Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 78 Future Crisis

"Now the Public Security Bureau and the City Defense Guard are busy cleaning up the mess left by the monsters, which gives these people a chance to cause trouble." Sun Hang said, taking a look at the translucent gun holes on the car body.

"Today is just the beginning." The driver said with a bitter face, "The eternal night has come. After the news is officially announced tomorrow, there will be many difficult days ahead. By then, let alone these crazy people who worship weird things, even ordinary people will become robbers and bandits due to the pressure of survival... Alas."

"Ordinary people?" Sun Hang was slightly startled. "Strict control systems should be implemented by then, right? Ordinary people shouldn't..."

"You are still too young." The driver sighed again. "In the first two years, we may be able to barely maintain social order, but as time goes on, something will go wrong sooner or later. Without daylight, the local grain production in Shuzhou will basically be reduced to zero. All grain, as well as a lot of other necessities of life, must be transported from other places... It won't even take two years. In just a few months, the price of grain in Shuzhou will rise sharply. There are 60 million people in the entire Shuzhou area. With all the food relying on foreign aid, the Management Committee simply cannot feed everyone."

The driver went on to say, "Moreover, Shuzhou itself is one of the important grain-producing areas of the Xiazhou Federation. If I remember correctly, the news mentioned two years ago that Shuzhou's grain production accounted for nearly 15% of the entire federation. Now the total grain output and consumption of the federation are barely maintaining a balance. With the arrival of the Eternal Night, the grain output has directly decreased by %, and there are million more hungry mouths to feed... Tsk, to put it in a more fashionable way, it's called a 'food crisis', and in layman's terms, it's a famine."

"..." Sun Hang fell silent. As he had no worries about food and clothing, he rarely considered the food needs of the general public. But for senior managers, this problem could not be ignored.

Wheat and rice cannot grow in land without sunlight, and the low temperature caused by the eternal night makes it difficult for fungi and crops that do not require photosynthesis to survive... Food cannot be bought in supermarkets with money, but is grown by farmers with hard work in the fields.

"If the most basic problem of food and clothing cannot be solved, then hungry people can only take risks..." said the driver, "I just called my wife and asked her to stock up on food and biological supplies. When the work here is finished, I will go home to reinforce the doors and windows, purchase some self-defense equipment, and then bring my parents from the countryside to live with me... Alas, I have no idea what the future will be like."

"Why don't you leave Shuzhou and find a new job somewhere else?" Sun Hang asked, "The institute won't force you to stay, right?"

"Where can I go? Qinzhou? Foggy City? Or Jingchu?" The driver looked bitter. "I have been driving for fourteen years and barely bought a house in Tianfu New District. I still have six years to pay off the mortgage. You can't let me abandon the house and run away to other places as a refugee, right?"

Sun Hang: “…”

"Those who are rich and can leave have definitely left long ago. Those who are left behind are either unable to leave or are reluctant to leave. We can only hope that the eternal night will last a little shorter. Three to five years will get us through it. If it takes eight to ten years, we'll just have to endure it." As the driver was talking, he suddenly spat out of the window and cursed viciously, "Damn it, this damned thing!"

……

The rescue convoy quickly arrived at the area where Sun Hang and his team were. Medical staff in white coats carried Song Yarong onto the ambulance on a stretcher, and the wound on the driver's arm was also re-treated.

The fully armed soldiers of the city defense guard pulled up a yellow and black cordon to block the entire road. A light wheeled armored vehicle stopped at the intersection, and the exposed ammunition chain of the vehicle-mounted machine gun emitted a coppery luster under the streetlights.

Good news also came from Ye Jiu - after the attacker's vehicle forcibly crashed through three roadblocks, it was "stopped" by two rockets. The driver and the thug sitting in the passenger seat died on the spot, and the two people in the back seat were seriously injured.

"If I hadn't consumed so much energy dealing with the ghost just now, I could have captured all these people by myself!" Ye Jiu said in the communication channel.

"Why catch him? Why not just kill him directly?" Sun Hang said calmly.

He had no mercy on such people. "Uh..." Ye Jiu was stunned for half a second before saying, "Even if the death penalty is to be imposed, the conventional interrogation process must still be followed... Besides, this group of people should have accomplices, which is also the main purpose of the interrogation."

"I'm quite curious, where did they get the military vehicles and guns?" Sun Hang asked.

The entire Tianfu City is now under martial law, and civilian vehicles are strictly prohibited from traveling. Only military vehicles can pass unimpeded.

"The car and the guns belonged to the Fourth Company of the City Defense Guard. They were ambushed by this group of people when they were trying to stop the strange creatures in the city. They killed four soldiers of the City Defense Guard, stole the car and two Type 04 carbines, and more than a hundred rounds of bullets. The thugs had been planning to take advantage of the chaos to leave the city, and they happened to see the logo of the Strange Creatures Research Institute printed on the car we were riding in, so they suddenly decided to shoot at our car." Ye Jiu said.

"Did you find out what happened to your accomplice?" Sun Hang asked.

"Not yet. The remaining two were too seriously injured and are currently being rescued."

"What a waste of medical resources." Sun Hang muttered, "My suggestion is to cut off their heads and hang them on the street lamps as a warning to others."

"...You are too barbaric. This is a civilized society!" Ye Jiu couldn't help but accuse him, "And if you do this, it will cause panic among the people."

"If the eternal night continues, this city will only become more barbaric." Sun Hang said, and then hung up the phone.

He did not return to the institute with the rescue team. Instead, he found a shared bicycle on the side of the road and rode back towards "home" unsteadily.

After these few days of hard work, he was very tired and planned to have a good sleep first - no matter what happened, he would deal with it tomorrow.

It is somewhat ironic that after the villa was allocated to Sun Hang, he has never slept on the bed in the bedroom.

After parking the shared bicycle, Sun Hang walked into the yard.

The door of the villa was tightly closed, but the window on the side was open.

There were obvious signs of deformation at the bottom of the metal window frame, which showed that it had been pried open by force.

"There was a thief in the house?"

(End of this chapter)