Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 405 Dong Fulishi needs to prove his identity

A bonfire was lit in a clearing in the dense forest outside the swamp. The red-burning firewood made a crackling sound and broke into two pieces.

German placed several wooden stakes horizontally next to the campfire as temporary seats, and invited the man who called himself "Dong Fulishi" to come and sit down.

"Thank you for your kindness, but I can't sit over there..."

"Are you worried that we are enemies?" German asked.

Dong shook his head.

"You misunderstood. I am not overly wary of you. Although this mentality is very important in the Dark Continent, it is not for this reason."

"It's just that if I sit over there, it would be irresponsible to you."

Dong was wrapped tightly in a black robe, even his head was covered tightly with a hood, and only his eyes, nose tip and chin could be vaguely seen.

As he spoke more and more of the Six Continents language, Dong's speech became more fluent.

It’s just that every word of what he said just now was understandable, but the combination of them was confusing.

After he rejected Germann's invitation, he sat alone in the shadows away from the campfire and the crowd, dozens of meters away from Germann and others.

However, compared to the more than 100 meters when they first met, his current distance can be considered to indicate "trust and closeness", right?
Jin saw his ancestor whom he had been missing for a long time, but he was unexpectedly quiet.

He kept looking at Dong with his sharp eyes, but said nothing, giving up the initiative of the topic.

Biscuit and Xiaodi were originally immersed in the "Harvest of Nitolomi", but they were stunned when they saw the "East Fulish" they had been looking for suddenly appeared.

The emergence of "Dong Fulisi" is really surprising.

However, given the situation at the time, they looked at the "East Fulish" with suspicion while quickly picking the "Nitolomi" plants as intact as possible and storing them in the "Pop-Eyed Fish".

Dong couldn't help but show an understanding expression when he saw the "bulgy fish" eating with relish. Some of the questions in his mind had been answered.

The swamp was obviously not a good place for conversation, and everyone had just finished a fierce battle and urgently needed to rest.

So after picking 119 Nitolomi plants, everyone came to the open space in an eerie and silent atmosphere, lit a bonfire, and sat down.

Is it “Ye Gong likes dragons”?

German looked at Jin, then at Biscuit, but none of them spoke.

Normally, they both spoke boldly about the guesses about "Dong", but now that they saw the person suspected to be the real "Dong", they were silent.

This scene is really amazing.

"German, you can hear my "voice" now, right?"

Jin's voice reached German's heart. His expression remained unchanged and his eyes did not move away from Dong.

"I heard you."

"Ask him, how can he prove that he is the East Fu Li Shi?"

"Okay...but why don't you ask yourself?"

"I want to observe first... He showed up too suddenly... I am cautious about his identity."

"Besides, you can hear the "voice of the heart", he might have a similar ability. It would be too easy for us to suffer if we communicate with each other. Biscuit should think so too."

"If it were you, you should be able to sit on equal footing with him and have a true conversation. Me, Biscuit, Xiaodi... well, forget about Xiaodi... it's better for us to just be spectators for now."

German understood Jin and Biscuit's concerns from the "mind communication".

Everyone was unsure whether the person in front of them was Dong, what abilities he had, or whether he would be harmful to them. There were simply too many unknown factors.

At a time like this, it is better to let German talk to this person. It is better than them.

So, German sat on the wooden stake, leaned forward slightly, put his elbows on his knees, crossed his fingers, and looked towards the east in the shadows dozens of meters away.

"You said you are Dong Fulishi. Do you have any evidence to prove your identity?" Dong, who was wrapped in a black robe, was silent for a while and asked:

"From your tone, this shouldn't be the first time you've heard my name... Let me guess, it's "New World Chronicles: East Coast". You read that book and got to know me, right?"

"Yes, we did read that book."

"I really miss it—" Dong suddenly drew out his voice, with some fluctuations in it, and took out a book with an ancient cover from his black robe, "I gave the rubbing of it to that group of people. It should be more than 300 years ago, right?"

Jin stared at the book Dong took out, his eyes widened slightly and his heart pounded.

Even without using "telepathic communication", German could guess that his inner thoughts at this moment were definitely not as calm as he appeared to be.

Dong's fingers wearing black gloves gently stroked the cover of the book, his voice so low that it sounded like a whisper, but it could be subtly heard by everyone.

"It was a coincidence that I had just finished my trip to the east coast of Lake Mobius and completed this book, 'New World Chronicle: East Coast'."

"When I want to take a break, like today, I unexpectedly run into a group of people from the six continents."

"They rushed in without knowing the Dark Continent, and thus fell into danger. I couldn't bear to watch it, and at the same time, I had a little selfish desire, so I rescued them."

"This group of people claimed to be an unofficial exploration team and thanked me profusely. I took the opportunity to ask them to help me complete a task."

"I asked them to help me bring back several copies of 'New World Chronicles: East Coast' to the Six Continents."

"One to my family, the Fulish family, if there are any still alive in this family at that time."

"As for the other few books, I'll ask them to spread and print them so that more people in the six continents can know the dangers and beauty of the Dark Continent."

Dong opened the book in his hand, and a subtle red light shone between the pages, just like the bloody color of the setting sun not long ago.

He raised his head and stared at everyone. The red light illuminated the area below his nose, revealing some burn-like markings.

"You should have a copy of it in your hands, right? Take it out. Even if it has been passed down countless times, as long as the content is derived from it, they can resonate with each other."

Hearing this, German turned around, looked at Xiaodi, and nodded.

After getting approval, Xiaodi materialized into a "bulgy-eyed fish" and put his left hand into the big mouth of the "bulgy-eyed fish", like Doraemon taking out a four-dimensional space bag, and rummaged around for a while.

Soon, she took out a photocopy of "New World Journey: East Coast Fragments".

Not long after it was taken out, the copy of the "New World Journey·East Coast Chapter Fragmentary Volume" was closed, but it still emitted a red light from between the pages, just like the "New World Journey·East Coast Chapter Original" in Dong's hand.

The "original" and the "copy" do indeed echo each other.

"It seems that the one you have is incomplete."

"But this is normal. Maybe it was done by the "gatekeepers"? They won't let the complete version circulate, so they deliberately took away some of the content."

"But, this should be enough to prove my identity, right?"

After hearing this, everyone finally understood why "Journey to the New World: East Coast" was incomplete.

Even if countries like V5 are powerful, they cannot recover all the "East Coast Chapter", and the leaked fragments are fragmented.

Because from the very beginning, the complete version never returned to the six continents.

Many pieces of information that are not included in the fragments, such as the truth about "disaster and hope", may have been secretly passed down from the memory of the members of the exploration team who brought back the rubbings.

As Jin said before, this is the meaning of "historical texts", "relics", and "relics".

In order to be passed down to future generations, even if the content has been obscured and distorted countless times, the true meaning contained therein will ultimately inspire people.

Dong He closed the "original copy" and the red light quickly disappeared. He then asked in a curious tone:
"What really makes me curious now is that you relied on an incomplete "fragment" to come here and defeat the monster leader here?"

"I thought the information I left behind helped you, but now it seems that is not entirely the case."

"How on earth did you do that?"

(End of this chapter)