Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 428 Engine Scrap
Seeing that the car was fine, the driver became a little bolder and released the brakes a little, and the car continued to slide forward.

But at this moment, a sudden change occurred!

A faint shadow crept up the front of the car, and the originally smooth military green paint surface was instantly covered with cracks. The aged and cracked paint surface curled up, and the crisp sound of the paint film cracking could be faintly heard.

The driver stepped on the brakes immediately and everyone held their breath. For a moment, the car became extremely quiet. Only the detection device held by the field operator in the back seat continued to make short beeps.

In this atmosphere where you could hear a pin drop, the ticking sound seemed extremely harsh, just like the footsteps of death.

The shadow crept along the hood little by little, and the paint film soon fell off completely, revealing the rusty hood.

The two headlights at the front of the car flashed twice and then suddenly went out.

A faint shadow gradually covered the front windshield. The originally clear and transparent windshield was suddenly covered with a layer of yellowed matte effect, looking like a piece of frosted glass that had been left for many years and had turned yellow and aged.

The driver shrank back desperately, his eyes fixed on the steering wheel in front of him - just a second ago, the leather wrapped around the steering wheel began to crack and shrink, and the plastic material underneath also began to become brittle and cracked. A small piece of plastic fell off, revealing the metal frame inside the steering wheel.

Just when the driver thought that death was about to come, an ordinary-looking hand suddenly grabbed the steering wheel with a "snap".

The "aging process" of the entire steering wheel came to an abrupt halt, and the faint shadow retreated like the tide.

Sun Hang glanced at the retreating shadow, then turned to look at the driver whose expression had become extremely ferocious, and said lightly: "Don't be scared."

No one knew whether he was speaking to the ghost figure that was "fleeing in panic" or to the driver who was already frightened.

"I... let me catch my breath..." the driver said in a trembling voice, "My legs are weak..."

The driver took seven or eight deep breaths before he gripped the steering wheel again. But when he stepped on the accelerator, he heard a crisp sound - the aging plastic pedal could not withstand the force and instantly broke into pieces, leaving only a bare metal rod.

The driver's body trembled, he looked down at the brake and accelerator, then carefully readjusted the position of his feet... engaged the gear, released the brake, stepped on the accelerator...

The car didn't move...or to be more precise, there was no sound from the car's engine.

"The engine is turned off? That shouldn't be the case..."

The driver reached out to turn the key under the steering wheel, but everyone only heard a "click" sound. The driver's hand was filled with a rusty key handle, and the key teeth at the front were broken directly into the lock hole.

The car key is located further forward than the steering wheel, so by the time the steering wheel is affected by the shadow and ages, the car key has already become rusty and fragile.

The driver looked at the key handle in his hand with a dull look, and was a little at a loss for a moment.

"It's not stalled." Sun Hang said, "It's that the engine is completely scrapped... No matter how good the engine is, if it's not maintained or the oil is changed for decades, it will become a pile of scrap metal... What's more, the aging effect of this ghost looks like it has been there for more than a few decades."

"What should we do then?" Fukada Miki asked these four questions again and again.

"Repair." Sun Hang placed his hand directly on the glove box panel of the co-pilot.

The tentacles of consciousness drilled into the hood along the gap between the vehicle frames, and in the blink of an eye they climbed onto the "antique" engine that had been completely scrapped.

As Sun Hang's mind moved, these mechanical parts that had been completely rusted together suddenly seemed to come alive and turned into flowing liquid metal. In just a few seconds, they completed the process of disassembly, cleaning, reshaping and final assembly. The oil engines that had solidified into mud became incredibly smooth as if they were reborn, and driven by an invisible force, they drilled back into the interior of the "brand new" engine.

A low roar suddenly sounded.

"go!"

Sun Hang raised his arm and elbowed the windshield, directly shattering it, which was blocking the view. Then the whole car seemed to come alive and rushed forward uncontrollably.

