Time-Limited Hunt

"Click click."

The timer is ticking.

Yan Junxun opened his eyes and found himself sitting in front of the small blackboard.

"Click, click," the clown mocked, imitating the sound of a timer, "you messed up the recovery mission again."

Yan Junxun lowered his head and saw the chalk in his hand.As if waking up from a dream, he said, "You are playing tricks on me."

"No, no!" The clown hung upside down from the bottle and made a face at Yan Junxun, "It's not that we're playing with you, but you're playing with us. Little waste, the investment in an experiment is beyond imagination, you take up Human resources, but refuse to hand over the keys."

"What key?" Yan Junxun frowned, "chip?"

"You delayed the birth of the sun, you let the world fall into darkness!" The clown said nervously, "Apollo couldn't come to the world because of you, damn it, you just destroyed the sanctuary this time."

"what are you saying?"

"Oh..." The clown raised his hand and squeezed his smiling face into deformation, "I forgot, you have no memory. You are such a bad boy, you are too bad," its index finger circled several times in the air, " You are an obstacle in this 'circle'."

Yan Junxun looked forward, there was glass behind the small blackboard, and the rainy sky was outside the glass.He is back where he started.

"Are you thinking 'ah what's going on'," the clown made a panicked expression, "'where am I, who am I, and what am I doing'," it followed up with a mocking expression, "You don't care about this The world has no concept... Poor Yan Junxun."

"You deleted my memory," Yan Junxun broke off the chalk and threw it to the blackboard, "I heard the word 'restart'."

"Yes, 'restart', we have to restart again. It seems that you are in a good state of mind this time. You must know that you were worse last time." The clown thought of something and snapped his fingers. Yan will repeat the pain. So far, the ending of time-limited hunting is 'bang'." It became excited, "'bang'! The bullet passed between your eyebrows, and you fell into Shi Shanyan's arms, blood spattered on the On his face, he will go crazy. You two are really masochistic in love."

"Where is Shi Shanyan?"

"Who knows, the world was destroyed by Fu Chenghui." The clown felt that the timer was annoying, so he sat up and stopped the timer, "Don't rush the cub!" It folded its arms and looked down at Yan Jun Xun, "Let me explain to you, you can respectfully call me 'teacher'."

Yan Junxun looked at the clown, the mouth of the bottle was a dark and boundless night, separated from the rainy day outside the glass."You're doing the 'Artemis experiment,'" he said.

"Yes, Artemis experiment, this is a great experiment, it is intended to save all mankind," the clown raised his arm, "you would all die without this experiment. Fu Chenghui launched the Civil War in 2160, and then he took out Get the ultimate weapon and destroy the world."

The clown knocked on the bottle, and the night turned into a display screen.

"This is the mooring area where you stay."

The port where the transport ship was moored was no longer in use, the sky was grayish-yellow, and the wind and sand had buried half of the urban area.The buildings that collapsed during the war were not rebuilt, and the steel bars were exposed under the sky, like the bones of the earth after being corroded.No plants, no birds.The coke factory in front of the low-warm mountains is a ruin, and the chimney has fallen down long ago.

"The mess created by humans is cleaned up by the system. We have made some laws, homosexuality, are you gay? Homosexuality is illegal, you have to reproduce first." The clown wrinkled his nose, "Shi Shanyan better not get caught, Otherwise, I'll send him to the farm. Have you forgotten what a farm is? It doesn't matter, I can tell you that a farm is a place to cultivate talents."

It just wanted to stimulate Yan Junxun.

"Let me give you an example, you must listen. That's right, for a man with excellent physique like Shi Shanyan, we will equip him with three to four suitable 'wives', and then give him five years of vacation , Let him be responsible for giving birth in the farm."

It compares human reproduction to animal mating.

"There is a reward mechanism after success," the clown said subtly, "for example, you can be rewarded to him, but you have to work hard and leave your own children in the farm. There is no need to worry about raising children in the new era! We are responsible In the end, the system will teach them to be qualified world members."

Yan Junxun looked at the clown silently, and then said, "This world makes me sick to my stomach."

"This is because your education was not successful enough. You are too self-aware. This is not suitable, Yan Junxun. You have to integrate into everyone." The clown seemed to be distressed by him, "Artemis is too tolerant of you , it gives you love. God, how can the world talk about love? That's part of breaking the rules, and love makes me sick."

It hugged its head incomprehensibly.

"This word is despicable and dirty! It makes you desire, and desire is not allowed. Think about Fu Chenghui, he destroyed the world with desire, and you will soon be too."

"Human emotions are inalienable," Yan Junxun said, "Man is the existence of desire."

