Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 58: Xiaodi Recovers the Loot

"But after all, we should collect some 'trophies'."

Xiaodi materialized the "Bulge-Eyed Fish" once again, and pointed its grinning mouth at the skeletons on the ground, and pushed the button on the "Bulge-Eyed Fish" with his thumb.

"Popeye, swallow these bones."

The "bulgy-eyed fish" stuck out its big tongue, let out a joyful weird cry, and exerted a powerful suction force. The white bones on the ground vibrated for a while and then flew into its mouth.

Its mouth swallowed tirelessly, and the obviously huge skeletons quickly shrank and twisted like soft chewing gum as soon as they touched its tongue, teeth and lips.

The bones were compressed into balls and flowed through the pipes of the "bulgy-eyed fish" into a space with no end in sight.

"Are you planning to sell it to those bone collectors?" Biscuit looked at this scene and suddenly pounded his right fist on his left palm. "Some collectors are really generous. Xiaodi is really smart."

"Huh?" After Xiaodi absorbed the bones on the ground with the "Popeye Fish", he heard Biscuit's praise and thought about it in confusion before saying, "I almost forgot that I could sell it to them."

"Huh?" Biscuit asked in surprise, "So how were you going to exchange them for money?"

"Isn't our Meteor Street a garbage dump?" Xiao Di said, "Sometimes garbage bags are filled with bones and limbs, which is normal. There is also a market in Meteor Street."

She pointed at Biscuit again.

"However, your proposal is better. These beast bones may be very rare. As long as collectors are interested, they should be able to sell for a good price."

Biscuit shook his head helplessly and looked at Germain, only to see that Germain didn't care about what was happening here at all, but took the initiative to be on guard nearby.

"You're really careful, Germain. But I didn't let my guard down either." Biscuit crossed his arms and examined Germain's profile. "Yeah, this angle is good."

After Xiaodi cleaned up the bones on the ground, he walked to the muddy area and placed the big mouth of the "bulgy fish" on the mud.

"Swallow all the bones in the mud." The little drop made a greedy declaration.

The next moment, the "bulgy fish" sucked out the bones in the mud one by one like a water pump and swallowed them into its abdominal cavity.

Among them was the skeleton of the White Bone Crow that had just sunk.

"Xiao Di's ability is unexpectedly convenient." Biscuit stood aside with his hands on his hips, watching and commenting, "I understand why Germain wanted you to join first."

At this time, the remaining Many-Eyed Crows tried to fly over and attack Xiaodi.

As a result, before they could fly close, German materialized a flamethrower, which sprayed out flames and burned them into charred balls.

"This is considered a complete annihilation." German stared at the meat that had been burned to charcoal black. He smelled the aroma of meat, but he had no appetite at all. "But this place should be occupied by new beasts soon."

"What do you mean?" Biscuit asked.

Germain replied: "It is the result of the previous three observations. Although the Dark Continent is huge enough, most of the territory is basically controlled by more powerful beasts."

"Just like a small group of people own the vast majority of wealth." Biscuit nodded, her ponytail bobbing up and down, "I understand now."

She looked at the burned reed forest and said, "A few days after we leave, a bloody battle for territory will break out here, and eventually new monsters will occupy this place."

"That's it." Germann answered, and then looked at Xiaodi, "Can your "bulgy fish" successfully spit out the bones it sucked in?" "Yes." Xiaodi's black-framed glasses always slipped down to the tip of her nose, so that she always had to slightly raise her chin to see the person in front of her through the lenses, "No big problem."

"I still don't know the upper limit of what the "bulgy-eyed fish" can absorb, and where everything it absorbs goes, but I have figured out the rules of what it spits out through experiments."

"What it swallows is not counted by number, but by batches. What it spits out each time must be the last batch it absorbed, followed by the second-to-last batch..."

"The bones absorbed from the ground just now and the bones absorbed from the mud now are divided into two batches. The bones in the mud will be spit out first, and they will not mix with each other."

German nodded in understanding: "That is, after it is absorbed, it has the function of automatic sorting, and each batch has an independent space without interfering with each other."

"That's what I mean." Xiaodi pointed at German and spoke to Bisiji.

Biscuit immediately understood the meaning of Xiaodi's deliberate words to her, raised her thumb and praised: "As expected of Xiaodi."

Xiaodi nodded to Biscuit, but her facial expression did not change at all. If someone were not familiar with her, they would definitely not know that she was actually in a good mood at the moment.

"I used to spit out the food that the bulge-eye fish swallowed at work in the garbage dump on Meteor Street."

"However, I have forgotten how much the bulge-eye fish swallowed. After all, until now, the bulge-eye fish can still spit out some of the things it swallowed a few years ago."

After a while, the water level in the muddy swamp dropped significantly, and Xiaodi finally finished swallowing the "bulgy fish".

She pulled the big mouth of the "bulgy-eyed fish" out of the mud and then dematerialized it.

"The bulge-eye fish has basically absorbed all the skeletons it can, but many of them have sunk to the depths and are out of the bulge-eye fish's range, so we have no choice but to give up."

"That's enough. Our journey isn't over yet." German looked at the projection of the Hunter Badge and confirmed the cooling time of the lantern.

"Biscuit, Xiaodi, the teleportation lantern will be cooled down in less than half an hour."

"Half an hour... that's fine." Biscuit took out his phone, took off his white gloves, and tapped the screen with his nimble fingers. "Let me take this opportunity to record what just happened."

From time to time, she stopped clicking on the screen of her mobile phone and took a few photos to keep as a record.

German had been in charge of the security before, and now it was Xiaodi's turn to enforce martial law in the surrounding area.

The next period of time is waiting.

Half an hour later, German reminded the other two: "It's time to set off."

"Okay." Biscuit and Xiaodi responded.

They each picked up their own backpacks, bypassed the muddy area, climbed over a small hill, and continued to head north.

The three of them went into a forest, maintaining a triangle formation with German in the front and Biscuit and Xiaodi walking side by side.

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　　Note: The rules of the small "bulgy fish" are private settings. The comics do not give detailed rules. It only gives a more general statement in Chapter 77 that "it can be spit out again". Other Nen abilities whose rules are not detailed will also be privately set according to the needs of the plot, trying to fit the character's personality.
　　
　
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