Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 212 "Thief"

"Sun Hang!! What happened?!" Yang Qi shouted anxiously, "What dirty thing?!"

"Just behind this window, on those shelves, there are several Nuo opera masks hanging." Sun Hang said as he slowly backed away, "I can see them, but in the photos I took with my phone, they don't exist at all."

"Cannot be recorded by video equipment?!" Yang Qi's breath was choked. "Chimera 17 also has this feature. Could this be..."

"But I can't sense their breath." Sun Hang said, "In my perception, they are just like ordinary masks."

"Don't act rashly! Get out first!" Yang Qi said, "We'll rush over immediately!"

"I'm thinking about a question." Sun Hang said suddenly.

"what is the problem?"

"Tell me, if I burn this house down, can I find something interesting?" Sun Hang asked.

"We don't need to take that risk!" Yang Qi spoke quickly, as if she was afraid that if she spoke too slowly, Sun Hang would take action directly. "Although Chimera 17 was severely damaged, its ability is too strange. It is not recommended to fight it before we are fully prepared."

"But these masks don't seem to be moving. Why do I feel like the other party is playing an empty city trick on me?" Sun Hang said this, but he still slowly retreated towards the courtyard gate.

He could vaguely feel that something was wrong in his subconscious, but he couldn't be sure whether this strange feeling came from these strange masks that could not be captured by the camera, or something else.

But just when Sun Hang was just a few steps away from the courtyard gate, the gate suddenly closed automatically with a creak without any wind.

Sun Hang even heard the sound of the gears inside the door lock turning and the lock tongue biting.

"No, buddy..." Sun Hang was speechless. "Such an old-fashioned horror movie plot, can't there be some new ideas?"

"Sun Hang? What's going on? Why do I see the gate of the courtyard is closed? Did you close it?" Yang Qi's voice sounded in the headset.

"No, it closed by itself." Sun Hang replied, "and it was locked."

"Was it done by a strange creature? Then you should leave this yard immediately! You should be able to climb over the wall, right?"

"I don't think it's necessary." Sun Hang shook his head. "Since it insists that I stay, I might as well follow its will."

After Sun Hang said this, he squatted down and pressed his hands on the ground.

Countless hyphae stretched out from his palms, drilled into the ground, and quickly approached the main house - these hyphae drilled directly from under the wall, broke through the floor, and shot towards the Nuo opera masks hanging on the brackets!

At the front end of each mycelium, there is a metal flying blade wrapped around it. With mycelium as a medium, Sun Hang can manipulate these flying blades more easily, as if they were limbs extended from himself - in some extreme cases, the advantages of wired control are indeed irreplaceable by wireless remote control.

A flying blade cut a ochre-red Nuo opera mask in half from bottom to top, and immediately sticky blood gushed out from the cut part of the mask!
More and more plasma sprayed out, as if there was an alternate dimension inside the mask... Soon, this room used to display Nuo opera masks turned into a pool of blood... As the level of the blood pool rose, the plasma began to overflow the window sill and flow into the yard.

Sun Hang finally smelled a hint of the breath of a strange creature... Unfortunately, this breath was weak and fragmented, just like the meme fragments in the body of the Qiang man's strange skeleton.

The blood plasma gradually covered the instep of Sun Hang's feet, and the mucus seeped in through the gaps between his shoes and socks. This made Sun Hang feel a little uncomfortable. He simply kicked off his shoes, tore off his socks that had been soaked in blood plasma and stepped directly into the pool of blood barefoot.

"Sun Hang, what happened again?" Yang Qi's voice not only rang in the headset, but also outside the yard. She, Zhu Long, and Zhong Ling had already run to the gate of the yard, and there was only a two-meter-high wall between them and Sun Hang. "What was flowing out of the window? Blood?"

"Maybe." Sun Hang replied, "Judging from the smell and texture, it should be the plasma of some creature. However, its temperature is very low. I feel like I'm stepping into ice water... If it is plasma, it should have solidified long ago, right?"

