Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 405 Proof
"Wha...what?!" Ye Jiu looked at his sister blankly, "You...say it again?"

"You'd better behave yourself now and don't do anything that could easily arouse suspicion." Ye Xuan said seriously, "Based on the evidence we have so far, you probably won't be rendered harmless... but your freedom will definitely be restricted, and 'Killing' will be temporarily sealed. Until we figure out what's going on or make sure that this strange equipment can be used normally, then..."

"Then find a new qualified person for this thing?" Sun Hang asked.

"It's very difficult." Ye Xuan shook her head. "For the qualified candidates of the Weird Equipment, seamless connection rarely occurs. In order to ensure the stability of the synchronization rate, when the Weird Equipment has a formal qualified candidate, it will not be matched with other reserve qualified candidates. Therefore, there will be a window period between each qualified candidate of the Weird Equipment, ranging from a few months to more than ten years."

"You guys are all pure love warriors. It really makes me cry." Sun Hang gave Ye Jiu a thumbs up.

"It's already this late, how can you still be in the mood to joke?" Ye Jiu said listlessly, "I... I should be taken back to Chunming City..."

"Well, if nothing unexpected happens, you may have to spend the rest of your life under the surveillance of the Tianshu Tower, and your personal freedom will be restricted to a certain extent." Ye Xuan nodded, "This matter may not be your fault, but I can't do anything..."

"No... This is my fault." Ye Jiu sighed, "It's all my damn luck... I always thought I would be the most special one. I thought 'Shafa' would be as gentle and obedient as the first time I came into contact with it... So when I fell into hallucination that day, my first reaction was not that I was attacked by the backlash of the strange equipment, but that Chimera 17 was causing trouble... Alas, it's too late to say anything now."

Ye Jiu stretched out his hands and looked at Ye Xuan: "Xuan'er, you should be wearing handcuffs, right?"

Ye Xuan glanced at him and silently took out a black collar.

"It's actually an explosive collar... That's right, ordinary handcuffs are indeed not safe for a dangerous person like me." Ye Jiu took the explosive collar and buckled it around his neck without hesitation.

"At home... I still have my father and mother. I'll leave it to you from now on..."

Before Ye Jiu finished speaking, Ye Xuan interrupted him coldly: "You never cared about family matters before, but you suddenly remember them now?"

"How does the saying go, 'When a man is about to die, his words are good'... I don't know how much of an impact this will have on my father, but I think his competitors will not miss this opportunity, right?" Ye Jiu sat dejectedly on the wet floor, his hands on his knees. "In fact, I also thought that there might be such a day... But I didn't expect that this day would come so soon."

"People are about to die, but you may not die." Sun Hang picked up Ye Jiu and patted him on the back. "You don't even have to leave Tianfu City."

"No need to leave Tianfu City? What do you mean?" Ye Jiu turned his head to look at Sun Hang, a hint of expectation flashing in his eyes.

He knew that Sun Hang and Mr. Pei had a close relationship. If Sun Hang was willing to help him get out of this situation... maybe...

However, the gleam of expectation in Ye Jiu's eyes only flashed for a moment before it was completely extinguished.

As a qualified person, he is very clear about his current situation.

Someone must be held accountable for what happened today. Even if the culprit is really Chimera No. 17, they cannot and will not let Chimera No. 17 take this responsibility.

This responsibility can only fall on Ye Jiu, who "concealed his own abnormal condition."

What's more, Ye Jiu didn't dare to gamble whether similar accidents would happen between him and "Shafa" in the future...

What if the next time the one who kills people is not an anthropomorphic monster, but yourself dressed in "killing"?
Ye Jiu didn't dare to think about it.

"Forget it, Sun Hang." Ye Jiu sighed, "There's no need to plead for me... I know how bad the impact of this incident is. Even if you don't think I'm a dangerous person, in the eyes of others, especially those big shots above, for someone like me, harmless treatment may be the best outcome."

"Maybe they will give my father a favor and spare my life by locking me up in the special prison in Tianshu Tower." Ye Jiu gave a bitter smile. "I've seen that place before. It's actually not bad. Apart from the lack of personal freedom, it's quite comfortable to live in. There's also a gym and entertainment room... Most people can't even live there if they want to."

