Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 427 Siege
"Then, what should we do?" Fukada Miki was a little at a loss.

"No big deal." Sun Hang shrugged. "I can't steal the chicken, so I can only attack head-on. Even if Chimera 17 knows your ability, it can only take some defensive measures against its own flaws. It can't directly destroy your ability."

"Then I have been locked up for so many days, wasn't it all in vain?"

"Is this what you care about?"

"What else... if you were locked up in a cell like that, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating inside, and you couldn't even go out for some fresh air, would you be happy in that situation?" Fukada Miki said dissatisfiedly.

"Even if your identity is leaked, you still have to stay in the safe house after you go back," said Sun Hang.

"Why? I protest!"

"To ensure your safety." Sun Hang glanced at the other two field operators in the car, and built an invisible soundproof barrier between himself and the other two. Then he said to Fukada Miki, "The interior of the institute has been infiltrated by Chimera 17. Except for a few of us, anyone could be a puppet of Chimera 17. If you don't want to be assassinated by someone you don't know for no reason, I suggest you stay in the safe house until the final combat operation begins."

After saying that, Sun Hang removed the sound barrier again.

One of the two field operators was driving, while the other was concentrating on the detection instrument in his hand, and did not notice that the long speech Sun Hang had just said was made without making any sound.

"In fact, there are less than 48 hours left until the final combat operation." Yang Qi consoled in the communication channel, "You have persisted for so many days, just hold on for two more days."

"Okay, okay...my protest will be of no use anyway." Fukada Miki leaned back in the car seat, looking like she was ready to be manipulated.

"I didn't expect that Director Yang is so good at coaxing children." Sun Hang complained in the communication channel.

"Don't joke around now, you're not out of danger yet." Yang Qi said seriously, "The space-time ghost is still chasing you, right?"

"I don't know. He should still be chasing us, right?" Sun Hang looked back through the rear window. The valley was pitch black, and he couldn't distinguish between the original shadows and the strange shadows of time and space that could devour everything.

However, judging from the changes in the frequency of the beeping sound from the detection instrument in the hands of the field operator in the back row, the distance between the convoy and the shadow was neither getting farther nor closer.

"and many more?"

Sun Hang suddenly sensed something was wrong.

The convoy's speed is now about 70 miles per hour, but the ghost chasing behind keeps the same speed... Does this mean that the ghost is just driving them away instead of trying to catch up with them?

If the ghost shadow had moved so fast at the beginning, the people in the secret camp would have no chance to evacuate and would have been swallowed up by the ghost shadow long ago.

"Tell the other people in the convoy to drive slower." Sun Hang patted the field operator who was driving and said.

"Ah?" The other party looked confused and obviously did not understand Sun Hang's intention.

"I should have the authority to command the entire convoy now, right?" Sun Hang asked again.

"Is...is there?" Before the field operator driving the car could react, an order from his superior came through the headset - from now on, the command of the entire evacuation convoy would be unconditionally transferred to the hunter Sun Hang.

"Now we have it." Yang Qi said to Sun Hang in the communication channel.

"Okay then." Sun Hang took off the intercom hanging next to the dashboard and switched to the communication channel dedicated to the team. "Attention, all cars, starting now, slowly slow down, from 70 mph to 60 mph within 20 seconds... Remember, don't slow down too deliberately... It's best to create the illusion that you have to slow down because of the car and road conditions. Do you understand?"

Although no one understood Sun Hang's orders, the command was in Sun Hang's hands. Even if Sun Hang asked them to turn around and rush towards the ghost shadow chasing after the convoy, they had to do so.

The speed of the entire convoy slowly slowed down. Sun Hang glanced at the dashboard, then turned to look at the operator in the back row holding the detection instrument and asked, "Has the distance between Ghost Shadow and us shortened?"

"Uh... at first when the convoy slowed down, the distance between us shortened a little, but now, it seems to be maintained at a distance that is neither too far nor too close... Huh? Why is this happening? Shouldn't the Ghost Shadow catch up with us if we slow down?"

