Bounty Hunter

In the depths of the green hills, on the edge of the valley.

boom!

A stone wall on the mountainside suddenly exploded outward, and clods of gravel and soil rolled down along the mountain wall, revealing a large hole half a person's height.The animals in the forest were startled by the loud noise, they all turned their heads to look, hesitated for a few seconds, then turned and ran away.

At the entrance of the cave, a thin young man supported the cave wall and leaned out. His picturesque eyebrows and eyes were stained with doubt and heaviness, and his bloodless lips were tightly pursed, as if he was restraining something.

The blue sky and white clouds outside the cave, the lush forests, the vigorous vitality of spring floats between the sky and the earth, making people unconsciously want to relax, smile and sink into it.

But the boy couldn't laugh.

No monster can laugh when he wakes up and finds that he has no family, and that Neidan, who was safely staying in the dantian, has disappeared, and his own life is in jeopardy.

He looked at the blue sky with floating white clouds, and after a long time, he lowered his eyes, his thick eyelashes blocked the emotion in his eyes, held the edge of the cave with his hand, jumped easily, and fell towards the valley under the mountain wall outside the cave.

……

A few hours later, the young man who had turned around the entire green mountain came to a small lake in the valley, sat down to catch his breath, and looked at the water with his head.

The water surface was very calm, allowing him to clearly see what he looked like at this time.

Black hair and black eyes, picturesque eyebrows, straight nose bridge, full lips, soft face, when smiling, there will be a dimple on the right cheek.

The face is naturally still his face, but it is too young. Obviously, with the inexplicable loss of the inner alchemy, his appearance has also returned to the time of the little demon when his cultivation base has almost regressed to the starting point.

This is not a good thing.

He withdrew his gaze, looked at his slender and thin wrist, and sensed || the chaotic vitality in his body, his brows were tightly frowned, and his heart sank.

After waking up, the environment of Qingshan changed drastically, most of the trees and animals mutated, all the monsters living in Qingshan disappeared, and within the range of bloodline sensing, there was no trace of monsters or ghosts, and there was a strange surging force floating in the air. There is no trace of the aura that the clan relies on for cultivation.

This is not right.

After the end of the Dharma Era, Qingshan, as one of the few remaining cultivation treasures that have not been polluted by humans, has housed at least a hundred monsters, big and small, and enlightened creatures that have not become monsters are everywhere in the mountain, but In his investigation just now, not to mention monsters, there was not even a wise animal on the green hill.

It's not a situation where everyone moved away and could be explained away.

What happened while he was asleep?

A vague idea flashed through his mind, he grasped it sharply, his eyes widened slightly, he looked up at the sky again, and closed his eyes with a sullen face to calculate.

After a stick of incense, he lowered his head and spit out a mouthful of blood, staring blankly at the counting fingers, his eyes full of disbelief and pain.

The way of heaven... actually collapsed.

The era of gods and monsters was completely over when he fell asleep.

……

A month later, at the Green River Town Police Station at the foot of Qingshan Mountain.

The chunky and friendly household registration policeman handed a file bag to the thin boy at the desk, and said in a gentle voice, "This is your identity chip and the optical brain bound to it. Remember to go to the hospital to implant the chip into your body later. The relief money has already been issued." Enter your optical-brain binding account, and you can use it after the account is activated. The relief fund is only issued for half a year, and you have just come of age. Auntie still recommends that you apply for a free public school, and then enter the society after learning the knowledge."

The young man, that is, the Great Demon Emperor Chu who came down from the green hill, took the file bag with both hands, hummed and thanked.

"Come to Auntie again if you have any difficulties, you know?" Auntie Hukou asked, with pity in her eyes.

Di Chu often couldn't understand why human beings always have so much kindness that makes people feel weak. He nodded again to thank him, recalled the rules he learned when he went down the mountain to play in the human world last time, and bowed to the household registration aunt. Say goodbye and leave.

The household auntie was so heartbroken by his bow, she watched his back disappear outside the gate of the police station, and sat down with a long sigh until he disappeared.

The colleague sitting next to her couldn't stand it any longer, and said, "What are you doing, you're just an orphan from a black household who got a new household registration. Seeing what you're thinking about, I don't know if you thought it was your son."

