Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 364 Scavengers

Ye Jiu: “???”

Although Sun Hang and Yang Lian cleared out a lot of weird people, compared with the number of residents in this block, the number they cleared out was just a drop in the bucket - Ye Jiu was right, the scene below was exactly the same as in a zombie movie.

"What's wrong? Are you scared?"

"No... I mean..." Ye Jiu held it in for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I admit that I was scared... You know the nature of killing. Killing those monsters is okay, but the weird creatures that look like humans... I'm really afraid that I won't be able to control myself when I kill them."

"What use do you have for me?" Sun Hang looked at Ye Jiu with some contempt, then asked seriously, "How many people have been transformed?"

"The exact data has not been compiled yet, but the permanent population of the affected blocks is about 40,000 people... Those people in the water department are probably screwed. I heard someone even called the parliament. But for such a big thing, let's not talk about whether the parliamentarians can protect the people. Even if they can, they don't dare to come out to protect them!"

Sun Hang looked down at the strange people wandering aimlessly downstairs and let out a long sigh.

The reason why Yang Lian and the others were not infected was that Zhong Ling used bottled drinking water specially provided by the logistics department for cooking and also used this water for drinking.

As for bathing, they use tap water... Damen thought that they probably didn't have strange habits like drinking their own bath water.

"Come to think of it, why are all the residents around here infected, but you are the only ones who are fine?" Ye Jiu suddenly asked, "You are already infected, so you may not be infected a second time, but Yang Lian is an ordinary person, how come she is fine?"

"Thanks to Zhong Ling." Sun Hang said, "That girl said that the tap water in Tianfu City is hard and will affect the taste of the food if used for cooking, so she insisted on using the purified water brought in by the logistics department to cook. And the few of us who are used to her food basically don't cook for ourselves..."

"Fuck, this is even possible?" Ye Jiu couldn't help but widen his eyes after hearing what Sun Hang said, "Such a strict requirement for food can actually save a person's life... Isn't this luck too good to be true?"

"Are you still not leaving?" Sun Hang glanced at the helicopter's propeller. "Isn't the research institute eager to interrogate this psychic?"

"Let's go, let's go now!" Ye Jiu said, "Aren't you going to come up?"

"I have nothing to do in the research institute, so why not sit here for a while?" Sun Hang shrugged. "And by the way, let's see how the Disaster Countermeasures Committee plans to eliminate these tens of thousands of weirdos."

"...Your hobby is a bit heavy." Ye Jiu said speechlessly, "I suggest you come with us... The field department will send people into these affected areas in a while to confirm whether there are any survivors... Generally speaking, after this step, the next step will probably be indiscriminate attacks, such as missile bombings."

"It's not a big problem. Missiles can't kill me." Sun Hang waved his hand.

"That's right. You're thick-skinned anyway." Ye Jiu said, "Okay, let's withdraw first... If there is any follow-up situation, remember to fire flares."

Ye Jiu threw a signal gun to Sun Hang, and the helicopter immediately left the building, quickly rose to a high altitude, and flew towards the direction of the research institute.

Sun Hang casually stuffed the signal gun into the big pocket of his coat and watched the helicopter gradually fly away.

He stayed not really to witness the "massacre", but because there should be an undiscovered monster in this area.

The attack of the silt came from the psychic who had just been subdued, and the collective weirdness of the residents was because the water source was polluted... But don't forget that there is also abnormal signal interference in this block.

Signal interference has no direct connection with the first two, so it can only come from the capabilities of a third party.

Standing in front of the broken French window, Sun Hang slowly closed his eyes, and some concrete concepts slowly emerged in his mind.

When he opened his eyes again, a faint black light flashed across the surface of his pupils. In his field of vision, a huge, hemispherical transparent cover appeared in the air, like an inverted bowl, covering the entire block.

Sun Hang blinked again, and the transparent cover disappeared immediately, and his vision returned to normal.

A slight feeling of dizziness suddenly came from the back of my head.

