The slightly hot water poured down from the top of his head, and Lu Xiu's black and shiny hair lay on his scalp, and the water beads rolled down his sideburns. U 8 ???． The U?8 X?S'COM HUNTER had no big or small wounds, three hideous claw holes on his back were still visible, and the bruises on his shoulders were still bruised, but the dragonman didn't care, and let the water heat stimulate every wound around him. Hot water flowed down the young man's straight back and broad chest, and pooled into a pool of blood at his heels.

Lu Xiu stretched out his hand to wipe away the steaming mist on the mirror, and the red pupils had already dissipated, but the dragonman's eyes were still a terrifying blood-red, probably because of the last struggle of the Wind Tooth Dragon, which made the blood beads seep into some of the eyes. The young man held some warm water in both hands, buried his whole eye in the water, and washed his vision several times before regaining his clarity.

After doing all this, Lu Xiu looked at himself in the mirror. The facial features of the person in the mirror are much taller than those in the young man's memory, a faint mark appears at the corner of his mouth, and the Adam's apple is clearly protruding. The scratches on the young man's face had begun to heal, and the eyes under the sword eyebrows still showed the look of exhaustion after the battle. The hunter brace himself, wipe the water stains from his head, try to avoid the wound, and put on the bottom lining of his hunting suit before staggering open the bathroom door.

Morin was already waiting in the lounge, and when he heard the door open, the chief deacon hurriedly stood up: "How is the injury?" ”

"It's not as bad as it looks." At first sight, the dragonman was not surprised at all. He made a ball of towels and placed them on the bathroom doorknob, "Most of them are skin wounds, the Toothy Dragon, it just looks scary." ”

The chief deacon hurried to Luciu's side, and now Morin was more than a shoulder shorter than Luciu, and he had to look up to meet the hunter's eye. The five-star hunter looked around the dragonman's side, his eyes resting on the deep bloody hole behind the student: "What about rescuing Ailu?" What are they doing? ”

"Don't blame them." Lu Xiu subconsciously turned his back and avoided the bruises on his chest from his uncle, "I let them leave." I can heal myself and don't have to bother other people all the time. ”

"Even if it's you, recovery still takes a process." The chief deacon, with a look of disgust, pressed the student to sit on the chaise longue, "Don't move, wait for me." ”

Lu Xiu had to sit down obediently, supporting his body with his hands on his knees: "I remember that you still have a meeting to start today. ”

"Today is your 100th winning streak," Merlin pulled out a medical kit from the corner of the common room and returned to the dragonman's side, "Even the summoning order from the union headquarters doesn't want to stop me from coming to see my body." ”

"It's been so many fights......" The young man's eyes were in a trance. Before being pushed out of the ring by the staff, he did seem to hear the sound of "Yum" in the stands, but at that time he hadn't even regained his senses, so he didn't notice.

"I was in the stands from the start and didn't miss a single detail. You're doing a very good job, and if it were me, even if you were your current age plus ten years old, it wouldn't be easier than you. Between the words, the chief deacon had already twisted the needle and thread, and pressed one hand around Luciu's wound, "Relax, I haven't been to the hunting ground for a while, and this work may be a little rusty." ”

The sting pain of the liquor crossed the skin, and the young man only felt that the cold needle tip with a thin line was tightening the cracked skin little by little: "How is that monster?" ”

"You started cleanly, that guy was torn off his spine, and he couldn't move at all from the neck down." Maureen stitched the wound carefully, "It's not dead yet, but it's not worth healing. Fortunately, the ticket price for this one was far more than the value of a wyvern, and the old guy who ran the arena was so grateful that I could be accommodated. ”

"Poof......" Lu Xiu chuckled, his body trembled, and the silk threads behind his back tugged at the skin, surging with a heart-piercing pain. As the chief deacon of the Golden Feather City Branch, except for the City Lord's Mansion and the President's Office, the people in front of him can walk into almost any territory in the entire city without the accommodation of others.

