Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 45 Earthworms and Leeches: Misjudgment

The leech watched German being pulled downstairs by the earthworm, and heaved a sigh of relief involuntarily, then quickly walked to the side of the owl.

At this time, Xiao was lying on his back on the floor, his sunglasses had long disappeared, and his whole body was twitching uncontrollably.

He finally put out the large flames himself, but there were still sporadic sparks flickering on his severely burned skin, which was a mixture of charred black and dark red.

The unrecognizable owl stretched out its hand with visible finger bones towards the leech, and its mutilated mouth opened and closed, as if begging him to help it.

“Ah…ah…ah…” However, Xiao could no longer utter complete sentences.

The leech could only command all the fat worms it had just thrown out to crawl towards the owl, let them attach themselves to the owl's body, and see if they could save his life.

However, he knew that this would not be a permanent solution. If Xiao was not sent to the nearest hospital for treatment as soon as possible, his burns would be fatal.

Xiao also realized this, and with his damaged vocal tract, he could only make “ahhhh” sounds and use pleading eyes to express his thoughts.

However, the leech did not listen to the owl.

"When you become a Yin Beast, you should have this awareness. German is very dangerous. I can't let Earthworm deal with him alone, otherwise we will be defeated one by one. Everything is based on completing the mission."

"Don't worry, Bat will come over once he finishes dealing with the woman in the next room. His flying ability can actually get you to the hospital faster than I can."

Under Owl's disappointed look, Leech walked towards the gap and jumped downstairs carefully.

Downstairs was a room with a similar structure. The original owner of the room had already rushed out of the room screaming the moment German and the earthworm fell down.

At this moment, the room was in a mess, the sofa was overturned, the tables and chairs were broken, the sheets and curtains were all ignited by flames, and the sea of ​​fire and thick smoke surrounded the two hostile people in the middle.

But the fight lasted no more than twenty seconds, and a large part of the earthworm's right arm had been cut off, and blood was dripping onto the floor from the broken end.

German held the meat saw in his right hand and the flamethrower in his left hand, but he did not take the initiative to spray.

After the leech fell down, it stared at Germann's movements while slowly moving to the side of the earthworm, spitting out a ball of fat worms, which attached themselves to the earthworm's broken arm to temporarily stop the bleeding.

"The flamethrower consumes a lot of energy for him, so he can't use it all the time." The earthworm told the leech a key piece of information with a gloomy face, "He is waiting for us to enter the attack range of the flamethrower."

Leech nodded, then whispered the bad news to him.

"Earthworm, I don't have much food left in my stomach, and Owl has lost his ability to fight. If we can't decide the winner in the next attack, we'll be in trouble."

"I see." The earthworm gritted his teeth. "This guy is stronger than I thought. Although we were prepared, we were still careless. We should have sent out all the members together."

This is just hindsight. Who could have thought that it would turn into the current situation?

At this moment, German suddenly made a new move.

The meat saw in his right hand disappeared, replaced by a black shield. He stood the shield upright and placed it on the floor. The shield with the wing relief just reached his chin.

German bent down, with only half of his face and the flamethrower nozzle in his left hand showing on the side of the shield, and then gradually moved towards the direction of the earthworms and leeches.

The two Yin Beasts understood immediately and their breathing became heavy.

"This guy doesn't intend to give us any chance to gain an advantage and forces us to make a choice!"

The earthworm has no means of long-range attack and has now lost its right arm. The fat worm thrown out by the leech is not very threatening.

Even if they have long-range attack methods, this shield can basically block them.

The materialization of the shield was a reflection of Germann's prudentness. He did so on the assumption that the two had medium and long-range attack methods.

In this case, they either had to wait for Germann to gradually close the distance and then be attacked by the flamethrower, or they had to actively bypass the shield and attack.

If two people acted together, German would continue to turn the shield and face them.

If the two of them acted separately, he would probably immediately remove the heavy shield and choose one of them to deal with first.

At this moment, Germann was advancing like a tank, and the pressure from him made both of them swallow their saliva.

"Leech." Germann suddenly said, "I will attack you first. Because your leeches cannot cause fatal injuries to me in a short period of time, and they do not have the ability to escape like earthworms that break through the soil and drill through the wall."

The slightly plump leech couldn't help but frown.

"He is trying to lure you!" the earthworm reminded quickly, "When he uses the flamethrower later, we have to run separately to increase our survival rate. If we stand together, we will be lambs to be slaughtered." Now for the "Yin Beast", this is the trouble. If one person is alone, he will be killed instantly by Germann, and if two people act together, they will be concentratedly fired and hunted down by Germann's flamethrower.

Thinking about it this way, the only way to survive is to act separately, with one person attracting German's firepower while the other fights back.

Leeches sweat like rain.

The earthworm couldn't wait for a reply, so he reminded again: "Leech, don't fall for it."

"I know." Leech responded sullenly.

But he knew very well that once separated from the earthworm, Germain would most likely choose to attack him first, because he had no suitable means of escape or counterattack.

He couldn't help but think of Xiao's miserable condition just now.

Although he told Xiao about his "realization of being a yin beast", he would find it hard to accept it when it came to himself.

Germann was close enough to the earthworms and leeches, so he raised his flamethrower.

"Whoosh——" a terrifying flame spurted out!

"Now!" the earthworm shouted, and jumped directly, drilling towards the next floor like a loach.

The leech was stunned for a moment, then, under great psychological pressure, ran wildly to the left.

Sure enough, when Germann looked at the leech, his scalp tingled.

"Are you really going to pick on me?"

The next moment, German unexpectedly did not take off the bulky wing shield, but took off the flamethrower, holding the shield with both hands, so that he could speed up and chase the leech.

"Shield? He took the initiative to shorten his attack distance? Could it be that he no longer has enough energy to release the flames?"

The leech was shocked, but it didn't even have time to vomit out the remaining fat worm in its abdomen.

He wanted to run to the door, but was blocked by the wall of fire around him, so he had to continue running for his life.

To stop is to die.

"Earthworm!" the leech screamed in fear.

However, the next moment after he shouted, he understood German's intention.

German deliberately did not use the flamethrower because the prey he chose was not actually leeches, but only bait.

If he kills the leech quickly, the earthworm will most likely just run away.

"He is tempting the earthworm to make a wrong judgment!" The leech felt a chill on his back.

At this moment, the floor under Germanman's feet suddenly cracked, and the earthworm really launched an attack. He stretched out his left arm and was about to grab Germanman's ankle.

But how could German fall for the same trick repeatedly?
He had been paying attention to the movements on the floor. When he found something strange, he raised his shield with both hands and smashed it down hard, hitting the earthworm's left arm.

With a "crack", the earthworm screamed in pain, and his left arm immediately twisted and bent to one side, with the bones protruding from the brown skin.

He wanted to retreat back downstairs, but his completely deformed left arm not only made it impossible to exert any force, but it was also stuck on the entrance of the hole, preventing him from escaping in time.

This time, Germann quickly removed his shield, replaced it with a meat saw, reached out and grabbed the earthworm's left arm, and lifted him out from under the floor.

The meat saw was then raised high and brought down hard, hitting the earthworm's head and cutting it in half.

The earthworm only had time to let out a sigh of lament at the last moment.

Then, German dropped the earthworm's corpse and turned to chase the leech.

The leech watched the earthworm die, and was so panicked and terrified that he couldn't see clearly where his feet were. He stepped on the broken glass, slipped forward, and fell into the blazing flames.

“Ahhhh——” He caught fire, screamed, and his whole body turned into a rolling fireball.

(End of this chapter)