Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 58: Changes Come
"Besides, didn't you notice that both the top leaders of the Federation and the soldiers have acquiesced to this 'choice'..." Sun Hang continued, "Except for setting up a blockade, they also did nothing."

"What about Yang Qi?"

Sun Hang was silent for a moment, then said, "I can't save her."

……

……

As time passed, fewer and fewer people walked back and forth in the base. Everyone returned to their respective posts, waiting for that moment to come.

Sun Hang heard it clearly. When the clock jumped from 14:59 to 15:00, the colonel standing next to him swallowed hard.

"There are still fifteen minutes." Yang Lian clenched the tablet in his hand, and his knuckles turned slightly white.

……

January 5, 19:15.

last minute.

No talking could be heard in the huge air force base, but the thumping of heartbeats had never been so clear.

In the last ten seconds, everyone held their breath.

Five seconds.

three seconds.

one second.

A gust of cold wind blew by, picking up a piece of waste paper lying on the ground. It spun twice in the air and finally fell to the bottom of the steps where Sun Hang had been sitting and eating.

Nothing happened.

"What's going on?" The colonel was the first to break the silence. He turned to look at Sun Hang and said in a deep voice, "I need an explanation."

At the same time, Sun Hang's cell phone rang, and the caller ID showed an unfamiliar number.

Sun Hang pressed the answer button, and Ye Xuan's voice came from the receiver: "No mutation happened, why?"

"The time can't be wrong." Sun Hang said to those who were looking at him, "I did see the time displayed on the Financial Center Building was 5:19 pm on May th... Then, the only thing wrong is the perspective."

"Perspective?" The colonel obviously didn't understand what Sun Hang meant.

"This 5:19 p.m. on May th is the time point for those people." Sun Hang glanced at the temporary camp on the playground in the distance, "From our perspective, the time point in the real world should be ten hours later, that is, : a.m. on May th."

"..." The colonel stared at Sun Hang for a long time, then slowly said, "I'll give you one last chance. If nothing unusual happens after ten hours, you can't escape responsibility... The recordings of your conversations with the hijackers in the command room have all been preserved."

"From what you said, it seems that you really hope that something strange will happen?" Sun Hang glanced at him and asked.

The colonel was immediately choked by this sentence. He took three deep breaths in a row and said in a deep voice: "Of course I don't want any changes to happen, but I can't tolerate anyone disrupting the order of the army and society through illegal means."

"Then just keep waiting." Sun Hang simply took out his mobile phone and started playing the small game he had just downloaded.

The whole afternoon passed quickly in waiting, and night slowly fell.

The huge searchlight lit up again, and the pale light covered every corner of the base, making people's skin as pale as zombies.

Many people's eyes were bloodshot - in these three days, almost no one had a good night's sleep, especially the 188 people in the barracks. Everyone had a haggard look on their face, and heavy dark circles and greasy and matted hair were almost standard.

There were toilets in the temporary barracks, but no bathrooms - some people protested about this at first, but as time went by, people no longer cared about such trivial matters as taking a shower.

They care more about what they will face when "that moment" comes.

Sun Hang stroked his hair. Under the blowing of the night breeze, his hair was almost dry in just ten minutes.

He glanced at Yang Lian, whose face was greasy, and asked, "Aren't you going to take a shower? You may not have the chance later."

“I’m not in the mood.” Yang Lian said. She kept her head down and drew and wrote on the tablet. Various mathematical formulas were densely packed on page after page, and no one knew what she was calculating.

"Did you study mathematics or physics in college?" Sun Hang leaned over, glanced at the "holy book" on the screen, and asked.

"Weird science." Yang Lian answered without even looking up.

This is an unpopular but very important major. There are two reasons why it is unpopular: first, the admission score for this major is extremely high, much higher than all conventional majors; second, very few parents would agree to let their children apply for this major.

Because being admitted to this major means that you will spend the rest of your life dealing with extremely dangerous things like monsters, few parents can accept their children doing this kind of work, for a simple reason - the accidental death rate among people in this industry is too high.

