Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 244 Greed, anger and ignorance

The team responsible for taking in Chen Hongjuan arrived at the scene quickly, and the two team leaders happened to be Yang Qi, who was working overtime at the station, and Song Yarong, who was forced to work overtime by Yang Qi.

"As soon as I saw the mission location, I knew it was you who was causing trouble again." Yang Qi glanced at the field operators who were spraying liquid nitrogen on Chen Hongjuan, then turned her head and shifted her gaze back to Sun Hang. "Tell me, what exactly is going on?"

"It's unfair. This has nothing to do with me... As for the reason, isn't it clearly stated in the submitted briefing?" Sun Hang said.

"Are you trying to tell me that... she turned into a monster because she was angry and ashamed because her son wanted to cut off ties with her and couldn't get the welfare benefits?" Yang Qi narrowed her eyes. "Isn't this really a reason you made up on the spur of the moment?"

"So in your mind I'm such an unreliable person. I'm sad." Sun Hang immediately looked aggrieved.

"Have you always thought that you are a very reliable person in my mind?" Yang Qi rolled his eyes at Sun Hang. "Well, even if the contents of the briefing are true... but even if my teacher and I believe it, the bigwigs above may not believe it. If a person would turn into a weirdo because of this little stimulation, there might not be many living people left in the Xiazhou Federation..."

"Is it possible that Chen Hongjuan is a special individual?"

"It's better to think about how to convince the people above..." Yang Qi suddenly felt a headache and couldn't help rubbing his temples.

She believed that Sun Hang would not deceive her, and she also believed that a normal human being who had undergone rigorous physical examinations in the resettlement camp would turn into a monster without any warning...but the problem was that it was useless for her to believe.

The members of the Federal Parliament have to believe it!

Although Sun Hang would not be punished for this kind of thing, once his superiors determined that this was an incident where an infected person infected normal humans, then subsequent troubles that needed to be dealt with would ensue... He had already been working overtime at a very high intensity during this period of time. If these troubles were added to it, he was afraid that he would really die suddenly...

Just when Yang Qi had begun to think about how to write the report to be submitted to Chunming City, Sun Hang had already started making a phone call.

"Who are you calling?" Yang Qi was stunned and asked.

"Old man Pei." Sun Hang said as a matter of course, "Since you think this matter will turn into a big trouble, then I will let Old man Pei solve this trouble."

"You can't disturb Mr. Pei for everything. Wait a moment..." Before Yang Qi finished speaking, Sun Hang's call was connected.

I have to say that the 24-hour hotline that Pei Zongjun gave to Sun Hang is quite useful.

"I already know what happened in Tianfu City Refugee Resettlement Camp No. 6." Pei Zongjun's voice came from the other end of the phone. "Don't worry, I will explain this matter clearly to the parliament."

"Uh... do you know what's going on?" Sun Hang was stunned for a moment. He thought that he had only sent a briefing of a few hundred words to Pei Zongjun. The other party couldn't just use this briefing to argue with the parliament, right? This was not convincing at all.

“Do you know the three poisons?”

“Never heard of it.” Sun Hang subconsciously wanted to shake his head, but he suddenly realized that the other party couldn’t see his movements either, so he turned his neck back to its original position stiffly - and when it came to Yang Qi, it was as if Sun Hang suddenly turned his head and looked at him.

This made her nervous instantly - could it be that Mr. Pei mentioned her on the phone?

"The concept of the Three Poisons comes from Buddhism. It is also called the Three Defilements and the Three Fires. The three poisons are greed, anger, and ignorance. Each one corresponds to the root of an evil thought. They are the source of all evil deeds and the most difficult enemies that practitioners need to face in their cultivation of their mind." Pei Zongjun said.

"To be honest, I don't quite understand." Sun Hang answered honestly.

"Greed is easy to understand. It is desire. All intelligent creatures have desires, such as greed for life, greed for power, greed for fame, greed for profit... Even the desire for knowledge and truth can be classified into this category. From fame, wealth, love, and love to the sounds, colors, smells, touches, and tastes... all are greed. Greed is the source of all troubles. If desires cannot be satisfied, people will have troubles... Of course, we are not saints, we all have desires. This does not mean that desires are necessarily bad things. Human civilization has developed to its current level under the impetus of various desires... But once desires get out of control, humans can easily become slaves controlled by them."

