Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 229: Armor
"I think it's more like you're talking nonsense." Yang Qi said.

"It's just nonsense...but these caves are used as prisons to detain the infected, there is no doubt about that." Sun Hang said indifferently.

Anyway, he was just guessing based on his intuition. No matter whether he guessed right or not, as long as he continued to explore, he would get the answer sooner or later.

"Since the other end of Cave No. 13 is also connected to the main tunnel, there is no need for us to explore further." Yang Qi jumped out of the cave and continued to walk along the main tunnel.

Several snake-shaped drones were taken back, and the remaining six people and a dozen or so corpses controlled by Zhong Ling continued to move forward along the main tunnel.

However, after walking less than a hundred meters, Sun Hang, who was leading the way in front, suddenly raised his clenched right fist.

This is a gesture to stop moving forward.

"What's wrong?" Yang Qi subconsciously put his hand on the bag containing weapons and asked in a low voice.

"I knew it... There must be jailers or guards between the entrance and exit of Cave No. 13..." Sun Hang said with a smile, "I should have made a bet with you earlier."

"Do you feel the breath of a strange creature?" Wang Xiyi asked.

"Yeah." Sun Hang nodded.

"How strong is it?" Ye Xuan asked.

"It's hard to say." Sun Hang looked at Wang Xiyi, "Shall I go over and try?"

"Let's go together." Wang Xiyi said, "It's safer."

"Okay." Sun Hang nodded, asked the others to stay where they were, and he and Wang Xiyi continued to move forward.

Soon, he saw the "source" of the strange aura.

There were two skeletons wearing armor, but the aura of strange creatures did not come from the skeletons, but from the armor they were wearing.

"It's an artifact-type weird thing." Sun Hang said, and he couldn't help but think of Ye Jiu's "Killing" set. "If this thing can be brought back to the institute, it should be able to be transformed into a weird equipment, right? I just don't know if I can find a qualified person with a suitable synchronization rate."

As soon as Sun Hang finished speaking, accompanied by the sound of rusty iron sheets rubbing against each other, the two armored bodies actually pulled the rusted corpse they were wrapped in and slowly climbed up from the ground.

With a "clink" sound, the long swords were unsheathed - compared with the rusty armor plates, the two swords were preserved almost perfectly. The shiny blades could even vaguely reflect the shadows of Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi.

"It seems that the other party is not willing to become a strange equipment." Wang Xiyi smiled, "Do you want to do it or should I do it?"

"Let's each take one and see who is faster?" Sun Hang turned his head and suggested.

"Okay." Wang Xiyi's voice remained in place, but the whole person had already rushed out, with the huge dragon wings spread, and a strong airflow pressed Sun Hang in place.

"Oh my god, how come you are running fast and causing trouble!" Sun Hang shouted immediately. However, he was not suppressed by the airflow swept by the dragon's wings for long. A cold light flashed, and the wind pressure was cut directly in the middle. In a blink of an eye, Sun Hang had approached the other armored man, and his fist wrapped in dark blue flames smashed directly into the chest of the armored man.

"You are using all my abilities, how dare you say that?" Wang Xiyi glanced at Sun Hang in between attacks, but her eyes were full of smiles, which formed a sharp contrast with her complaining tone.

"Hey, other people's skills are really useful." Sun Hang's fist pierced through Zhajia's chest directly. The remains that had long been shattered, along with the ropes connecting Zhajia, were instantly burned to ashes. The armor pieces that lost their support fell to the ground one after another...

Just when Sun Hang was about to try whether his current strength could control these strange metal armor pieces, the armor pieces that had just landed on the ground crawled up his legs and onto his body like countless rust-colored beetles, forming a complete set of armor on his body again.

"Is this... a surrender?"

Before Sun Hang had time to rejoice, countless barbs suddenly grew from the inside of the metal armor plates and pierced deeply into Sun Hang's flesh!

"What tetanus attack..." Sun Hang closed his own pain perception in time. The next second, the Taotie's ability began to absorb violently... Within a few breaths, all the memes carried in these scales were absorbed by him.

Along with the nail plates, some fragmented memory pieces were also absorbed.

