Trickster Hunter

Chapter 58 The Change Comes

"And, didn't you notice that both the top leaders of the Federation and the soldiers have actually acquiesced to this 'choice'..." Sun Hang continued, "Except for setting up a blockade, they also did nothing."

"What about Yang Qi?"

Sun Hang was silent for a moment, then said, "I can't save her."

...

...

Time passed by minute by minute, and fewer and fewer people walked back and forth in the base. Everyone returned to their own posts, waiting for that moment to come.

Sun Hang heard it clearly. When the clock jumped from 14:59 to 15:00, the colonel standing next to him swallowed hard.

"There are still fifteen minutes." Yang Lian clenched the tablet in his hand, and his knuckles turned slightly white.

...

May 19, 15:14.

The last minute.

No one could hear any voices in the huge air force base, and the thumping of the heartbeat had never been so clear.

In the last ten seconds, everyone held their breath.

Five seconds.

Three seconds.

One second.

A gust of cold wind blew, carrying a piece of waste paper lying on the ground, spinning twice in the air, and finally fell under the steps where Sun Hang had been sitting to eat.

Nothing happened.

"What's going on?" The colonel was the first to break the silence. He turned his head to look at Sun Hang and said in a deep voice, "I need an explanation."

At the same time, Sun Hang's mobile phone rang, and the caller ID showed an unfamiliar number.

Sun Hang pressed the answer button, and Ye Xuan's voice came from the receiver: "The mutation did not happen, why?"

"The time can't be wrong." Sun Hang said to those who were looking at him, "I did see that the time displayed on the Financial Center Building was 3:15 pm on May 19... Then, the only thing wrong is the perspective."

"Perspective?" The colonel obviously didn't understand what Sun Hang meant.

"This 3:15 pm on May 19th is the time point for those people." Sun Hang glanced at the temporary camp on the playground in the distance, "and from our perspective, the time point in the real world should be ten hours later, that is, May 20th, 1:15 in the morning."

"..." The colonel stared at Sun Hang for a long time, and then slowly said, "I will give you one last chance. If nothing abnormal happens after ten hours, you can't escape responsibility... The recordings of your conversations with the hijackers in the command room have all been preserved."

"From what you said, you seem to hope that something unusual will happen?" Sun Hang glanced at him and asked.

The colonel was immediately choked by this sentence, and took three deep breaths in a row before saying in a deep voice: "Of course I don't want something unusual to happen, but I can't tolerate someone disrupting the order of the army and society through illegal means."

"Then just keep waiting." Sun Hang simply took out his mobile phone and started playing the small game he had just downloaded.

The whole afternoon was quickly spent in waiting, and night slowly fell.

The huge searchlight lit up again, and the pale light covered every corner of the base, making people's skin as pale as zombies.

Many people's eyes were full of bloodshot - in these three days, almost no one had a good night's sleep, especially the 188 people in the barracks. Everyone had a haggard look on their face, and heavy dark circles and greasy and hard hair almost became standard.

There was a toilet in the temporary barracks, but there was no bathroom - at first, some people protested against this, but as time went by, people no longer cared about trivial things like taking a shower.

They cared more about what they would face when "that moment" came.

Sun Hang stroked his hair, and in the night breeze, it took only ten minutes for his hair to dry up.

He glanced at Yang Lian, whose face was greasy, and asked, "Aren't you going to take a shower? You may not have the chance later."

"I'm not in the mood." Yang Lian said. She kept her head down and drew and wrote on the tablet. Various mathematical formulas were densely arranged on page after page. It was unknown what she was calculating.

"Did you study mathematics or physics in college?" Sun Hang leaned over and glanced at the "heavenly book" on the screen and asked.

"Weird things." Yang Lian answered without raising his head.

This is an unpopular but very important major. There are two reasons why it is unpopular: first, the admission score of this major is extremely high, which is much higher than all conventional majors; second, few parents will agree to let their children apply for this major.

Because being admitted to this major means that the rest of your life will be dealing with extremely dangerous things such as weird things. Few parents can accept their children to work in this field. The reason is simple - the accidental death rate of people in this industry is too high.