Sun Hang suddenly remembered that at the edge of the huge shadow behind Chen Hongjuan, there seemed to be silhouettes like shackles and chains. These silhouettes connected her limbs to the shadow. Compared with the huge shadow, the tiny Chen Hongjuan was just a controlled slave...

In other words, like a puppet being manipulated.

"The second poison is anger. Anger is resentment, anger, and hatred. The reason why people have anger is because there are things in the world that do not suit their wishes. Everyone has anger, but most people can control this emotion..."

"So, being blinded by anger means that this resentment takes over and controls a person?" Sun Hang immediately drew inferences from one instance.

"Yes, but not entirely." Pei Zongjun continued, "Many people seem calm, but their hearts are filled with hatred and resentment. The poison of hatred erodes their body and mind day by day... In fact, in the archives of Tianshu Tower, there are examples of resentment and hatred being transformed into memes, but in order to avoid causing public panic, these files have been sealed and not made public."

"No wonder..." Sun Hang muttered to himself. People without permission cannot see it, and people with permission will not go out of their way to look for such files - he himself belongs to the latter.

Although Sun Hang had the authority to freely browse the Tianshu Tower archives, he did not even have time to look at the list of items stored in the Tianshu Tower, so how could he have the leisure time to look through the vast amount of files and archives?

"Stupidity is the simplest poison that needs no explanation. It makes one's mind dark, ignorant, and irrational... I read the briefing you sent me. This Ms. Chen Hongjuan can be said to have all three poisons, and has been corroded to an extremely serious degree. It's not surprising that she has turned into a weird thing."

"Are you going to use this Buddhist theory to convince those people in the parliament?"

“Why not? Although religious gods and Buddhas are fictional, greed, anger, and ignorance are real. When dealing with this kind of culture, we must learn to discard its dross and retain its essence…” Pei Zongjun said lightly.

"Oh no, my scalp is so itchy, I feel like it's going to grow a brain." Sun Hang scratched his head and joked.

"Okay, don't worry about Chen Hongjuan. If you need any research equipment or information, feel free to look for it in Tianshu Tower... But there is one thing I need to tell you in advance."

"Keep it a secret, right?" Sun Hang picked his ear with his little finger. "I can guess it with my heel."

"Yes, you can understand what I just said, and the members of the parliament can understand it, but not every ordinary citizen can understand it. Once this matter is made public, in the eyes of most people, the fact is that a woman who did not carry any weird memes on her body was transformed into a weird without any warning. This will cause great panic in society and cause a series of unpredictable losses."

"You are the one who said that the Xiazhou Federation has been peaceful for a long time and people have no sense of crisis. You are also the one who needs to block the news to maintain social stability. You have said both positive and negative things. What can I say?" Sun Hang couldn't help but complain. "These two points are not contradictory... We need to make people realize that all mankind is on the brink of danger, but this must be done step by step... If we take too big a step, it is easy to get into trouble." Pei Zongjun was talking and suddenly blurted out a swear word.

"If this statement of yours were to get out, your highly respected image would be completely ruined."

"Go ahead and spread it. No one will believe it anyway." A gentle laugh came from the other end of the phone.

"...There are at least two hundred people who witnessed Chen Hongjuan's transformation. I'm afraid this matter is not so easy to cover up. Instead of asking these two hundred people and everyone involved in the operation to sign a confidentiality agreement, I have another solution."

"What can you do? Tell me?"

"According to the testimony of Ling Xiao, the son of Chen Hongjuan, she had taken her children to bypass the guards of the resettlement camp a few days ago, sneaked into the forbidden ruins area, and held a sacrificial ceremony in the ruins." Sun Hang said, "We can completely say that she was infected because she violated the regulations of the resettlement camp and entered the restricted area without permission... This may also make those who are impatient to stay in the resettlement camp more honest."

In fact, Chen Hongjuan and her children did encounter a strange creature that day, but the creature did not attack her.

"That's indeed a solution." Pei Zongjun said, "Then do as you say."

