Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 266 "Hunger"

"No!" Li Junwen shouted immediately, "You can't send me back to that place! You must be threatening me!"

"Yes, I am threatening you." Wang Xiyi replied happily.

"It's useless... I am a valuable observation specimen, and the Tianshu Tower will not allow you to..."

Before Li Junwen finished speaking, Wang Xiyi interrupted him: "Tianshu Tower has been observing you for twenty years, and the little value you have left has long been squeezed out... If you still don't want to cooperate, you don't think Tianshu Tower will have the patience to continue to support a waste like you, right?"

"You and I……"

"Do you know how much taxpayers' money is spent to maintain the operation of this prison cell?" Wang Xiyi pressed on.

"Heh... heh... that... that's none of my business..." Li Junwen said fiercely, "Kill me! Or you can just kill me!"

"Wouldn't it be too easy for you to kill you?" Wang Xiyi raised her eyebrows.

She wanted to continue speaking, but Yang Qi pulled the corner of her clothes.

"Mr. Li, I have read your file... Although you are a wanted criminal, you are not actually a very evil person. The first time you killed someone was because that person occupied your family's homestead, gathered a crowd to cause trouble, and injured your father. Later, you decided to close the supermarket you had run for half a year, and gave all the remaining items in the warehouse to the elderly people in the neighborhood who were in financial difficulties. After that, you decided to get rid of the harm for the people... Although you were deceived in the process, your starting point was not bad..." Yang Qi said in a calm tone.

"What...exactly do you want to say?" Li Junwen's originally excited emotions calmed down a little, and he stared at Yang Qi and asked.

"We just need you to do us a small favor." Yang Qi said, "One of our colleagues is now trapped in the occupied area... Coincidentally, his location is very close to where you were back then."

"Someone else went in?" Li Junwen's pupils shrank slightly.

"We want to save him, but we know nothing about the place." Yang Qi said, "So, we come to you for help."

Li Junwen was silent for a few seconds before he said, "Can you let me think for a while... I might need to recall it carefully."

"it is good."

Yang Qi pulled Wang Xiyi out of the room.

"You two can cooperate well." Ye Jiu waved at the two people who returned to the monitoring room. "One of you played the good cop and the other played the bad cop. You scared this guy."

"You may have misunderstood my idea." Wang Xiyi glanced at Ye Jiu and said coldly, "I really want to throw him into the occupied area."

"But if you do this, Tianshu Tower will definitely be the first to disagree." Yang Qi said, "Li Junwen has lived here for twenty years. Tianshu Tower must have tried all the ways to make him speak. It is for this reason that he acted so fearless at the beginning... because he knew that even if he didn't say anything, Tianshu Tower would save his life."

"Have you ever tried torture?" Wang Xiyi looked at the researcher who led the way. "Tianshu Tower is not a place that respects human rights, right?"

The researcher smiled awkwardly and whispered, "It's no use."

Twenty minutes later.

After Li Junwen finished "eating" again, he took the initiative to press the communication button, which had been pressed only a few times in the past 20 years.

"I've thought about it, please come in." Li Junwen said.

……

"Are you sure you really want to go to the occupied area?" Li Junwen asked, staring at Wang Xiyi and Yang Qi seriously.

"Sure." Yang Qi nodded, "That person is very important to us."

"Hungry." Li Junwen said suddenly.

"What did you say?"

"Hunger... The biggest enemy you will face there is hunger," Li Junwen repeated.

"The estimated operation time is one month, and we will carry enough supplies to sustain for more than three months. After one month in the occupied area, we will return regardless of whether we find that person or not... If we can't get out of the occupied area in three months, I think the most serious problem at that time will not be the supply problem."

"No." Li Junwen shook his head.

"This has nothing to do with the amount of supplies..." He suddenly sighed, "Your enemy is hunger."

"As long as there are sufficient supplies, no one will be hungry. We are more worried about the battle that may break out after encountering strange creatures. We need you to give as detailed a description as possible of the situation in the occupied area... such as environmental changes, geographical features, and the frequency of strange creatures appearing..."

"Hungry! I mean hungry!!!" Li Junwen suddenly interrupted Yang Qi with an excited look, growling, "Don't you want to know what's there? Then I'll tell you, it's hungry!! Hungry!!!!"

"Is he a little mentally unstable?" In the monitoring room, Ye Jiu pointed at Li Junwen on the screen and asked.

"That shouldn't be the case... Logically speaking, he should be most emotionally stable after eating." The researcher also frowned, "Could it be that you asked him to recall that experience, which stimulated him in some way..."

"Then can you describe it in detail?" Yang Qi asked patiently, "What kind of hunger is it?"

"Hunger is hunger. Have you never been hungry?" Li Junwen looked at Yang Qi as if she were an idiot.

"Then if we bring enough supplies..."

"It's useless." Li Junwen's originally tense body relaxed a little. He leaned back, and the layers of fat on his body drooped down and piled on the giant sofa which was bigger than the bed.

"No matter how much supplies we bring...it's useless." Li Junwen sighed and repeated.

"Why?" Yang Qi asked.

"There is no reason..."

"The 'hunger' you mentioned." Wang Xiyi, who had been silent since entering this time, suddenly asked, "Is it a strange thing?"

Li Junwen's eyes suddenly widened and he stared at Wang Xiyi.

"Is it some kind of rule-based weird thing? Once you are affected by it, no matter how much supplies you carry or how much you eat, you will always feel hungry." Wang Xiyi said, "That's what you mean, right?"

"I... I don't know." Li Junwen shook his head mechanically, "Don't ask me... Please don't ask! Don't ask..."

"Attention, we have detected drastic changes in Li Junwen's brain waves. His emotions have fallen into an extremely unstable state. Please leave the room immediately!" The researcher's voice came from the headphones of Yang Qi and Wang Xiyi.

