Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 382 Lihua Mountain

North of the PFDA test site, Lihua Mountain.

As the name suggests, Lihua Mountain was originally planted with a large number of pear trees. In spring, the pear blossoms all over the mountain almost dyed the entire mountain white.

In the two villages at the foot of the mountain, the villagers have successfully escaped poverty and become rich by planting pear trees, and are living a well-off life.

However, all of this disappeared with the advent of eternal night.

All the villagers of the two villages at the foot of Lihua Mountain were relocated to the resettlement camp on the outskirts of Tianfu City. The deserted villages became like the set of a rural horror movie. Occasionally, a gust of cold wind blew through the deserted alleys, and the straw and firewood piled in the yard made rustling sounds, as if they were the whispers of a strange creature.

All the pear trees on Lihua Mountain died within just half a month after the eternal night fell. There was no sunlight, no nutrients, no care from the villagers, and the temperature dropped sharply... These factors combined to deal an almost fatal blow to the agriculture of Lihua Mountain.

Only the dry branches of these pear trees are left standing on the mountain. From a distance, they look like strange skeletons - the twisted and bony branches look like limbs struggling in pain before death, which is shocking.

Yao Yu walked among the corpses of the pear trees, gasping for breath.

There is a cement road between the village at the foot of the mountain and the pear orchard on the mountain. He could have driven up directly... But Yao Yu also knew that the car was too obvious a target and the drone could lock onto his position from high in the sky.

In desperation, he had to abandon the car and the concrete road and climb up the mountain along an extremely difficult mountain road.

Yao Yu's physical fitness is not bad. In addition to his busy work, he is also a regular visitor to the gym. Although he looks thin, as long as he takes off his clothes, he will reveal smooth muscles... He even participated in the folk triathlon competition organized by Chunming City and won the third place in the amateur group.

But now, Yao Yu just felt like dying.

The cold air of dozens of degrees below zero inhaled into his lungs, making his lungs feel burning, as if someone was scraping the walls of his lungs with a red-hot blade... Several times Yao Yu wanted to stop and shoot himself, but the willpower that came from nowhere allowed him to climb halfway up the mountain.

He sat down under a fairly sturdy pear tree and curled up his body as much as possible to avoid being discovered by the drones flying in the sky.

"I can't die...I can't die..."

Yao Yu reached into his pocket and tightly grasped the pistol in his hand.

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Meanwhile, on the other side.

The third special operations team of the field department of the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute has completely blocked the foot of the mountain. More than 30 fully armed field operators lined up in a row, with ten meters between each person, and began a carpet search of the southern slope of Lihua Mountain from bottom to top.

More than 20 drones took off, and a helicopter with the logo of the Weird Research Institute followed closely behind the drones and flew towards the mountain.

"What a big scene." Sun Hang stood at the foot of the mountain and looked up. "People who didn't know would think that the person directly responsible who was killed was a hunter who escaped."

"This is a serious matter, we have to be cautious." The leader of the third special operations team said helplessly.

This is a man in his thirties with blond hair and blue eyes, but he has the facial features of a Xiazhou person. Obviously, like Song Yarong, he is also a mixed-race.

He was wearing a nylon tactical helmet with the four-eye night vision goggles folded up. In one hand he carried a non-standard assault rifle and in the other he held a communication terminal. He stared seriously at his subordinates who were heading towards the middle of the mountain.

"Have you seen that guy named Yao Yu?" Sun Hang asked.

"I've seen him once, when he and the hunter Wen Ya arrived at Tianfu City. I was in charge of the airport security at that time." said the leader of the third special operations team.

"What kind of person do you think he is?"

"What kind of person is he... If I were to give an intuitive impression, he would be serious, calm, polite, and well-behaved, probably like that." The team leader recalled, "Unlike those geniuses who all have some quirks, he gives me the feeling of a robot with perfect settings... On the contrary, his partner is arrogant, presumptuous, and looks down on others... He is in stark contrast to him."

"Don't you find it strange?" Sun Hang suddenly asked.

"What's weird?"

"Why would a person like this join a cult?"

"Uh... Sorry, I don't know how to answer this question." The team leader looked embarrassed. "Perhaps the cult organization has made a condition that he can't refuse; perhaps the cult organization has some handles that are fatal to him... Of course, the above are just my guesses."

Sun Hang wanted to chat with the team leader when the communication terminal in the team leader's hand suddenly rang.

"Report! Footprints were found in Area 12. They are size 44 and have the pattern of Type low-top training boots... We can basically confirm that they were left by the target!"

"Have you found more footprints?" the team leader immediately asked in the communication channel.

"Yes! Although the target has covered up his tracks to a certain extent, there are still many omissions... The target must be very nervous when escaping, not to mention that time does not allow him to eliminate all traces! Do you want to concentrate your efforts and continue searching along the footprints of Area 12?"

The team leader hesitated for two seconds, then gave a negative answer: "No, don't change the original formation, continue the carpet search... As for the footprints of Area 12, I will send Team F to cooperate with the air team to track them!"

After the team leader finished speaking, he gestured to the four field operators who were on standby, and the four of them immediately walked quickly towards Lihua Mountain.

"Be careful, the footprints may be used by the target to mislead us. Be careful of traps. I don't want to see casualties." The team leader said again in the communication channel.

"How about I go over and take a look?" Sun Hang suddenly said.

"Thank you very much for your help, but I still hope that we can arrest the target and bring him to justice." The team leader shook his head. "After all, it was our department's negligence that allowed the man to escape. We must find a way to make up for our mistake."

"Okay." Sun Hang was happy to be free - he originally wanted to ask what if you messed up again, but considering that Yao Yu was just an ordinary person, searching for him in the current situation would seem like "killing a chicken with a butcher knife", so Sun Hang naturally chose to do less trouble.

