Chapter 469: Hunter Power is Continuously Expanding
“The food is gone.”
"Water, there is still a little bit left."
"Living people."
"I am the only one left."
In a dark and remote building, a skinny little boy was slowly counting the remaining supplies, with an undisguised gloom in his eyes.
When he raised his head and looked at the bodies of his family members who had starved to death, the gloom in his eyes turned into despair.
He picked up the long knife, which was the only weapon he had and was left to him by his father.
He staggered out of the house.
Before they died, his parents repeatedly warned him not to leave the safe house, because there were parasites and monsters outside the door and going out would mean death.
But now the supplies are gone, and staying at home is a death sentence, so why doesn't he choose to go out and take another look at the city of Savis? If possible, he also wants to kill a few monsters with his own hands to avenge his family.
It was a pity that his thin arms could barely even lift the long sword.
So the real reason he walked out of the house was that he wanted to commit suicide.
Finally I walked out of the house, and the morning sunshine shining on my body made me feel very refreshed. If what I saw was not the lifeless and dilapidated streets, I was sure that I would be in a better mood.
The little boy walked on the street with numb eyes, deliberately dragging the long knife, causing the blade to collide with the bricks on the ground and make a very eye-catching sound, like a dinner bell to attract the monsters.
However, what puzzled him was why he hadn't seen the monster even though he had gone so far from home?
He remembered that in the past, he and his family had to tremble in fear every night due to the roars of monsters on the streets. They dared not make the slightest noise. The streets were clearly full of monsters, but why were they empty now?
It just feels empty, and even if he sings loudly here, no monsters will come to attack him.
The little boy couldn't believe it. He suddenly ran forward like crazy. Could it be that all the monsters disappeared and they could return to their previous lives?
Suddenly he stepped on something sticky and fell to the ground. After a closer look, he found that it was a lump of flesh and blood that he could not identify.
"Alas!"
The moment he saw the flesh and blood, he screamed subconsciously. But after the scream, there was a noise from the building next to him. Two parasites with mutilated limbs but looking even more terrifying crawled out staggeringly. When they saw a living person, they immediately became agitated and pounced on him with "Ugh Ugh Ah Ah"!
It turns out that the monsters are still in this city, it's just a coincidence that there are fewer of them on the street where he lives!
The little boy tried to crawl backwards in panic, but he was stunned for a moment when he touched the long knife. Then he raised the long knife towards the parasite with a fierce look on his face.
It was difficult for his skinny arms to lift the long sword, let alone launch an attack. He was afraid that the weapon in his hand would be knocked away by the monster in the next moment.
Even so, he still imitated his father's memory, let out a childish war cry, and rushed towards the two parasites.
“Puff——”
The long knife pierced through the parasite's tattered body, but the little boy was also thrown to the ground and bitten hard on the shoulder. The parasites swarmed towards the young body frantically.
Are you going to die?
The little boy closed his eyes, with a look of relief on his face.
"Brother! There's another one here!"
Suddenly, a young girl's voice came from somewhere, and the little boy thought it was an angel taking him to heaven.
However, just as he opened his eyes, a stream of smelly blood splashed down on his head. The head of the parasite rolled to the side, and the blood spurting out from the broken neck was all over his face.
The parasites in his body suddenly exerted their strength, and before he passed out, the little boy tried his best to see clearly the person who killed the monster.
It was not a girl, but a young man, dressed in clothes he had never seen before, with a strange weapon in his hand dripping with blood.
Although his consciousness was about to disappear, the little boy still thought:
So handsome
"He's a good candidate for a hunter."
The person who saved the little boy, Fann, looked at the little boy with appreciation, then turned to Isa and said, "Take him to the dungeon quickly. It will be too late if he is controlled by the parasites. I will continue to clean up the remaining monsters."
"Leave it to me!" Isa took the little boy and ran quickly towards the direction of the dungeon portal.
Fann watched her leave, stretched his muscles, and swung his butcher knife at the parasites that had crawled out attracted by the noise.
He and other hunters had been hunting for two days and one night.
The city of Savis can be divided into three districts: the Fishing Port District, the Garden District, and the Pearl District.
Their greatest achievement in these days is that they are almost about to recapture the fishing port area!
Ever since they successfully hunted the priest beast that day and left the dungeon, they have been hunting the parasites in the nearest fishing port area.
The hunting operation went more smoothly than ever before.
I don’t know if it’s their illusion, but I always feel that the number of parasites lurking in the fishing port area has decreased a lot?
Not only have their numbers decreased, but the strength of the parasites that remain here seems to have declined even further than before, and the mutants are almost extinct. The hunters have now almost slaughtered the entire fishing port area from beginning to end. If this were a game, it would show that the attack rate of this area has reached about 90%.
The hunters were very happy about this situation at first, but as time went on, they began to worry about where the missing parasites had gone. Could they be hiding deliberately and preparing for a brutal massacre?
Moreover, new parasites would appear from nowhere in the fishing port area all the time, and some of them did not look like residents of the fishing port area based on their clothing.
Later, Vann discovered something that solved everyone's doubts.
Because the parasites will be attracted by the portal of another dungeon, and those mutants or stronger ones will be the first to squeeze into the dungeon, and the remaining old, weak and sick can only wander outside.
Those who are parasitized and enter the dungeon basically cannot get out.
After hearing the news, the hunters were a little stunned. They didn't expect that the difficulty of retaking the fishing port area was reduced because of the dungeon.
