Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 254 "God-killing Spear"

Ling Xiao shook his head.

"The so-called strange equipment is strange things that can be tamed and controlled by humans." Sun Hang said, "And the qualified people are the ones who control these strange things."

Ling Xiao nodded.

Sun Hang once again pulled the long sword out of the terracotta warrior's hand and said to Ling Xiao, "This sword is actually also a strange object. Its ability is that after it hits the target, it can create an air blade as long as the sword blade in the direction of the attack... But for those who can't control it, the appearance of the air blade depends on luck."

Sun Hang swung the sword in his hand and slashed at the terracotta soldier more than a dozen times, but only one of the slashes triggered the effect of the air blade, leaving a shallow scar on the terracotta soldier's armor.

"Have you ever played video games?" Sun Hang asked.

Ling Xiao nodded again.

"This sword is like a weapon with attack effects in the game, but in the hands of an ordinary person, the probability of its attack effects being triggered is only about 5%. But in the hands of a qualified person, this probability can be greatly increased, and it is even possible to be %." ​​Sun Hang continued, "This is just an ordinary trick weapon. For some powerful trick weapons, if an unqualified person touches it, not only will he not be able to exert its power, but he will also be easily backlashed..."

"Backlash?"

"Let's not talk about the distant past. Let's just talk about the armor that Ye Jiu is wearing. It looks like a movie prop. It's a set of strange equipment called 'Shafa'. Don't think that Ye Jiu is walking around like nothing happened when he wears it. If it were someone else, as soon as he puts on the Shafa, his mind would be controlled immediately and he would become a bloodthirsty madman who would kill anyone he sees."

"How... did he become a qualified person?" Ling Xiao asked.

"I don't know either." Sun Hang shrugged. Ye Jiu had never mentioned this matter. "But now the Xiazhou Federation's method of selecting qualified people is very simple and crude. It is to test your synchronization rate with a certain strange equipment. As long as the synchronization rate is within the qualified range, you can become a qualified person for the strange equipment... This method, I feel, is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

"But there are exceptions." Sun Hang continued, "I also know a qualified person whose strange weapon is a skeleton, which is an incompletely transformed infected person, similar to a zombie. She does not need synchronization to control the skeleton. As long as she establishes a consciousness link with the skeleton during the transformation process, the skeleton will automatically become her strange weapon after the transformation is complete... But this exception cannot be replicated because the qualified person herself is not an ordinary person."

“Is she infected?”

"No, no memes were detected in her body." Sun Hang said, "But I suspect that she is most likely a 'superpower'... In this world where weird things are running around, I don't think it's outrageous that a few superpowers have emerged among humans."

"Are people with superpowers born with it?"

"I still don't know. But I think the number of people with special abilities should be much smaller than that of monster hunters. Otherwise, the main force of humans fighting against monsters will not be us hunters." Sun Hang said.

"..." Ling Xiao looked at Sun Hang, then at the sword in his hand, without saying anything.

"But don't be discouraged. There is another way that can make you qualified to use the Trickster Equipment."

"any solution?"

"The method of matching qualified people with strange equipment is too inefficient..." Sun Hang raised his hand and waved it. A passage suddenly opened up among the terracotta warriors surrounding the bone throne. He walked along the passage to the bone throne and picked up the red square crystal. "The correct way should be to tailor strange equipment for qualified people... Shoot the arrows first, then draw the target. This way, there will be no problem with synchronization rate."

"Tailor-made...for you?" Ling Xiao's eyes were focused on the red square crystal.

"Tell me what kind of strange equipment you want." Sun Hang sat on the bone throne, looking down at Ling Xiao below, "But considering the stability factor, I suggest you choose something more basic, such as a knife or sword, or a bow and arrow, armor or something like that."

Although strange equipment is not necessarily an object-type strange object, Sun Hang still thinks it is better to be conservative for his first attempt.

Ling Xiao thought for a moment, then took something out of his bag.

It was the pistol that Sun Hang gave him.

