Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

The moonlight was bright, and the mechanical flying ball reflected a glimmer of light as it flew up and down.

It led German and his party through the piles of monster corpses and came to the front of the fortress.

Many spotlights shone on them and swept past them. All the muzzles were lowered and no shells were fired at them.

The fortress gate was not open to them. They stood beside the wide channel with a rustling sound, watching a small door on the side, which opened with a click like the turning of gears, and a figure walked out of it.

The mechanical flying ball flew to his palm, folded its wings, and shrank into a ball.

He grabbed the mechanical flying ball and hid it in his trousers pocket.

Lister, with short golden hair and a white shirt on his upper body, bowed slightly to everyone, and when he raised his head, his face was slightly flushed.

Even as calm as he was, he couldn't help but get excited when he saw German, Jin, Bisji and Xiaodi at this critical moment.

Lister followed the Hunter Association's exploration team and spent two extremely tense months on BW1.

He often thought about reaching the imaginary continent as soon as possible to prevent the "bomb" of BW1 from exploding.

As a result, he did not expect that just before landing on the island, an unstoppable chaos broke out on BW1.

He was powerless to do anything about it.

After all, he was more inclined to technical assistance. He was even less likely to be able to handle the situation that President Netero and others could not solve.

Therefore, when he sent out many mechanical flying balls to seek to reunite with other survivors, but unexpectedly saw German and others, he was very surprised.

He now said sincerely: "German, Jin, everyone, we are so happy to see you."

Lister looked into the shadows of the early morning warily again:

"The door is not a good place for greetings. I think we have many questions for each other. Let's go in first and talk while walking."

Everyone followed Lister into the small door next to the fortress gate. After confirming that everyone had entered the fortress, the small door closed with a click.

Behind the small door was a long corridor, with many soldiers armed with live ammunition standing on both sides of the corridor.

They looked at German and others without any expression, but when they saw Princess Oit, several people's faces changed.

"These people are the surviving soldiers of the Kajin Empire." Lister introduced, "Now the interior of the fortress needs guards everywhere, and they promised to obey our command temporarily."

The soldiers obviously recognized Princess Oit and came forward to salute.

Princess Oit waved her hand: "You did a good job, please continue your duties. I am not an expert in this area, please obey the orders of the Hunter Association."

The soldiers quickly agreed.

Lister led everyone to continue walking forward: "I have told other members of the Hunter Association exploration team here that I found you and guided you to the fortress."

"However, we have just occupied the fortress for less than an hour, and they are all busy with affairs, so I am the only one to greet you."

Walking out of the relatively dim corridor, you will arrive at the suddenly bright hall, and then there will be a boiling noise.

Some people were wailing, some were screaming, some were crying with joy, and some were silent. The survivors in the whole hall were a picture of all kinds of people.

Many human corpses were laid flat on the cold floor, covered with a layer of white cloth, with only the head exposed for people to identify - if the corpse still had a head.

Many people hurriedly walked and stopped to identify the corpses.

When they found their acquaintances, they all looked lost, or knelt down and cried, or stood and stared at the corpses.

Those who did not find the corpses of their acquaintances had complicated expressions on their faces, not knowing whether to be happy or worried.

There were also many injured people in another area of ​​the hall, receiving treatment from many doctors and nurses in white coats.

The temporary wards were completely insufficient, so only those who were seriously injured and dying and could be saved could be admitted to the temporary wards.

"There are currently 1,313 survivors in the fortress." Lister said, "There are hunters, soldiers, gangsters, but more are civilians."

At this time, a melodious flute sound came.

Everyone who heard the flute could not help but immerse themselves in it, their moods slowly calmed down, and their tears and cries gradually stopped.

Germain was one of the few people who were not affected.

He turned his head and saw Melody standing on a high platform not far away, playing the flute and soothing many injured hearts.

At the same time, her flute effectively prevented more chaos and riots from happening.

Although she looked like a groundhog, she was indeed very gentle and beautiful in her heart.

After a while, Melody put down the flute and took a short rest.

Only then did Liszt take a step forward and lead everyone to continue moving forward, all the way to the two people in the injured area.

The two people were wearing thick protective clothing and masks, but they could vaguely recognize that they were "Xiao Dog" Qiduo and "Si Snake" Ge'er.

Qiduo, who looked like a dog girl, and Ge'er, who was as slender as a snake, were doing their best to save the living and prevent the disease that the dead might transmit.

