Trickster Hunter

Chapter 274 Nameplate

The long-disrepaired asphalt road was suddenly smashed into pieces, and the flying asphalt fragments and pebbles hit Ye Jiu's armor, making a crisp crackling sound.

The giant metal snake also noticed Ye Jiu's movements. It was about to bend down and swallow Ye Jiu, but Wang Xiyi obviously didn't agree - her whole body turned into a drill bit wrapped in flames, and she shot directly from the giant snake's neck. It stabbed in, and then penetrated out from the other side!

A piercing scream erupted from the giant metal snake's throat - it was said to be a scream, but it was actually closer to the loud noise made by countless irregular metal objects violently rubbing against each other. Even the candle dragon standing in the distance subconsciously covered it. his ears.

"It works!" Wang Xiyi did a somersault in the air, then turned back. A giant palm made of flames and a big bag hit the giant snake's head, "It seems to be very afraid of your behavior! Risky! I will stop you even if you risk exposing your flaws!"

"That's right!" Ye Jiu perked up and knocked down the wolf fang in his hand again!

The cracked road surface extended for nearly a hundred meters, and the part of the giant snake hidden underground was also exposed to Ye Jiu's eyes. Ye Jiu dragged the wolf fangs and ran forward along the edge of the crack.

Soon, Ye Jiu felt a place with a very strong memetic atmosphere.

"Found it! Seven inches! I found the 'seven inches' of this snake!" Ye Jiu shouted ecstatically.

"Then kill it!" Wang Xiyi shouted. At the same time, she turned into a blazing fireball again and crashed into the mouth of the giant metal snake!

The crimson molten iron flowed in the body of the giant snake, and there was only a loud noise. The rolling fireball flew out from the middle of the giant snake's body, bringing out a large area of ​​bright and dazzling molten iron!

"Here! Master! Die!" Ye Jiu shouted loudly, the wolf fang in his hand emitted a dazzling fire, and he smashed it hard towards that position!

"boom!!!"

A deafening loud noise swept through the entire valley. The body of the giant metal snake froze for a moment. After a few seconds, it turned into a burst of iron rain and fell from the sky.

Countless metal objects fell on the road, making crisp collision sounds one after another.

"Am I awesome or not?" Ye Jiu raised the wolf fang high above his head and asked loudly in the communication channel.

"Awesome." Zhulong agreed with a smile, while on the other side, Wang Xiyi had folded her wings and fell from the sky.

The "seven inches" of the giant metal snake had been smashed to pieces by Ye Jiu's fangs, but in this mess, Wang Xiyi vaguely felt a familiar aura.

"How about it? Isn't that young master's face so handsome... eh? Why do you have such a weird expression, Lao Wang? Shouldn't you be happy after killing such a powerful monster?" Ye Jiu turned his head and happened to see it. Wang Xiyi walked over with a frown.

Wang Xiyi ignored him and jumped directly into the crack.

Hard dragon scales instantly covered her hands and arms. She squatted down and dug through the pile of scrap metal.

After a while, Wang Xiyi found something that exuded a faint fluorescent light from the pile of scrap metal.

"What is this? The core of this weird thing?" Ye Jiu was slightly startled, "By the way, isn't this thing completely dead?"

"See for yourself." Wang Xiyi threw the thing to Ye Jiu with a serious expression.

Ye Jiu caught it and saw that it was a metal nameplate - also commonly known as a "dog tag". However, in terms of texture, size and shape, this nameplate was the same as the soldier identity tags of any existing army in the Federation. No, the workmanship is also very rough, and it looks more like a "toy" customized by some military enthusiasts.

But when Ye Jiu turned over the nameplate, he was completely stunned.

On the other side of the nameplate, there are two words etched with laser.

This is a name, a name that Ye Jiu is extremely familiar with.

They risked their lives on this trip in order to find the person with this name.

"Sun Hang".

"This... this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, isn't the word you just carved on it, Lao Wang, right?" Ye Jiu stuttered, "This joke is not funny at all!"

"I'm not that boring." Wang Xiyi said with a gloomy look. Her slender legs exerted a little strength and jumped up from the pit. "You are right, the ability of this weird thing does belong to Sun Hang..."

