Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 347 Conflict
"Borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha, right?" Song Yarong laughed, "Can I understand that you are trying to please me?"

"If you think it is, then it is." Sun Hang did not deny it.

"You can improve your favorability if you want." Song Yarong lowered her voice and her smile became more ambiguous. "Next time when you are free, let me have a thorough checkup... You should know what kind of checkup that is, right?"

"There are minors here. It's not appropriate to talk about this kind of topic, right?" Sun Hang also said with a smile.

"Minors? Where are they? Why can't I see them?" Before Song Yarong could reply, Fukada Miki spoke first, "You guys are having quite a lot of fun. Can you take me with you?"

Sun Hang really wanted to retort to her, "Get out of here, you little brat," but considering that Fukada Miki's identity needed to be kept secret, Sun Hang swallowed his words back in the end.

She is no longer the seventeen-year-old Fukada Miki, but the twenty-six-year-old Tang Jing.

"Are there any dietary restrictions?" Sun Hang simply ignored her and got back to the original topic.

“I don’t eat cilantro.”

"Great minds think alike." Sun Hang nodded vigorously. "From today on, you are my half-sister!"

"Your sister is a little too cheap." Song Yarong complained, "The one who cooked is the 'puppet master' Zhong Ling, right?"

"You know?"

"Yang Lian mentioned it to me, but unfortunately if it was her, you would probably go hungry today... Otherwise, I'll share a bucket of instant noodles with you?" Song Yarong said.

"What's wrong? Is she working overtime too?"

"She just received a long-distance patrol mission. She will circle the city and visit several outposts on the outskirts of the city... I guess she won't be back tonight."

"What flavors of instant noodles do you have here?"

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Southern suburbs of Tianfu City, Economic Zone Ring Expressway, Post No. 307.

A convoy consisting of a light armored vehicle and four off-road vehicles slowly approached.

Before the convoy stopped, a lieutenant wearing a powered exoskeleton jumped out from the leading light armored vehicle.

Driven by the powered exoskeleton, the lieutenant ran forward more than ten steps in one breath after landing, which eliminated the inertia caused by jumping out of the car. But before he could stand firmly, several aiming lasers had already stopped at his head, chest and other vital parts.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. We are patrol team No. 26. We just sent you a connection message!" the lieutenant shouted.

"We know, but in special times, it's always better to be cautious!" The soldier behind the sentry post bunker responded loudly.

"It's not so prudent as to point a gun at friendly forces!" the lieutenant said awkwardly, "If it goes off accidentally, then..."

"What are you afraid of? I didn't even turn on the safety." A short and stocky old soldier came out from behind the bunker, looked at the lieutenant who was not even half his age with some disdain, and snorted coldly, "Even if the safety is turned on, as long as my fingers are not broken, this gun will not go off... You kid, you are a lieutenant at such a young age, and you graduated from a military academy?"

"Yes... He is a student of the 59th class of Tianfu Military Academy and just graduated the year before last." The lieutenant replied.

Logically speaking, the other party was just a soldier, and he was an officer, so the other party should salute him when he saw him... But after the lieutenant saw the collar badge of the third-class sergeant major of the old soldier, he instantly lost his temper.

Although a third-class sergeant major is only a non-commissioned officer, according to the military rank system of the Xiazhou Federation, he enjoys the treatment of a deputy regimental commander... and officers at the deputy regimental commander level generally have the rank of lieutenant colonel, and some even reach the rank of colonel... which is more than one or two levels higher than a lieutenant.

Faced with an old senior who was much more senior than him, the young lieutenant could only accept the scolding.

"New recruits nowadays have never been to a battlefield or seen blood... Tsk, they are so scared when someone points a gun at them." The sergeant patted the lieutenant's chest and said, "He has a bulletproof plate installed, so he won't die even if he gets shot."

"Uh……"

"Uh what? Sign now and get out!" The sergeant took out a communication terminal from his pocket and handed it over.

"This... this may not comply with regulations," the lieutenant said awkwardly. "We should check the outpost once and confirm that there is nothing wrong before I sign... Otherwise, it would be irresponsible to both the federal government and you..."

