Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 396: A Fake Person with Mixed Memories

boom!
The fist wind came like a bomb and hit Leonard's helmet. With a click, the helmet broke instantly!

After a brief dizziness, he looked carefully and saw Biscuit, who had returned to his tall, true appearance.

Biscuit's fists were ruthless, and his words were even worse.

"At this point, anyone who still tries to gain sympathy with unreliable memories and delay time to produce more 'companions' is definitely a 'fake person'."

"To put it bluntly, the fastest way to tell the truth between us is for one of us to die. The behavior after death will be enough to prove innocence."

"In my memory, we are both professional hunters. If you were a real person, you should have realized the same thing as me, right?"

Biscuit, who was in the posture of "Heart Source Flow", immediately chased after Leonard after saying this.

Leonard noticed that Germain and the others had no intention of intervening, so he frowned inside his helmet and had to take action.

He once again wielded two straight swords wrapped in mental energy and slashed at Bisiji several times, each time with great force.

However, in terms of combat power, he is still better than Siji.

Biscuit used his mind to deflect Leonard's attacks one by one, and used the "Heart Source Boxing" to force Leonard back continuously.

The armor on Leonard's body was swept by Biscuit's fist, and it broke into pieces and fell off, leaving his body covered with scars.

Most importantly, he was under tremendous psychological pressure.

Because he knew very well that no matter whether he won or lost the battle, he would not escape death.

If he were on a chessboard, he would be in a situation where he was about to be "checkmed"!
In this situation, Leonard immediately took out a scroll from his arms and spread it out!

hum-

A dazzling golden light flashed in Bisiji's eyes, causing Bisiji's movements to pause.

He retracted the scroll, took the opportunity to turn around, and tried to slip into the darkness of the rainforest.

The armor was broken apart by Bisiji's fists, which just helped him to reduce the burden and walk more lightly and quickly.

It's not that Leonard didn't see what happened to Dubisk who also escaped, but he now has no choice.

However, he was startled when he turned around.

Because Jin had been standing behind him without him noticing, and had been silently accumulating golden energy in his body for a long time.

"You were right."

Jin didn't wait for Leonard to speak, he raised his hand and punched him.

"No! Wait..."

The golden energy was like a poisonous snake biting, leaving Leonard no time to react and instantly exploding his head like a watermelon!

Leonard's body swayed crookedly for a while, and then fell to the ground.

After a while, the same black smoke came out from his body.

After the death of "false people", they will burn themselves, symbolizing that they come naked and go naked.

This is why the corpses left on the ground by the tribes that everyone encountered killing each other during the day were less than expected.

After a melee, all the "false people" died, and the four people present breathed a sigh of relief, and then they gathered together.

It's safe for now.

Biscuit turned back into her petite form, and because the bright light from the scroll had pierced her eyes, they felt sore and painful, so she had to take out a handkerchief to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes.

After she felt a little better, she opened her eyes, looked at the other three people, and asked:
"You guys couldn't figure out who was the real person and who was the fake one between me and Reynard, right? What if I died in Reynard's hands just now?"

Jin complained:

"Aren't you stronger than him? Besides, you swore that as professional hunters, you should be aware of this, right?"

"I have come to realize this, but I also try not to die because of this... If I must die, I must die in the most beautiful and splendid way."

Biscuit answered as a matter of course.

"Don't worry," said Germain, "Reynald can't afford to gamble in a fight to the death. If he runs away, it will be the same as telling us that he is a fake."

"If he insists on fighting you, we will stop him before one of you gets seriously injured, and find another way to judge."

Biscuit nodded and said:
"I knew you were thinking this, so I took immediate action against Leonard and forced him into a desperate situation. I also revealed my identity to you."

"After all, he is a newly created 'human' and doesn't know you well enough."

"Xiao Di, you should be able to recognize that I am the real person, right?"

"Hmm..." Xiaodi tilted her head and thought for a while, then nodded.

In fact, she didn't recognize it, but as the saying goes, "birds of a feather flock together", she became much more cunning.

She almost thought that she was a "fake person", so how could she recognize that Biscuit was a real person.

"Very good, it's worth it that I'm so nice to you." Biscuit also chose to believe it with a smile.

Germain thought about it, but then shook his head and said:
"Perhaps they are not newly created 'people', but some kind of template that already existed."

Everyone looked at him in confusion.

After Leonard fell, a piece of German's memory that was deliberately sealed was finally opened.

He remembered.

The "Crusader", "The Binder", "Barbarian Warrior", and "Shieldbreaker" are all game characters in "Darkest Dungeon".

However, they are not exactly the same “heroes” as in “Darkest Dungeon”. Many of their backgrounds have been localized and modified to better suit this world.

