Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 256 Jiang Yu
Sun Hang thought he would see Jiang Yu in the operating room or the ward, but he didn't expect that as soon as he returned to the institute, he was taken to the equipment training ground on the basement floor.

After waking up, Jiang Yu was no longer the emaciated look she had been tortured by illness. Her face was rosy, her breathing was steady and long, and even her hair, which had fallen out, had grown back.

She was wearing a standard hunter combat uniform and a monitoring bracelet that all monster hunters had on her wrist. She held a well-made compound bow in her left hand, and three arrows were sandwiched between the fingers of her right hand, lightly resting on the bowstring.

"Are you starting rehabilitation so soon?" Sun Hang glanced at Jiang Yu, then looked at Song Yarong and Yang Lian who were standing next to them - Yang Qi still had a lot of work to do, and did not come down with them.

"You are...Sun Hang?" Jiang Yu glanced at Sun Hang. "They told me that the strange virus in my body came from you?"

"To be precise, it's called a meme," Sun Hang corrected. The term "weird virus" is more popular and widely circulated among the public, but it is rarely used among professionals... If a researcher uses the term "weird virus" to refer to a meme in his or her paper, he or she will not only be despised by his or her peers, but his or her paper may even be rejected by his or her supervisor and asked to be rewritten...

There are many similarities between memes and viruses, but the biggest difference is that a virus is a living organism, while a meme is a "carrier" that stores information in a special way.

They can be contagious, they can proliferate, and they can also die like cells...but one thing that is generally recognized in the academic community is that memes are definitely not a form of life.

Compared to viruses, memes are essentially closer to computer programs that exist only in the virtual world.

"Okay... meme." Jiang Yu's ears blushed slightly. "What I want to ask is, is what Researcher Song said to me true?"

"Researcher Song? Song Yarong?" Sun Hang turned his head and glanced at Song Yarong. "What sentence?"

"After I was infected by your weirdness...your meme, a subordinate relationship was established between you and me. I will unconditionally carry out all your instructions..." Jiang Yu said.

"That's the theory, but I usually don't interfere with your life." Sun Hang pointed at Song Yarong with his thumb. "She was also infected with the Tai Sui meme. Look at her life now, isn't it the same as before?"

"You're wrong, the changes are huge." Song Yarong chuckled, "The strengthening effect of the Tai Sui meme allows me to endure super-high-intensity overtime work without having to worry about oily skin and dark circles. I saved hundreds of dollars on skin care products and cosmetics last month alone."

"Isn't the most crucial point to reduce the probability of sudden death?" Sun Hang glanced at her and teased.

"My workload is not enough to cause sudden death. Director Yang is the one you should be worried about." Song Yarong said, "She has been sleeping less than four hours a day for a week, and she is basically relying on drugs to keep her going."

"I tried to persuade her, but it was useless." Sun Hang sighed and turned his gaze back to Jiang Yu. "These things should all be in the agreement. Do you mean... that you regret it now?"

"No... I don't regret it." Jiang Yu quickly shook his head and said, "I am very grateful to you... If it weren't for you, I would be a dead man now."

"So you signed up for conscription in the first place just to get some pension?" Sun Hang asked.

Jiang Yu lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly, and murmured, "In order to treat my illness... my family not only sold the house, but also owed a lot of money. At that time, I had no chance to repay my parents for raising me. I just wanted to use my last value to find a way to help them pay off the debt, so that they don't have to live such a hard life in the second half of their lives..."

"You are indeed filial, but unfortunately you are not very smart." Sun Hang muttered, "How can you be so honest as to write down your physical condition clearly... But then again, even if you concealed the truth, you couldn't hide it from the interviewer during the first round of screening..."

"I..." Jiang Yu lowered his head even lower, "I don't know... At that time... I just wanted to try it..."

Sun Hang noticed that there was a faint shadow behind Jiang Yu. As the temperature of her cheeks gradually increased, the shadow gradually became more solid.

Is shame also a negative emotion? What would happen if shame was pushed to its limit? Would the memes generated by negative emotions directly cover the Tai Sui memes in Jiang Yu, thus transforming her into something like Chen Hongjuan?

But Sun Hang was just thinking about it. Everyone has negative emotions. Song Yarong and Yang Lian also have similar shadows... Compared with Chen Hongjuan that day, their negative emotions are almost negligible. As for the distance to be transformed into a weird meme, it is even worse.

"Let the past be the past. Since you have passed the screening, it means that you will soon become a trainee at the training base." Sun Hang said seriously, "You should know what kind of enemy you will face in the future, right?"

"A weird thing...right?" Jiang Yu raised her head and bit her lip lightly. "I will train hard!"

"You said you wanted to meet me, probably to show me your abilities, right?" Sun Hang glanced at the compound bow in her hand. "This is the thing in your file that interests me the most. If it weren't for the disease, you would have been a famous archery athlete in the Federation, right?"

"I won the gold medal in the Federal Archery Championship four years ago...but at that time I felt that improving my own level was more important, so I rejected all business cooperation invitations." Jiang Yu said, "Looking back now, if it weren't for my naivety, my mother wouldn't have to bear so much pressure later..."

"You are right. Improving yourself is the most important thing. As for what will happen in the future, no one can predict it." Sun Hang shook his head and sighed, "Although you can no longer participate in various sports competitions held by the Federation as an infected person, it does not mean that you have lost the opportunity to stand out... In fact, the Federation has always wanted to create a group of heroic hunters. If you can survive the cruel battlefield in the future, you may receive dozens or even hundreds of times more business cooperation invitations than before."