"Don't shake it up, it's not bandaged yet." The short hunter held Lu Xiu's shoulder, and finally stitched up the thread of one of the wounds, and said with pride in his tone, "How is it, where do you want to go to celebrate after the injury?" It's your victory, I can ask the union for a day off. ”

"About this ......" Lu Xiu pursed his lips and groaned, and said with some difficulty, "I don't think this is any kind of victory, until now, I still don't feel it at all." ”

"You're probably tired," the chief deacon lovingly touched the young man's black hair, "but it doesn't matter, after this one, there won't be too many monsters in the entire arena suitable for your level." You can rest for a little longer, and the next one can be scheduled in half a month, or even a month later, as long as you want. ”

"Uncle Mo." Lu Xiu raised his voice, closed his eyes and made up his mind, "I don't want to fight anymore." ”

"My friends are all on the hunting ground for real commissions, ?8? ???? ?.? U?8?XS'COM" HAD ALREADY SPOKEN, AND THE DRAGONMAN SIMPLY POURED OUT HIS THOUGHTS TO THE MENTOR BEHIND HIM, "TIME IS LIMITED, SPACE IS LIMITED, AND WATCHING AND ENTERTAINING A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO HUNT IS NOT WHAT A HUNTER SHOULD DO AT ALL, I SHOULD GO TO THE REAL HUNTING GROUND AND DO SOMETHING TRULY MEANINGFUL." ”

"Luciu." Morin knotted the thread in his hand and applied gauze soaked in healing medicine, "We talked about it, and I left you in the arena to protect you. You are the most powerful hunter, you are destined to do greater things, and your life is far more important than one or two regular hunts. Until the commission that is truly yours comes to pass, I will not allow you to fall on an accident in the hunting grounds. ”

The dragonman's eyes darkened, and he seemed to get an answer from his uncle's tone: "You really blame me for the Lockrak incident." ”

"No, of course not!" Wrapped in the last piece of gauze, Morin walked around to the young man, held the student's face in both hands, and said firmly, "I will never blame you for anything, not to mention that you did a great job in the Sand Sea, you brought back the truth to the entire Hunter Guild, and the five-star hunters and presidencies of the entire city could not do this." But you might get hurt in the next dangerous commission like that, and that's what I'm worried about. The arena may not be as good as the hunting ground, but at least there are security measures in place, and there is rescue Elu, and your mentor. It's the only way I can find to keep your hunting skills safe and consistent. ”

In the past two years, the only thing that hasn't changed in the dragon man is the expression on his face that can't be recognizable from emotion. Lu Xiu watched in silence as Mo Lin knotted the bandage that was obliquely wrapped around his chest, looked at his uncle who was putting away the medicine box and said softly, "A few days ago, I went to see Senior Rum. ”

"I know." Morin's hands paused for a moment, and then resumed his movements, "Is he okay?" ”

"It's not good." Lu Xiu shook his head heavily, "Senior...... He doesn't look like a hunter anymore. ”

Two years ago, in the thundering sand sea, on the battlefield of the mountain dragon and the dragon ship, under the witness of the entire small hunting group, the predecessor of Rum forcibly stopped the dragon ship that was as heavy as a mountain with his body. Even if the entire body of the predecessor was already in tatters at that time, the old dragon man still relied on Luo Pingyang's timely rescue to save a life. During his four months in a coma, Rum underwent dozens of major surgeries to put the joints and tendons of his torso back together. The dragonman's recovery ability is so strong that in the later stage, the dislocated and bonded muscles and bones have to be re-severed in order to proceed with the operation. It is hard to imagine how much pain the senior endured in a coma, but at the wish of the whole Locklack, the old captain finally miraculously opened his eyes.

But the Hunter Ancestor does not favor the same Hunter twice. Xu was in that extreme state, the old captain overdrew his bloodline and vitality as a dragon, and after awakening, Rom's perception, strength, and recovery ability were declining at an exaggerated rate, and the innate bloodline power of the dragonman was rapidly withering and disappearing.

The strength and talent of being a dragon man are no longer there, and even if Rum's predecessors have more than 100 years of life experience, they have no way to deal with them. Now the old captain is still recuperating, and he hasn't set foot on the hunting ground for several months, even if he tries his best to hide it, Lu Xiu, who rushed to visit, can still see the deep despair in the eyes of his predecessors.