"Don't try to play that on me!" The sergeant seemed to be in a bad mood today. "I'm standing right in front of you alive. How can there be any problems with Outpost 307? I'm going to tell you this today. As long as I'm still alive, those weird things won't be able to cross the line behind me!"

"This..." The lieutenant was suddenly embarrassed... It was his first day as the captain of the patrol team, and he encountered such a thing. For a moment, he didn't know how to deal with it.

Just when the lieutenant was in trouble, another man wrapped in a black robe jumped off the second SUV and walked to the front of the outpost.

"What happened?" the man asked.

"Outpost No. 307 refused inspection." The lieutenant said truthfully.

"Why?" the man asked again.

"No reason! I said there's no problem, so there's no problem!" The sergeant glared, "It's just a tiny place, what do you want to check? Check if our underwear is on backwards? I'm a soldier, not a prisoner in a prison! Damn, come here three or four times a day, how can you ever stop!"

At this time, a soldier from the patrol team trotted over and whispered in the lieutenant's ear: "Captain, I just learned from the rear... Yesterday's patrol team seemed to be deliberately looking for trouble and found many problems with the No. 307 outpost. The soldiers stationed at the outpost were punished..."

"What, you want to punish me again? Come on, I don't care anyway, as lice don't itch if there are too many of them!" the sergeant shouted.

"What's wrong with that convoy?" The lieutenant frowned. He always felt that there seemed to be some misunderstanding.

"Something like the firefighting equipment not being put in place, the ammunition boxes not being locked as required, the soldiers' weapons not having safety locks, etc. These are all trivial matters." The soldier said, "I heard rumors that the captain of the patrol team failed in his blackmail attempt and was beaten up, so he chose to retaliate against them..."

"Blackmail? Revenge?" The lieutenant's eyes widened. "How could there be such scum in the army?"

"Captain, please keep your voice down! This is just a rumor! Rumor!! It has not been confirmed yet!" the soldier said hurriedly.

"Sergeant, I think there must be some misunderstandings! What happened yesterday I..." Before the lieutenant could finish his words, the man in the black robe suddenly pushed him away and walked straight into the outpost.

"Stand right there!" The sergeant immediately reached out to stop the man in black robe.

"Get out of the way." The man in black robe said lightly. He didn't even raise his hand. The short and strong sergeant flew out like a ball and hit the bollard beside him heavily.

"what are you doing?!"

The soldiers in the outpost immediately pointed their guns at the man in black robe, and the atmosphere became tense for a moment!

"Is this a mutiny... or a rebellion?" The black-robed man looked at the black muzzles of the guns coldly and asked disapprovingly.

"Everyone... ahem..." The sergeant who was knocked flying got up from the ground with some difficulty, spitting out a mouthful of blood foam with broken teeth, "Everyone... stop fucking shooting!"

"Don't shoot! Let's talk it over! Don't shoot!" Upon seeing this, the lieutenant quickly ran between the sentry and the man in black robes, raising his hands above his head, "Don't let the incident escalate. It won't benefit anyone!"

"It was this guy who hit the stationmaster first!" A soldier at the outpost shouted, stiffening his neck. "This is an attack on the outpost. According to the regulations, we can fight back!"

"Shoot back!" Before the lieutenant and the man in black robes could speak, the sergeant started cursing first. He took off his helmet and threw it hard at the soldier who had just spoken. "Put your fucking guns down, are you deaf?!"

After saying that, the sergeant turned to look at the man in black robe and said in a deep voice: "Are you... a strange hunter?"

The man in black robe glanced at the sergeant major expressionlessly and did not deny it.

"Humph... Hunters... they are so powerful." The sergeant covered his chest and abdomen, took two steps back, and sat down on a bollard, "They are just a bunch of short-lived freaks..."

Before he finished his words, the man in black robe instantly flashed in front of the sergeant major, and a sharp claw like some kind of bird of prey stretched out from his robe and grabbed directly at the sergeant major's head which was not protected by a helmet!

