Yaohi Hill

From the early afternoon of the second day to leaving Youkexin early in the morning of the next day...

Although the knight was helpless, he knew that the other party no longer believed in him.

The favorability degree, which was already close to a negative number, suddenly dropped a lot.

From the three words "leave a code" mentioned in Wo Jin's mouth just now, Shi Kui obviously understood that this guy never gave up his plan to escape from her.

He has been waiting for an opportunity.

Really, you can't relax your vigilance every minute and every second.

The hotel room was silent, and the slightly dim and ambiguous light hit Shikui's face at the side.The gaze of the knight staring at the computer seemed to inadvertently move towards her.

"Have you found it?" Shi Kui asked.

"En." The knight nodded, and then took out a card.

Seeing the unfamiliar sign on it, Shi Kui asked a little puzzled, "What is this?"

"Hunter's license." The knight said with a smile, "very useful. Use it to log in to the hunter's website. As long as you can afford it, you can get any information."

"I can get any news... that is to say..." Shi Kui's heart skipped a beat.

"I checked the IP address of the post just now, and it's a small town on the coast of the Republic of Batokia." The knight explained in detail, "This post was posted on August 8 five years ago."

"The person who posted said that there was a disaster there on this day, and many people turned into monsters. This incident cannot be without influence. Logically, someone in the local news media should have reported this incident. "

"It's just that the reason why it didn't cause a big commotion—there were people from the Republic of Batokia under the post, and they all acted as if they hadn't heard the news. It's very likely that the local government blocked it in time for fear of causing panic among the people. For the entire town, relevant reports were forcibly withdrawn."

"Then can the previously reported news be found on the Hunter website?" Shi Kui frowned, "The government forcibly blocked the news, and was ordered not to report any more records on the Hunter website?"

"Of course." The knight smiled, "That's why I took the hunter's license test. As long as you can pay the price, you can get the answer to whatever you want to know."

"By the way, I also got the news about the mermaid scale from the hunter website before, and I spent a lot of money."

Shi Kui glanced at him: "That means, as long as you have a hunter's license, other people can get the same information as you?"

"That's not true." The knight explained again patiently, "Mermaids only existed in the ancient legends of a small country, and few people know about this country, let alone their own myths and legends. I know this because in the process of gathering information, I accidentally came into contact with a person who believed in this ancient legend."

"What did he tell you?" After hearing what he said, Shi Kui only felt that there seemed to be more mysteries, not just about the mermaid, all of this became incomprehensible.

Why do legends of mermaids still exist in this world?There are many settings that are very similar to the original modern society, but there is such a group of people with the ability to think that cannot be explained by the scientific system.

"That person is a citizen of that small country. He said that he has been looking for a monster called a mermaid, because in their country's legend, the meat of this monster can keep youth forever after eating."

As the knight spoke, he noticed that Shi Kui's expression had changed, and her eyes suddenly revealed an inexplicable sadness and heaviness.

Behind the fantastic legend is a cruel and painful truth.

"Sounds unbelievable, right?" Xia Ke continued, "At first I also thought this guy was dreaming, but after I checked the relevant information, I discovered that monsters like mermaids may really exist."

"I've always wanted to know why this monster exists." Shi Kui said in a low voice, "But I couldn't find the root cause. It seemed to appear suddenly without warning."

"The post said that they drifted over from the other side of the sea." Xia Ke stared at the computer, scrolled down the webpage with the mouse to browse the dense content, and after a while, his voice suddenly became excited. "found it!"

When Shi Kui heard this, she also looked at the computer screen.

is a news report.

"It's a report released that night, and there are pictures." Xia Ke pointed to the picture that was blurred due to the darkness, "The report said that a large group of monsters that looked similar to fish suddenly appeared in this small town. Very destructive and aggressive."

Shi Kui looked at the silhouette of the monster on the picture, which gradually overlapped with the mermaids in his memory.

"Is this the only news?" Shi Kui asked.