"The consumption is so huge?" Sun Hang checked the "blue consumption" with some surprise - he just used the ability of "Wish Come True" to check the scope of the infected area, but he didn't expect that it would directly use up nearly a quarter of the blue bar!
Even when he used his ability to control objects with his mind's desire, the mana bar he consumed was not that high... Was it because the interference area was too large? Or was it because the monster that created the interference area was too powerful?
The concrete interference area only appeared in Sun Hang's field of vision for less than 0.1 second, but Sun Hang had already locked the center position of the entire interference area.

It was a large shopping mall located at a crossroads, less than three kilometers away from where Sun Hang was now. When Sun Hang had just become a hunter, he had bought several sets of clothes for daily wear in this shopping mall.

He clearly remembered that day when he asked Wang Xiyi if she wanted to go clothes shopping together, but the latter replied, "Clothes are disposable items for me anyway, there is no difference between buying branded goods and street stall goods... Moreover, based on my personal experience, the quality of street stall goods is not necessarily worse than those of famous brands."

Sun Hang's mind moved, and accompanied by an explosion that broke the sound barrier, a few seconds later, he was already standing at the entrance of the shopping mall.

This shopping mall covers an area of ​​nearly 100,000 square meters. The main building has four floors. The first floor mainly sells automobiles, shoes, hats, clothing and electronic products. As commercial activities in Tianfu City have almost completely stopped, these shops are now all closed. There is a thin layer of dust on the exhibition vehicles worth tens of millions of dollars. A big hole was smashed in the window glass of a luxury store nearby, and the mannequins inside were lying on the ground in a mess. Yellow and black warning strips have been pulled around the broken glass, and the store doors are also sealed with seals stamped by the Public Security Bureau. This kind of thing is not uncommon in Tianfu City. Due to the advent of eternal night, the social order in Tianfu City has become much more chaotic than before, and the incidence of various thefts and robberies has increased a lot. Even though the Tianfu City Management Committee has increased the penalties for crimes committed during special periods, it is still to no avail.

For ordinary people, the current situation is no different from the end of the world. When the end of the world comes, the first thing to collapse is the social order.

Especially for those at the bottom of society, those things that you can't afford or touch on a normal day, now there is an opportunity to buy them for free, would you be tempted?
The vast majority of people may be able to maintain their own moral bottom line...but when the human population becomes large, there will always be some anthropomorphic creatures among them.

This is what we call a big forest with all kinds of birds. And humans have another characteristic, which is to follow the crowd - when the first lawbreaker appears, the second, third, and the one hundred and first will soon appear.

This is under the premise that the federal government has declared that it "will never give up Shuzhou"... Once Shuzhou is really abandoned, during the period before it completely falls, the people who cannot evacuate here should be most wary of not monsters, but humans who belong to the same species as themselves.

Sun Hang cut the chain on the mall’s gate, pushed open the closed electric door, and walked in.

There was garbage scattered everywhere inside the mall, including various abandoned promotional materials, advertising signs, and various shopping bags... There was even a patent leather high-heeled shoe lying near Sun Hang's feet.

After the eternal night fell, this shopping mall briefly resumed business for a while, but with the appearance of Chimera No. 17, Tianfu City was put into martial law again, and the mall that had hastily resumed business was hastily closed again... From this messy scene, one can imagine the chaotic situation when martial law was announced again.

Sun Hang walked up the dead escalator to the second floor. The second floor was mainly filled with various restaurants, beverage shops, and the favorite millet shop in the second dimension... However, the situation here was not much better than the first floor. The trash can on the side was filled with foam standees as tall as the body, and stains of solidified drinks and food that had not been cleaned up in time were everywhere on the ground.

The small stools used for waiting in line at the restaurant entrance were scattered in the middle of the aisle. Hundreds of cardboard boxes filled with food ingredients were piled at the entrance of the public toilet, emitting a smell of spoilage.

