When candidates register for the Hunter Exam, the Hunter Association will send a notice to the candidates, which only records the time and approximate location of the exam, and the candidates must grope their way to the venue with the only clues, which is also the first test to eliminate the candidates.

Millions of people sign up for the Hunter exam every year, but only a few hundred people can find a venue in the end, and the pass rate before entering the arena is one in 10,000, let alone the chance of successfully passing the exam.

Because of the brutal elimination rate of the hunter exam, there is often not a single qualified candidate for several years.

However, this is not a problem for Lucy, it should be said that as long as he is a master who has learned to read, he naturally has a ninety-nine points more chance of winning than other candidates, and the remaining point depends on the mood of the examiner. If you encounter an examiner who is deliberately difficult or the content of the exam is too weird to be used, even if you read it, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

Fortunately, the examiner of the hunter exam will change every year, and even if you fail this year, it is a big deal to come back next year. Lucy remembers that Sisoka was the year before the protagonist took the hunter exam, because he didn't like the examiner, and he had to beat the examiner to a serious injury, causing the exam to fail. It stands to reason that a dangerous element association like him, who is interested in beating the examiner half to death, should be blacklisted, but the next year he re-competed like no one else, and finally got a hunter's license.

In such a comparison, Lucy was full of confidence. Even Hisoka's kind of perversion can pass, and his little white flower is even more fine, and he is also a second-generation hunter, not to mention Potter Bai, just Uncle Yinda, who is the twelve earthly branches, doesn't know how high these examiners are!

So when he followed the coordinates given by Yinda to find the secret venue for this year's hunter exam first, he did not rush to the island, but found a hotel in the center of the city outside the island to rest, and then spent a few days slowly walking around the scenery of this small coastal town before boarding a boat bound for the island on the last day of the exam.

Although it is a coastal city, the industry here is not well developed, and even the boats docked outside the dock are all kinds of small fishing boats, and Lucy has been here for a few days without seeing even a large-tonnage ship. If you want to get to the small island where the exam is located, you can only rent a boat to get there.

Although it only took a few moments to get to the island with the use of Black Wing, Lucy chose to rent a small boat. It was also a novel experience for him, and although he had taken a passenger ferry before, it was the first time he had driven a boat by himself. The motor roared, and the boat sailed across the sea, cutting wave marks.

The endless sea is a delightful sight to behold, and the sun shines through the clouds and sparkles against the azure sea.

Lucy used a little mental strength to operate the rudder, and he sat on the board of the boat and lazily leaned over the water, and soon came to the middle of the dock and the island.

At this time, the strange smile on the seller's face when he bought the boat suddenly flashed in his mind.

I heard that before the hunter exam, there will also be checkpoints set by the hunter association along the road, just like the quick question and answer mother-in-law and fierce fox that Xiaojie met in the class. Even if there are still ten years before the beginning of the plot, the Hunters' Association will not let the candidates reach the island so easily.

Just as he was thinking this, there was a violent collision at the bottom of the boat, and Luci's body did not move, still maintaining the posture of reaching into the sea, and he looked at the black shadows that kept swimming at the bottom of the sea with great interest.

Sharks, or something else?

The impact continued, and soon, a hole was made in the plank at the bottom of the boat, and a large amount of seawater poured in instantly. Lucy slowly got up and stood on the bow of the ship, and saw the true face of the dark shadows that had struck his ship.

It was a few fierce monster fish of adult size, the body of the strange fish was still the body of a fish, but their mouths were sharp and long like crocodiles, and the inside was lined with dense sharp teeth. These strange fish seemed to have a very high IQ, and when they saw Lucy standing on the bow of the boat out of their reach, they immediately tore at the bottom of the boat with all their might.

Their upper and lower jaws bite with incredible force, and in a few strokes they bite through the hard planks, digging several large holes in the bottom of the boat like a sharp cone, and then continue to pull along the holes.

At this rate, the boat would soon be dismembered and sunk, and Luci would fall to the bottom of the sea, to be slaughtered.

