Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 367 Videotape

Sun Hang soon reached the end of the underground commercial street. Further ahead was another elevator leading to the ground and the entrance to the underground parking lot.

Sun Hang glanced at the underground parking lot, and was slightly surprised that there were still many dusty cars parked in the parking lot at this time - the number of private cars in Tianfu City has long exceeded the number of parking spaces in the entire city, and the non-motorized vehicle lanes on both sides of the road are often full of motor vehicles on weekdays. Sun Hang guessed that these cars were not abandoned here by their owners, but they really couldn't find a place to park.

The windows of several valuable luxury cars had been smashed, but those cars worth around 100,000 yuan were spared. Shattered windows could be seen everywhere on the ground in the parking lot.

"No...is there any more..." Sun Hang muttered to himself.

"What do you mean?" The scavenger following behind asked in confusion, "You mean... that person?"

"I can't smell any weird stuff...whether in the underground commercial street or in the parking lot...it's too clean here...this shouldn't be the case..." Sun Hang muttered.

"The smell of a strange creature? Do strange creatures have a smell?" The scavenger asked with fear and curiosity, "Is it the smell of rot? Or the smell of blood?"

"To be precise, it is not a smell that can be smelled with the nose, but a breath that only the infected can detect." Sun Hang said, "Any strange creature will emit this kind of breath. No matter how good its camouflage ability is, as long as the distance is close enough, some of the breath will escape... This is almost inevitable."

"That consciousness without breath...there are no strange creatures in the basement of the mall?" the scavenger asked tentatively.

"I can only be sure that there is a strange creature lurking in the shopping mall, but I'm not sure where exactly it is." Sun Hang shook his head. "If we had met the scavenger who monopolized this place when we came in, I might have thought that the strange creature was hiding somewhere else... But now, don't you think we have encountered too many strange things?"

As Sun Hang was talking, his eyes fell on the fire axe in the other person's hand.

"Then...then...then is there any kind of strange creature that has no breath at all?" the scavenger asked again.

"Yes." Sun Hang nodded, "But my intuition tells me that this one is not."

"Intuition?" The scavenger was stunned for a moment, "You... do you still believe in intuition?"

"Why don't you believe it? Intuition is a very useful thing." Sun Hang couldn't tell her that he had just used his ability to make his wishes come true again and burned half of the blue in one breath, but got nothing, right?

“By the way, there are two underground floors in the mall, and there is another floor below…” The scavenger regretted saying it as soon as she said it. She suddenly realized that if she didn’t tell the hunter that there was another floor below, the hunter might choose to give up?

What would he do with me next? Would he hand me over to the Public Security Bureau or the Investigation Bureau?
But if I think about it carefully, that kind of ending seems to be better than facing the monster directly... At least, they have to follow the rules and regulations... Even if I broke the law, it shouldn't be a death sentence...

If the arrow that was just shot at the hunter doesn't count...

"I know. I'm looking for the passage down." Sun Hang stood at the entrance of the parking lot and looked up at the floor plan of the underground commercial street hanging on the wall.

The scavenger heaved a sigh of relief with some resignation.

There are two entrances to the second underground floor, one of which is right next to the elevator, but on this floor plan, the words "No Entry" are marked in eye-catching red font.

"The second underground floor is the equipment room and the power distribution room. There is nothing valuable there..." the scavenger whispered. "In the past, those machines could be dismantled and sold as scrap metal for a lot of money... But now buyers don't want these things at all. They only take small, light and valuable things... Things like watches and jewelry are the easiest to sell."

"Have you been there?" Sun Hang turned around and glanced at her.

"No... I just heard other scavengers discussing this matter." The scavenger said, "One of us used to be a security guard in this shopping mall. He is very familiar with the situation here. He told us this."

"Oh? Then has this security guard ever been to the underground after becoming a scavenger?"