Sun Hang walked into a coffee shop and was surprised to find that the light of the coffee machine on the counter was still on.

"Where does this electricity come from?" Sun Hang was stunned for a moment. However, before Sun Hang could get closer, a figure suddenly stood up behind the counter and pointed something that looked like a homemade crossbow at Sun Hang.

“Stop!” the man shouted in a low voice, “Put your hands where I can see them, and step back to the corridor outside.”

Apart from the indicator lights on the coffee machine, the coffee shop was pitch black. One could only vaguely see a cold light flashing on the tip of the opponent's arrow... But this was for ordinary people. With Sun Hang's vision, he could clearly see that the person holding the crossbow was a young man who looked like a beggar - he was wearing a poorly fitting brand-name coat, and the backpack and pockets of his clothes were bulging. There were several watches on the small part of his arm exposed from the cuffs.

"Thief?" Sun Hang asked.

"I'm not a thief!" the other party immediately retorted, "I'm just a scavenger. Anyway, no one wants these things if they are thrown here. Whoever takes them doesn't care. If you want to snatch them from me, I will shoot you to death!"

"You dare to kill someone?"

"What's there to be afraid of? The surveillance cameras here are out of power. Even if I kill you, no one will know it was me!" The other party said viciously, "Besides, after the eternal night fell, so many people died in Tianfu City. You won't make a difference!"

"Guess who I am?" Sun Hang asked with a smile.

"I don't care who you are! Get out of here now while I don't really want to kill you! Don't let me see you again!" The young man who called himself a "scavenger" said aggressively.

"Have you ever killed anyone?"

"I... Of course I have killed someone!" The other party hesitated for a moment, then shouted with his neck stiff, "Just last week, a bastard tried to steal my things, and I shot him to death with an arrow!"

"Oh, so you're admitting to murder?" Sun Hang laughed. "What if I tell you that I'm a sheriff, can I arrest him now? Considering that you turned yourself in, maybe I can give you a lighter sentence."

The young man was obviously a little panicked, but he didn't realize that Sun Hang could see his expression in such a dark environment. He shouted fiercely: "Bullshit! You can't be the sheriff! The sheriff will not come to a place like this! This place has been abandoned a long time ago! You are also a scavenger... No, you are a thief, you come here to steal things!"

Sun Hang almost laughed at this guy's "double standard". He waved his hand and said, "You guessed it right. I am indeed not a sheriff, but I have some connection with the Sheriff's Bureau... How should I put it? It can be regarded as a working partnership."

"Don't dream. Your lies may fool children, but they can't scare me at all!" The scavenger was obviously relieved when he saw Sun Hang admit that he was not a sheriff. "I'll give you the last ten seconds. If you don't leave, I'm really going to shoot!"

"I'm not a sheriff, but a hunter." Sun Hang said calmly, "Monster Hunter."

The scavenger was stunned, but after a few seconds, he immediately cursed loudly: "Bullshit!"

"I am really a hunter. Believe it or not, I have to tell you one thing. There is a very likely a monster lurking inside this shopping mall."

The expression on the scavenger's face changed rapidly. He was silent for several seconds before asking, "Is what you said... true?"

"I don't need to lie to you." Sun Hang said, "It's because there are strange things here that hunters come here, isn't it?"

"But you're not the same as the hunter I know..." The scavenger shook his head, "I still think you're fucking lying to me!"

"Why are they different? What do you think monster hunters are like?" Sun Hang asked curiously.

"I don't know about other things, but if a hunter wants to hunt strange things, shouldn't the sheriff come to investigate first, then the people from the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, and finally the hunter? You came here alone, why should I believe you?"

"What about now? Do you still believe it?" Sun Hang raised his hand, and a metal flying blade was suspended in his palm.

As if afraid that the other party couldn't see it, Sun Hang was considerate enough to turn on the flashlight on his mobile phone. Under the light, the metal blade gleamed coldly, like a living thing.

(End of this chapter)