The Hunter

One

            In an ordinary fast food restaurant, there are no customers. Daniel Hill, who has just receive his salary, has an appointment with his girlfriend who has been in love for three years for dinner. The two are about to get married and are about to discuss specific matters.

 Standing beside him was a beautiful young women, tall figure, red lips and white teeth, long black hair casually draped over her shoulders. She was shaking his shoulders and saying something, and soon, a girl with short hair and shawl entered the restaurant, "Daniel, Mariana, you came so early", Mariana smiled, "Sister-in-law, you are here, I won't disturb then, I will back to school " Mariana  walked out of the restaurant.

"your sister is so beautiful, there must be many suitors in school," the girl said, looking at Mariana’s graceful back

"Yeah, she also game me a headache. It is said that a wealthy gangster has been entangled with her during this period. Mariana disagrees and he gave  her flowers twice in three days. He also stopped her several times in the middle of the road. I saw that and I beat him up. It's what caused us to be on the police station last time." Daniel said angrily.

 "It seems that you beat him very hard that time."

 "Okay, let's not talk about it. Let’s talk about our marriage.” The two ordered a few dishes, and while they ate, they discussed. He looked at the beautiful face of his girlfriend on the other side, thinking of the happy event a few days later, and he was in a daze.

A room full of ornaments, pink wall paint, some torn cloth strips on the floor, a big bed in the middle of the room, a white body faintly exposed under the blanket, and a little red and white filth scattered on the body and ...

Where I am? Daniel shook his dizzy head, didn't he and his girlfriend were having dinner in a fast food restaurant? This is. . . . He suddenly found a strange face full of tears in front of him. He was holding her exquisite snow-white body. Suddenly, there was a fierce knock on the door, and then the door was knocked open with a "boom". A group of police officers rushed in and knocked him, who was still ignorant, to the ground. Several policewomen rushed to the bed and carefully helped the girl who he had s*x with her. . . .

"Give him a piece of clothing, and take him away" A policeman took a piece of clothing and threw it on Daniel.

"A man climbed into the wall at midnight, and the young girl committed suicide after being brutally raped." A message was published in the newspaper within a few days.

There are no empty seats in the small building hidden by the tall Sophora tree, and a tit-for-tat struggle is underway.

"The presiding judge, the prosecutor asks for a witness." A voice sounded, and there was a tumult in the auditorium.

"Quiet, agree to appear in court." The judge sitting in the middle knocked on the gavel

. . . .

"Please tell the witness what they saw when the incident happened that day"

"That day, Daniel invited me to a fast-food restaurant for dinner. After eating, he took me home. When I got home at about 9 o'clock, he took me to the door and left."

"Okay, the presiding judge, according to the witness, the defendant left at 9 p.m., and the crime scene was only 10 minutes away from the witness's home. The defendant was caught at the scene at 9:30. The defendant had enough According to the testimony of the victim’s neighbors, it can be confirmed that the time of the crime should be between 9:00 and 9:30. As for the defendant’s blood containing traces of psychedelics, the other’s lawyer said. We do not rule out that the defendant had used hallucinogens when committing the crime, but so far no containers containing hallucinogens have been found at the crime scene..."

"Now the sentence is pronounced, please stand up." The voice of the judge under the national emblem was exceptionally loud

"The defendant Daniel Hill was guilty of r**e. The evidence is solid and the facts are clear. According to Article of the Criminal Law... he was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. For the crime of intentional injury, he was sentenced to one year and six months of imprisonment, and the death penalty was jointly executed. The execution was suspended for two years and his appeal request was rejected...what else does the defendant have to say"

"Why? Why?" Standing on the dock, Daniel listened to the judgment read by the judge, his mind was blank, "Why did it become like this? This is a conspiracy, a conspiracy against me."

In the restaurant that day, his girlfriend brought him a bottle of drink appeared more and more clearly

"I'm sorry" the girlfriend who was sitting in the witness stand cried in a low voice

A young man stood up in the auditorium with his arms hanging and a bandage on his head. He walked to Daniel and said in a low voice, "I won't let you die easily. You and your sister will not run away from the palm of my hand"

The Meteorological Observatory has been warning since the morning that a strong typhoon is about to make landfall near this small seaside town. The dark clouds are getting lower and lower. The squally wind mixed with humid air swept through the streets and alleys of the small town with dead branches and leaves flying in the sky. There are basically no pedestrians in sight, and occasionally passing cars are in a hurry. At noon, the sky gradually dimmed, and the rumble of thunder was far and near, the street lights on both sides of the avenue were on, and the cars turned on their headlights.

A large area of buildings in the mountain col on the outskirts of the small city is also shrouded in this dark cloud. This is a heavily guarded place, with rows of low buildings scattered among them, and two grids on the four-to-five-meter-high wall. It is particularly eye-catching. The black holes of the armed police on the surrounding watchtowers are always watching the movement inside and outside the high walls. The prison established in the early days of the founding of the city is the largest in this area.

A burst of shouts came from a low building, and the noisy sound was high and low, as if overwhelming the rumble of thunder, through the thick black cloud.

