Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 259
The liquid metal blade instantly expanded to more than one meter in length, cutting open the squirming cocoon on the bed from top to bottom.

A naked body appeared in front of Sun Hang. Many parts of the body had already shown signs of dissolution, and were stuck together with the inner wall of the flesh cocoon. At first glance, it looked like a deformed human embryo, and the outer layer of flesh cocoon was equivalent to the mother's uterus...

But none of this matters... Sun Hang's attention has been completely attracted by something else.

On the head of this curled-up body, there was actually a head of snow-white, soft long hair... This long hair was extremely beautiful and smooth. Even though it was covered with that disgusting mucus, it did not make people feel disgusted at all, and they even wanted to reach out and touch it...

The last time Sun Hang saw such long white hair... was on Anna's head.

"Fuck, is this guy causing trouble again?"

With this thought in mind, Sun Hang took another step forward, grabbed the body's shoulders and turned it over.

Sure enough, that familiar, flawless face appeared in front of Sun Hang again.

At this moment, the face was covered with translucent mucus and looked a mess... But this appearance created a strange kind of beauty, a beauty that could directly arouse the brutal desires in human nature.

It’s a pity that Sun Hang didn’t have that feeling at all.

"Fuck it." Sun Hang cursed in a calm tone.

"Anna" smiled at him, and the next second, that perfect face began to melt, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a white skull.

Then, the surrounding scene changed... The original real scene suddenly became like a distorted old photo, with blurry grainy textures everywhere. Sun Hang turned his head and saw Xu Dasheng and Old Chen standing outside, maintaining their previous postures and not moving, as if they were frozen in time.

"What are you doing?"

A strong sense of trance came over him, and Sun Hang suddenly found himself still sitting in the driver's seat of the SUV, with both hands tightly gripping the steering wheel.

There was an empty wilderness all around, with nothing to see except some dry, low bushes.

"Where the hell is this? Is this still China?"

Sun Hang glanced at the navigation and found that the signal had been interrupted. The last recorded location was the toll station at the south gate of Tianfu City.

He took out his cell phone and found more than forty missed calls on the screen, nearly thirty of which were from Yang Qi.

In addition to missed calls, there are also a lot of unread text messages.

There was no signal on my cell phone either, but fortunately I could still read the messages I had received previously.

Sun Hang opened the unread messages one by one.

"Yang Qi: Sun Hang, what are you crazy about? You drove through 28 checkpoints? I called you but you didn't answer? Call me back as soon as you see the message!"

"Yang Qi: What's wrong with you?!"

"Yang Qi: Can you see the message I sent you?"

"Yang Qi: What's wrong with you? Reply quickly!"

"Yang Qi: Did something happen to you? Don't scare me!"

"Yang Qi: The monitoring bracelet shows that everything is normal. Can you tell me what happened? I won't stop you."

"Yang Qi: Are you in danger?"

"Yang Qi: What's the situation now? You are heading south now and are about to leave Tianfu City. What is there over there?"

"Yang Qi: Sun Hang, can you reply to my message? I have contacted everyone I can. We will set up a checkpoint on your route. If you are unwilling to tell me the reason, we can only use force to stop you."

"Wang Xiyi: Sun Hang, why didn't you reply to Yang Qi's message?"

"Wang Xiyi: I'm on my way to your location and will be there soon. Don't let anything happen to me. Do you hear me?"

"Wang Xiyi: Where are you? Where are you?"

The unread text messages ended here, and Sun Hang raised his left hand...the monitoring bracelet that was originally worn on his wrist had disappeared.

According to the content of the text message, it seemed that he lost consciousness while driving and fell into that illusion. In reality, under the control of some unknown force, he crashed through dozens of checkpoints along the way and drove out of Tianfu City directly from the south exit.

Obviously, Yang Qi's so-called "tough measures" failed to stop her... Wang Xiyi didn't even see her own shadow.

"So… where am I now?"

