Trickster Hunter

Chapter 266 "Hunger"

"No!" Li Junwen shouted immediately, "You can't send me back to that place! You must be threatening me!"

"Yes, I am threatening you." Wang Xiyi replied happily.

"It's useless... I am a valuable observation sample, Tianshu Tower will not allow you..."

Before Li Junwen finished speaking, Wang Xiyi interrupted him: "Tianshu Tower has been observing you for twenty years, and the little value left in you has long been squeezed out... If you still don't want to cooperate, you don't think Tianshu Tower will have the patience to continue to support a waste like you?"

"You... I..."

"Do you know how much taxpayers' money it takes to maintain the operation of this cell?" Wang Xiyi pressed on step by step.

"Hehe... Hehe... That... That's none of my business..." Li Junwen said fiercely, "Kill me! Otherwise, you should just kill me!"

"Wouldn't it be too easy for you to kill you?" Wang Xiyi raised her eyebrows.

She wanted to continue, but Yang Qi pulled her clothes.

"Mr. Li, I have read your file... Although you are a wanted criminal, you are not a wicked person. The first time you killed someone, it was because that person occupied your homestead, and also gathered a crowd to make trouble and injured your father. Later, you decided to close the supermarket that you had run for half a year, and gave all the remaining things in the warehouse to the elderly people who were in difficult circumstances nearby. After that, you decided to get rid of harm for the people... Although you were deceived in the process, your starting point was not bad..." Yang Qi said calmly.

"What do you want to say?" Li Junwen's originally excited emotions calmed down a little, and he stared at Yang Qi and asked.

"We just need you to do a small favor." Yang Qi said, "One of our colleagues is now trapped in the occupied area... Coincidentally, his location is very close to yours back then."

"Someone else went in?" Li Junwen's pupils shrank slightly.

"We want to save him, but we know nothing about the place." Yang Qi said, "So, we come to you for help."

Li Junwen was silent for a few seconds, then said: "Can I think for a while... I may need to recall it carefully."

"Okay."

Yang Qi pulled Wang Xiyi out of the room.

"You two can cooperate well." Ye Jiu waved at the two people who returned to the monitoring room. "One played the good cop and the other played the bad cop, and scared this guy."

"You may have misunderstood my idea." Wang Xiyi glanced at Ye Jiu and said coldly, "I really want to throw him into the occupied area."

"But if you do this, Tianshu Tower will definitely be the first to disagree." Yang Qi said, "Li Junwen has lived here for 20 years. Tianshu Tower must have tried all the ways to make him speak. It is for this reason that he showed that kind of fearless look at the beginning... because he knew that even if he didn't say anything, Tianshu Tower would save his life."

"Have you tried torture?" Wang Xiyi looked at the researcher who led the way, "Tianshu Tower is not a place that talks about human rights, right?"

The researcher smiled awkwardly and whispered, "It's useless."

Twenty minutes later

After Li Junwen finished "eating" again, he took the initiative to press the communication button, which had been pressed only a few times in the past 20 years.

"I've thought about it, you guys come in." Li Junwen said.

...

"Are you sure you really want to go to the occupied area?" Li Junwen stared at Wang Xiyi and Yang Qi seriously and asked.

"Sure." Yang Qi nodded, "That person is very important to us."

"Hunger." Li Junwen suddenly said.

"What did you say?"

"Hunger... The biggest enemy you have to face there is hunger." Li Junwen repeated.

"The estimated operation time is one month, and we will carry enough supplies to support more than three months. After entering the occupied area for one month, whether we find that person or not, we will return... If we can't get out of the occupied area in three months, I think the most serious problem at that time will not be the supply problem."

"No." Li Junwen shook his head.

"It has nothing to do with the amount of supplies..." He suddenly sighed, "Your enemy is hunger."

"As long as the supplies are sufficient, no one will be hungry. We are more worried about the battle that may break out after encountering strange things. We need you to give a detailed description of the situation in the occupied area... For example, environmental changes, geographical features, and the frequency of strange things..."

"Hungry! I mean hungry!!!" Li Junwen suddenly interrupted Yang Qi excitedly and growled, "Don't you want to know what's there? Then I tell you, it's hungry!! Hungry!!!!"

"Is he a little bit mentally abnormal?" In the monitoring room, Ye Jiu pointed at Li Junwen on the screen and asked.

"It shouldn't be... Logically speaking, he should be the most stable after eating." The researcher also frowned, "Could it be that you asked him to recall that experience and stimulated him..."

"Then can you describe it in detail?" Yang Qi asked patiently, "What kind of... hunger?"

"Hunger is hunger. Haven't you ever been hungry?" Li Junwen looked at Yang Qi as if he were an idiot.

"Then if we bring enough supplies..."

"It's useless." Li Junwen's originally tense body relaxed a little. He leaned back, and the layers of fat on his body drooped down and piled on the giant sofa that was bigger than the bed.

"It's useless to bring any supplies." Li Junwen sighed and repeated.

"Why?" Yang Qi asked.

"No reason..."

"You said 'hunger'." Wang Xiyi, who had been silent since entering this time, suddenly spoke up, "Is it a kind of weird thing?"

Li Junwen suddenly widened his eyes and stared at Wang Xiyi.

"Is it some kind of rule-based weirdo? As long as it is affected by it, no matter how much supplies you carry or how much you eat, you will always feel hungry." Wang Xiyi said, "That's what you mean, right?"

"I... I don't know." Li Junwen shook his head mechanically, "Don't ask me... Please don't ask! Don't ask..."

"Attention, Li Junwen's brain waves have been detected to have changed dramatically, and his emotions have fallen into an extremely unstable state. Please leave the room immediately!" The researcher's voice came from Yang Qi and Wang Xiyi's headphones.