"Bang!" A loud noise came from the gate of the courtyard, and a large dent appeared on the gate made of welded steel plates - Zhong Ling was controlling a powerful skeleton to hit the gate, while several other skeletons had already climbed up the wall and were looking down at the situation in the yard.

"Where are the masks?"

"I chopped it to pieces, and the blood plasma came out from inside the mask." Sun Hang said, "I have to say, the amount of bleeding was really huge."

"Apart from the masks, plasma and the automatically locked gate, are there any other abnormal situations?" Yang Qi asked again.

"I haven't found anything yet." Sun Hang shook his head and walked back and forth in the yard twice in the blood plasma that had already reached his calves. "I can only sense some fragmented memetic fragments... Hmm? It seems that there are beginning to be changes..."

"What changes?"

"The meme fragments carried in these plasmas seem to be merging into the ground and walls... They are beginning to combine and reorganize... The aura is also getting stronger..." Sun Hang closed his eyes and used the ability of Taotie to sense the changes around him. "My goodness, is this the quantitative change leading to qualitative change... A large number of meme fragments can actually be combined into a complete meme segment..."

In just a few seconds, a brand new monster was born in front of Sun Hang.

"Sun Hang! The equipment is responding! This yard has been completely transformed into a G-type monster!" Yang Qi shouted from outside, "Come out quickly!"

"..." Sun Hang stood in front of the door again, then kicked it open with his bare feet.

If the previous meme fragments were equivalent to the offal and scraps of cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and ducks, then now they are equivalent to being reprocessed by some unscrupulous factories and reappearing in the world in the form of "synthetic meat"... On the Internet, this kind of thing is generally referred to as "technology and hard work" by netizens.

"Sun Hang! Why haven't you come out yet?!" Yang Qi's voice became more and more anxious, and the frequency of the strange skeleton banging on the door began to increase.

The gate had been severely deformed, but in this case, the metal material showed unexpected ductility - not only was the gate not broken, but it even remained tightly connected to the ground and the walls on both sides, so that the plasma in the yard, which had almost reached the knee height, did not leak out of the yard at all. This wall completely separated the inside and outside of the yard... Sun Hang was a little curious. If the plasma rose to the same height as the top of the wall, would it overflow the wall and flow outside the yard?
It’s a pity that I probably won’t give it such an opportunity.

Sun Hang had already sensed the "core" of this newborn Geng-type monster. He walked straight forward, and the Tai Sui mycelium and metal flying blades helped him clear all obstacles in his path - tables, chairs, and screens were all torn to pieces, and even the wall at the end of the hallway was smashed open by the mycelium that was twisted into a sledgehammer shape.

Sun Hang finally saw the first villager since entering the village...or rather, the remains of the villagers.

A woman wearing traditional Qiang clothing sat on a chair with her head lowered. On her face was a Nuo opera mask with a green face and fangs. Her long black hair hung down, soaking in the blood plasma that was above her knees.

Her arms were stretched out to the sides, and there was a cut on the inside of her arm that extended from the armpit to the palm. The skin around the cut was turned outward, and the blood vessels underneath were picked out one by one...

These blood vessels were obviously mutated... They were like wildly growing vines, connecting the corpse and the pool of blood.

All this plasma seemed to have flowed out from the body of this corpse.

"Tsk... so much blood. If it was normal human plasma... those blood stations in Tianfu City would be so jealous that they would die, right?" Sun Hang complained in a low voice.

The successive disasters after entering the eternal night have caused the supply of blood products in Tianfu City to be extremely tight. In the West City District affected by the Longyanlei incident alone, there are tens of thousands of injured people who need blood transfusions... Although the Xiazhou Federation has urgently mobilized blood products from various city-states to be sent to Tianfu City, this little assistance is only a drop in the bucket for the huge blood gap in Tianfu City.

Before Sun Hang set out for Chunming City, Yang Qi, Yang Lian, Ye Xuan, Ye Jiu and others had already been dragged to donate blood... If Sun Hang had not been an infected person, he would probably have been "forced to voluntarily" donate blood.