"That kid again?" The two young prisoners talked in a low voice, and from time to time they looked at the guards standing in the distance.

“Yeah, he's messing with the bad one"

"I heard, it's a r**e case. He also offended Master Timothy Miler..."

"Huh huh" Before the prisoner finished speaking, a voice came from behind, "Hey, Brother Leopard" Brother Leopard took a look at "Matthew, call Owen, and said that the kid is not good, he needs to be sent to the infirmary."

"Okay" Matthew nodded quickly, got up and was about to leave. "Come back! Don't let me hear you talking about this kid from behind, otherwise you know how it will end."

"Understood, I understand, Brother Leopard" Matthew nodded. Hastily ran to the prison guard in the distance. After a while, Owen took a few prisoners carrying a stretcher. From the cell behind Brother Leopard, he took out a blood-stained man, and followed Owen a tall bald head covered with dark black tattoos. "can you take it lightly next time, you always do it like this, once someone die, I won’t be able to explain it."

"Don’t worry, Owen, I have a sense of measure. This kid can’t die. Rest assured .How could I kill him? It is master Timothy Miler orders” he said with a big smile. The gloomy Owen moved his eyes, and hurriedly led people through a several small doors to the infirmary.

On the stretcher, Daniel clenched his fists and looked at the dark sky with both eyes. There was no sound. "Doctor Sam, check on Daniel Hill." Owen entered the door and said to a doctor in a white coat. Doctor Sam was slow. Got up, "What else to check?  Must have a fracture again. Let's take an X-ray."

"What's the situation?" Owen approached the doctor Sam who got the result. "What's the situation? Left third, fourth, fifth rib fracture, 2 degree moderate burn on the surface, extensive abrasions on the whole body, hospitalization"

At night, the heavy rain poured down after a day of depression. Daniel looked at the night sky outside the protective net.

He thought of the letter he received this morning without a signature, but he could see at a glance who might have written it only, and it was Just a few words in it: I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for Mariana, he kidnap my parents and sister, and he forced me to do this, otherwise he would kill my whole family, sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry for Mariana.

Recalling the scenes of the past six months, scenes after scenes floated in front of him, a trace of darkness shrouded in his heart, he suddenly remembered the newspaper in the hands of a prison guard two days ago.

In the middle of the night, the infirmary was quiet, only the dim emergency light outside the door flickered in the rain, and the power went out. From time to time, a ray of light pierced the night sky. Daniel glanced at the policeman on duty sitting at the door reading a book, and whispered, "Discipline, I want to go to the toilet". The policeman heard the sound, glanced at him and put down the book. "Wait." The prison guard tone is rather blunt. There is no toilet in the infirmary. The close toilet is in the prison guard's office next door.

 The prison guard took out a bunch of keys from the desk and opened the iron door in the infirmary. "Come out."

Daniel carefully moved away from his stretcher, and bursts of pain came from his body, "Hurry up, it is midnight. You made me suffer here with you."

"Oh, oh" Daniel followed the prison guard through the two iron doors to the prison guard's office next door.

 "Hurry up!" The guard opened the bathroom door and turned around, lowered his head, took out a cigarette, lit it, and looked out. Smoke rings on the face. Daniel looked up and saw the headline of the newspaper "Young Girl Falling From High Altitude, Suspected of Suicide".

The following two words came into view: Mariana. My sister is dead? Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, Daniel, who had been tortured by a prisoner all days after entering, burst into tears, and a flash of lightning flashed across the office, illuminating the inside and outside of the office, and a huge black shadow outside the window caught his attention. Suddenly Daniel picked up the baton behind the door. . . .

Daniel clutched his ribs that had cracked again due to excessive force, stepped past the prison guard lying on the ground, and walked through the prison guard's office to the middle of the yard.

In the courtyard of the prison guard’s office stood an abandoned water tower, which was more than 10 meters high. When Daniel entered in prison, he heard a prisoner from the Second building who came in with him and said that this water tower was rebuilt with a gun tower from the Japanese and Puppet regime in the early days of the founding of the city. . Outside the water tower are the two high walls three to four meters wide. Daniel watched the dim lights of the armed police guard tower not far away. He walked carefully to the water tower, and a dilapidated door lock was hung on the small iron door obliquely. went up, the door was unlocked, and he walked into the water tower. With the lightning that pierced the night sky, he stepped up to the top of the water tower layer by layer. The strong wind and heavy rain made him almost curled up into a ball. Suddenly, Daniel stood up. He actually flew up and crossed the high wall like a big bird. Suddenly, there was a hustle and bustle in the prison, the sirens were everywhere, and the searchlights on the watchtowers converged on the high water tower and the high wall. .

Daniel fell to the ground, clutching his chest and ran desperately to the hill outside the prison. Over the hill, is the sea. Freedom. The bullets of the prison-armed police flew past him. “Hurry up, hurry up” he kept repeating in his mind.

 The sharp stone drew blood on his feet, and he was about to rush over the mountain. A bullet hit him, and he staggered to the ground.

At this time, the sound of a police dog came from the foot of the mountain and Daniel start running.

