Rising The Difficulty

Currently, the Hunter Association has only one vice chairman in charge, and that is Pariston Hill, the "Rat" of the Zodiac Twelve.

Because he is the sole vice chairman and also the head of the Zodiac Twelve, plus Netero, in his pursuit of entertainment, granted Pariston excessive authority, it resulted in this order from V5 being approved directly by the Vice Chairman's Office, completely bypassing Mr. Beans.

As for the contents of this order, without a doubt, it has added significant difficulty to Netero and his team's mission.

"Let the D2 drug suppliers and arms dealers enter and deal with the Chimera Ants on their own? What kind of joke is this?!!"

Morel suppressed his anger: "Isn't this just deliberately sending these people in to provide the Chimera Ants with more food?!" 

"What are those bastards in V5 thinking?!!"

Obviously, Morel, who didn't know the specific plans and ideas of V5, couldn't understand it at all.

On the surface, the NGL is a country that advocates nature and harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

However, beneath this façade, it was actually a hub for arms trade and the mass production of illicit drugs like D2.

The leader of this country, Gyro, who has a strong anti-social and anti-human personality, dominates and orchestrates all of this, connecting various external criminal organizations for mutual profit. Many black market merchants relied on this trade for their survival.

But with the emergence of the Chimera Ant incident, NGL was devastated, and even Gyro himself seemingly met his demise.

This meant that both the D2 drug trade and the arms business were completely cut off. 

The economic chain built around these illicit trades was shattered, causing massive financial losses to all involved parties.

As a result, some of these criminals and organizations, unwilling to accept their losses, started scheming, wondering if they could infiltrate NGL to steal key resources, such as weapon production lines and D2 drug manufacturing formulas.

These people believed they could sneak in unnoticed. Still, in reality, V5 had already anticipated their every move and was using them as pawns to further the development of the Chimera Ants.

Morel naturally didn't know what V5 was planning; he just felt quite indignant about their actions: 

"Isn't it the job of government agencies to crack down on these criminals?"

"Why are they dumping all the responsibility onto the Hunter Association?!"

"Even if we were going to deal with these criminals, shouldn't it be after the Chimera Ant issue is resolved? And not here of all places?!"

"This is nothing but outright giving Chimera Ants food to grow?!"

"If V5 insists on doing this, then why the hell are we even bothering with this extermination mission?!"

"What's the point of forming this team? Might as well just disband us right now!"

"Then throw those criminals in and let the ants feast on them properly!!"

Morao was completely exasperated, ranting nonstop. Knov, while also displeased, chose to remain silent.

After all, this was V5, their higher-ups. As mere enforcers, they had no right to question orders, no matter how absurd they were.

Even though Knov disagreed with V5's approach, he had a gut feeling that something deeper and more secretive was at play.

"What do you think, Lan?!"

Knowing that Knov couldn't give any effective opinions and views, Morel turned his head and looked at Lan.

"I see with my eyes."

Lan just glanced at the instructions on the notice casually, and he almost guessed what the other party was planning.

It was nothing more than wanting to promote the birth of the Chimera Ant King to see how much danger it would bring.

This would help them make adequate preparations for the subsequent expedition in the Dark Continent and provide data support.

As for the Hunter Association, vice Chairman Pariston directly approved it.

He himself was a member of Beyond Netero's group, and Beyond Netero was eager for the Chimera Ants to get the best development.

And then get everything he wanted from it.

Therefore, Lan already knew that these people would go to any lengths to ensure the birth of the Ant King.

An order like this was only a matter of time.

Even if Lan had acted earlier to kill the Queen, V5, and Beyond would simply find another way to introduce new mutant creatures.

Today, it was Chimera Ants, but tomorrow, it could be something even more terrifying.

Their ultimate goal was to use creatures from the Dark Continent as test subjects.

And because Lan already expected this, he wasn't surprised at all.

"I don't care what V5 wants to do…"

Just as Morel was about to say something else, Lan cut him off with a wave of his hand: "I joined this Chimera Ant Extermination Team purely because Chairman Netero invited me."

"And since he's the leader of this mission, I will only follow his orders and instructions."

"Anything else? Orders from others? Meaningless to me."

Lan's tone was very casual but also very firm.

Except for Netero's opinions, any ideas and instructions from others have nothing to do with him.

And his words and deeds showed that he did not take V5 and the entire Hunter Association seriously at all.