Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 281 A Dark, Windy, and Deserted Night

"Why, do you know this person?" Ye Jiu couldn't help but ask when he saw Sun Hang's eyes change slightly.

"I don't know him." Sun Hang denied calmly, "I just feel a little familiar with him."

"If you feel familiar with it, then there must be a big problem." Ye Jiu said confidently, "Based on my personal experience, everything that has anything to do with you is troublesome."

"Are you trying to say that you are also a trouble?" Sun Hang glanced at him.

"Whatever you want." Ye Jiu chose to start directly, "Whatever you say."

"But the meme frequencies detected on this nameplate are indeed consistent with some of your meme frequencies." Zhulong said seriously, "The similarity is over 99.999%, which is not something that can be achieved by 'same origin' or 'inheritance'."

There are only four possible relationships between two highly similar memes that come from different individuals: homology, inheritance, copying, and stripping.

The common origin is easy to understand, that is, the memes of both have the same "source of infection", such as Song Yarong and Jiang Yu.

Inheritance is also the relationship between the source of infection and the infected individual, such as Sun Hang and the two women mentioned above.

However, the meme frequencies in both cases will not be completely consistent, and will produce small deviations of 0.3 to 1% depending on individual differences.

Only in the latter two cases will the meme similarity between two different individuals reach an outrageous 99.999%.

Copying is easy to understand, it is an identical replica, and stripping means that the meme of one is stripped from the body of another and then implanted into it...

And this time will not be very long, because after a long time, the implanted meme will be alienated and become the second situation of "inheritance".

If you want to implant a meme for a long time without any alienation, it must require that the bodies and even the thoughts and consciousness of the two are completely identical, which is no different from the third case of "copying".

"You mean... 'stripping'?" Wang Xiyi frowned and turned to look at Sun Hang, "During the time when you lost consciousness?"

"Not sure." Sun Hang shook his head.

"Then what should we do with this nameplate?" Wang Xiyi subconsciously wanted to hand the nameplate to Sun Hang.

But Sun Hang did not reach out to take it.

He remembered the nameplate of Anna that he had obtained in the Nameless Island Research Institute. He had clearly put it in a zippered pocket, but in the end it disappeared without a trace even though the zipper and pocket were intact...

"To be on the safe side, don't let me touch this thing directly." Sun Hang said.

Wang Xiyi looked at him in surprise, as if she didn't understand why Sun Hang, who was always fearless, would be afraid of such a small nameplate. According to Wang Xiyi's stereotype of Sun Hang, this guy was restrained for not taking the nameplate directly and biting it.

"Put it in a visible safety container." Sun Hang ordered.

Although she was surprised, Sun Hang's current actions were indeed in strict compliance with the rules for handling strange objects established by Tianshu Tower. Wang Xiyi did not say much and simply took a transparent hard container and put the nameplate in it.

"What next?" Wang Xiyi asked after screwing on the bottle cap and putting the seal on it.

This time, Sun Hang reached out and took the container, but the next second, he threw the container to Ye Jiu who was standing aside watching the show.

"Keep an eye on this thing. Your task is to make sure it is in your sight at all times and don't leave for even a second." Sun Hang said.

"Are you serious?" Ye Jiu was stunned for a moment, "Are you thinking of a way to mess with me?"

"Seriously." Sun Hang said, "If you can avoid blinking, you'd better not blink."

"Are you crazy?" Ye Jiu couldn't help but glare at him.

"Sun Hang," Zhu Long seemed to have noticed something and said in a deep voice, "Has something similar happened before... I mean, something similar disappeared right under your nose..."

"almost."

"Is there such a thing?" Ye Jiu was stunned. "What if I blinked and it disappeared?"

"Then I will only ask you." Sun Hang said.

"My day."

……

……

The group did not stay in the occupied area for long. After completing the main task of "finding Sun Hang", the two cars drove at full speed along Highway 4218 towards Shuzhou.

As for interrogations and the like, they could all be dealt with after returning to Tianfu City. The most urgent task was to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.

