Trickster Hunter

Chapter 367 Videotape

Sun Hang quickly reached the end of the underground commercial street. Further ahead was another elevator leading to the ground and the entrance to the underground parking lot.

Sun Hang glanced at the underground parking lot. What surprised him a little was that there were still many dusty cars parked in the parking lot at this time. The number of private cars in Tianfu City had long exceeded the number of parking spaces in the whole city. On weekdays, the non-motorized vehicle lanes on both sides of the road were often full of motor vehicles. Sun Hang estimated that these cars were not abandoned here by the owners, but they really couldn't find a place to park.

The windows of several valuable luxury cars had been smashed, but those cars worth about 100,000 yuan were spared. Broken windows could be seen everywhere on the ground of the parking lot.

"No...any more..." Sun Hang muttered to himself.

"What do you mean?" The scavenger following behind asked in confusion, "You mean... that person?"

"I can't smell the smell of strange things... whether in the underground commercial street or in the parking lot... it's too clean here... it shouldn't be..." Sun Hang muttered.

"The smell of strange things? Do strange things have smells?" The scavenger asked with fear and curiosity, "Is it the smell of rot? Or the smell of blood?"

"To be precise, it is not a smell that can be smelled with the nose, but a smell that only the infected can detect." Sun Hang said, "Any strange thing will emit this kind of smell, no matter how good its camouflage ability is, as long as the distance is close enough, some of the smell will escape... This is almost inevitable."

"Then there is no consciousness of smell... There are no strange things in the underground of the mall?" The scavenger asked tentatively.

"I can only be sure that there is a strange creature lurking in the shopping mall, but I'm not sure where it is." Sun Hang shook his head. "If we had met the scavenger who monopolized this place when we came in, I might have thought that the strange creature was hiding somewhere else... But now, don't you think we have encountered too many strange things?"

As Sun Hang was talking, his eyes fell on the fire axe in the other person's hand.

"Then...then...then is there any kind of strange creature...that is...without any breath?" The scavenger asked again.

"Yes." Sun Hang nodded, "but my intuition tells me that this one is not."

"Intuition?" The scavenger was stunned for a moment, "You...do you still believe in intuition?"

"Why not? Intuition is a very useful thing." Sun Hang couldn't tell her that he had just used his ability to make his wishes come true again, burning half of the blue in one breath, but got nothing, right?

"By the way, there are two floors underground in the mall, and there is another floor below..." The scavenger regretted it as soon as she said it. She suddenly realized that if she didn't tell the hunter that there was another floor below, maybe the hunter would give up?

Then how would he deal with her later? Wouldn't he hand her over to the Public Security Bureau or the Investigation Bureau?

But if you think about it carefully, that kind of ending seems to be better than facing the monster directly... At least, they have to act according to the rules and regulations... Even if I broke the law, I shouldn't be sentenced to death...

If the arrow I just shot at the hunter doesn't count...

"I know, I'm looking for the passage down." Sun Hang stood at the entrance of the parking lot and looked up at the floor plan of the underground commercial street hanging on the wall.

The scavenger sighed with some resignation.

There are two entrances to the second underground floor, one of which is next to the elevator, but on this floor plan, the words "No Entry" are marked in eye-catching red font.

"The second underground floor is the equipment room and the power distribution room. There is nothing valuable there..." the scavenger whispered, "In the past, those machines could be dismantled and sold as scrap metal for a lot of money... But now the buyers don't want these things at all. They only take small and light things with high value... Things like watches and jewelry are the easiest to sell."

"Have you been there?" Sun Hang glanced back at her.

"No... I just heard other scavengers discuss this matter." The scavenger said, "One of us used to be a security guard in this shopping mall. He is very familiar with the situation here. He told us about this."

"Oh? Did this security guard come to the underground after he became a scavenger?"

"I don't know... But he disappeared later, and I don't know where he went." The scavenger said, "Some people also said that he was killed by a monster in the underground of the mall..."

"Tsk... Interesting." Sun Hang walked to the entrance, and the metal flying blade lightly cut off the thumb-thick iron lock wrapped around the door handle.

With the dull sound of heavy locks falling to the ground, Sun Hang kicked the door open, and a gust of air with choking dust rushed in his face.

Sun Hang shone the flashlight inside. Behind the door was a staircase leading down. In the space on both sides of the staircase, there were a lot of mall promotional materials piled up. A huge lottery wheel tilted on the staircase, blocking most of the passage.

"Let's go."

Sun Hang kicked the lottery wheel into the gap between the staircase and the wall with his foot - although this thing is big, it is made of plastic foam and its weight is almost negligible.

Sun Hang thought about it and threw the flashlight to the scavenger.

After inheriting part of the Black Dragon meme from Wang Xiyi, Sun Hang gained the ability of dark vision. Even without a flashlight, he could see the surrounding situation clearly.

"Where... do you want me to shine?" The scavenger took the flashlight - the flashlight that Sun Hang carried with him was taken from the field department. It was standard military equipment, and its brightness and battery life were much better than the ordinary civilian products that the scavenger originally had.

"Just shine it under your own feet, don't step on the air and roll down." Sun Hang said.

"You... don't you need a flashlight?"

"No, I can see."

As he spoke, Sun Hang had already gone down to the bottom of the stairs. In front of him was a rusty iron door - this door was not locked, but there was a yellowed A4 letter on it, which said in orange font: "The computer room is a restricted area, no entry for unauthorized persons."

Sun Hang directly ignored the warning sign and pushed the rusty iron door open.

The smell of the computer room instantly penetrated his nose.

This is a smell mixed with ozone, rosin and the smell emitted by the PCB board after heating... Many people don't like this smell, but for some reason Sun Hang feels that it's okay and not so unbearable.

