Trickster Hunter

Chapter 272 Metal Snake

"Uh, Lao Wang, how many hunters have you killed in total?" Ye Jiu swallowed and asked.

"Four...oh no, to be precise, there should be only three. One of them was chased too fast by me and finally chose to kill himself." Wang Xiyi recalled while driving, "That guy's ability is to touch the Everything turned into a bomb. When he was desperate, he turned himself into a super bomb and wanted to die with me. Unfortunately, it was just a little short. "

"Is it that much worse?" Ye Jiu was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, I lay in the ICU for a month and a half, and finally managed to survive with the powerful resilience given by the black dragon meme. As for that guy, I heard from Yang Qi that there seems to be no scum left."

"Hiss... Speaking of which, I also received the job of hunting down fallen hunters once." Ye Jiu said, "But just after I put on my equipment, I was notified from above that the mission was cancelled. From then on, I I have never received such a mission.”

"Are the number of fallen hunters... very rare?" Jiang Yu in the back seat couldn't help but interjected and asked.

She had just obtained the identity of a hunter not long ago, and everything in this new world seemed dangerous and unfamiliar to her.

"It's not that small... a lot of them pop up every year." Ye Jiu took off his mask and rubbed his itchy nose, "After all, not all memes have such high stability, no. Memes can subtly affect people's mentality and even completely distort a person's personality and preferences. "

"Why...I didn't feel this impact?" Jiang Yu asked again.

"Firstly, it may be that you have become an infected person for too short a time, and you haven't noticed it yet. Secondly, you are lucky. The meme that Sun Hang infected you happens to be one of those with extremely high stability. Type." Ye Jiu thought, "Well... I think it's most likely the latter. Song Yarong from the Tianfu City Monster Research Institute is also infected with the same meme, and she doesn't seem to be affected much."

"If... I mean if, if I am affected by memes in the future, how will the federal government deal with me?" Jiang Yu asked weakly.

"Handle it? Usually we don't." Ye Jiu shrugged, "Let alone hunters, look at the social workers working in the office building, just pull a few out for examination, they all have some psychological problems. This is normal. As long as they can still work, no one will care about the inner health of the cows and horses, or whether they have any dark thoughts, unless..."

"unless?"

"Unless you put those dark negative thoughts into actual actions and endanger public safety, the federal government will take 'harmless treatment' measures against you."

"Harmless treatment...what is it?" Jiang Yu's slender eyebrows twitched and asked cautiously.

"It's similar to... dumping garbage into an incinerator." Ye Jiu laughed, "Actually, it's the same as the death penalty, but it's a little more complicated to deal with infected people. If you accidentally cause a large-scale infection, it will be fun. But it’s big.”

"If... I become a fallen hunter in the future, will you deal with me?" Jiang Yu asked again.

"Us? It's probably not our turn." Ye Jiu said, "Only those tough problems are qualified for us to take action... The vast majority of fallen hunters can be solved by special forces composed of ordinary people."

"I'm a little scared..." Jiang Yu whispered.

"What are you afraid of?" Wang Xiyi asked.

"I'm afraid if I..."

"There is nothing to be afraid of." Wang Xiyi suddenly interrupted her, "Relax, you will probably die before you fall."

"Let me go...Old Wang, how can you be so comforting?" Ye Jiu couldn't help but complain.

"I didn't comfort her, I just told her the truth. As an adult, she has to learn to accept reality." Wang Xiyi said lightly, "Just like this operation, there will definitely be some among us... and it's possible It’s all that will remain in the occupied area forever.”

"Bah, bah, bah!" Ye Jiu said repeatedly, "Didn't your mother tell you not to say such unlucky words before going on a mission?"

"I don't have a mother." Wang Xiyi said indifferently. "As long as I can remember, I lived in a federal research institution, undergoing various experiments and training, until they sent me to be a hunter."

"Uh... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mention this..." Ye Jiu looked awkward and quickly put the mask back on.

