Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 268 Route 4218

Sun Hang suddenly remembered something. He quickly ran outside and checked the bodies of the "townspeople" on the street one by one.

Sure enough, everyone has a similar "hole" in their body - either somewhere in the esophagus or directly on the stomach...

For these "townspeople", the food they eat will leak out from these holes... No matter how much they eat, they cannot relieve their physical hunger...

But if that was the case, why would these monsters, including the store owner, fight for food? The middle-aged woman even went so far as to offend the store owner who could kill her in an instant, just to snatch the bait.

Sun Hang couldn't help but think of a doggerel on the Internet: "How much sorrow can one have? It's like a group of eunuchs going to a brothel."

For them, food is like the women in the eunuchs' arms: they can look at them and touch them, but they cannot have any substantial relationship with them.

Ever since entering this town, Sun Hang felt that these "people" were not normal.

They all have an almost fanatical obsession with "food", and they have demonstrated with their own actions what it means to "die for food" - literally "die for food".

But they are unable to digest the food, which makes their crazy behavior seem meaningless. From the perspective of Sun Hang, a bystander, it is both ridiculous and sad.

"That old woman...shouldn't be a resident of Maoyun Town, right?" Sun Hang pondered.

She was really generous... She gave away precious food without hesitation, and the fifty cents she gave to Sun Hang was a huge sum of money...

If this old woman also lives in Maoyun Town, then she must be a local rich person, right?
Sun Hang raised his head and looked around. He found that all the shops that were open before were now closed. Even the windows that were originally lit on both sides of the street were much less... However, the brightness on the street not only did not decrease, but became brighter.

A bright full moon appeared in the sky at some point.

The moon is very big, giving people a feeling of being very close to themselves, as if they can touch it by reaching out their hands.

"The moon?" Sun Hang frowned and asked, "Will there be a moon during the eternal night?"

He pulled out his mirror.

The street reflected in the mirror was also very bright, but unlike what Sun Hang saw with his naked eyes, the entire street was shrouded in a strange red light.

Sun Hang adjusted the angle of the mirror and pointed it at the moon in the sky.

The full moon was as red as blood, emitting a strange and ominous aura.

"Oh, it's a blood moon, that's not surprising." Sun Hang closed the mirror.

Today happens to be the sixteenth, the day when the moon is the fullest in a month.

In areas shrouded in eternal night, the blood moon will inevitably appear on any full-moon night - in Shuzhou today, once the middle of the month comes, the Investigation Bureau and the Public Security Bureau will become nervous... During this period, a strict curfew will be implemented, and even civil servants are strictly prohibited from going out without permission unless they are on a mission.

What we are guarding against is the blood moon that appears on time every full moon night.

"I don't know if Old Wang is still affected by the blood moon..." Sun Hang muttered softly and went back into the house.

He used a mirror to examine the rags sold by the "shopkeeper" one by one. These things looked almost the same as they did with the naked eye. The only difference was that they were more or less stained with some dried blood.

As for the broken rattle that had appeared in the little girl's hand, it was completely stained red with blood, as if it had been soaked in a pool of blood... Sun Hang was not sure whether the bloodstains were originally on it or came from the "deceased" "shop owner".

Like the townspeople on the street outside, the body of the "shop owner" also began to rot and degrade rapidly - this was consistent with Sun Hang's basic understanding of strange creatures: most strange creatures would rapidly degrade their bodies after the memes in their bodies disappeared... For a huge strange creature like Tai Sui, the remains would eventually degrade into only a pile of fragments not much bigger than an eggshell, and the whole process took less than a week.

Song Yarong and Sun Hang said that the power that supports the monster's body that can ignore the laws of physics all comes from memes. After losing the memes, this kind of body that should not exist in the world will naturally collapse quickly.