"Could it be that I used to be a computer geek? I'm used to this smell?" Sun Hang muttered in his heart.

The space in the computer room is very spacious. Many equipment that looks expensive are fixed on metal welded brackets. A large number of cables are tied up, like a giant python, hovering between the machines.

There is no smell of any weird creatures yet.

But the two of them didn't walk forward a few steps before they saw a pool of dark black blood on the ground.

The scavenger was tense. She held the flashlight in one hand and the fire axe in the other hand.

Sun Hang squatted down and checked it carefully.

"This time it's real blood." Sun Hang said.

"This... Is there really a weird creature here?" The scavenger asked timidly in a very low voice.

"I didn't feel the breath of the monster... The amount of blood is not small, it is estimated that someone died." Sun Hang said, "But don't forget, it is not necessarily the monster that kills people, people can also kill people."

"Ah?"

"Have you scavengers never had a fight because of snatching spoils or uneven distribution of spoils?" Sun Hang tilted his head, "Didn't you say you killed someone yourself?"

"I... I didn't kill anyone... I just wanted to scare you... to make you leave..." The scavenger confessed honestly, "I always act alone... If I meet other scavengers, I will stay away from them..."

Sun Hang didn't continue to joke, but took two steps at a time, walked to the side of a pile of cables, and picked up a shoe from the ground.

This is a size 43 sneaker, a hook brand, Sun Hang couldn't tell the specific style, the color should have been white, but because of aging and stains, it has now turned into light beige, the upper is worn out so badly that the padding of the lining can be seen.

"Is this the guy's shoe?" Sun Hang raised his shoe and shook it at the scavenger.

"I really don't know... I haven't paid attention to what shoes he wears..."

"It's actually very easy to judge." Sun Hang turned the shoe over. The pattern on the sole completely matched the footprints he saw in the underground commercial street before, and there was still some syrup that had not been worn off in the gaps between the patterns.

"The shoes have fallen off, it seems that the person should be dead." Sun Hang said.

"He... Was he killed?"

"Let's look for it. Maybe the body is hidden in a corner of the computer room." Sun Hang said, "You search this row, and I'll search the other side."

"I... Can I search with you?" The scavenger obviously didn't want to act separately from Sun Hang.

"Are you scared?"

The scavenger nodded.

"Well, okay, follow closely."

It took almost twenty minutes for the two to search every corner of the computer room.

There were no strange objects or bodies, but there were a lot of bloodstains.

Unfortunately, Sun Hang didn't have any testing equipment, so he couldn't determine whether these bloodstains belonged to the same person.

As for "Wish Come True" - searching for the whereabouts of the strange creature has consumed a lot of blue bars. Facing the battle that might happen next, Sun Hang felt that it would be better not to activate his ability at will.

Even if he knew the ownership of these bloodstains, it would not be of any substantial help for the next search operation.

"The shoes fell here, and there are bloodstains on the ground... but there are no footprints... do you know what this means?" Sun Hang turned his head and looked at the scavenger and asked.

"What does it mean?"

"It means that the guy might have been a corpse before he came here... He didn't walk in by himself, but was dragged in by something." Sun Hang said, "Considering that he threw the axe on the street... I can basically be sure that this is not the first crime scene."

"Then these bloodstains..."

"The murderer dismembered the body, or ate him here... These bloodstains seem to be sprayed directly from the body, and there are no obvious signs of dragging, so it can be concluded that before coming here, his body... or his body, should be relatively 'intact'."

"Then the murderer is not hiding here, right?" The scavenger shrank his neck and looked around carefully.

"Go back." Sun Hang suddenly said.

"Where to go? Up there?"

"Go back to the stores that were just looted." Sun Hang said.

"Okay... okay!" The scavenger nodded vigorously - for her, as long as she didn't stay here, it didn't matter where she went.

...

The two quickly returned to the underground commercial street, and Sun Hang walked into the two-dimensional trendy toy store again, checking the figures that had been turned over and played with one by one.

Nothing was found.

He walked into the audio-visual store again, picking up the videotape boxes thrown next to the TV and the videotapes on the ground one by one.

All the videotapes can find matching boxes, only the videotape box of a thriller suspense movie is empty.

Sun Hang turned on the player next to the TV, and sure enough, it contained this movie.

The name of the movie is "The Terror Cruise".

Sun Hang fell into deep thought.

Half a minute later, he got up and walked to the commercial street management office at the corner of the street, dragging out a spare gasoline generator from it.

He pushed the generator next to the TV, connected the generator and the TV with a power strip, and then began to pour gasoline into the generator.

"You... what are you doing?" The scavenger who had been watching Sun Hang busy asked in confusion.

"I want to see what movie that guy watched before he died." After saying that, Sun Hang started the generator.

A dull engine sound rang out.

"But, but... this TV is broken... ah?!"

As the power indicator light came on, a distorted picture appeared on the TV screen that had been smashed with a big hole... It was a pity that the TV's audio equipment seemed to be completely broken. Sun Hang could only see the picture but could not hear any sound.

"Have you seen "The Grim Reaper"?" Sun Hang asked.

The scavenger shook his head.

Sun Hang looked at the introduction on the back of the video tape box. The movie was about the heroine and her group who boarded a mysterious abandoned cruise ship by chance, and encountered all kinds of weird and terrifying things on this "empty" cruise ship.

The most exciting part of this movie is that there are multiple timelines on the cruise ship, and there are different heroines in each timeline. They repeat the plot of killing their companions and themselves again and again in the constantly circulating timeline, but they can never escape...

At this time, Sun Hang suddenly felt an extremely strong breath of strange things coming from underground, but this breath was fleeting and disappeared completely in an instant, as if it had never appeared.

"Hmm?" Sun Hang frowned, "No, it's not an illusion."

[P.S. I wish you all a happy New Year. 】