"The brakes...they're not working!" The driver held the steering wheel tightly, a look of horror on his face, "I stepped on the brakes and there was no response at all!"

"It's not malfunctioning, it's just that you don't have control of the vehicle now." Sun Hang patted the car door and said, "Just increase the horsepower to maximum and rush out in one breath!"

As if in response to Sun Hang's request, the engine let out two rough roars, accompanied by the continuous banging of the piston in the engine cylinder. A huge power carried the whole car out like an arrow.

"This car... is alive?" The driver couldn't help but widen his eyes. Just at the turning point, he didn't even touch the steering wheel, but the steering wheel turned automatically. The whole car passed the turn with a nearly perfect entry and exit route, and continued to accelerate forward.

The vehicle's dashboard was completely scrapped. The pointers were spinning randomly and the electronic dial displayed only a bunch of garbled characters. But with years of driving experience, the driver could still feel that the current speed of the vehicle was probably over 130 mph.

It's even speeding up!
"Is it... too fast?" the driver couldn't help but ask.

"It's in a bad mood, and it can only vent by speeding up."

"it?"

"Just imagine, when you wake up from the chaos and are ready to feel this new world, you find that half of your body has become dilapidated. Would you be in a good mood if it were you?" Sun Hang said.

"It refers to... this... this car?" The driver's mind went blank at this moment. He felt that his understanding of the world was collapsing.

"What you mean is... you turned this car into a monster?" Fukada Miki finally reacted, and asked excitedly, pulling on the back of Sun Hang's chair with both hands.

"There's no other way. The engine affected by the time and space ghost has been completely scrapped. If it is taken to a machine shop, it can only be sold as scrap metal by weight. If it is not turned into a ghost, this car will definitely not be able to run." Sun Hang said.

"This is so cool! If you have this ability, why didn't you show it earlier?" asked Miki Fukada.

"If I had no other choice, I wouldn't want to turn this thing into a monster... Do you know how many people will have to help clean up the mess after this?" Yang Qi's stern face suddenly appeared in Sun Hang's mind. Compared with other hunters, all of Sun Hang's task reports, logistics and aftermath were handled by Yang Qi, the "old lady". As for Sun Hang himself, to use a dirty joke, he was the kind of scumbag who was too lazy to get a tissue to help you wipe it after he was done.

The only drawback is that every time I ask Yang Qi for help, I can't avoid listening to her nagging.

"The communication is cut off." Zhong Ling suddenly said.

"It's normal that the communication is cut off. The antenna of the signal transceiver is installed on the front of the car. It should have been scrapped along with the engine just now." The field operator sitting in the back seat said. As a fan of Sun Hang, he seemed to be much more accepting of Sun Hang's various supernatural abilities. "It's just that this car may be more difficult to deal with afterwards... Anyway, this is also a weird thing... and it is a 'man-made' weird thing."

"I have a solution." Zhong Ling said, "Just register it as a strange equipment."

"That's a good idea!" Fukada Miki said, "Who is the qualified person? Sun Hang? How do we measure the synchronization rate of this strange equipment? I see it is completely automatic, and Sun Hang didn't control it."

"Not all strange equipment requires qualified people." Zhong Ling shook his head, "Some strange equipment can be used without specific qualified people."

The car's speed had already reached nearly 200 mph, but fortunately it was on a paved road, so there was no bumpy feeling. After driving along this side road for a while, the main road they had passed on the way here appeared in their sight.

The sound of helicopter propellers was getting closer and closer. Sun Hang looked up and saw a helicopter approaching rapidly. The signal lights on the bottom of the aircraft were flashing rhythmically.

"They are asking if anyone on the bus needs emergency medical assistance." The idle driver quickly interpreted what the traffic light meant.

"Even if there is no transfer station at this distance, portable communication equipment should be able to be used, right?" Sun Hang thought for a moment and said directly on the public channel: "There are no casualties, and no medical assistance is needed."

