Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 269 Yard
"As for equipment and supplies, you can get whatever you want. Unfortunately, I want to take that fat guy with me, but the people at Tianshu Tower won't agree no matter what." Wang Xiyi said as she started the car.

"In my opinion, if you really want to bring that fat guy into the occupied area, he might really choose to commit suicide." Ye Jiu shook his head in the co-pilot seat, "You can't fake that kind of fear."

"I always feel that our trip to Chunming City this time was in vain. Apart from knowing that there might be a rule-based monster in the occupied area, we didn't get any useful information at all." Wang Xiyi gripped the steering wheel with one hand and took out a nutrition bar from the armrest box with the other hand. She skillfully tore open the aluminum foil package with her teeth and stuffed it into her mouth.

According to the "information" provided by Li Junwen, Tianshu Tower provided the team with two special foods based on the characteristic of "hunger" - one is a modified version of the ultra-high calorie nutrition bar that Wang Xiyi has been eating; the other has the same calorie content as ordinary food, but contains special rations that can regulate neurotransmitters and suppress appetite.

"Rule-based weirdness, rule-based weirdness..." Ye Jiu was wearing a heavy suit of armor, and the sound of metal armor rubbing against each other could be heard when he moved a little. "Have you ever dealt with rule-based weirdness?"

"Bao Si, does she count?" Wang Xiyi asked.

"… barely, I guess."

"That means we have dealt with each other before." Wang Xiyi said.

"No... Bao Si is a human, not a monster." Ye Jiu shook his head repeatedly, "But then again, she can even lead a mountain like that by the nose... She has only inherited a part of the power of a rule-based monster. It is hard to imagine what a real rule-based monster would look like."

"It's just like a rule-based monster. For example, if the rule is 'death', then you have to die." Wang Xiyi rolled her eyes at him.

"If what we are going to face is really the rule-based monster called 'Hunger', I feel that these snacks with added ingredients will be useless at all." Ye Jiu said.

"I never expected them to come in handy." Wang Xiyi stepped on the accelerator and the car slowly accelerated forward.

"Anyway," Zhulong's voice came from the intercom, "'starvation' is better than 'death', 'dismemberment', 'burning' and the like. At least it won't be directly fatal - even an ordinary person like Li Junwen can return to the civilized world alive. I think our chances of survival can't be lower than his, right?"

"Yeah, that makes sense." Ye Jiu nodded in agreement, and the armor on his body made another clanging sound.

"On the contrary, it's you two." Ye Jiu turned around and looked at Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu in the back seat. "This is the first time for both of you to go on a mission, and you rushed directly into the occupied area. The enemy you face may be an extremely rare Type A monster... Tsk, many hunters cannot achieve an achievement in their entire lives, but you two achieved it in your first try. How is it? Do you have any thoughts?"

"No." Ling Xiao said expressionlessly.

"I... I don't know what to think." Jiang Yu's tone was a little awkward, "Is the Type A monster... really that powerful?"

"It may not be very powerful, but it is definitely the most bizarre." Ye Jiu said, "Come to think of it, you don't know anything about the classification of weird things?"

Jiang Yu shook his head.

During this period of time, she had been undergoing various physical examinations and had no time to attend the corresponding training courses... In fact, her understanding of strange things was not even as good as that of the group of temporary investigators who had received the induction training with Sun Hang.

"If I have time on the way, I will really give you some tutoring." Ye Jiu said.

The reason why Jiang Yu and Ling Xiao were included in the team was, firstly, because the two of them took the initiative to apply to participate in this operation, and secondly, because the combat power available in Tianfu City was really stretched.

It has been a while since the eternal night fell, and attacks by strange creatures have occurred in various counties and cities... The Disaster Countermeasures Committee would like to break a hunter into eight pieces, and all departments of the research institute and the investigation bureau have been working overtime to the point of explosion. Cigarettes, coffee and strong stimulants have become strategic materials with the same priority as drinking water.