At the same time, several researchers wearing full protective suits rushed in, quickly tied up Li Junwen's limbs with restraints, and then pushed sedatives into his body one after another.

"This dosage... can even knock down an elephant, right?" Ye Jiu's mouth twitched twice - if these sedatives were injected into a normal person, only one tenth of the amount would be enough to make that person fall into a coma forever.

……

…? ? ? Area, “Maoyun Town”.

"So, how much are you going to pay for this bait?" Sun Hang asked, looking at the flickering light coming through the crack in the door.

"Seven cents... no, eight cents! This is the highest price I can offer." The owner said in a deep voice.

Eight cents?
Sun Hang was a little surprised at the price.

Judging from the excited expressions of the townspeople just now, and the "middle-aged woman" who sacrificed herself in order to grab the purchasing right... Sun Hang had the illusion that this thing was very popular. And now you tell me that it can only be sold for eight cents?

wrong……

Sun Hang suddenly realized a problem. He didn't know the purchasing power of the currency in this place.

In Tianfu City, the cheapest bottle of mineral water costs RMB 1.50. As for those high-end chain coffee shops located in the bustling commercial areas, it is not uncommon for a simple cup of iced American coffee to cost forty or fifty yuan... But if we go back a few decades, a worker's monthly income was only a dozen yuan, which could buy almost all the goods in the store. Only "big items" such as televisions, bicycles, and sewing machines would cost three digits.

"Boss, how much do you want for these things?" Sun Hang pointed at the "goods" placed on the ground and asked.

He had to first find out the price level in "Maoyun Town" before he could determine whether the price offered by the other party was reasonable.

And...how important "food" is to the townspeople.

"Do you want to buy?" The shopkeeper's tone was a little strange.

"A little interested." Sun Hang nodded. "What are the prices of these things?"

"Money is used to buy precious food. No one will use money to buy these things." The owner said dimly.

This guy... is actually quite conscientious?
Sun Hang was stunned for a moment. If it were those unscrupulous businessmen who opened shops in popular tourist spots, and met a "greenhorn" like him who didn't understand the market, they would probably have raised the price by now. How could they be so honest as to reveal such "important information" to him?

"Since they are worthless...how do we buy them?" Sun Hang asked.

"Exchange." The shopkeeper said, "You can bring something in exchange."

It was still a bartering transaction mode... As for the currency, it was used to buy precious food...

This was a valuable piece of information, Sun Hang thought, but it was a pity that he still couldn't find out the actual purchasing power of the currency.

"If you think eight cents is too low, nine cents, you sell the bait to me and I'll give you nine cents!" The shopkeeper said hurriedly, "It can't be higher, nine cents, give it to me!"

"I can sell it to you, but I have one more thing to ask." A somewhat crazy idea popped up in Sun Hang's mind.

"As long as you can sell it to me, you can ask any questions you want!"

"How much would it cost to kill all these people on the street right now?"

The other party was silent for a few seconds, then slowly said: "Two cents, you pay me two cents, and I can help you kill them all."

Good guy!
Sun Hang was shocked. Is human life so cheap in this place?

Or is the money here more valuable than gold?

If I took out that fifty-cent bill, wouldn't I be able to massacre the entire town?

But that’s not right…

If "human life" is so cheap...why is the price of food so high?

Assuming that one cannot survive without food, then it is not reasonable to use such expensive food to maintain such a poor life. If society collapses to this extent, "cannibalism" would have occurred long ago.

And assuming that the residents of Maoyun Town can survive without eating...why is food sold at such a high price?

High prices need to be supported by market demand. The price of a product that has no market to support it is meaningless.

You can't say that, in this place, food and luxury are equated, right?

"Then I can grab a town resident and chop him up, sprinkle some chopped green onions on it, pour some hot oil on it, and stir it with a spatula. Wouldn't that turn a few cents into a huge sum of money?"

When people are starving, they will eat their own kind, let alone monsters?
"The bait is yours, and you give me seven cents. Then, kill them all." Sun Hang said coldly.

A skinny hand reached out from the darkness, grabbed the container of bait, and retracted. A few seconds later, seven one-cent coins rolled out from the crack in the door and rolled to Sun Hang's feet.

Sun Hang picked up the coins and saw that these coins were the same ones that the Xiazhou Federation had issued in its early years.

It's a pity that he has no hobby of collecting old banknotes, otherwise if he took a stack of old hundred-yuan banknotes, wouldn't he have instantly become a local rich man?
Money can make the devil work, and money can also make "cunning" work.

"It's time to execute our deal." Sun Hang urged.

"It's over." The owner's voice sounded faintly.

Sun Hang turned his head and saw that the townspeople who had just surrounded him were now lying lifeless in the street.

He used a mirror to look at the "corpses" on the ground - what appeared in the mirror were pools of degrading rotten flesh, and disgusting pus and blood flowing into the cracks in the paving stones, slowly seeping into the soil underneath.

But not all the “people” on the street were killed.

The two chubby little girls were still alive. Not only that, they were still playing by themselves, turning a blind eye to the "tragedy" happening right under their noses.

"Are you sure you have completed the transaction?" Sun Hang turned his head, stared at the firelight in the crack of the door, and asked.

"Everyone on this street is dead except you," the shopkeeper said. "Isn't that complete?"

"What about them?" Sun Hang pointed at the two little girls.

The fire in the crack of the door suddenly went out.

The shopkeeper's voice was no longer heard.

"Hello? Where are you?" Sun Hang waited for a few seconds, but there was no response from the owner. He stood up and was shocked to find that the two little girls were standing behind him.

They stopped playing and dropped the rattles and kites in their hands on the ground.

They stared at the dark crack in the door with grim eyes.

(End of this chapter)