Chapter 280 Pretender
Now when talking with the "old woman", Sun Hang had two assumptions - first, that he was a descendant of refugees from the Yunnan and Dian areas; second, that he was born in the occupied area.
Let’s first analyze the first assumption. Assuming that you are the descendant of refugees, you should not be a black householder... In the past sixty years, more than 99% of the refugees who flowed into Shuzhou have applied for legal citizen household registration. Only a very small number of refugees living in remote areas have always been in a state of black households.
Having a citizen household registration means being able to receive a large number of benefits, the most important of which are free education and subsistence allowances. In addition, in order to expand the population of Shuzhou area, the federal government adopted a policy of collecting all the refugees. As long as you go there yourself If you apply for naturalization, it is impossible to be rejected. Logically speaking, there should be no one who is so stubborn that he would not even accept free benefits.
Moreover, although Sun Hang has lost his past memory, based on the knowledge reserve in his head, he should have received the federal nine-year compulsory education - and children without citizen household registration have no way to enroll in school.
But this cannot be used as evidence... After all, Sun Hang didn't know whether those memories belonged to him. What if I am really illiterate, and that knowledge comes from the infected people who were "absorbed" by me?
So this question goes back to the original "Taotie clone attack".
Sun Hang went to check the files on this incident. The contents of the files were pitifully sparse. In addition to statistics on casualties and property losses, the beginning, process and ending of the attack were almost covered in one stroke. Even the "Taotie clone" was briefly mentioned. The conclusions are drawn based on the few remaining memes.
No one has witnessed the true appearance of the strange thing.
Even the surveillance equipment at the attack site was strangely paralyzed at the same time.
If this kind of thing is mentioned alone, it is difficult not to think of some conspiracy, but in fact, there are too many such mysterious attacks that have no beginning and no end in all parts of the Federation... There are even many cases that cannot be traced at all. It was determined whether the perpetrator was a monster or a human being. Simply because he could not find a reasonable explanation, he classified it as a monster attack.
At least in Sun Hang's case, residual memes could still be found at the scene, which is better than most "headless cases".
But why did he appear at the scene of the attack?
Also, why do I have the memory of the Nameless Island Research Institute?
Among the strange creatures and infected people that Sun Hang had devoured before, there was absolutely no one among them who had ever landed on the Unnamed Island. In other words, these memories were already in Sun Hang’s mind before he was sent to the hospital. Inside.
The biggest and most unexplainable doubt is... the three apes.
Sun Hang carefully scrutinized these clues several times in the dead of night, but every time, when the reasoning was extended to the three apes, the logic that could have been completely established collapsed directly - this thing did not make sense at all, it was completely beyond Sun Hang's reasoning. Hang's current knowledge, no matter which angle he thinks about it from, can't think of a reasonable explanation.
Sun Hang even had a bold guess - in that attack, the attacker carrying the "Taotie meme" was himself.
And the bullet that hit his head was not a stray bullet at all.
"Am I a monster?"
Sun Hang couldn't help but think as he looked at the white mycelium extending from his fingertips and the liquid metal floating at his hand.
With his current ability, he is indeed no different from a monster... The reason why he is considered an infected person rather than a monster is simply because he still retains human consciousness.
However, as Sun Hang came into contact with more and more monsters, he gradually discovered that many monsters actually have self-awareness, and some monsters can think like humans.
The criterion for distinguishing monsters from humans in Tianshu Tower is whether the memetic infection process has exceeded the "danger threshold", but the problem is that this "danger threshold" also varies from person to person... For Sun Hang, in his case, the "danger threshold" The line between objects and infected people has become extremely blurred.
"If I am a monster... then maybe I was sent to human society to perform certain tasks..." Sun Hang murmured to himself, "'Pretender'? Hmm, this name sounds pretty cool. .”
However, he happened to lose his memory.
There is no doubt that the three apes are monsters, but not only are the three apes unwilling to help them retrieve their memories, they also try every means to prevent them from retrieving their memories... Could it be that there are different positions within the world of monsters?
Are the three apes treacherous?
Isn’t this too fucking nonsense?