"Fuck, fuck, fuck..." Ye Jiu stomped his feet a little irritably and kept swearing, "Could this be a coincidence? Is it possible that they have the same name? Xiazhou Federation has such a large population. There are probably eighty people with the name Sun Hang, right?"

"No, Yang Qi and I have seen this nameplate." Wang Xiyi shook her head, "Sun Hang's past has always been a mystery. When the rescuers from the Investigation Bureau found him, the only thing about him that could prove that he was The only thing of identity is this nameplate... Apart from his name, we know nothing about his life experience, and even whether the name really belongs to him is a question mark."

At this time, Zhulong had also come closer. He naturally saw the words on the nameplate in Ye Jiu's hand, and sighed: "This is the first time I feel that intuition is too accurate, which is really a bad thing."

"Sun Hang...isn't he already dead?" Ye Jiu murmured, "Otherwise, his nameplate wouldn't appear here, and his abilities wouldn't reach this big snake..."

"Don't talk nonsense." Zhulong glanced at Ye Jiu, "It's just an external thing. If you find part of Sun Hang's body in the body of the giant snake, you can forget it, but it's just a nameplate. Next This conclusion is too early.”

"It's not just the nameplate! The key is ability! Sun Hang's ability! Appeared on this strange thing!" Ye Jiu shouted, "How can we explain this?"

"It's infection." Wang Xiyi took back Sun Hang's nameplate from Ye Jiu's hand, "Since dead objects can become strange objects, in the same way, infected people can infect living objects, and they can also infect dead objects, right? ?”

"What do you mean?" Ye Jiu's breath stopped and he turned to look at Wang Xiyi.

"Sun Hang must be wearing this nameplate every day. As time goes by, there is a possibility that this nameplate will be infected by him...Sun Hang can turn Song Yarong and Jiang Yu into infected people. I think he can also turn Song Yarong and Jiang Yu into infected people." This nameplate has become a strange artifact," Wang Xiyi analyzed.

"Isn't this impossible? According to this, the underwear Sun Hang is wearing is in close contact with him every day. Why didn't his underwear turn into a strange thing?" Ye Jiu said.

"There are examples of dead objects being infected by infected people and turning into strange objects... I have the impression that there are some, very few, but definitely not zero." Zhulong thought, "But the only thing I don't understand is, if this nameplate is Infected by Sun Hang, why is its ability stronger than Sun Hang's 'matrix'? Although I have not fought against Sun Hang, as far as I know, even if Sun Hang's ability to manipulate metal is reached to its limit, It is impossible to create such a huge metal snake."

"Red square crystal! Could it be the reason for that red square crystal?!" Ye Jiu's eyes suddenly lit up and he spoke quickly, "Sun Hang told me that the red square crystal found in the underground palace has With the ability to mass-produce artifacts, could this nameplate have been modified by him using red square crystals? Does that make sense?"

"It still doesn't make sense." Zhulong shook his head, "We have all seen the creations of red square crystals. Although it is indeed possible to create strange objects out of thin air, the strength of the created strange objects is generally not high... I don't think it can be used like that. Such a powerful monster was created in a short period of time.”

"Could that be because of the occupied area?" Ye Jiu said again, "Doesn't Sun Hang still have the ability of Taotie? What if this thing can also swallow other strange things, and then by chance in the occupied area, he can swallow A few powerful monsters appeared, and then they turned into what they are now..."

"Theoretically it's possible... but in such a short period of time, you want to grow to this extent." Zhulong took a long breath, "What do you think the probability is?"

"At least it's not zero!" Ye Jiu raised his eyebrows, "Well, to put it bluntly, it's pointless for us to discuss this. The top priority is to find Sun Hang - as long as we can find him, these problems can naturally be solved."

"No, it makes sense." Zhulong slowly shook his head, "Since this nameplate belongs to Sun Hang, it is a very important clue for us - at least, we are not going the wrong way."

Just when Ye Jiu was about to say something else, he suddenly found Wang Xiyi holding a nameplate with a strange look on her face. She took two steps in one direction, then returned to the starting point, and took two more steps in the other direction.