"It's okay, I'm used to it." Wang Xiyi said, "I have never had the concept of family since I was a child, so even if someone scolds me that your mother is dead, I don't feel anything."

"What about now?" Ye Jiu asked again.

"Now?"

"Uh... I mean, Sun Hang."

"He...he gave me a very special feeling."

"Boy friend?"

"No..." Wang Xiyi shook her head, "There is something about him that makes me subconsciously want to get close. Yang Qi told me that it was because in order to save me, he absorbed my blood and the meme of the black dragon, making him There was a wonderful connection between me and him...but I always felt that it shouldn't be that simple."

"Is it possible that this feeling is called 'love'?" Ye Jiu joked, "Did you feel this way before he pulled away your mutant meme?"

"...I can't remember clearly." Wang Xiyi said, her cheeks were slightly red, but they returned to normal instantly.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this topic." Ye Jiu waved his hand, "Don't talk about it. You said that if you find Sun Hang and go back, you will marry him... That's much more powerful than those unlucky words just now."

"Hehe, you still believe this?" Wang Xiyi asked with a smile.

"This kind of thing is very metaphysical. Don't complain that I am superstitious. Anyway, it doesn't cost money, so I believe it a little, right?" Ye Jiu said.

"I just think you have watched too many cartoons and novels... Huh?" Before Wang Xiyi finished speaking, her right foot had stepped on the brake.

"All vehicles, stop moving!" Wang Xiyi turned on the intercom and said loudly.

About a hundred meters ahead of the vehicle, the road was blocked.

The vines that emerged from the ground were entangled with each other, just like a giant python, lying across the road.

The convoy stopped and everyone jumped out of the car one after another.

"We should have entered the occupied area now, right?" Zhulong came up, "We are already more than a kilometer away from the orange-red boundary marker."

"Yes." Wang Xiyi nodded, "Be alert."

"Captain!" A field operator ran over, "The vines blocking the road ahead have a memetic reaction! It should be a plant-based monster!"

"Plant-based... Type D monster." Zhulong murmured, "My ability is not very effective against this kind of monster, not to mention, I can feel that the cold aura emanating from the vines is very close to my attributes... I'm afraid it will be difficult for my attack to hurt him."

"This is a professional match!" Ye Jiu suddenly jumped to the front, holding the wolf tooth spear in his hand horizontally, and a red flame instantly ignited on the surface of the wolf tooth spear, wrapping the entire wolf tooth spear in it. "It's a plant-based monster with cold and yin properties. It's a tailor-made opponent for me! Don't compete with me for it!"

"No one will compete with you." Wang Xiyi crossed her arms, "If you want to attack, then move quickly and don't delay the journey."

"We will help you to hold the line and make a quick decision." Zhulong also said.

"Okay! Leave it to me!" Ye Jiu shouted, holding a wolf-tooth spear and rushed towards the vines blocking the road.

At this time, Zhong Ling walked silently to Wang Xiyi's side and gently touched the latter's arm with his fingers.

"What's wrong?" Wang Xiyi turned around and asked.

"Maybe we took the wrong road." Zhong Ling whispered, "Sun Hang also drove. Since this road is blocked, he should not have gone through here."

"But, there is only this road near the 198th outpost... Sun Hang can't drive over the mountain, right?" Wang Xiyi thought, "But what you said makes sense. There are no tire tracks along the way. Could it be that he didn't take this road?"

"He may have abandoned the car and walked." Zhulong said, "There are too many places where the car can be abandoned along the way. If we look for them all, it will take at least several months."

"Is there a satellite positioning on the car driven by Sun Hang?" Jiang Yu suddenly said.