In other words, "Twin-Tailed Snake Hell Ringtone" is using the memories of Germain, King, Biscuit, and Xiaodi to create a seemingly "hybrid human".

Facing everyone's confused looks, German explained:

"You should all remember now, Reynard, Hart, Sigman and Dubisk, their past lives and interpersonal relationships..."

"These don't seem to be something that can be created in a short time or simply. So I think they come from our memories and are a mixture of various images."

"It's just that they all became the templates used by the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bell" to quickly create humans, and became one of the 'bait'."

Jin understood and said:
“Indeed, the Twin-Tailed Snake Hell Bell cannot create a perfect human being out of thin air because they do not understand human society well enough.”

"What's more, they also need to shape different Nen abilities, which requires more information, which they cannot fully process and digest in a short period of time."

"Then, the most economical and practical method is to directly obtain some of them from our minds and merge them together."

"In order to prevent us from discovering the flaws too quickly, they used methods such as modifying cognition and blocking some memories to confuse us."

Biscuit smiled proudly:

"Normally speaking, this method is enough to deal with ordinary Nen teams in a short period of time, but they were unlucky to run into us."

"'Plant Weapons · Gold and Silver Ingots', 'Immortal Disease · Zobaai', 'Human-Educating Beast · Papu'... Having experienced all kinds of disasters, we will not lose our composure so easily."

Everyone looked at each other and smiled in a relaxed manner.

After knowing the true identity of "Double-Tailed Snake·Hell Bell", everyone will be able to find a way to deal with it, and they won't have to grope in the dark like before.

Finally, nothing happened in the second half of the night. Everyone took turns to keep watch, and the other three took the opportunity to have a good rest.

You don't have to sleep, as long as you can slowly restore your energy and focus, and don't let yesterday's fatigue affect your actions today.

A few hours later, the orange sun rose slowly, and even the lush rainforest branches and leaves could not block all the light.

The gray and charcoal-black embers of the bonfire danced in the sudden cold and wet wind, floating in the air like pieces of paper.

The sky, which had rested all night, became gray again, and soon the familiar lightning and thunder appeared.

Pah, pah, pah, the hot rain fell into the muddy ground of the rainforest, and the rising smoke formed a big net that caught everything. Fortunately, no matter how heavy the rain was, it would only last for a while, and rarely for more than twenty minutes.

After the post station exploration team set off again, they had to resume the stop-and-go rhythm of yesterday's daytime.

They slowly moved through the rain forest, dealing with various monsters that lurked here from time to time.

However, until the afternoon of that day, no one encountered the "Twin-Tailed Snake·Hell Bell" again.

German decided to change tactics:
"Now that we know what the ability of the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bell" is, I think there is no need for us to waste time exploring the borders of the rainforest."

"Our destination is always the swamp. Based on our previous experience in challenging other "disasters", the "Double-tailed Snake Hell Bell" will most likely guard the vicinity of the swamp."

"Finding a large settlement of the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bells" is like getting closer and closer to the swamp."

"As for how to find the large settlements of the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bells", I think we should start by finding the tribes that are killing each other."

Everyone felt that what Germain said made sense, so they changed their strategy and began to use "circles" and telescopes to find the tribes that were fighting.

Every time they found a group, they would observe and search nearby for the "Double-Tailed Snake·Hell Bell", or at least find any traces they left behind.

However, the "Two-tailed Snake Hell Bell" may have already used the "Dark Space" to jump away after causing a massacre, or perhaps it knew that everyone was looking for it, so it deliberately avoided them.

All in all, everyone searched for a long time but found nothing.

However, those ethnic groups that continued to kill each other until they were bloody were like lighthouses on the bay, pointing out the approximate direction with their beams of light.

At least everyone knew that the "Double-Tailed Snake·Hell Bell" must have appeared in this area.

On the night of that day, they were attacked at night again. It was very rare to be attacked at night for two consecutive days.

However, with the current exploration team lineup, they easily repelled the enemy and killed the night raider leader.

Night attacks no longer pose much of a threat to them.

It was the third day since they arrived in the rainforest.

Because they couldn't find the whereabouts of the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bell", German and others changed their ideas again.

In order not to alert the enemy, they no longer use large "circles".

Perhaps it was because the "Twin-Tailed Snake·Hell Bell" sensed the large-scale "circle" from German and Jin that it disappeared on its own initiative.

This time they only used a small-scale "circle" and concealed their own aura.

This way they can both give early warning and try to catch the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bell" before it jumps into the "Dark Space" and escapes.

Finally, when Jin carved a Möbius strip mark nearby, he unexpectedly discovered a "Two-tailed Snake - Hell Bell" coiled on a tree branch.

