"I thought your obsession was the same as your talent, it was innate." Hearing this, Lu Xiu said in surprise, "Isn't that so?" ”

The white-clothed hunter lifted half of his body and glanced at his companion beside him with a strange expression. Seeing the dragonman's expressions of interest, he called out a god and said, "The god hunter is above, of course it's not ......."

Feng Manyun lay back on the deck: "Among the peers present at the time of the assessment, I may be the least qualified to be a hunter, and I couldn't even hold a real sword at that time. Until now, I don't think I have much talent in the Hunter's Road. ”

"Long before the hunter assessment, I went to Golden Feather City once, about three or four years old." The white-clothed hunter recalled unhurriedly, "It was a cold lung, and I had a terrible cough for several days. On the airship, my father was always worried that the high-altitude wind would aggravate his condition, and he didn't even dare to let me go up to the deck to see the scenery. ”

The Chosen Hunter hummed as if he had a memory.

"We spent three days in Jinyu City, seeing several doctors and grabbing some medicines. I can't remember most of them, but I remember the union hall, the shape of the tower that never changed, and the people...... It was the first time I had seen so many people at the same time. I stood on the corner and watched them walk around, and by the time I came to my senses, my father was gone, and the whole square was suddenly in chaos. ”

"What's going on?"

"It's a monster, and it's in the square in front of the hall. Now that I think about it, it should just be a terrestrial chocobosaurus species that was released from its shackles during transportation. It's not big, and it's not strong, but after all, it's one of the most prosperous areas in Golden Feather City, and it's not an exaggeration to cause much panic. ”

"God Hunter bless, are you hurt?" Lu Xiu involuntarily prayed and asked worriedly.

"It's not coming at me, but Daddy is in its path. He tried to run towards me, but he fell in the middle of the road. Feng Manyun's tone was as usual, and his gaze stayed on the huge hard air chamber above the head of the Far Hunter, "The next scene in my memory is that yellow-skinned bird dragon species falling behind Daddy. A tall, skinny hunter...... The white hunting suit, holding a sword in his hand, stood between the monster and his father. ”

Lu Xiu looked up and down the costume of the Xishu Hunter, and then smiled, "Presumably this is the origin of this costume." ”

"I know, it's a bit silly, isn't it?" Feng Manyun laughed self-deprecatingly, "Hunter heroes saving civilians and the like are already commonplace on this continent, but that was the first time in my life that I saw the scene of hunting monsters with my own eyes. ”

"I can remember the head of the bird dragon species rolling down not far away, and the blood running all over the ground......" The white-clothed hunter closed his eyes and put his arms on the back of his head, "Strangely enough, I am not afraid, nor do I feel annoying. At that time, I had only one thought in my heart, 'I want to be like that', and I stood in the middle of the square, slashing monsters in my hands, blocking all the ordinary people who were being chased by the monsters, including my father. If anyone can make me do that, I'm willing to trade it for anything...... What to laugh at? ”

"Nothing...... Well, you're only four years old, and if it were me at that time, maybe I'd have the same thoughts. After all, the preaching in the hunter's manual is never as effective as the statement of a strong man. The little dragon man turned his face to the side, coughed twice, and said, "So, what happened later?" Have you ever been in contact with your benefactor? ”

"After that, the square was evacuated, and I didn't even have time to see his face." Feng Manyun sighed abruptly, "Dad didn't think to thank that hunter, I vaguely remember scolding him." On the airship on the way back, Dad complained that he didn't choose to seek medical treatment in the nearest city all the way, but took me to Golden Feather City to prevent possible monsters, but in the end he still encountered such a thing. ”

Legends and heroic deeds can always move only young people with unopened minds. In the eyes of parents, the safety of their relatives and children is much more important than giving them access to any hero. Now that the disaster in Xuelin Village is at hand, the young people are worried about the safety of their fellow clans behind them all the time, and Feng Manyun has become more and more aware of what his father was supposed to do.