"Pistol..." Sun Hang thought for a moment, "This is a smart choice. As the saying goes, a gun is fast at seven steps away, and it is accurate and fast at seven steps away... But I'm not sure what effect the strange pistol will have if it fires ordinary ammunition. Are you sure you want this?"

Ling Xiao nodded seriously.

Two hyphae emerged from Sun Hang's body, one of them rolled up the pistol that Ling Xiao took out, and the other one quietly stuck to the back of Ling Xiao's neck.

"It may be a little painful, so try to stay relaxed. If you can't stand it anymore, tell me and I will stop."

"Okay." Ling Xiao said.

Sun Hang held the red square crystal in one hand, while his thoughts and consciousness followed the mycelium and embedded into the interior of the gun.

This is a "Type 02 Pistol" produced by Siberian Military Industry, but Sun Hang's is a customized one, a basic self-defense weapon issued to formal investigators or field operators of the research institute.

The gun uses 9mm pistol bullets and has average power. It can only deal with unprotected targets at close range. If the distance is beyond 50 meters, or the target is wearing a Kevlar bulletproof vest (even without a bulletproof plate), the deterrent effect of this gun will be greatly reduced.

Sun Hang's official service gun is actually a 12.7mm hunting pistol...but if Ling Xiao were to use that thing, one shot would probably break his wrist bone.

A strange force surged out from the inside of the red square crystal and seeped into the gaps between the pistol parts along the mycelium. At the same time, the mycelium attached to the back of Ling Xiao's neck penetrated his flesh and pierced directly into his spine.

The sudden pain made Ling Xiao tremble for a moment, but he quickly stood at attention and looked at Sun Hang expressionlessly.

"This is just the beginning."

As soon as Sun Hang finished speaking, Ling Xiao felt an electric shock-like sensation spreading along his spine to all parts of his body. His hands and feet suddenly went limp, and he lost control and fell to the ground, beginning to twitch rhythmically.

"Paralysis of the body is a normal phenomenon. After all, I have temporarily cut off your central nervous system." Sun Hang said lightly.

"I...I...it's okay..."

"Don't force yourself. Just say it out loud if you can't help it." "Continue... continue."

"We just completed the connection. The more painful things are still to come."

After Sun Hang finished speaking, Ling Xiao felt a horrible suction force coming from his spine, as if it was going to suck out all the bone marrow in his body... This feeling could not be considered pain, but it was far more unbearable than pain. Ling Xiao, who was curled up on the ground, was shaking violently, and his facial features, which had originally been expressionless, were now completely distorted together.

"Hiss... Is it so painful?" Sun Hang looked at Ling Xiao who was lying on the ground with a guilty look.

In fact, Sun Hang, who was in charge of the operation, had no idea what was going on. He simply used his "wishes come true" ability to issue an order to the red crystal - "Create a pistol-shaped weird thing that this person can control."

There was a burst of intensive metal friction sounds, and the Type 02 pistol was disintegrated by an invisible force. All the parts began to deform, and then reassembled together.

During this process, the power from the red square crystal was constantly influencing every part of the gun - Sun Hang could clearly feel that some new meme fragments appeared in the parts of the gun.

But what made him curious was that in addition to the power of the red square crystal, there seemed to be something else that was extracted from Ling Xiao's body and integrated into the gun.

Sun Hang didn’t know what that thing was, but it was definitely not a meme—after all, Ling Xiao didn’t have that thing in his body.

The entire recasting process took a full hour. Ling Xiao was exhausted, with sweat even seeping onto his coat. He stared blankly at the ceiling of the underground palace, gasping for breath.

The red square crystal has returned to calm, and a pistol that looks similar to the Type 02 appeared in Sun Hang's hand.

The shell of the Type 02 pistol was originally made of matte technology, which feels delicate and solid, and does not produce any reflections - but now this recast pistol looks like it has been polished and electroplated all over, and it is shiny and bright. Sun Hang can even see his own face reflected in the gun.