"I just wanted to follow in my sister's footsteps." Yang Lian continued, "But I made a serious mistake in my last interview and was not selected by the Weird Research Institute. I had to settle for the second best and join the Abnormal Investigation Bureau."

"I didn't expect you to be a sister-con."

"It's 11:57." Yang Lian said, "In three minutes, it will be May 20th."

"Don't worry, there's still more than an hour." Sun Hang said.

"You don't plan to save her, right?" Yang Lian asked suddenly.

Sun Hang said nothing, took out his mobile phone and started playing.

"I will find a way myself." Yang Lian said again.

"I advise you not to do anything stupid."

"I will take responsibility for my own actions."

"Your sister definitely doesn't want you to set yourself up for her." Sun Hang added, "Why don't you think about your parents... you don't have any other brothers and sisters, right?"

"...I suddenly feel that you... are really annoying."

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May 20, early morning, 1:12.

"Three minutes." The colonel had already put on urban camouflage training uniforms and held a lit cigarette in his hand.

At his feet, cigarette butts were scattered all over the floor - this man who was nearly fifty years old had not slept for more than twenty-four hours, relying entirely on the stimulation of Nicotine to survive until now.

Sun Hang turned on the timer that came with his phone and simulated the "ticking" of a mechanical clock. Each tick was like a drum beating on everyone's heart.

Three minutes, one hundred and eighty seconds.

The colonel held the cigarette between his arms, but did not take a puff, letting the long ash hang there.

When the timer reached zero, a harsh exclamation came from the temporary barracks, piercing the silent night sky.

The colonel was startled, and the cigarette butt in his hand was thrown heavily to the ground, and he shouted: "Quick! Find out what happened in the temporary barracks immediately!"

But before the soldiers could take action, a man opened the tent door and ran out. With a frightened expression on his face, he shouted "Help me" while running towards the blockade.

However, in just a few seconds, his body began to become gradually transparent... When he was still a few meters away from the blockade, he completely disappeared from everyone's sight. It's like he never appeared.

The soldiers standing behind the blockade were completely stunned. It was not until the second and third people rushed out of the barracks that they picked up their weapons as if they had just woken up from a dream, and yelled at people to return to the barracks.

"The change actually happened..." the colonel murmured.

"Go to the surveillance screen of drone No. 4." Sun Hang said to the technical soldier sitting in front of the computer.

This No. 4 drone was specially arranged by Sun Hang to monitor Tent No. 19.

In Tent No. 19 lived the family of Ding Yuanjiang, a member of the Tianfu City Management Committee. In addition to Ding Yuanjiang and his wife, they also included their two children who were suffering from fever, and the two old people who had to follow them whether or not they were here.

The two old men were not missing. They were not marked by that strange thing, and the time they perceived was exactly the same as in the real world.

But now, in the surveillance footage, the two old men holding on to their children are beginning to show signs of transparency.

"The mutation phenomenon will be 'contagious'." Sun Hang looked at the surveillance screen and said calmly, "It's just as expected."

If he and Ye Xuan hadn't forced all the missing people to be gathered together, there would probably be more than just these 188 people implicated now.

Just when Sun Hang wanted to see what measures the military would take next, his cell phone rang crazily.

"Hello?"

"Sun Hang, it's not good!" The person who called was Song Yarong from the research institute. She was previously entrusted with the task of monitoring the Chengnan Cemetery. "A large number of strange objects were detected in the Chengnan Cemetery. ! Moreover, many of them are monsters that have been clearly destroyed! I don’t know why, but they are all mysteriously resurrected!”

"It's not resurrection...these monsters came from sixty-five years ago. At that time, they had not been eliminated."

"And... there's even worse news!" Song Yarong said breathlessly.

"explain."

"The Federal Bureau of Anomaly Investigation sent a message that the phenomenon-like monster 'Yisan Yongye' that had disappeared for 130 years has reappeared..." Song Yarong's words were trembling, "its coverage is... the entire Shuzhou area.”

This chapter is quite long... and I revised it back and forth several times, so I posted it a bit late.