Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 162 "Amulet"

None of these Ansa hunters were willing to give up the opportunity to enter the underground ruins, but no matter how fiercely they argued, they always maintained a tacit understanding - they never mentioned anything about what was underground in the ruins of the research institute.

Even if the content of the dispute involves that thing, they will choose to use some obscure pronouns, such as "that thing", "target", "relic" and so on.

Sun Hang really wanted to find relevant information from the hunter's memory, but unfortunately, the remaining memories in the meme were limited to a period of time before the hunter's death. Before that, it was blank.

Just as this group of Ansa hunters were arguing over whether to draw lots to decide the number of candidates, a gloomy-looking male hunter suddenly said in a low voice:

"I have a way to allow most of us to enter the underground ruins."

"What method?" others asked quickly.

“But someone needs to make sacrifices.”

"Sacrifice? What does that mean?"

"My ability can highly activate the memes in the infected person's body... Although it only lasts for twelve hours, it can strengthen the characteristics of the meme itself several times. As a price, the carrier of the meme will suffer extremely huge backlash."

"Backlash? How serious is it?"

"Death, or directly reduced to a corpse." The gloomy man said, "The principle is very simple, that is, to allow the infection process to break through the safety threshold in a short period of time in exchange for more powerful abilities."

"I don't agree!" The hunter with the ability to "shield curse" immediately objected, "If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have planned this at all! I'm the most important person, why should I be sacrificed?! If you decide to do this, I would rather die than let you do what you want! Think about it for yourselves!"

"Actually... it doesn't matter whether you live or die." The gloomy man continued, "After the infected person dies, the meme in the body will still exist for a period of time, which is enough for me to activate it and then solidify it in your body."

"Fake!"

The hunter cursed and pulled out his pistol, but before he could raise the gun, the owner of the first-person memory, the crazy female hunter, had already cut his throat with a sickle.

Sun Hang noticed that the mental state of the owner of the memory was no longer normal at this time, and the act of killing her companion became the last straw that broke the camel's back - she threw herself directly on the dying hunter, sipping the blood gushing from the other's throat in big gulps.

The images in her memory began to become distorted and crazy, with a large number of meaningless whispers and roars appearing - these sounds were actually the voices of several other Anglo-Saxon hunters discussing subsequent solutions, but in the ears of the crazy female hunter, they became something like the whispers of ancient gods.

Several Anglo-Saxon hunters moved quickly. They cut off a piece of the corpse and led the crazy female hunter downstairs like a dog... Although the next scene could not be seen from the female hunter's perspective, Sun Hang could guess it based on the scene upstairs.

The group of Ansa hunters dismembered their companion's body, and then solidified his abilities into the removed body parts...the missing eyeballs, fingers, hearts, etc. actually became "amulets" for them to avoid the curse.

"Tsk... Really, selfish and cold-blooded." Sun Hang came out of the memory scene and muttered softly. "What do you mean selfish and cold-blooded?" The fisherman carefully looked at the expression on Sun Hang's face and asked softly.

"I said that group of Ansa hunters... I already know why that hunter was killed."

"Why?" asked the fisherman.

"I can tell you, but don't ask me how I know." Sun Hang glanced at the fisherman, then at Yano Seiichi who was standing next to the lying Huangfu Sha.

"Just tell me, I won't ask." The fisherman nodded repeatedly, "Everyone has their own secrets, and those who know will know!"

"The deceased's ability is to block the curse, but his ability is limited. He can only take two people at most. During the dispute, a female hunter who had been cursed, that is her." Sun Hang pointed at the corpse next to him with his bloody finger, "Kill him."

"So they killed him? Doesn't that mean no one can take him with them? Are you crazy?" The fisherman was speechless.

"No, one of them has the ability to amplify and solidify the characteristics of the meme, but the cost is that the carrier of the meme will die or be transformed into a corpse." Sun Hang said, "The parts missing from the corpse I found before were taken away by them as meme carriers."

"Oh my god... this is too... too crazy, right?" The fisherman's eyes kept twitching. "For the sake of trial points... they are willing to kill even their companions?"

"They are not after the trial points." Sun Hang said, "Your previous speculation is correct. They did get some exclusive information that we don't know. The purpose of this group of Ansa hunters to participate in the trial is something hidden under the ruins of the research institute, not to become a high-level hunter... I even suspect that even the top leaders of Tianshu Tower don't know this information."

"What is this? Can it be more important than the advancement trial?" the fisherman exclaimed.

"I don't know." Sun Hang shook his head decisively. "Besides, I don't know how they got this information."

"Uh, I was just about to ask you, but you predicted it." The fisherman muttered, "Does the appearance of the Yamata no Orochi have anything to do with them?"

"I don't know." Sun Hang said, "I only know that they killed a companion for this matter and abandoned this crazy female hunter... This is the only information this body left for me."

"Speaking of which, the curse is the biggest problem we are facing now." Yano said worriedly, "Since the female hunter went crazy because of the curse, it is obvious that she was not cursed after entering the underground of the ruins, but within the scope of the ruins... It is even possible that the curse took effect after we landed on this island."

"Hiss... I feel goosebumps when you mention that." The fisherman rubbed his arms. "Damn it, I'm not afraid of monsters that I can see and touch, but I really can't do anything about this kind of thing that I can't see or touch."

"Who knows when one of us will suddenly go crazy and become like her." Sun Hang said, "Especially after going underground... According to those Ansa hunters, the impact of the curse underground is much greater than on the ground... On the ground, only a few people will go crazy because of the curse. But underground, if there is no protection of the ability to block the curse, it will be difficult to move forward."

(End of this chapter)