"Give me 5 mg of serum, purity 1. A woman's voice, eager.

"I recommend waiting. Another man whispered.

The woman tried her best to suppress the urgency in her heart: "Samur, we can't wait any longer. I'm a doctor, my job is to save people, this child was bitten by a monster and is now unconscious, he will ...... if he doesn't inject serum"

"He can find this place and there is no abnormality, I don't think I need to inject the serum for the time being, I can wait, he has no ulcers on his body. The man named Samuel replied, "Sheena, trust my judgment. ”

Sheena's voice came again: "I don't care so much! If he delays the best injection time because of you, then don't think about me helping you purify the serum again!"

The argument between the two men slowly woke Lorne up. He coughed twice and opened his eyes, surrounded by the warm light of the fire, and in front of him was a towering skylight.

"I'm hungry...... Lorne sat up weakly.

Samur and Sheena turned their heads together, relieved. Hearing Lorne say that she was hungry, Sheena hurriedly asked someone to bring the boiled rice soup, and then sighed: "Holy Mother bless!"

"I say, he'll be fine. Samuel smiled.

Lorne sat up slowly, and found himself in a clean outfit and the smell of corpses gone.

It was a small room, and Sheena was standing on the left, looking about thirty years old, with a few fine lines at the corners of her eyes, not particularly good-looking, but giving people a very capable feeling. A silver-gray slim shirt and pants, and long pearl-white hair tied up, very refreshing.

On the right is Samur, a medium-tall man with a dark leather jacket and pants and a brown cloak. He has a well-trimmed beard, a cowboy hat buckled diagonally over his head, and two large crossbows pinned to his waist, like a ranger in Western stories.

Hina glanced at Samuel angrily, but when she woke up, she didn't say anything more, and asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell?"

Lorne shook his head. Hina and Samur looked at each other and asked, "Son, where did you come from?" and how did you get hurt?"

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and a lovely girl with an ivory white ponytail walked in, her blue eyes were shining, she looked seventeen or eighteen years old, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers on her body. She handed over a bowl of rice soup with both hands: "Drink it quickly, it will be more comfortable to drink." ”

Lorne looked at her, thinking she was beautiful, with an indescribable feeling, but reminiscent of an angel. He took the rice soup: "Thank you." ”

"Erin, did you get the serum?" asked Sheena.

Erin dug into her coat pocket and took out a syringe the length of her index finger, which contained a dark yellow gelatin: "Bring it, purity 1,5 mg, efficacy 5." ”

"Very well, you go get some food for them. Sheena nodded, and Erin went out.

Lorne took a few sips of the warm rice soup and finally relented, saying, "My name is Lorne Green...... Actually, I'm not sure. I came from a town, but there didn't seem to be any living people there, and the streets were covered with corpses covered in black cloths. ”

Sheena's eyes widened, "Woodtown, how is that possible!" she said, her eyes filled with grief and horror.

Samur also raised the brim of his hat, and there was a cold light in his eyes: "Lorne, where are you really from?"

"I swear!" Lorne raised his right hand, "I woke up covered with a black cloth and felt a foul smell all around me, so I quickly crawled out." ”

The two were silent, making eye contact, and Lorne looked strange, but he didn't dare to ask more. After a few seconds, Samur whispered, "There's a plague in Wood Town, people are dying of infections, we're only there today, and there's nothing we can do." You said you crawled out from under the black cloth, don't you...... Is it a resurrection from the dead?"

"I don't know, I don't remember anything...... Lorne hung his head, "I just remember that I crawled out of the pile of corpses, where this was, what the world was all about, I don't remember anything." ”

The two were silent for a long time, and Sheena sighed and smiled lightly: "If you can't remember, then forget it." These six months have brought us no good memories. ”

She paused and said, "This is a barn outside the town of Wood in the south of the Wood Continent in the Kingdom of Kain, the kingdom of Nokmar. She spoke slowly, trying to awaken Lorne's memory.

Lorne shook his head, frustrated. Samur answered and asked, "Lorne, how did you get the wound on your left arm?" and his voice was low and cold.

Lorne didn't know whether to tell the truth or not, and the ranger seemed to care. But under the pressure of Samur's gaze, Lorne still confessed: "I was bitten by a dirt dog in the town, and it ...... The mouth was wide open, and the neck was cracked. I stabbed it to death and ran right here. ”

These words made Sheena cover her mouth with her hands in horror, gasp, and read "Our Lady bless!". Samuel took a step closer and asked, "How are you feeling?" Do you have a fever, dizziness, or any other symptoms?"

Lorne shook his head.

Sheena hurriedly leaned over to Samur and whispered a few words, glancing at Lorne from time to time. Samur's face was slightly gloomy, and he nodded slightly. Lorne looked uncomfortable and asked, "Excuse me, what's going on?"

"Lorne, do you hear the voice in your head? like a voice coming from the depths of the sea, or like someone is speaking in your ear, in some ancient language, and you can't repeat it, but you know what it means. Samuel asked him directly.

Lorne remembered the faint voice, a cold sweat broke out behind his back, and nodded: "I heard it, and there are strange lights and shadows." It's like there's something in the light and shadow...... I don't know how to describe it. ”

"No need to describe. Their existence itself does not need to be described. "That is the call of the old days, and every hunter can hear it." ”

"Old Summons, Hunter?" Lorne was stunned, but quickly seemed to guess something.

"I'll tell you the specifics slowly. You are special and have been attacked by inferior monsters, but have not been polluted, indicating that you have a natural resistance to inferior monsters. Samuel took a deep breath, "We need you." ”

"Need me...... Do what?" asked Lorne.

"Become a hunter. ”

Lorne gasped.

"I know you have a lot of things to ask, and in simple terms, six months ago, someone unleashed something ancient and evil. The continent has been polluted, monsters are rampant, and the territory of humans is constantly being compressed. "And the hunters exist to take back what is rightfully ours." ”

Lorne was silent for a moment before he spoke, "How do I become a hunter?"

"Before I do that, I have something to say. Samur lowered his hat, "The hunter's ability comes from monsters. ”

"I see. Lorne wasn't so shocked. He had already guessed how powerful an unarmed human could be in the face of those strange monsters, and the syringe in Sheena's hand convinced him that the serum was not only used to resist toxins.

"We fight monsters, refine their hearts and blood into serums, and inject them into human bodies, we will gain similar abilities to them, and we will also begin to hear the call of the old days. "As long as you control the amount, it won't get out of control." ”

Although he was mentally prepared, Lorne shivered when he said it himself. He asked in a low voice, "What do you mean by the purity and potency of the serum?"

Hina explained: "There are several grades of monsters, and tainted animals and humans are generally the lowest inferior, and their blood purity is 1 and 2. Potency is the effect of the serum, calculated by multiplying the purity by the number of milligrams. ”

She picked up the syringe as she spoke: "Here's 5 milligrams of serum with a purity of 1, and the potency is five." If there are toxins in the body, the serum will prioritize detoxification, but since you can resist the toxin, the serum will skip this step and activate your abilities instead. ”

Lorne looked at the dull yellow colloidal in the tube and took a deep breath.

"The Hunter has three basic abilities, Iron Skin, Swiftness, and Brute Force, which strengthen your durability, speed, and strength respectively, and the more advanced abilities have many branches, and may even be endless. "Every time you inject serum, there's a small chance of getting a stronger ability, or a branch of the same level, but it's not always successful." ”

"We don't have a complete capability map. We recorded all the current abilities of hunters and tried to draw a map of their abilities, but the more we drew them, the more laborious it became, because the more advanced the branches, the more complex they became. "We call it the Dark Star Chart." ”