But Sun Hang did not dare to completely rule out this possibility. After all, "first rule out the correct answer" is a common occurrence in real life.
No matter how low the probability is, as long as it is not zero, it may happen.
So if the three apes are in hostile camps with him, then why doesn't he just kill him?
With the abilities of the three apes, this is no more difficult than crushing an ant to death, right?
Sun Hang scratched his head irritably, then sat down in the driver's seat.
In any case, the top priority is to find a way back - even if he is a monster, Sun Hang does not want to stay in the occupied area anymore.
The human world has delicious food and beautiful women. Isn’t it better than this occupied area with no villages or shops?
Sun Hang admitted that his will was indeed weak - but if he could live a comfortable life and become a troublemaker in such a poor place, even if he didn't have his brain kicked by a donkey.
Start the car, put it into gear, turn the steering wheel, and turn around... Before Sun Hang had driven a hundred meters, he saw a road sign similar to the one he came from.
However, the words on the road sign gave Sun Hang the feeling of "nowhere to be found".
"Direction to Shuzhou, 200 kilometers."
Under these large characters, there is a line of small characters: "There are still 15 kilometers to Highway 4218."
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Route 4218.
The only remaining No. 3 car was speeding on the winding mountain road. The remaining people in the team sat around the transport cabin with uncertain expressions.
Wang Xiyi took a long breath, glanced at her bracelet, reached out and knocked on the cabin roof, and said: "There are two minutes left, Zhulong, come in, it's my turn."
In order to ensure that emergencies can be responded to immediately, the three main combat forces in the team, Wang Xiyi, Zhulong and Ye Jiu, will take turns to be on duty on the roof of the car, rotating every thirty minutes.
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of the cold. In fact, it doesn't matter if I'm up there all the time." Zhulong's voice sounded from outside the transport cabin and from the internal communication channel at the same time, "Wait a minute, there seems to be something going on!"
"Stop the car! Turn off the lights!" Wang Xiyi said without hesitation, "Everyone, get ready for battle!"
"On the mountain road in the distance, I saw car lights flashing past." Zhulong said again.
"Car lights?" Wang Xiyi kicked open the hatch and was the first to jump out of the transport cabin.
"What the hell... Oh shit!" Ye Jiu also got out of the transport cabin, but when someone else came out, the wolf fang on his back was stuck in the door frame of the cabin, covering his whole body. Hanging in the air behind the transport cabin.
"It was in that direction just now." Zhulong pointed towards the one o'clock direction, "Now we're behind the mountain and can't see it anymore, but I'm not sure if it's a car light."
"It can't be the eyes of some weird thing, right?" Ye Jiu finally took out the wolf fang straight from the transport cabin and jumped onto the roof of the car. "Does the weird thing still need to move along the winding mountain road? "I've seen cars turn into weird things," Zhulong said.
"Hey, let me ask, could it be the car driven by Sun Hang?" Ye Jiu suddenly said, "Even his nameplate can turn into a big metal snake, so what kind of monster will the car he drives turn into... Tsk, I don’t dare to think about it.”
"Quiet." Wang Xiyi shouted.
The sound of the engine and the screeching tires gradually approached. When the other party came around from behind the mountain, they would directly enter the straight road opposite Wang Xiyi and the others.
"This sound..." Zhong Ling also walked out of the transport cabin and whispered, "It's the car driven by Sun Hang."
"Everyone, please don't let your guard down." Wang Xiyi's hand ignited a blue flame, "What Ye Jiu just said is not unreasonable."
"No, I just said it casually...I'm not a crow's mouth." Ye Jiu said with a grimace.
"We'll know soon."
Finally, as two beams of light came out from behind the mountain, a familiar off-road vehicle appeared in everyone's sight.
"It's the car that Yang Qi lent to Sun Hang..." Wang Xiyi couldn't help but narrowed her eyes, "There seems to be someone sitting in the driver's seat."
"Is it Sun Hang?" Ye Jiu asked subconsciously.
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Wang Xiyi did not speak, but flapped her wings and flew out.
