Hunter × Hunter: The Seven Deadly Sins

July 4, 1986, the Dark Continent.

As the sun sets, the golden sunset shines on the primeval forest on the southeast coast of the Dark Continent. It is like covering nature with a layer of golden coat, presenting a "scent of birds and flowers".

Chick ~ Chick ~

On the canopy at the top of the towering giant tree, a group of small carnivorous birds that looked like Pteranodon gathered together, spread their fleshy wings, flapped them quickly, and sang loudly towards the golden sun that was as big as a disc.

"rustle…"

The vegetation in front of him was lifted, and the combat boots stepped on the wet grass, making a slight sound.

"Huh~huh~"

"This... forest, just... how big is it?"

Among Illumi's group, a fat woman who was wiping the sweat from her forehead and was panting while wiping a cane made of branches. She was a physicist named Gina, one of the four survivors of the team of fifty specialists.

Suddenly, she slipped and fell to the ground with a "slap".

"Are you OK?"

Hercules stopped and held Gina's hand, but Gina was still squatting on the ground, her regular chest rising and falling. Hercules could see that she had reached her limit and could not walk.

"Mr. Illumi, Mr. Biyangde, let's take a break."

Hercules looked at Illumi and Bijande who were walking at the forefront of the team, took a deep breath, and shouted.

"Huh~huh~"

After shouting, Hercules himself was out of breath, and as an ordinary person, he could barely walk.

"Tch, what a hassle."

At the front of the line, Glid glanced at them with disdain. If it weren't for these few people, they could have walked out of this virgin forest at a faster speed.

"It's almost time, let's camp here."

Yilumi raised her head and looked at the top of her head. The golden sunset glow shone through the gaps between the branches of the towering giant trees in the gloomy and dark primeval forest, bringing a glimmer of light to the originally gloomy primeval forest.

But this is just an illusion. Calculated according to the time in the human world, it is already nine o'clock in the evening, and the night in the Dark Continent will come more suddenly than in the human world.

Often at one moment, the sky is full of sunset clouds, but at the next moment, you can't see your fingers, and the dark virgin forest is even more frightening.

Their first night in the Dark Continent was spent in a sea of ​​fire and torrential rain. The large forests around the sea of ​​fire were extremely bright, and there was no darkness.

Therefore, tonight is the real first night for these people in the Dark Continent.

"Puff..."

The order from Illumi was issued, and the Avengers soldiers used steel knives to clean up the land under their feet as usual, completely removing the dense vegetation around them. In order to avoid any unclean things drilling into their camp when everyone is resting.

"Crack."

An Avenger rubs the flint with a steel knife, ignites the kindling collected from the surroundings, puts it into the campfire, and then puts a lot of wet firewood into it. The campfire sizzles and thick white smoke rises .

"Crack..."

Cervantes heard a strange noise and looked around.

He found that those guys called Avengers took out four cuboids with long silver metal sticks from the big backpack on them and placed them on the ground in the four directions of the camp, which seemed to be building some kind of fortification. .

"What are they doing?"

Cervantes looked at Illumi, who was resting on the ground and taking out various foods from an Avenger backpack, and asked curiously.

Illumi just glanced at him, without answering, unscrewed the kettle, put the mouth of the bottle in his mouth, and his throat moved.

"Uh……"

Cervantes opened his mouth, but had nothing to say. Illumi didn't want to say it, and it was impossible for him to force others.

After Illumi replenished the water, he looked around the camp. The things the Avengers soldiers installed around the camp were a new weapon system developed by their weapons research institute—the long-range sentinel weapon system.

It can learn or adjust its operating weapons at any time according to the changing conditions in the environment in which it is deployed. And it can independently search, identify and attack targets without human intervention.

"Om~"

The Avengers released the Kestrel drone to scout around the camp. Through low-light sensors and ultrasonic detection, all the terrain around the camp was transformed into a three-dimensional model and transmitted to the weapon system and the neuromechanical helmet. Any changes could be reacted immediately.

"You just need to know that it's something that keeps us safe."

"For example?"

"It can replace humans as sentinels, and automatically identify and attack all creatures that are within 100 meters of the camp."

Kim Bradley saw that the hunters in Biyangde's team were very concerned about these things, so he explained a little bit.

"That's really... convenient."

Sergio's mouth twitched when he heard that.

These guys carry a lot of advanced weapons and equipment. Compared with the preparation work of these hunters, this group of people is too professional.

"Come, sit here."

Hercules and Isaac supported the physicist Gina from left to right and sat down beside Illumi and Bijand and the other hunters.

"it hurts."

Gina took off her boots, and immediately frowned and let out a cry of pain. Under the light of the campfire, blisters appeared on her feet.

"Even if the forward speed is slowed down, and the forward speed is only 60 kilometers per day, the body of ordinary people still cannot bear it."

Cervantes looked at the blisters on Gina's feet, under the light of the bonfire, his expression frightened Gina.

"Don't worry, I can handle it."

Seeing that the atmosphere was not good, another curly-haired woman from the expert team took a first-aid kit from her backpack and treated the blisters on Gina's feet.

Her name is Tessa, and she is an emergency worker from the United States of Eddie, Youkexin. She originally wanted to join an NGO, but she didn't expect to join the investigation team of the Kajin Empire by mistake.

"We have been walking for two days, and the daily marching time has reached 17 hours. When will we get out of this virgin forest?"

When Tessa helped Gina deal with it, she asked Hercules the question in her heart by the way.

"According to the previous exploration records of the Ozma Federation, this forest is 1,800 kilometers long."

"length?"

"No, it's the width, the length cannot be estimated."

Tessa was dumb when she heard the words. The length of the virgin forest with a width of 1,800 kilometers cannot be estimated. In the human world, perhaps only the largest virgin forest can be compared with it.

But now, they actually want to use their own legs to cross this dangerous and vast primeval forest of the Dark Continent.