Trickster Hunter

Chapter 23 Wolf

0401 collapsed in the back seat like a deflated ball, staring blankly at the blood moon in the sky through the sunroof glass. Sun Hang took out his mobile phone and opened the web browser.

It was a pity that the Internet had not yet appeared more than 60 years ago, and even wireless communications had not yet become popular. Otherwise, Sun Hang would like to try whether his mobile phone could capture the radio signals of that year.

He entered the word "blood moon" in the search bar of the browser, thought about it, and added the footnote "Class B No. 6 Weird Object" at the end.

Sun Hang pressed the "search" button, and after a short delay, 160,000 search results popped up at once.

He thought about it and added a footnote "September 15, 4654 in the lunar calendar" - in the blink of an eye, the search results went from 160,000 to just over 30.

These thirty-odd records are basically official records of the Xiazhou Federation. Many people who experienced the blood moon sixty-five years ago are no longer alive. At that time, information was blocked and there was no Internet. There were very few clues that could be preserved and searched by Sun Hang on the Internet.

However, among these thirty-odd records, there was not a single one related to Tianfu City.

Sun Hang sighed and could only change the search term to "Tianfu City, September 15, 4654 in the lunar calendar" and deleted everything related to the blood moon.

"Huh?"

Although the searched content still had nothing to do with the blood moon, one piece of news caught Sun Hang's attention.

This is a scanned copy of a local chronicle, which records that between September 15 and 20, 4654 in the lunar calendar, 150,000 refugees who were displaced by strange things entered Shuzhou from the Yuanmou area.

In that era, Tianfu City was not called Tianfu City, but the ancient name "Jinguan City". The huge basin centered on Jinguan City was Shuzhou.

At that time, the boundary of the human activity area extended another four or five hundred kilometers to the southwest. Including Yuanmou City, the entire Yunnan-Yunnan Plateau was the first line to fight against the invasion of strange creatures.

Just as Sun Hang was about to continue searching along this clue to see if the appearance of these refugees had anything to do with the blood moon, Yang Qi's voice suddenly rang out.

"We are being targeted by something... I can feel it."

"What?" 0401 was so scared that he sat upright and grabbed the seat belt in front of him tightly.

"Just a beast." Wang Xiyi pulled the slide of the pistol and pushed the bullet in the magazine into the chamber.

This was an undeveloped countryside sixty-five years ago. There were no people or roads. The off-road vehicle was driving on the rugged wasteland. Sun Hang looked out of the car window and saw a few scarlet lights flashing in the night and immediately disappeared from sight.

"It looks like a wild wolf." Sun Hang said.

"There haven't been wild wolves near Tianfu City for many years. If it weren't for the weird creatures, this news would probably be on the headlines of Tianfu Daily tomorrow." Yang Qi complained casually.

"Can this wolf be killed? Will it violate the Wildlife Protection Law?" Sun Hang asked.

"When the blood moon appears, the Wildlife Protection Law is not effective by default." Yang Qi said.

"That's good."

"But try not to shoot if you can. I'm worried that it will alarm other things." Yang Qi said, and stepped on the accelerator again, "I'll drive faster and try to get rid of these wolves."

"It's too late, we're surrounded." Wang Xiyi said lightly.

A dozen scarlet light spots appeared in front of the off-road vehicle... No, not only in front, but also on the left and right sides and the back. If you count one wolf for every two light spots, there are at least nearly fifty wolves surrounding them.

"So many?" Yang Qi frowned slightly.

Fifty wolves, this number has exceeded the scale of most wolf packs... Even in places that are very suitable for wild wolves to survive, with sufficient food and few natural enemies, the largest wolf pack rarely exceeds thirty.

"Even sixty-five years ago, there were no wolf packs of this size in the Shuzhou area, right?" Yang Qi asked in confusion.

"No, they are not a wolf pack, but many..." Wang Xiyi's nostrils twitched slightly, "I can smell that these beasts belong to several tribes, but driven by the blood moon, they gathered together..."

"Are these all the wolves in this area? Why don't these wolves go to other groups?" 0401's face was a little pale.

"Because there are two monster hunters in this car, it is reasonable that they will be given special attention." Yang Qi held the steering wheel tightly with both hands and said in a deep voice, "Hold on tight, I will speed up and rush out... If they block the car, don't blame me for hitting them to death!"

The engine of the off-road vehicle began to roar deafeningly, and the needle of the tachometer on the dashboard swung wildly to the right. At the same time, the bumps of the car body became more and more intense as the speed increased, giving people the feeling that it would fly out at any time-0401's head had "intimate contact" with the roof twice before it was caught off guard.

The distance gradually closed, and under the illumination of the car lights, Sun Hang finally saw the appearance of the wild wolves blocking the front.

Their body size was a whole circle larger than the adult wild wolves in Sun Hang's impression-the body length of these wild wolves was generally more than two meters. If they stood up, they could easily grab the roof of the off-road vehicle.

"Are you sure these wolves have just become more irritable?" 0401's voice trembled a little.

The eyes of these wolves all released a fascinating red light, just like the blood moon in the sky - the reason why the eyes of nocturnal animals can "glow" is because there is a special reflective layer at the bottom of their retina, which can gather the weak light in the environment and reflect it out, forming a light spot like phosphorescence in the dark.

This reflection effect is not obvious when there is sufficient light, but now, the bloody red light in the eyes of these wild wolves illuminated by the headlights seems to be able to penetrate the light of the headlights, which is extremely dazzling and eye-catching.

Facing the off-road vehicle that was speeding up to the front, these wild wolves did not dodge, but pounced directly! The hundreds of pounds of body hit the front windshield heavily, directly knocking the bulletproof glass that can block 7.62 mm caliber bullets into a dent, and spider-web-like cracks extended from the impact point to the edge of the car window.

Two wild wolves were knocked out, but another one hooked the luggage rack on the roof with its front paws, and lay directly on the car window, and began to hit the window glass that was about to shatter with its head.

"These beasts are strengthened by the blood moon." Yang Qi frowned, "This situation... rarely happens."

Sun Hang noticed that the body of this wild wolf was expanding wildly, and the fur on the surface of the body was torn by the rapidly proliferating muscles. The bloody subcutaneous tissue was squeezed out of these torn holes, just like a tumor that was difficult to cover.

"Strengthen? This is a mutation, right?!" 0401 shouted incoherently, "This... This wolf has become a weird thing, right?!"