"I don't know... but he disappeared later, and no one knows where he went." The scavenger said, "Some people also said that he was killed by a monster under the mall..."

"Tsk...interesting." Sun Hang walked to the entrance and with a light stroke of the metal blade, he cut off the thumb-thick iron lock wrapped around the door handle.

With the dull sound of a heavy lock falling to the ground, Sun Hang kicked the door open, and a gust of air carrying choking dust immediately blew in his face.

Sun Hang shone the flashlight inside. Behind the door was a staircase leading downwards. On both sides of the stairs, there were a lot of promotional materials of the shopping mall. A huge lottery turntable was tilted on the stairs, blocking most of the passage.

"Walk."

Sun Hang kicked the lottery wheel into the gap between the stairs and the wall. Although this thing was big, it was made of plastic foam and its weight was almost negligible.

Sun Hang thought about it and threw the flashlight to the scavenger.

After inheriting part of the Black Dragon meme from Wang Xiyi, Sun Hang gained the ability of dark vision. Even without a flashlight, he could see the situation around him clearly.

"Where... where do you want me to shine?" The scavenger took the flashlight - the flashlight that Sun Hang carried with him was taken from the field department. It was standard military equipment, and its brightness and battery life were much better than the ordinary civilian products that the scavenger originally had.

"Just follow your steps, don't step on air and roll down." Sun Hang said.

"You...you don't need a flashlight?"

"No, I can see."

As he was talking, Sun Hang had already reached the bottom of the stairs. In front of him was a rusty iron door. The door was not locked, but there was a yellowed A4 sheet on it with orange print fonts saying: "The computer room is a restricted area. No entry for unauthorized persons."

Sun Hang simply ignored the warning sign and pushed open the rusty iron door with force.

The smell of the machine room instantly entered his nostrils.

This is a smell mixed with ozone, rosin and the smell emitted by PCB boards after heating... Many people don't like this smell, but for some reason Sun Hang felt it was okay and not so unbearable.

"Could it be that I was a computer enthusiast before? Am I used to this smell?" Sun Hang muttered to himself.

The space in the computer room is very spacious. Many devices that do not look cheap are fixed on metal welded brackets. A large number of cables are bundled together, hovering between the machines like a giant python.

There is no smell of any weird creatures yet.

But after they took a few steps forward, they saw a pool of dark black blood on the ground.

The scavenger tensed up, holding the flashlight in one hand and the fire axe tightly in the other.

Sun Hang squatted down and examined it carefully.

"There's real blood this time," said Sun Hang.

"This...are there really any strange things here?" the scavenger asked timidly in a very low voice.

"I didn't sense the aura of a strange creature... The amount of blood loss was not small, and it was probably a death." Sun Hang said, "But don't forget, it's not necessarily a strange creature that kills people, people can kill people too."

"what?"

"Have you never had a fight among the scavengers because of fighting over spoils or uneven distribution of spoils?" Sun Hang tilted his head, "Didn't you say you've killed anyone?" "I... I haven't... I just wanted to scare you... to make you leave..." The scavenger confessed honestly, "I always act alone... If I meet other scavengers, I will stay away from them..."

Sun Hang did not continue the joke. Instead, he took two steps at a time, walked to the pile of cables, and picked up a shoe from the ground.

This is a size 43 pair of sneakers, Hook brand. Sun Hang couldn't tell the specific style. The color was originally supposed to be white, but due to aging and stains, it has now turned into light beige. The upper is badly worn and the lining padding can be seen.

"Is this that guy's shoe?" Sun Hang held up the shoe and shook it at the scavenger.

"I really don't know... I haven't paid attention to what shoes he wears..."

"It's actually very easy to judge." Sun Hang turned the shoe over. The pattern on the sole completely matched the footprints he had seen in the underground commercial street before, and there was still some syrup that had not been worn off in the gaps between the pattern.

"The shoes have fallen off. It seems the person is beyond saving." Sun Hang said.

