Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 422: Gold-robber

According to the original plan, this area was to be used to accommodate refugees evacuated from other towns in Shuzhou. Along the way, Sun Hang and his companions could even see many half-built simple prefabricated houses, and the pipelines connecting to the heating system of Tianfu City had also been laid... But because of the appearance of Chimera No. 17, the Disaster Response Committee decided to abandon this area and leave it as the last "buffer zone" between Tianfu City and Chimera No. 17.

"It would be exciting to shoot a horror movie here, right?" Seeing that no one responded, Fukada Miki said again, feeling a little embarrassed.

"There is no need to shoot it specially. For ordinary people, The Coming of Eternal Night is already the most exciting horror movie." Sun Hang said.

Wherever there are people, there will always be a kind of people called young and foolish people. In the early days of the eternal night, many people not only did not listen to the advice of the Disaster Countermeasures Committee and stay at home safely, but also ran to remote towns and uninhabited wilderness.

These people either seek excitement and want to shoot some adventure videos to hype them up when the network is restored; or they want to take advantage of the chaos to make money and want to loot the belongings left behind by those who have evacuated in a hurry; even worse, some always think that they are the one surrounded by the halo of the protagonist, and they can turn danger into safety even if they encounter strange things, and even gain some special abilities...

Not only in Tianfu City, but also in various places in Shuzhou, there are such "reversers" - those retrogrades who stand up when facing monsters and natural disasters are admirable, but when normal people see such retrogrades, there are only two words that come to their mind.

"Stupid."

As the eternal night continued, there were fewer and fewer people like this - most of them lost their lives, and the remaining people who were lucky enough not to encounter danger or had plans but had not yet set out, due to the government's vigorous publicity of the deeds of those suicidal people, were frightened and stayed at home, no longer daring to think of any "adventure plans".

Everyone is afraid of death, at least most people are afraid of death.

Especially after witnessing those horrific deaths with one's own eyes... or in other words, the tragic situation of being unable to die even if one wants to die, and unable to live even if one wants to live, that overwhelming fear is enough to wipe out the last bit of courage in people's hearts.

However, humans have another characteristic, which is that they have a short memory.

As time goes by, people living in small homes gradually forget their fears, but the feeling of being confined in a fixed space for a long time makes people crazy. Gradually, some people begin to get restless and can't sit still.

This "buffer zone" is regarded by these people as an excellent "exploration site".

This place is some distance away from the suburbs where monsters roam. The only things explorers need to pay attention to are the soldiers on routine patrols and the individual monsters that occasionally cross the outer blockade and enter the buffer zone. In addition, there are still many valuable things left in this area. Recently, more and more people have sneaked out of the city and come here to "touch gold".

The Public Security Bureau has already arrested quite a few people, but for these people, there is almost no difference between being in the police station and being in the police station at home. The meals they eat are also the same compressed biscuits and nutritional supplements, which makes them even more reckless - after all, if they are caught, they will just be imprisoned in a different place, and if they manage to sneak out, they may find some valuable treasures in this abandoned urban area...

People always like to dream of getting rich overnight, but rational people know that dreams are just dreams and are different from reality; but there are always some people who take dreams seriously.

"Look, isn't there a small electric scooter parked on the side of the road ahead?" Fukada Miki suddenly said.

"Yeah, I saw it." Sun Hang said.

"This kind of road patrol team should clean up regularly, even if there are vehicles parked on the roadside, they will be moved away." Fukada Miki said, "In my opinion, this electric donkey should have been driven here not long ago... It seems that there are other people here besides us."

"Of course there are. They are all restless guys like you." Sun Hang yawned and complained expressionlessly, "They like to commit suicide. They don't have a clear understanding of their own strength. They pursue excitement and like to dream about getting rich overnight or accidentally gaining some superpowers..."

"Come to think of it, when we were leaving the city just now, I saw two young men handcuffed in the sentry post. They must have been captured by the patrol soldiers, right?" said Fukada Miki.

