Chapter Twenty One

　　The vice president of the Hunter Association? Is there such a person in the original book?

　　Although I haven't watched Hunter for a long time, you have no impression of this young man named Pariston. However, I haven't paid attention to the hunter's news recently. Is it possible that Togashi Yoshihiro finally ran out of money and re-serialized?

　　You accepted the business card in doubt, and the other party seemed very happy, and asked for your name again.

　　The name... You felt a little bit in your heart, and looked around. The name Carrot Potato is really shameful, maybe you can try to use a fake name, since Gon is not around at this time, no one will come to expose you.

　　"My name is Ace."

　　"Oh? Aren't you a carrot potato?"

　　Pariston expression froze for a moment, and then he smiled again: "Then Carrot Potato, are you free to do something for me now?"

　　...…Why does he know your name? ! Obviously no one told him if it was okay!

　　Seeing your puzzlement, Pariston smiled and explained to you again: "Because I am the vice president of the Hunter Association, the information of all the candidates in this issue is very clear."

　　... Well, in this case, why did he bother to ask for your name. At this point you don't know whether you should lose your mind about the system or Pariston.

　　While you were still in doubt, you suddenly saw an exclamation mark above the head of the vice president. After thinking hard for a few seconds, you remembered that this seemed to be a mission prompt. The vice president seemed to have a mission for you to do?

　　Choose a dialogue, you said that you are free now, Pariston immediately showed a very happy look, he stood up, straightened the collar of his suit and said: "That's right, the Black Gem Forest is just like its name, and the woods and forests in it The magical beasts seem to be stained with the magic of the forest, and they are as dark as the night. There are many rare birds and animals among them, and their value is very high no matter from which point of view. But I received information two days ago, I don't know what happened What happened, all the beasts in this forest disappeared without a trace as if they were evaporated, can you help me find out the cause of the problem?"

　　After Pariston finished his chattering statement, the system immediately popped up a prompt asking if you want to accept the task. You thought about it and felt that you had nothing to do anyway, so you agreed.

　　"Okay, I'll help you."

　　"Oh, thank you very much~" Pariston took out the magnifying glass and began to survey the ground, and then talked to him, he would just repeat: "Carrot Potato, please report to me if you see anything unusual", you open the menu , wanting to confirm the task, and saw the sign on the task bar is "Vice-President Pariston Reliance: The Mystery of the Disappearance of Warcraft in the Black Gem Forest I".　

　　It seems to be a series of tasks. After completing I, there will be II, III, IV and so on... But this also shows that the difficulty of the task is not too high, at least it can be solved according to the normal process. You felt a little relieved, then left the coquettish vice-chairman and continued to head into the depths of the forest.

　Although you don't know the reason for the sudden disappearance of the beast group, you always have a bad feeling. You have played a lot of RPG games. Generally speaking, when this happens, it will be related to the end of the world, but this is a hunter. In the world, apart from the appearance of ants devouring humans in the later period of the manga, there is really nothing that can be related to the disaster. You also firmly believe that the old thief Yoshihiro will not be so clichéd to draw such a script.

　　Could it be poachers? Assuming all kinds of assumptions, you continue to move forward, encountering nothing on the way, and pass through several narrow passages like a maze. Finally, at the end of the front is a dark altar. From a distance, it seems that there is a huge black altar. The object was hung on the stone pillar in the center of the altar, and it swayed gently with the faintest wind, exuding a penetrating feeling.

　　what is that? !

　　Although I don't know what's going on, but it seems that it has something to do with the disappearance of the beast. You hurriedly hold the rake tightly, knowing that if you take one step forward, a boss battle is very likely, you hurriedly took out a few hemostatic weeds and ate them to replenish your life. You, who was about to investigate the altar, suddenly felt a malicious gaze behind him.

　　Who is there? You turned your head immediately, but you couldn't see anyone in front of you, but you heard a vicious threatening voice from somewhere: "This is the end, if you don't want to die, go back quickly!"

　　Who is speaking?

　　You looked around cautiously, and then, from the depths of the dark forest, a black-haired boy wearing a black leather jacket slowly walked out. You are sure that you have never seen this boy, but he seems to have known you already The same, staring at you with malicious eyes.

　　You should have never attacked anyone except the grape spider eggs, you thought suspiciously, so you asked the boy "who are you", but you soon realized that you asked too much, including when you entered the forest earlier Like staring, it is likely that poachers who caused the disappearance of wild animals in the forest, or heretics did it to scare away humans who strayed into the forest by mistake.

　　"Get out, or die here."

　　The boy didn't answer your words, but viciously pulled out two daggers from his pockets, and began to radiate murderous aura unabashedly.