"I just wanted to follow in my sister's footsteps." Yang Lian continued, "But I made a serious mistake in my last interview and was not selected by the Weird Thing Research Institute. I had to settle for the next best thing and join the Abnormal Investigation Bureau." "I didn't expect you to be a sister complex."

"It's 11:57." Yang Lian said, "In three minutes, it will be May 20th."

"No rush, there is still more than an hour." Sun Hang said.

"You don't plan to save her, right?" Yang Lian suddenly asked.

Sun Hang didn't say anything, but took out his cell phone and started playing.

"I'll find a way myself." Yang Lian said again.

"I suggest you don't do anything stupid."

"I will take responsibility for my own actions."

"Your sister definitely doesn't want you to sacrifice yourself for her." Sun Hang said, "Why don't you think about your parents... You don't have any other brothers and sisters, right?"

"...I suddenly feel that you are...really annoying."

……

May 5th, early morning, 20:1.

"Three minutes." The colonel had changed into an urban camouflage training uniform and held a lit cigarette in his hand.

At his feet, cigarette butts were scattered all over the ground - this man, who was nearly fifty years old, had not slept for more than twenty-four hours, and he had only relied on Nicotine's stimulation to keep going until now.

Sun Hang turned on the timer on his mobile phone to simulate the "ticking" of a mechanical clock. Every tick was like a drumbeat hitting everyone's heart.

Three minutes, one hundred and eighty seconds.

The colonel held the cigarette but did not take a single puff, leaving the long ash hanging there.

The moment the timer reached zero, a shrill scream came from the temporary barracks, piercing the silence of the night sky.

The colonel was startled and threw the cigarette butt in his hand heavily to the ground. He shouted in a low voice: "Quick! Find out what happened in the temporary barracks immediately!"

But before the soldiers could take any action, a man opened the curtain of the tent and ran out with a terrified expression on his face. He shouted "Save me" and ran towards the blockade line.

However, in just a few seconds, his body began to become gradually transparent... When he was only a few meters away from the blockade line, he completely disappeared from everyone's sight, as if he had never appeared.

The soldiers standing behind the blockade were completely stunned until the second and third people rushed out of the barracks. Then they woke up as if from a dream, picked up their weapons, and shouted at their men to return to the barracks.

"The mutation actually happened..." the colonel murmured.

"Switch to the monitoring screen of UAV No. 4." Sun Hang said to the technical soldier sitting in front of the computer.

This drone No. 4 was specially arranged by Sun Hang and is responsible for monitoring tent No. 19.

Living in tent number 19 were the family of Ding Yuanjiang, a member of the Tianfu City Management Committee. In addition to Ding Yuanjiang and his wife, there were also their two children who were running a fever, and the two elderly people who insisted on coming with them.

The two old men were not missing persons. They were not marked by the strange creature, and the time in their cognition was exactly the same as in the real world.

But now, in the surveillance footage, the two elderly people who were holding the child tightly began to show signs of their bodies becoming transparent.

"The abnormal phenomenon is 'contagious'." Sun Hang looked at the surveillance footage and said calmly, "Just as expected."

If he and Ye Xuan had not insisted on gathering all the missing persons together, there would probably be more than just one hundred and eighty-eight people implicated now.

Just when Sun Hang wanted to see what measures the military would take next, his cell phone started ringing frantically.

"Hey?"

"Sun Hang, it's bad!" The person who called was Song Yarong from the research institute. The previous task of monitoring the cemetery in the south of the city was entrusted to her. "Cheng-Chengnan Cemetery, a large number of strange creatures have been detected! And, many of them have clear records of being eliminated! I don't know why, these strange creatures have strangely resurrected!"

"They are not resurrected...these strange creatures came from sixty-five years ago. At that time, they had not yet been eliminated."

"And...there's even worse news!" Song Yarong said breathlessly.

"explain."

"The Federal Abnormal Investigation Bureau sent a message that the phenomenon-type strange object 'Y3 Eternal Night' that disappeared for 130 years has reappeared..." Song Yarong's words were trembling, "Its coverage area is... the entire Shuzhou area."

　This chapter is quite long... and I revised it several times, so it's a little late to post it.

　　
　
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