He felt as if he had returned to who knows how many years ago, when this underground facility had not yet been abandoned. In the dark tunnel, burning torches made crackling sounds, and warriors in heavy armor stood by the wall like statues... and a little further away, from the branching caves, some strange noises could be heard from time to time.

Screams, roars, laughter... Of course, the most common sounds were some meaningless mumblings...

The entrance and exit of each cave is sealed with a net made of cross-welded steel bars as thick as fingers. A group of people in black robes walk through the tunnel holding oil lamps. Every time they come to a cave, they will pick up the oil lamp to carefully observe the situation inside the cave.

The information carried by these armor pieces ended here, and Sun Hang immediately turned his head to look at Wang Xiyi - he originally wanted to absorb the other armor as well to see if he could obtain some different memory fragments, but just as he was digesting this information, Wang Xiyi had already melted the other armor directly, leaving only a pool of red molten iron.

The breath of the meme inside the molten iron has disappeared completely - without a carrier, naturally no memory fragments can be preserved.

"Aren't you acting too quickly?" Sun Hang couldn't help but complain as he took a look at the molten iron that had begun to solidify on the ground.

"You finished faster than me..." Wang Xiyi rolled her eyes at Sun Hang, "You're playing Versailles with me, aren't you?"

"No... I mean, I want to absorb it..." Sun Hang shook his head helplessly, "Comrade Lao Wang, you are seriously wasting food."

"Okay... If I encounter this strange creature again, I will leave it alive and send it to you... Do you want it steamed or braised?" Wang Xiyi flapped her wings lightly and landed next to Sun Hang.

"I like frying." said Sun Hang.

"It's a bit unhealthy." Wang Xiyi laughed again, "But I like unhealthy things."

"I noticed that you seem to like laughing particularly now." Sun Hang said.

"Didn't I love to laugh before?"

"The smile before was fake, not the kind of smile from the heart." Sun Hang commented. "You are the one who fakes smiles!" Wang Xiyi punched Sun Hang, but at the moment when her fist was about to touch Sun Hang, she suddenly stopped the force and finally gently hit Sun Hang on the shoulder.

"Your smile at that time gave me a feeling," Sun Hang said, "like the smile of a person who is running out of time, filled with a pale feeling of helplessness."

"Why don't I feel anything?" Wang Xiyi grinned. "You guys, sometimes you suddenly become artistic and I'm not used to it."

"At that time, you seemed to not care about anything, including your own life or death... When there was a mission from above, you would go to carry it out. When there was no mission, you would stay at home watching cartoons and special effects films, and numb yourself with alcohol." Sun Hang said, "You didn't seem to be living, but rather waiting for death in boredom."

"Life is a process of waiting for death to come." Wang Xiyi shrugged. "Besides, when have I ever been drunk?"

"Don't you often pass out drunk on my sofa in disarray?" Sun Hang glanced at her, "Your face is as red as a monkey's butt."

"Bullshit!" Wang Xiyi cursed, "I was just testing you to see if you would take advantage of my drunkenness to sneak around and do something to me...but you turned out to be such a coward, it was really boring...I really doubted whether you were good at that."

"Are you still doubting it now?" Sun Hang chuckled. "By the way, if I really had made a move on you back then, what would you have done?"

Sun Hang still remembered that Yang Qi had mentioned to him that there was a new hunter in Tianfu City who asked the institute to find him a young and beautiful girl to live with. As a result, Wang Xiyi broke three of his ribs... If he dared to have any evil thoughts when Wang Xiyi pretended to be drunk, I'm afraid more than three ribs would be broken...

"It depends on my mood at the time... If I'm in a good mood, I might cooperate with you. Anyway, I won't lose anything... If I'm in a bad mood, then you will probably be in trouble." Wang Xiyi recalled.

"I know you're pretending to be drunk." Sun Hang said, "With that little alcohol, how could it be possible for a female dragon to be drunk..."

"Fortunately, I have stopped taking the medicine now. If it were before, if you dared to call me like that, with my violent temper at that time, I would probably beat you into the ground." Wang Xiyi shook her fist in front of Sun Hang threateningly.