　　It seems that a fierce battle is inevitable, as a last resort, you raised your wretched rake and swung it towards the beautiful boy.

　　The young man's face is full of bitterness and hatred, which is similar to the faces of the villains with the illness in those comics and movies you have seen. After thinking about it, relying on your speed being faster than him, you first slapped him in the other's face.

　　"Slap your face! Just hit your face!"

　　The black-haired boy let out a wail like a little girl, and his whole body was blown away by you who ramped up his attack power.

　　System prompt: Hit the weak point, resulting in a knowing blow.

　　In the next round, the black-haired boy jumped up from the ground, picked up the dagger and slashed at your neck.

　　System prompt: The life of Carrot Potato is reduced by 17.

　　......

　　After an easy win.

　　You gnawed on the biscuit and rolled your eyes wildly at the grief-stricken middle-school boy.

　　"Damn...impossible! How can you be so strong!? Could it be that you..."

　　The boy glared at you viciously, and you stood aside with a rake in your hand, feeling very innocent.

　　Does he want to say that you cheating? Why can't you be so strong, you just worked hard to level up...

　　But before you could answer him, the boy's figure turned into a puff of black smoke and evaporated from the spot.

　　...Huh?

　　Wait, where are the coins? ! You immediately turned pale with fright, and hurriedly pushed the coach to ask him to search for it together, but there was nothing left on the ground, not even a ring.

　　...What is going on with this boss!

　　Open the status bar again, and find that even the experience value has not increased at all, you are suddenly dumbfounded, wondering if he let him escape?

　　But now there is no remaining murderous aura around, and the danger seems to have disappeared. You couldn't catch up to kill him any more, so you had no choice but to admit that you were unlucky, then put away the rake resentfully, and climbed up the steps to investigate the altar in front of you.

　　System prompt: The altar with no smell seems to appear ghosts at any time.

　　...Don't scare you, okay! I didn't feel anything about this forest at first, but I was scared by such a reminder.

　　Finally, You can clearly see what is hanging on the stone pillar and swinging in the wind. It seems to be an unknown black monster that looks like a horse. It has a jet-black spiral horn on its forehead, which looks a bit like a unicorn. I don't know who was so cruel, but there was a big gash in the stomach of this magical beast that was used as a sacrifice. The black blood had already dried up, and both eyes were gouged out. There was a trace of white bones in the empty eye sockets, and the stench was overwhelming. .

　　You were so disgusted that you almost vomited. You thought this might be the clue to the disappearance of the monster in the Black Gem Forest. Just as you were about to go back and report to the vice president, you suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something in the stomach of the long-dead monster. Something was flickering faintly.

　　Could it be a gem or something?

　　Your spirit was immediately lifted, and you didn't care about the nausea, you just put your hand into the stomach of the monster. Long after death, the internal organs are somewhat stiff and lose their elasticity, but they are still wet. You frowned and touched for a long time, finally you touched something hard, pulled your hand out of the pile of carrion with difficulty, and found that what you got was a small piece of transparent glass, but it was not like ordinary glass, even though it was covered with black Bloodstained, still faintly exuding a strange weak light.

　　What the hell is this thing?

　　You remember that you picked up a piece when you were in the back mountain of Whale Island, but somehow it disappeared in the blink of an eye, which makes people very concerned. You looked at the fragment in your palm suspiciously, and when you were considering whether to bite it with your teeth to test its hardness, it suddenly started to glow again, and then your transparent bracelet seemed to resonate, and at the same time burst out a more dazzling glare .

　　You didn't blink this time, you just saw that fragment turned into countless particles of light, which were instantly sucked in by the largest gemstone on the bracelet, and those brilliance began to dim after flickering for a while, just like the light emitted at night. As if the fireworks were slowly fading away, eventually the light dies down and your bracelet looks like it always has.

　...what happened?

　　The system didn't show any prompts, you opened the status bar and looked, and none of the abilities have been added... I don't know what's going on.

　　But it looks like it shouldn't be a bad thing. You shook your head, decided not to think about these wasting brain cells, and you can almost report the task to the vice president.

　　Back on the same road, when he reached the previous fork in the road, he found that the vice president no longer used the magnifying glass to investigate the ground, and was standing under a tree with his hips on his hips to enjoy the shade.

　　You think he is too laid back and doesn't seem to be working hard at all (although you think what he did before is meaningless).

　　Before you could go up to talk to him, the vice president suddenly saw you from a distance, turned his head and greeted you with a smile: "Has the result come out? I've been waiting for you for a long time, little carrot potato~."

　　Small... little Carrot Potato...

You froze in place, and you were shocked when you heard the vice president's seemingly friendly address to you.