"OK, if there's nothing else, I'll hang up first." Sun Hang said, and cut off the communication without hesitation.

"You...are you still so rude when talking to Mr. Pei?" Yang Qi couldn't help but muttered at the side.

"Red tape is the main culprit that affects work efficiency. Old Pei understands this much better than you." Sun Hang stretched out his hand and poked Yang Qi on the forehead. The latter immediately wanted to slap his hand away, but found that a tough hyphae was entangled around his wrist, making his hands unable to move.

"You...are becoming more and more arrogant!" Yang Qi said angrily.

"How can such a close interaction between colleagues be called arrogant?" Sun Hang chuckled and walked quickly to the front of the vehicle - Chen Hongjuan had been put into the permafrost coffin, and six field operators were working together to lift the permafrost coffin into the car.

As soon as the carriage door opened, a cold air suddenly overflowed, and a thin layer of white frost instantly condensed on the nearby concrete floor.

The panicked crowd had been properly controlled. Ling Xiao, who had completed his mission, walked over and watched expressionlessly as the container containing his biological mother was pushed into the carriage, without saying a word.

"No matter what, at least she's your mother... Tsk, I still don't even know who my mother is or where she is." Sun Hang whispered, "Don't you have any thoughts in your heart?"

"No." Ling Xiao replied.

Sun Hang slapped his forehead and said, "I almost forgot that all your emotions have been eaten up by that woman. It's useless to ask."

"What was eaten?" Wang Xiyi suddenly dropped from the sky, hugged Sun Hang's shoulders, and asked with a smile, "What delicious food did you eat again?"

"It didn't get eaten." Sun Hang pointed to the transfer vehicle not far away. The field operators wearing full protective clothing were connecting a large number of pipes extending from the car and the permafrost coffin. Song Yarong and other researchers were standing a little further away, staring at the tablets in their hands with nervous expressions, always paying attention to the various values ​​of the contents.

"I do want to eat it, but to be honest, the nutritional value of this thing is not high. Instead, it is more suitable to be thrown to these people in white coats doing research... It is such a waste to treat it as food." Sun Hang continued.

"Tsk... This car and these equipments remind me of some bad memories." Wang Xiyi pouted and said, "I was also transported back to the institute in the same way that day. Liquid nitrogen is really damn cold."

"At least you won't be sliced ​​and dissected." Sun Hang tilted his head.

"Fuck, I feel really bad all of a sudden. I want to practice boxing. Can you be my sparring partner?" Wang Xiyi patted Sun Hang's back vigorously. "There is a boxing ring in the fitness area of ​​the institute. Can you accompany me to practice for a while?"

"Really want to fight?"

"Nonsense, but let me make it clear in advance that you cannot use those special abilities and can only rely on your own physical strength. Otherwise, I won't be able to beat you."

"Your own physical strength?" Sun Hang looked at the dragon scales on Wang Xiyi's body and the long tail swinging behind her. "Don't tell me that this tail is also considered your 'physical strength'?"

"of course?"

Sun Hang suddenly had a bad feeling.

……

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Tianfu City, Weird Things Research Institute, Fitness Area.

The sound of "pa pa pa" continued to come from the boxing ring, and the sound of "crunch, crunch" of chewing potato chips came from the stands on one side. Song Yarong was holding a large bag of snacks and distributing them to the spectators one by one... In addition to bagged puffed foods such as potato chips, she actually got a large bucket of steaming popcorn from somewhere.

"You... aren't you in a hurry to study Chen Hongjuan?" Yang Qi glanced at her, took a handful of melon seeds, and couldn't help asking.

"No hurry, no hurry." Song Yarong laughed, "The battle between the Taotie meme infected and the Black Dragon meme infected is much more interesting than that middle-aged woman."

Beside Yang Qi, Ye Jiu was holding a mini-sized monocular telescope, staring at the fight on the ring, and making strange noises as he watched: "It must be that woman. She beat Sun Hang to his knees. She must be trying to capture him and force him to do something stupid!"

On the boxing ring, Sun Hang, who had just blocked a heavy punch from Wang Xiyi, turned around, pointed at Ye Jiu's nose and cursed: "Fuck Ye Jiu, why do you have such a good imagination?!"

(End of this chapter)