Assuming that these townspeople were the victims of the occupied area back then, then logically their corpses should have turned into bones long ago... It was because of the influence of the meme that they were able to survive in the form of flesh and blood monsters, and now that the meme has disappeared, the only fate waiting for them is dust to dust.

Sun Hang searched the "shop owner's" house. The second floor was the living room, but both the wardrobe and the bed had not been used for a long time and were covered with a thick layer of dust. In the drawer of the desk, Sun Hang found some small-denomination coins, which totaled only about two or three cents.

Sun Hang put the coins into his pocket, and then he found a notebook in the innermost corner of the drawer.

This is an account book that records the purchase and sale of goods. Most of the ink has been blurred, and from the few words that can still be recognized, we can know that the owner of this account book seems to have been in the timber business. Judging from the standards of that era, although he was not rich, he was at least a well-off family.

There was also a yellowed old photo tucked into the account book, showing a family of five - the man, the woman and three children.

However, the faces of the hostess and the three children had become blurred, and only the face of the host could be barely seen.

This was a man who looked kind and honest. He put his hands on the child's shoulders and had a slightly restrained smile on his face... For some reason, Sun Hang seemed to see something called "hope" in this man's eyes.

This family photo should have been taken during the happiest time of his life, right?
Sun Hang went downstairs with the photo. He looked at the remains of the monster lying in the corner, and then looked at the photo in his hand.

He didn't say anything more, but stuffed the photo into the wreck's arms.

For a moment, he seemed to see the wreckage smile... But he soon realized that the mouth on the other party's organ that could barely be called a "head" was probably incapable of making the action of smiling...

Even if it could laugh, its horrible appearance wouldn't make people think it was laughing.

"Maybe it's a psychological effect?" Sun Hang muttered. He stood up and turned to look at the Buddha statue that he had shot to pieces - or rather, its incomplete skeleton.

The remaining memes within the fragments have disappeared completely. They no longer move, but lie quietly on the table and the ground.

Only the candles on the two corners of the table were still burning, and the flames were swaying slightly.

Sun Hang recalled what the "shop owner" said to him before he disappeared - "They are the food raised by the mayor's family." In other words, those two plump little girls... are the "reserve food" of the mayor of Maoyun Town?
So who is this mayor?
Oops, I said it wrong. It should be "somewhere weird" instead.

The lower-class townspeople were fighting to the death for a piece of bait made from rotten meat, but the mayor was able to enjoy such "meat"... Not only that, just because he mentioned it, the owner of this shop suffered a sudden disaster... It seems that the mayor has absolute control over Maoyun Town.

But there was a question that Sun Hang couldn’t figure out - if that was the case, why didn’t the other party attack him?

Unlike his initial caution, Sun Hang has become more and more courageous since entering the town, and has done many "offensive" things - but the other party did not impose any restrictions or punishment on him, and instead took out his anger on the "innocent" "shop owner".

"Could it be... that you are afraid of me?" Sun Hang muttered.

Even though he has lost all his abilities, perhaps there is still some of the aura of the three apes left in his body... Sun Hang himself cannot feel this aura, but that does not mean that the mayor cannot feel it... Maybe the other party is frightened by this little remaining aura?

"What do you mean by 'the fox is taking advantage of the tiger's might'..."

……

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Shuzhou, southwestern border, Hengduan Mountains.

Highway 4218 is a highway that crosses the Hengduan Mountains and connects Shuzhou and Yunnan. The highway is 135 kilometers long and took four years to build. % of the highway is made up of viaducts and tunnels... In order to build this highway, the Xiazhou Federation interrupted the traffic lifeline between Yunnan and Shuzhou, and it can be said that a huge amount of resources was invested. But later, with the fall of the Yunnan-Yunnan region, the highway was permanently blocked and no civilian vehicles were allowed to enter.

Border Post No. 198 is located at the entrance of this road.

At this time, the entire outpost seemed to have been burned by flames. The walls that were originally painted white with lime were smoked black, the wooden beams were broken, the entire roof collapsed, and the facilities inside the outpost were burned to a mess.

