Trickster Hunter

Chapter 5 Abandoned Playground

The headquarters of the Tianfu City Abnormal Investigation Bureau is located in the north of the city, while the target location is located in the south of the city. As the largest city in the southwest of the Xiazhou Federation, it took Sun Hang and his team more than two hours to cross the entire Tianfu City vertically.

The black SUV drove out of the city and sped along the highway in the southern suburbs. Both sides were full of desolate open space and some sparse abandoned buildings.

Occasionally, a few small villages with people could be seen, but they all looked desolate - at the entrance of the village, only some old people in simple clothes could be seen sitting on bamboo chairs basking in the sun, and occasionally a few preschool children stumbled past, followed by grandparents holding bowls to feed them... As for young and middle-aged people, they were completely missing.

"Young people yearn for big cities. For them, even if they get hurt in a forest of reinforced concrete, it is better than wasting their youth in a small village like this." The chatterbox driver said while driving, "How do you say that popular word on the Internet... ah, yes, 'rot'. They say that staying in a place like this will only slowly rot, so it's better to try your luck in the city."

Passed another village. Most of the houses in this village have collapsed. Only two houses near the road are still inhabited - clothes that have not been dried are still hanging on the clothes drying rack in front of the door, and a bald dog is lying on the straw pile next to it, enjoying the warm afternoon sun.

"After these old people leave, this place will really become a no-man's land." The driver sighed.

"Since this place is so desolate, why would anyone build an amusement park here?" Sun Hang asked.

"The past is the past, and the present is the present." The driver sighed, "More than 20 years ago, this was the famous South City Economic Development Zone, and the land price was even hotter than the city center."

"Why did it become like this now?" Sun Hang asked again.

"What other reasons could there be? A strange thing." The driver said, "Although that thing has been solved, no one is willing to invest in this place anymore. Gradually, the southern suburbs have become a wasteland."

"You are from another place, right? Everyone in Tianfu City knows about this." 0401 muttered in confusion, "Although I was not born at that time, when I was a child, I made a lot of noise at night and refused to go to bed. My mother always used this to scare me... Well, 0398, you should have heard about it, right?"

"What if I heard about it?" 0398's tone was a little impatient, "Instead of caring about this kind of thing, you might as well think about how to save your life when you arrive at the mission location."

"Hey, it's not me who should be worried." 0401 suddenly showed a somewhat shameless smile, "You have all seen the mission intelligence. The missing people are all young women. I am a big man and I am very safe. On the contrary, you..."

"You can shut up. No one thinks you are dumb." 0398 said unhappily.

...

As we got farther and farther away from the city, the ruins of many high-rise buildings began to appear on both sides of the road... From these ruins, we could vaguely see the prosperity of the southern development zone, but now there was only a dead silence.

Along the way, the most frequently seen thing was the big word "demolition" painted on the abandoned buildings with bright red paint.

"Except for homeless vagrants and scavengers, no one wants to come here." The driver stepped on the brakes, "Even if the monster has been solved, in the eyes of the citizens of Tianfu City, this place has become a cursed place."

Not long after, the abandoned amusement park as the target location of the mission finally entered the field of vision of Sun Hang and his team.

The first thing that caught the eye was the iconic giant Ferris wheel. The steel structure with a diameter of more than 100 meters overlooked the entire amusement park from a high altitude.

The plastic cloth wrapped around the Ferris wheel was dancing like a tattered flag driven by the high-altitude airflow.

"It must have cost a lot of money to build this thing." Sun Hang thought to himself, "What a pity... I would have liked some of this money."

At the entrance of the abandoned amusement park, there were seven or eight police cars parked. The yellow and white cordon stretched a long circle along the outer wall of the amusement park. A sturdy, dark-skinned sheriff squatted on a stone, smoking with a sad face.

At his feet, there were already more than a dozen cigarette butts scattered.

"This is Captain Huang of the Field Service Brigade of the Chengnan Branch of the Public Security Bureau." A young sheriff introduced to Sun Hang and the other two, "Captain Huang led the first three survey missions..."

At this point, he suddenly lowered his voice: "The trainee sheriff... also disappeared under Captain Huang's nose."

"Someone from the Investigation Bureau?" The sheriff called Captain Huang threw away the cigarette in his hand, walked over to look at Sun Hang and the other two, and finally focused his attention on 0398.

"I know what kind of people temporary investigators are, so I don't expect you to be of any help." Captain Huang said in a rough voice, pointing at Sun Hang and 0401, "What you two need to do is to keep an eye on her. No matter what happens, you must ensure that she is always in your sight. Do you understand?"

"I understand." 0401 nodded.

"I have an idea." Sun Hang suddenly said.

"What idea? Just say it." Captain Huang glanced at Sun Hang, "Don't waste time."

"If you are worried about 0398 disappearing inexplicably, why not handcuff her to someone else?" Sun Hang said.

"That's a good idea, then handcuff you and her." Captain Huang frowned, but still took out a pair of handcuffs from his bag.

"I owe the Xiazhou Federation a lot of money. If something unexpected happens on my first mission, the loss to the Federation will be relatively large." Sun Hang said calmly, "The debt of 0401 is less than one-third of mine, so he is more suitable."

"That makes sense." Captain Huang nodded and walked directly to 0401.

"Fuck! You guy... do you want to kill me?" 0401's expression suddenly changed.

"What are you yelling about? As long as you guys follow us obediently and don't run around, what can happen?" Captain Huang was very strong. He grabbed 0401 who wanted to retreat and put a handcuff on his wrist.

The other handcuff was handcuffed to 0398's wrist.

0398 didn't struggle much, and looked like he had accepted his fate.

"Let's go." Captain Huang picked up the riot helmet thrown on the hood, put it on his head, and said.