"Let's go, it's time to go back." Sun Hang waved his hand, "Don't let Director Yang and the others worry."

"Can't we search again to see if there are any hidden monsters nearby?" Wang Xiyi turned her gaze away and said guiltily.

It was obvious that she was somewhat reluctant about Sun Hang's proposal.

This guy, why is he so stupid sometimes? Wang Xiyi thought in her heart... It's so hard for the two of them to be alone, why is he so eager to meet up with others?
In those TV dramas and novels, aren’t men and women most inseparable when they first establish a relationship?

It's impossible... to get bored so quickly, right?

Is he going to look for that little girl named Zhong Ling tonight?
Her figure is probably not as good as mine, right?
No, she is younger than me... and her type is called "three noes"? I heard that some men like this.

Damn, this scumbag...

No, I'm so angry... I have to think of a way to beat him up to vent my anger...

But I can't seem to beat him... And, I don't seem to be willing to beat him...

Just when Wang Xiyi was daydreaming, Sun Hang had already grabbed her hand and led her back.

“Eh…” Wang Xiyi was stunned and subconsciously wanted to break free, but then she thought… No, why should I break free? I’ve already given myself to him, so what’s the big deal about holding hands…

It's not like hunters are not allowed to fall in love. At most they can just report it to the station...

Anyway, Yang Lian had already seen it this morning, so this relationship would have to be made public to everyone sooner or later...

Wang Xiyi and Sun Hang walked in front of everyone holding hands.

"What's going on with you?" Yang Qi adjusted the frame of his goggles in confusion, with a strange expression on his face.

Yang Lian and Ye Xuan looked relatively normal. Zhu Long smiled without saying anything... As for Zhong Ling, she lowered her head, her neat bangs drooping down, and her entire face was hidden in the shadows. Sun Hang couldn't see clearly what expression she had.

"What's going on?" Sun Hang naturally let go of Wang Xiyi's hand, walked over and patted Yang Qi on the shoulder.

"I mean you...you two?"

"We just dealt with the monsters blocking our way." Sun Hang took over the conversation and said, "Two sets of armor on dead bodies have turned into artifact-like monsters for some reason... But they are not very strong, and the whole battle only took a few seconds."

"Armor? Weird artifacts?" Yang Qi was indeed a workaholic. Sun Hang only changed the subject a little, and her attention was drawn to it. "Are there any remains?"

"Yes." Sun Hang handed over a specimen bag filled with broken rusty armor pieces.

"This type of armor..." Yang Qi carefully examined the contents through the transparent specimen bag. "Rectangular iron leaf armor, connected by animal tendons, leather strips or thin hemp ropes. The holes are located on the edges of the armor, and the ropes are shaped like a cross... This seems to be a Han Dynasty model, right? Is this relic that old?"

"I didn't expect that Director Yang has such a deep understanding of armor?" Sun Hang said in surprise.

"The topic of my undergraduate thesis was armor and weapons. Although I was unable to go to the No. 1 Research Institute under the Tianshu Tower due to transfer reasons, I still looked up a lot of information about this kind of things." Yang Qi said, "But the infected skeleton found earlier is only 140 years old." Wang Xiyi asked curiously, "If this armor is from the Han Dynasty... then aren't the two guards wearing cultural relics? Or were these two pieces of armor already strange objects before they were put on?"

"Where are the bodies of the two guards?" Yang Qi asked.

Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi both looked embarrassed and said in unison, "Sorry, it was burned."

As if she was surprised by the ridiculously high synchronization rate between the two, Yang Qi looked at them in surprise. Just when she wanted to continue asking something, Zhulong suddenly came over and said:

"Don't look at it, this thing is a replica... Look at the metal texture of this armor plate, it's obviously rolled by modern industrial equipment instead of hand-forged."

"There are a lot of these armor pieces in the antique market in Chunming City... made in the Qin Dynasty, made in the Han Dynasty... any dynasty you want, they are available, they are used to deceive those who are new to antiques and don't know anything." Zhulong continued, "These industrial products cost only a few cents each, but those old scammers dare to offer a four-digit price."

(End of this chapter)