Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 115 Protracted War

"Can the memes on the hunter be copied?" Sun Hang asked.

"Why are you asking me this?" Yang Lian rolled his eyes at him and said unhappily, "I'm not even qualified to enter the research institute in Tianfu City. Do you think I can answer this kind of question? You should go ask the people in Tianshu Tower."

Just when Sun Hang wanted to ask something, his cell phone suddenly rang.

For ordinary people, the communication network of Tianfu City has not been restored yet, but Sun Hang knows that as early as the second day after the eternal night, various signal base stations had been repaired. However, those base stations originally used to maintain the civilian communication network have now all been used for military purposes.

The call was from Yang Qi. Under Yang Lian's gaze, Sun Hang pressed the answer button.

"Hello? What's up?"

"Where are you now?"

"I'm squatting in the toilet, taking a shit." Sun Hang made a "hush" gesture to Yang Lian, "I just ate too much, and I have a stomachache."

"I know you don't want to participate in the awarding ceremony, so I've turned it down for you." Sun Hang could hear Yang Qi sighing clearly on the other end of the line. "But there is something I need to inform you about. Tomorrow we have to fly to Chunming City to participate in the semi-annual 'Hunter Upgrade Trial'... Originally, only regular hunters who have been employed for more than three years were eligible to participate in this trial, but in view of your performance in this operation, they decided to make an exception and open the trial qualification to you."

"Trial? What's it for? Are there any benefits?" Sun Hang asked directly.

"Those who pass the trial can become a federally certified 'Level Hunter'. Based on their performance in the trial, they are divided into levels one to five, with level one being the highest and level five being the lowest... But even the lowest level five hunters have much higher treatment and authority than ordinary registered hunters."

"So hunters have such a complicated hierarchy?"

The corridor was very quiet, so Yang Lian, who was next to Sun Hang, could hear Yang Qi's words clearly. She whispered, "The difference between these two types of hunters is equivalent to the difference between an accounting qualification certificate and a certified public accountant certificate."

"Tsk, that's a really big difference." Even a layman like Sun Hang knows a thing or two about the value of a Certified Public Accountant.

"Huh? Why do I seem to hear my sister's voice? Are you really in the bathroom?" Yang Qi suddenly asked.

Sun Hang quickly covered Yang Lian's mouth and said, "You must have heard it wrong. I'm really in the toilet."

"Impossible..." Yang Qi's tone was full of doubt, "You are with my sister now?"

"No." Sun Hang rejected it outright. "Maybe she was in the bathroom and was on the phone at the same time."

"Are you using the men's or women's restroom?"

"Ahem... maybe the wall between the men's and women's restrooms is too thin, so the sound insulation is poor." Sun Hang argued, "Okay, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up first. Bye."

After saying this, Sun Hang hung up the phone at lightning speed.

"Why are you so afraid of my sister? Do you know I'm with you?" Yang Lian wiped the lip gloss that Sun Hang accidentally smeared on the corner of his mouth with some dissatisfaction, and asked in confusion.

"I'm afraid she'll run out and catch me back." Sun Hang said, "I've already enjoyed the delicious food. If I don't leave now, the next project will be no different from being in jail." "That's right." Yang Lian, who always hated bureaucracy and formalism, nodded in agreement, "So where are you going now? Home?"

"I want to go back, but the soldiers won't let me." Sun Hang pointed at the soldiers standing guard, "Aren't you in charge of security on this floor? Can you tell them to let me go?"

"If you want to leave, no one can stop you, right?" Yang Lian pointed to the fire escape on the side. "The stairs are over here. As for the elevator, just walk along the corridor to the end. Please make your own way."

"Thank you." Sun Hang patted Yang Lian on the shoulder before she could move away, then pushed open the window in front of him and jumped out.

Compared to stairs and elevators, airborne is faster.

"This guy...can't he just walk properly?" Yang Lian couldn't help but complain, but the next second, as if she had thought of something, she reached out and touched her ear.

Damn, that guy forgot to give his headphones back!
……

With the help of mycelium and J2796, Sun Hang landed lightly in the parking lot downstairs of the hotel. He turned his head and looked at the hotel behind him. He saw that except for the banquet hall on the top floor and the central kitchen on the first floor, the whole building was almost dark.

Not only the Splendid Hotel, but other surrounding buildings also had no lights on - this should have been a bustling commercial district with bright lights and serious light pollution, but now it looked like a silent concrete forest.

Sun Hang was not sure whether he liked the lively scene in the past more, or the quiet atmosphere now... No, to be precise, it should be the coldness and loneliness.

The eternal night has lasted for nearly a week, and the average temperature in Shuzhou has dropped below zero degrees Celsius. The official call on the public to save electricity is not because power plants and transmission facilities have been damaged, but because these energies need to be stored in advance for use in the centralized heating project under construction.

Shuzhou is located in the south, and every household has air conditioning installed, but almost no one has heating installed. As we all know, in terms of heating, air conditioning is far inferior to traditional heating in terms of efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Assuming that the people of Shuzhou can still access the Internet, then major e-commerce platforms will definitely receive a large number of orders for heating equipment from the Shuzhou area.

Only those who have truly experienced the cold understand how important this thing is in a freezing cold environment.

A thin layer of white frost has condensed on the ground of the parking lot. People had just taken out their short-sleeved shirts a week ago to prepare for the arrival of early summer, but these past few days they have had to take out their autumn johns, cotton-padded jackets and down jackets that had just been stuffed into the bottom of the closet.

The Federation naturally cannot install floor heating and radiators in every household. The measure they are taking now is to build heating belts around residential areas that can generate a large amount of heat radiation, and then use the city's own heat island effect to try to raise the temperature in the urban area to a level that people can barely accept.

As for those remote towns and people living in the suburbs, they can only hope for the best.

However, the Federation also anticipated that a large number of refugees would pour into the city due to hunger and cold. In the west and south of Tianfu City, several large-scale temporary camps have begun to be built. The affected citizens who lost their homes in the Longyanlei incident will also be resettled in these camps.

This will be a protracted battle, and people’s main “enemy” is not the monsters, but the extreme environment caused by the eternal night.

Low temperatures, epidemics, food and energy shortages... There are a lot of problems that Sun Hang can think of, and in areas that he has not thought of, there will only be more problems, not fewer.

(End of this chapter)