Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 243 Chen Hongjuan

"Refute the rumor? If it works, that would be weird." Sun Hang couldn't help but laugh. "Refute the rumor is just like telling people that there is something fishy going on here... Ordinary people won't believe it. This kind of thing can only get more and more tarnished... Oh, it was tarnished to begin with. After all, the infected person did eat people."

"I don't care about this kind of thing." Wang Xiyi was very carefree, "I hope people will stay away from me to avoid trouble."

"If a powerful and beautiful female hunter like you were in Chunming City, you would definitely have a large number of loyal fans," said Sun Hang.

“Don’t do that.” Wang Xiyi waved her hands repeatedly. “Although I am very happy that you praised me, please forget the second half of the sentence… A hunter is a weapon, and weapons should not be turned into entertainment.”

"You may have some truth in what you said, but not many people will listen to you." Sun Hang shrugged, "especially in such a place full of decadence and extravagance."

The three of them walked to the parking lot, but before they got close, they heard a quarrel not far away. Sun Hang looked in the direction of the sound and saw several fully armed field operators forming a circle around the source of the quarrel, and a little further away, groups of onlookers were whispering about something.

Sun Hang noticed that if one used one word to summarize the expressions of these spectators, "schadenfreude" might be the most appropriate.

"What's going on?" Sun Hang called over a field operator and asked.

"There's a woman causing trouble," the field operator said. "Don't worry, we'll handle it."

"Listening to that woman's voice, it seems somewhat familiar..." Sun Hang glanced at Ling Xiao who was following behind him out of the corner of his eye.

"Who else could it be except Chen Hongjuan?" Ye Jiu walked over with his ostentatious wolf-tooth spear and said to Sun Hang, "This is your fault. I suggest you deal with it yourself."

"My evil deeds?"

"Didn't you suggest that Ling Xiao and his family sever the parent-child relationship? These idiots are really stupid. They printed out the document as soon as they received the order. This was the document that Ling Xiao signed when you were communicating in a friendly manner with Comrade Yang Lian before." Ye Jiu said.

Sun Hang scratched his head and said, "Can't you wait until we leave before delivering the things?"

"Yes, that's what I asked too. But things have already happened. Now that woman is pestering our people and making a scene, insisting on seeing her son." Ye Jiu said.

"Then let her see it." Sun Hang turned to look at Ling Xiao, "I didn't force you on this matter. It was entirely your own will. If you want to abolish this document, just tell me."

Ling Xiao nodded: "Okay."

After saying that, Sun Hang took Ling Xiao over.

Several field operators made way. The howling middle-aged woman looked up and saw Ling Xiao coming. She immediately rushed over and cried, "My son! Did I do something wrong? How could you think of severing the parent-child relationship? You are a piece of my flesh and blood! I can't bear to part with you!"

"This...Is it the welfare subsidy that you are reluctant to give up?" Ye Jiu, who was standing behind the crowd, couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

"You have a good talent for acting." Wang Xiyi curled her lips, "You cried like it was real."

"That's not fake crying. Such a large amount of money is about to fly away. You must be crying in anxiety." Ye Jiu said.

"Yeah, that makes sense." Wang Xiyi nodded in agreement.

Seeing Chen Hongjuan wiping her tears and snot on Ling Xiao's body, Sun Hang subconsciously took a step back to prevent the filth from getting on his body.

Then the next second, Ling Xiao broke free from Chen Hongjuan's hand.

"Son... Mother knows that I didn't treat you well in the past. I shouldn't have hit you or scolded you... But... But that was also for your own good! I'm not well educated, and I don't know how to educate you... I was wrong, I'm sorry... Can you give me another chance? I will definitely correct it! I will treat you well in the future..."

Ling Xiao raised his head and looked at Sun Hang.

Sun Hang noticed that the shadow behind Chen Hongjuan became more and more bloated...but the name of this shadow was neither regret nor greed...but anger.

Anger, confusion, annoyance, fear, mania...all kinds of negative emotions entangled together, like a huge ghost, baring its fangs and claws behind Chen Hongjuan.

