Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 62: Joining Xiaodi

German lowered his hat and rushed into the rolling smoke and dust, breaking through like an arrow from a bow.

Suddenly, the movement of the large beast in front stopped, and the rumbling sounds and the scraping sounds against the stone wall stopped abruptly.

"Stopped? Why?" Germain slowed down his pace cautiously, turned around and stuck close to the wall. "The 'bleeding' of the Leech Hidden Blade shouldn't have made it lose its ability to move so quickly..."

"Then we can only assume that Biscuit and Xiaodi, or someone else, achieved the corresponding results."

German waited for a moment, and after confirming that there was no movement in the cave ahead, he quickly walked forward to check.

Pressure +6

The "circle" he released first detected the big tail that he had stabbed before and made it bleed.

When he got closer, half of the dust in the air had settled, and he could see that the wound under the scales of the big tail was still bleeding.

"Volume +5, Pressure +5"

Germann noticed the reminder from the "Hunter Badge" projection and realized that the owner of the big tail in front of him was dead.

Because within a dozen seconds before its death, Germann stabbed it with the Leech Hidden Blade, causing significant trauma, he was also considered to have participated in the battle to kill it, and thus received the "Gift of Resentment".

Germain pulled the flashlight out of his backpack again and illuminated the scales on the tail, which glowed faintly.

He walked forward and observed that its body was thick and long, and had no limbs.

"It is indeed a snake." Germann had already deduced it in his mind, and this time he just confirmed it. "The body alone occupies more than half of the space in the tunnel."

Continuing to walk forward, after walking about thirty meters, Germann finally saw the raised head of the giant snake. He shone his flashlight over there and saw the horrifying and hideous snake's mouth.

The giant snake's eyeballs were slightly larger than ordinary doors and were fully open, as if they would fall out of their sockets at any moment, but they had lost their previous ferocious look.

The mouth of the blood pan closed at this time, and only bubbling blood flowed out from the gap. The fresh and fishy smell made it smell as if there was still life.

Pressure +6

"Germain?"

A familiar voice came from the front. German turned the flashlight and shone it over. He found a fork in the cave and a man sitting there leaning against the wall.

The flashlight shone over, reflecting on her glasses, revealing her slightly torn black sweater. She seemed to be hurt by the light and subconsciously raised her hand to block it.

It's a small drop.

"It's me." German lowered the flashlight and walked to Xiaodi. He noticed that there was a wound on her torn clothes. In addition to blood, there was also purple juice on the wound. "Is it snake venom?"

"That should be it." Xiao Di didn't care much about it. She materialized a "bulgy fish" and aimed its mouth at her wound, "sucking out all the snake venom."

The "bulgy-eyed fish" swung its big tongue a few times, and Xiaodi's wound began to wriggle, spitting out a syringe of purple snake venom, which was sucked into the "bulgy-eyed fish".

The venom will be stored separately and will not be mixed with items from previous batches.

Under the illumination of German's flashlight, Xiaodi took out a small bottle of solution from her backpack, poured it all over the wound without sparing, applied the powder, and then tied a bandage. The whole process was quite skilled and fast, and it was obviously not the first time she had treated a wound like this.

"Can you move?" Germann stretched out his hand wearing a black leather glove and pulled Xiaodi up from the ground. "Or do you want to rest here for a while?"

Xiaodi shook her head and said, "I'm fine." Then she took off her glasses, blew away the dust on them, took out a tissue and wiped them gently for a while before putting them back on.

"Have you seen Biscuit?" Germain asked, "How did you get here? What happened next?"

Xiaodi lifted up the "bulgy fish" and slowly and orderly retrieved the ferocious giant snake while answering Germain's questions.

"I haven't seen Biscuit since we separated in the woods. I was suddenly teleported here, and then I encountered this giant snake."

"It ate my flashlight. It was very dark here and I felt uncomfortable staying here. So I wanted to get the flashlight back and fought with it..."

I see... I just don't know if the "discomfort" she felt was human instinct, or if it was accumulated stress like German, or both.

Xiaodi described the process very briefly, and German had to ask a few more questions about the points that interested him, to confirm that her statement was similar to his own guess.

In short, German was teleported to the next level, Xiaodi was teleported to this level, so Biscuit might also be on another level.

Pressure +6

German looked at the huge venomous snake, starting from the head, then the body, and finally the tail, which was completely swallowed by the "bulgy fish". For a moment, he couldn't tell which one was the snake.

After completing the task, the "bulgy fish" licked its tongue as if it had tasted something delicious, and then disappeared.

He told Xiaodi that the rats in the wall were the culprits who teleported them here, and then reminded her: "Let's leave here, meet up with Bisji as soon as possible, and get out of the cave."

Xiaodi had retrieved the flashlight from the snake's belly, and after casually wiping off the slime with a tissue, he held it in his hand and replied, "Okay."

Both of them were experienced Nen users and had no reason to panic here. They simply packed up and walked deeper into the cave.

"I feel like this place is pretty big." Xiaodi stood behind Germann, occasionally sweeping the flashlight towards the corner, "How are you going to find the way out?"

"A relatively direct method," said Germann. "Since this floor is the giant snake's lair, it is obviously not enough and inconvenient to have only one entrance and exit considering its size."

"Assuming that the tunnels intersect each other and have different entrances and exits in the east, west, south and north, we can get out by just finding one of them. I think it should not be difficult to find one of them."

As German told the story, he squatted down and, when a fork appeared in the tunnel, he used a meat saw to carve a directional "arrow" on the wall.

The arrow symbol indicated the direction in which Germain and Xiaodi were heading.

He would keep doing this, and whenever he saw the arrows, he would choose another fork in the road, and repeat this cycle until he found the exit.

As Germain carved the mark, Xiaodi shone a flashlight beside him.

"But what about little Biscuit?" Xiaodi asked, "What if she is not outside the cave, but inside? You said there is another layer below, maybe there is also a layer above us?"

"Let's go out first and see what kind of terrain we are in." German replied, "Don't worry, Biscuit is more experienced than us. Maybe she is waiting for us outside now."

(End of this chapter)