According to the report of the troops who arrived at the outpost first, none of the soldiers stationed at the outpost survived. As for the outpost's monitoring equipment and drones, they were all destroyed, and no video footage of the attackers was left.

Wang Xiyi and Yang Qi stood among the ruins and looked around at the ruins.

The bodies of the fallen soldiers had been taken away, leaving only a dozen outlines circled in white chalk - from these outlines, it can be seen that when the outpost was attacked, most of the soldiers were killed before they could react to what was happening... This is consistent with a point mentioned in the on-site report: experts checked the remains of the alarm device in the outpost and found that the device had not been activated.

"Destroy with ease." Yang Qi murmured, "Fortunately, because of the underground palace incident, the fact that Sun Hang obtained your dragon flame ability has not been reported yet... Otherwise, it would be a very unfavorable evidence to him."

"It's impossible that Sun Hang did this." Wang Xiyi said firmly.

"why?"

"If he had used my dragon flame, these ruins wouldn't exist at all," Wang Xiyi said. "The flame that attacked this outpost is far inferior to my dragon flame."

"What if Sun Hang intends to control the intensity of the dragon flame?"

"You don't believe him either?" Wang Xiyi stared into Yang Qi's eyes and asked seriously.

"I believe in him, but I can't make others believe in him as much as I do." Yang Qi said, "The most urgent task is to find him back."

"The convoy is ready and can set off at any time." Wang Xiyi looked in the direction of the highway.

……

A total of eleven people participated in this operation, riding in three armored off-road vehicles and a multi-purpose engineering vehicle. The team leader was Wang Xiyi, and the deputy leaders were Zhu Long and Ye Jiu. In addition, Zhong Ling, Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu also volunteered to sign up for this operation. The rest were elite operators selected by Ye Jiu from the field department.

Yin Xiang also wanted to participate, but was kicked out of the car by Wang Xiyi.

"Why don't you let me go! I'm different from before, I'm not afraid of death! I'm really not afraid!" Yin Xiang, who was lying on the ground, shouted loudly to Wang Xiyi who was in the driver's seat.

Wang Xiyi rolled down the car window, pushed up the goggles on her nose, and said to him, "Do you want to hear something nice or something bad?"

"What, what do you mean?" Yin Xiang was stunned and asked.

"To put it nicely, I don't want you to die in vain. To put it bluntly... you are a burden. If we bring you along, you will only hinder us."

"What about him? Why would he rather take a little kid with him than me?" Yin Xiang asked, pointing at Ling Xiao in the back seat.

"He is a qualified user of weird equipment, what are you?" Wang Xiyi asked directly.

"I...I..." Yin Xiang was suddenly speechless.

He suddenly realized that when he jumped off the roof of the research institute and his inner courage was defeated by fear and regret, he might never be able to stand on the same front with Sun Hang and others in his life.

"You're right." Yin Xiang nodded after recognizing the facts. "I'm a burden. If I go with you, I'll be a drag... Maybe, as soon as the car enters the occupied area, I'll start to regret my impulsiveness..."

"I'm glad you understand." Wang Xiyi nodded. "Although it's hard to hear, there's no need for you to be sad... I think there's probably nothing in this world that can make people happier than living a good life."

"I understand. I will do my best." Yin Xiang stood up and clenched his fists. "I'll be waiting for you here. I hope you can bring Sun Hang back intact!"

Border Post No. 198 also needed people to stay behind. As a border post close to the occupied area, it could be said to be one of the most dangerous places in Shuzhou. No one was sure whether they would wait for a triumphant return of the convoy or a group of terrifying monsters emerging from the occupied area.

On both sides of the highway, a temporary outpost is being built - this is the first formal investigation operation of mankind in the occupied area since the end of the weird war that year... Although the action was a bit hasty, its significance was extraordinary.

(End of this chapter)