Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 284 Forty-one Days

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After the meeting.

Before Sun Hang went to find Yang Qi, Yang Qi went to find Sun Hang first.

"What happened to you before? I need an explanation." Yang Qi looked directly at Sun Hang and asked.

Sun Hang took out the aromatherapy bottle from his pocket, put it into Yang Qi's hand, and said, "I don't know if there is any residue in it, but I suggest you send this bottle to the laboratory for testing."

"What is this?" Yang Qi was stunned. "...A weird thing?"

"The things that were once in the bottle may have come from a ghost." Sun Hang paused and repeated to Yang Qi the explanation he had given to Wang Xiyi.

"You mean, someone wanted to harm you? They put this thing in the car, and you inhaled the volatile substances in the bottle, which led to this happening? I'll send someone to carefully check the video footage of the parking lot..."

"The video has been cleared a long time ago." Sun Hang said, "But I already know who that person is, and I have dealt with him."

"Who?" Yang Qi was stunned and asked hurriedly.

"Lu Hongming, a former member of the Tianfu City Management Committee." Sun Hang said, "As for the person who put this thing in the car, it was his son."

"Do you have reliable evidence?" Yang Qi asked again, "As long as we have evidence, we can..."

"No."

"It will be troublesome without evidence. Although Lu Hongming is now a member of the management committee, his network of care... wait, you just said that you have dealt with it? How did you deal with it? You are not going to mess around again, are you? Lu Hongming is not an ordinary person. He is in office after all..." Yang Qi reacted belatedly.

"What else can we do?" Sun Hang wiped his neck. "I asked Old Man Pei to check Lu Hongming's background. The amount of money he embezzled and accepted in bribes was enough to execute him several times. I just saved the federal government a few bullets."

"Pei... Elder Pei also knows about this?" Yang Qi's eyes widened. "Don't you have no evidence? How did you convince Elder Pei?"

"Do you need evidence to convince someone?" Sun Hang asked back.

For those in power, so-called evidence and fairness are just a joke. Only interests and values ​​are what need to be considered.

Lu Hongming's value is far less than Sun Hang's value, that's all.

"Having said that, the battle plan you just proposed probably has a low success rate, right?" Sun Hang asked.

The so-called 50% probability, success or failure, is just a polite remark.

The person who speaks it knows it in his heart, and the person who listens to it knows it in his heart too.

Just as the major general said - as long as the success rate is not zero, it is worth a try.

"Twenty percent. To be precise, it's 21.7%. This is the probability calculated by the supercomputer in the core area of ​​Tianshu Tower." Yang Qi looked around carefully, and when he saw that the big guys didn't notice the conversation here, he lowered his voice and spoke to Sun Hang.

Sun Hang took a deep look, then turned back to look at the "big guys" who were discussing things in groups of three or five, and said lightly: "The so-called public evacuation plan actually doesn't exist at all, right?"

Yang Qi's face froze, and then she grabbed Sun Hang's hand and said, "Come with me."

With Wang Xiyi and Song Yarong looking slightly surprised, Yang Qi dragged Sun Hang directly to the small cubicle at the end of the corridor where sanitary tools were stored. After closing the door, she asked seriously, "Who told you? Mr. Pei?"

"Do I need anyone to tell me this? I can guess it just by guessing it." Sun Hang raised his eyebrows.

"How... did you guess that?"

"If the federal government wants to keep Shuzhou, it can't relocate the residents of Shuzhou on a large scale... Let's not talk about whether your 'pesticide plan' will succeed, nor how long it will take to eliminate the radiation pollution after the nuclear explosion. Let me ask you one thing - put yourself in their shoes. If you were an ordinary person living in Tianfu City, and you finally left this land shrouded in eternal night and without sunlight, and you were asked to come back later, would you be willing to come back?"

"I……"

"It is possible that some people with strong nostalgia for their homeland will return, but I think the vast majority of people will be more realistic - seeking benefits and avoiding harm is the instinct of human beings, no, it is the instinct of any living creature." Sun Hang said, "Shuzhou, which has lost a large number of people, is almost the same as a fallen state."

