Trickster Hunter

Chapter 368 "Regarded as non-existent"

"What illusion?" The scavenger squatting beside was startled by Sun Hang's sudden performance.

"That weird thing is right here, on the second underground floor, in the computer room we just searched." Sun Hang said.

"Ah?" The scavenger stood up immediately and looked outside the store uneasily, "Then... then why didn't we see anything just now? Didn't we search the entire computer room?"

"It only existed for a moment... just that moment..." Sun Hang pondered, "Is it some kind of phenomenon-like artifact? This possibility cannot be ruled out... The signal shielding field can also be attributed to a phenomenon-type artifact. Inside the thing..."

"No, it's still wrong." Sun Hang quickly rejected his idea, "If it is a phenomenon, it only appeared for a moment, but the signal shielding field has always existed."

Sun Hang took out his mobile phone, and the signal in the upper right corner was still zero.

However, before Sun Hang could continue to think, the same strange aura appeared again, and then disappeared again.

Sun Hang's eyes stayed on the TV screen.

The next second, Sun Hang grabbed the remote control on the counter and pressed the playback button.

The picture on the screen began to regress, and some of the originally scary plots became a bit funny - for example, the scene in the film where the mysterious masked man chopped down the protagonist's companion with an ax turned into an ax being pulled out of the corpse. Then the man who fell to the ground and died suddenly came back to life with full blood... The murderer suddenly became Hua Tuo again, making people want to shout "Nice, doctor!"

When the screen regressed to a certain frame, the strange aura appeared again.

In addition to the powerful aura of strange things underground, there was also a faint aura of strange things coming from inside the video tape.

Previously, Sun Hang's attention was attracted by the strange aura that suddenly appeared and disappeared. Only now did he realize that even the video tape being played was also a strange thing.

"I understand." Sun Hang nodded.

"What do you understand?" The scavenger looked confused.

"Good guy, can this be the legendary... rule-based magic thing?" Sun Hang looked at the slot of the player for playing video tapes, "These should be considered two magic things, right? What are these? Matryoshka dolls Kind of monster... no, to be precise, it should be considered a symbiosis type, right? "

"Two strange things? What matryoshka dolls? What symbiosis?" the scavenger asked in surprise.

Sun Hang fast-forwarded the movie a little further, and then pressed the pause button.

The familiar strange aura reappeared...this time, it didn't disappear.

"This videotape is also a strange thing." Sun Hang said, "And it is also a very rare Type A-regular type of weird thing."

"Huh?" The scavenger was startled. He subconsciously took a step back and distanced himself from the player.

"But don't worry, this monster is not aggressive. Moreover, its rules are simple and very easy to crack." Sun Hang said.

"What, what rules?" the scavenger asked quickly.

"There are a total of two monsters in the underground commercial street. One is in the video store on the first floor, which is this video tape, and the other is in the computer room on the second floor... As for the monster that killed the scavenger, it should It’s that weird thing in the computer room,” Sun Hang said, “As for the rules of this video tape, it’s very simple. Only when the plot in the movie reaches the special node of 'timeline reset', these two monsters will 'appear'... But other than that, the video tape is not played or played. When they are not special node fragments, these two monsters will be regarded as 'not existing'."

"I didn't understand..."

"It seems like you're not a computer major." Sun Hang shrugged, "The logic in computer language is easy to understand, it's just a very simple if statement."

"I...I have just entered the first year of high school..." the scavenger girl said.

"That's okay." Sun Hang said, "You just need to know that these two monsters will only appear when the movie reaches a certain section, and I happened to pause the movie at this section now. "Go on, so now we go back to the computer room and we should be able to see the strange thing that didn't exist before."

The scavenger nodded in understanding.

"I think the guy who was killed...he has most likely discovered this." Sun Hang said, "He smashed the TV screen with an ax not out of anger because the TV couldn't be used...if I'm not wrong If so..." Sun Hang walked to the power strip and unplugged the TV's power cord.

The TV screen did not turn off.

"This video tape can be played without electricity."

"Then...should we get out of here now and report this matter to the investigation bureau?" the scavenger said, "Tell them there is something strange here..."

"Did you forget something?"

"ah?"

"There is a monster hunter here." Sun Hang pointed at himself, "otherwise, what do you think I am doing in this place?"

"Well……"

"That guy should have discovered the weird things in the computer room, and I suspect that the weird things in the computer room might be able to go up to this floor... Otherwise, his ax should have fallen in or near the computer room, not in the computer room. on the street.”

After Sun Hang said this, the scavenger's breathing suddenly became rapid. Every few seconds, she would turn her head and look outside the store, as if a terrifying monster would rush out of the shadows at any time.

"He is very smart. He figured out the relationship between the video tape and the strange thing in the computer room, but there is something wrong with the way he dealt with it. He smashed the TV instead of the video tape... Oh, maybe there is a deviation in his understanding. He regarded the TV as a mystery, not a video tape... After all, a TV that can play without plugging in is more of a mystery than an ordinary video tape. "

Of course, the more important point is that the scavenger is a non-infected person, and he cannot feel the breath emitted by the strange thing.

"He tried to escape after destroying the TV, but unfortunately, he didn't expect that the TV screen could continue to play the movie after a big hole was smashed into it... and while he was escaping, the movie started playing again. When the 'special node' was reached, the monster suddenly appeared and attacked him, killing him and dragging him into the underground machine room. "

"Then...then will that strange thing...will attack us...?" The scavenger's voice trembled obviously.

"Yes, but it won't be so sudden." Sun Hang said, "As long as the movie remains paused, the strange thing will always be in a state of 'existence'... At least, it will not appear out of thin air behind you without warning. ”

When talking about the behind, the scavenger subconsciously turned his head and looked behind him.