"What a waste." Sun Hang walked up to the corpse.

Several hyphae slowly crawled up along the back of the chair and lifted up the drooping head of the corpse.

Sun Hang wanted to take off the Nuo opera mask on the face of the corpse, but after trying several times, he found that the mask seemed to have grown on its face and could not be taken off at all... If he applied a little more force, blood plasma would continue to drip out from the gaps in the mask... Sun Hang estimated that if he really used brute force to tear it off, the face of the corpse would probably be torn off along with it.

The speed of "bloodletting" seemed to have slowed down a lot. According to the initial rising speed, the plasma should have reached Sun Hang's waist by now. However, nearly half a minute had passed and the liquid level was still about one centimeter above the knee.

"Has the blood finally run out?"

Sun Hang heard a noise coming from behind him. He did not turn around. Two eyeballs growing from the end of the mycelium passed over his shoulders and "saw" the situation behind him clearly - two strange skeletons trudged through the blood plasma and walked into the room.

Both of these skeletons were wearing "combat uniforms" specially made by Tianshu Tower - this "combat uniform" was both their protective gear and their restraints. One of the skeletons had the number "002" printed on its shoulder, and the other had "013" printed on its shoulder.

"He's fine." Zhong Ling's voice could be faintly heard through the headset, as well as Yang Qi's sigh of relief.

"Sun Hang, what's the situation over there?" Yang Qi asked again, "If you don't respond, we will force our way in."

"I found the core of this G-type monster." Sun Hang said, "The place with the highest meme density."

As Sun Hang spoke, he took out his mobile phone - but this time before taking the photo, he previewed the image captured by the camera.

There was only a chair in the room, soaked in blood plasma, and the chair was empty.

"There was a chair in the room, and sitting on the chair was the body of a female villager, with a mask on her face... or to be more precise, the mask grew on her face." Sun Hang said, "I tried to take off her mask, but unfortunately failed... Just like the masks in the showroom just now, the phone camera could not capture this body."

"I know... Zhong Ling told me." Yang Qi said, "Her ghost can see this body."

Sun Hang turned his head and glanced at the "left and right guards" standing behind him, and said sarcastically: "I didn't expect them to be better than my mobile phone camera."

"This ability to be invisible in front of electronic devices, plus the parasites in the skull of the Qiang villager... basically we can conclude that this series of events were caused by Chimera 17." Yang Qi said, "The tunnel dug by Chimera 17 when it escaped was broken after extending for three kilometers... I didn't expect it to run into this mountain. I don't know what its purpose is..."

"Recovering from injuries, hunting, and resting." Sun Hang said, "It's nothing more than these few things..."

However, what Sun Hang was more concerned about was not Chimera No. 17 that had escaped to the mountains, but Anna Dimoshchina who had appeared in his dream last night... and the relationship between the two.

But just when Sun Hang was thinking of Anna, the corpse sitting on the chair suddenly moved, and a voice that only Sun Hang could hear sounded in his ears.

"Mom...are you coming to see me?"

"You're here?" Sun Hang took a deep breath and collected all the scattered metal blades and mycelium. At the same time, he said into the headset: "Zhong Ling, take back your strange corpse first."

The two skeletons did not stay for long and quickly left the room.

Instead, Yang Qi kept asking questions in the communication channel... Fortunately, Zhulong grabbed her in time, otherwise, she would have probably climbed over the courtyard wall and rushed in.

“No, I’m not here.” Anna’s voice seemed close to her ears, yet far away. “I’ve been here. What you have touched is just a trace of my thoughts that remain here.”

"You came here just to kill these villagers?" Sun Hang asked, "Or did you grant them 'eternal life'?"

He didn't dare ask the question too directly, for fear of attracting the attention of the three monkeys.

"No, not me," Anna replied. "I was tracking a thief, a notorious thief."

(End of this chapter)