Then the reason why the fishing port area could not be completely cleaned up was found, because the underground city had been attracting parasites from other areas.
"Isn't there a legend that the dungeon might have been created by the God of Creation? So could the appearance of this dungeon be God's mercy to us?" someone said with conviction.
Fann felt that this statement was not quite true. He would rather believe that the dungeon had a spirit that chose to appear, rather than giving all the credit to the gods.
However, there are still many people who believe in this statement. In this special period, this statement may be able to rally people's hearts, so he didn't say much.
Speaking of people's hearts, after starting to clean up and search the fishing port area, the hunters discovered that the number of survivors was quite considerable, and there were quite a few people who were able to survive. So far, hundreds of survivors have joined them, which is good news and exciting!
They quickly changed their tactics. Since the dungeon was able to eliminate those dangerous mutants, they would be responsible for dealing with the remaining scattered monsters!
They successfully found a way to rely on the dungeon!
“Ouch!”
The last parasite let out a dying wail. Vann shook off the flesh and blood stuck to the meat saw and looked at the bullet holes on the dead parasite. He muttered to himself with a headache:
"I can't fire back when my fighting spirit is a little bit high. I really want to have the talent like Isa."
"Van, have you finished your work here?" A man dressed like a hunter ran over.
Fann nodded, and the man relaxed and said, "We have completely completed the search of the fishing port area, and all the survivors have been rescued. Do you want to go back and take a look?"
"Let's disperse the people as planned. Although the parasites are more interested in the dungeon portal now, who knows if the large number of people gathered will attract the attention of the parasites. Oh, and arrange for everyone to enter the dungeon as soon as possible."
If this underground city hadn't suddenly appeared, Vann and the others would have probably died by now.
"Aren't you going back? Tonight's puppet banquet should be even more sumptuous." The hunter couldn't help drooling just talking about the big meal once a day in the hunter's dream.
That was almost the thing they looked forward to most after a day of hard hunting, and it became their spiritual sustenance.
In a city that was almost doomsday, there was a puppet that served them delicious food to comfort their souls after a day of hard work to survive. They would probably never forget this incident and that puppet in their entire lives.
"Of course I do. I'm drooling just thinking about it," Vann smiled and looked off into the distance. "But I have to go to the Pearl District with a few other people to scout. It's time to put the recovery of the second district on the agenda."
At this point, hope flashed in their eyes. After experiencing a series of bad things, life was finally going to get better.
I don't know what the current situation is like in Red, what the situation is like in other cities, and whether there will be reinforcements.
What if the entire country has actually fallen?
In that case, Vann and his team decided to become the reinforcements that never arrived!
After meeting up with several hunters, Vann headed towards the Pearl District under the setting sun. When one is at the peak of life, even the sunset looks so vibrant, because people know that even if the sun sets, it will rise again the next day.
As they left, something thick flashed in the shadows, but no one noticed.
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The sun had completely set, and darkness enveloped the country of Red.
No matter how small a country is, it has a capital. The territory of Red is flat from top to bottom and long and narrow from left to right. The capital is located on the left side closest to other countries, which is also close to the inland.
As to why it dared to build its capital here, it is of course because it held the mentality of "I don't have any resources worth attacking by other countries anyway. If any country wants to attack us, we will surrender immediately and join that country to eat their rice."
Unfortunately, the intentions of the Red royal family have long been known to neighboring countries, and no one wants to take this remote area into their possession.
The disaster caused by the parasites affected two-thirds of the country's area. The remaining one-third of the land that was temporarily intact was where the capital was located. There were heavy troops guarding the front line, and they would never let any parasite get in.
But they just guarded the place without any counterattack. It was really strange that they did not counterattack even when reinforcements from the Warrior Kingdom arrived.
Therefore, some of the reinforcements from the Warrior Kingdom could no longer sit still.
In the wilderness surrounding the capital, several people sneaked out.
"General Yufei, do you really want to go deep into the disaster area alone?" A soldier from the Warrior Country said worriedly.
"Anyway, my title of general is just an empty title. The one who actually commands the battle is General Ed. Even if a thug like me leaves, it won't affect anyone."
The person who spoke was a girl wearing a conical hat. Unlike the soldiers wearing the uniform armor of the Warrior Kingdom engraved with red dragon patterns, there was almost no armor on the girl's body. Instead, she was only wearing loose casual clothes, like a not-so-thick robe, revealing a free and easy temperament.
The silver-white short hair only reaches the ears, and the simple accessories hanging on the earlobes neutralize the old-fashioned look brought by the white hair, and instead appear somewhat fashionable.
Coupled with her confident upturned eyes and the spear on her shoulder, she gives off the feeling of a master.
"I am worried about your safety. How can you go to the disaster area alone?" The soldier said helplessly, "Although I think King Red doesn't want us to go in, if we keep pressuring him for a few more days, he will probably give in. You don't need to take the risk. And you asked me to disguise myself as you. This is really..."
He wanted to say that this was really messed up.
"It doesn't matter. I am the daughter of the Sword Master."
The girl called Yuffie confidently gave herself a thumbs up.
"I am an army by myself, don't worry about me. What if more survivors die just because we are a few days late?"
Before the soldier could say anything, she turned around and ran. After a few jumps, her figure disappeared from sight, leaving behind only a string of hearty laughter.
This unique laugh really sounds like Japar.
"well."
The soldier sighed and said to himself something he had wanted to complain about for a long time:
"How can a sword master's daughter play with a spear?"
(End of this chapter)
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