Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 326 Tampering and Intrusion

"Please stop your actions immediately!" Yuri shouted, "The measures you have taken are undoubtedly very irrational! We have a better way..."

This time, Sun Hang stopped obediently - the reason was very simple. The entire TV had been smashed into pieces, and no piece was bigger than the palm of your hand. Even the walls and floor tiles of the living room were smashed to pieces by Sun Hang, revealing the cement sealing layer underneath.

Yuri looked at the debris on the ground, opened his mouth slightly, but in the end, no words came out.

Sun Hang picked up a piece of plastic from the ground, held it between his fingers and thumb, and brought it to the smashed wall.

This fragment should be part of the TV frame. Based on the image in his memory, Sun Hang quickly found where it should be.

With a thought, the fragments on the ground flew up as if they were pulled by invisible threads. In just a few seconds, the TV that had been smashed to pieces was pieced together again... Although the outer shell and screen of the TV were covered with fine cracks, these cracks were tightly closed, and not even a defect the size of a grain of sand could be found.

The images were still playing on the TV - that was why Sun Hang planned to piece them together again.

From the screen fragments, Sun Hang could vaguely see that the content of the picture seemed to have a significant deviation from reality.

In the TV screen, Sun Hang was holding a hammer and smashing things around in the living room. Not only did he smash the TV on the screen to pieces, but the dining table, coffee table, sofa and even the vase next to it were not spared. After he had smashed everything that could be smashed in the living room, he suddenly turned his head, and the two dark eye sockets of the skeleton stared straight at Yuri who was standing at the door.

With one hammer blow, "Yuri's" head and the helmet of his protective suit were shattered into pieces.

"Yuri" fell to the ground, and "Sun Hang" stepped on him with one foot, swinging the hammer in his hand towards "Yuri".

The scene of blood and flesh splattering did not appear - the "Yuri" on the screen was just a skeleton, so blood could not splatter even if he wanted to!
The heavy hammer hit "Yuri" again and again through the protective suit, and the sound of bones breaking continued to be heard... "Sun Hang" did not stop until all the bones in "Yuri's" body, including the built-in exoskeleton of the protective suit, were smashed and the entire protective suit was deflated.

In reality, Sun Hang turned around and glanced at Yuri, who was leaning against the door with a nervous look on his face.

Yuri couldn't help but shudder when he noticed Sun Hang's gaze.

"The screen, the picture on the screen..."

"Don't worry, I won't smash you to death like that guy did." Sun Hang said, "But I did have that impulse just now..."

Yuri wanted to say something, but the door behind him was suddenly kicked open and a dozen fully armed security guards rushed in.

They subconsciously pointed their weapons at Sun Hang who was holding the hammer, but the moment they made this move, they heard a series of "clicks" and the triggers of their weapons were all locked.

The weapons of the Tianshu Tower security personnel are equipped with an intelligent recognition system. When this system recognizes that the weapon is pointed at the senior personnel of the Tianshu Tower, it will lock the trigger - this lock cannot be immediately unlocked after the muzzle is moved away. The weapon must be sent back to the logistics department and the entire locking module must be dismantled again.

In other words, the action they just took directly turned the weapons in their hands into more than a dozen fire sticks.

"What happened? We just saw on the surveillance screen that 'VIP' was swinging a hammer around like crazy... and even killed Yuri..." The security officer in charge stopped talking midway. He glanced at Yuri who fell to the ground because the door was knocked open, then at Sun Hang who was pounding the long-handled hammer on the ground, and then at the TV on the wall that was smashed and then restored. A look of doubt in life flashed across his eyes.

"Sir, you're not dead?" Another security guard helped Yuri up from the ground and looked him up and down carefully. "Captain, something seems to be wrong..."

"What did you see on the surveillance camera?" Yuri glanced at Sun Hang from the corner of his eye and asked the security officer in charge seriously, "Did you see my death?"

"We saw 'VIP' turn the four legs of the coffee table into hammers - the one he is holding now." The captain of the security personnel replied, "Then he began to smash the containment like crazy... At that time, we asked you on the communication channel whether we needed to intervene in 'VIP's behavior... But you gave a negative answer. It was not until 'VIP' smashed everything in the living room that he chose you as the target of attack..."

"Then you rushed over?" Sun Hang asked.

"Yes... We were staring at the surveillance footage the whole way, and we saw with our own eyes that you were made a 'VIP'... and... " The captain stopped talking halfway through.

Before the door of the containment room was knocked open, the surveillance footage was a bloody mess. How come it became like this after the door was opened?
"You said that I smashed everything in the living room in the surveillance video, and then killed Yuri." Sun Hang shrugged, "But aren't the things in the living room still intact?"

Apart from the broken coffee table, smashed TV wall and floor, nothing else in the living room was damaged.

"Not only that, I didn't hear any sign of you wanting to intervene, and I didn't give any answer, neither confirmation nor denial." Yuri also said, "Sun Hang can testify to this."

"Indeed, you have been suggesting that I stop, but you haven't taken any substantial action to stop it." Sun Hang nodded, "But then again, both of us are highly suspected now, so we can't verify each other."

Sun Hang glanced at the TV, and the image on the screen was frozen at the last scene before the door was knocked open - "Sun Hang" held the hammer handle with both hands, with the hammer head pointing downward, and crushed the bone fragments in the protective suit into powder bit by bit, just like pounding medicine.

Yuri also followed Sun Hang's line of sight. The next second, as if he had grasped some key clue, he turned to look at the security personnel who had broken in and asked quickly, "Is the surveillance footage you saw earlier exactly the same as the footage shown on the containment screen?"