Anyway, as long as I am here, Yao Yu will never be able to escape from Lihua Mountain. ...

Lihua Mountain, halfway up the mountain.

"Plantation to enrich the people".

Yao Yu, whose breathing had calmed down a little, took out a medicine bottle from his pocket, poured out two pills from it, threw them into his mouth, and swallowed them with saliva.

This was the medicine he left in the car, but it was not a medicine for treating heart disease, but a military stimulant.

He lied to the guard who checked his card that he didn't have a heart disease at all. He bet that the guard wouldn't go to the trouble of checking his medical history... and he was right.

The effect of tablets takes longer to take effect than injections. Yao Yu stood up with the help of the tree trunk and looked towards the top of the mountain.

Over this Pear Blossom Mountain, on the gently sloping northern slope are several larger pear plantations, where there are more hiding places... and perhaps you can avoid the first wave of searches there.

As for what to do after avoiding the first wave of searches, Yao Yu didn't think about it.

There's no point in thinking about it.

Yao Yu was a person who liked to make detailed and careful plans for everything, but now, he had to take one step at a time, which made him laugh at himself, and then he started coughing again.

The field department of the Weird Things Research Institute will definitely come to search the mountain, and they may even borrow personnel from the military... But Yao Yu is also very clear that what the entire Tianfu City lacks most right now is manpower.

He estimated that the research institute could only organize a search team of about 400 to 500 people at most. Even with drones, it would take several days to search every corner of the entire Lihua Mountain.

Yao Yu didn't know how many pawns the organization had planted in Tianfu City besides himself and Wen Ya, but one thing was certain, that was, he and Wen Ya were definitely not the only pawns the organization had planted in Tianfu City.

It won't be long before the organization knows about their exposure to temperature and pressure.

The organization will not come to rescue him, but it will definitely not let the people from the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute catch him.

The organization will definitely find a way to interfere with the institute's search operation and at the same time... send out killers.

When he thought about the fact that he might have to face the killer who came to silence him, Yao Yu's face was left with only a bitter smile.

He never thought that the organization was a good thing, but in order to achieve his goal, he had no choice but to join the organization - only the organization could tolerate his crazy ideas, and if these ideas were put forward within the Tianshu Tower, at best they would be considered to have problems with his academic research attitude, and at worst he would face strict scrutiny, or even be treated as a mental patient and thrown into a mental hospital that was like a prison.

But Yao Yu always believed that he was right... The second large-scale active period of monsters was about to come, and this time, the Xiazhou continent would not be as lucky as last time... Human civilization was in danger, but those in power seemed to be unaware of it.

More than a hundred years of peaceful development have given the federal government an illusion that as long as the status quo is maintained, humans and monsters can "coexist" in this mode...

No, everyone will be killed by this kind of thinking...If we want to survive, we must change!
Yao Yu's heart was lifted, and the willpower that had supported him through his physical limits many times before surged out again, and along with it, the military stimulant he had just swallowed also took effect.

The burning sensation in the lungs was rapidly subsiding, replaced by the throbbing blood vessels at the back of the head... Yao Yu knew that this was the expression after the stimulant took effect. Without any hesitation, he quickly trudged towards the top of the mountain.

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Tianfu City, Weird Things Research Institute.

trial room.

Ye Jiu, sitting on a folding chair, crossed his arms, frowned and stared at the bruised and battered woman behind the isolation glass, with a trace of pity in his eyes.

In the past hour, a professional interrogation team conducted an extremely "inhumane" interrogation on the captured mutant... It would be more appropriate to call it torture rather than interrogation.

The sinister-looking man walked in without asking a word. He first pulled out the nails on the woman's ten fingers with pliers, and then poured a special solvent on them... Before the woman could even scream, she fainted from the pain.

The medical team waiting on the side immediately stepped forward to perform rescue operations. After waking the woman up, the man with a sinister look took out a small scalpel from his pocket and cut off the flesh on her arm piece by piece under the woman's nose. He neatly arranged them on an exquisite porcelain plate... It looked like the sashimi that the Japanese people particularly liked.

The word "Lingchi" immediately popped up in Ye Jiu's mind.

However, after experiencing several "tortures" and falling into coma and being revived several times, this psychic still refused to reveal any information. Every time Ye Jiu signaled the interrogator to stop and went up to ask questions himself, all he got was all kinds of insults.

Even though the psychic's voice became weaker and weaker after a while, and it even took a lot of effort for her to utter a complete syllable, she still refused to let go and refused to reveal even a single word of information.

"Go on... why not?" The mutant who was rescued again murmured, "Any pain I endure will become a testimony of my piety after I return to the Holy Lord... Your torture will only make me more glorious... I..."

Before the woman could finish her words, the sinister-looking man punched her in the abdomen, causing her to choke on the rest of her words.

"This guy... has been brainwashed so deeply?" Ye Jiu muttered in a low voice.

"General interrogation methods may not be effective against her." The sinister-looking man returned to the preparation room, took off the bloodstained white gloves on his hands, and threw them into the trash can. "Team Leader Ye, I need a higher level of authority."

"What do you mean by a higher level of authority?" Ye Jiu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Except for forbidding you to kill her, I have given you almost all the authority. What else do you want?"

"I hope to use strange objects during the interrogation process." said the man with a sinister look.

"Use strange objects?" Ye Jiu's expression paused slightly.

"I know that for non-infected people, using the power of strange things to conduct interrogations is strictly prohibited." The man with a sinister look said, "But she is a mutant, strictly speaking, she cannot be considered an ordinary person. So..."

(End of this chapter)