Sun Hang sighed. Although Ling Xiao’s attitude was very clear, if he wanted to end this farce, he might have to take action himself.

He took a step forward and pressed Ling Xiao's shoulder.

"Ling Xiao, I want to tell you something." Sun Hang said slowly, "Most people in this world apologize not because they really know they are wrong, but because they are afraid."

"You...what did you say?" Chen Hongjuan raised her head and stared at Sun Hang blankly, "I...what do I have to be afraid of?"

"You are afraid of losing." Sun Hang looked at her red and swollen eyes and said, "But what you are afraid of is not losing your son, but losing the generous welfare benefits."

"You're talking nonsense!" Chen Hongjuan's face suddenly changed. "Even if you are a leader, you can't interfere in my family affairs! Ling Xiao must have listened to the gossip of outsiders and did such a stupid thing! It must be! Ling Xiao, say something, Ling Xiao!"

Ling Xiao finally stopped being silent and said coldly: "It's my own decision."

"You——" Chen Hongjuan's eyes widened, and then she rushed forward, yelling, "I worked so hard to raise you! How could I raise such an ungrateful person like you! Think about it, who did you eat, wear, and use for all these years! Now you want to turn your back on me! Bah! Forget it! What's the use of this kind of document?! You are my child, and you will be my son forever. No matter what anyone says about severing ties with me, it doesn't matter!!"

Chen Hongjuan wanted to throw a tantrum, but two field operators had already rushed forward and pinned her to the ground. She could only slap the ground and curse in dialect with obscenities that were unbearable to the ears.

Fortunately, Sun Hang couldn't understand most of the unfamiliar Shuzhou dialect swear words.

As for those things he could understand, to be honest, they didn't have much offensive power to him.

"Let them go." Sun Hang said to the two field operators, "Be careful, they may complain about you later, it will affect your career."

The two field operators looked at each other but did not let go.

"Just let go if I tell you to. Don't let it get out that the field department of the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute bullied an unarmed woman." Sun Hang said.

The two field operators then let go of their hands, but as soon as they did, Chen Hongjuan nimbly got up from the ground and rushed towards Sun Hang.

"Give me back my son!" Just when she was only half a meter away from Sun Hang, she stopped abruptly, and then fell to the ground with a pale face.

Sun Hang's jaw was cracked, and the crack extended all the way to his neck. Thousands of white hyphae protruded from the crack, just like the tentacles of anemones in the sea water.

In the blink of an eye, the hyphae disappeared, and Sun Hang's face returned to its original state. He smiled at the frightened Chen Hongjuan on the ground and asked, "How is it? Does it look good?"

"Monster... Monster?!" Chen Hongjuan said in a trembling voice, "You are a monster!"

"I'm an infected person, not a monster." Sun Hang said seriously, "But you're not wrong, there's really no difference between an infected person and a monster."

Sun Hang wanted to say something, but Wang Xiyi behind him gently pulled him and whispered, "It's better to keep a low profile... Using the abilities of the infected to intimidate civilians will only have a worse impact than the violent law enforcement of the field department."

"Okay." Sun Hang nodded, turned around and prepared to leave.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt a strange breath!

The source of this breath was Chen Hongjuan who was sitting on the ground!

Its intensity was growing at an exponential rate. Sun Hang turned around and saw that the shadow that was originally attached to Chen Hongjuan had expanded to a size that covered the entire open space.

The alarms hanging on the waists of the field operators for detecting weird memes began to beep, and one of the field operators who noticed something was wrong subconsciously reached out to Chen Hongjuan.

"Get out of the way!" Sun Hang shouted immediately.

However, his reminder was still a second too late. A red light flashed, and the field operator's arm immediately fell to the ground. The flesh and blood at the broken end seemed to be boiled, and a large amount of dark red foam gushed out.

"It's you! It must be you, who instigated my son to sign this damn thing! You deserve to die! You all deserve to die!" Chen Hongjuan slowly raised her head. Her face was completely distorted. Her skin was like rubber products under high temperature. Bubbles of various sizes bulged on the surface, covering all her original facial features.

"A weird thing! It's a weird thing!" The crowd of onlookers were stunned at first, and then someone exclaimed.