He was surprised and delighted, then left quietly, returned to the team, and immediately told others about his discovery.

After searching for almost two days, the group finally saw a living "Two-tailed Snake·Hell Bell" again, and they couldn't help but feel excited.

Since when, in their eyes, "disaster" is no longer a "disaster", but has truly become "prey".

Germain asked:
"Jin, have you seen the other "Double-tailed Snake Hell Bell"? "

"No, at least I didn't find anything after a brief observation with my naked eyes. I was worried that if I released the "circle", the "two-tailed snake Hell Bell" would notice it, so I didn't detect the surroundings."

Biscuit nodded and said:

"You're right. We spent so much time catching one. We can't let it get away so easily. These monsters are really sensitive..."

So, everyone concealed their breath and tiptoed to the place where Jin had left the Möbius strip mark before.

Jin glanced in one direction and nodded to everyone, indicating that the "Double-Tailed Snake·Hell Bell" was still in place.

No one said anything, but just looked in the direction of his finger. Sure enough, they saw a "Two-tailed Snake - Hell's Bell" hidden by several branches and leaves, almost blending in with the surrounding environment.

It was wrapped around the branches like a hemp rope, occasionally moving its soft scaly limbs.

The four members of the post station exploration team did not act rashly, and did what they were supposed to do as hunters.

They held their breath, hid in the bushes and watched quietly.

After a while, German suddenly waved to the others and pointed in a direction.

The other three looked over and saw another "Two-tailed Snake - Hell's Bell" on another branch.

Over the next quarter of an hour, they spotted more and more "Double-Tailed Snakes - Hell Bells" hiding in the dense forest.

A simple count showed that there were more than thirty "Double-Tailed Snakes·Hell Bells" that had been witnessed by them, and there were many more that had not been witnessed.

Everyone communicated silently with their eye contact. The tacit understanding developed from fighting side by side for a long time allowed them to quickly understand the meaning of each other's eyes.

There are so many "Double-Tailed Snakes·Hell Bells" here, it seems that this is undoubtedly their gathering place.

They finally found the right path.

Perhaps the swamp is somewhere around here.

Jin gestured to everyone, first extending his right fist to represent the settlement of the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bells", then raising his left hand to represent the Post Exploration Team and making a circling motion.

Everyone quickly understood what Jin meant.

Since the swamp is most likely nearby, there is no need to get too entangled with the "Double-Tailed Snake·Hell Bells".

They had to bypass this settlement as quietly and stealthily as possible and go straight to the enemy.

All three nodded in agreement with Jin's suggestion, and then they began to move as quietly as shadows.

However, the hot rain that had stopped for a long time began to fall at an inopportune time when they were quietly passing by.

Raindrops as big as beans fell with a plop.

The "Twin-Tailed Snakes·Hell Bells" were originally staying quietly in one place, but now they all moved because of the rain.

As they moved around, several "Two-tailed Snakes·Hell Bells" soon noticed the presence of German and others who were originally in the blind spot, and immediately raised their upper bodies and spit out their tongues.

hiss--

hiss--

hiss--

The "Twin-tailed Snake·Hell Bell" that first discovered the members of the Post Station exploration team issued a warning, and then more and more "Twin-tailed Snake·Hell Bell" noticed this group of humans.

German and the others realized that hiding was no longer meaningful, so they gave up, looked at each other, and made a prompt decision.

They no longer took a detour, but instead walked directly through the settlement of the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bells", intending to break through as quickly as possible.

The "Double-Tailed Snakes·Hell Bells" among the branches did not jump into the "Dark Space" and leave this time. Instead, they hissed threateningly at them.

This actually proved the guess in the minds of German and others, that this place was not far from the swamp.

In order to protect the swamp, the "Double-Tailed Snake Hell Bell" even gave up its biological instinct to avoid danger.

The previous "Plant Weapons·Gold and Silver Ingots", "Immortal Disease·Zobaai", and "Human-Educating Beast·Papu" also showed similar characteristics of protecting territory.

Germann walked quickly forward and said:

"Don't worry about them. Since they are "counterattack-type telekinetic monsters" that can only be triggered by death, just let them scream."

The other three also understood this truth, so they ignored the threat of "Double-Tailed Snake·Hell Bell".

And "Twin-Tailed Snake Hell Bell" would certainly not let them go so easily.

They create "dark spaces" by shaking the cysts on their bodies and flexibly drill into them.

The next moment, they appeared from all directions of the members of the station exploration team, baring their fangs ferociously and biting them.

This scene was so terrifying that it was as if everyone had plunged headfirst into a cave of thousands of snakes!
(End of this chapter)