According to the original plan of the Disaster Countermeasures Committee, after the initial chaos was over, all parts of the federation would gradually launch support to the Shuzhou area... But unfortunately, not long after the comprehensive support plan was launched, something happened in Baikal City.

At least 30% of the manpower and material resources originally intended for Shuzhou were diverted to the north. Not only that, reinforcement plans from all regions were also postponed. The events that occurred in Shuzhou and Baikal City meant that the "second large-scale active period of monsters" might have arrived, and almost everyone who knew about it was in danger, because no one knew where the next place to encounter a "disaster-level" monster would be.

And many ordinary people with a keen sense of smell have also felt the approach of the crisis... There is no need to read what is being discussed in those online forums. Just opening the stock trading software and looking at the military and energy sectors that have been hitting the daily limit for several consecutive days is enough to make people realize the seriousness of the problem.

Not only that, the prices of food and medicine also began to rise. Although the official media repeatedly advised the public not to hoard supplies, as soon as the canned food and bagged rice in one supermarket were sold out, similar products in the entire city would soon be out of stock.

Panic is contagious among people, and it spreads much faster than the virus.

The soldiers guarding the roadside raised the makeshift barrier, and the convoy quickly passed through and drove into the vast mountains.

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Sun Hang walked along the street, and he found that wherever he walked, the lights of the buildings on both sides would go out... It was as if he was an evil star that would bring misfortune and disaster...

"Damn it, you are the Tian Gang." Sun Hang cursed in a low voice, "You are obviously the weirdos, right? Can't you have the most basic dignity of a weirdo?"

He walked forward for a while and a large courtyard appeared on the right side of his field of vision. Compared with the shabby buildings on both sides of the street, this courtyard was obviously much more luxurious. The red lacquered wooden door and the stone lions on both sides of the door all told Sun Hang: This is a wealthy family in the town.

Sun Hang took out a mirror and looked at the yard - just as he expected, in the mirror, the vermilion paint on the door turned into dark red bloodstains, and the stone lions on both sides turned into two pieces of rotten meat that were constantly dripping pus. Countless maggots were drilling in and out of these two pieces of rotten meat. The scene was extremely appetizing.

To be honest, until now, Sun Hang has not been able to be sure whether what he sees with his naked eyes is real, or the image in the mirror is real.

Or...neither.

Sun Hang walked forward and knocked on the vermilion door.

No one came to open the door, and there was no sound in the yard.

Sun Hang knocked a few more times, each time more urgent and heavier than the last.

The yard was still dead silent.

"Is anyone here? If not... I'll do as I please." Sun Hang shouted. After that, he pulled out his pistol and put it against the door bolt.

"Boom! Boom!"

Deafening gunshots echoed over the town. The hunting pistol had opened two bowl-sized holes in the wooden door. The bolts behind the holes had broken, and the two heavy doors slowly opened with a creaking sound.

Opposite the gate is a screen wall, which is also a common design of ancient courtyards in Xiazhou. There are fine relief carvings on the screen wall, but unfortunately, most of the reliefs have been weathered, and only some manes, scales and claws can be vaguely seen.

"A dragon?" Sun Hang looked at the relief on the wall for a while and muttered to himself.

The ancients rarely used dragon patterns for decoration, because in ancient times, the dragon was a symbol of the emperor. If dragon elements appeared on the clothes, utensils or homes of ordinary people, it was considered disobedient, a serious crime punishable by death. Even noble families would at most carve some auspicious beasts from myths and legends on the wall, and would never dare to carve a dragon... especially a five-clawed golden dragon, on the screen wall.

After all, the screen wall is the first thing you see when you enter the yard...

However, considering that this courtyard should be an antique building built in modern times, the feudal dynasty on the Xiazhou continent had already collapsed at that time. As long as no one was stupid enough to jump out and claim to be emperor, let alone carving a dragon on the wall, even if everything in daily life was engraved with dragon patterns and becoming a contemporary "Ye Gong", no one would care about you.