A few hours later, a human voice mixed with a lot of electrical noise finally sounded in the long-distance communication channel of the two vehicles.

"This is...hiss...Shuzhou border outpost No. 198...hiss...the drone has captured...hiss...your car's tracks...please reply..."

The communication base station of outpost No. 198 was destroyed not long ago, and now it only uses a set of simple mobile base stations. The communication distance and quality are naturally far inferior to the original fixed base stations.

"This is a registered hunter in Tianfu City, codenamed 'Night Fury', mission number 639581. The main mission objectives have been completed, the preliminary identity verification has been passed, and there are no casualties except for the first batch of repatriated personnel." Wang Xiyi grabbed the microphone hanging next to the co-pilot seat and replied.

"...hiss...Received...The first batch of repatriated personnel has been sent to Tianfu City. The seriously injured are not in danger of death. In addition, Tianfu City has an emergency communication. Please ask the team members and the target person to report to the Tianfu City Weird Thing Research Institute immediately. There is an important meeting."

As the distance got closer, the electrical noise in the communication became significantly less.

"Understood. We will go directly back to Tianfu City." Wang Xiyi replied, then turned to look at Sun Hang who was driving, only to find that Sun Hang had also turned his head and was looking at her.

"Meeting? What meeting?" Sun Hang asked, "It can't be a struggle session against me."

"Impossible. The Tianfu City Weird Thing Research Institute has no power to deal with you. If they want to do anything to you, they will directly hand you over to the Tianshu Tower headquarters in Chunming City." Wang Xiyi looked at the road ahead illuminated by the car lights in a daze. "Saying there is an emergency meeting at this time... I don't know why, but I always have a bad feeling."

"Can we contact Yang Qi?" Sun Hang retracted his gaze and asked while driving.

"Let me try." Wang Xiyi said as she took out her cell phone.

After more than ten seconds, she shook her head: "No, the call can't be connected."

"No signal?"

"No, since we can contact Post 198, then using the post as a transit point, we can naturally contact Tianfu City."

"Is Yang Qi angry and refuses to answer the phone? That's not right. Director Yang is not that kind of person..."

"I'm afraid something really happened in Tianfu City." Wang Xiyi said, "... something more serious than your disappearance."

"It's useless for us to discuss this, let's go back and take a look." Zhulong said with a serious tone.

An uneasy atmosphere spread in the team... except for Sun Hang. While driving, he hummed "Today is a good day, everything I wish for can come true", and seemed not to be worried at all about the "maybe more serious than his disappearance" mentioned by Wang Xiyi.

The two cars quickly drove out of the mountains, and the outline of Border Post No. 198 appeared in sight.

A soldier was holding two bright green light sticks and waving them continuously on the side of the road.

"What is he doing?" Sun Hang asked Wang Xiyi next to him.

"'Don't stop, go through at full speed.'" Wang Xiyi interpreted, "It seems that the people over at Tianfu City are really in a hurry."

"I just received a message." Zhulong's voice rang out in the communication channel, "Several of my old friends have arrived in Tianfu City not long ago."

"Your old friend?" Sun Hang asked, "Is he also a hunter?"

"Yes, and they are all senior hunters... Generally speaking, for hunters like them, ordinary missions only require one person... If two people go out together, it will be a big trouble... But now they have almost a whole group..."

"How many people are there in a whole group?" Sun Hang couldn't help but ask, "Sorry, I've never paid attention to this kind of thing before."

"The organization of each unit is different, but the hunters directly under the Tianshu Tower are all in groups of eight." Zhulong replied.

"So, eight of you guys, as fierce as you, came at once?"

"Seven, but four more are on the way."

"…Didn't they say what the mission objective was?"

"They don't know either. I guess... we might see them at the emergency meeting later."

……

With the accelerator pressed to the floor, the two vehicles arrived at Tianfu City in no time. Sun Hang noticed that the number of checkpoints at the entrance and exit of Tianfu City had increased by at least three times, and there were a large number of fully armed special agents standing on the roadside. A pitch-black tank was squatting behind the barricade, with its black muzzle pointing straight ahead.

