Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 213 Revenge
"Thief? Do you mean Chimera 17?" Sun Hang asked, "What did it steal?"

However, Anna did not directly answer Sun Hang's question, but laughed strangely: "Mom, let's play a game?"

Sun Hang wanted to say that he didn't have time to play any games with the other party, but considering the presence of the three monkeys, he had to agree: "Okay, what game?"

Anna couldn't tell herself the truth, as doing so would attract interference from the three apes. Even if she let the three apes tell her the truth as quickly as possible with her remaining consciousness, Sun Hang's memories related to it would be erased by the three apes.

The existence of the three monkeys seemed unsolvable, but after Sun Hang thought about it day and night, he finally came up with a solution.

He named this method "cognitive deception."

Since the three apes will erase his memory of the truth, then he simply doesn't need to understand the truth... Give up thinking and focus on actual action - Sun Hang doesn't need to know why or what to do, he just needs to know what he should do.

This sentence sounds a bit confusing. In short, it is equivalent to blindfolding yourself, plugging your ears, covering your mouth, and then feeling the stones on the ground one by one, getting closer to the truth little by little.

When Sun Hang really stands in front of the truth, even if the three apes erase his memory, he will see the truth again in the next second.

Unless the three monkeys directly erase the truth itself.

And in this process, these "stones" that allow Sun Hang to explore are crucial.

They can be various clues and traces that have no direct connection with the truth, or they can be hints left by certain beings who know the truth but cannot express it to themselves.

For example, the haunting Anna Dimoshina.

The three monkeys cannot completely erase the existence of Anna Dimoshina, which means that the three monkeys are incapable of erasing the truth itself.

This is good news for Sun Hang.

He has plenty of time to slowly deal with those three dead monkeys.

"Do you see the girl in front of you?" Anna asked.

"What's up with her?"

"To be precise, she can no longer be called a girl. She should be called a mother... although according to human age, she is not yet twenty years old." Anna said, "She is pregnant."

According to the customs of the Qiang people, fifteen years old is considered an adult, and it is normal for girls to get married in their teens. Sun Hang did not dwell on the age issue, but instead focused his attention on the lower abdomen of the female corpse.

Because she was sitting, the plasma that was above her knees had soaked Sun Hang's entire lower body, with only her upper abdomen above the liquid surface - the abdomen of the corpse looked very flat, with no signs of pregnancy at all.

"Has she just gotten pregnant?" Sun Hang asked, "Also, is there any connection between this and the 'game' you mentioned?"

"No, she is eight months pregnant and will give birth soon." Anna completely ignored Sun Hang's questioning about the "game", as if she had never said that sentence just now.

"Miscarriage?"

"No." Anna whispered in Sun Hang's ear, "She was pregnant with twins, but unfortunately, the twin sister was stolen by a thief."

"What about sister?"

"My sister was a deformed fetus, and the thief didn't like her." Anna continued, "So my sister survived... and successfully persisted until the moment of birth."

"...and then what?" Sun Hang seemed to have thought of something, but the thought only flashed through his mind like an electric current and disappeared in an instant.

"My mother welcomed her own death, and my sister welcomed her own rebirth." Anna said, "It was here... The blood that flowed out during childbirth gathered into a pool of blood. It was both a swaddling cloth and a nutrient... The deformed fetus gradually became stronger by sucking the mother's blood..."

"Are you hinting at something?" Sun Hang's pupils shrank slightly. "Besides you, 'I' have another child? And this child was stolen by Chimera 17? So it has the ability to devour memories similar to ours? And you, are you the sister who was left behind?"

There was no response, neither Anna nor the three monkeys.

"No, no, no... No, no, no!" Sun Hang suddenly shook his head like crazy again, "You are the sister who was stolen! The thief is not Chimera No. 17! Chimera No. 17 is the deformed sister! You are the one who was stolen by human researchers..."

Before Sun Hang could finish his words, he felt like he was hit hard on the back of his head with a club, and his brain suddenly went blank.

In a blink of an eye, he had completely forgotten his previous guess, and even forgot the story about "sisters and younger sisters" that Anna told him.

But Sun Hang suddenly laughed.

He discovered that he was missing a piece of memory, which meant that he was one step closer to the truth.

As long as the direction is correct, he will find the correct answer sooner or later.

The process is not important, the result is important.

"So, what game do you want to play with me?" Sun Hang asked again.

"Although my mother died to give birth to my deformed sister, my sister is not grateful to her mother." Anna continued to talk to herself, "She hates her mother, she hates herself, she hates everything in this world... She thinks her birth is torture and punishment for herself, and it is the source of all her pain... She wants revenge, revenge on her mother, revenge on herself, revenge on everything in the world..."

Anna paused for a moment and said, "So, dear mother, please survive your sister's revenge."

Faintly, Sun Hang heard a bubbling sound. He turned around and saw a deformed fetus floating up from the pool of blood. There was even an uncut umbilical cord in the fetus' abdomen, connecting it to the mother's body.

The fetus has not yet matured, its eyelids are still completely transparent, and its two swollen eyeballs are clearly visible.

A few fragmented Qiang folk songs accompanied by the crying of a baby rang out in the room. The viscosity of the blood pool instantly doubled, and like gradually solidifying cement, it wrapped around Sun Hang's legs.

"That's it?"

Sun Hang stretched out his hand, and a huge hand made of mycelium reached out directly to the deformed fetus and crushed its head.

The blood pool began to dry up rapidly, and the flesh and blood on the Qiang female corpse shrank at an even faster rate. By the time the blood plasma in the room had completely seeped into the ground, only a skeleton covered in loose clothes remained of the female corpse.