"He...was he killed?"

"Let's look for it. Maybe the body is hiding in some corner of the computer room." Sun Hang said, "You search this row, and I'll search the other side."

"Can I...can I look for it with you?" The scavenger obviously didn't want to separate from Sun Hang.

"You're scared?"

The scavenger nodded.

"Oh, okay, follow closely."

It took them nearly twenty minutes to search every corner of the computer room.

There were no strange creatures or corpses, but there were quite a few bloodstains.

It’s a pity that Sun Hang didn’t have any testing equipment, so he couldn’t confirm whether the bloodstains belonged to the same person.

As for "May your wishes come true" - searching for the whereabouts of the monster has consumed a lot of blue bars. Facing the battle that may happen next, Sun Hang feels that it would be better for him not to activate the ability at will.

Even if we knew the ownership of these bloodstains, it would not provide any substantial help for the subsequent search operation.

"The shoes fell here, and there is blood on the ground... but there are no footprints... Do you know what this means?" Sun Hang turned his head and asked the scavenger.

"What does it mean?"

"It means that the guy might have been a corpse before he came here... He didn't walk in by himself, but was dragged in by something." Sun Hang said, "Considering that he threw the axe on the street... I can basically be sure that this is not the first crime scene."

"Then these bloodstains..."

"The murderer dismembered the body, or ate him here... These bloodstains seem to have sprayed directly from the body, and there are no obvious signs of dragging, so it can be concluded that before coming here, his body... or his body, should be relatively 'intact'."

"Could the murderer still be hiding here?" The scavenger shrank his neck and looked around cautiously.

"Go back." Sun Hang said suddenly.

"Where to go back to? Up there?"

"Let's go back to the stores that were just looted." Sun Hang said.

"Okay... okay!" The scavenger nodded vigorously - for her, as long as she didn't stay here, it didn't matter where she went.

……

The two of them quickly returned to the underground commercial street, and Sun Hang walked into the two-dimensional trendy toy store again, checking all the figures that had been turned over and played with one by one.

Nothing was found.

He walked into the video store again and picked up the videotape boxes thrown next to the TV and the videotapes on the ground one by one.

All the videotapes have matching boxes, except for one thriller film whose box is empty.

Sun Hang turned on the player next to the TV, and sure enough, the movie was playing in it.

The name of the movie is "The Terror".

Sun Hang fell into deep thought.

Half a minute later, he stood up and walked to the commercial street management office at the corner of the street, and dragged out a spare gasoline generator from it.

He pushed the generator next to the TV, connected the generator and the TV with a power strip, and then started pouring gasoline into the generator.

"You...what are you doing?" the scavenger who had been watching Sun Hang busy asked curiously.

"I want to see what movies that guy watched before he died." After saying that, Sun Hang started the generator.

A dull engine sound was heard.

"But, but... this TV is broken... huh?!"

As the power indicator light came on, a distorted picture appeared on the TV screen that had a big hole in it... Unfortunately, the TV's audio equipment seemed to be completely broken. Sun Hang could only see the picture but couldn't hear any sound.

"Have you seen "The Ship"? " Sun Hang asked.

The scavenger shook his head.

Sun Hang looked at the introduction on the back of the videotape box. This movie tells the story of the heroine and her group who boarded a mysterious abandoned cruise ship by chance, and ended up encountering all kinds of strange and terrifying things on this "empty" cruise ship.

The most exciting part of this movie is that there are multiple timelines on the cruise ship, and there are different heroines in each timeline. They repeat the plot of killing their companions and themselves again and again in the constantly circulating timeline, but they can never escape...

At this moment, Sun Hang suddenly felt an extremely strong and strange breath coming from underground, but this breath was fleeting and disappeared completely in an instant, as if it had never appeared.

"Huh?" Sun Hang frowned, "No, it's not an illusion."

[PS I wish you all a happy New Year. ]

(End of this chapter)