Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 260 Bait Block
However, Sun Hang still held on to a last glimmer of hope in his heart - he hoped that during the time he lost consciousness, he had only been driving around in Shuzhou and had not driven into the occupied area...

After all, the uninhabited suburban areas in Shuzhou are similar to here. As long as Sun Hang can find a road, all problems can be solved.

Just as he was thinking this, a figure suddenly appeared in his sight from the darkness and staggered towards the SUV.

Sun Hang immediately stepped on the brakes.

His right hand instantly rested on the rifle on the passenger seat.

"Here comes with bad intentions..." Sun Hang muttered to himself.

As the figure gradually approached, Sun Hang subconsciously held his breath.

However, to his surprise, the visitor was not some demon or monster, but an old lady with a slightly hunched figure. She was carrying a wicker basket and walking unsteadily with a cane in her other hand.

Only then did Sun Hang notice that under her feet there was a dirt road that was almost buried in dust.

Humanity?

Is this really not a occupied area?
No... There was no one there, and she was an old woman in her seventies, who ran out to the wilderness alone in such a pitch-dark environment... What's more, she didn't even have any lighting equipment.

"Click."

Sun Hang opened the safety of the assault rifle.

The old lady did not show any special reaction to the SUV parked in front of her. She just walked around the car and slowly passed by from the side like an ordinary passerby.

However, when passing by the car window, she still turned her head to glance at Sun Hang in the car.

The two of them looked at each other, and Sun Hang actually saw a hint of complicated emotions in each other's eyes.

Doubt, pity and a little kindness... this look is like an elder seeing a younger person who has gone astray.

The old lady sighed imperceptibly, lowered her head, and continued walking forward.

Just when Sun Hang was hesitating, she suddenly turned back, walked to the SUV, raised her withered arm, and gently knocked on the window glass.

"..." Sun Hang hesitated for a moment, and finally rolled down the window and asked in the most polite tone possible, "Mother-in-law, is there something wrong?"

"Little one, are you hungry?" asked the old lady.

Her voice was hoarse and rough, and her missing teeth made her speech sound a little glitchy... Apart from herself, Sun Hang could hardly find anything unusual about this old woman.

The fact that this old man appeared at this place at this time is itself the biggest anomaly.

"Uh... not bad." Sun Hang scratched his head. "By the way, mother-in-law, do you know where this is? The navigation in the car is broken and I'm lost."

"Shh..." The old man put his index finger in front of his lips and said softly, "Don't ask... Don't ask..."

Sun Hang narrowed his eyes... Could this old lady be a mental patient?

The family members didn't keep a close eye on him, so he sneaked out by himself and came to this wasteland?

Sun Hang's eyes swept over the old man's wrists and neck, trying to find the kind of ring or nameplate with the family's contact information... Unfortunately, except for a string of earthen silver necklaces hanging around the old man's neck that looked worthless, Sun Hang found nothing. Even if this is not a occupied area, under the cover of the eternal night, it is difficult to find any safe place in the entire Shuzhou area except Tianfu City... Small towns and villages can hardly protect themselves, let alone the desolate suburbs where there is no shop in front and no village behind.

No one can guarantee that a strange creature will jump out from any corner... In fact, in the current Shuzhou, except for those large human settlements, other places have become no different from the occupied areas, but the federal government has not officially recognized it yet.

"Excuse me, where are you going? It's dark here and in the wilderness, it's not safe. How about you give me a direction and I can drive you a while?" Sun Hang asked tentatively.

However, the old lady still shook her head, "Don't ask... don't ask... little one, are you hungry?"

This time, before Sun Hang could answer, the old lady tremblingly lifted the cloth covering the basket, took out a piece of food similar to rice cake from it, and handed it in through the car window.

"Old lady, I'm not hungry. You can keep this for yourself." As Sun Hang opened his mouth to refuse, the old woman let go of his hand. Sun Hang could only take the "rice cake".

The rice cake was cold, but not as hard as the cold rice cake Sun Hang remembered. It felt softer and stickier when pinched.

"Be careful on the road." Seeing Sun Hang take the rice cake, the old man showed a simple smile on his face, took two steps back, and continued walking in the original direction.

"Old woman--" Sun Hang wanted to call her, but the next second, he seemed to be hit by a spell and froze in place.

He saw the reflection of the "old man" in the rearview mirror of the car.

It was a walking mass of flesh and blood. With every step it took, a few drops of something that could not be told whether it was blood or pus would fall from its body. The crutch that "she" was leaning on with her right hand was actually a piece of dry bone extending from the wrist; and the "basket" on the other hand was actually a large mass of tumor-like hyperplastic tissue wrapped around her arm.

The only thing that has not changed is her still unsteady gait.

"Tsk..."

Sun Hang took a look at the "rice cake" in his hand, and then held it in front of the rearview mirror.

What lay in the palm of his hand was not rice cake at all, but a piece of rotten meat that was still wriggling.

"A trick? Or a cognitive distortion deep within the consciousness?"

"No, it shouldn't be cognitive distortion... If it was cognitive distortion, even if I saw her true face in the mirror, my brain would tell me that she was a kind-looking old man... not some weird monster..."

Sun Hang took another look at the rice cake in his hand, found a container for storing "dangerous goods" from the storage box nearby, and put the thing in it.

It’s a pity that Sun Hang didn’t know much about the pastries in the southwestern region of the Federation, otherwise he would have been able to recognize that this thing was actually not rice cake, but a specialty food in the Yunnan and Yunnan regions: bait cake.

Sun Hang thought about it, stepped on the accelerator, turned the car around and caught up with the old man.

"…Granny, do you know where the nearest village is?"

The "old lady" turned her head and glanced at Sun Hang, then shook her head and murmured, "Little boy, are you still hungry? One piece of bait is not enough for you?"

Sun Hang: “…”

[PS There will be another half chapter later. ]

(End of this chapter)