Only then did Sun Hang see clearly that the skeleton was wearing a maternity dress with a big belly design. The green-faced and fanged Nuo opera mask had fallen to the ground and shattered into pieces. Sun Hang wanted to reach out and touch the skeleton, but the moment his fingers touched the skeleton, the entire skeleton instantly turned into powder and scattered all over the ground, leaving only a blood-stained maternity dress draped over the chair.

There was a sound of footsteps coming from behind, and Yang Qi rushed into the room panting, shouting: "The memetic reaction of the weird creature suddenly disappeared! Did you kill it?"

"I guess so." Sun Hang glanced at the place where the deformed fetus was originally located - just like the mother body, after being killed, the fetus also quickly withered and "degraded", giving a feeling of "dust to dust, ashes to ashes".

Anna's voice did not sound again, and the trace of consciousness that remained in her seemed to have completely dissipated.

"So weak." Sun Hang muttered to himself.

"What did you say?"

"I said... this monster is so weak that it was crushed to death in one go." Sun Hang said.

"Don't be careless." Yang Qi immediately reminded, "I have seen many arrogant hunters, and many of them paid a heavy price for their arrogance."

"No... I just feel weird." Sun Hang shook his head and walked outside.

The meaning of Anna's words...seems to be more than that.

The content of the game is... facing the revenge of your sister and surviving... But if this is revenge, then isn't the difficulty of this game too easy?

The most crucial point is that Sun Hang found that he had forgotten to ask Anna what kind of rewards he would get after completing the game.

"The problem should be in the memory that was just erased by the three apes." Sun Hang thought to himself, "The clue is hidden in it, but it has been buried now. However, this at least proves that the general direction is correct..."

"Sun Hang? Sun Hang!" Yang Qi chased after him, "What are you going to do? Search the entire Qiujiawan? Or go to another Qiang village?"

"Let's go back to Tianfu City." Sun Hang said suddenly.

"Ah?" Yang Qi was stunned, obviously a little surprised by Sun Hang's words, "We...don't want to continue tracking down the whereabouts of those missing people?"

"We are late." Sun Hang said, "Notify the Lizhou City Management Committee and ask them to send the city defense guards into the mountains to search for surviving Qiang villages... But I guess there won't be many... They have wasted too much time."

Sun Hang walked quickly to the entrance of the village and jumped into the car.

"Was it done by Chimera No. 17?" Zhulong asked.

"It's likely that it needs to rely on food to recover from its injuries, and these isolated villages are the best 'supply points'." After Yang Qi and Zhong Ling got in the car, Sun Hang immediately started the engine.

"Not only the Qiang villages here, but also towns and villages in other parts of Shuzhou may become targets of attack." Sun Hang said, "Chimera 17 moves very fast, we can't catch up with it... What's more, we don't know where it will appear next time."

"I will report this information to the Disaster Countermeasures Committee... The best response measure right now is to relocate all the residents of these remote towns to big cities, but..." Yang Qi hesitated to speak.

"But it will certainly be difficult to implement." Zhulong said for her, "People's opposition, the manpower and material resources required for relocation, the construction of resettlement sites and the distribution of daily necessities... This may seem like a simple sentence, but to actually implement it, the difficulty is no less than building a new Tianfu City."

"Can we try to wait and see?" Yang Qi said, "Organize an elite hunting team to ambush near those towns. Once Chimera 17 appears, then..."

"Chimera No. 17 has already been fooled once in Tianfu City. The more humans it devours, the smarter it becomes, and the closer its way of thinking will be to humans." Sun Hang shook his head and said, "What's more, there are so many things to guard, and no one can be sure which one the rabbit will hit next time."

"Then what's your solution?" Yang Qi sighed a little discouraged and rubbed her messy long hair hard.

"Let it eat?"

"Let it eat?" Yang Qi was slightly startled, "You...are you kidding?"

"What do you think it will do after it recovers from its injuries?"

"What will you do?" Yang Qi's eyes widened slightly, "You mean..."

"It will come for revenge." Before Sun Hang finished his words, he slammed on the brakes, causing Yang Qi, who was caught off guard, to crash headfirst into the backrest of the front seat.

"Ouch...what happened?"

"Revenge... Revenge... Revenge... Revenge..." Sun Hang muttered to himself, "I seem to know... what was erased..."

"What do you mean by erase?" Yang Qi rubbed his forehead and stared at him blankly. "What's wrong with you? I always feel that you haven't been normal since the fireball appeared at Panlong Airport..."

"Are you trying to say that I've become neurotic?" Sun Hang turned his head and asked.

Yang Qi hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.

"Normal, because I found a problem."

"what is the problem."

"It is impossible to understand the behavior of strange creatures with human thinking logic." Sun Hang said, "Only by changing their perspective and thinking with the thinking logic of strange creatures can we understand what they are thinking."

"The thinking logic of a monster...Do monsters have thinking logic?" Yang Qi said in astonishment.

"Shouldn't I ask you, a researcher, about this?"

"Research at this stage shows that some ghosts can indeed think like humans, and some ghosts even have the ability to communicate with humans." Yang Qi said, "But this does not mean that ghosts have some universal thinking logic! Even if they do, this logic is incomprehensible to us humans!"

"So, that's why you think I'm crazy, right?" Sun Hang shrugged. "Normal people can't understand the thinking logic of a mental patient. Only when you become a mental patient yourself, can you understand how clear your thinking is and how meticulous your logic is..."

"...I really want to call you a psycho, but it seems that calling you that is actually a confirmation of your thoughts." Yang Qi couldn't help but say.

(End of this chapter)