"That's good!" A few seconds later, a middle-aged man's voice sounded in the public communication channel, "This machine number is Shu Lukong 0562, and we are carrying out an emergency rescue mission for the 'Special 1025 Observation Camp'. In addition to you, are there other vehicles and personnel evacuated from the camp?"

"No, we are the only survivors." Sun Hang replied, "The space-time ghost swallowed up other vehicles and personnel. I suggest you immediately set up a quarantine zone around the valley and closely monitor the space-time ghost in the valley."

After the vehicle drove out of the valley, the detection device held in the arms of the field operator in the back row stopped ringing - this meant that the space-time ghost had moved away from the detection range of the device.

According to the instrument's maximum detection distance, the entrance and exit of the valley seemed to be the boundary of the spread of the evil shadow.

"It seems that the space-time ghost cannot leave the valley, but I can't guarantee that it will not come out." Sun Hang said, "By the way, can I borrow your helicopter as a communication relay station? I want to talk directly to Yang Qi from the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute."

"No problem." The crew member replied immediately.

Soon, the disconnected communication was reconnected.

"I'm glad you're all okay!" Yang Qi said on the other end of the headset, "The moment the communication was disconnected, I really thought something happened to you..."

"With Sun Hang here, nothing serious should happen, right?" Song Yarong's leisurely voice floated from not far away, "If he can kill the Spacetime Phantom once, he can definitely kill it a second time."

"I failed to kill the Spacetime Phantom, but it seemed that the Spacetime Phantom was particularly afraid of me." Sun Hang said, "Everyone else in the convoy was devoured, except for our car, which it didn't dare to move."

"Could it be because of the Taotie meme?" Song Yarong's tone suddenly became serious. "Taotie will devour all the weird things it encounters, even phenomena and spirits. Some scholars even speculate that some weaker rule-based weird things may be devoured by Taotie... The space-time weird shadow should have sensed the Taotie meme on you, so it avoided you, right?"

"I remember... the first time you encountered the space-time ghost, the shadow cast on the ground by the space-time ghost also avoided you... This was mentioned in Ye Jiu's mission report." Yang Qi said.

"But this time, the space-time ghost shadow seems to be a little different." Song Yarong continued, "The last time the space-time ghost shadow appeared in Tianfu City, a huge spherical 'body' could be observed in the air... That time, the space-time ghost shadow was successfully eliminated with the help of the shadowless lamp array. We first eliminated the ghost shadow's 'body' in the air, and then..."

"But this time, neither drones nor long-distance telescopes observed anything similar in the airspace near the valley." Yang Qi continued, "So I suspect that the strange thing that appeared this time may be a variant of the space-time strange shadow that appeared last time."

"Things can evolve." Yang Qi added, "Last time, its true form was its weakness. Because we caught this weakness, we were able to destroy it. This time it has come back, maybe it can find a way to hide its weakness."

"Speaking of flaws, Fukada Miki, can't you see the flaws of strange things? Have you ever used your ability on the time and space ghost?" Song Yarong asked.

"Of course I have used it... but I can't see anything." Fukada Miki sighed, "I can only see darkness."

"That means the flaw is not on the ground... maybe it's in the sky, but it's hidden by using optical camouflage or something like that... have you looked up?" Song Yarong asked again.

"I have seen it, but there is only the projection of the magic eye in the sky, nothing else."

"Hiss... This is troublesome... The spherical body of the ghost before, except for being observable by visible light, has zero mass and energy reaction... If it is given an optical camouflage, then this thing is almost the same as non-existence."

"It's not that it doesn't exist, but that it can't be observed." Yang Qi corrected, "Anyway, it's always a good thing to be able to evacuate safely... The Disaster Countermeasures Committee has already known about the reappearance of the ghost, and they are planning a new plan. As for the issue of accomplices, we can discuss it after you come back."

(End of this chapter)