Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 394 How to deal with it
Inside the safe house, Yang Qi and Song Yarong looked at each other. Fukada Miki, who had not yet figured out the situation, looked at Yang Qi, then at Song Yarong, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"We probably can't make the decision on this proposal..." Song Yarong said in a voice as soft as a mosquito, "Should we ask Mr. Pei for instructions?"

"... Wait a minute." Yang Qi shook her head, "See what Sun Hang says."

"Sun Hang...seems like he's going in?"

Under the gaze of Yang Qi and Song Yarong, Sun Hang pushed open the door of the interrogation room and walked in.

He walked up to Yao Yu, stared at him for a few seconds, then took out a pistol and put the muzzle against Yao Yu's forehead.

Sun Hang's pistol was still the 12.5mm caliber hunting pistol. As an ordinary person, Yao Yu would definitely die if he was shot.

To be precise, with this shot, not only would Yao Yu's entire head explode, but even most of his shoulders and chest would probably be blown off.

The interrogator sitting behind the table looked startled and shrank back subconsciously, as if he was afraid of being covered in minced meat and blood that would fly over him in the next second.

After completing this subconscious action, he realized that he should stop Sun Hang, but at the moment he wanted to stand up, the person behind Sun Hang made a gesture to him, indicating that he should sit down.

"This... this..." the interrogator stammered, not knowing whether to stand or sit.

"Don't act rashly." Yang Qi said in his earphone, "Sun Hang...should know his limits."

"Are you sure?" Song Yarong stared at Yang Qi with suspicion, "Since we met him... he seems to have never 'understood' the 'property' a few times..."

The corners of Yang Qi's mouth twitched slightly, but in the end she didn't say much.

"To be honest, I always feel that you are planning something." Sun Hang said, staring at Yao Yu's head with a gun.

"Yes, I also want to have power." Yao Yu looked directly at Sun Hang, "But I can assure you that I will not betray humans."

"Whether you betray humanity or not is none of my business?" Sun Hang asked, "Any last words? I'll give you the last ten seconds."

Yao Yu's eyes revealed a trace of disappointment. He slowly closed his eyes and whispered, "I have said everything I should say. I don't have any last words."

"Okay then. Good luck."

Sun Hang pulled the trigger.

"Clap."

The hammer hit the empty chamber, making a crisp empty sound.

Yao Yu opened his eyes and looked at Sun Hang with some confusion.

"Oh, I forgot to load the gun." Sun Hang said in surprise.

"You don't want to kill me." Yao Yu said.

"If you keep talking to me in this pretentious tone, I might really want to kill you." Sun Hang put the gun back into the holster, took two steps back, and sat back.

A chair made of mycelium immediately appeared in the empty space, just right under Sun Hang's butt.

"Since you don't want to kill me, do you agree with my proposal?" Yao Yu's tone remained calm, but there was a hint of eagerness that was hard to conceal in his eyes.

"Are you a diode? Are there only two options for this question?" Sun Hang looked at Yao Yu as if he was an idiot. "The value of your life is indeed not enough to offset your past crimes, but the problem is that it would be too easy for you to just shoot you like this, right?"

"Uh..." Yao Yu's expression froze, "So what you mean is..."

"Although your life is worthless, it is at least not worthless." Sun Hang looked at him and said, "Whether it is a live experiment or being sent to die as cannon fodder... no matter which way you die, it is always more valuable than being shot on the execution ground. I am a very practical person. Even if I can't recover all the losses, at least I will recover as much as I can."

Sun Hang suddenly raised his head, looked at the surveillance camera in the interrogation room and asked, "Director Yang, generally speaking, how much is a cannon fodder's life worth?"

Inside the safe house, Yang Qi's forehead veins throbbed twice as she watched the surveillance footage. She took two deep breaths and then told Sun Hang in a serious tone, "Sun Hang, we generally don't use money to measure human life, even for death row prisoners..."

"Then tell me, how much money do I have to owe the federal government to be forced to be sent to a cannon fodder position like a temporary investigator?"

