Trickster Hunter

Chapter 19 Emergency

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When Sun Hang woke up from his coma, the chilling tingling sensation had disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

“Is it… a nightmare?” Sun Hang sat up from the sofa and looked down.

The metal nameplate in his palm, which had been warmed up, exuded a soft golden luster. He tried to pinch it lightly with his fingernails, and a scratch immediately appeared on the surface of the metal nameplate.

Stainless steel is not so soft, and the weight is not so heavy… This metal nameplate seems to have really turned from stainless steel to gold.

“This… This is impossible?” Sun Hang’s breathing became a little heavy.

Obviously, this miracle of “turning steel into gold” is his ability… But it is more obvious that this ability has nothing to do with Taotie.

It can’t be that the Taotie clone first swallowed a strange creature with this ability, and then infected itself, right?

This ability, apart from the fact that it has a bigger side effect, can be described as a bug. Can Taotie really devour a strange creature with this ability?

Sun Hang recalled what the white coat said during the induction training of the Investigation Bureau... If this unknown strange creature is to be classified, it is probably classified as "Class A Rule-based Strange Creature".

Class A strange creatures are completely superior to all other types of strange creatures... because it is the "rule" itself.

"Wait... So it seems that the change in the color of the light in the hospital before was not a coincidence?" Sun Hang was shocked. Could it be that his ability was not "turning steel into gold" but "making wishes come true"?

He decided to do an experiment.

He stared at the half-eaten apple on the coffee table, whose flesh had turned yellow and oxidized at the edge, and tried hard to recall the feeling of tingling, and silently said in his heart: "Float... Float for me."

The apple did not move at all, and the tingling sensation did not appear.

Only the sweeping robot silently slid under the coffee table, making a slight mechanical sound when avoiding Sun Hang's feet, as if mocking his fantasy.

"It seems a little different from what I thought..."

Sun Hang glanced at the oxidized part of the apple, and suddenly looked up at the clock hanging on the opposite wall as if he suddenly remembered something.

It was five minutes to seven in the evening, which means that he had been unconscious for almost two hours.

Sun Hang immediately raised his arm and rolled up his sleeves.

The bracelet on his wrist was normal, without a harsh alarm, and the red warning light inside was not on.

"Strange... Didn't the bracelet detect any abnormality?"

On the way here, Yang Qi briefly introduced the functions of the bracelet to Sun Hang-when his heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and other indicators showed serious abnormalities, the bracelet would sound an alarm and transmit the abnormal data to the Abnormal Investigation Bureau and the Weird Research Institute as soon as possible.

If the bracelet had detected that Sun Hang had been unconscious on the sofa for two hours, the people from the Investigation Bureau and the Institute would have broken into the room long ago... but nothing happened now.

"Can this ability fool the bracelet?" Sun Hang muttered to himself, "Or, in the eyes of the bracelet, I just 'slept' on the sofa for two hours?"

Sun Hang went to the bathroom, washed his face with cold water, then returned to the living room and turned on the TV.

The TV was playing the evening news, and the camera cut to see a row of sheriffs standing upright in front of four white tombstones, and a middle-aged woman in a black dress stood a little further away with a sad face.

The subtitles below read, "The four sheriffs who died in the Bloody Mary incident in Tianfu City have been buried in the South City Cemetery today. Representatives of the Xiazhou Federal Parliament, representatives of the Tianfu City Management Committee, and leaders of the Tianfu City Public Security Bureau and the Abnormal Investigation Bureau presented wreaths in front of the tomb."

"A cenotaph..." Sun Hang remembered very clearly that when Wang Xiyi blew that big fireball, the plasma in the entire blood pool was evaporated. The bodies of Captain Huang, the trainee sheriff, and the sheriff who was dragged into the blood pool later, I'm afraid there won't be even a residue left... Only the sheriff who died in the blood mist outside before can still have a relatively complete body.

