Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 69: Artifacts, Equipment and Qualified Persons

"...Okay, then tell me, how can you trust me?"

"First, take off your helmet and mask," said Sun Hang.

Without much hesitation, Ye Jiu took off his helmet and mask as Sun Hang said, revealing a handsome face.

His facial features are very similar to Ye Xuan's. It can be seen that the person Ye Xuan imitates when she dresses up as a man is most likely her brother.

However, Ye Jiu looked very haggard, with dark circles under his eyes. He looked like a social animal who always stayed up late to work overtime.

This guy, could it be that he has been drained of his body by alcohol and sex? Sun Hang secretly complained to himself, and continued: "Also, tell me what the terms Weird Equipment and Qualified Persons mean? I have never heard of these concepts, how can I be sure that you didn't just make them up on the spur of the moment?"

"It's normal for a barbarian on the border to be short-sighted..." Ye Jiu looked at Sun Hang with some contempt, "But I really didn't expect that your knowledge of information related to strange things would be so scarce."

"If you say another word, I won't return the knife to you." Sun Hang flicked the blade of "Zhan Shuang" with his finger, and a buzzing sound accompanied the vibration of the blade.

"Don't, don't shoot!" Ye Jiu's expression instantly changed from contempt to pain. "Isn't it enough for me to tell you - the so-called strange equipment is actually similar to the 'exclusive weapons' issued to strange hunters. It's just that strange equipment is all strange, and the selection process for those who are qualified to wear it is much stricter than that for hunters."

"Can non-infected people also become qualified?"

"Yes, the first condition to become a qualified person is the synchronization rate between oneself and the strange equipment. More than 25% is qualified, and more than 40% is excellent. It has no direct relationship with whether or not one is infected." Ye Jiu explained.

"What about you? What's the synchronization rate between you and this weird suit?"

"53%. Among all the qualified people in 'Killing', my synchronization rate ranks among the top three. Therefore, I can bring out most of its power." Ye Jiu's tone was filled with pride.

"Are all the strange equipment and devices self-shaped strange things?"

"Most of them are, but not all of them." Ye Jiu shook his head. "As far as I know, there is a qualified person codenamed 'Puppet Master'. Her strange equipment is a dozen 'strange skeletons' without self-awareness."

Sun Hang was not unfamiliar with the concept of "ghost corpses". Yang Qi had told him about it when he had just become a ghost hunter.

"Corpse" is one of the final endings of human infected people - the fourth ending besides death, being absorbed by other monsters, and turning into a new monster.

Skeletons are between corpses and completely weird infected people. They are a kind of "living dead" similar to The Walking Dead, a bit like the "zombies" commonly seen in horror works, but compared to zombies, they are not infectious. At the same time, they still have some memories of their "previous life" and a small amount of self-awareness... as well as special abilities that belong to monsters.

Ghost skeletons are also the hunting targets of ghost hunters. Although they will not infect normal humans, their behavioral logic completely follows biological instincts. If left unchecked, it is easy for them to attack humans.

"I'm still very curious, can ordinary people really control strange things with their abilities?" Sun Hang looked at Ye Jiu with suspicion, "Will you be controlled by the strange things if you are not careful?"

"It is very dangerous if the synchronization rate with the strange equipment is too low or too high, but it is relatively safe at the threshold of 25% to 75%." Ye Jiu said, "People with too low synchronization rates are not qualified to become qualified people, and people with synchronization rates over 75% have never appeared so far... The Federation has been researching strange equipment for more than a hundred years, and there are only a few cases where strange equipment backfires on qualified people."

"If it can be counted on one's fingers, it means it is not zero."

"But those are only very rare cases." Ye Jiu said stubbornly.

"Then how can you guarantee that you won't be the unlucky one?" Sun Hang played with the Tang Hengdao in his hand. "Since you think there is a possibility that the Night Fury will get out of control, can I also regard you as a time bomb that can explode at any time?" "Are you questioning my ability?"

"I'm a little curious, are there no side effects when using strange equipment?" Sun Hang asked.

There are risks when humans come into contact with any strange creatures. In addition to the possibility of being infected with the strange virus, there are also various strange "side effects".

For example, the Christmas crystal ball that can enhance memory will not only cause the user to suffer from hyperthymesia, but according to Sun Hang’s own experience, this thing is also extremely "addictive"... The feeling of a clear mind is simply addictive.

"Of course there are side effects. Can you guess why this set of my trick equipment is called 'Killing'?"

"If you use it too much, will you become a madman who kills people indiscriminately?"

"Almost." Ye Jiu nodded. "This set of strange equipment originated from the Black Armor Cavalry during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. The first owner was a captain named Ye. During the An-Shi Rebellion, he killed hundreds of Wolf Fang soldiers by himself and died of exhaustion. Since then, everyone who wears this set of armor will be infected by the strong murderous aura, lose themselves in the constant killing, and become a complete killing machine."

"So how did you solve this problem?"

"The first ten qualified candidates relied on a series of methods such as psychological suggestion, hypnosis, physical stimulation, etc. to prevent their brains from being completely occupied by murderous intent, but in my opinion, their methods are only temporary solutions and not the root cause." Ye Jiu said.

"So what's your solution...?"

"Playing video games." Ye Jiu said calmly.

"Ah?" Sun Hang was slightly stunned. He almost thought he had heard it wrong.

"In the virtual game, I would often kill billions of people with the fourth disaster - I would exterminate an entire civilization with orbital bombing, destroy an entire planet with star destroyers, and even sell canned alien intelligent races as food... After I got used to these ways of playing, killing in the real world, even if it was just killing hundreds or thousands of people, became boring to me." Ye Jiu shrugged and said.

"It sounds like... it makes some sense." Sun Hang nodded in agreement.

He suddenly felt that he could learn from this method.

Just when Sun Hang wanted to ask something else, an extremely powerful and strange aura suddenly surged up from under the ground!

"Get out of the way! Something is approaching!" Ye Jiu shouted at him, "I can sense it, it's a very powerful monster!"

While Ye Jiu was shouting, Sun Hang had already used the mycelium to fly to the top of the huge "M" logo of the McDonald's restaurant, staring at the road below with a vigilant look on his face.

Sun Hang swallowed subconsciously.

Not out of fear, nor out of nervousness, but out of an extreme desire for tempting food...

This is an unprecedented sumptuous meal, but its sumptuousness also means...it may choke the "eater" to death.

(End of this chapter)