Chapter 12 Infection
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Sun Hang has been locked in this special room for seven days - assuming they deliver meals three times a day.
This is a spacious room with the floor, walls and ceiling made of mirrors. The only furniture in the room is a set of metal tables and chairs welded to the floor, a single bed that is also welded and a bed in the room. The flush toilet in the corner.
After Sun Hang watched helplessly as the humanoid monster fell from the sky and tore up Bloody Mary, he was brought here.
Every once in a while, a corner of the ceiling will be opened, and a mechanical arm protruding from it will place the plate with food on the table, and then take away the tableware after Sun Hang has finished eating.
The daily "prison rice" is very rich, with four dishes and one soup as standard, including fish, meat, fresh vegetables, desserts and fruits after the meal, and occasionally more luxurious foods such as steak and shark's fin. .
Sun Hang once loudly asked why he was locked up here, but received no response... However, when he said he was thirsty, the robotic arm immediately delivered bottles of pure water to him.
From a certain point of view, this kind of "prison life" with clothes to put on, food to eat, and mouth to open is actually not bad, except for the damn lamp.
The lights in this room are never turned off, even when sleeping.
The light hidden behind the mirror passed through the glass and was refracted several times on the mirror, making the whole room brightly lit. Sun Hang could only barely fall asleep by burying his head in the pillow, but as long as he turned his head slightly, the light would come out. It immediately slipped through the slit of his eyelids and projected onto his retina.
The worst thing is that since there is no change of day and night in the room, Sun Hang's concept of time has become very blurred. Many times, his eyes are filled with bloodshot eyes, but he still cannot wake up from the slightest bit of sleep.
A long period of chaotic work and rest can easily make people fall into a state of neurasthenia, fatigue, tension, irritability...all kinds of negative emotions deepen with the passage of time...
On the first day, Sun Hang could still remain calm and would try to ask questions every once in a while, even when he couldn't get any answers.
The next day he stopped asking questions and started walking around the room over and over again.
On the third day, he smashed the dinner plate, but the robotic arm quickly delivered a new piece of food and cleaned up the garbage on the floor.
On the fourth day, he tried to pull the chair up from the ground. He failed.
On the fifth day, Sun Hang no longer made any unnecessary movements. He just sat on the chair, looking straight at the table. Except for sleeping and excreting, he had been sitting there.
On the sixth day, he still sat in the chair and said nothing.
On the seventh day, after Sun Hang finished eating the twentieth piece of food delivered by the robotic arm, the wall he faced finally changed.
The mirror turned into transparent glass, and three people, two men and one woman, were looking at him expressionlessly behind the glass.
"Congratulations, Mr. Sun Hang." The woman among the three applauded gently, and her voice was transmitted into the room through the glass. "You have successfully kept your human soul."
The woman's appearance looked familiar to Sun Hang. She was very similar to the civil servant who came to the hospital to sign the "deed of sale", but Sun Hang was sure that they were definitely not the same person. "What do you mean?" Sun Hang asked.
"You are infected with the deception virus, but you have not lost your clear self-awareness, and you have not experienced physical mutations." This time the speaker was an old man sitting in an electric wheelchair, "Although your infection level is only 100% 0.17, but this is still a very rare situation. ”
"I'm infected with the deception virus? Then why don't you inject me with medicine?" Sun Hang narrowed his eyes.
Special medicines that inhibit "treachery" have been developed a hundred years ago. It is precisely because of this medicine that people can survive under the invasion of strange things.
"It's too late." The old man in the wheelchair sighed, "According to the test results, you were infected with the magic virus the last time you encountered a strange thing—that is, the time you lost your memory. You have missed your medication. Window period.”
"So?" Sun Hang continued to ask.
"So, you have now become a special individual who possesses the ability to be a monster, but maintains a human will." The old man in the wheelchair said, "I hereby formally invite you to join us as a 'Trick Hunter'."< br>
"A monster hunter?" Sun Hang recalled the woman who fell from the sky, "Is she someone who specializes in hunting monsters?"
"Yes, the investigation bureaus in each city actually serve the monster hunters. The investigators are responsible for collecting the whereabouts and clues of the monsters, and then passing this information to the hunters, and then the hunters with suitable abilities will take action to eliminate them. "Those monsters that invade human territory," the old man in the wheelchair said, "Only the power from monsters can fight against monsters. This is ironic, but this is reality."
"What if I don't want to sacrifice my life for you?" Sun Hang asked.
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"We will not force any infected person to become a hunter." The old man in the wheelchair continued, "But if everyone who gained power just wanted to be alone, humans would have disappeared from this land two hundred years ago. In addition, do you know what type of deception virus you are infected with? ”
"Which category?"
"The initiator of that attack was the strange thing with the serial number Bingjiu, 'Taotie'. To be precise, it was a clone of Taotie. The trick virus you are infected also comes from Taotie. As for what this will do to you You should have experienced this kind of impact firsthand.”
"So, my ability is related to 'eating'?" Sun Hang recalled the strong feeling of hunger, but that feeling of hunger seemed to only appear when facing strange things.
"The biggest characteristic of Taotie is that it can change its abilities by swallowing other monsters." The old man in the wheelchair said, "You need to hunt monsters regularly to satisfy your desires... Staying away from monsters can temporarily suppress this desire. But when the accumulated desire finally explodes, the situation will be completely out of control.”
"As long as you join us," the woman who spoke at the beginning said again, "even if you fail to successfully hunt the monsters, we will find a way to help you solve the problem of 'appetite' outbreak."
"Let other hunters catch the weird things for me to eat?" Sun Hang tilted his head, "It sounds like I'm a waste waiting to die."
"This is one of the ways." The woman said, "In addition, we have ways to make you stronger so that you can gain the ability to hunt monsters alone."
"But the premise is that you have to pass the assessment." Another middle-aged man wearing a brown-gray training uniform with a murderous look on his eyebrows took over the conversation, "Only when you pass the assessment can you become a Legal' hunter."
(End of chapter)