"probably."

"It seems there are still some fish that slipped through the net." Fukada Miki suddenly showed a mischievous smile, "What do you think? If we hide this electric donkey on the other side of the road, they won't be able to find it when they come back. Will they be very worried?"

"We are here to carry out our mission, not to have fun." Sun Hang rolled his eyes at her through the rearview mirror. "If you want to have fun, then we won't go to Chimera No. 17."

"No, no, no, I was just joking!" Fukada Miki said quickly.

Just as the vehicle was approaching the small electric scooter, two young men wearing thick down jackets and motorcycle helmets on their heads climbed up from a side road carrying two bulging packages. When they looked up, they saw Sun Hang and his car and were stunned.

In order to ensure that the operation was sufficiently covert, Sun Hang added silent crystals to the car. Even though the car was very close, the two men could not hear any engine sound or the sound of the wheels rubbing against the ground. In addition, the film on the windows made it impossible to see the scene inside the car. From the perspective of the two men, Sun Hang's car was like a "ghost car".

The two men hesitated for half a second, then suddenly broke into a run. The shoulder strap of one of them's backpack was torn off by inertia when he turned around, and the heavy backpack was immediately dragged to the ground. The man didn't bother to pick up the backpack, and the intact shoulder strap on the other side also slipped off. He threw the backpack aside and ran away from the road.

"Why are they so scared? We don't have the institute's logo on our car, right? Or did they see the license plate? That doesn't make sense. From this angle, they shouldn't be able to see the license plate, right?" Fukada Miki was a little puzzled.

"The car was silent." Zhong Ling, who had been silent in the back seat, said, "They thought we were ghosts."

"It's so funny. You still want to take risks like this? You don't have any courage at all." Fukada Miki immediately laughed.

However, before the two escapees had run a hundred meters, something truly creepy appeared.

A huge eyeball with a diameter of more than five meters was suspended about five or six stories high, floating silently from a distance.

"A weird thing! This time it's a real weird thing!" Fukada Miki shouted excitedly.

She was not that scared. Firstly, she had seen many powerful monsters. Secondly, Fukada Miki was very confident in Sun Hang's fighting ability. Except for super monsters like Chimera No. 17 that were powerful enough to destroy a city, ordinary monsters that came to her were basically just delivering food to Sun Hang.

Seeing the strange creature appear, Sun Hang immediately stepped on the brakes.

But a look of doubt appeared on his face.

The huge eyeball was only two hundred meters away from them, but Sun Hang could not feel any weird aura from it at all - could it be that the ability to block aura has now become a standard feature of weird creatures?

But the strange creature in front of them had such a high-profile appearance and moved without any disguise... What was the point of it shielding its own breath? The two "gold-grabbing" guys were almost scared to death at this moment, and they almost crawled back, but when they found that the "ghost car" just now had also stopped, they collapsed at once.

They had only heard that robbing gold could make them rich, but no one had expected that they wouldn't find much valuables at all... There was no money to be made in this place at all, and as for places like banks, supermarkets, and antique shops, they had already been plundered clean by their predecessors... Just when the two brothers decided not to do this stupid thing again after returning, they were blocked by two weird creatures in this damn place.

The two of them felt so regretful that they wished they could fly back to Tianfu City right now and cut into pieces the old con man who told them the "secret to getting rich".

But the prerequisite is that they have to be able to go back.

"Brother, I feel like we've failed on this trip... Do you... Do you have any last words to say?"

“We’re dead, we’re dead, we’re dead… Mom… Mom, what’s the use of leaving a last will? We… none of us can escape, go, go…”

"I was thinking about getting some diamond rings and gold necklaces to hook up with the young widow upstairs..." One of them said with tears in his eyes, "If I had known earlier, I might as well try my luck at the shopping mall in the city..."

"We are doomed to die, but even if we turn into a weird creature... I will never let... that... that bastard who lied to us have an easy time!"