In addition, there are many patterns on the gun body that are full of strange beauty. There are such patterns on the slide, barrel, grip, trigger and even the internal bolt. When Sun Hang tried to grasp the pistol, he could vaguely feel a special suction coming from the pattern - but this suction is extremely weak, at best, similar to the static electricity that can stick hair to a collar.

During the recasting process, Sun Hang clearly felt that there was a value for him to choose - this value seemed to be the "synchronization rate" between this strange pistol and Ling Xiao. Sun Hang originally wanted to directly increase the synchronization rate to 100%, but considering that Ye Jiu said that once the synchronization rate between the strange weapon equipment and the qualified person exceeds 75%, it will become dangerous. Sun Hang finally set this value at a slightly conservative 60% or more.

However, what he didn't know was that this value, which he thought was very conservative, would definitely cause a huge uproar if it were heard by those experts who specialized in studying strange equipment. Every 1% increase in synchronization rate would be considered a huge improvement for both strange equipment and qualified individuals.

Ye Jiu's synchronization rate is only 53%, but he is still among the top in terms of synchronization rate among the current qualified people.

Except for the "exception" Zhong Ling.

"I just don't know what will happen if it exceeds 75%..." Sun Hang muttered to himself, "Ye Jiu only said that it would be very dangerous if it exceeds 75%, but he didn't mention how dangerous it is. If it doesn't work... Next time, try to build yourself a strange equipment with a synchronization rate of more than 75%?"

Just as Sun Hang was thinking about this question, Ling Xiao finally recovered. He climbed up from the ground with some difficulty and touched the back of his neck.

The mycelium had been pulled out long ago, leaving only a small wound on the back of his neck, which had already formed a scab.

“The product is made…but…”

Sun Hang tried to sense the ability of this strange pistol, but the information that emerged in his mind made his expression suddenly become a little awkward.

"But what?" Ling Xiao looked up and asked.

"This gun has a name, and its name is quite consistent with your vision." Sun Hang said with a complicated expression, "It is called 'God-killing Gun'."

For some reason, Sun Hang subconsciously thought of the "Spear of Longinus" in the Bible.

"God-killing Spear?" Ling Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up.

"The name is just a small matter. The real problem is its ability." Sun Hang continued, "The bullets fired from this gun can deprive the target of its vitality. For the weird creatures, it can erase the opponent's memes... It sounds powerful, but the specific power depends on the price you have to pay."

"It's my life...right?" Ling Xiao asked.

"how do you know?"

"Just now when I was in a trance, I seemed to hear a voice asking me what kind of creature I wanted. A similar thought popped up in my head, and I told it that I wanted a gun that could kill gods." Ling Xiao said, "The voice agreed, but this gun needs lives as bullets."

"...You should put it another way." Sun Hang said speechlessly, "Yes, theoretically there is no upper limit to the power of this gun, but without paying for its vitality, it is no different from an ordinary pistol... And if you want to use it to hunt powerful monsters, I'm afraid you will be beaten to a pulp first after one shot."

From a certain perspective, the gun's slightly childish name is indeed correct.

As long as enough lives are paid, it... can indeed kill gods.

Rather than calling it a "payment", Sun Hang felt that it was more like a "sacrifice".

Suppose there was a way to get many people to "pull the trigger together"...sacrifice a hundred people, a thousand people...or even an entire city.

The bullet fired from this gun might really be able to kill the so-called "God".

Damn it, I just wanted to try it out, but how did I end up with such a BUG?

The most interesting thing is that this gun can only be used by Ling Xiao... Even if someone has to be sacrificed, Ling Xiao must be the medium to pay for this vitality - in other words, if that god-killing shot is really to be fired, no matter how many lives have to be sacrificed, Ling Xiao will definitely not survive.

"This thing... I suggest you don't use it." Sun Hang said, "Put this gun away, and don't tell anyone about its ability. I will make you another strange thing next time... As for this gun, just treat it as a trump card that you can use when you are in desperate situations."

(End of this chapter)