"God, why don't you open your eyes?" Daniel pointed to the dark night sky and shouted, tears and rain mixed together, "I Daniel Hill as a ghost, I will not let you go" The shout instantly resounded throughout the mountain col.

At this time, a white snow cut through the night sky, like a sharp sword thrusting into the sky, and a ball of flames rose into the sky. . . .

The next day, the headline Evening News "a prisoner in the suburban prison tried to escape while the typhoon was coming and was struck by lightning and died on the spot."

"Damn it, he is cheap," a young man in a villa in the small town bitterly cursed, "I wasted so much effort, and I didn't get anything in the end. That little lady of Mariana was so fierce, she just hung up like that. It's a pity"

"Timothy, you made the chick whom the others looked at, ran away with her family the day before yesterday. She must have revealed that Daniel Hill escaped from prison" a man said carefully

"A bunch of rubbish, hurry up to find them," the bodyguard next to him responded

 "It's okay, just run away, she doesn't have any handles, um, and how is the handling of Daniel matter?"

"It's all done, everyone has taken care of it, and the surveillance video has been destroyed. And it's true that there are so many cameras in the building," the bodyguards said

"Daniel Hill died, and Mariana Hill jumped off the building. Damn, I'll be quicker when I do things. Fortunately, the old man is not here, otherwise I have to be trained again. Go out and call the little star from yesterday to came and serve me"

     Where I am? Daniel looked at the illusory space around him, which seemed to be a passage, like a time tunnel in a movie. Didn’t I get struck by lightning and died? Is this the underworld? he moved his hands and feet, and he find his injuries were healed. A ray of light came from the front, and he walked up to the door, which was a gate of light emitting a stream Colorful light.

Daniel had just arrived at the door, and the huge suction force dragged him into the light door.

The scene in front of him was strange. He was standing in the middle of a huge rotunda, surrounded by eight gates of various forms, with swords, skeletons, flowers, and beauties. . . . Each gate has one person, one table and one chair, either tall or small, modern or classic. "You are from China, come to me" an abrupt voice came, and Daniel heard the sound. Under a huge archway, an old man wearing an ancient Chinese robe struck three long beards and nodded. Daniel walked up to the old man, who had a pen, ink, paper and ink stone at his desk, holding a roster in his hand.

"I don't want to know your last name or name. You are now called Evolution Experiment No. 20735. I am your guide." The old man pointed to the hall and said, "This is the space-time evolution space. You have already died in the world. Desire leads you here, "If you pass the test behind me, you can enter the space-time evolution space, and you can do anything you can do in the space. If you reach a certain level, you can still return. To the world before your death! That is the resurrection! "

"Is it okay to turn to ashes?" Daniel eyes lit up, and the old man's last words attracted him

"Yes, space is omnipotent"

"  my sister... Revenge" Daniel whispered

"The premise is that you can pass the space test. Okay, after so much talk, it's time to send you on the road."

The old man's strokes in his hand pointed to the door like a gossip picture under the memorial arch next to him, "Go in." A huge force attracted Daniel into the gossip picture, and he disappeared as soon as the light appeared.

"Old man, this is the 23rd, right?" The burly man next to him shouted, "For a month, your book of China hasn't been registered in the evolutionary body, right?" Everyone smiled silently.

Old man had no expression on his face, "Darhan, isn't your book of Dak also included?" An old woman wearing a skull screamed, and Darhan looked at the old woman bitterly. He didn't say anything. He know that this old woman’s shoulder blade has three evolutions this month.

The old man still casually studied the ink and whispered, "Nothing, I have a lot of people in China."

Everyone stopped talking. This advantage is incomparable to all other guides. Darhan has nothing to say, his own book of Dak. There is only one evolutionary body this month, but there are few people available to him, and Mr. Leo, although 22 of them have failed this month, they are not as strong as the reserve force of others, and there will always be success if there are more people. The success of the evolutionary body is related to his own personal interests.

A scream came from the gossip picture, and there was a chilling force in the gossip picture. The patterns around everyone flashed, and there was no movement.

 All the guides were attracted by this power for a while.

"this is?"

"Space Force" Leo lifted his pen and smeared it on a piece of paper

"Only when it is collectively obliterated can space power appear. I am afraid that this space test will suffer heavy losses." Darhan patted his forehead with a big hand like a bear paw. Don't even think of an evolutionary body in his book of Darkness this time. It's troublesome.

"Brahmin, can you see what kind of test it is?"

The old woman wearing a skull shook her head "This is from the gossip picture. I can't see it, Mr. Leo can you see it?."

Leo blew the paper in his hand and showed the things on the paper to the surroundings. This is a typical ink painting with only one mountain on it, a steep mountain.

"Is this a sixty-four hexagram?" Brahmin asked in surprise

"Sixty-four hexagrams show magical powers, pen, ink, paper and inkstone hexagrams!" Old Leo nodded, "I just felt that the gossip was abnormal, I asked the four treasures of the study to make a hexagram, but from the surface of the hexagram, nothing was unusual."

"Forget it, we don’t understand the matter of space power. When the evolution of this space test comes out, ask if you don’t know. Besides, we are only a test here. The future of the evolution is our main concern task"