"Yes... but it seems not entirely true." The captain nodded hesitantly, then shook his head quickly.

"Is it or isn't it?!" Yuri asked sternly - when treating his subordinates, he didn't have the good face he had when facing Sun Hang.

"It's basically the same, but there's one difference..." the security captain said, "There's no blood in this footage...but in the surveillance footage we saw, sir...sir, your blood and flesh were splattered everywhere, almost covering the entire room."

"Almost all over the room..." Yuri glanced at the clean wall behind him. For some reason, he felt a dull pain all over his body... It was as if he had just been smashed into a pulp by Sun Hang's hammer. "Let me see the surveillance footage." Sun Hang put the hammer aside and walked in front of the security captain.

“…Okay, okay.” The security captain responded immediately.

As a "VIP" level person, Sun Hang's current authority level is even higher than Yuri. Not to mention that he is the captain of a small security team, even his immediate superior Yuri has to obey Sun Hang's orders.

Of course, the premise is that Sun Hang did not lose his mind as seen in the surveillance footage just now.

The security captain removed the touch terminal mounted on his arm and handed it to Sun Hang.

The surveillance footage on the terminal screen was cut into several pieces. Sun Hang looked up at the corner of the ceiling. These surveillance footages just corresponded to the cameras installed in the living room. Everything in the surveillance footage, including Sun Hang, Yuri and the security personnel, was normal. There was no skull and no blood and flesh splattered everywhere.

But Sun Hang noticed that the angle of the picture presented on the TV screen did not match any of the pictures captured by these cameras.

"Dude, you just said something wrong." Sun Hang patted the security captain on the shoulder and said.

The latter was immediately startled. Not to mention asking Sun Hang what he did wrong, he didn't even dare to breathe. He looked at Sun Hang nervously, waiting for the other party's "verdict" on him.

"Look carefully at the images on the TV... The camera angles don't match any of the surveillance images."

The security captain's eyes widened instantly. He looked at the terminal, then at the TV, then raised his head and looked at the place that Sun Hang and Yuri had seen not long ago.

That was the junction of the wall and the ceiling. The putty had turned slightly yellow due to age, but other than that, there was nothing else.

"But, there may be something wrong with the monitoring equipment!" said the security captain. "The weird creature has invaded our monitoring system! Commander, I request to immediately close the entire containment area, lower the partition wall, cut off all circuits and communication lines, and then use instruments to check the circuits, cables and electronic equipment in the entire containment area..."

"Don't worry." Sun Hang waved his hand, "First tell me how to play back this surveillance video?"

"Oh...oh, you just need to press this button, and then a progress bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. Just drag the progress bar forward, but pay attention to the time size on the progress bar..."

"It's been about three or four minutes since you broke in, right?"

Another security guard glanced at his terminal and replied, "Report, the exact time is three minutes and nine seconds!"

"In other words, three and a half minutes ago, I was still hitting your superior with a hammer..." Sun Hang said as he dragged the progress bar of the surveillance video to three and a half minutes ago.

In the surveillance footage, Sun Hang had just put the smashed TV back together. Yuri had not yet leaned against the door, but was holding the sofa with one hand, with his upper body slightly leaning forward, staring intently at the TV screen - but in the surveillance footage, the TV screen that had been put together again was pitch black, with no picture on it.

"How, how could this happen?" The security captain's eyes twitched wildly, "Our surveillance system has really been hacked by a weird thing! It must have tampered with the surveillance footage... No, it tampered with it from the beginning, and now it's a second time!"

"Contact the monitoring center immediately and ask them to extract the video files that were saved in real time!" Yuri said.

Two minutes later.

"Sir, we've got news from the monitoring center... The content of the video file saved at the time is exactly the same as what we saw in the terminal..." The security captain said dejectedly.

"How could this happen?" Yuri repeated what his subordinate had said two minutes ago. He tapped his helmet irritably, then turned to look at Sun Hang, "Could it be... that the strange creature really invaded our monitoring system... But... Logically speaking, it should..."

"Don't you trust the security of your surveillance system?" Sun Hang asked.

"Theoretically, there is no possibility of intrusion, but this strange object is too special..." Yuri said, "Considering that some strange objects only need to use images, sounds... or even human cognition to affect the surrounding environment, we cannot rule out the possibility that the monitoring system has been invaded."

"The picture...that is to say, just because the picture played by the computer in the monitoring center contains this TV, the TV can affect the computer in the monitoring center. Is that what you mean?" Sun Hang confirmed with Yuri.

He thought of "Bao Si" again - according to Yang Qi, the charm of "Bao Si" is not only effective through direct gaze, but also through photos, videos and other information media, which can also produce a charming effect, but the intensity is slightly weaker than direct gaze.

As for the weird things that can affect reality through cognition, they are even harder to guard against - there is a saying that "cognition is pollution, information is a virus"... Some weird things can infect humans with their memes through cognition as long as humans know of their existence...

Yang Qi also mentioned a few words about this kind of strange creature, but she was very secretive about the specific information.

After all, the information about this thing itself is a source of pollution, and knowing nothing about it is the best means of isolation.

"Yes." Yuri nodded. "Simply cutting off the circuit and information path cannot ensure everything is safe... Even physical isolation cannot do that."

"If it really has invaded your monitoring center, the supercomputers in the Tianshu Tower are probably not safe now." Sun Hang sat down on the sofa. "Instead of trying to fix the problem, why don't we all watch TV together... I haven't even seen the content of the other signal sources just now."

(End of this chapter)