There was a large fan-shaped flower bed at both corners behind the courtyard wall, but the grass and trees in the flower beds had long since died, leaving only charred remains that looked like ghosts. A tattered copper kettle was thrown next to the flower bed, and a little further away, there was a broom made of sorghum.

Sun Hang walked around the screen wall and went straight to the main house, but before he got close to the main house, he heard a faint whisper coming from behind him.

He turned around and saw nothing behind him except the shadow wall.

There was no dragon relief on the back of the shadow wall, but instead some geometric patterns. Sun Hang took two steps closer, and when the next murmur sounded, it became much clearer.

Are the walls talking?
No, it's the thing that's talking hiding in the wall...

Although the murmur became clearer, Sun Hang still couldn't make out its content - it didn't seem to be a human language. At least, it wasn't Chinese, nor was it one of the common foreign languages ​​that Sun Hang could distinguish.

"Could it be... a dialect?"

There are many ethnic groups in Yunnan and Yunnan, and different ethnic groups have different languages. These minority languages ​​are not easier to learn than foreign languages ​​such as English and French...

Sun Hang moved a little closer, and just when he was about to put his ear to the shadow wall, a hand the same color as the wall suddenly stretched out from inside the wall and grabbed his shoulder.

"Fuck." Sun Hang subconsciously tried to break free, but the hand let go of him the moment it touched Sun Hang, and then began to twitch violently. The murmurs from the wall turned into painful screams.

"What is that?" Sun Hang picked up the broom on the ground and poked the hand that stretched out from the wall. The texture of the broom handle was very hard, as if the hand was also carved out of bluestone.

Sun Hang was too lazy to further investigate what was inside the wall. He simply pulled out his pistol and fired three shots at the shadow wall.

The thickness of the shadow wall was nearly one foot. The base was made of blue bricks, and the relief was a whole piece of bluestone slab. Even with the power of a hunting pistol, it was not possible to penetrate it completely.

The relief was shattered into pieces, revealing something underneath - a strange body carved out of stone. It seemed to be a human body, but Sun Hang could count eight arms alone.

"Bah!"

Another shot hit the "torso" area accurately, the relief shattered, and the blue-gray stone was still exposed inside.

Sun Hang took out a mirror. He thought that the stones would turn into horrifying flesh and blood in the mirror, but what he didn't expect was that the stones also appeared in the mirror, but the color of the stones changed from blue-gray to white, similar to plaster.

"What are you doing..."

Those carved limbs were still struggling in pain, and the screams gradually turned into faint groans.

[PS Since the new volume started, I've seen a lot of comments complaining about why the whole plot has to lose all its powers and abilities for no apparent reason... To be honest, I wanted to ignore such comments at first, but more than one reader brought them up, so I thought I might have to explain them to everyone.

First of all, this book is a weird novel, not a traditional fantasy novel about killing monsters and leveling up. I personally hate writing books with fixed combat power and level systems. In a weird world, no matter how high your physical combat power level is, you will only become a toy of the opponent when you encounter a rule-based weirdo.

Even in fantasy novels, the competition between the top is not about combat power, but about laws, great principles, and the like...

The so-called power and skills... these are all tools, external things that can be obtained at will and can naturally be discarded at will.

These are never the things that really matter.

Besides, I have already written something weird, so readers can't just believe whatever I write, right? Maybe I am a person who practices the art of meditation? If the author says that the protagonist has lost all his powers, does that mean the protagonist has really lost all his powers? What does the author count for?
Finally, I would like to give you a piece of advice: do not believe every word written by this guy with the ID "Anchen Misan". If what he wrote contradicts your common sense and cognition, please do not...

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Please believe what I write. As a conscientious author, I will definitely not cheat my readers, don’t you think?
留言者：暗■弥散，个人信息编号9■■42■，最后编辑时间：黄历4■21年9月2■日。】

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