Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 393 "Volunteer"

"The possibility of humans... surpassing... monsters...?!" Yang Qi's tone suddenly became a little strange.

"This guy shouldn't have any history of using hallucinogenic drugs, right?" Wang Xiyi frowned as she looked at Yao Yu through the one-way glass. "How could a normal person go crazy all of a sudden?"

"I know you must think I'm crazy now." Yao Yu said calmly, as if he could hear Wang Xiyi's complaints.

In fact, this is of course impossible. One-way glass not only blocks the line of sight, but also has excellent sound insulation effect.

Even if there were loud drums and firecrackers on Sun Hang's side, Yao Yu would not hear any sound as long as the call button was not pressed.

"Sun Hang, you should be standing behind the glass now, right?" Yao Yu suddenly said, "I know you must be laughing at me, right?"

"I guessed the first half right, but not the second half." Sun Hang muttered.

However, he did not press the call button. He wanted to see how Yao Yu would continue with this one-man show.

Yang Qi immediately instructed the interrogators inside: "Keep an eye on all of Yao Yu's movements, but don't interrupt him. Also, the person responsible for monitoring Yao Yu's vital signs must report the data to me every five seconds! Even if there are no abnormalities, report them!"

"Sun Hang, do you know why I willingly agreed to be arrested?" Yao Yu said, "I know that all my crimes combined are enough to sentence me to death more than 20 times. I also know that my worth is not enough to offset these crimes... If I am caught, I will die."

He paused and continued, "It's because of you that I volunteered to be captured."

"Eh, so disgusting." Fukada Miki's voice suddenly interrupted the communication channel, "There's Nantong!"

"Should I be touched?" Sun Hang smiled helplessly at Lao Wang next to him, "But the problem is, no matter whether he volunteered or not, he will be arrested sooner or later... Could it be that he meant that he didn't shoot himself in the head just to see me for the last time? The problem is that I don't know him well."

"Maybe he is thinking about your chrysanthemum." Wang Xiyi smiled.

"Then I'll tear his head off right now." Sun Hang said bluntly, "My sexual orientation is normal. I can't accept that kind of messed up stuff that starts with the letter L and ends with a plus sign."

"I joined the organization in order to seek that elusive possibility... but after repeatedly watching the battle videos of you and Wen Ya, and checking the information related to you... I suddenly realized that that possibility exists in you!" Yao Yu's speech speed suddenly increased a bit, and his tone also changed slightly.

"His heart rate increased from 89 to 105, and his blood flow increased by 7%." Yang Qi said, "He became a little excited."

"I just think he's a little immature." Sun Hang picked his nose in a very indecent manner, "Has this guy watched too many hot-blooded anime?"

"If I'm not mistaken, Sun Hang, the meme that infected you... is Taotie, right?" Yao Yu suddenly said.

Sun Hang didn't react at all, but the expressions of Wang Xiyi and Ye Xuan beside him suddenly changed.

"How does he know? All the information related to Sun Hang is encrypted. Even if he has the authority of Tianshu Tower, he can't find it... I wanted to try the confidentiality level of Sun Hang's personal information before, and asked a classmate in Tianshu Tower to use her account to check it. As a result, I could only find some basic information such as name, gender, and date of employment. Even blood type, height and weight were blocked." Yang Qi murmured, "This must be the work of Mr. Pei... But since Mr. Pei has taken action, there is no reason for him to find Taotie?"

"It can't be that there is a traitor in the institute, right?" Song Yarong muttered, "That's not right. There are no more than ten people in the institute who know that Sun Hang is infected with the meme type, and these people are unlikely to leak the information..."

"Maybe he didn't find out." Sun Hang pursed his lips, "He said it himself, he was just guessing."

"You must be wondering how I guessed it?" Yao Yu's eyes flashed with confidence, "I collected all the public information and pieced them together... During the time when I was avoiding the search by the field department, I repeatedly analyzed the intelligence... I found that every time Sun Hang hunted a monster, his strength would be strengthened to a certain extent... Moreover, some of the monsters he hunted would have a certain probability of their abilities appearing on Sun Hang."