"That's right, the local government is very strong. They sent troops to clean up those monsters that night." The knight clicked Back and returned to the main interface of the hunter website.

what is the reason?

Tokioi began to guess.

Turning into a monster is nothing more than eating mermaid meat, but why are so many people turning into monsters?

Not many people in this world know the legend of the mermaid, so there is no such thing as taking the initiative to eat mermaid meat in order to obtain eternal life.

Did someone do this on purpose?

Who is it and what is the purpose?

Five years have passed since the incident, and many things must have happened in these five years, and the person who knew about it may still be alive.

It is impossible for the instigator to leave no trace, unless it is a god.Even if people eat those things... the families of those victims will know something about it.

only……

She suddenly remembered the unsuccessful text message Cowlett had sent before he died.

"Do you still remember Sade?" Shi Kui asked the knight, a look of reminiscence appeared on the other's face, and then he nodded affirmatively: "Of course, he is the only human that I have traced before that clearly possesses the organs of a mermaid .”

"All he has are scales." Shi Kui said flatly, "But those scales allowed his body to return to its peak state at the age of 20."

"Because he was extremely afraid of getting old, he found the mermaid scales, which slowed down his aging speed a lot."

"And this scale was provided to him by a collector named Cowlett."

She took out the mobile phone, and what appeared on the screen of the mobile phone was the content of the unsuccessful text message.

"He also participated in the underground auction today." Shi Kui continued, "But he has already been killed by your companions, so I also lost my target, and the tracking clues come to an end."

"However, this is a short message that he failed to send before he died. It is a code composed of a series of strange numbers and symbols. It probably wants to express something. I don't quite understand it."

The knight took the phone and looked it up.

He looked intently, then frowned deeply.

"I think I should check this Cowlett guy."

"This guy is very suspicious." Shi Kui recalled what Sade told her before, "He is very famous among the rich, but he acts very low-key."

"If it's not necessary, he won't show up. I thought I would know everything when I found this guy, but I didn't expect him to die."

This sentence is full of resentment and cold air.

"..." The corner of the knight's mouth twitched, and he continued to search for information.

Then, after a while, his tone became extremely puzzled: "...strange."

"what?"

The knight frowned, and said unhurriedly: "This guy's history is blank, I can't find any information about his past."

……Blank?

"The only thing I can think of is that this identity may have been faked by him." Xia Ke said, "And it didn't take long."

"The news on the hunter website is absolutely true, so if it is a blank file, even if it is a fake degree, it is impossible to write in the certificate and experience."

"Why did he forge his identity? Did he do something to make it so?" Shi Kui felt that all this seemed to be clear. "I think, does he have something to do with what happened five years ago?"

"Very likely." Xia Ke opened another website, "Speaking of what happened five years ago, although there has been no news, I think the government should know about this news."

"Let me check again."

Time passed minute by minute, although it was already four o'clock in the morning, but Shikui was not sleepy at all.

The sound of clacking keyboards in the room was as rapid as her heartbeat.

She didn't know how long it had passed, but she finally heard the slightly tired but surprised voice of the knight.

"I've found someone who has a good chance of being related to him."

Shi Kui looked at it, it was a wanted warrant, from the government of the Republic of Batokia.

The wanted person is a handsome young man.

Although this person was very handsome, there was a sickly gloomy look between his brows, as if he was full of disappointment and dissatisfaction with life.

What does this have to do with Cowlett?

Cowlett is a very ordinary-looking middle-aged uncle, and he does not have such a breathless gloomy temperament.

"This person is a wanted criminal in the Republic of Bartocia." The knight explained, "Because he is a wanted criminal, so I can find some of his personal information. But it is strange, even so, his personal information is pitiful. , the important parts disappear as if wiped off with a rag."

The author has something to say:

There are two more chapters, at most a little bit more, and the hunter chapter is over!

Mermaids are really harmful to others ╮(╯_╰)╭