"Brother, you're right! If we become monsters, we'll go and cause trouble for that old bastard. If we don't become monsters, we'll go and haunt him even if we die and become ghosts!"

……

Here, the two brothers were already "arranging their own funeral affairs", while Sun Hang fell into deep thought... For some reason, not only did he not sense any strange aura, his subconscious mind did not give any sign of danger, as if this big eyeball did not exist.

Sun Hang glanced through the rearview mirror at the Skeleton No. 1 sitting next to Zhong Ling. He saw that its eyes were slightly closed and its arms were crossed in front of its chest. It had no intention of attacking at all.

"It's not a weird thing." Zhong Ling said suddenly.

"It's not a ghost?" Fukada Miki was stunned. "Then what did we see? Is it a big balloon? It's not Halloween now, is it?"

"It's the shadow of a strange creature." Zhong Ling said, "Serial number C845 'Magic Eye'. The main body of this strange creature is a huge floating eyeball. It can create a projection that is almost identical to its own body, which is used as an extension of its field of vision..."

"Then is the real body of this Demon Eye nearby now?"

"Not sure. The maximum distance between the Demon Eye's projection and its real body can reach 50 kilometers." Zhong Ling shook his head. "According to the military's routine patrol records, the patrol troops have also found the Demon Eye's projection many times around Tianfu City, but have never encountered its real body."

"Can this magic eye see us?" Sun Hang asked.

"can."

"Then can this projection be destroyed?" Sun Hang asked again.

"We have tried both physical and energy attacks, but to no avail. According to the solution given by Tianshu Tower, some spiritual weapons and equipment may be effective, but we don't have them," Zhong Ling replied.

"This thing is a bit rogue, it's almost equivalent to an invincible vision unit, and it's almost like a plug-in in a real-time strategy game." Sun Hang started the car again, "Let's go, since we can't fight, we can only run away."

Sun Hang wanted to try whether the ability to make wishes come true would have any effect on the projection of the magic eye, but considering that Fukada Miki was still in the car, if there was a connection between the magic eye and Chimera No. 17, and if the existence of Fukada Miki was exposed at the cost of a magic eye projection, then this deal would be a huge profit for Chimera No. 17.

"Yeah." Zhong Ling agreed.

When the patrol troops encounter the Demon Eye Projection, they will only record and report it, but will not take any actual action.

It’s not that we are unwilling to take it, but it’s useless even if we take it.

They even sent a drone to fly inside the projection to investigate, but the results showed that the projection was really just a shadow without any mass. Apart from causing some interference to the drone's optical sensors, the direct threat of the Magic Eye projection to humans was almost zero.

……

"Hey... Bro, look at that car... it's gone!"

"Drive, drive, drive, drive away?" Another stuttering tomb raider looked back, then turned his head and stared at the projection of the magic eye in the air, "Could it be that this eyeball weirdo is even more powerful and it scared the ghost car away?!"

"Brother, should we run? I see that the eyeball flies quite slowly. If we can get back on the electric scooter, it may not be able to catch up with us!" The tomb raider who kept calling me brother lowered his voice and said, "The restrictions on my electric scooter have been lifted, and the maximum speed can reach over 80! Really! We might not have to die!"

Before the stuttering tomb raider could respond, the projection of the magic eye in the air suddenly turned half a circle and floated away in another direction.

"Ah?" The tomb raider was dumbfounded again.

Why did these two monsters let me go?

Could it be that they look down on me and think it is meaningless to attack me?
The two of them were immediately filled with ecstasy for having survived a calamity. The stuttering tomb raider even knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, chanting, "Bodhisattva bless you! Bodhisattva bless you!"

"Believe in Buddha? Why not believe in me?" A pleasant voice suddenly came into their ears. They looked in the direction of the voice and saw a beautiful girl emitting white fluorescent light standing on the roof not far away.

"The Bodhisattva still requires tribute. I don't want anything. All I want is for you to lend me your memories and feelings." The girl gave the two men a charming smile.

(End of this chapter)