"No, what I mean is, you have committed such a serious fault, do you still want to live a peaceful life in the second half of your life?" Sun Hang looked him up and down, "How come Tianfu City is short of combat power now? You want to hide back in Chunming City after committing a crime? How can such a cheap thing happen in this world?"

“……” Ye Jiu looked at Sun Hang, not knowing what he was up to.

"Have you ever heard of the death row camps in ancient times?" Sun Hang suddenly said.

Ye Jiu nodded, and the extinguished fire in his eyes suddenly lit up again.

As a veteran player who has played almost all simulation strategy games in the world, Ye Jiu certainly knows what kind of army the Death Row Camp is... In other words, this is not the designation of a unit, but a kind of "special force" that is bound to appear in all forces in every era.

The death row camp, also known as the death soldier camp, is filled with soldiers who have basically committed capital crimes. For these people, if they do not join the death row camp, they will only be beheaded. But once they are lucky enough to survive in the death row camp, not only can they be exempted from the death penalty, but if they get military merit, they can also be promoted to a higher position, from a dying person who cannot see the tomorrow to a rising star with a promising future.

In a sense, the temporary investigator position established by the Xiazhou Federation is actually similar to this "death row camp."

The two can be summed up in two words: "selling one's life" and "cannon fodder".

"Do you want Ye Jiu to make amends for his crime?" Ye Xuan asked.

"Whether he can make merit or not, I don't want to let him go anyway." Sun Hang said, "From today on, you and your Trickster Equipment will be under the strictest control. Trickster Equipment will only be issued when you are on combat missions, and you are only allowed to wear it before departure."

"Wait a minute, will this violate regulations? We should at least apply to the higher authorities..." Ye Xuan said worriedly.

"It's okay, I'll just call old man Pei later." Sun Hang waved his hand. "But Ye Jiu, I suggest you be mentally prepared. Now that you've been in this situation, you can forget about taking any normal missions. Any mission that requires you to take action is basically a life-or-death situation... And you will no longer have teammates, logistics, or reinforcements. The drone that follows you will be used for surveillance in addition to assisting in combat. And if you fail in the mission, we will directly cover the target point with heavy firepower, and we won't give you much time to retreat... Have you figured it out?"

Ye Jiu nodded.

"If you still want to be a deserter, I won't force you to stay." Sun Hang added, "You can spend the rest of your life in the luxurious prison you mentioned. As for your father, the Ye family is big and powerful, and he has so many sons, so it probably won't matter if you're missing one."

"I want to stay." Ye Jiu changed his usual unreliable look and said, "I want to prove my innocence..."

"Prove your head, no one cares about that." Sun Hang directly hit Ye Jiu on the head with a slap. "The people above only care about your value and how much loss you can recover... In your father's eyes, you are his son; but in the eyes of other congressmen, you are just a qualified person for 'killing'. If you want your father to be protected from attacks by competitors, you must not give up your identity as a qualified person..."

Sun Hang paused: "Of course, you can't die in vain on the battlefield. If you die too meaninglessly, people will think you are a waste. Do you understand?" Sun Hang had just finished saying this when there were footsteps and the sound of rollers rolling over floor tiles in the corridor outside. A dozen fully armed field operators rushed in instantly, followed by an electric cart for transporting permafrost coffins and two researchers in white coats.

Although they were mentally prepared, these field operators couldn't help but seem a little nervous after seeing "another" Ye Jiu... However, after seeing the black collar around Ye Jiu's neck, they suddenly felt mixed emotions.

Not long ago, Ye Jiu was their immediate superior, Team Leader Ye who had fought alongside them in battles. But in the blink of an eye, Ye Jiu had been associated with a host of bad words such as weirdo, out of control, and rebellion... Especially for several operators who had witnessed the killing scene with their own eyes, the emotions in their hearts were even more complicated.

It was naturally impossible for Sun Hang and Ye Xuan to disclose the whole story at this time, so in the eyes of most people in the institute, Ye Jiu was the culprit of the accident.