"You also realize the problem, right?" Sun Hang said, "The real intention of the ghost shadow may not be to devour us."

"There's a trap! There must be a trap ahead!" The field operator reacted immediately. "The mountains on both sides are very steep. The car can't drive up. There is only one way out of the valley... If something is blocking the way ahead, we will be completely trapped here!"

"What should we do then?" asked Fukada Miki.

As soon as she asked the question, she was stunned for a moment. She always felt that she seemed to have asked the same question not long ago: "What should I do then?"

Fukada Miki felt a little embarrassed. She felt like a supporting actress in a disaster movie. She had no ability, ideas or strategies. When she encountered a problem, she could only say "what should I do?" and became a tool to help the protagonist push the plot forward...

No, I can't go on like this... After all, I am at least a senior psychic, and I have probably participated in more hunting missions than most people in this team...

Of course, what Fukada Miki didn't know was that she had participated in more hunting missions than everyone else in the team combined.

Many of the field operators stationed at the secret camp were recruited urgently after the Eternal Night fell. The missions that Zhong Ling participated in were more experimental rather than hunting missions... As for Sun Hang, the number of hunting missions he had completed properly in the hunter file was less than a dozen.

"How about...how about we abandon the car and go up the mountain?" Fukada Miki tried to make a suggestion.

She had completely forgotten that they had just escaped from the top of the mountain.

"There is a place north of Shuzhou and south of the Hexi Corridor that is quite suitable for you to guard." Sun Hang glanced at her and said.

"Where?"

"Street pavilion."

"What place is Jieting?" Fukada Miki looked confused.

"Have you never read Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"

"I've only played Dynasty Warriors... Come to think of it, there seems to be a level called Jieting, but I can't quite remember. Is there anything special about this place?"

"I suggest you play less games and read more books when you go back." Sun Hang sighed. Sometimes, the most depressing thing is that you want to make a joke but meet someone who can't pick up the joke at all.

"If we go up the mountain, the situation will only get worse if the ghosts surround us from the foot of the mountain." The field operator said, "Besides, didn't you just evacuate from the top of the mountain?"

"This... I, I forgot." Fukada Miki's face turned red, and she suddenly wanted to slap herself - why did she make such a stupid suggestion?
I should have kept silent if I had known this earlier.

"Keep going forward." Sun Hang said calmly, "If the ghost shadow is just driving us away, I want to see where it wants to drive us to."

Sun Hang turned on the holographic projector on the roof of the co-pilot car, and a 3D holographic projection map of the valley immediately appeared in front of him. Just as the field operator said, the road they were driving on was the only way in and out of the valley. If they wanted to leave the valley, they had to abandon the car and go up the mountain, climbing over the tops of the mountains on both sides.

"Where's the support?"

"The helicopter that is sent to support us will meet us in seven minutes." The field operator said, "But at our current speed, we will be out of the valley and onto the main traffic artery No. 505 in four minutes."

"Are there any more drones?" Sun Hang asked.

"There's another one in the car."

"Give me the remote."

Accompanied by the sound of rotating propeller blades, a small drone flew out from the skylight on the roof of the car, quickly passed over the convoy traveling at a constant speed below, and flew towards the exit of the valley.

The holographic projection in front of Sun Hang was divided into two parts. One part was the terrain projection of the valley, and the other part was the image transmitted back by the drone in real time.

Sun Hang operated the remote control of the drone with both hands, continuously lowering the altitude of the drone. When it dropped to about ten meters, the image on the right side of the holographic projection suddenly paused, and then completely disappeared.

"Warning, drone signal lost! Warning, drone signal lost!"

"Did the drone crash?" Fukada Miki couldn't help but ask, "But I think the flying speed is not too low, and the area is relatively flat... I've also played with drones, so it shouldn't be that easy for it to hit the ground and crash at this speed, right?"