"Yes, but satellite positioning is useless within the range of Eternal Night. Even the navigation system has to rely on multiple ground base stations for accurate positioning." Wang Xiyi shook her head. "The only reliable one at present is the military's high-power long-distance radio communication. Our bracelet relies on this network... However, as early as the day of the accident, the signal of Sun Hang's bracelet had disappeared." Just as Wang Xiyi and others were discussing whether they had taken the wrong road, Ye Jiu had already rushed to the front of the vines, and the flaming wolf fang spear fell heavily, directly hitting the most densely populated part of the vines. "Boom!!!" The flames exploded instantly, and large pieces of vines turned into ashes in an instant. "Cool!" Ye Jiu exclaimed, wielding the wolf fang spear vigorously, and after a few rounds of sweeping, he quickly cleared a gap on the road that was large enough for vehicles to pass through. "This guy... doesn't even have the ability to fight back?" Ye Jiu thought to himself, "Apart from being dozens of times thicker than ordinary vines, don't these vines have any special features?"

Suspicious as he was, Ye Jiu's actions did not slow down at all. In a blink of an eye, the vines on the road had been cleared.

"It's done!" The flame on the wolf's fang spear gradually extinguished. Ye Jiu exhaled a long breath, turned around and waved to the convoy, "Drive over!"

However, as soon as the voice fell, the ground suddenly began to shake slightly!

"Earthquake?" Ye Jiu was stunned, "No, it's not an earthquake... The vibration came from under my feet. Could it be from the roots of the vines? It won't realize that it has been attacked at this time? This reaction arc is too long, right?"

Just as Ye Jiu looked around, Wang Xiyi in the distance directly entered a highly dragonized state, and the huge dragon wings flapped and rushed directly into the air.

Not only Wang Xiyi, Zhulong also summoned those cold water flows to create an arc-shaped barrier in front of everyone.

The strange skeletons controlled by Zhong Ling all crawled out of the "coffin" fixed on the roof of the car and set up a battle formation.

"Is it that serious? Isn't it just a vine strange thing? Why make such a big fuss?" As soon as this thought came out of Ye Jiu's head, he felt a huge force coming from his body. The next second, his perspective had shifted to mid-air.

He flew up - with the weight of hundreds of kilograms of armor, he was still pulled up, and flew to a height of nearly 100 meters.

At this time, Ye Jiu saw clearly what attacked him.

It was a vine... No, it should be a giant snake, a metal giant snake made entirely of "industrial waste"!

It is not a living thing, but a thing made up of various metal objects, various rotten iron pieces of different sizes, metal blocks compacted by garbage disposal plants, twisted car shells and bicycle frames, plus a large number of rusty building steel bars and rails that seemed to have just been stripped from the railway - these things make up the body of the giant snake, they squeeze and rub against each other, emitting a sound that makes people's teeth sour. Every time the giant snake moves, a large number of metal objects will fall from its body, but these fallen objects often have not yet fallen to the ground, and will be attached to the giant snake's body again, becoming part of other parts.

The diameter of the giant snake is more than five meters, and as for the length - the part exposed above the ground alone is more than a hundred meters, and no one knows how long the part underground is.

The metal giant snake has no head, only a huge mouth that is close to the cross-section of the body. Metal objects on the edge of the mouth are falling into the mouth every minute, and metal objects in the trunk are constantly surging up - the whole body of the giant snake is dynamic, and a wonderful balance is formed in this dynamic.

"Bang!!"

Ye Jiu finally fell heavily to the ground. Thanks to the defensive ability of the killing, except for a little dizziness in the head, he did not suffer any substantial damage.

"Damn, what kind of monster is this?" He shook his head hard and sat up from the ground.

"You're lucky. That guy just blew you away instead of swallowing you." Zhulong pulled Ye Jiu up, "Otherwise, your armor would have become part of its body."

"... No way?" Ye Jiu stuck the wolf-tooth spear on the ground and looked up at the giant metal snake not far away, "What kind of monster is this? Animal? Or artifact?"

"I'm more inclined to believe it's a spirit (energy type). There seems to be a force similar to a magnetic field that brings these metal objects together." Zhulong said, "If I remember correctly, Sun Hang has the ability to control metal."

"But he can't control so many metal objects at once, right?"