Sun Hang glanced at the woman in the black dress again... According to her age, she should be Captain Huang's widow...

Wait? !

Sun Hang wiped his eyes vigorously, because he found that the woman on the screen suddenly became extremely old... The originally upright figure became hunched, and the skin covered with age spots also drooped along the sides of the cheeks. The turbid eyeballs were deeply sunken, and many wrinkles that did not exist originally appeared on the woman's face.

Not only her, but the sheriffs in the picture also showed signs of "aging"... They were in their prime and turned into octogenarians in the blink of an eye. The hair under the wide-brimmed hats was all pale.

And the next second, everything returned to normal.

Even when Sun Hang was staring at the screen, the mobile phone thrown on the dining table suddenly rang.

The call was from Yang Qi.

"Sun Hang, emergency!" Yang Qi's tone became extremely anxious, "An extremely rare abnormal situation occurred at the South City Cemetery! In less than three hours, the entire cemetery park returned to its undeveloped state decades ago! The most terrible thing is that when the abnormality occurred, the funeral and flower laying ceremony of the sheriff who died in the Bloody Mary incident were being held in the cemetery... All the people participating in the funeral, including those senior leaders, are missing!!"

"South City Cemetery? Flower laying ceremony? Missing?" Sun Hang turned his head and looked at the TV screen again, "But, I can see them..."

"What did you say?!"

"I said, I can see them, those missing people." Sun Hang replied.

"What??! Where did you see it? How did you see it?!" Yang Qi's tone on the phone was quite excited.

"On TV, the 7 o'clock evening news." Sun Hang answered truthfully.

"This is impossible!! Because of the abnormal situation, the evening news has cancelled the funeral broadcast! This is absolutely impossible!!"

"Then I'll take a picture for you."

After Sun Hang finished speaking, he pointed the camera of his mobile phone at the TV screen... However, through the camera, the TV screen in the camera was only a white snowflake noise.

Sun Hang suddenly realized that this news program had no sound from beginning to end - at first, he thought he didn't turn on the speakers.

"Something is wrong. I can't take a picture of the TV... Or to put it another way, this picture can only be seen with my eyes. You should also know that I don't need to lie to you about this kind of thing."

"I'll come to your house right away!" Yang Qi said firmly.

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Not long after, the engine sound of the armored off-road vehicle came from the door of the villa.

As soon as Sun Hang opened the door, Yang Qi rushed in and immediately cast his eyes on the TV in the living room.

The news program has ended, and now some irrelevant content is playing on the screen, and the sound has returned to normal.

"What did you just see on TV?" Yang Qi took a breath and asked Sun Hang.

Sun Hang did not hide anything and described it truthfully.

After listening to Sun Hang's description, Yang Qi couldn't help but frowned: "If the abnormality in the South City Cemetery is caused by a strange thing, then this strange thing... is very tricky. According to my personal judgment, the ability of this strange thing is most likely related to 'manipulating time'."

"Manipulating time?"

"At first I thought it was a 'Gen' 'environmental' strange thing... but now it seems that it is at least a 'B-type·phenomenal' strange thing, and it may even be a 'A-type·rule-type' strange thing." There was a tremor in Yang Qi's voice.

It was both fear and excitement.

"Then why can I see those scenes that have not been broadcast... or even those that have not been filmed?"

"Because you are infected with the weird virus, sometimes there will be a strange resonance between the infected and the weird... But the cause and form of the resonance, we have not yet figured it out." Yang Qi sighed and said, "I'm afraid you will have to carry out this mission?"

"Why me?" Sun Hang was slightly stunned, "Isn't Wang Xiyi the ace hunter of Tianfu City?"

"She is in a very bad state now, and she can't enter the beast state in a short time. What's more, the weird creatures of Class A and Class B cannot be eliminated simply by strength." Yang Qi paused and continued, "The most important point is that she did not resonate with the weird creature that caused the abnormal situation in the South City Cemetery, but you did."