Chapter 420
"By the way, sir, why are you asking about this?" the soldier said in confusion.
"It's nothing." Sun Hang waved his hand, "Go back to his post, I don't need help."
"Yes." The soldier saluted Sun Hang, then turned and left.
The Hunter and the Xiazhou Federal Regular Army were originally two completely independent violent institutions, but considering the special circumstances of Tianfu City, and the frequent conflicts between the Hunter and the military due to some command issues, in order to better coordinate the relationship between the two parties, the Federal Parliament issued a document: to issue temporary military ranks to each hunter who went to Shuzhou to perform a series of tasks related to Yongye, and at the same time, the battlefield command power corresponding to the rank level was given.
I don’t know whether it was because of consideration of Sun Hang’s combat power or because he was one of the few "local hunters" in Tianfu City, the superiors directly assigned him a temporary military rank at the colonel level. It was precisely for this reason that the soldier called Sun Hang the "Supervisor".
The military system of the Xiazhou Federation once called superiors more "chief" and rarely used the chief. However, after the Xiazhou Federation became the last country of human civilization and absorbed refugees from all over the world, this unwritten rule was optional.
Soldiers call the chief if they like to call the chief if they like to call the chief if they like to call the chief if they like to call the chief. Even if they call "Sir" it is not a problem...
The soldier's facial features seemed to be from the Siberian Federation, so it was understandable that he was used to calling the superior.
As for the soldier who had stopped Sun Hang's car, he was calling him "comrade" at first, but now he called him Sun Hang, it is likely that he would call him the chief.
Sun Hang's rank of colonel is probably equivalent to a regiment-level officer in the federal military system - but this does not mean that Sun Hang can command a combat force of thousands of people like a serious regiment commander...
It is said that the hunters will be given the same command power as the military rank, and the implementation will still shrink. Song Yarong told Sun Hang that he can command a standard combat unit of up to 300 people at one time. The standard combat unit here refers to the most basic infantry. If it is replaced with a unit such as armored soldiers and missile soldiers, his rank of colonels will be completely unable to command.
This temporary military rank assigned is more of a symbol of status.
Sun Hang watched the soldier running in the direction of the post, and the soldier's back switched back and forth several times between humans and monsters... Sun Hang took a deep breath, and finally let the world in his eyes "locked" under the normal cognitive scope.
The flesh-and-blooded world and monsters are both virtual worlds "fantasized" by Sun Hang. He tried to constantly switch between reality and virtuality, trying to find out the flaws in the virtual world.
He failed.
Although the world full of flesh and blood seems so unreasonable, this unreasonableness is just from the perspective of ordinary people's cognitive... Sun Hang wants to find those "paradox points" that are enough to completely overturn the authenticity of the entire world... But unfortunately, he didn't find it.
Sun Hang sat up on the scorched curb and looked into the distance.
A spider-web-like gap was cracked on the asphalt road, and a overturned bus lying across the bank under the overturned billboard. The bus's shell was burned to charred, and the twisted metal railings were like deformed bones, poking out of the broken window.
The glass of the corner bakery was broken, but the almond cake placed in the display cabinet was preserved for some reason, and the frosting melted into amber crystals in the high temperature and condensed on the edge of the porcelain plate.
The grocery store canopy was overturned and the rusty iron racks were exposed, and the strings of clothespins were still clamped with postcard-sized promotional posters, with edges crackling in the wind.
The most complete object on the entire street is the fire hydrant on the roadside. The bombing did not have much impact on it. It still stood stubbornly inside, looking at the burning ruins across the street.
The casualties caused by the bombing were not announced, but the data obtained by Yang Qi was zero.
Those who were killed by the bomb were all completely degenerate creatures. They were not humans and would not be counted as casualties of ordinary people.
What killed them was the trick memes dropped in the water, not the bombs falling from the sky.
"Anna." Sun Hang suddenly spoke.
"I'm here." Anna's voice drifted from the wind, mixed with the crackling sound of wood burning, which sounded a little unreal.
"The trick that was released before and wanted to lure me over." Sun Hang asked, "Why is there no movement now? What is the purpose of it seducing me?"
"It seems that my appearance scared people away." Anna said.
"...Didn't you say the other party has no malicious intentions towards me?" Sun Hang frowned, "Since that's the case, I don't mind having some contact with the other party."
"The lack of malice in the cognition of the trick is different from the 'no malice' in the human mouth." Anna said with a smile, "I have no malice towards those who have been assimilated by me. I just need their memories and emotions. But in the eyes of humans, it is obvious that I killed them, and my behavior is full of malice."
"...Is it because the tricks and humans are not the same."
"Absolutely." Anna's voice went left and right, sometimes far and sometimes near, "It's like cattle and sheep raised in animal husbandry. Will humans have malicious intentions towards cattle and sheep? No. But in order to eat meat, humans will still kill these cattle and sheep."
Anna said again: "The humans in the eyes of the monsters are not much different from the cattle and sheep in the eyes of humans."
"Then according to your opinion, that trick led me out. Could it be that I wanted to kill me and eat me?" Sun Hang suddenly felt a little anxious to laugh, "Could that guy also merge the memes of Taotie? Will Taotie eat Taotie be infected with prions?"
"No, there is one thing I can be sure of, it won't attack you," Anna said.
"Did you scare it away accidentally or intentionally?"
"It was intentional." Anna suddenly smiled, "I am very possessive of my mother. I don't want a third party to interfere in the intimate relationship between us."
"Participation?" Sun Hang subconsciously thought of Wang Xiyi and Yang Lian... If this Anna was a possessive and ill girl, wouldn't she attack the two women, right?