At the same time, several researchers wearing full sets of protective clothing rushed in, tied up Li Junwen's limbs with restraints in a few seconds, and then pushed one sedative after another into his body.

"This amount of medicine... can even knock down an elephant, right?" Ye Jiu's mouth twitched twice-if these sedatives were injected into normal people, only one-tenth of the amount would be enough to make that person fall asleep forever.

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? ? ? Region, "Maoyun Town".

"So, how much are you going to pay for this bait?" Sun Hang asked, looking at the flickering firelight in the crack of the door.

"Seven cents... no, eight cents! This is the highest price I can offer." The shopkeeper said in a deep voice.

Eight cents?

Sun Hang was a little surprised by this price.

The excited performance of the townspeople just now, plus the "middle-aged woman" who sacrificed herself to snatch the right to buy... made Sun Hang have the illusion that this thing was hot, but now you tell me that it can only be sold for eight cents?

No...

Sun Hang suddenly realized a problem. He didn't know the purchasing power of the currency in this place.

In Tianfu City, the cheapest bottle of mineral water costs 1.5 yuan. As for those high-end chain coffee shops in the prosperous commercial district, it is not uncommon to see a simple cup of iced American coffee costing 40 or 50 yuan... But if we go back a few decades, a worker's monthly income is only a dozen yuan, which can almost buy most of the goods in the store. Only "big items" such as TVs, bicycles, and sewing machines will cost three digits.

"Boss, how much do you want for these things?" Sun Hang pointed to the "goods" placed on the dustpan and asked.

He had to find out the price level of "Maoyun Town" first before he could determine whether the price offered by the other party was reasonable.

And... the importance of "food" to the townspeople.

"Do you want to buy?" The owner's tone was a little strange.

"A little interested." Sun Hang nodded, "What are the prices of these things?"

"Money is used to buy precious food. No one will use money to buy these things." The owner said faintly.

This guy... is actually quite conscientious?

Sun Hang was stunned for a moment. If it were a profiteer who opened a shop in a popular tourist attraction, he would have raised the price at this time if he met a "greenhorn" like him who didn't understand the market. How could he be so honest to reveal such "important information" to him.

"Since they are worthless... how can I buy them?" Sun Hang asked.

"Exchange." The shopkeeper said, "You can exchange them with something."

It was still a barter transaction mode... As for currency, it was used to buy precious food...

This is a valuable piece of information, Sun Hang thought, but it was a pity that he still couldn't ask about the actual purchasing power of currency.

"If you think eight cents is too low, nine cents, you sell the bait to me, and I will give you nine cents!" The shopkeeper's tone was a little hurried, "It can't be higher, nine cents, give it to me!"

"I can sell it to you, but I have one more thing to ask." A crazy idea popped up in Sun Hang's mind.

"As long as you can sell it to me, you can ask any questions!"

"How much does it cost to kill all these people on the street now?"

The other party was silent for a few seconds, and then slowly said: "Two cents, you pay me two cents, I can help you kill them all."

Good guy!

Sun Hang was shocked. Is the "human life" in this place so cheap?

Or is the money here more valuable than gold?

If I take out the 50-cent bill, wouldn't I be able to massacre the whole town?

But it doesn't make sense...

If "human life" is so cheap...why is the price of food so high?

Assuming that you can't survive without eating, it doesn't make sense to use such expensive food to maintain such a poor life. If the society collapsed to this extent, "cannibalism" would have appeared long ago.

And if the townspeople of Maoyun Town can survive without eating...why would food be sold at such a high price?

High prices need market demand to support them. If there is no market to support a commodity, its price tag has no meaning.

You can't say that food and luxury goods are equal in this place, right?

"Then I'll grab a townsperson and chop him up, sprinkle some chopped green onions on it, pour hot oil on it, and spit it with a spatula. Wouldn't it be possible to turn a few cents into a huge sum of money?"

People will eat their own kind when they are hungry, let alone weird things?

"The bait is yours, and you give me another seven cents, and then kill them all." Sun Hang said coldly.

A skinny hand reached out from the darkness, grabbed the container containing the bait, and retracted it. A few seconds later, seven one-cent coins rolled out from the crack of the door and rolled to Sun Hang's feet.

Sun Hang picked up the coins and saw that these coins were the kind that the Xiazhou Federation had issued in the early years.

It's a pity that he didn't have the hobby of collecting old banknotes, otherwise, if he brought a stack of old banknotes of 100 yuan, wouldn't he have turned into a local rich man?

Money can make the devil work, and money can also make "guile" work.

"It's time to execute our deal." Sun Hang urged.

"It's over." The owner's voice sounded faintly.

Sun Hang turned his head and saw that the townspeople who had just surrounded him had fallen in the street in all directions, lifeless.

He used a mirror to look at these "corpses" on the ground - the mirror showed pools of degrading rotten meat, and disgusting pus and blood flowed into the gaps between the paving slabs and slowly seeped into the soil underneath.

But not all the "people" on the street were killed.

The two white and chubby little girls were still alive. Not only that, they were still playing by themselves, turning a blind eye to the "tragedy" happening under their noses.

"Are you sure you have completed the transaction?" Sun Hang turned his head and stared at the fire in the crack of the door and asked.

"Everyone on this street, except you, is dead." The owner said, "Doesn't this count as completed?"

"What about them?" Sun Hang pointed at the two little girls.

The fire in the crack of the door suddenly went out.

The owner's voice was no longer heard.

"Hello? Where are the people?" Sun Hang waited for a few seconds, but the owner did not respond. He stood up and found that the two little girls were standing behind him.

They stopped playing and dropped the rattles and kites in their hands on the ground.

They stared straight at the dark crack of the door with grim eyes.