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After determining the direction, Sun Hang drove back along Highway 4218. Along the way, he sensed the auras of many strange creatures, but these strange creatures immediately fled as soon as he approached, let alone actively attacked Sun Hang. , He didn't even dare to stay near Sun Hang, so Sun Hang could only give up the idea of "adding a meal" and focus all his attention on the road.
He had just rounded a five-turn hairpin bend when he saw a "big guy" lying shadowily on the roadside a few hundred meters away. Just when Sun Hang was thinking about whether to park or drive directly, he felt a familiar feeling. The breath quickly approached, and then, a heavy body landed heavily on the hood!
“Bang!!”
"Fuck! Car!" Sun Hang looked at the obviously dented engine and immediately stepped on the emergency brake.
But the figure squatting on the hood was not thrown out by the huge inertia or photographed on the windshield. Instead, after the car stopped, he jumped out like a normal person and opened the door.
"Old Wang? Why are you here?" Sun Hang asked confused.
"I still want to ask you, why did you rush into the enemy-occupied area like a madman?" Wang Xiyi asked with a bad look, "Do you know how anxious we are? The entire Tianfu City Monster Research Institute is about to explode. ”
"I didn't come in voluntarily." Sun Hang threw the empty aromatherapy bottle to Wang Xiyi.
"What is this?" Wang Xiyi took a look at the aromatherapy bottle and asked.
"Someone secretly hid this thing in the car. It should contain a volatile drug with hypnotic effects. After inhaling the drug, I became conscious and lost control of my body." Sun Hang said, " By the time I reacted, I was already in the occupied area.”
"Who did this?" Wang Xiyi subconsciously wanted to crush the aromatherapy bottle to pieces, but she suddenly thought that this thing was a very important evidence and quickly let go.
"There is someone in the Tianfu City Management Committee who dislikes me...but he is not the mastermind, but was coerced by others." Sun Hang said.
"Who is it? As long as there is evidence, I have a way to send this guy to prison." Wang Xiyi said.
"Ah? Why should that person be sent to prison?" Sun Hang said in shock.
"Even if he was coerced, the fact that the person framed you and caused serious consequences is established. This crime is enough for him to go to jail." Wang Xiyi said.
"No, no, no... you have completely misunderstood what I meant." Sun Hang shook his head repeatedly, "I mean, why should a scum like this be sent to prison to continue wasting precious food?"
"Uh..." Wang Xiyi was startled, "Then, where's the mastermind?"
"The mastermind's words... it's a mystery." Sun Hang thought about it for a while, but still didn't hide it.
"A weird thing? A weird thing coerces humans to frame hunters... Are you sure?" Now it was Wang Xiyi's turn to be stunned, "If it is a weird thing, why doesn't it do it on its own?"
"This is also what I am confused about, so I will ask that person myself when the time comes."
"By the way, on the way here, we encountered a very powerful monster. That monster had the ability to manipulate metal similar to yours. After destroying it, we found your piece in its core. Nameplate.”
"That nameplate of mine?" Sun Hang touched his pocket and took out a metal nameplate. "Have I always carried my nameplate with me?"
In addition to this nameplate, also placed in his pocket is the relic with the "power bank function" that he obtained in Longyan Temple.
"Ah?" Wang Xiyi was stunned. The next second, she flapped her wings and flew into the air, flying towards the engineering vehicle with its lights on in the distance.
Soon, the two groups of people gathered together, and Wang Xiyi carefully took out the metal nameplate that was still emitting a faint fluorescence from the storage container.
It's just that the name on the metal nameplate is no longer Sun Hang, but a string of Russian characters.
Sun Hang didn't recognize the first half of this string of Russian words, but the second half was very familiar to him.
"Do any of you understand Russian?" Sun Hang asked.
"I understand." Zhulong took a look and said, "This is a female name, Elena Demoshena."
Elena Demoshena?
Anna Demoshena?
The nameplate that originally belonged to Anna disappeared inexplicably, so where did this nameplate with the same surname as Anna come from?
Anna's...sister?
I will start a business trip on the 2nd and ask for leave in advance. The default leave is 3 days. However, if I have time to write during the business trip, I may update it from time to time.
(End of chapter)