Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 176 "Fear of the Growing Strangeness of Them"

Sheila couldn't help but secretly gasp.

You call this "not knowing much"? If you know a lot, what does it look like?
Do you know clearly the details of the elders of Meteor Street, the process of garbage classification, the monthly population transfer in exchange for weapons, etc.?
Germann looked at her, as if to indicate that he had said everything he knew and it was her turn to continue.

Silla was stunned for a moment, then said: "Indeed... that's right, it's right."

At this moment, she recalled some fragments of memories, her eyes dimmed, and then she spent several minutes recounting the events before and after Sarasa's murder.

These have been briefly mentioned before and will not be repeated here.

However, everyone knew that the key point was in Sheila's subsequent words.

"Sarasa, Paknoda and I were best friends when we were little. We really shouldn't have let Sarasa go back alone that day. We have always regretted it."

"We knew that since we can remember, a large number of women and children have been abducted near Meteor Street, but we still let our guard down that day."

"Although I also know that even if I were there, I couldn't change the outcome, but at least dying with Sarasa would make her less afraid and desperate in the last moments of her life..."

As Sheila spoke, she began to tremble all over.

Xiaodi hugged Sheila's shoulders comfortingly, but she was really not good at this, and in the end she just mechanically touched Sheila's hair.

Sheila smiled bleakly and whispered "thank you".

"How should I put it... Over the years, I have never given up investigating Sarasa's death. Even I hope that those villains will receive the most brutal retribution."

"But the investigation has been fruitless. At the same time, I know that the Phantom Troupe has never given up investigating this matter, and their focus is on the outsiders who entered and left Meteor City that year."

"As mentioned before, Meteor Street has reached a cooperation with the mafia and will regularly send people to the mafia."

"However, gangs and some groups will still enter Meteor Street secretly to conduct 'selection'. It is very likely that Sarasa died in this 'selection'."

"I guess the Phantom Troupe thought that if they could find a list of the people or groups that were most likely to act on their own, they could find the real culprit."

"At the same time, they also set up a dark website dedicated to uploading and downloading bloody massacres, perverted torture and other anti-human videos to attract the real murderer."

"But, in this case, they needed the help of the gangs, and they also needed to make the website famous, so about three or four years ago..."

When Shira said this, she looked at Kurapika, and her unfinished words spoke for themselves.

Kurapika sat on the rock, silent.

However, his clenched fists still expressed his anger, but under the guidance of Teacher German, he knew how to control himself better.

Shira pursed her lips, but decided to continue speaking despite the possibility of Kurapika's outburst.

"The Kuruta tribe's fiery red eyes were given as gifts by the Phantom Troupe to gangs and other groups in exchange for information and to increase the fame of the website."

"As a result, they probably didn't get any clues directly pointing to the real culprit, but only got some indirect intelligence."

"Because once we find the murderers, they will definitely tell me, even if we have different ideas. I will tell them the same thing."

"Back then, I didn't ask them what they had investigated, but I still learned about their main investigation direction not long ago..."

"Xiao Di, haven't you always been curious about why I suddenly left Meteor Street a few months ago?" Xiao Di blinked her big eyes: "Didn't you say you were afraid that the "Phantom Troupe" would discover the connection between you and us?"

"Well..." Sheila nodded awkwardly, "I am indeed very afraid. Because the details of the cases they have done are passed to my ears from time to time."

"I find myself understanding them less and less. I'm not even sure if they would do something similar to me. They fell into the same depravity as the people who killed Saratha years ago."

"But the most important thing is that the Phantom Troupe returned to Meteor City, and I met Paknotta without knowing it."

"I've said before that Sarasa, Paknotta, and I had a very good relationship when we were young. So when she saw me, she took the initiative to chat with me and revealed some details of their investigation."

"After the conversation, I returned to my residence alone and found myself sweating profusely without realizing it."

"Because I know Paknoda's "psychic ability", at that time, as long as she touched me and mentioned the names of Germain and Xiaodi, I would have revealed everything involuntarily."

"After I realized this, I couldn't stay in Meteor Street any longer because I didn't know when Paknoda and the others would suddenly come to my door, so I ran away immediately."

Sheila recalled this with a tremor in her voice.

In fact, she knew that even if the connection was exposed, the Phantom Troupe would most likely not harm her.

However, she did not dare to gamble, having seen the scene of the Kuruta massacre, vomited continuously that day, and fled in the woods like a headless fly in panic.

The scene was not much different from what happened to Sarasa.

A voice in Sheila's heart was asking, what if, what if they could really be so cruel as to disregard their childhood friendship?
When she recalled this, she took a long time to calm her rapid breathing, but her face was still a little pale.

"Anyway, I learned from Paknoda who they gave the "Red Eyes" to. Kurapika... do you... do you want to hear it?"

Kurapika glanced at her and nodded unusually calmly: "Go ahead, tell me."

Shira was a little surprised at Kurapika's calmness, but still told him the truth.

Kurapika listened to the names and identities, compared them with the list handed over by Saiyou, and picked out the group of people he didn't know yet.

"Artists, politicians, religious leaders, capitalists, business employees, swindlers, doctors..."

Kurapika muttered to himself, adding quite a few more names to the list in his mind.

This group of people are either secretly middle or high-level members of a gang, or middle or high-level members of a certain organization or group. In short, they all have a certain social status.

Of course, the "Red Eyes" have been in their hands for several years, and it is not ruled out that they may be circulated, such as through the Youkexin underground auction.

However, it is hard to imagine that people who have such a perverted hobby as collecting "human eyeballs" would be willing to trade them voluntarily unless they encounter extremely special and difficult circumstances.

Then, the "Fire Red Eye" is most likely still in the hands of most of this group of people, and only a small part has gone to other people.

Paknotta is an expert in "reading memories" and will never make mistakes in this regard unless she deliberately deceives Sheila.

As long as we find them, we can get back the eyes of our people.

(End of this chapter)