Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 489: Tight situation at the front, marriage at the rear

The happy event of Germain and Xiaodi brought a period of joy to the Hunter Association and many people in the Coast Fortress.

After Admiral Mike, Princess Oit, Xiutaina and others learned about it, they sent gifts to congratulate them, and later when they met, they also smiled and blessed the newlyweds.

Admiral Mike, in particular, at least on the surface, no longer felt as awkward as he did at first when talking to German.

He even considered recruiting German, but after several attempts failed, he never mentioned it again.

However, there was one thing he insisted on, which was to make German one of his helpers in conquering this new continent.

The power of the Hunter Association is important, but Germain, who can defeat the Chimera Ants and the Egg in a Pot Ritual Beasts and bring back "hope" from the Dark Continent, is more important.

His current mentality has undergone a period of change and is now basically finalized.

The fleet headed for the refueling island and left those wealthy passengers at the island's military base, waiting for ships from the six continents to pick them up.

Then, the fleet turned around directly from the refueling island and sailed back to the New World, bringing back a new batch of instructions from the Six Continents.

This is because communication has been established between the Six Continents and the Refueling Island, and the fleet does not need to return to the Six Continents to contact V6.

In this way, the fleet can travel back and forth between the New World and the refueling island for more than two months, thus enabling the New World and the six continents to exchange information.

After that, V6 will also establish military bases on various small islands along the way, and at the same time dispatch aircraft carriers capable of carrying many airships, allowing the airships to act as "carrier pigeons" and "ships" between the six continents and the new continent.

In the not-too-distant future, they will be able to shorten the time required to transport manpower and material resources and to communicate information.

The fleet brought back a lot of good news.

Admiral Mike ordered the fleet to bring the two types of "Hope" to the Oil Refueling Island military base, and then let the Oil Refueling Island fleet escort them back to the Six Continents.

In other words, V6 knew about the achievements made in the New World shortly after the fleet arrived at the refueling island.

V6 greatly encouraged and rewarded the "main contributor" Admiral Mike and the Hunter Association, and promised to send more personnel and supplies for reinforcement.

In addition, V6 approved many of Admiral Mike's previous announcements, allowing him to recruit soldiers on the spot and conquer the entire New World.

So, in early July, Admiral Mac's military plan to conquer the New World began.

With the support of the Hunter's Association, his army used the coastal fortress as a base and expanded outward, cutting through mountains and building bridges over rivers along the way.

Admiral Mike's primary strategic goal is those dangerous terrains, mineral resources, rivers, lakes, etc. The most important thing is of course those resources that can be quickly converted into cash.

However, his army was soon defeated.

The monsters' resistance was quite strong, causing heavy casualties to Admiral Mike's army, and this was the result of using various hot weapons.

Because these monsters also have their own "hot weapons" - some special mental abilities.

The rapid progress that Admiral Mike wanted did not come, and the support of the Hunter Association was only superficial.

Because Admiral Mike's approach is contrary to the philosophy of the Hunter Association, they are unwilling to indiscriminately wipe out all the monsters in the New World.

The Hunter Association focuses more on the construction of towns and transportation between the two major strongholds of the Coast Fortress and the BW1 wreckage.

They went to the front line only to help the V6 coalition forces to build bridges and reach cooperation with those Warcraft tribes that were willing to compromise and get along well with, so as to reduce casualties on both sides.

Hunters protect living creatures, Grim Reapers protect souls, pirates protect islanders, and ninjas protect citizens.

This is not surprising, because in these worlds, the meanings behind these terms have long since changed.

In short, the Hunter Association adheres to the concept of only exterminating creatures that pose a threat to human settlements, and winning over creatures that are willing to cooperate with humans.

President Netero also withstood the pressure from Admiral Mike and did not give in. The professional hunters who agreed with his belief would not bow their heads either.

Admiral Mike couldn't do anything to President Netero in such a remote place. He would need President Netero and the Hunter Association in the future. Most importantly, Germain was a person who was hard to win over with benefits. He was obviously on the side of the Hunter Association.

Admiral Mike had offended the Hunter Association, which was equivalent to offending German, a consequence he was unwilling to bear - at least not now.

German took advantage of this opportunity and secretly led many core members of the Hunter Association to start large-scale training in late June.

The "disasters" have basically all been resurrected at this time.

After a round of raids, German obtained 6 teleportation lanterns, which came from six types of "disasters".

Others gained combat experience and harvested new batches of hope, which was a great harvest.

While German and his crew's secret journey went quite smoothly, Admiral Mike's campaign plans were constantly obstructed.

His artillery bombardment advance was generally successful, but it was too slow.

Those monsters are quite agile and smart, and their intelligence is no less than that of humans. They will not stay in one place and let you beat them.

And if they are not completely wiped out, the real nightmare will come.

These monsters would attack the military camp under the cover of night when most soldiers were most tired, attacking one wave and then leaving, repeating this cycle over and over again.

Admiral Mac's army was overwhelmed and chased after them many times, but each time they came up empty-handed.

In addition, the deeper their army goes into the heart of the New World, the longer the supply lines become. Even with the support of Nen users, there is no way to completely guarantee the army's consumption.

Finally, in early August, Admiral Mike was forced to put aside his pride after being persuaded by many staff officers.

He made a phone call to the rear of the Coast Fortress to seek the opinion of President Netero, meaning that President Netero and Germain should take action together.

As it turned out, President Netero was not there at the time and did not receive the call.

Admiral Mike asked him where he had been and found out that he had gone to a wedding.

Admiral Mike was so angry that he almost started cursing on the phone, but fortunately he held himself back in time.

He knew that, rationally speaking, there was nothing wrong with President Netero attending the wedding at this time.

But when he thought about the repeated setbacks and heavy casualties on his side, and even the possibility of mutiny and camp riots among the soldiers, while Netero was happily attending the wedding in the rear, he became furious.

However, after learning that the people he was going to marry were German and Xiaodi, he was stunned for a while and then he calmed down his anger.

He thought of the strength that German had shown in the canyon that day. He knew that German would be a sharp double-edged sword and he could not ignore it.

"When your president comes back, ask him to call me back." Admiral Mike paused and added, "Also, please give a few words of blessing to the newlyweds. I will also send someone to deliver the gift soon."

The secretary on the other end of the phone quickly responded.

However, what Admiral Mike did not expect was that this would be his last chance to contact President Netero in the rear.

On August 8, the Chinese Valentine's Day in the lunar calendar, German and Xiaodi got married.

The people who came to attend the wedding included all the heavyweights of the Hunter Association. Even if they had important tasks to attend to, they would at least show up in front of the newlyweds for a while before leaving.

Everyone gave them their blessings.

Biscuit bit his handkerchief again and burst into tears, as excited as if he had seen his own child getting married.

From this day on, German and Xiaodi officially became husband and wife.

(End of this chapter)