"That's a vulgar, abandoned old human thought," the clown seemed to have heard some dirty words, "What am I talking about? Yan Junxun, don't be brainwashed by the freedom preached by humans! Those are all excuses to instigate crimes .”

"Human beings are full of individuality." Yan Junxun paled in nausea, "If human beings are to be turned into livestock in farms, it would be better to destroy the world, or die as a whole. Don't fucking argue with me here, clown! Tell me what exactly are you going to do?"

"We want to recover the chip," the clown gestured, "take your 'Sky Net' and give it to Apollo."

"But you can't."

"Yes, Artemis betrayed the system, it regarded itself as your mother," the clown said listlessly, "Where are you hiding? Yan Junxun, no one can find you, you will only be 'hunting' Appearing in the middle of the world, and the 'hunting' follows the settings of Artemis. Fuck, we can only torture each other in it. I have worked much harder than you, I will kill 'myself' first, and then replace it to communicate with you."

"Aren't you the 'clown' who appeared in Chen Xiulian's case?"

"It's the 'former' me," the clown held his face in one hand and looked at Yan Junxun, "Hephaestus liberated me and gave me freedom, otherwise I would still be the dog of Artemis. The thing is very simple, We can't kill you on the hunt - do you remember? When something happened, the 'madman' foretelled your death, and it was Artemis who gave you hints, including the graffiti on the pipes of the shelter And the robot, and the sound of rain in your head everywhere, and 'BUG Shishanyan'. That's what I call him, he shouldn't be in the story, Artemis gave him the pass But this time my acting skills are excellent, 'Li Xing' is really a big stage to fulfill my dream."

It's more than enough.

"Next time I will do better."

"I will never hand over the chip to you."

"Don't be so proud," said the clown. "A person is constantly recycling memory, modifying memory, and putting it into experiments. The number of uses is limited. My test data shows that you are already on the verge of being scrapped. Do you still remember Al How long has the Themis experiment been going on? Do you remember which nutrient tank your body was lying in? You forget everything. I can tell you that even if 'hunting' can compress time, for real bodies, Time is still passing. You have reincarnated countless times in the 'hunt', your body will be old and your mind will be chaotic. Unless you hand over the chip to us, the protection data left by Artemis will continue to restart.' Yan The ending of "Junxun" is true, you will all walk into the lost night one by one. Think about yourself, and then think about Shi Shanyan, how pitiful he is. Although restarting can erase the memory, the pain cannot be changed. Getting more paranoid and crazier, ending after ending...he's going to be a monster. You've seen his pathology, haven't you? He's scary."

Yan Junxun raised his finger and touched his temple.

Don't trust the fickle system, the clown is a lowly, smooth-talking existence.It deliberately creates an atmosphere, and it is all working hard to get chips.It can only stay at the mouth of this bottle, just like it has to follow the settings of Artemis in "The Hunt".

If life can only exist for a period of time, the opportunity is also hidden in it.

Shi Shanyan will find Yan Junxun in the crowd.

Yan Jun raised his chin slightly, and said indifferently to the clown, "Go to hell."

"You will regret it," the clown became annoyed, tore off his mask, leaned down from the bottle, and shouted, "Yan Junxun—"

click.

Time resets to zero.

[7-001 account restarted. 】

[Start time-limited hunting. 】

***

"Number 01AE86, name Shi Shanyan, height 189cm, weight 82kg. In 2160, he passed the Black Panther test and entered the Special Forces. In 2162, he was expelled from the team and was detained in the Guangtong Detention Center. The special mission review stated that he had self-control ability Poor, lacks empathy, and has a strong tendency to dominate, repeatedly breaks the rules in tasks, and the danger index is specific to S-level."

Yan Junxun squatted in front of the vending machine, feeling that the back of his neck was hot from the afterglow of today.He picked up the cold beer and yawned wearily.

The light iron in the distance is running, making a loud vibration.

"Do you know this person?" Jiang Lian looked at the information in his hand, feeling a headache from Yan Junxun's silence.He also knelt down, "He should be well-known in the Special Forces."

Yan Junxun looked at Jiang Lian, lowered his eyelids, and shook his head.

"The serial number is 01," Jiang Lian held up the information, the glasses reflected a little in the sunset light, "You always have a memory of 01, right?"

"Oh," Yan Junxun just wanted to get off work, "He may have a bad head or a mental problem."

Jiang Lian pushed down his glasses and said encouragingly, "What else?"

Yan Junxun was silent for a long time, before choking out a sentence: "...send him back." He was a little frustrated, "I don't need a partner."