Hunter x Hunter: Tonight, Germain joins the hunt

Chapter 92 "Awakening in an unfamiliar environment"

My head was splitting and as I gradually regained consciousness, the darkness scattered like a swarm of frightened aphids.

"Hmm..." Germain rubbed his forehead and tried to sit up.

A hand reached out from the side and held his arm. He was startled and turned around to see that it was Xiaodi. His tense muscles then relaxed.

"You're awake." Xiaodi helped German up.

German looked at the faint light in the sky, and it took him a while to confirm that it was dawn, not sunset.

He was full of doubts and asked, "Xiao Di, what happened next? I have no memory of what happened afterwards."

"You were grabbed by an invisible giant hand, squeezed into dark red gas, and disappeared." Xiaodi let go of German's hand and described it in the briefest tone possible.

"And then?" Germain asked.

"Then?" Xiaodi tilted her head, thought for a while, and said, "Then Yun Gu was also caught in mid-air like you, and then disappeared in the same way. Then it was me."

"I woke up about ten minutes ago, used the 'Mind Radar', looked around, and saw you lying on the ground, so I came over and pushed you awake."

Germain looked around and frowned.

The environment here is quite unfamiliar. It is neither under the World Tree, nor next to the volcanic belt, nor is it the forest at the bottom of the Spider Valley before, but a small hillside.

Germann looked around and saw vague outlines in the distance, where the weak sunlight had not yet reached and everything was still shrouded in darkness.

That being said, the four of them were probably captured one after another by the dark giant, who managed to bring them here.

The dark red gas that was crushed at that moment should be some kind of teleportation ability, similar to Germain's teleportation lantern and the black hole of the Rat in the Wall.

"Have you seen Biscuit and Yun Gu?" asked German.

Xiaodi shook her head as expected: "I didn't see them. I only met you. But the radar detected their location. They were quite far away, so I chose to come to your side first."

German took out the radar. The four radars stored the energy from the same life. They attracted each other and thus could perform the function of fuzzy positioning.

Sure enough, the two bright spots represented by Bisiji and Yun Gu were flashing on the edge of the radar. It seemed that they had already merged like German and Xiaodi.

As long as they stayed within radar range, they would be able to find each other quickly.

"Do you have any impression of this place?" German put away the radar and asked again.

"No impression." Xiaodi didn't remember this area at all.

It was indeed so. German lowered his head and pondered.

"German." Xiaodi broke the silence and suddenly asked two strange questions, "I want to know, are we dead? Is this hell?"

Hearing this, German looked up in slight surprise and met Xiaodi's dark eyes.

He could not see any sadness or anger, only the calmness of choosing to accept.

Xiaodi said: "After I was caught by that hand, I felt the severe pain in my body, the breaking of bones and flesh, and the tranquility of death. Germain, are we dead?"

"This is definitely not hell, and we are not dead." German shook his head. He encouraged the Qi in his body to flow and connect with the Qi around him. "We are still struggling alive in the Dark Continent."

"Why are you so sure?" Xiaodi asked doubtfully.

"You should have noticed it, right?" Germain extended his index finger, and the Qi transformed into four words - "Hunter Badge". "The Qi here is far more abundant and energetic than that of the six continents."

"This is because it has the most vast land, the richest resources, and the most complete ecological chain. It also has the most Qi gathered and circulated in the Dark Continent."

"We 'Nen users' are fine, as the circulation of Qi is as natural as breathing. If an ordinary person with a blocked sperm pore were to enter the Dark Continent for the first time, he would probably have a very severe adverse reaction."

"As long as you truly feel the energy here, you will understand that we are still alive and we are still in the Dark Continent. This is the evidence." Xiaodi did notice that the energy content in the Dark Continent was different from that in the Six Continents.

At this moment, with German's reminder, she stretched her torso as if she was stretching, and truly felt the vital energy.

She nodded in agreement: "We are indeed not dead. But, in fact, it doesn't matter if we die. For those of us who came from Meteor Street, living one more day is a blessing."

Germain could tell she was serious.

However, he had no intention of enlightening her. After all, the concept that had been developed since childhood could not be changed by a few words.

"Let's first confirm what we can know." German took out a bronze pocket watch from his arms and, with the light of dawn, barely saw the time. "Six Continents time, six in the morning."

He pursed his lips and calculated.

The four-member team set out at one o'clock in the morning of the Six Continents time. After two hours, around three o'clock in the morning, they arrived at the World Tree. Half an hour later, they encountered a huge black shadow.

It is now six o'clock in the morning, which means that almost two and a half hours are missing.

More importantly...it was clearly daytime when we arrived at the World Tree, but here we could see that the sun had not yet fully risen.

German looked up at the pale sky and began to ponder.

If it weren't for the different aura, Germain would have almost thought they had returned to the Six Continents.

He took out the "Hunter Badge" and projected a projection that only he could see. The 4-hour cooldown period of the teleportation lantern had passed, which indirectly confirmed the passage of time.

What's going on?
German thought for a while and suddenly had a bold idea - the location where they were teleported was much farther than imagined, but there was no definite evidence yet.

At the same time, he noticed that some of the content of his "Hunter Badge" projection had changed.

Although German didn't remember what happened after he lost consciousness, he still remembered what happened before he lost consciousness.

He was well aware that he had triggered the "torture" called "masochism" in that huge hand.

However, if the "torture" state is left unchecked, it will only last for half an hour. German woke up two and a half hours later, and the "masochism" naturally disappeared.

This is just a normal change, nothing noteworthy. What should really be noted are the changes in other aspects of German.

His "Constitution" increased to 40 points, his "Capacity" finally broke through the "Master" limit and reached 51 points, and his "Pressure" increased to 115 points.

“No wonder I felt such an indescribable smoothness when I was controlling the flow of Qi just now.” German thought, “But why did I get an improvement? Could this also be related to the huge black shadow?”

Not only that, but there are also two more “positive traits” and two more “negative traits” each, for a total of four “traits”.

The "positive traits" are "toughness" and "robustness", and the "negative traits" are "greed for money" and "moody moodiness".

"Toughness" allows Germann to gain an increase in "receiving stress relief treatment".

In other words, Biscuit's "Magic Beautician Miss Cookie" will bring more stress relief to the current Germain.

As for "thickness and health", it is a kind of resistance that can reduce the probability of contracting disease.

"Greed" as the name suggests will make Germain more obsessed with material wealth, while "Moodiness" will slightly increase the probability of triggering "Torture".

After being caught by the giant hand, German was missing for two and a half hours, and appeared in an unfamiliar environment with Xiaodi, with significant changes in his body.

Obviously, the huge black shadow was the source of all this. German became more and more certain of the bold idea he had recently come up with.

They were forcibly teleported here, and Germain gained both benefits and penalties as a result.

(End of this chapter)