"And that's not all." The white-clad hunter continued, "The side effects of the potion are much more severe than the doctor had said. When I returned to Xuelin Village, I had a high fever and spent a week in bed before I got better. Dad said it was a gift from the god of hunting, but when I was half awake, it was not the god of hunting that kept coming to my mind, but the figure of the nameless hunter in the square, which was probably some kind of 'fate'. ”

The little dragon man pondered for a moment and said slowly, "In the event of a monster attack in the city, the union will always leave a case record. Documents such as incident records and posthumous commission reports should be found in the union library. If you still want to find the person back then, there should be more than one way, and after this commission, as long as you ask, I can also help. ”

"Looks like it's not needed." Feng Manyun sat up, looked into his companion's eyes, and said with a gloomy face, "Since then, I haven't heard of a second white-clothed hunter active in the Northern Region until the battle in the Ruins Hunting Grounds. On the night of the attack on the Far Hunt, I saw the same figure from the lookout, among the poachers who had been taken in. ”

"Huh?" Lu Xiu was stunned for two seconds before he completely absorbed the information in this sentence, "Poachers? The Hunter is on top, it's been so long, you won't be ......"

"There's no going wrong." Feng Manyun said bitterly but firmly, "I can't see his body shape clearly in the night, and the hunting uniform format is very different from what I remember, but I recognize the knife, and I also remember the feeling that the back gives me, that is, the person who appears in his dreams from time to time, I will not mistake him anyway." ”

"I remember what you described on the commission report, you were in a hurry to chase the hunting ship out because of that guy?"

The white-clothed hunter nodded. All indications indicate that it was this mysterious masked man who set up a trap on the hunting ground that day to block the small hunting group, and finally stopped the footsteps of the two rescue airships. After the poaching ship blew up and the remaining Shadow Hunters were disarmed by the five-star powerhouses, he successfully instigated a riot among the detainees and managed to get out of the chaos. Since then, the union has captured most of the fugitive poachers, but has never been able to identify him.

"He was taken away by a snake dragon, and Meco and I tried our best to bite him back, but we managed to let the guy escape easily. But in retrospect, this is already the best ending That guy is very strong, and his strength may be at the level of a five-star hunter, and he may even be on par with the Black Star Twins. If it weren't for the single-mindedness of escaping, coupled with the fear that the hunting ships of the two five-star powerhouses were on standby not far away, then in the end of the battle, it would be more than just him escaping. ”

The mysterious poacher and the white-clothed powerhouse that Feng Manyun had seen in the old days were the same person, so it didn't matter how likely such a coincidence would happen for the time being, but the Xishu hunters around him were clearly convinced of what they had seen. Watching the heroes he admired as a child join the Shadow Hunters' camp was as impactful to Feng Manyun as what Lu Xiu saw at the top of the tower.

It is no wonder that after returning from the ancient tower, the white-clothed hunter looked sluggish for a long time, and he had little interest in hunting, and such an experience was enough to shake the foundation of a hunter's faith.

"Hell...... You should have told us these things sooner. Lu Xiu said earnestly.

"What's the use?" The corners of the white-clothed hunter's mouth twitched, "In a sense, I'm in a similar situation to you. You just said that you 'feel like you're living in a meaningless lie', right? I can feel that feeling too. ”

If the 'lies' in the mouth of the selected hunter were the last three years, then the cover was added to the ten years before that, his entire teenage years, and all the beliefs about the hunter. Even the will that was tempered in the harsh hunting grounds of Xishu couldn't help but shake his mind for a while. A few days ago, the young man's face could still maintain most of the usual business, and I am afraid that he was already doing his best.

"So...... Are you okay now? The dragonman asked cautiously.

"At least it's much better than you look like you." Feng Manyun shook his companion's shoulder and said, "After returning to Xuelin Village, seeing my father and mother and the same clan in the village again made me figure out one thing, where did my will as a hunter come from, it doesn't matter at all, it belongs to me after all." In addition, whether it is Hader or the guy in white, they can only represent 'themselves', and imposing their beliefs on them will only end up disappointing them. ”

"What's more, the disaster is imminent, and the village still needs us to protect it. Whether or not I've ever been shattered by a poacher, the hunt still has to go on. As long as we are alive, our fighting will never stop, and the idle hunter who has not left us with hesitation and remembrance is such a job. ”

Lu Xiu thought about it for a long time before he realized in a trance that the white-clothed hunter was going around and around, but in the end it was to comfort himself. He couldn't help but smile dumbly: "I just wrote it down with gratitude." But you have to know that if it were you, just say what you just said, and I would gladly accept it. ”

"There's another person here besides you who needs to be convinced." Feng Manyun tapped his chest with his fingertips, and he didn't know how much of what he had just said was for himself. The white-clothed hunter waved his hand: "It's not early, go and rest for a while, and I'll take care of the rest of the surveillance work." ”

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By the time the first rays of sunlight reached the summit, Merlin had already arrived in the place where the Blackstar Twins had explored. The snow peak is not high, the snow only covers an area of a few kilometers near the summit, and there are no obvious traces of glacial etching on the peak.