One of them is a doctor, the other is a coroner and a pharmacist, and they are indeed very good at this.

Seeing everyone coming, they just nodded slightly, didn't say anything, and continued to work.

After a long time, the brown-skinned Ge'er covered the head of the corpse on the floor with a white cloth, and then he and Chiduo walked towards the crowd and said hello to them.

They were still immersed in a sad atmosphere. They were far less excited than Liszt after seeing Germain and others. They just talked calmly.

"That's the mind-killer of our association." Chiduo didn't take off her gloves and mask, pointing at the body on the ground from a distance, "She was unfortunately killed."

Germain recognized her, and she even thought of her once. Unexpectedly, when they met again, she would already be a cold corpse.

The sound of the flute stopped unconsciously, and Melody also noticed everyone, walked over and said hello to everyone.

She expressed a certain degree of joy at the arrival of Germain and others, but when she was surrounded by dead and injured people, she could not have much emotional fluctuations.

At this moment, Bisgi preemptively recounted the story of their group's rendezvous, and "inadvertently" revealed the "secret lurking plan" between Germain's group and President Netero.

Chiduo, Geer, Liszt and Melody were all smart people. They knew what was going on as soon as they heard it, and they all started to cooperate.

After all, since it was President Netero who asked Germain and others to hide, it is a bit strange that Chido and other core members don't know about it.

After that, Chiduo said: "We really want to chat with you, but there are still many people waiting for me and Ge'er, and we can't spare time for the time being."

"Gu Gu and Pi You are in charge of the personnel management and defense of the fortress. They are at the control center of the fortress. You can go find them. Liszt, please lead the way again."

"Princess Oit looks very tired. Melody, can you please take Princess Oit to the room to rest and take good care of Princess Oit?"

"Mr. Shutaina, Kurapika, Izanabi, Tokarinu, you are all injured. Please stay here and let us take a look at your wounds."

Although the voice of Chiduo, the vice-president of the Hunter Association, was shota, the firmness of her tone was convincing, and everyone did as she asked without knowing it.

Melody took Princess Oit away, Shutaina, Kurapika and others stayed here, while Liszt led Germain and others to move on.

In fact, everyone could see that Chiduo deliberately arranged this so that only Germain and his party would go to the control center, but no one raised any objection.

On the way to the control center, everyone encountered many armed guards. They were a mixed force of hunters, soldiers, and gangsters.

The three forces that had acted as checks and balances on BW1 for two months now stayed together in harmony.

After entering the control center, Germain and others quickly saw "Youji" Gu Gu and "Mao Rabbit" Piyou standing in front of many large electronic screens.

Two young women, one was looking at the electronic screen and yelling angrily into the microphone, while the other was typing on the keyboard and inputting a series of instructions.

"What do you mean 'can't hit at this distance'?" Gu Gu shouted loudly, with an angry tone, "If you shoot straight, of course you won't hit, it's a ballistics, you fool!"

Piyu was typing on the keyboard like a machine gun firing, pouting with a serious look on his face.

Generally speaking, Piyou would be the more irritable than Gu Gu, but unexpectedly the situation was reversed now.

"You are here." When Gu Gu saw the crowd approaching, she turned off the microphone and her long feather headdress trembled. "You showed up just in time. The fortress is short of manpower, and you just came to help us."

"Don't you ask why we are here?" Bisji became curious.

Piyou stopped typing on the keyboard, turned his swivel chair, and turned to them: "You must have met Chiduo and Geer, right? Have they asked this question?"

"No." Bisji became even more strange.

"Then it's over." Piyou raised her head and flicked her bunny ears, "Anyway, it must be Germain's "Teleportation Lantern." We can talk about these things later. "

"Yes." Gu Gu agreed, "Have you brought the 'herb that cures all diseases'? We're almost out. "

Bisji raised his hand and pointed at Xiaodi: "We not only brought the 'herb that cures all diseases', but also the 'longevity food Nitolomi', hoping it will be effective." "

"However, I think there are thousands of people here, and our amount will never be enough."

"Wait, "Nitolomi"? "Gu Gu was quite surprised, and Piyou and Liszt also showed the same expression.

"You have gone... Oh, forget it, let's not mention this now. Regardless of whether it is enough or not, you are just providing help in times of need."

Germain has been silently observing the fortress since he saw it from a distance. Now he stared at the electronic screens for a while and asked:

"Perhaps you can answer some questions in our minds. First of all, why is there a fortress here?"

