"Their weapon is fear. People seldom stayed still, and they slept with their own machine guns, Uzi guns, which were unarmed when they came near us.

It was known that these monsters were more numerous and more powerful every time they approached, so they almost all ran away, crazy to escape from that horrible thing.

Some people are even really crazy, and that's all I'm going to say to you, Hunter, it's not just scary! Su Mengfan lowered his voice.

"I don't even know how to explain it to you...... Each time they are stronger than the last.

Sometimes, it's like they're going to get into our heads...... It seems to me that they did it on purpose.

From afar, you can feel them, and the feeling is getting stronger, and the terrible feeling makes your legs tremble.

But you still can't see anything, you can't hear anything.

Still, you feel them getting closer and closer to you, getting closer and closer...... Then there's a howl of terror, and all you want to do is run away...... But they are getting closer.

You start to tremble, and after a while, you can see them walk into the light of the searchlight with their black holes wide......"

"Those bastard reptiles are damaging our minds!" Su Mengfan continued.

"You know, it's as if they've tuned themselves into your band, and the next time they come back, you'll feel their proximity more intensely, and you'll be more scared. And it's not just a sense of fear. ”

Su Mengfan was silent.

Hunter sat there motionless, looking at him carefully, apparently pondering what he had heard.

Then, he took a sip of hot tea and said slowly and quietly: "This is a threat to everyone, a threat to the entire subway system." ”

Su Mengfan fell silent again, as if he didn't want to answer.

But he suddenly said, "You think it's the whole subway system?" No, it's not just the subway. This is a threat to the progress of humanity as a whole, and it is the trouble that humanity itself has caused itself while developing.

It's time to pay it back! Hunter, it's a war between species! The Battle of the Species!

These {dark people} are not evil things, and they are not ghosts.

They are new types of Homo sapiens – the next stage of human evolution is like that, and they are more adaptable than we are.

The future is theirs, Hunter!

Perhaps, we old Homo sapiens will rot in the next few decades, and we will have to stay in these caves we have dug for ourselves for the next fifty years.

At that time, a large number of people could not adapt to life on the earth, and poor us had to be driven underground during the day.

We'll be as pale and weak as Dr. Morrow of Wells.

Remember them? Underground monsters that have come from the future through a time machine. They were also Homo sapiens at one time.

Yes, we are optimistic - we don't want to die!

But the world above is no longer our home. It's not ours anymore, Hunter......

That world is no longer our world. ”

Su Mengfan was silent again, and he watched as the steam in the cup slowly rose and condensed in the dim light of the tent.

Hunter carefully studied his nails while listening to these words, he suddenly raised his eyes to look at Su Mengfan, and said solemnly, "You are really completely different from your younger brother Artyom.

Artyom was undaunted by my mission. Even in the face of difficulties, he did not flinch, and was a real Spartan Ranger warrior.

And you, the surrendered Homo sapiens, will retreat in the face of death, will compromise? ”

"yes, Hunter, I'm probably only right about one or two things. I feel that there is one thing you can understand, but maybe you will never accept:

We're the last dinosaurs, and we're in our last years...... Maybe there will be ten or a hundred years to live, but in fact, they are all the same......"

"It's useless to resist, is it?" Hunter replied meaningfully.

"So what are you fighting for? So what have you been doing for the past half a month? ”

Su Mengfan was silent, his eyes looking at the ground.

Apparently he did a lot of psychological struggle to say it.

He never admitted to anyone that he was also vulnerable, and he never told anyone about such a thing.

"!" Hunter said slowly, standing up, "New species? Evolve? Inevitable extinction? Manure? Pig? Vitamin? I'm not afraid of that, you know?

I would never raise my hands in surrender, the instinct of self-defense? You could say that.

Yes, I will live seriously. Fuck you evolution. Let the other species wait. I am not a lamb to be slaughtered.

If you think they are a species that is more perfect than us and better evolved than us, you surrender yourself, and you give them their rightful place in history!

If you feel like you've fought as best you can, then you can go, I'm not going to judge you.

But you don't want to scare me. Don't try to confuse me, follow you into the slaughterhouse. Why are you telling me this?