Regardless of whether Ye Jiu himself was the murderer, he was not unrelated to this matter.

"Lie down in there." Sun Hang asked a man in a white coat to open the eternally frozen coffin, and then he came to Ye Jiu's side and whispered, "Take a nap first. I'll have someone call you when there's work to do."

"Okay." Ye Jiu didn't resist at all and lay down obediently in the eternally frozen coffin. The two men in white coats looked at each other, immediately took out the prepared instruments, and started to get busy.

It is not as easy for ordinary people to enter a permafrost coffin and "hibernate" as it is for hunters. First, the blood circulating in the body needs to be replaced with a life-support fluid that can protect blood vessels and organs. Protective gel also needs to be injected into the trachea. As for the extracted blood, it will be frozen and preserved, and then returned to the sleeper's body when it is necessary to wake the sleeper.

The two white coats were responsible for operating the permafrost coffin. They moved very skillfully. In less than 20 minutes, Ye Jiu had fallen into hibernation in the temperature of more than 100 degrees below zero. The permafrost coffin was also escorted to the underground ice storage by a group of his old subordinates.

Watching the frozen coffin containing Ye Jiu being carried onto the vehicle, Ye Xuan turned her head to look at Sun Hang and asked, "Are you really going to let him be cannon fodder?"

"Is there a better choice?" Sun Hang asked, "Would you rather let him stay in prison until he dies?"

"That would be a good result for him."

"Then you probably don't know your brother well enough." Sun Hang shook his head. "Don't be fooled by his careless appearance. He values ​​reputation more than anyone else. I can use Old Man Pei's authority to exempt him from any punishment, but you should know better than me what the consequences of doing so will be."

Ye Xuan nodded.

"If Ye Jiu wants to clear himself, he can only find a way to make merit." Sun Hang said, "Make a merit that can offset all his crimes."

"I know." Ye Xuan said.

"By the way, Research Institute No. 1 has also sent people to Tianfu City, right?" Sun Hang asked.

"Well, there is a research team stationed in Tianfu City."

"Take this set of strange equipment and the fragments of the ghost mask over to them for them to see." Sun Hang said, "At least we have to figure out how that strange creature appeared."

When Ye Jiu stopped killing, Sun Hang read his memory.

Ye Jiu did not lie.

Since Ye Jiu has never left his dormitory, where did that humanoid monster come from?

That guy really exists, he has flesh and blood, not a virtual projection or an illusion...

The institute's defenses are already so secretive, how did this weird thing sneak in...

Sun Hang suddenly got an idea, took out his cell phone and dialed Yang Qi's number.

"Director Yang, check the surveillance records outside Ye Jiu's dormitory."

"You mean, Ye Jiu left the dormitory not long ago? When we were interrogating Yao Yu?"

"This is wrong..."

According to the memory of "Zhen Ye Jiu", during that period of time, he should have been hiding in the box, fighting with the strange creatures in the illusion.

"You mean he went to the laboratory? He asked them to test a training knife and a bag of plastic figurine fragments?"

"Where's the knife and the plastic figurine? Are they gone?"

"No! That person is not Ye Jiu! That guy is the murderous monster!"

"The people in the laboratory confirmed that the man was Ye Jiu? No, that man was a spooky creature! It just stole Ye Jiu's memory... or rather, the spooky creature was implanted with Ye Jiu's memory. In its eyes, it is the real Ye Jiu."

"Afterwards, where did Ye Jiu go after he came out of the laboratory?"

"Missing? Is there any blind spot in the surveillance of the institute?"

"Where are the two knives used to kill people? Were they stolen from the equipment? Did the surveillance cameras in the equipment warehouse capture anything?"

After ending the call with Yang Qi, Sun Hang let out a long sigh, looked at Ye Xuan, and shook his head: "I always feel that... there are still traitors in the institute, and there are more than one."

"As for whether these traitors are human or ghosts, I am not sure... But the role played by these traitors in enabling 'Ghost Ye Jiu' to complete this killing was crucial."

(End of this chapter)