Chapter 4: Hunter Pre-selection (1)
At night, the Mondstadt Church is so dark that there is not even a trace of light to be seen, and the mysterious wind that blows in with the crows that chirp all around adds to the dark and terrifying atmosphere of the place.
However, at the door of such an eerie church, there sat a beggar dressed in rags.
He grabbed the skin on his chest with one hand, threw a broken bowl at his feet, and leaned casually against the door, looking up at the moon in the sky.
Meng Ruxue glanced at the church not far away, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, flipped the clown card in her hand back and forth in her hand, and then stopped her eyes on the beggar at the door of the church.
Her mind spun quickly, and after some careful deliberation on the connection between the beggar and the hunter's exam, she walked in his direction.
Meng Ruxue threw the clown card into the beggar's bowl, and the beggar turned his head to look at Meng Ruxue when he heard the sound, with a puzzled look on his face.
"What are you doing here?"
"Let you take me into the Hunter Exam venue, I know you're the guide, take me in."
The confusion on the beggar's face instantly turned to calm, and he patted his pants and slowly stood up, touching the back of his head with one hand.
"I didn't expect to be seen through by you at a glance."
Meng Ruxue smiled slightly, "Although you look tattered, your shoes betray you, and real beggars don't wear such clean shoes." β
"Little girl, you're observant."
The beggar glanced at his shoes, and then continued, "Since you have seen through me, please follow me, and I will lead you into the hunter's pre-selection venue." β
"Hunter pre-selection venue? This hunter exam is not conducted directly? Dream Ruxue's face was full of doubts.
The beggar explained to her as he led the way: "This hunter's profession is not something that ordinary people can do, and the hunter's examination is extremely dangerous, in order to select those who can be qualified to take the examination, a preliminary selection is often held before the examination, and only those who pass the preliminary selection are qualified to take the following examinations." β
"So, does that mean everyone has to pass the pre-selection before they can take the hunter exam?" Meng Ruxue continued to ask.
"No, if there is a hunter's recommendation, then you don't need to participate in the pre-selection, you can directly take the official exam."
When the beggar said this, he opened the door in front of him for Dream Ruxue.
"Thank you."
Meng Ruxue walked in, and what appeared in front of her was a very gorgeous and elegantly decorated room, there was a reception desk in the room, and there were two service staff standing at the front desk, and there seemed to be some documents on the table.
Meng Ruxue walked in front of the service staff and looked at the documents placed at the front desk, only to see that the documents were marked in red with words regardless of life or death.
"...... this?"
"A contract of life and death." The front desk staff replied with a smile.
"Life and death contract?!"
"Yes. However, you don't have to worry, there is usually no danger to the candidate's life during the pre-selection stage, and you are only asked to sign it just in case.
However, if you are lucky enough to take the official exam, then this life and death contract will be different and will be used as a basis for future use, which will come in handy in some ways. β
Although the service staff at the front desk said very subtly and tactfully, and the smile on her face was bright, Meng Ruxue clearly heard a trace of disdain from it, knowing that the other party thought from the bottom of her heart that she would not be able to reach the official participation stage.
Although Meng Ruxue also thought that she could not become a hunter at all, being underestimated by others still made her very unhappy to snatch the life and death contract, quickly signed her name on it, and then threw it in front of them.
"Take it."
As soon as Meng Ruxue's words came out, the door behind her was slammed shut by the beggar.
"Miss Meng, please come here."
One of the waitresses opened a door behind Meng Ruxue for Meng Ruxue, smiled and made a gesture of invitation to invite her in.
Meng Ruxue looked at the door, her heart couldn't help but speed up, she swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then stepped into the door.
Inside the door was another vast space, and there were about 7 or 800 people standing inside, each holding a different weapon, with a hostile and fierce expression, which at first glance seemed to be not simple.
Meng Ruxue carefully searched among these people, but she did not see the figure of the night moon, and she suddenly remembered what the beggar had said to her just now
- As long as you have a hunter's recommendation, you don't need to participate in the pre-selection, and you can directly take the official exam.
Sean is the hunter, and he's going to take the night moon as an apprentice. In that case, he should recommend the Night Walker Moon so that he doesn't have to go through the trouble of participating in the caucuse.
It seems that if I want to see the night moon, I have to find a way to pass the pre-selection first.
Thinking like this, Meng Ruxue sat down in the corner of the room, and began to observe the appearance of each of them, and judge from their words what kind of scene the next pre-selection would be.
She vaguely heard the reason from their conversation, it turned out that the pre-selection of the hunter exam would have different questions every time, and the examiner would change to a different examiner, and the format of the exam was completely determined by the examiner, so no one could guess the content of the exam, and no one could deal with it in advance.
Meng Ruxue's heart was half cold, but at this moment, the electronic screen above the room suddenly lit up, and I saw an old man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks appear in the electronic screen, coughed twice and said:
"Ahem, hello everyone, I am the chief examiner of this hunter pre-selection, my name is Cui Bo, and I will preside over your exam next. You will soon be in the pre-selected examination room, I wish you all an easy pass, and that's it, I'll go first. β
As soon as Cui Bo was about to leave, the people present made an uproar, and one of them shouted into the electronic screen:
"Hey, hey, hey...... Lord Examiner, you haven't said anything, have you? What's next? How do you pass it, you didn't say a word? β
"Really? Didn't I say it? Cui Bo touched his head awkwardly, "Oops~ This is super simple, as long as you successfully reach the -38th floor, you will pass." β
As soon as Treber finished speaking, the room suddenly fell, and those who were not leaning against the wall and lying on the ground at random were thrown to the roof, and the moment the room stopped, they were thrown to the ground heavily.
"Ah...... I seem to be late, this room is a huge elevator, and it will come to the examination room on the -37th floor after I finish the exam rules. Oops, I actually forgot about it, I'm really embarrassed~hahahaha~" Cui Bo laughed loudly.
His laughter completely angered some of the candidates in the room, who cursed and pointed at the electronic screen, and just about to attack with their weapons, the wall on the right suddenly collapsed, revealing a primeval forest space.
"Then please come on~ Old man, I'll go first!" The electronic screen went dark.
No matter how much they vent, Cui Bo will never be seen again.
Meng Ruxue took a look at the outside sceneβthe gurgling water, the seemingly dense and dangerous primeval forest, the roaring sounds of birds and beasts coming from nowhere, everything seemed to hide the danger.
The remaining candidates, who did not fall in the elevator, poured into the primeval forest in front of them. In less than a moment, they were all gone, leaving only Meng Ruxue, who had not yet stepped out of the elevator.
Meng Ruxue glanced at the primeval forest again, she vaguely smelled a strange smell, and there seemed to be a white mist in front of her.
She looked at the white mist in front of her, frowned deeply, opened the medicine box on her shoulder, took out a pill from the medicine box, and swallowed it in one gulp.
After taking a deep breath, she finally took a step and walked into the primeval forest.