"Something's wrong, very wrong!" Ye Jiu muttered, "The last time I saw this kind of scene was when the eternal night had just arrived and a large number of strange creatures invaded the city... Something big must have happened in Tianfu City!"

However, these special service operators did not stop Sun Hang and his team. Both parties had completed remote identity authentication two hundred meters away. The barrier that was as thick as a tank barrel was also raised early. Sun Hang and his team did not even slow down and rushed into the Tianfu urban area at a speed of 120 yards.

There was no car on the elevated road in the city, and a large drone could be vaguely seen hovering in the sky in the distance, with its orange warning light flashing every few seconds.

"I took a look." Wang Xiyi said to Sun Hang with her head tilted, the fluorescent light from the phone screen in her hand reflected her fair cheeks, "Tianfu City is now under the highest level of martial law...Ye Jiu is right, it's just like that day."

"Very good," Sun Hang looked at the quiet city, then at the dark sky, turned around and drove off the elevated road.

"We took the wrong road." Wang Xiyi frowned and said, "The way back to the institute should be at the intersection ahead, not this one."

"It's a dark, windy and deserted night. What do you think is a good place to do?" Sun Hang asked with a smile.

"what?"

"Suitable for killing people." Sun Hang chuckled and said in the communication channel, "Zhulong, Ye Jiu, you go back to the institute first. I have something small to do and will be there soon."

After thinking for a while, Sun Hang added: "This is an order."

"Are you going to find the person who framed you?" Wang Xiyi frowned and said, "We are now on the highest alert. Are you sure you can rush back to the meeting after killing someone?"

"Old Wang, do you know why you are better than Director Yang?"

"Ok?"

"If Director Yang were sitting in my passenger seat right now, she would definitely try her best to dissuade me from doing anything rash and to resolve the issue through legal channels... Do you understand what I mean?"

"Actually, Yang Qi's idea is not wrong, but since you must kill that person, then he deserves to die." Wang Xiyi lifted the hair beside her ear, "What do you mean? Do you need my help?"

"Just help me watch the car downstairs. If you take action, it will make too much noise and disturb others. I will try to make this quick and easy."

"also."

The car stopped at the gate of an upscale residential area. Sun Hang simply showed his hunter's license, and the silent security guard immediately opened the gate for him.

"Building 18, Unit 1801, Room . That's a very auspicious number." Sun Hang glanced at his phone. He had just looked up this address using his authority in Tianshu Tower.

"I'll leave the car to you." Sun Hang got out of the car, patted the pistol on his waist, and walked into the elevator.

Watching the elevator rise up one floor at a time, Sun Hang took out his cell phone and dialed a number.

"Old man Pei, I want to kill someone."

"It's nothing serious, just letting you know."

"If your people have nothing to do, you can come and help me clean up the scene later."

After he finished speaking these three sentences, the elevator made a "ding" sound and stopped at the eighteenth floor.

Sun Hang pressed the doorbell.

A few seconds later, a young man opened the door and looked at Sun Hang suspiciously: "Who are you...?"

The young man's facial features were 70% similar to Lu Hongming's. He was wearing a dark gray cashmere sweater and a pair of exquisite frameless glasses on his nose.

Sun Hang recognized him; he was the one who secretly put the aromatherapy bottle into the SUV.

"I'm your father's colleague, oh, former colleague, and I want to talk to him about something personal." Sun Hang said kindly.

"Former colleague? Personal matter? At this time?"

"The city-wide martial law is very important." Sun Hang said seriously and confidently.

"Really?" The young man obviously didn't believe what Sun Hang said, but he still turned his head and shouted inside: "Dad, he said he was looking for you!"

"Who is it? Why come to my house at this time?" Lu Hongming's voice came from the inner room, and then his figure appeared at the door of the living room.

The moment he saw Sun Hang, the teacup in his hand fell straight down and shattered to the ground.

"Quick! Close the door!" Lu Hongming screamed as if he had seen a ghost.

[PS I wrote this chapter on the high-speed train, and I didn’t have time to check it before posting it. There may be a lot of typos. Please help me find them~]

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