?"

Sun Hang couldn't help but think of some scenes in horror movies. He jumped out of the car and checked the car inside and out, even the bottom of the car and the trunk, but still didn't see the trace of the "old woman".

"This is really 'seeing a ghost'." Sun Hang concluded.

The banknotes are still there, and the "rice cakes" are still there, which at least shows that all this is not an illusion.

But why did the "person" who gave him these things disappear under his nose?

Sun Hang gripped the steering wheel with both hands and closed his eyes tightly.

He began to think about every detail of his contact with the "old woman" just now, every sentence and every word the other party said.

Sun Hang could not find any valuable clues...

The only thing the other party repeatedly mentioned seemed to be not to let himself "starve"...

In other words, in this place, "hunger" is a very serious problem?

"Isn't this a 'rule-based weirdo'?" Sun Hang muttered to himself, and forced himself to swallow a mouthful of unpalatable compressed biscuits.

The good news is that although compressed biscuits are difficult to swallow, they will still produce a sense of fullness when they really enter the stomach... Otherwise, Sun Hang might really eat the "rice cake" that was turned into rotten meat.

"That's not right... If 'hunger' is a dangerous thing, why would the other party share food with me?" A very outrageous thought popped up in Sun Hang's mind...

It can't be that the "old woman" is really his great-grandmother, right?

Sun Hang has no memory of the past, and he can't remember which relatives he has in this world...

Suppose this is really the occupied area of ​​Yunnan and Yunnan...

I was attacked in a small town near Tianfu City, but I am unfamiliar with Tianfu City... In other words, I am not a native of Shuzhou.

Then is there a possibility... that I am the descendant of refugees who fled to Shu when Yunnan and Yunnan fell?

Putting aside the strange memory of the nameless island, Sun Hang felt that his speculation was quite reasonable.

Not all refugees can escape to Shuzhou. A considerable number of people were left in the occupied area... And among these people who stayed, there might be my ancestors...

But... if the "old woman" is really my ancestor, why didn't she feel excited at all when she saw me?

Logically speaking, a long-lost reunion of relatives shouldn't be so dull, right?

Or is it that I just look like the younger generation of the "old woman", so she showed such kindness to a stranger like me?

"Damn... I won't become like that, will I?" Sun Hang was shocked.

He looked at himself in the mirror. Whether it was his facial features or his body, he was still a normal human being - but it was useless. When he was talking to the "old woman" face to face, the reflection of the other person in the mirror was also a human being. Only when the other person turned around, the mirror would reflect the "real appearance".

"I can't look at the mirror myself... I have to find another way."

Sun Hang thought about it, turned his head, took out his mobile phone, turned on the camera function and aimed it at the rearview mirror, and then closed his eyes.

He took a deep breath, eliminated all the distracting thoughts in his head, and then pressed the shooting button.

"Click."

Sun Hang slowly opened his eyes and looked at the mobile phone screen at the first time.

In the photo, the rearview mirror still reflects a human being, not a monster made of deformed pieces of meat.

Sun Hang breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he was not sure about the authenticity of the photo, under the current conditions, he could only do this at most.

It was better than seeing a monster reflected in the photo.

"It is not certain that the other party is kind..." Sun Hang looked at the "rice cake" in the container, "Maybe I will die after eating this thing, and then the other party will just turn back to collect my body... Then I will become the other party's food."

"No, it's still not right."

"The other party not only gave me food, but also gave me money... Wait! Money!"

Sun Hang was shocked and sat up straight.

He suddenly realized that there was a very important message hidden in it!

The other party gave him money and asked him to buy what he liked to eat... Does this mean that there is a place where this money can be used in this place? !

Sun Hang immediately thought of the "ghost market" that is a common feature in various supernatural works - but from the current world view, it would be more appropriate to call it "strange market".

Sun Hang imagined in his mind a group of weirdos gathering together and trading goods with old currencies from decades ago...

What would be traded between the weirdos?

Weirdos? Memes? Or something else?

"Can this kind of paper money that has long been discontinued in the human civilization world still serve as hard currency in the 'occupied area'?" Sun Hang raised the wrinkled paper money with some doubts and pointed it at the reading light on the roof of the car. The warm yellow light shone through the thin paper money, making the face value written in Chinese characters on the front of the paper money quite conspicuous.

Even middle school students know that paper money itself has no value and cannot serve as hard currency - the real hard currency is those things with actual value, such as precious metals such as gold and silver, or food and industrial raw materials. If placed in the world of weirdos, memes can barely be regarded as a kind of "hard currency"...

As for paper money, it is called currency, but it is actually closer to a "credit certificate".

In order for paper money to circulate, it first needs a country or political system with sufficient strength, wealth and credit.

Could it be that the monsters have established a "monster country" in the occupied area?

If this speculation spreads in the human world, it will probably shatter many people's three views.

"No... it should be impossible..."

"This paper currency should have limitations. It may only be a "prop" that can be used under certain conditions, not currency..."

Sun Hang remembered a case he had seen on the intranet of the institute.

He had just escaped from the monster office building at that time, and he became interested in environmental monsters, so he specifically looked for some similar cases.

The case described an amusement park that turned into a G-type monster. All the amusement facilities in the amusement park became "torture instruments" with a very high mortality rate - for example, the water in the water slide was replaced with gasoline. When the player slides down the slide, the slide including the pool at the end of the slide will be directly ignited; for example, a huge axe appeared above the pirate ship. Whenever the pirate ship swings to the highest point, the axe will sweep across and harvest all things that are higher than the side of the ship.