"Interesting, this is the checkpoint before landing on the island," the ship was already half-sunk, and Lucy was not alarmed, even if he didn't have Black Wing, he couldn't have been hurt by this kind of thing, but then his clothes would inevitably get wet with the sea.

So he spread his black wings, effortlessly cut the strange fish into pieces of minced meat, and then was about to fly away from the sinking boat, only to find a large passenger ship slowly approaching in the distance.

Lucy suddenly realized, after seeing the strange fish bite his boat a few times, he also had doubts, if it is an ordinary candidate who can't read, how should he land on the island, after all, it is impossible for everyone to have his confidence. Now it seems that he should be too reckless, the hunter exam will not arrange an unsolvable assessment, as long as you find the right way according to the clues, you should be able to board the passenger ship to the island. A passenger ship of that size is not something that a few strange fish can do.

"So my method is wrong, and those candidates who board the passenger ship are the right way to pass?" Lucy pursed his lips and immediately stopped thinking about the problem, since there was a passenger ship to carry, he didn't need to fly over by himself.

Seeing the direction of the passenger ship, Luxi lightly touched his feet and disappeared in place in an instant, leaving only the boat to sink gradually.

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The hull of this passenger ship is engraved with the logo belonging to the Hunters' Association, and at this time, the candidates are gathered on the deck in twos and threes.

The candidates who were able to board this ship were the best among the millions of candidates, and they were only one step away from successfully reaching the exam venue, so the aura they exuded was also different from other candidates, they were the best of the best.

At the balustrade of the deck was a line of men, among them was a chunky man with a square nose, who was constantly searching the sea for other ships with a telescope. When he saw Lucy's boat being attacked by strange fish, Humpty Dumpty couldn't help but let out a burst of "ho-ho" laughter in his throat, as if he had enjoyed a great show.

"Tsk, what a schadenfreude, Dongba."

Outside the cabin behind Humpty Dumpty sat a middle-aged man dressed as a snake dancer, and after hearing Humpty Dumpty's chilling laughter, the middle-aged man sneered, "When I hear your disgusting smile, I know that there is another newcomer who is unlucky?" ”

Humpty Dumpty, who was called Dongba, didn't care about the tone of the snake dancer, he still stared intently at Luxi's sinking boat, and said without looking back: "It's the first time I've seen such a stupid candidate, haven't I ever explored the bottom of this sea area beforehand, I want to cross the sea when I start a wooden boat, and now I'm going to die in the sea." No, under the siege of so many viper eels, there should be no corpses, hehehehe......"

"Let me see!" A strong man next to Dongba snatched the telescope in his hand, but was interrupted when he was on the head, Dongba couldn't help but have a touch of viciousness in his eyes, but he endured it very well, lying on the railing casually and standing on tiptoe trying to look at the small black dot in the distance.

"Poor fellow, there are six viper eels, and if I were he he would kill himself at once, lest he have to taste the pain of being torn and devoured before he dies." The strong man sighed as he watched, having said that, there was no sympathetic look on his face, but the same schadenfreude as Dongba.

"Well, there's only one bow left on the water, ten seconds at most...... Well? What's going on? ”

The smile on the strong man's face disappeared, and he stared blankly at the picture displayed in the telescope, "Why did those viper eels suddenly ......?"

"Give it to me!" Dongba took the opportunity to snatch back the binoculars, and just as he pressed one eye to the lens, he suddenly felt something strange.

He slowly raised his head and opened his mouth wide like the other candidates around him.

Above the passenger ship, the owner of the boat, who had been seen by him with a telescope before, a black-haired boy about sixteen years old, stood silently in the sky, looking down at the candidates on the deck.

"There are still a lot of people, do you want to eliminate another batch for the association."

The young man muttered to himself in a loud voice, then nodded, and said casually:

"It's decided, a large number of people will die in the hunter exam anyway, so let me see your quality in advance."

Then, a chill that could not be seen or touched but implanted with bone marrow hit all the candidates on the ship.