Do you feel that as long as you don't become a deserter yourself, as long as someone does it with you, you won't feel too ashamed?

Or did the enemy promise a bowl of hot porridge for every captive you brought?

My fight is hopeless?

You say we're on the edge of the abyss?

I'm an abyss!

If you feel like you're at the bottom of the abyss, take a deep breath and move on.

However, I will not join your team.

If sane, educated, civilized people choose to surrender - then I'd rather be a brute than be in their company.

Moreover, I am going to bite life like a wild beast, biting other people's throats to survive.

I'll be able to survive. Do you understand? I'll live! ”

He sat down and calmly filled his cup with tea.

Su Mengfan stood up and poured himself a glass of water, he looked melancholy and quiet.

Hunter was silent for a moment, then continued, "What the hell do you think? Like an outdated dinosaur, left to fend for itself? Resigned?

Have you ever heard a story about the frog in the cream?

Two frogs fell into a bucket filled with cream, and one frog was very rational, and he immediately understood that there was no need to resist, and you could not change your fate.

Maybe there's another life - so why bother jumping around and fighting for hopeless things. It crossed its legs and sank to the bottom of the barrel.

And the other frog, stupid, may still be an atheist. It jumps around. It seemed to be certain to die, and it was useless to jump.

But it kept jumping and jumping...... At the same time, the sticky cream turned into hard butter, so it crawled out and was saved.

We should praise the second frog for not thinking about anything, but to rush forward, and in the end it will survive. ”

"Who the hell are you?" Su Mengfan finally tried to speak.

"Who am I? Don't you already know? I'm Hunter Hunter. ”

"But what does that mean—a hunter? What do you do? What kind of hunting? ”

"How am I going to explain that to you? Do you know how the human body is made?

It's made up of thousands of tiny cells – some emit signals, some store information, and some absorb nutrients and carry oxygen.

But all of these are not the most important of them.

If it weren't for the immune cells, they would all die in less than a day, and the whole function would have failed.

These immune cells are called macrophages. They work methodically and meticulously like clocks, like metronomes.

When an infectious disease enters the body, macrophages will discover it, trace its origins, and no matter where it is hiding, sooner or later, they will enter the virus and ......"

He made a gesture to snap someone's neck, and let out an uncomfortable crunch from his mouth.

"Destroy it!"

"But what does that have to do with your job?" Su Mengfan broke the casserole and asked in the end.

"Think of the whole subway system as a human body. I'm that macrophage — that hunter, that's what I do.

Anything that threatens the whole organism, I have to eliminate it, that's my job. ”

After Su Mengfan listened, he didn't continue to ask.

It's been a long time.

Hunter drank the tea from his cup and said, "Do you know why I've been in this subway station for so long?"

It's not for nothing, and I didn't come here without my own tasks.

The danger must be cleared, and that's what I'm here to do.

The first time I saw you everywhere, I thought you were a compassionate person.

Later, I learned that you are Artyom's brother, plus the relationship in the past half month.

I don't know what drives you, but I still believe that you are a responsible, responsible, and risk-taking person.

And now you're scared, and you're slowly becoming a tool for those.

Not only do you not rebel against them now, but you still want me to join you.

As for what you told me about the {Botanical Gardens Station}, he told me about it when I met Artyom.

Add to that the fact that the {Dark Clan} entered our territory for the first time since your expedition, so the message that they came in from {Botanical Gardens Station} is even more true.

That's where the dark Ones begin to grow.

I'm already planning to go. But I don't know if I'll ever come back. ”

After Hunter finished speaking, he took out a piece of iron from his pocket. He said, "You said you admired the Spartan Rangers, and I believed it.

Although your previous statements prove that you are contrary to the beliefs of the Spartan Rangers.

But I'm sure you'll be lost and back on the right path.

Take this piece of iron, and when you get to the Metropolitan Station, go to Melnik, and they will arrange for you when the time comes.

Hopefully, you think about it and don't let me down! ”

After Hunter finished speaking, he directly put the things he had packed on his back and turned to leave.

Only Su Mengfan was left alone holding the card, quietly falling into contemplation.