"It didn't crash, it was shot down..."

Before he could finish his words, a sound of sudden brakes came from the front.

Facing the rear of the car in front that was rapidly getting bigger in his field of vision, the field operator who was serving as the driver slammed the brakes hard. The vehicle's ABS anti-lock braking system immediately made a piercing noise, and the rear of the car began to drift to one side - fortunately, the three people sitting in the back row were wearing seat belts, so they did not crash into the backrests of the front seats.

"What's going on? Why did you brake?" The field operator in the back row subconsciously put his hand on the pistol holster at his waist.

"The lead car...the lead car has disappeared!" A terrified voice sounded in the convoy's communication channel.

The field operator recognized the voice. The person speaking was a "junior" who joined the company a month later than him and was also the driver of the second car in the convoy.

"Please tell me clearly, what happened?"

"I... I don't know either. I was just driving along when the car in front of me seemed to be swallowed by a shadow and disappeared in an instant. I could only step on the brakes in a hurry..."

"It's that ghostly shadow!" Fukada Miki said anxiously, "That ghostly shadow has circled in front of us!"

"Car No. 2, can you see the road conditions ahead?" Sun Hang asked, grabbing the walkie-talkie.

"It's all...it's all pitch black, I can't see clearly...I turned on the high beam, but even the light seems to be swallowed up--"

The sound in the communication channel suddenly stopped.

Sun Hang noticed that a faint shadow covered the front car body. The originally brand new paint began to crack and fall off instantly, revealing the rusty metal frame. The people sitting in the car also turned from living people into a few white skeletons in just a few seconds.

In the blink of an eye, the car in front had completely disappeared from sight.

"We are the only car left!" The field operator who was driving the car glanced at the rearview mirror, his tone filled with uncontrollable fear, "The car in front and the car behind... are all... all... all gone!"

"They were swallowed up by the shadow of time and space." Sun Hang said lightly.

The driver held the steering wheel with both hands. The sweat from his palms wet the leather covering the steering wheel, making it feel sticky and slippery. He didn't even dare to breathe at this moment... It seemed that as long as he made a sound of breathing, the invisible shadow would pounce on him and swallow him up.

"Yang Qi, there is bad news." Sun Hang said in the communication channel, "We are surrounded by the space-time ghost."

"However, there is also good news." Sun Hang said again, "The space-time ghost seems... not to dare to touch us."

"Don't dare to touch you? Why?" Yang Qi was very confused.

"I don't know, but after it swallowed up the other vehicles in the convoy, there was no movement." Sun Hang said.

Could it be... that it is afraid of itself?
No, it was not itself that it was afraid of, it was the three monkeys.

Can phenomena-like strange things also cause fear?

"Don't act rashly. The rescue helicopter will be here soon." Yang Qi said, "The helicopter is equipped with a heavy-duty sling. When the time comes, just fix the hook and the helicopter will lift you and your car out of the valley."

"Don't let the helicopter come." Sun Hang said, "If you don't want to lose another helicopter and crew."

"Then what do you do?"

"Listen to me and keep driving forward." Sun Hang patted the driver's shoulder and said softly.

“Ah? Keep driving?” The driver was stunned. “B-but in front… we just watched the people in that car turn into skeletons and then disappear!”

"If the ghost wanted to devour us, we would have been devoured by now." Sun Hang said, "But we are still here, which means it is afraid of us. Don't be afraid, just drive forward, and it will make way for us."

The driver glanced at Sun Hang, took a deep breath, clenched his back teeth, shifted the gear with his slightly trembling right hand, then gripped the steering wheel tightly and slowly released the brake.

The car began to move forward little by little.

Ten centimeters... twenty centimeters... half a meter... one meter...

Soon, Sun Hang's car drove to the position where the car in front had just disappeared.

Nothing happened.

The driver breathed a sigh of relief, quickly wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and asked in a low voice: "Do you want to continue driving forward?"

"open."

(End of this chapter)