Yang Qi: “…”

"I just checked, the lowest record in Tianfu City should be 790,000, and that guy just happened to join the company at the same time as you." Song Yarong chuckled and spoke in a tone that seemed to be eager for chaos.

"Is that man still alive?"

"He died... He died on his first mission." Song Yarong said, "That time at the South City Cemetery. The man was responsible for searching for clues and was attacked by wild animals that had mutated because of the blood moon. He was seriously injured and died before he could be sent back to the rear hospital."

"According to this calculation, in Tianfu City, the lowest price for a life is 790,000 yuan." Sun Hang nodded and patted Yao Yu's shoulder with a hand made of mycelium. "Did you hear that? You are worth at least 790,000 yuan. Do you know how much relief supplies you can buy with 790,000 yuan? How many hungry disaster victims can you feed? The shot I just made didn't kill a single person, but 790,000 yuan in cash."

"You...you actually...calculated it this way?" Yao Yu, who had remained calm since his arrest, finally felt a little relieved. "I...I am a senior researcher at Tianshu Tower after all...Xiazhou Federation spent a lot of money to train me...you actually think I'm only worth 790,000..."

"What do you mean by 'only worth' 790,000? Do you know how much money 790,000 is? Do you know how much you can buy with 790,000?" The mycelium-condensed hand poked Yao Yu's head with dissatisfaction. "If you want me to pay off my debt with my life, I should be able to show higher value! Instead of repaying the federal government in a meaningless way like those worthless people!" Yao Yu shouted.

"Wrong." Sun Hang shook his head. "First of all, those people are not worthless. They are worth at least 790,000. Secondly, the death of cannon fodder is not meaningless. In many cases, the important intelligence of those unknown monsters is obtained by the cannon fodder at the cost of their lives... Finally, I know that you are a researcher with some ability, but the question is, do we dare to use the 'atonement methods' you mentioned that can maximize your value? Who knows if you will do something weird again?"

"You can take the most stringent monitoring measures against me! You can even seal me in a perpetually frozen coffin!" Yao Yu opened his eyes wide, "Since you want me to pay off my debt with my life, then even if I die, it should be a worthy death! I can be used as a meme receptor for Taotie for you to observe! Dissect! Even if you have to cut me into hundreds of thousands of pieces, it's fine! As a scientific researcher, I should devote myself to the cause of research..."

Before he could finish his words, the mycelium crawling up his throat had already sealed his mouth, leaving him with only a muffled "wuwu" sound.

"Director Yang, how much does a perpetually frozen coffin cost?" Sun Hang asked.

"It's a first-class permafrost coffin specially made for the infected. The one-time cost for activation is 850,000, and the subsequent maintenance for one day is 110,000." Yang Qi was too lazy to complain and answered mechanically in a dry tone.

"That's not the price now!" Song Yarong suddenly interrupted, "Supplies and energy are in short supply in Tianfu City right now, and prices of goods and electricity are soaring. The actual price must be at least three times what Director Yang quoted... three times, no deception!"

"Even if we don't give him a premium, one million will be burned once the Eternal Freeze Coffin is activated... Your life is only worth 790,000 originally, and now we have to pay you another million. Aren't we going to lose a lot of money?" Sun Hang lifted the "ban" on Yao Yu and said to him.

"How...how can it be calculated like this?" Yao Yu's eyes widened. "Research...how can the value of research be measured in money? You...you are simply unreasonable!"

"You can't even curse?" Sun Hang stood up and walked out of the interrogation room. "You need to be more aggressive."

"You...you..." Yao Yu kept saying "you you you" for a long time before finally uttering, "What are you going to do with me?"

"Lock him up first. When you are needed, we will make a decision later." Sun Hang said without looking back, "Remember, you are not a person now, but a brick. We will move you wherever you are needed. Do you understand?"

"I..." Yao Yu wanted to say something else, but Sun Hang had already slammed the soundproof door of the interrogation room shut.

……

"Sun Hang...how do you plan to deal with Yao Yu?" Yang Qi asked in the communication channel.

