Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

"Jieyun Village"

Anxier recalled for a moment.

The facial features of the girl in front of him gradually overlapped with the poor little girl in his memory who hid in the water tank, witnessed the Thunder Wolf Dragon destroying the village, and her family and friends were slaughtered and devoured. She was mentally stimulated and became taciturn.

He opened his mouth to comfort her, but suddenly remembered what Gale had just said.

He pursed his lips, nodded to the girl instead, and said with a smile: "Ten years have passed, and you are so old. Is everyone in Jieyun Village okay?"

Seeing that Anxier actually recognized her, the girl's face was still expressionless, but there was a hint of happiness in her eyes, "Everyone is fine.

The Chamber of Commerce helped develop the hot springs. Since a few years ago, the number of tourists has gradually increased, and the village has also been expanded. The village headwoman will mention everyone from time to time."

Gale was on the side, curiously looking at the two people in the exchange.

Anxier had just returned from the New World, and the other party was estimated to be only sixteen or seventeen years old.

In other words, when Anxier met this little girl, the other party must have been less than ten years old. How could she recognize this?

"Is mom having an affair?" Fufu, who was held in Gale's arms, suddenly asked in a low voice.

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Gale looked as if he had seen a ghost, "Neh, who taught you this word?"

"Uncle Gene said that if dad ignored mom one day and got along with another sister, that's..."

Gale pinched his daughter's mouth, "He's talking nonsense. Don't talk to that kind of person in the future. Mom will beat him up later."

After Anxier asked a few questions about the situation in Jieyun Village, he also introduced the two sides to each other.

Gale smiled and reached out to rub Huali's head without any sense of boundaries.

Huali, who was originally quite averse to such physical contact, was stunned by Gale's name, "You are 'Swift Strike', Ms. Gale?

So you two are married?"

"Hahaha, I am. Wait? What's with that strange prefix?!"

Huali blinked and said uncertainly, "It's the Seven-Star Light Crossbow User, Ms. Gale's title. Is it a homonym?"

"It should be her. As far as I know, there is only one top shooter named Gale, and it's a masculine name, so the probability of having the same name is very low." Anxiel continued.

"Are you Ms. Gale, one of the members of the special investigation team that supported the New World a few years ago?" Huali, who was serious in character, changed the way to confirm.

"That's me."

Gale habitually wanted to scratch her hair, but found that she was holding a child in her arms, so she put Fu Fu on the ground first, "I didn't know that I also had a title?"

"Didn't it have been a long time ago?" Anxiel interrupted.

"Get lost!"

Gale punched Anxiel in a rage, and looked a little happy when he turned back.

"'Quick Strike'? Does it mean that we can attack quickly? This title feels pretty good!" Gale pinched his smooth chin, "By the way, what's this guy's title?

Is it still 'Rich Man'? Ahahaha!"

Anshil's face darkened.

Huali, however, seemed to have no sense of humor at all, and shook her head slightly, saying: "I haven't heard of that. I just know that when people mention Mr. Anshil now, they often call him 'Supernova'."

Anshil's face lightened up a little.

Supernova is a special crossbow bullet invented by him and Pork Chop, and it is also one of his signature moves.

It is common to give nicknames to upper-level hunters in this way, and this word itself is quite standard.

He doesn't hate it.

"Tsk, boring." Gale smacked his lips.

Anxier glanced at her, then said to Huali: "The training camp has changed a lot. We don't know the way anymore.

We are here to visit Instructor Hilda. Can you please lead the way for us?"

"Of course." Huali nodded, "This way please."

Although the girl had no expression on her face, she was not the kind of person who couldn't communicate at all.

While leading Anxier and the others, she was also introducing.

"That's the dormitory area. Generally, there are two people in one room. There are more than 600 students in the entire training camp."

"My goodness, we were less than 200 at that time, right?" Gale couldn't help but be amazed.

"Well, I remember about 160 people." Anxier recalled: "At that time, there were about 20 students who passed the assessment and became one-star hunters every year.

What about now? Close to 100 people?"

"Last year, there were 122 students who obtained the qualification of one-star hunters in this training camp." The girl answered smoothly.

Anxier frowned slightly when he heard this.

The proportion of graduates is much higher than he expected. Is the quality of students improved? Or did the guild lower the assessment standards?

I hope it's not the latter.

When passing by a training ground, Huali continued to introduce, "There are a total of eleven training grounds in the training camp today, each with different functions.

This training ground is for senior students who are about to graduate. It uses steam machinery to imitate the actions of monsters and restore the actual combat scene as much as possible."

"Big crab~!" Fufu cheered.

"A mechanical beast that imitates the Daimyo shield crab? Is this technology from the Flame Village?" Anxier asked with interest.

"Yes."

A hunter student who was "fighting" with a mechanical beast subconsciously looked back because of their arrival.

On the back of the mechanical beast, the instructor Elu who was in charge of the operation moved the operating lever with a "click" sound, and a water cannon swept out, blasting the inattentive student away.

"Distracted during the battle! Failure meow!" Instructor Elu, who was controlling the mechanical beast, was unexpectedly strict.

The soaked student got up from the ground and walked to the side in frustration.

"Next meow!"

In order to avoid disturbing the students' training, Anxiel and the others did not stay here for too long and continued to move forward.

"The facilities are really much better than when we were there." Gale sighed, "It seems that the guild has really put a lot of effort!"

"Indeed."

Led by Huali, they wandered around the training camp for about a quarter of an hour.

They finally met Instructor Hilda outside a building that might be a teaching building.

She was equipped with a "hunter suit" that could be said to be the standard outfit for instructors, and she also wore a pair of glasses. The combination of the two gave her a subtle temperament.

Gale stared at her for a few seconds, with a sadness that was obviously acted on his face, "Instructor Hilda, are you old enough to wear reading glasses?"

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Hilda's expression twisted for a moment, and she took off her glasses that were just for decoration, walked angrily to Gale, and poked her forehead with her finger.

"Why are you two guys here? When did you come back?"

"We just arrived in Dondoruma yesterday, and we came to see you early this morning. Are you touched?" Gale said with a smile.

Hilda snorted with a straight face, but anyone could see that she was actually very happy.

Suddenly, she felt someone pulling at the corner of her clothes.

Looking down, she found a beautiful little girl about four years old, who was looking at her with round eyes and open arms, as if she wanted to hug her.

This trick was taught to Fufu by Mrs. Sterling. It works for everyone, especially for older people.

Hilda is no exception.

The seriousness on her face could no longer be suppressed, and she picked up Fufu, "Oh! Whose little cutie is this? How can she be so beautiful!"

"Sister is also beautiful!" Fufu "very skillfully" hugged Hilda and kissed her.

Hilda was amused and laughed non-stop, turned back and glared at Gale, "I must have learned this from you, calling everyone sister."

After hugging Fufu and being intimate for a while, Hilda put her down and looked at Anxier and Gale with a smile.

"Who could have guessed that you two would get together? Now the children are so big. When I received your letter, I was shocked.

Huhuhu, so who took the initiative?"

"Me!" Gale answered very powerfully.

"I knew it, you, uh" Hilda, who was about to tease something again, suddenly found that there was another girl standing beside her, looking at her in a little surprise.

"Well, let's talk in my office." Hilda put on her glasses again and cleared her throat.

"Haliya, don't tell anyone about what happened just now."