The crowd suddenly became chaotic.

"Ye Jiu! Take your men to maintain order! Xi Yi, take the injured operator down for treatment... I'll handle this here."

"What did you call me?" Wang Xiyi was stunned for a moment. "You should have no problem dealing with this girl, right? The aura she exudes is not weak."

"If I can't even clean this thing, I might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill myself." Sun Hang said, "I can't afford to lose face."

"Okay." Wang Xiyi didn't waste any words. She immediately flashed to the side of the field operator with the broken arm and lifted him into the air.

Chen Hongjuan's hatred seemed to have always been locked on Sun Hang. She did not chase after the field operator, but instead limped towards Sun Hang with a staggering step.

"Bah!"

Before Sun Hang could make a move, a gunshot was heard suddenly beside him.

Ling Xiao tightly grasped the pistol that Sun Hang had given him with both hands and pulled the trigger at Chen Hongjuan, who had turned into a monster.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!"

Three consecutive shots hit Chen Hongjuan's body accurately, causing her to fall back repeatedly. However, the wounds caused by the bullets were not fatal to her. Her breath did not weaken, but became stronger.

"It's hatred and resentment." Sun Hang murmured.

"What?" Ling Xiao asked subconsciously.

"The more you attack her, the stronger her resentment will be, and this emotion is most likely the reason why she has become weird," said Sun Hang.

Although he didn't know why a normal person suddenly turned into a monster, it was obvious that this was closely related to the shadow representing emotions that he had observed before and attached to Chen Hongjuan.

"Then what should I do?" Ling Xiao asked.

"You are not needed here." Sun Hang said, "Go and follow the guy in armor to evacuate the people."

"Okay." Ling Xiao didn't hesitate at all and immediately ran after Ye Jiu.

Chen Hongjuan didn't even turn her head to look at her son, but stared at him intently - even though her eyes were completely covered by blood bubbles, Sun Hang could still feel that gaze filled with resentment and hatred, as if it were real.

"Kill you...I'm going to kill you..." Chen Hongjuan kept saying it, and with every word, a large amount of deformed flesh and blood mixed with a smelly liquid of unknown composition would flow out of her mouth and fall to the ground.

She had forgotten her son, the generous welfare benefits, and the document severing the parent-child relationship. All her obsessions had turned into hatred for Sun Hang, a specific target. Her only obsession was to cut Sun Hang into eight pieces... or maybe eighty pieces.

This obsession made Sun Hang think of the strange baby and the vengeful spirit in Longyan Temple...Are human obsessions and emotions essentially the same thing as the memes of strange creatures?
Chen Hongjuan took another step forward, and one of her arms suddenly melted and turned into a blood-red whip, which lashed directly towards Sun Hang's head!
With a flash of silver light, the long whip broke into several sections. Chen Hongjuan herself was also hit hard and flew out horizontally, creating a big hole in the door of an SUV.

Sun Hang wanted to continue observing her situation, but he unexpectedly discovered that after Chen Hongjuan was completely transformed, the huge shadow symbolizing negative emotions had disappeared. The only thing Sun Hang could still perceive was the weird meme that was constantly "proliferating" on Chen Hongjuan's body.

"Is it because it has become a concrete meme... that's why it disappeared?" Sun Hang pondered as he controlled the liquid metal flying blade to cut the "proliferated" offensive organs on Chen Hongjuan's body into thin slices... He did not want to kill Chen Hongjuan directly, but planned to take her into custody... As a "normal human" who did not previously carry any memes and suddenly became weird in public, there are really too many things about Chen Hongjuan that are worth studying.

"Sun Hang..." Ye Jiu's voice suddenly came from the headset, "Chen Hongjuan...could she be infected by you?"

"Don't fart." Wang Xiyi's voice rang out immediately, "Sun Hang didn't even touch her, how could it be Sun Hang who infected her? If she was going to be infected, you should be the first one to be infected!"

"I... I was just saying it casually... This is fucking too weird. How could a normal person suddenly turn into a monster? Isn't there even a transition period after becoming an infected person?"

(End of this chapter)