"My predecessor personally told me that in terms of blood, he will no longer be a dragon man in a short time." Lu Xiu sighed, "He may be able to maintain a long lifespan, but the hunter's career of his predecessor may be bleak." ”

"Hunter Ancestor bless......" Merlin also shook his head sadly, for a powerful hunter who has dedicated his life to the hunting ground, not being able to hunt is a more tragic thing than dying in the hunting ground, "The predecessor still has at least a hundred years of survival wisdom, and with the help of Longa's predecessor and the entire dragon clan, I can only pray that he can successfully overcome this difficult situation." ”

What Luciu didn't explain was that Rum's most desperate thing was not that his body was declining, but that he had not been able to recover any substantial damage at the cost of it. The mountain dragon is still dead, his body is still missing, and the seeds of fear have been planted in the hearts of everyone in Loklac. As the rafter pillar of the hunter world in the New World, Romme consumed this body on meaningless battles, which is the most helpless fact for a hero who has the glory of the hunter in his heart.

"What I want to say is......" the young dragonman carefully considered his words, "Uncle Mo did all this for me, is it just for the dragonman blood in my body. If it weren't for it, an aboriginal like me who came out of a small mountain village would not have been treated differently by my uncle. ”

The chief deacon raised his head and looked at Lu Xiu's face for a long time, his brows slowly furrowed: "Who poured this idea into your mind?" ”

"I selected you from Xuelin Village because I saw how powerful you were. The dragonman bloodline in your body is a part of that strength, your will to fight, your comprehension ability, your pride, and your sincerity all form this kind of power. Morin grabbed Luciu's arms, "Lose any part of it, and you'll no longer be you." If you ask me if it's just to get that share of the dragonman blood, although the dragonmen in the world are not many compared to humans, it is not difficult to find a teenager who is willing to follow me. What I want to cultivate is not just a random powerful hunter, but the top existence in the entire New World in the future, and this name is only worthy of you, understand? ”

After some words, although Lu Xiu did not fully understand what Mo Lin meant, in the other party's firm and eager eyes, the young man still nodded in confusion, "I will not disappoint my uncle." ”

"That's what I'm a good student for." The deacon's eyebrows finally relaxed.

The dragon man stood up and carefully put on the civilian clothes prepared in the lounge: "By the way, uncle, I may not return to the deacon's mansion until later in the evening. ”

"Do you want to meet up with the friends of that little hunting group?" Maureen gave the hunter a full collar.

"Well, this time I was summoned by Lord Anfei, I don't know why, but it seems to be urgent." Lu Xiu said truthfully.

"The Black Star Twins?" The chief deacon questioned, "Even if the children of the Little Hunting Regiment are concerned, don't get too close to those two guys now." ”

"Why?" The dragonman asked inexplicably, "I remember my uncle said that you didn't fight with them in the past?" ”

"That was a long time ago." Morin shook his head, "People change, the current Amphinis is a madman, the incident of the harvest festival and several accidents after that have his shadow are his shadow, no one knows what that guy is thinking in his heart." ”

"Master Anfei and Master Luo, I have been in contact with them." "In my opinion, they are all honest people, reliable seniors who can make people feel at ease in the hunting grounds. ”

"With them, maybe at any time, you will be involved in the same danger as the Mountain Dragon incident again." Morin interrupted the student, "Your most important thing now is safety, remember?" ”

"I'll be careful." The dragon man had to nod and said, he opened the lounge members, "Uncle, then I'll go through the side door first, those scouts are too difficult to parry, if you are with you, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of the arena gate after dark." ”

"I helped you blow them up before you came in." Morin smiled slightly and waved his hand in the direction of the student, "By the way, did Anfinis say when she contacted you that what was the purpose of this assembly?" ”

"I don't know." Lu Xiu shrugged, "But Manyun is also coming back, I heard that he hunted a big guy in the Thundering Sand Sea, I can't wait to meet him now." ”