Chapter 635: Precious
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"This ......," Bai Ye's answer was a bit unexpected. Dusty stared at the Ironclad Hunter's dust mask for a full minute before he let out a slight question.
"I knew you were going to look like this. It's not just you, it's my teammates, and I never expected them to understand. The captain of the Reverse Scale was looked at a little uncomfortable, "In the eyes of pure poachers, I am just consuming my energy and vitality and doing something meaningless." β
"No, I didn't mean to laugh at you." The young hunter sat down and explained, "I'm just a little confused," Feng Chen's hand pointed down the mountain, "Launched such a large-scale purge, slaughtered more than one hunting ground, risked the lives of the people living around the Ghost Fury, and hunted down a priceless dragon family, and the result was to ...... According to you, is it better for the Hunters' Guild? β
"Monsters will survive the cleanup, the ecology of the hunting ground will always recover one day, and what nature creates has always had its own way of restoration." White Night said lightly, "But what we humans have set up, only we ourselves can change it. β
"I'm curious, even if you do catch the Golden Lion, what can you do to the Hunters' Guild?" The young hunter was interested, and his eyes swept away the sleepiness of the previous one, "Anyway, you are already a shadow hunter, and you can't let such a behemoth bow down to you with only the material of a dragon." β
Bai Ye was silent for a few breaths, and asked leisurely: "Little guy, do you remember what crimes were on the sea fishing warrant when you betrayed the union?" β
"Huh?" The young hunter didn't know why, but recalled for a few seconds, "deliberately and seriously disrupting the order of the hunting ground, destroying the ecology of the hunting ground, destroying the property of the trade union, and threatening the crime...... All of them add up, I'm afraid there are more than a dozen. Feng Chen pouted. The longer the young hunter defects from the union, the longer the list grows. Eventually, the Shadowhunters were too lazy to count their charges, instead taking an interest in the ever-increasing bounty amounts.
"I'm sure you won't be able to count on any of the charges the Hunters' Guild has placed on you, at least two-thirds of them you haven't done." Bai Ye seemed to remember something funny, and subconsciously straightened his mask, "A long time ago, I was replenishing in a town near the southern snowy mountains, and I was noticed by the doglegs of the Knights. While those guys were chasing me, two idiots stumbled and fell off the roof. It was dusk, and the whole street could be seen clearly...... A week later, I was convicted of 'intentional harm' by two more places. β
"People like us cannot defend themselves on the judgment seat of the Knights." Feng Chen nodded with deep feeling, the young hunter seemed to have encountered a similar incident when he was on the run, "Sometimes when I look at the description on the bounty order, I will think that it is another fugitive named Feng Chen. β
"It's not just about us...... The point is, that's the way the unions do things. "The Hunter Guild doesn't care about the truth, as long as they can achieve the results they want, these people can spread any information and do anything. Whether it is to excuse its own mistakes or hide its secrets, once its interests are threatened, it will not hesitate to shift the blame on the hunter. β
"I don't understand, are you saying that you are not at fault?" The young Shadow Hunter's eyes were like candles, "Is there something hidden here?" β
"I've long since stopped caring about the rights and wrongs." Bai Ye shook his head, his index finger towards Feng Chen, "I'm talking about you, no matter how capable you are, you are still a little ghost, you may have a way to get close to the ancient dragon species, but I don't believe that you can kill it alone." β
The dragon striking ship is the crystallization of all the strongest technologies on the entire continent, it has been circling the mountain dragon for decades, and there is nothing it can do about the whale, it has not seen it with its own eyes, and it does not understand the conditions for the fall of the ancient dragon, of course Bai Ye has reason to wonder about this: "You are far from the only one who has been forced by the union to become a defector hunter, am I right?" β
"This path has always been my own choice, what does it have to do with the Hunter Guild." Feng Chen said secretly in his heart, but he still shrugged his shoulders and responded, "That's it." β
"The Hunters' Guild controls the entire continent, but it only says what is good for it, and only listens to the pleas it can handle. As for the ...... that cannot be heard or seen," said the old hunter's eyes, "as if it were a place of death that was not protected by the union." β
"Sounds ...... What kind of story does this seem to have? Feng Chen asked.
"Alright, little ghost, this conversation has been going on long enough." The captain of the reverse scales, a spirit, was withdrawn from his memories. Bai Ye faintly felt that his words were a little too much tonight, but he didn't feel anything wrong. In the vast hunting grounds, the boundaries between hijacking and peering are not so clear. Whether voluntarily or not, the other party has helped him find the traces of his prey once, and the next hunt will depend on him to a considerable extent. What's more, he is also a defector hunter, and the little guy in front of him is one of the ones who has been in the limelight in the past two years, and he is also his junior.
It's just a long night pastime, and it's enough to get here. Bai Ye waved his hand casually: "Go and sleep for a while, no matter how your dragon language ability works, it always needs to consume your mind." Tomorrow is likely to be quite a long day, and I need your energy to continue the hunt for the golden lion. β
Feng Chen listened to all the orders of Captain Reverse Scale, but he didn't speak, and he didn't mean to fall asleep according to his words.
"I told you nothing special." White Night looked a little irritable.
"It's still early for the next shift, and we still have a long way to go." Feng Chen's eyes were still looking at the ironclad hunter earnestly.
"We're not in training camp, and there's no campfire storytelling here." The captain remained silent.
"I'm a young man, and I'm very curious, you don't want me to be in trouble for the rest of the night with questions, right?" The young Shadowhunter smiled slyly and retorted in White Night's own words.