Yao Yu continued, "Swallowing, absorbing, self-evolving... Although I can't guarantee that I know all the weird things in this world, but in my understanding, there is only one weird thing that meets these characteristics... and that is the 'Taotie' with serial number Bingjiu."

"Excellent." Sun Hang removed the shielding function of the one-way observation window and said while clapping, "What next?"

"This story starts from when I joined that organization." Seeing Sun Hang removed the block, Yao Yu couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

"Attention, Yao Yu's heart rate has risen to 125, his blood flow has increased by 11%, and his body temperature has risen by 0.3 degrees... In addition, his brain wave activity has increased by 55%." Yang Qi reminded Sun Hang in the communication channel, "His heart is not as calm as he looks on the outside."

"Tell me about it," Sun Hang said. "If you tell a good story, maybe I can leave you with an intact body."

"You should know that within the Xiazhou Federation, the so-called cult organizations are mainly divided into two categories, right?" Yao Yu asked.

"I don't know." Sun Hang said with a smile.

"..." Yao Yu was slightly startled. He glanced at Ye Xuan and Wang Xiyi standing next to Sun Hang and continued, "One type regards the strange creatures as gods, believing that the strange creatures are punishment or salvation sent by heaven. Only by sincerely repenting can they survive this world-destroying disaster... This kind of cult organization is more extreme and its behavior is more crazy, but its cohesion depends entirely on human despair and fear. Whether it is scale or strength, it will not be too strong, and it is difficult to develop in the long run."

"According to what you said, the cult you joined belongs to another category?"

"Yes." Yao Yu nodded seriously, "This kind of people do not worship strange things... or to put it more strictly, they do not worship the strange things themselves, but the power of strange things."

Sun Hang looked at Yao Yu and signaled him with his eyes to continue speaking.

"In fact, what the organization is doing is similar to what the Tianshu Tower is doing." Yao Yu said, "They are trying to merge humans and monsters, and find a way to make humans gain the power that originally belonged only to monsters..."

"Ahem, be careful or Tianshu Tower may sue you for defamation." Sun Hang reminded.

"This is not slander. I am from Tianshu Tower. I know better than you what we have done." Yao Yu said, "Isn't the lady next to you a product of the artificial hunter plan?"

Sun Hang glanced at Lao Wang, who shrugged his shoulders with an expression of "nothing to say". "It's a pity that the Tianshu Tower is controlled by the Federal Parliament, and the group of insects have been accustomed to the comfortable life for nearly a hundred years... They have long lost their enterprising and adventurous spirit, and are timid and dare not accept any overly radical proposals... Almost more than 90% of the artificial hunter plans have been stopped, and the remaining projects that are still in the exploration stage have also been subject to many restrictions. There has been almost no progress in the past decade."

"So you joined the cult just to continue the artificial hunter plan that was stopped by the federation?" Yang Qi's voice rang out directly in the interrogation room - this time, she did not let the interrogator serve as her mouthpiece.

"Yes, but not entirely." Yao Yu nodded, then shook his head. "What the organization is doing is indeed similar to the Artificial Hunter Project, but my goal is far more than that."

"So, the organization sent you and Wen Ya to approach Chimera 17 in order to steal Chimera 17's meme sample and then use this meme sample to create infected people?" Yang Qi asked, "In that case, it would be easier to obtain meme samples by directly infiltrating people into the meme reverse engineering team, right?"

"I don't know the organization's true purpose, but since they chose to attack Chimera 17 directly, it means that there is something more valuable than the meme sample in the monster itself." Yao Yu said, "But for me now, none of this matters."

"It really doesn't matter. You're about to die." Sun Hang nodded.

"I think that both the organization and the Tianshu Tower are heading in the wrong direction." Yao Yu completely ignored Sun Hang's "death threat" and continued speaking at an even faster pace, "The fusion and assimilation of humans and monster memes is a forced compromise... Although humans can gain the power of monsters, humans themselves are still too fragile. This power that does not belong to them will eventually backfire. It is for this reason that any hunter, any infected person, will ultimately be unable to escape the fate of being completely transformed into a monster."