"In fact, there is an evacuation plan... but not to the outside of Shuzhou." Yang Qi whispered, "According to the Disaster Countermeasures Committee, a temporary 'city' will be built in the southern part of Shuzhou, outside the impact range of the nuclear explosion, to accommodate the relocated people, but..."

"Not enough time." Sun Hang continued, "Although I just said that forty-one days is plenty of time, this is only for one person. For the entire city and the tens of millions of people in the surrounding areas, forty-one days... is simply not enough."

Sun Hang thought of Maoyun Town.

When the Yunnan-Yunnan region was evacuated, countless places like Maoyun Town were abandoned... With so many people in the Yunnan-Yunnan region and an evacuation lasting several months, only less than half of the population managed to arrive in Shuzhou.

Forty-one days...

Sun Hang didn't know if forty-one days was enough to build a temporary city that could accommodate tens of millions of people. Just informing the public of the news and getting them to obey the federal government's arrangements and evacuate Tianfu City in an orderly manner was almost an impossible task.

Humans are emotional animals, and panic is an emotion that spreads the fastest among people.

Sun Hang could already imagine the chaos that would occur in Tianfu City after the federal government announced the large-scale evacuation.

Even if people don't know the reason or time of the evacuation, once people start to suspect, the situation will only get worse.

"In fact, this matter is still under discussion." Yang Qi continued, "The Federal Parliament is now divided into two factions. One faction firmly demands the immediate evacuation of the people and the direct abandonment of Shuzhou; the other faction is..."

Yang Qi didn't say anything else, but Sun Hang could basically guess what she didn't say.

To put it bluntly, it means that the military and civilians of Tianfu City will live and die together with Tianfu City.

This decision is cold-blooded, but from another perspective, it is also rational.

The main purpose of the large-scale evacuation plan is to preserve population resources. However, based on the actual situation in Tianfu City, even if the large-scale evacuation plan is implemented from now on, the population resources that can be preserved will be extremely limited. Not only that, it will also bring extremely serious burdens to the surrounding areas, and the federal government will also need to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the evacuation work.

Instead of wasting resources on this, it is better to concentrate all strength and fight the monster to the death.

"Sometimes I wonder about one thing..." Sun Hang said, "Do you think those in power, when making such decisions, have they ever thought that their thoughts can determine the life and death of tens of millions of people and millions of families? Or, to them, these people and families are just black numbers printed on white paper?"

"...I don't know." Yang Qi shook her head. "I can only try my best to do what I can do well."

"It seems that your 'Pesticide Plan' is the last line of defense to protect Tianfu City." Sun Hang glanced at her, "The so-called nuclear strike is actually just a mutual destruction." Yang Qi hesitated for a few seconds, then nodded slowly.

"In fact, there is more than one combat plan against Chimera 17, and I am not the only one involved." Yang Qi said, "There are several other combat plans that are also being promoted simultaneously, but the command groups for different combat plans are independent. Except when the mission content overlaps, there will be dedicated people to contact and coordinate. I am completely unaware of the combat plans of the other groups."

"If you don't know about the other battle plans, your teacher should know, right?" Sun Hang asked again.

"Well... the teacher told me that my plan has the highest success rate," Yang Qi said.

"When do you plan to start implementing the first step of the battle plan?" Sun Hang asked. "By the way, what is the first step called?"

"Collect memetic samples." Yang Qi said, "In order to increase the success rate, we actually sent out eight teams of elite hunters instead of one. The first team consists of you, Ye Fu and the Puppet Master. The second team is led by Ye Jiu and Zhu Long. As for the third to eighth teams, they are all led by hunters of the same rank on the list..."

As Yang Qi was talking, she suddenly laughed at herself: "To be honest, being able to command so many hunters at one time... is like a dream."

"You've never fought such a prosperous war, right?" Sun Hang said.

"There is nothing we can do about it. Sample collection must be successful at one time... Only after the samples are collected can meme reverse engineering begin. The first step is crucial." Yang Qi said seriously.

"When to set off?"

"Ten o'clock tomorrow morning."

Sun Hang looked at his bracelet and found that there were still fourteen hours left before the departure time.

"All the information about Chimera 17 has been made public to the hunters involved in the operation. You can check it directly in the internal archives... Although it may not be useful, it may be of some help."