"Alright! Hell...... "Unable to stand the eager gaze of the young man, the old hunter finally took a breath, "A few years ago, I was still working in the emergency support formation of the union......"
In each human settlement, from the royal city to the smallest village, as long as it is described on the guild's form, the hunter guild will give a threat assessment through the investigation and determine the strength and number of service hunters to be dispatched. The number of service hunters is limited, and the manpower dispatched by the union is often far from enough to cover all the needs of villages and towns, and as hunters call for help from the next level of city become the norm, the emergency support team gradually becomes a permanent establishment of service hunters.
White Night's team provides additional combat support to the various human settlements in the jurisdiction. To put it simply, it is a team that rushes to fight a fire when the ecological incident in the settlement exceeds the capacity of the local garrison hunters.
"Leaving the territory of high-level monsters, ecological disasters and beast tides, this is our daily work." Captain Reverse Scale recalled, "Our team of thirty people was responsible for emergencies in one hundred and fifty villages and towns at the most. β
"It sounds like there's no shortage of commissions," the young hunter tilted his head, "at least the pay must be good." β
"Not as much as you think." There was a sarcasm in Bai Ye's tone, "I signed up for that team voluntarily, and before that I was a freelance hunter. How so...... This is not a job that attracts hunters for pay. β
"In the area we are responsible for, the hunters occupy a belt of colored crystals, rich mines, and they have even built a town the size of Burning Rock Town to the north of the mine." Captain Reverse Scale paused, "Anyway, we received the highest level of commission, and by the time the team arrived in full gear, the mine, including the people in the town, had already been evacuated. Only a large group of rockivorous monsters are gnawing at the ore, not even the minecarts and rails. β
"It took about three days for us to solve the problem and rush back to the team's station. It was at that time that I saw a cry for help two days ago on the table in the camp. Bai Ye straightened up and changed his sitting position, as if just remembering these things would make him uncomfortable, "It's a small settlement called Cod Village, located in a hilly area, and its nearest neighbor is a native Ailu village. There's not a high threat rating, and there's always been only a two-star hunter stationed there. β
"The Village...... Did something happen? β
"It's interesting," the ironclad hunter laughed self-deprecatingly, "until now, I don't know what happened in the village. β
"At that time, it was the time when the hunters were stationed on a rotation, and there was no landing pad in the village. The previous hunters have left, and the new hunters have just landed in the nearest town, and the signal to come and ask for help is from the villagers. β
"We didn't even have supplies, and the airship was back on board before it cooled down." He held out two fingers, "It's still too late, it's already two days late when I get the news, and two days is enough time for the monster to do anything against the defenseless villagers." β
"I'm sorry......" Feng Chen sighed.
When I arrived, the village was in ruins, and there were no more villagers alive to describe it. There are traces of all kinds of monsters, and the traces of the beast tide can be traced back to more than ten kilometers away, and we searched within this range, and only found more corpses. The team spread the warning to the surrounding towns, but no sign of the beast tide was observed. β
White Night looked at the top of the Devil's Furyama Volcano, the place where the legendary demons parasitized: "It's like...... It was a disaster created specifically to destroy the village. I don't know what they did to end up in the fields that were spurned by the hunter ancestors. β
"You ...... You've done everything you can, haven't you? Feng Chen whispered comfortingly.
"'We' did do it, but the Hunters' Guild didn't." Bai Ye denied, "That signal for help should have reached us earlier." β
Emergency support teams have the highest priority in the regular telecommunications queue, and no matter where the team is, the subpoena against them should be greenlit all the way, and even if there is a conflict in time limits, it is up to the team leader to decide the order in which the delegation should be completed.
"I don't know why, that piece of information didn't reach me, it ended up on my desk." Captain Reverse Scale asserted, "But it's already obvious that the communication system directly under the union can only follow the orders of the union. β
"Are you trying to say that the Hunters' Guild cares more about a mining belt than the civilians of a village?"
"No, a large amount of high-quality ore is certainly more worthy of the union's resources and manpower than a village that has no sense of existence that brings no profit to the union. Until it happened to me, I thought it was just alarmist. β
The young Shadowhunter nodded silently, having been in the poacher's circle for too long, and this was not the first time he had come into contact with the dark side of the union.
"The communication system, the priority of hunter dispatch, and the dispatch ......system," Bai Ye said, breaking his hands, "as long as I can find a way to get the union to compromise on any of them, a large number of settlements will benefit from it." If one dragon isn't enough, I'll grab another one until the behemoth can make the changes it should make. β
"The union's resources are limited, and it couldn't save everyone in the first place." Feng Chen retorted in a low voice.
"But these resources can be put into a more correct place, 647 lives, 73 children, should be more important than a stone mountain."
"That's right......" This time, the young hunter didn't say anything more. After a short silence, Feng Chen remembered something again, "Did you leave the union because of this matter?" β
"They blamed me, the rescue failed, and I was removed from the position of captain." Bai Ye said angrily.
"The communication system, the priority of hunter dispatch, and the dispatch ......system," Bai Ye said, breaking his hands, "as long as I can find a way to get the union to compromise on any of them, a large number of settlements will benefit from it." If one dragon isn't enough, I'll grab another one until the behemoth can make the changes it should make. β
"The union's resources are limited, and it couldn't save everyone in the first place." Feng Chen retorted in a low voice.
"But these resources can be put into a more correct place, 647 lives, 73 children, should be more important than a stone mountain."
"That's right......" This time, the young hunter didn't say anything more. After a short silence, Feng Chen remembered something again, "Did you leave the union because of this matter?" β
"They blamed me, the rescue failed, and I was removed from the position of captain." Bai Ye said angrily.
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