Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 289: Familiar Moose and Centaur

"Hey." Jin waved his right hand to everyone from a distance, with his left hand still in his pocket, and smiled, "I'm back."

I didn’t expect that Jin’s first words after returning would still be so relaxed and natural.

His old hat had been lost, and he now wore a strange straw hat with decorations like antlers sticking out of it.

The clothes he was wearing were also changed. They were no longer so tattered and seemed to be made of some soft and smooth animal skin.

This set of clothes should be one of the gains from his trip during this period.

Everyone looked at each other for a while, but no one spoke. Their eyes only moved from Jin to the group of "people" not far behind him.

Jin smiled, put his hands in his pockets, then focused his eyes on Germain and said, "Germain, you're back too? What a coincidence."

"We've only been here a few days." German pressed down the brim of his tricorn hat, looked behind Jin, and asked, "Jin, they are..."

"Oh." Jin seemed to have just come to his senses and stepped aside. "Let me introduce you to a friend I met outside."

"Friends"?

German, Biscuit and others all felt strange waves in their hearts at the same time.

After Jin took the initiative to make way, the group of "people" walked over slowly and thuddingly, revealing "their" tall and strong torsos on the stone floor.

There are five of them in total, and they all look very similar, with a primate-like upper body and a strong torso, but grafted onto a horse-like body supported by four black hooves.

Although they look like the legendary centaurs, their heads are actually huge moose heads, held high with pride.

In fact, speaking of this kind of "them", German, Bisgi and Xiaodi are relatively familiar, and Menqi and Buhala also recognized them half a beat later.

The person who is most familiar with "them" is none other than Sambika, who once lived with one of "them" day and night.

Sambika looked at "them" in surprise and couldn't help but raise his head and cover his mouth which had long been covered by the mask, as if he was afraid that he would make a rude scream.

Although the posture and appearance are slightly different, they are not much different from the corpse of the "Beheaded Antlered Knight" soaked in the container!

The "Beheaded Antler Knight" is the plant weapon parasite that Germain, Biscuit, Xiaodi and Yun Gu killed outside the ancient labyrinth several months ago.

However, the hair on the lower body of "them" in front of me is more luxuriant, like an untended, overgrown garden.

The “three” people had backpacks slung across their backs that were probably made of the same material as the clothes Jin was wearing.

Everyone can easily conclude that "they" and the "Beheaded Antler Knight" are compatriots and of the same race.

But why does Jin know “them” and what is “their” purpose in following Jin?
However, Kim has already stated before that "they" are friends, so at least the two sides are not in a hostile relationship.

The moment before us is a rather delicate one.

Jin chose this moment to insert an introduction: "They are the 'Moose Centaurs' I met not long ago, and they are all very nice guys."

He smiled, his back turned to the moose-centaurs, and winked at the crowd with his right eye, as if to say, "Pretend it's the first time you meet them."

Everyone, regardless of whether they understood Jin's expression or not, nodded secretly.

"By the way." Jin pulled his hands out of his pockets and said loudly, "There is a set of etiquette to follow when meeting them. Believe me, you'd better follow me."

After he finished speaking, he turned around, with his back to everyone, then faced the five moose centaurs and raised his right hand to the left side of his head.

Then, his palms drew a crescent shape along the order of head, left shoulder, and right waist, and finally his right palm slowly moved to his right thigh.

Everyone looked at each other again, and then chose to believe Jin unconditionally at this moment, and they also made the same gesture.

As soon as they made the gesture, the moose soldiers over there responded.

The moose-man-horse spread out his four hooves and came a little closer, and made the same gesture to everyone in a condescending but not arrogant manner.

Everyone could clearly feel that the expressions on the moose centaur's faces had softened a little, and the originally tense skin and flesh had loosened a little.

"Uh..." Biscuit, who is always eloquent, was a little stuck when facing the moose centaurs.

"Jin, what should we do next? How should we communicate with them? Should we use sign language all the time?"

If they keep using sign language, they will have too much to learn.

Jin turned around and gave everyone a mysterious smile. Just as he was about to say something, he was interrupted by a dull, rough voice.

"Human, don't worry, we know some of your language."

Everyone showed a look of surprise, because the one who spoke was not one of them, nor Jin, but the leader of the five moose men.

The moose centaur in the lead looked stronger, carrying a spear and a huge shield on his back.

He spoke in short sentences and seemed not very skilled, but he was neither humble nor arrogant.

"My name is Scela, and I am the bravest warrior of our tribe."

The tall moose-centaur was generous in praising himself and was proud of it, and the other four moose-centaur men had no objections either.

For their clan, Scela's strength is recognized, so no one will be unhappy about it.

On the other hand, if a moose-man stronger than Scela appears in the future, Scela must give way and the rest of the tribe must recognize it.

However, these are not the most important things at the moment.

"You know... our language?" Biscuit showed an incredible expression and asked the question on behalf of everyone else, "But, how is it possible?"

Chimera ants understand human language because they invaded the human world and the queen ants ate their mating offspring, mixing in human genes and memories.

Such offspring will naturally and easily master human language. At worst, they will be able to learn it after some effort.

But the situation of the moose centaur is completely different from that of the chimera ants.

The six continents are separated from the dark continent by a vast ocean. If humans want to go deep into the ancient labyrinth in a normal way, they will have to pay a huge price.

As a result, there is a natural gap between humans and the various creatures of the Dark Continent.

How could a race like the Centaurs, which has almost no connection with the human world, have human language?

The next moment, Scela told the truth.

"We, our ancestors, have known Dong. It was Dong who taught us your language so that we could communicate and trade what we needed."

Although it was intermittent, Scela still expressed the main points he wanted to express.

East?
East Fulisi?

Everyone looked at Jin in surprise.

Jin smiled and nodded: "When I first met them, we almost got into a fight, but it was Scela who stopped the fight."

"Then, they could speak our language, which was enough to surprise me, but what surprised me even more was that they knew Dong."

"They were willing to take the initiative to calm down the conflict and communicate with me because they saw that I looked similar to Dong."

Of course, the similarity between Jin and Dong here does not necessarily mean that their similarity is inherited from previous generations.

It may also be that humans are too rare in the Dark Continent, which makes every human that the moose centaurs see seem to look the same.

This is just like when everyone looks at the moose and horses in front of them, if they don't look carefully, they may not be able to distinguish them.

"But..." Jin reached into his arms, searched for a while, and pulled out a stack of paper rolls, "These are what really made us become friends."

(End of this chapter)