"According to your rules, how do you usually handle it?"

"We are not qualified to deal with Yao Yu... He is under the jurisdiction of Tianshu Tower. The most appropriate approach is to hand him over to Tianshu Tower and let the relevant departments of Tianshu Tower conduct a trial on him. However, according to the special regulations for emergency periods, we can 'execute first and report later' in this situation."

"In other words, even if we shoot him, the Tianshu Tower won't say anything?"

"As long as we can provide enough evidence, there will be no problem." Yang Qi said, "Of course, you don't have to worry about the evidence. Tianshu Tower has already found enough evidence to prove that Yao Yu is in collusion with the cult organization. We don't even need to do anything."

"In fact, you just shot him to death, which is the most worry-free way." Song Yarong interrupted again, "Now that you spare his life, it will be a bit troublesome..."

"Oh? What's the trouble?"

"As a member of a cult organization who has access to a large amount of confidential information from the Tianshu Tower, and as a senior researcher at the Tianshu Tower... even taking into account the special regulations in emergency periods, all we have is the right to execute him, but not the real 'right to dispose of' him." Song Yarong said, "In other words, I can find any reason to kill him... but if I don't kill him, the right to dispose of him will have to be transferred to the Tianshu Tower, and before the formal transfer, all kinds of troubles will follow, such as..." Song Yarong said helplessly.

"Will Tianshu Tower come to ask for people?"

"The matter with Tianshu Tower is a small matter. The key is the cult organizations behind him... If they knew that Yao Yu was not executed, do you think they would let it go?" Song Yarong said, "Since you don't kill him, you have to find ways to ensure his personal safety, right? We are already seriously short of manpower, and it is difficult to assign a group of people to keep an eye on this guy..."

"Then according to you and Yang Qi's ideas, the best way to deal with it is to shoot him?" Sun Hang asked, "That's easy, I'll load the bullet now."

"Wait, wait! We didn't say we were going to kill him!" Yang Qi hurriedly stopped him, "Sun Hang, don't be impulsive!"

"Then what are you going to do?"

"We originally planned to throw this big burden to Tianshu Tower after the interrogation was completed..." Song Yarong sighed, "But the problem is, this guy's suggestion just now..."

"What's wrong with that proposal?" Sun Hang asked puzzledly.

"If he returns to Tianshu Tower and publicizes his idea..." Song Yarong said, "You know, there are quite a few crazy people in Tianshu Tower. The temptation of this proposal is too great... There will definitely be people who can't help but want to try it... You don't want a bunch of high-IQ crazy people in Tianshu Tower who are always thinking about your meme samples, right?"

"Then kill him." Wang Xiyi said immediately, with murderous eyes as she looked at Yao Yu.

"But I always feel that... what he said seems to make some sense." Ye Xuan, who had been dissatisfied with the federal government's long-term attitude, suddenly said, "It's not just in Shuzhou. There have also been serious monster invasions in Belgar City... and the group of people in the parliament are still dreaming of maintaining the status quo... If the Second Monster War officially begins, I don't think the current Xiazhou Federation can win this war."

"Are you really planning to let this guy be infected with Sun Hang's meme?" Yang Qi said, "What if... the infection gets out of control..."

Yang Qi didn't say the second half of her sentence, but everyone else present understood what she meant.

What if a second "Sun Hang" is born, a "Sun Hang" with dangerous ideas and a dangerous and radical style of behavior... No one can guarantee what this guy can do.

In comparison, although Sun Hang is often a headache for people... from another perspective, his style of doing things is reassuring, and he has never caused any big trouble that cannot be resolved - to put it another way, at least, he would not think of tying all of humanity to a chariot from which there is no turning back.

But if it were Yao Yu, everything would be hard to say.

[PS I wish you all a happy New Year's Eve. I wish my underage book friends a lot of red envelopes today. I wish my adult book friends will not be questioned by their aunts and uncles when they go home for the New Year. I wish you all smooth sailing and good health in the new year! ]

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