"You mean, you have found a solution to this problem?" Ye Xuan asked sharply.

This is the ultimate problem that has always plagued the field of research on monsters and infected people.

As long as humans are infected with the weird meme, no matter how well the infection process is controlled, the infected will eventually become completely weird... the only difference is the length of time.

It's just like everyone will die sooner or later... except that most people die when they die, unlike the infected. Once the infection process exceeds the danger threshold, if they are not "neutralized" in time, they will explode like a bomb with the countdown running out.

If Yao Yu could really find a solution to this problem, or even just provide a feasible idea, he would definitely be awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - assuming the Nobel Prize Foundation still exists.

"Humans must be superior to monsters, and the relationship between hunters and prey must be reversed." Yao Yu said, "In my opinion, integrating monster memes is just a way to increase one's own strength out of helplessness... But no matter how much humans increase their strength in this way, they can never be stronger than the monsters that are the source of their power."

"This guy doesn't seem to be in his right mind." Song Yarong complained quietly in the communication channel, "I don't know why, but I always feel that what he said for a long time is all nonsense."

"I think so too." Wang Xiyi agreed.

"If we want to change the current situation, humans must take the initiative and hunt strange creatures," Yao Yu said again.

"Isn't this what the monster hunters are doing?" Ye Xuan asked.

"Monster Hunters... are just passively defending... In the past few hundred years, has mankind ever regained even an inch of lost territory?" Yao Yu's speech speed suddenly slowed down, and his tone returned to calm... However, the readings of the vital signs monitoring equipment that were close at hand told everyone that he was not calm at all.

"Do you know what the real definition of 'hunting' is?" Yao Yu said.

"Don't ask me, just talk about yourself." Sun Hang glanced at the bracelet, "You have already wasted nine minutes of my time. If what you say next still fails to arouse my interest, then I think this conversation should end here."

"In primitive society, humans hunted wild animals to fill their stomachs." Yao Yu stared at Sun Hang intently, "And now, we hunt strange creatures to devour them."

"And the only one who has the ability to devour is you, who has the Taotie meme!" Yao Yu continued, "You are the most special infected person. Only you are a true monster hunter... and the other hunters are just pitiful tools used by human civilization to resist the invasion of monsters."

"Is that all?" Sun Hang yawned, "I'm a little sleepy."

"I hope the treatment of me can be modified." Yao Yu said.

"After all this nonsense, aren't you afraid of death?"

"I'm not afraid of death, I just want to make a suggestion." Yao Yu said.

"You mentioned it, and I'll listen to it, but whether I will consider your suggestion is another matter."

"You can execute me, or you can use my life to do something more valuable," Yao Yu said.

"The value of your life is not worth the crime you committed." Ye Xuan said coldly.

"No, what I mean is..." Yao Yu took a deep breath, "Let Sun Hang infect me with the Taotie meme, and then use me as a test subject to observe the changes after I am infected with the Taotie meme. As a senior researcher at the Tianshu Tower, I can give clearer and more accurate subjective feelings and feedback data... These things are things that those death row prisoners cannot provide."

The communication channel suddenly fell silent.

Theoretically, the Taotie meme cannot infect humans...but Sun Hang happens to be the exception.

As a source of infection, Sun Hang infected two people, one was Song Yarong and the other was Jiang Yu, but both of them were infected with the Tai Sui meme, not Sun Hang's original "Taotie meme".

As to whether the "Taotie meme" can infect humans other than Sun Hang... any researcher who has thought about this question is undoubtedly extremely curious about the answer.

The "perverted degree" of the Taotie meme is obvious to everyone. If Sun Hang can really be "mass-produced", it seems that counterattacking the occupied areas and recovering the lost land will not be so far-fetched.

Moreover, Yao Yu was right about one thing. As a "volunteer" for this experiment, he was undoubtedly the most "suitable" candidate at the moment.

(End of this chapter)