Liszt took over Gu Gu's job and continued to direct the defenses throughout the fortress to resist the occasional attacks by those monsters.

So Gu Gu took a breath and started from the beginning.

"After the chaos broke out, President Nitro and others went to seize control of BW1, while Chido worked with us to control the ships in the internal dock."

"However, we failed. The ship had been destroyed in advance, and we found that the people who did this were Biyande, Palliston, and Xiyou."

"We were confronting them for a while, when BW1 hit the coastline..."

"By the time we reacted, there was a sea of ​​fire everywhere and they were running away."

"Subsequently, a tidal wave of monsters attacked. We were protecting a group of logistics personnel and were unable to effectively fight back, so we were forced to abandon the ship and escape."

"After that, we couldn't contact President Netero, so I proposed to pursue Biyande and others."

"Chiduo and others agreed, and the birds I controlled had already found their traces, so we chased them all the way to the fortress."

"It's just that we were still a step late. At that time, the gate of the fortress was opened, and the two ships successively sailed out of the fortress, passed through the channel, and sailed into the sea."

"Of course Biyande and others are on the two ships, and we were blocked by them... But, at least, we got this fortress."

"After that, we will try to control the fortress, collect nearby survivors, and block those monsters."

"Later, Liszt found you through the mechanical flying ball and guided you here step by step. This is all that happened in the past few hours."

Germain was not surprised by this and asked: "What is in this fortress?"

"There are many rooms and warehouses." Piyou took over the conversation and said while tapping the keyboard and switching the surveillance images on the electronic screen.

"The warehouse is basically empty now, but it can be seen that a lot of mechanical armor, firearms, artillery shells, and medicines were stored before... But the most important thing is these."

Piyou cut to a dimly lit room, where there were many transparent cylindrical containers filled with liquid and soaked with many strange remains.

"Do you recognize it?" Piyou asked.

After just a few glances, not only Germain, but also Jin, Bisji, and Xiaodi all recognized him.

Some of these wreckage are "disaster victims" twisted into ropes or pressed into cakes, some are the corpses of subhuman species such as chimera ants, and many more are monsters seen in the dark continent.

"We looked and there were time stamps underneath each container," Piyou said. "They were collecting these about 30 years ago."

"In other words, this fortress was built at least thirty years ago, and the "quietest revolution in the Cajun Empire" also occurred more than thirty years ago. "

"We can reasonably infer that Byande was connected to at least two generations of kings of the Cajun Empire at that time."

"Although he cannot leave the Six Continents due to the "Blood Oath Shackles", he can completely rely on the financial connections of the Kajin Empire to hire personnel to build a fortress on this continent and prepare silently. "

"After that, Biyande found or trained people such as Palliston and Xiyou, and let them enter the Hunter Association and gradually rise to the top."

"Because he knows his father, what President Nitro likes most is extremely disgusting people like Pariston."

"For thirty years, they have been preparing everything in this fortress and planning operations against President Netero one after another."

"Think about it, how did the chimera ant queen arrive at the six continents from the Dark Continent with only one leg missing on the sea that took BW1 two months to sail?"

"The answer should be that this was the work of the Byande forces and the Cajin Empire."

"They deliberately sent the queen ant to the waters of the Six Continent Ulubian Continent and allowed her to drift to the NGL Autonomous Region, eventually causing a chimera ant disaster."

"Although the chimera ant disaster was extinguished by the joint efforts of Germain, President Nitro and others, they finally succeeded in promoting the colonial voyage."

"Now, while we are all forced to deal with BW1 and the disasters happening on this imaginary continent, they can calmly set off on a boat to the Gatekeeper. "

"And when we finally solved the disaster here, we were already severely weakened. If the Cajun royal family still exists, they will not support our voyage."

"At that time, we will have to wait for reinforcements from the Six Continents."

"With this back and forth, we will be far behind the Byande exploration team...at least, that's what they think."

The familiar "forced choice" style of either staying to deal with the disaster or desperately trying to catch up is really disgusting.

However, Biyangde and Pariston still missed a lot of calculations.

For example, the issue of "progress" should be that they are far behind the Germain exploration team.

The Germain Exploration Team can say that if you run for a year and a half, we are still ahead of you, and you can't even see our taillights.

This was also the reason why Chiduo and others chose to occupy the fortress and not chase the two ships at all.