"Go, go, why is there no son? I just saw him grow up in the mountains with his homeless adoptive father. Now that he has gone down the mountain, he doesn't understand anything. It's so pitiful..." The auntie with household registration couldn't bear it as she spoke. Zhu sighed again, "It's a pity that he is already an adult, otherwise I could still adopt him."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The colleague couldn't help pushing her, thinking of something, and asked curiously, "By the way, didn't you go to the place where the child grew up to see, which mountain, Yaoshan behind is still north Huaishan? Does he live in a cave or a wooden house built by himself? What to eat and wear?"

"Of course it is..." The registered aunt was about to answer, but when the words came to her lips, her mind was inexplicably blank.A little dazed appeared on her face, she raised her hand and rubbed her forehead, muttering softly, "It's strange, which mountain is it? It's obviously the household registration information just done, why can't I remember..."

……

After leaving the police station, Dichu went to the hospital to have an ID chip implanted, officially getting rid of his black household status, and became an ordinary legal citizen of Huaguo a thousand years later.

Back in his own small room in the aid station, he closed the door, sat on the bed, activated the optical brain, and called up his freshly released identity information to have a look.

Dichu, male, new human, date of birth: April 1080, 4 in the new calendar, household registration at No. 15 Kangfu Street, Luhe Town, Y City, District D, Huaguo, resident number XXXXXXXXXXXXXX.

He glanced at the words New Human, turned off the personal information, returned to the main interface of the optical brain, searched, opened the application management center, searched for the Hunter APP, and clicked to download.

The APP is downloaded quickly, and then it is installed and activated.

After a beep, the APP was installed and opened automatically. A translucent white light screen was projected in front of him. After staying for a second, a red dot appeared in the center of the light screen. The red dot slowly faded and spread, rendering into a tower-like On the top of the tower, a purple "pearl" appeared, slowly rotating, and the soft light gradually filled the screen.

The opening screen only stayed for a few seconds before dissipating, replaced by the simple and elegant main interface of the Hunter APP.

Di Chu pursed his lips, stretched out his hand, turned off the app, and turned it on again.

The opening animation reappeared, and the purple "pearl" shone and reflected in Di Chu's eyes, staining his eyes with a layer of dark and deep purple.

pat.

Di Chu turned off the optical brain, got up and walked to the window, looking to the north.

A month ago, he woke up in the mountains, and found that the heavens had collapsed, the monster clan disappeared, his inner alchemy was lost, his cultivation base was greatly damaged, and his life was in danger.After that, he stayed in the mountain for half a month, using the secret method to save his remaining cultivation base and life, and went down the mountain with the relics of the monster clan collected on the green mountain.

After going down the mountain, he found that he had slept for a thousand years, and the outside world had changed drastically.

The 21st century in memory has become history, and now it is the 1098th year of the new calendar, the 1098th year when human beings have survived the end of the world and strived to conquer the universe.

Thousands of years ago, shortly after he fell into a coma, the animals and plants on the earth mutated overnight, taking back the forest land occupied by humans with a violent force, countless cities were destroyed and covered by skyrocketing trees, and countless humans died in the claws of mutated animals. Under this circumstance, technological civilization is almost destroyed.

In this disaster, some human beings also mutated, with some characteristics of animals and plants appearing on their bodies, possessing some peculiar "superpowers".These mutated humans are called new humans.

The doomsday struggle lasted for a hundred years. After a hundred years, the social order was rebuilt, science and technology developed rapidly, and human beings soared into the sky, which opened the prelude to the era of the big universe.

With the continuous development of extraterrestrial resources and the gradual widening of the strength gap between human beings, the bounty hunter, an ancient profession full of adventure, reappeared and quickly became one of the most sought after professions by human beings.

A bounty hunter, as the name suggests, refers to a person who obtains high bonuses by completing hunting or hunting tasks issued by their employers.However, this is only the original definition. The definition of a bounty hunter has changed since the development of society. The current bounty hunter refers to those who register as hunters in the Hunter Guild and get paid by completing various tasks issued by their employers. .