Sun Hang glanced at the time displayed on his mobile phone - assuming there was no problem with the time, it would have been fourteen hours since he left the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute.

At the speed of this off-road vehicle, it will take fourteen hours to head south...

It is enough to drive out of the control area of ​​the Xiazhou Federation... and enter the "occupied area" full of unknowns and dangers.

"Am I in the occupied area?"

Sun Hang's nose twitched slightly twice, but he didn't smell any strange scent.

It is now nine o'clock in the morning. Normally, the sky should be bright, but it is still pitch black outside the car window, which means that Sun Hang is still in the range of eternal night.

He had seen satellite images of Eternal Night on Yang Qi's computer. In addition to Shuzhou, a considerable area of ​​the occupied areas in the Yunnan-Yunnan region was also under Eternal Night.

Sun Hang opened the car door, jumped out, and walked around the car.

The condition of the off-road vehicle was relatively good. Apart from a number of new collision marks on the front of the vehicle, there was nothing wrong with everything else. I had to say that I was quite proud of myself. If it were someone else's car, and if they dared to ram the checkpoint like this, they would have been shot into a hornet's nest by the fully automatic weapons.

At worst, at least the tires are doomed.

But none of these soldiers dared to stop him, and he drove to such a hellish place.

There was still plenty of fuel left in the vehicle, more than enough to drive back to Tianfu City along the original route. However, behind the car, the ruts only extended for a dozen meters and could no longer be found.

Sun Hang wasn't sure whether he had changed direction unconsciously... If so, driving back along this remaining track would lead him deeper into the occupied area.

"Anna?" Sun Hang looked up and shouted, "Anna Dimoshchina?" No one responded.

Sun Hang looked into the distance, and could vaguely see the outlines of mountains under the black sky - it was a pity that he was not familiar with the terrain around Shuzhou to the extent that he could determine his own location just by looking at the shapes of the surrounding mountains... Not to mention, in Sun Hang's eyes, those mountains in the distance seemed to look the same.

There are also many mountains around Tianfu City, and these mountains all look the same to Sun Hang.

Sun Hang sighed and subconsciously tried to summon a liquid metal blade to float beside him...but soon he realized the problem.

The liquid metal blade had solidified and turned into a hard wrist guard that was firmly wrapped around his forearm.

He tried to summon the Tai Sui mycelium, but got no response.

He pulled out the dagger and cut the tip of his thumb. With a slight burning pain, bright red blood oozed out from the wound.

The wounds did not heal, and the pain did not go away.

Sun Hang frowned, took a step back and leaned against the door of the SUV.

He discovered that all his "abilities"... seemed to have disappeared.

He wasn't sure if the memes in his body had disappeared... because he no longer had the ability to even perceive memes.

"I have become a normal person again?" Sun Hang sucked the blood from his thumb and couldn't help but mutter in his heart, "Is this the real world... or another nested dream?"

If this is a dream, what should I do to break free from it?
Sun Hang looked at the hunting pistol in the holster.

He pulled out his pistol, turned it around, and pointed it at his own head.

The cold metal pressed against his jaw. If the index finger holding the trigger applied a little more force, Sun Hang's head would explode like a watermelon falling from a high altitude.

No, not just the head... With the power of this gun, even without those special abilities, it is enough to tear Sun Hang's entire upper body apart.

Only the part below the waist can be preserved, and the splattered blood and flesh will cover the ground beneath the feet and the body of the off-road vehicle like paint.

Sun Hang took a deep breath and then put down the gun.

His intuition told him that this was not a dream.

"If that's the case, why don't you just kill me instead of leading me to a place like this?" Sun Hang turned off the safety of his pistol. "Is it because... you can't kill me?"

"I have lost all my memetic abilities... I am just an ordinary person now. There is no reason why you can't kill me."

"But when I pointed the gun at myself, the feeling was too strong... It was as if the other party was trying to induce me to commit suicide... I even seemed to vaguely hear the laughter of a trick that had succeeded..."