"ah!!"

An extremely scary and strange face scared her so much that she immediately fell to the ground.

"Don't be nervous...look clearly, that's just a movie poster." Sun Hang looked at her speechlessly.

Behind the scavenger is a cultural wall covered with various old movie posters, including a horror movie poster with a scary face taking up more than 80% of the frame - It's so damn good that when the scavenger turns around, I happened to look at this "weird face".

"Huh...huh..." The scavenger gasped, her heart pounding. She carefully glanced at the horror movie poster again, and climbed up from the ground awkwardly.

"I'll give you three choices." Sun Hang said, "The first choice is to follow me to the underground computer room and I will get rid of that weird thing; the second choice is to stay here and watch the TV for me. machine and videotape, if it automatically resumes playback, you can rewind the movie or fast-forward to the 'timeline reset' node, and then press pause; the third option is to leave here and go to the ground. "

"I choose third..."

"Oh, I forgot to tell you." Sun Hang walked out of the video store and looked back at her, "The person before seemed to have been killed while escaping... I can't guarantee that when I go underground During the process in the computer room, will that weird thing bypass me..."

"I'll go with you! I'll go with you to the computer room!" The scavenger clenched the fire ax in his hand as if he had made up his mind, "I choose the first one!"

"Okay, then... let's go."

The reason why Sun Hang wanted to coerce the scavenger to go with him was that, in addition to using her as bait at the critical moment, the most critical point was that he was not sure whether the triggering conditions for the "rule-like monster" were really that simple. .

What if, in addition to the fact that the movie must be at a special node of "timeline reset", the triggering condition also requires that a non-infected person must be present at the scene?

The rules of rule-like monsters are all kinds of weird, and it is impossible to think about their rules using conventional logic... In order to ensure foolproofness, the best way is to ensure that all variables do not change as much as possible.

If the scavenger is let go, and when he goes to the underground computer room and finds that the monster has "disappeared" again, Sun Hang can't go outside and capture another ordinary person to satisfy the rules of the monster, right?

What if...what if in the rules of the rule-type magic object, not only does it need to be a non-infected person, but it also has to be a non-infected scavenger?

The probability is low, but not zero.

When faced with strange things like rules, you have to think in the most ridiculous and outrageous direction.

…

The two of them walked to the stairs leading to the underground computer room. At this time, the scavenger's face had turned pale - in addition to the strange smell that only Sun Hang could "smell", there was now a strong smell of blood coming from It floated out from the underground computer room... as if the place had turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood...

The scavenger wanted to ask at first why she had to be summoned to deal with the monsters, but she soon realized something - the hunter just gave her the option to leave, but when she thought of the other one who was killed Scavenger, but her feet couldn't move.

Perhaps it is safest to stay with this hunter, right?

"Give me your crossbow." Sun Hang stretched out his hand towards the scavenger.

Although he was a little puzzled, the scavenger still obediently handed the homemade hand crossbow to Sun Hang.

The structure of this hand crossbow is very simple. It is just two cross-shaped wooden bars nailed together with nails in the middle. A small iron hook is nailed into the end of the vertical bar to hook the drawn crossbow string. . The horizontal wooden bar is the crossbow arm, with rubber bands used as crossbow strings fixed at both ends.

This thing is so simple that it doesn't even have a trigger... When firing, all you need to do is turn the small iron hook with your fingers to release the crossbow string.

Sun Hang made a simple modification to the crossbow with liquid metal, strengthening the connections of the crossbow body and optimizing the firing structure of the crossbow. In addition, he also made more than a dozen crossbow arrows with liquid metal and threw them to the scavenger together with the crossbow.

"Try it, does it work?" Sun Hang said.

The scavenger still had a hint of surprise on his face, but he did not slow down his movements. He quickly completed the stringing action and shot out a crossbow arrow condensed with liquid metal.

The crossbow arrow instantly sank into the wall on one side, and the next second, the crossbow arrow began to expand... With a "bang", a basketball-sized hole instantly broke out on the hard concrete wall!

"Ah?" The scavenger was frightened by the destructive power of the crossbow arrow. "How... how did it explode?"

"Don't worry about that." Sun Hang said, "You just need to shoot accurately... Don't shoot me."

"No... No!" The scavenger shook his head quickly, "I really, really didn't mean it before!"

"That's the best."

After saying that, Sun Hang walked down the stairs.

With a "bang", Sun Hang kicked open the door of the machine room, and the scavenger standing behind him immediately picked up the crossbow.

The military high-intensity flashlight that Sun Hang gave her was also fixed under the crossbow, and the high-lumen light immediately illuminated the interior of the machine room like daylight!

The machines and equipment that had stopped working due to the power outage were now making a "buzzing" sound, and indicator lights of various colors were jumping wildly... and the surface of these equipment was covered with a large amount of irregular biological tissue, which looked like a large amount of crushed meat was wrapped on these machines.

The cables that filled the entire floor of the machine room and could almost trip people to death disappeared, replaced by a large number of squirming flesh tubes. Sun Hang could even see the substances flowing in the flesh tubes, being transmitted from one machine to another.

"What kind of weird thing is this?" Sun Hang subconsciously thought of the biochemical armor that Song Yarong was developing... This thing in front of him seemed to be a kind of biochemical machine, right?

I just don't know whether it should be classified as "Type C (animal)" or "Type J (object)"...

But this kind of thing should be left to the experts... All I need to do is to destroy this thing.

At this moment, the scavenger behind Sun Hang suddenly exclaimed: "I... I saw him! That person!"