"It's over!" The lieutenant wailed in his heart - it's too late! Everything is too late! No one can save this sergeant major... If he dies here today...

This hunter might be able to leave here alive, but these soldiers in the outpost, the other people in the convoy, and himself... would probably all be killed in a sudden gunfight.

He even caught a glimpse of the flash of fire from the muzzle of the sentry's gun when the soldier at the sentry post fired!
It’s over! Completely finished!
At the moment the gunshot rang out, the black-robed hunter's sharp claws suddenly flew up and then fell to the ground more than ten meters away. At the same time, a burly body like steel blocked the gun line of the sentry soldiers and intercepted all the bullets.

The sergeant was stunned for a moment, turned his head and looked back, only to see a skinny skeleton standing behind him, with blood dripping from its ten fingers that were like scalpels.

The man in black robe, covering the wound on his broken arm, had retreated several meters, staring at the strange skeleton standing behind the sergeant major as if he were facing a formidable enemy.

"Ghost?" The sergeant asked in confusion, "Why did you appear here? And why did you save my life?"

"Don't shoot! Don't shoot anymore!" the lieutenant shouted as if he had just woken up from a dream. At the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart - fortunately there was another "capable person" in the convoy, otherwise, today's incident might have developed into a situation of life and death.

"These corpses are friendly forces! Friendly forces!" the lieutenant emphasized again, "They are on our side!"

“I… Of course I know…” a soldier at the outpost muttered, “It… It saved the stationmaster… But… How could the strange skeleton…”

Before he could finish his words, the angry sergeant major rushed up to him, snatched his rifle away, and slapped him in the face.

"I told you not to shoot, don't shoot! Do you want to fucking die?"

"But! Stationmaster, the hunter wants to kill you!" said the soldier somewhat aggrievedly.

"Even if I am killed, you are not allowed to shoot! Do you understand?" the sergeant shouted in an almost roaring tone.

"What? Are you planning to mutiny with these soldiers?" The black-robed hunter stood at the edge of the highway, staring in the direction of the convoy with a bad look.

Everyone looked in the direction he was looking, and saw a slender girl in a black dress slowly walking towards them. Beside her were two eerie skeletons that looked like followers.

"Post 307 refused to be inspected, so it will naturally be punished," the girl said, "but you were the first to hit someone, so you are the one who provoked the armed conflict."

"He is nothing! Forget about hitting him. I can kill him easily!" The man in black robe said fiercely, "Is the life of a mortal like him more valuable than mine?"

If Sun Hang was at the scene at this time, he would be able to see that the shadow behind the black-robed man, which symbolized negative emotions, had become extremely intense, and seemed to be about to swallow him up at any time.

"It has nothing to do with whether it's worth money or not. Right is right and wrong is wrong." The girl said calmly, "They did something wrong, and you did something wrong too."

"So what do you want to do with me? Put me in jail?" The man in black robe raised his eyebrows and asked, "Like the hunter who accidentally crushed a few ants to death a few days ago?"

"The hunter killed people, not ants." The girl shook her head.

During the confrontation between the girl and the black-robed hunter, the sergeant quietly walked to the lieutenant, nudged him lightly with his elbow, and asked in a low voice: "Who is this girl?"

"He is a qualified person who has acquired the right equipment from Chunming City, codenamed 'Puppet Master.'" the lieutenant explained in a low voice.

"Puppeteer?" The sergeant looked at the corpses thoughtfully. "In other words, these corpses are puppets controlled by her?"

"Yes." The lieutenant nodded.

"She's a hunter too?"

"No, she is not infected... But I don't know why she has the ability to control the strange body... Maybe it's some special ability." The lieutenant said, "I heard that some people, even if they are not infected by the strange virus, will awaken some special abilities."

"I admit that I was in a bad mood just now. Please ask them to stop." The sergeant exhaled a breath of turbid air and said, "You can inspect the outpost. I will accept any punishment from above... But I have a favor to ask of you."

"What?" asked the lieutenant.

"When the higher-ups investigate, you can say that I ordered my men to open fire," said the sergeant.

(End of this chapter)