Anna once again peeked at Sun Hang’s inner thoughts and smiled: “Mom, don’t worry, I don’t care about the relationship between you and human women. I know very well that the main reason for your reproductive behavior is to obtain physiological pleasure… This is just a biological instinct, and the relationship with us is incomparable.”
“…”
"It's like human men don't regard their partner's little toys as their rivals, nor do they eat the jealousy of the stuffed dolls they hold when they sleep." Anna said, "I don't mind reproductive behaviors between mothers and humans at all. If my mother wants, I can even help my mother find more and more perfect human women..."
"...So, is my trip in vain?"
"Does mom feel that time alone with me is meaningless?" Anna's tone was filled with a hint of resentment, "We used to be so close..." "Stop." Sun Hang turned around and walked towards the exit of the blockade area.
This trip was not nothing. At least from Anna's mouth, Sun Hang knew the fatal weakness of the ability to "get all your wishes".
This ability is easily deceived.
For example, the enemy trapped Sun Hang in an illusion. There was a terrifying monster and a towering mountain. Sun Hang directly used his ability to "get all his wishes" to collapse the mountain and crush the monster to death...
But in the real world, there were neither monsters nor mountains, and nothing happened. Sun Hang just stood there blankly, consuming a large number of "blue bars" for no reason.
Just like the soldiers saw it in the surveillance screen of the drone.
There is another illusion, which is to completely separate the things that Sun Hang sensed from reality, forming a "virtual zone" in the middle. Sun Hang's ability to achieve everything he wants will be sandwiched between virtual and reality, that is, this "virtual zone".
Anything he perceives in the virtual world will have a corresponding thing in the "virtual area" - and the ability he exerts will be directly applied to the corresponding thing in the "virtual area".
This leads to Sun Hang being unable to use his ability to interfere in the virtual world, nor having any impact on the real world.
His abilities were directly swallowed up by the "virtual area" that looked like a black hole.
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Just like in Maoyun Town.
Sun Hang was driving while thinking about solutions.
He opened until the entrance to the research institute park, but he was unable to come up with a reliable enough countermeasure.
But no matter what, there are two key points - the first point is that he must be able to determine whether everything in front of him is real or false. If he can't even tell the difference, let alone break the deadlock.
Second, if you confirm that you are trapped in an illusory world, you have to find a way to find an unreasonable place in this illusory world, that is, the "paradox point" that Sun Hang has been looking for before, and start from this "paradox point", and pull out your cognition and consciousness from that illusory world.
Strictly speaking, the illusion of Maoyun Town is not a situation that Sun Hang himself broke.
The old lady was the "back door" left by Anna, or a "conductive NPC" connecting the virtuality and reality. Sun Hang was given by this NPC, not by himself.
In a sense, Anna seems not to be so ill.
At least she would give herself a chance to leave... It was not like those sick and cute books, who cut off the male protagonist's hands and feet, dig up his eyes, and then locked him in the basement and stuffed nutrient solution every day...
She seemed to be really good to herself…at least that’s what she thought.
Sun Hang parked the car and took the elevator to the safe house prepared for Yang Qi and the others.
As soon as he pushed open the door, Fukada Miki's gaze glared fiercely: "You're here! I promised to take me to see Chimera No. 17 up close. When will it be fulfilled?"
"It's definitely next time." Sun Hang said casually, then looked at Yang Qi and Song Yarong who were busy, "How is the situation on Chimera No. 17?"
"Not optimistic," said Yang Qi.
"I also want to ask if you have any gains from this trip." Song Yarong picked up the coffee at hand and took a sip of it. "It seems that you are not there in this way."
"Well, I've lost it." Sun Hang nodded, "The trick that attacked me only leaked a little aura, and then he completely lost his whereabouts."
"I think it's simply putting the cart before the horse when you go after that trick." Fukada Miki said, "Since that trick will attack you, it will say it has accepted the order of Chimera 17... You don't need to find it at all. You just need to attack its master, and it will jump out by itself."
"Yes." Sun Hang pursed his lips. He did not tell them about the video tape. In Yang Qi and the others' eyes, the magic tricks entrenched in the shopping center and the magic tricks Sun Hang investigated this time were in the same group... But Sun Hang knew very well that the magic tricks that took the video tapes might not have any connection with Chimera No. 17.
It is like a ghost wandering in Tianfu City. It will neither help Chimera No. 17 nor help humans...it will only do things that interest it...
As for what it is interested in... one is the trick videotape, and the other is probably Sun Hang.
Without knowing that the other party is an enemy or a friend, it seems that not to provoke it is the right choice.
At least Anna said rightly, not all tricks are malicious towards humans.
"The reason for the second mutation of Chimera 17 is still under analysis. The only thing we can confirm at present is that the faces that appear on the surface of the giant cocoon of Chimera 17 come from the people killed by it."
"Liu Li has analyzed this point long ago." Sun Hang said, "So after a long time of busyness, did the command center just repeat the results of Liu Li's analysis?"
"There are too few data." Yang Qi sighed, "Even the incubation time of Chimera No. 17, we are a little unsure about it now."
"In other words, this thing will hatch at any time?" Sun Hang muttered, "and then rushed over and destroyed Tianfu City?"
"It doesn't have to rush over." Yang Qi shook her head, "The expert group has estimated that the moment the Chimera hatching is completed, the giant cocoon will explode directly, releasing a large amount of energy to the outside world. Its power is equivalent to 4.5 million tons of TNT equivalent, which is almost 300 times that of the 'little boy'."
"Tianfu City will be razed to the ground during the nuclear explosion." Song Yarong added.
Sun Hang: "...What's the progress of that meme reverse engineering team?"
"The completion degree has reached 70%, faster than expected." Yang Qi said, "I decided to start the final combat operation in three days."
(This chapter ends)