According to a surviving investigator, the axe was invisible when it was not moving, and the reason why he survived was simply because he was short enough...

In addition, there is a Ferris wheel whose cabin floor will disappear randomly, a haunted house that is really "weird", and a magic show that can "turn the dead into dead people"...

And if humans who stray into it want to leave alive, they must use two crucial props - tickets and game coins.

The ticket will automatically appear in the pocket of everyone who enters the weird amusement park. Every time you play an item, there will be an extra stamp on the ticket. You need to collect the stamps of all items to reach the exit of the amusement park...

But this is not the end...In addition to collecting stamps, players also need to collect enough game coins. The way to obtain game coins is also very simple. When playing various items, you can exchange them with the points you get. The higher the score, the more game coins you can get.

Players need to pay enough game coins to redeem their bodies in order to walk out of this amusement park intact...Otherwise, only scattered body parts will come out of the exit.

The game coins collected by playing all the projects are definitely not enough to redeem themselves. If you want to get out of the amusement park alive, you can only repeat those relatively dangerous projects... to "grind" the game coins.

Could it be that the banknote in his hand is the same as the tickets and game coins in the amusement park?

This wasteland is actually a super-large environmental monster?

Five minutes later, Sun Hang started the car.

He drove in the direction where the "old woman" came from.

He clearly remembered that when he saw the "old woman", there was a not very clear dirt road under her feet... But with the disappearance of the "old woman", even this dirt road could not be found.

It is definitely not a solution to continue staying where he is. Anyway, he originally planned to drive in that direction, so he might as well continue to drive there and see what is where the other party came from.

After driving straight for almost twenty minutes, Sun Hang finally saw something different in the wasteland.

A rusty road sign was abruptly inserted in the open space.

Sun Hang got out of the car and walked forward.

The paint on the front of the road sign had completely peeled off, and the characters originally printed on it could no longer be seen... But on the back of the road sign, there was an arrow engraved, and next to the arrow were a few crooked words engraved: "Linhai Road, 3KM ahead, Maoyun Town."

In the Xiazhou Federation, many cities have roads named "Linhai Road", so Sun Hang could not determine his position based on this name... But it must be said that in such a wasteland where not even a small puddle can be seen, the name of Linhai Road is really a bit ironic.

As for Maoyun Town, Sun Hang had never even heard of it.

He returned to the car, turned on the car's navigation device, and entered the place name "Maoyun Town" in offline mode.

"Seventeen results that meet the conditions have been searched." The navigation device made a sound, "Navigation is not available in offline mode, please reconnect to the GPS network or browse in map mode."

Sun Hang clicked "Map Mode".

Seventeen "Maoyun Towns" were marked on the map, but none of them were located in the Yunnan-Yunnan region.

Sun Hang realized where the problem was - the data in this navigation device was updated every day. After the Yunnan-Yunnan region was set as an occupied area, the relevant data would definitely be deleted... Otherwise, the navigation software would accidentally navigate people to the occupied area, which would be a lot of fun.

If you want detailed geographical information about the Yunnan-Yunnan region, you have to buy old maps from decades ago... This kind of thing is not difficult to get in Tianfu City, but for Sun Hang now, there is no way.

"I'm happy for nothing." Sun Hang curled his lips and stepped on the accelerator.

Since this road sign indicates the direction, I will go to this "Maoyun Town" to take a look... Even if that place is a trap, it is better than wandering around in the wilderness like a headless fly.

Although I have lost my ability... But for some reason, after contacting the "old woman", my fear and fear of strange things have been weakened a lot...

Is it because the "old woman" is too kind and charitable?

But who could have imagined that such a kind and charitable old man was a deformed piece of flesh that could barely be distinguished as a human in the mirror?

Sun Hang hummed the theme song of "Ultraman Tiga" from time to time, and carefully adjusted the direction of the car to ensure that he was driving as straight as possible...

Finally, dots of lights appeared in the distance, and under the reflection of these lights, the outline of a low building could be vaguely seen.

Sun Hang immediately turned off all the lights.

With these lights as a guide, he drove slowly towards it.

However, in less than five minutes, Sun Hang's idea of ​​"quietly entering the village without shooting" was ruined.

A searchlight lit up without warning, covering Sun Hang's car and illuminating a nearby sentry tower.

This sentry tower had almost merged with the darkness before, and Sun Hang was completely unaware of its existence.

Under the watchtower, an old man with a dirty armband that could not be seen in its original color came over, knocked on the car window with the rubber baton in his hand, and asked stiffly: "Where are you from? Where are you going?"

"I... I'm going to the town to buy some food." Sun Hang thought for a moment and answered.

"Buy food? Do you have money?" the old man asked.

"Yes." Sun Hang took out the banknote.

"Buy food if you want to, don't steal or rob, then go openly... Why are you acting like a thief?" The old man's tone seemed to be full of dissatisfaction.

"Isn't this just to save some electricity?" Sun Hang made up an excuse.

He actually wanted to complain that the other party hiding in the dark was more like a thief, but based on the principle of less trouble, Sun Hang still suppressed the desire to complain.

The old man did not embarrass Sun Hang, but returned to the watchtower and turned off the searchlight after Sun Hang turned on the car lights.

Sun Hang noticed that after he returned to the sentry tower, he turned around, facing away from him, and remained motionless... He looked like a fashion model abandoned there.

Sun Hang did not say much, but drove forward a short distance carefully, then looked in his rearview mirror.