From the perspective of the hunting ship, the two people on the ground are as small as sesame grains on a steamed bun. Shang Xiaomei waved the tool shovel, shoveling the snow under his feet one by one, and in a short time there was a snowdrift more than one person high next to him. The hunting ship engraved with Zhuang Dui's private emblem swept overhead, and was returning to the cave where the Eye of Death rested, and the defector wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and asked in a low voice, "My lord, is it really okay to rely on the two of us alone?" ”

The further you dig down, the thicker and harder the snow becomes, and it doesn't take long for only translucent ice to be left behind. Ice, frozen soil and sand solidify together, and the shovel is forged from cemented carbide, and each shovel requires the full strength of a five-star hunter to be effective. Morin scrambled his tools in front of him and gasped, "I can't risk letting the boatmen and mechanics approach here, with the level of will of those guys, the moment they see the ancient dragons, they will scatter and collapse the moment they hear the wind." ”

"But the snow-capped mountains are no different than other hunting grounds, and there is permanent permafrost a few meters below it." The defecting hunter tapped the hard ground with the tip of his shovel, "If you can't send more helpers, it's good to have a construction machine, otherwise, the process will be delayed, right?" ”

"Don't worry, the soil is not as deep as you think, and we still have plenty of time." As he spoke, the chief deacon picked up a heavy lump of dirt and threw it into the snowdrift in the distance. The old hunter's heart moved, only to feel that Shang Kitten had not buried his head in the excavation again, and a pair of eyes looked at himself, and he couldn't help but look up and ask, "Is there any problem?" ”

"No...... My lord. The defector shook his head, but couldn't help but sigh, "I still can't believe it, this is the place where the ancient dragons have awakened. The adult's God-given dragon language can even predict this level of secrets. ”

"It's not my credit." Merlin shoveled deeply, and the frozen soil shimmered in the morning sun, as if it contained some unknown crystal. The chief deacon pouted in the direction of Xuelin Village: "They are the only ones who can predict the birth of the ancient dragon. ”

"Aborigines of the Mainland?" Shang Kitten snorted thoughtfully, "There are rumors that they hold a lot of secrets in the hunter world, is it true?" ”

"This is groundless, north of the snow-capped mountains are just some foolish people living in urgent need of civilization, and it is the dragonmen who really master the secrets of the ancient dragons." Morin said nonchalantly.

"Since the end of the First Human-Dragon War, a large number of dragonmen have left the country of Siqi and traveled separately on both continents. Some of the dragonmen chose to stay on the continent and serve as leaders of the various settlements. Whether this is the behest of the Council of Elders or a spontaneous action, the more powerful and pure-blooded dragonmen are stationed there, the more likely it is that powerful monsters will be entrenched in the surrounding hunting grounds, whether they exist or have never existed. Once you know this, the rest is the boring process of gathering intelligence. ”

"Ding!" The chief deacon casually said that it was a secret that few people in the hunter world knew. Shang Xiaomei listened attentively, and the shovel in his hand was a little harder, but it was unexpectedly bounced out. He hurriedly looked down and saw a small patch of almost transparent stone exposed under the thin layer of frozen soil. The hunter swept away the floating soil with his feet, only to find that the whole foot was a huge thick layer of hedrons. The hedron glows blue, and the light source is not the sun overhead, but more like it comes from a cavity further down in the stone layer.

"Is it a crystal?" Shang Kitten took off his cage hand and touched the spar under him with his five fingers, the surface of the stone layer was warm and moist, but it had a staggering hardness, "The nest that the ancient dragon has built for himself is really extraordinary. ”

"Strictly speaking, it's more like an eggshell, but it's spread to this point......" Merlin suppressed his joy. He tossed the shovel aside, pulled out the bone blade from behind his back, and held his hands behind his back, the blade pointing at the area where the crystal was exposed, "This guy has been asleep for too long, it's time to wake him up." Retreat to the back, it's okay to escape back to the cave, once this sword falls, I may not be able to protect you. ”