Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 404: Battlefield in Consciousness
"I put you in the eternal frozen coffin to protect you." Sun Hang said unhappily, "In the Middle Ages, you would have been nailed to the cross by now."

Ye Jiu was stunned again. He looked at Sun Hang, then at Ye Xuan, and then hesitantly asked, "Can you tell me...what happened?"

Sun Hang: "Shouldn't I be the one asking you this?"

"I... my mind is a little confused now..." Ye Jiu took a deep breath, "I... I don't know where to start..."

"How did you end up wearing this scrap metal and lying in this coffin? Let's start with this." Sun Hang said.

“I… I don’t know either…” A trace of confusion flashed across Ye Jiu’s eyes. “I just remember that I was playing games not long ago… I felt dizzy while playing. At first I thought it was the sequelae of staying up late, so I planned to make a cup of coffee to refresh myself… Then… Then…”

"And then?" Ye Xuan couldn't help but urge.

"Sister, don't be impatient... Let me think about it first... My memory is a mess now... It's like a chaotic mess." Ye Jiu closed his eyes tightly, "I should have wanted to make coffee at that time... The moment I stood up, my eyes suddenly went black, and then I felt dizzy..."

Sun Hang looked at Ye Xuan: "Does your brother have a history of low blood pressure?"

Ye Xuan shook her head: "No, those who are qualified to wear strange equipment have to do the experience every month, and his body has always been very healthy."

"Don't interrupt me!" Ye Jiu said in a low voice, "At that time... At that time I thought I was going to fall to the ground... But when my vision recovered, I found that I was standing in a place that was both familiar and unfamiliar, and I was wearing a full set of 'killing' clothes..."

"A place that is both familiar and strange?" Sun Hang asked, "Where?"

"The battlefield of the Black Armored Cavalry..." Ye Jiu said with a trembling voice.

"Black Armored Cavalry?"

"It's the original owner of 'Shafa'." Ye Xuan explained, "'Shafa' is not a replica of later generations, but a set of authentic ancient armor that has been passed down from the Tang Empire era to the present day... If it weren't a strange weapon, it would be on display in the largest museum in Chunming City."

"So, the memory of the original owner of 'Shafa' invaded your brain? Let you experience a battle that happened more than a thousand years ago?" Sun Hang asked.

"No... I don't think that's a memory..." Ye Jiu shook his head, "If it was a memory, I shouldn't be able to control my body... But in that world... I feel... I feel..."

"Don't be anxious, take your time." Ye Xuan's breathing was a little rapid. She said that she was not in a hurry, but her mental state was the most anxious among the three.

"I feel like I've fallen into a game world... well, like the kind of simulation games that often appear in science fiction novels, where your consciousness is completely immersed in it. By the way, do you know SAO?"

Sun Hang and Ye Xuan shook their heads at the same time.

If Ye Jiu mentioned the Chinese name of SAO, Sun Hang might have heard of it, but Sun Hang really couldn't remember what this English abbreviation meant for a while.

After all, he has only been awake for less than half a year. Although Sun Hang has been desperately absorbing all kinds of information whenever he has free time during this period, the gap between him and Ye Jiu, a veteran of the second dimension, is still too big.

Deep in Sun Hang's mind, there might be relevant content in the memories of those who were devoured, but this "garbage dump" is so huge that Sun Hang would rather take out his mobile phone and open the search engine than to search for relevant information in it.

As for Ye Xuan, she had never been exposed to games or animation. In Ye Jiu's words, his sister had received "boring and strict elite education" since she was a child, but Ye Xuan was not only not bored, but also enjoyed it. "Describe what kind of scene it was." Sun Hang said.

"It was a desolate wilderness. Apart from the Black Armor Cavalry, there were only countless strange creatures. Some of these creatures looked like humans transformed, while others had no connection with humans at all... and I was one of the Black Armor Cavalry. Those strange creatures came up one after another, and I could only fight them with all my strength..."

"You mean, the Black Armor Cavalry is fighting against the monsters?" Ye Xuan asked in surprise, "Could it be..."

"That's not the point." Sun Hang interrupted her immediately. "I wonder why you want to fight the monster. Since it's just a memory, or a game, why don't you just fight it directly? If it's a memory, then the owner of the memory will naturally help you control the 'character' to fight. And if it's a game, then you die if you die."

"I don't know either... It seems that in my subconscious, there is always a thought: If I am killed by these weird creatures, I will really die... Moreover, the wounds caused by the weird creatures' attacks will really hurt..."

Speaking of wounds, Ye Jiu immediately lowered his head and looked at his lower abdomen.

"I remember my stomach seemed to be cut open by the monster's claws, and even my intestines flowed out..."

Ye Jiu lifted up the hem of his pajamas. There was no cut on his lower abdomen at all, just a shallow mark caused by the rubber band of his pajamas.

"I still think this is a memory fragment of the original owner of the killing." Ye Xuan said seriously, "The original owner's memory and obsession invaded your consciousness, making you unable to tell whether you are Ye Jiu or the Black Armor Cavalry who fought against the strange creatures that year. In the memory of that Black Armor Cavalry, of course you will die if you are killed by the strange creatures, because this is not a memory, a nightmare, or even a game... but a real war that they have personally experienced."

Ye Jiu looked at his stomach silently without saying a word.

"Also, you said this scene is very familiar. Isn't this the first time you have fallen into this kind of memory?" Ye Xuan asked again.

"There was another time before..."

"Why didn't you report it?" Ye Xuan's tone suddenly became stern. "As a qualified user of strange equipment, you should know that this is a very serious problem! You should know the consequences of concealing it better than me!"

"That time was during the operation to collect meme samples of Chimera No. 17. I thought that the hallucination was caused by Chimera No. 17, so..." Ye Jiu stammered.

"You shouldn't be so optimistic." Ye Xuan said word by word, "If you had reported it in time, perhaps today's tragedy wouldn't have happened."

"Tragedy? What tragedy?" Ye Jiu's eyes widened in surprise, "What on earth happened?!"

He noticed that his sister had been holding the pistol in her hand with her finger pressed against the trigger guard and the hammer on the end of the slide was pulled.

It was as if he was some dangerous thing, ready to shoot him at any time.

A bad premonition suddenly arose in his heart.

"A humanoid monster that looks exactly like you killed nearly a hundred people in Building No. 2, Area C, including seven technicians responsible for memetic reverse engineering." Ye Xuan said, "Among the remains of this monster, we found fragments of the mask of the 'Killing' ghost."

(End of this chapter)