"And the disappointed, slightly angry sigh I let out when I lowered the gun."

"Is it an illusion? Maybe."

Sun Hang looked around again, opened the car door and got back in the car.

"If I were to commit suicide, the three monkeys would surely come to stop me immediately, right?"

"So, is there a possibility..."

"The being that led me here, in order to deprive me of my ability, has died together with the three apes?"

"So you don't have the energy to kill me?"

"Or to put it another way... I'm no different from an ordinary person after losing my abilities. It doesn't matter whether you kill me or not. Instead of wasting time, why not just leave me here to fend for myself?"

Sun Hang took another deep breath and threw all these messy thoughts out of his mind.

There are only two things he needs to do now.

1. Survive. 2. Return to the place that belongs to human civilization.

He rummaged under the seat for a while and pulled out a flattened medical bag, from which he found a Band-Aid that had been expired for an unknown period of time - fortunately, the stickiness of the Band-Aid's tape did not disappear due to expiration.

"Damn it... I got used to it when I had the ability to heal myself. If I had known this, I wouldn't have cut it so deep."

Sun Hang bandaged the wound on his thumb while cursing. Then he folded down the back of the driver's seat and climbed into the second row of seats.

There is an emergency weapons box stuffed under the second row of seats. Inside is a short assault rifle with all accessories, three boxes of 100 rounds of ammunition, and six rifle grenades that can be fired using an under-slung launcher... In case of a real encounter with a strange creature, the firepower of this gun will definitely be more powerful than the hunting pistol in Sun Hang's hand, which only has seven bullets and no spare magazine.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the bullet is effective against the monster.

"Weapons, medicines... water and food..." Sun Hang counted the supplies in the car one by one. Although many of the supplies stored in the car had expired, military-grade canned food and compressed biscuits, although the shelf life was only three years, would not deteriorate even if they were kept in a sealed environment for thirty years... at most the taste would become worse.

This wilderness gave Sun Hang a feeling of extreme scarcity of supplies, with hardened and cracked soil, dead shrubs... plus the environmental factor of eternal night, finding safe food in the wilderness was as difficult as asking Yang Lian to dance on a pole for him in the office in a bunny girl costume... The latter might have a chance in the future, as for the former...

"Compressed biscuits are still more reliable." Sun Hang reclassified the supplies and put them away. He fastened the loaded assault rifle to the passenger seat with a seat belt so it was easily accessible. Then he took out a marker and drew the first stroke of the Chinese character "正" in the lower left corner of the windshield.

"Wilderness survival, first day, 72:60 am, location unknown." Sun Hang muttered to himself, "Cellphone battery remaining %, fuel tank remaining %, two spare fuel tanks are full. Ammunition remaining, rifle rounds, pistol rounds, grenade launchers. Food is estimated to last a week... Water may be a problem. Even if I drink sparingly, I'm afraid it will only be enough for three days at most."

"It's a pity that Yang Qi's car doesn't have a water filter... The water source in the occupied area is very dangerous. If I can't return to Shuzhou in three days... I'm afraid I can only drink my own urine."

"The first priority is to find the right direction. The second priority is to figure out where you are, collect supplies, and avoid possible monsters."

"First explore a distance of one kilometer in one direction, and then return here." Sun Hang memorized the distribution and shape of the surrounding bushes in his mind, then turned the car around and drove "back" along the rut that was only a dozen meters long.

Sun Hang drove very slowly, maintaining a snail's pace of 25 mph - in addition to the headlights, Yang Qi's off-road vehicle was also equipped with searchlights on all four sides. When all the searchlights were turned on, the area within a radius of at least 50 meters centered on the off-road vehicle could be illuminated.

In darkness, light can always bring people a little psychological comfort.

But at the same time, in the darkness, the only source of light will also make it the target of public criticism.

[Volume 1: End]

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