What Dichu just downloaded was an app developed and released by the Hunter Guild for employers and hunters to post and receive quests.As for the reason why Dichu downloaded it... Although I don't know the reason, after a period of investigation and exploration, Dichu has basically confirmed that the so-called "pearl" representing the Hunter King is now hanging on the top of the Hunter Tower at the Hunter Guild headquarters. , is the inner alchemy that he inexplicably lost in his sleep.

Di Chu felt that the Hunter Guild was very shameless. They took his things and just kept them hidden, but they dared to hang them in the most conspicuous place at the door of the house for everyone to watch, and encouraged all hunters to work hard Become the number one on the hunter list, and go to pick the "Pearl".

Not only that, the Hunter Guild also took countless small videos for his precious Neidan, made the videos into opening animations and put them on the Hunter APP, edited them into advertisements and rolled them on the small TVs of various public transportation, making his inner feelings Dan is known to everyone.

Neidan is the most private secret of a monster, and it is not easy to reveal it to outsiders. The hunter guild did this, it was like stripping off his underwear, spreading it on a wooden pole and hanging it on the roof of his house. Advertise it widely, and fool people to get it.

mean!Shameless!Be a thief!

His heart tossed and turned on fire, but Di Chu's face was calm.He withdrew his gaze from looking in the direction of the Hunter Guild headquarters, walked back to the bed and sat down, and opened the Hunter APP again.

With his current strength, it would definitely be unrealistic to try to get the inner alchemy back.Although aggrieved, but in order to survive, he can only follow the rules of the hunter guild, first become a hunter, then slowly accumulate strength, and when the strength is enough, he will go to the damn hunter tower and take the inner alchemy back!By the way, pull out the little thief who stole the pills, cramp, peel, and smash his bones to ashes!

Filled with the flames of revenge, Di Chu quickly registered to become the hundreds of millions of hunters of the Hunter Guild. He eagerly opened the task collection section, ready to accept the first task of his hunter career.

With a beep, the APP automatically locates his location, screens out the tasks that are most suitable for him to accept at present, and arranges them in order from easy to difficult.

Task [-]: The little flower pig raised by Aunt Wang’s family in the south of the town lost its beloved little ball. Please ask the cute and hardworking hunter brothers and sisters to help it find it. The little flower pig likes to go to the park to step on mud pits. In a certain dark mud pit, humming.

Task [-]: Uncle Ma in the north of the town accidentally dropped his leg and wanted to eat freshly picked Maochi cabbage from Huaishan. You must pick it now, preferably within two hours of picking it, waiting for the kind hunter brother Miss Sister sent the loving wild vegetables that Uncle Ma is looking forward to~

Task [-]: Children and grandchildren are not filial. After going out to work hard, they don’t even call home. The lonely Grandma Liu sincerely invites a gentle and amiable hunter brother or sister to come to chat and relieve boredom. The reward is generous.

Dichu: "..."

He turned off the app again and repeatedly confirmed that what he had downloaded was indeed the genuine hunter app and not some pirated strange game. After a delay of more than ten seconds, he reached out and clicked on the customer service consultation page.

The customer service responded quickly. After a burst of light music, a sweet female voice sounded out of thin air, and at the same time a dialog box appeared on the screen.

Customer Service 69: Dear Mr. Hunter, good evening, how can I help you?

Di Chu paused, seeing that there was no input interface on the screen, he tentatively said directly: "Good evening, it is like this, there seems to be something wrong with my task receiving page."

Customer service 69: What's the problem, dear?

Di Chu gave an overview of those tasks, and then explained his confusion: "Why are they all trivial daily tasks, and there is no hunting task?"

The customer service fan was silent for two seconds, and then replied: Because Mr. Hunter is still a newcomer, newcomers can only be matched with the most basic tasks. If you want to experience a more exciting and exciting life as a hunter, please work hard to upgrade and climb the rankings. More advanced tasks can be unlocked later, come on~

In other words, you are still a rookie now, and you can only receive such tasks. For more advanced tasks, please come after improving your strength.

The Great Demon Emperor Chu who lived for thousands of years and became a rookie for the first time: "..."

He silently closed the dialogue interface, went back to the mission area, thought about it, and chose mission two—helping Uncle Ma go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables.