Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 118 The Boundary between Day and Night

"Are you the 'hero' who ran away from the celebration banquet?" A hunter who was nearly 1.9 meters tall turned around and looked at Sun Hang and asked.

"If the person you are looking for is called Sun Hang, then it should be me." Sun Hang admitted.

"The person who awarded you the medal is the third most important person in Tianshu Tower. Others can't even dream of getting such an honor... I'm curious, what were you thinking at that time?" The hunter asked puzzledly.

"I'm full, let's go out for a walk to help digest the food." Sun Hang said, "As for something as intangible as honor, I still prefer tangible benefits."

Sun Hang merely missed the awarding ceremony at the celebration banquet. As for various awards from the federal high-level officials, he received all of them. Even the medal that he did not go on stage to receive was sent to his home after the celebration banquet.

"Ha, you are an interesting person." The tall hunter laughed.

"Don't be so funny." Another hunter wearing a big hood and looking like he had horns on his head complained, "You went out for a walk and made everyone busy all night, but in the end we didn't find anything and didn't sleep well..."

This guy had dark circles under his eyes and was yawning as he spoke. He looked extremely tired.

"Let's get some sleep on the plane." The tall hunter patted his shoulder and said.

"I came from Chunming City. The flight from Tianfu City to Chunming City takes less than three hours, and we are on a military plane, which will be even faster." He yawned again, "I guess I will be woken up just after falling asleep, so forget it."

While the group of hunters were chatting idly, the shuttle bus arrived at the research institute on time. Everyone got on the bus one after another. Sun Hang was shocked to find that the driver of the bus was the uncle driver who came to pick him up after he eliminated the ghost and who was later attacked by the mob together with him.

"Nice to meet you again." Sun Hang greeted him.

"Yeah." The driver's arm was still wrapped in a bandage, but judging from his expression, the injury should not be serious.

In addition to researching and containing strange creatures, the Weird Creatures Research Institute also has top-notch medical expertise - strictly speaking, the place with the highest medical standards in Tianfu City is not the Tianfu City First Central Hospital, but the Tianfu City Weird Creatures Research Institute.

However, this place is not open to the public, and most of the patients admitted are not "ordinary humans".

"I went back and thought about it, and I think what you said last time does make sense. Shuzhou is really too dangerous now." The driver put his hands on the steering wheel and chatted with Sun Hang with his head tilted.

"Are you planning on leaving here?"

"Me? Of course I can't leave." The driver sighed, "But I sent my wife and children to my relatives in Fog City. I stay here alone. I can take care of the house and earn some money to send to them. When the eternal night disappears or the situation is stable enough, I will bring them back."

"That's a good idea." Sun Hang nodded and found a seat on the bus and sat down.

Everyone got on the bus, and the driver stopped chatting. He closed the door, stepped on the accelerator, and the bus slowly started and drove towards the airport. …

……

Just as the sleepy hunter said, what was waiting for them at the airport was not a civilian passenger plane, but a military transport plane painted army green and two fighter jets responsible for escort missions.

After boarding, the transport plane taxied for a distance and flew into the night sky, followed by two fighter jets. Compared with the old models of transport planes, these two fighter jets were much more advanced. They not only had the ability to take off and land vertically, but also had optical camouflage armor.

Looking out of the porthole, Sun Hang could only see two blurry shadows that almost blended into the night, following closely on both sides of the transport plane.

"The 'YMC-07 ​​Night Owl' special fighter is a joint research project of Tianshu Tower and Siberia Heavy Industry." Yang Qi, who was sitting next to him, introduced to Sun Hang softly, "The ability of optical camouflage comes from a type-E weird creature called 'cryptobacteria'. They apply paint with cryptobacteria memes on the body of the aircraft, which can give the fighter an optical camouflage function."

"Is this thing useful against strange creatures?" Sun Hang asked, "It always feels like a flashy, impractical thing."

"This thing is not used to deal with monsters." Yang Qi lowered his voice a few more times. "The Xiazhou Federation was born out of the pressure brought to human society by monsters. In fact, there have always been discordant voices within the federation. In fact, more than 50% of the federation's armed forces are used to maintain the stability of the federation, not to resist the invasion of monsters."

"Fifty percent is too little, at least seventy percent." The tall hunter sitting in the front row turned around and said, "Let's not talk about anything else. The Russians in Siberia, the Indians in the south, and the Koreans in the northeast are not on the same page with us, not to mention the black and white people who escaped from the other side of the ocean."

"Has a war ever broken out within the Federation?" Sun Hang asked in confusion, "How come I have never heard of such a thing?"

In his remaining memory, there was no other threat to the Xiazhou Federation except the monsters outside, and there was no mention of this in the documents recording the history of the Federation.

"This kind of thing will definitely not be made public," said the tall hunter. "But it won't be a war. At most, it will be conflicts and frictions between different city-states. Especially in the autonomous states that are mainly composed of foreign populations, there will be some minor conflicts every year, but the media will never report such things."

Just when Sun Hang wanted to ask something, a sudden bright light suddenly came in from outside the porthole, and a feeling of relief suddenly arose.

The warm sunlight illuminated the azure sky, and the wings of the transport plane swept through the bright white clouds. This long-lost scene brought a look of relaxation to everyone in the cabin.

"We have flown out of the area covered by the eternal night." Yang Qi said, "This is still the territory of Shuzhou, but it is very close to the fog."

Sun Hang put his face against the window and looked behind the plane. In the distance he saw endless darkness, which was clearly separated from the normal sky by a line - one side of the line was daytime, and the other side was night.

"From the satellite images, the Shuzhou area now looks like a dark shadow on the map of the Xiazhou Federation," said Yang Qi.

"It's like being covered by a black curtain?" Sun Hang was a little curious. If Eternal Night can block satellite signals, does that mean it is actually a semicircular cover that covers the entire Shuzhou area?
"No, it is completely unobservable." Yang Qi shook her head, "It's as if part of the data has been deleted."

(End of this chapter)