Yang Qi opened the door of the cubicle and was about to walk out, but ran into Wang Xiyi and Zhong Ling who were guarding outside the door.

"You... all heard it?" Yang Qi looked at the two of them and asked in a low voice.

"I listened to it from beginning to end." Wang Xiyi nodded.

"About the evacuation..."

"What are you talking about? I don't understand a word you say." Wang Xiyi cooperated and pretended to be stupid. "I only know that at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, we will be asked to work hard again."

"...Have a good rest. Tomorrow's work will be very hard." Yang Qi nodded and said no more. He walked quickly to the other end of the corridor.

Sun Hang looked at Wang Xiyi, then at Zhong Ling, clapped his hands and said, "What a coincidence, the three of us happen to be in the same team."

The other teams, in addition to the leading hunters, will also be equipped with five to eight elite hunters with rich experimental experience, but their first team only has three people - the extra places are occupied by the skeletons controlled by Zhong Ling.

"I just checked the two investigation records of Chimera 17 some time ago." Wang Xiyi said, "Chimera 17 will have a stress reaction to people who get close to it. The more people there are, the more obvious the stress reaction is. Yang Qi divided all the hunters into eight teams, probably considering this point."

“Is there a video?”

"Have."

"Pass me a copy later." After Sun Hang said this, he walked towards the elevator.

"where are you going?"

"Let's go for a stroll outside and relax." Sun Hang smiled. "The war is imminent, and it's important to adjust your mood."

"I'll go with you." Wang Xiyi said.

"Are you worried that I will disappear inexplicably like last time?"

Wang Xiyi nodded.

Zhong Ling didn't finish her words, but she expressed her thoughts through the practical action of following closely behind Sun Hang.

"Okay." Sun Hang did not refuse.

Since Anna didn't want to have any contact with Chimera No. 17, if she could plot against me the first time, she could naturally do so the second time. With Wang Xiyi and Zhong Ling watching from the side, the possibility of an "accident" could be reduced to some extent.

The only problem is that it might get both of them into trouble.

The three of them took the elevator to the first floor. In the open space outside the institute, several three-story modular laboratories had been built. The roofs of the laboratories had not yet been closed. Two heavy cargo drones were slowly descending and lowering a device suspended by a cable from above into the interior of the laboratory.

"What is that thing?" Sun Hang asked, pointing at a device hanging in the air that looked a bit like a popcorn machine magnified countless times.

"I don't know." Wang Xiyi shrugged. "I'm only responsible for fighting. I know nothing about scientific research."

"It's a device used for memetic reverse engineering." Zhong Ling's cold voice sounded beside Sun Hang, "I've seen this kind of equipment in the Tianshu Tower."

"Really..." Sun Hang noticed that the two drones used to transport the equipment had the emblem of the Tianshu Tower on them. The same emblem was also printed on the waterproof and dustproof buffer film on the surface of the equipment. "It seems that this thing was transported from Chunming City."

"The stability of anti-memetic agents is inversely proportional to their quality." Zhong Ling continued, "A single-digit unit of anti-memetic agents can remain stable for several hours, but once this amount increases, the stability factor will drop drastically."

"How do you know so much?" Sun Hang was a little curious. "You are not a scientific researcher, right?"

Although Zhong Ling's father is a scientific researcher, his field of expertise is not "meme reverse engineering", right?

"My aunt is a member of the meme reverse engineering team." Zhong Ling said, "When I was a child, my father was often busy, so I sometimes stayed at my aunt's house... She should be here too."

"Yes, Xiao Ling'er is right." Among the busy white coats, a woman who looked to be in her early thirties at most, with neatly cut short hair and wearing a pair of brown glasses, suddenly turned and walked towards them. "According to the battle plan you proposed, the 'insecticide' can maintain a stable state for no more than 0.1 seconds."

"Aunt." Zhong Ling said to the woman very obediently.

"Xiao Ling'er is so good." The woman smiled and rubbed Zhong Ling's head, then turned to look at Sun Hang, and the smile on her face instantly disappeared. "That is to say, after the 'insecticide' is produced, you must immediately stuff it into the target's 'heart'... Do you think you can do it?"

　I caught a severe cold right after returning from Shanghai, and I haven’t been feeling well lately…

　　
　
(End of this chapter)