Sun Hang couldn't help but think of some advertisements he had seen in Chunming City - many big brands hired spokespeople not from the entertainment industry but famous monster hunters. In the eyes of the public, a hunter with strong strength and brilliant record is much more valuable than those pretty boys who can only sing, dance, rap and play basketball.

With the help of the federal government, related business activities are in full swing. For those famous hunters, their income is no less than that of top entertainment stars.

"I have no interest in becoming a hero." Jiang Yu shook his head, "I just want my mother and sister to live a good life in the future."

"Very good." Sun Hang clapped his hands, "Then, the next step is the talent show." "Uh..." Jiang Yu was stunned at first when he heard Sun Hang say "talent show", and then he immediately understood what Sun Hang meant. He quickly walked to a white line drawn on the ground and raised the compound bow in his hand.

Sun Hang noticed that the compound bow in her hand seemed to have undergone special modifications. The bowstring was not a single strand, but was made up of three normal bowstrings wrapped together.

This means that the arrows this bow can deliver are more powerful, but it also requires more strength from the user.

However, considering that the Tai Sui meme can strengthen the human body, this is not surprising.

In ancient times, the strength of a warrior was often described by "how heavy a bow he can pull". However, with the help of a pulley, a modern compound bow can greatly save the amount of force needed by the archer to draw the bow - with the same amount of force, the arrows shot by a compound bow are much stronger than those shot by an ordinary straight bow in terms of speed and power.

Jiang Yu's arm muscles were tense as he pulled the bowstring little by little. The bow arm made of high-strength material had reached the deformation limit allowed by the mechanical structure, and kept making sounds of being unable to bear the weight, as if it would break at any time - the bow arm was trembling, the bowstring was trembling as well, but the arrow on the bow was very stable and was not affected at all.

Jiang Yu took a deep breath and then held it.

"Oh!"

With a loud bang, without turning on the bullet time, Sun Hang's naked eyes couldn't even catch the trajectory of the arrow - at the moment the bowstring sounded, the center of the steel target two hundred meters away had been pierced by the arrow.

This training ground was originally prepared for firearms. Sun Hang had also tried shooting at the same steel target. At a distance of 200 meters, a 7.62mm full-power bullet would only leave a few pits the size of wine glasses on it, and there was no way to penetrate it... But Jiang Yu's arrow went straight into the thick steel target, and the tip of the arrow came out directly from the back of the target.

"What anti-armor arrows..." Sun Hang glanced at the remaining two arrows, "Speaking of which, these are not ordinary arrows at all, right?"

"You have a good eye." Song Yarong walked over. "This is a special equipment sealed in the institute. Its previous owner was also a monster hunter who was good at using bows and arrows. He asked the equipment department to build this bow and arrow. The maximum tension of the bowstring is 370 pounds, and the arrow is made of tungsten alloy, with a self-sharpening arrow tip made of depleted uranium... To be honest, the cost of this arrow is more than 10,000 yuan."

Sun Hang subconsciously thought of the two crossbows in the underground palace.

The arrow that Jiang Yu just shot was probably no less powerful than a crossbow.

"In addition to armor-piercing arrows, there are also explosive arrows, corrosive arrows, burning arrows, and special arrows that can carry various high-tech equipment... However, most of the arrows have been consumed, and special arrows need to be made according to the content of the mission, so there are only these three armor-piercing arrows left." Song Yarong said.

"How did the previous owner of this bow die?" Sun Hang asked, "I'm a little curious."

"He encountered a compound monster similar to the monster baby. After he shot the monster to death, another spirit monster hidden inside the monster broke free. The physical attack of the bow and arrow has no effect on spirit monsters, so..."

Song Yarong didn't continue talking, but Sun Hang had already guessed what happened next without her saying anything.

"Pure physical attacks do have great limitations..." Sun Hang thought to himself, "If I want to customize a strange device for Jiang Yu, I should focus on dealing with special types of strange creatures..."

In Sun Hang's view, hunters who only have physical attack means are at the bottom of the combat power contempt chain - with the current level of technology, this type of hunter can be completely "replaced".

Take the "Iron Wall" for example. In a one-on-one duel, there are very few hunters who can defeat him... But the problem is that the battle between humans and monsters is a war, and war is never decided by a one-on-one duel.

Tiebi can tear ten heavy tanks apart with his bare hands, but the factory can always produce an eleventh tank... The same is true in war. He can kill a hundred monsters, but there will always be a hundred and first monster rushing in front of him.

In reality, it was most likely a spirit-like monster that passed directly through his body, and no matter how he swung his fists, he could not touch the other party at all.

As for those rule-based and phenomenon-based strange things, they cannot be solved by relying on simple force.

The current limit of human physical attack is not those powerful and unrivaled level hunters, but those high-yield nuclear weapons sealed in the warehouse.

Jiang Yu's arrow was indeed amazing, but if it was a 100mm caliber artillery... after one shot, let alone penetrating it, the steel target would probably have ceased to exist.

"So how did you deal with the spirit-like monsters you encountered before?" Sun Hang asked.

"There are usually special ways to eliminate spirit-like monsters... such as the ghost baby." Song Yarong said, "After some spirit-like monsters attach themselves to entities, physical attacks can have an effect on them. But for some spirit-like monsters that are not subject to such restrictions, they can only be dealt with by hunters with similar abilities."

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen any hunters infected by spirit-like monster memes yet... What do they look like? Do they also float in the air like ghosts?" Sun Hang asked curiously.

He thought of the Anglo-Saxon hunter with the ability to walk through walls who died on the nameless island... Could it be that the meme that infected that guy came from some kind of spiritual creature?
"I haven't seen it either... There are very few hunters of this type, and their files are highly confidential." Song Yarong shrugged helplessly.

(End of this chapter)