"Old Wang, what are you doing?" Ye Jiu couldn't help but ask.

"This nameplate... seems to be able to sense the presence of Sun Hang." Wang Xiyi murmured, "As the position changes, the strength of its aura keeps fluctuating... So, I am thinking, who will decide this point? It won’t be the distance between it and Sun Hang.”

"Is Sun Hang nearby?"

"Not sure..." Wang Xiyi tried several directions back and forth, and finally pointed to the eleven o'clock direction, "This direction has the most obvious enhancement of aura!"

"Really?" Ye Jiu asked for the nameplate and tried to walk back and forth a few times. In order to ensure accuracy, he directly extended the distance to more than two hundred meters.

"Damn it, it's true!" After trying a few times, Ye Jiu ran back to the place and said to the other two people, "It's true that when walking towards the eleven o'clock direction, the aura of the nameplate increases most obviously, and then when walking towards When moving in the opposite direction, the breath will be significantly weakened... It seems that Sun Hang should be in that direction! "

"It's a pity that the intensity of the breath changes in a non-linear manner, otherwise we might be able to calculate the distance between Sun Hang and us." Zhulong sighed.

Although Wang Xiyi and Ye Jiu talk about "obvious changes", in fact, if this change is described numerically, I am afraid that a series of zeros will have to be added after the decimal point - only elite hunters and suitable hunters like Wang Xiyi and Ye Jiu can Only a hunter can sense such a subtle change in breath. If it were a second- or third-rate hunter holding this nameplate, he might not be able to feel this change even after walking for several miles.

"Map." Wang Xiyi said in the communication channel.

Soon, a portable projector was set up, and a three-dimensional holographic map that included all the surrounding terrain was projected onto the hood of car No. 3.

"It's this direction." Zhulong took the sensor pen and drew on the holographic map, and an eye-catching red mark immediately appeared on the blue-toned holographic map.

"If we go in this direction, we need to cross two mountains with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters. Even if we calculate it by relative altitude, it is more than 1,000 meters higher than where we are now." Zhulong said, "There is no road here, so cars definitely can't drive through. At our speed, even if we don't encounter any monsters along the way, it will take four to five days to cross these two mountains."

"I can fly directly over." Wang Xiyi said.

"It's not advisable to advance alone." Zhulong shook his head, "I don't want the mission to change from searching for Sun Hang to searching for you and Sun Hang."

Hearing what Zhulong said, Wang Xiyi "tutted" a little impatiently, but didn't say much after all.

"And, the premise is that we don't encounter any strange creatures... According to the original route, it should be the safest to take Highway 4218 to cross the Hengduan Mountains..."

"Is the highway really safe?" Ye Jiu turned his head and looked at the wounded lying on the side, as well as the sacrificed operator with his face covered with clothes. "I always feel that taking the mountain road and taking the highway... are actually no different."

"Even if the degree of danger is the same, we can cross the Hengduan Mountains faster by taking the highway. The less time we stay, the lower the probability of encountering danger." Zhulong said.

"But if we drive along Highway 4218, we will be farther and farther away from the direction we sensed." Ye Jiu said.

"My idea is to cross the Hengduan Mountains first, and then use the nameplate to reposition after reaching the plain area." Zhulong said, "If we are sure that Sun Hang's location is on the plain, we will go in a straight line to find him. If we find that Sun Hang's actual location is in the mountains, we can also readjust the route into the mountains. What do you think?"

"I have no objection." Ye Jiu said, "I am only worried about one thing now, that is, whether the direction indicated by the nameplate is really Sun Hang's location."

"This is the only clue, we have no choice." Zhulong said, "As for how to deal with the victims and the wounded, Ye Sha, you decide."

"Give them car No. 3, let the lightly injured take the seriously injured and the bodies back to the border post, and the rest of us will take car No. 4 to continue moving forward."

Car No. 4 is a multi-functional engineering vehicle. The word "multi-functional" naturally also includes the function of "personnel transportation" - the transport cabin of this vehicle is exactly the same as the "Turtle III" armored transport vehicle of the Federal Army. Its internal space can accommodate eight fully armed soldiers at a time, which is more than enough to carry the remaining few people in the team.