Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 510 Jade Gate
"Okay, thanks for the reminder, I will definitely keep a low profile!" Sun Hang nodded very "seriously".

"Are you really Sun Hang?" Yang Qiaoxi still seemed unconvinced by Sun Hang's identity and asked one last question.

"Really," Sun Hang said helplessly. "If you still don't believe me, I can show you my hunter's license."

“I’m just wondering… if the Tian Shu Tower and the Federal Government wanted to ‘create’ a hero, why would they choose a hunter like you with support abilities? Don’t they know that this will eventually be exposed?” Yang Qiaoxi wondered. “If I were one of the higher-ups, I would definitely choose Nightshade… Over the years, Nightshade has already made a name for herself in Tianfu City. If she were chosen as the hero, there would probably be far fewer people who would be dissatisfied, and even fewer people who would want to cause trouble.”

"Old Wang...Is Night Fury quite famous in the hunter community?"

“She’s famous, infamous.” Yang Qiaoxi said, “Even I, a former mercenary far away in Dragon City, know this person… How should I put it, whenever she takes on a mission, the scene is inevitably left in a mess… Many hunters who have worked with her say that when she fights, she’s like a wild beast, and her abilities are indiscriminate attacks. There are rumors that she has taken the lives of several hunters, but I don’t know if it’s true or not.”

Sun Hang recalled the scene when he first met Wang Xiyi—the scene was indeed a mess, but the indiscriminate attack was most likely a misrepresentation. Sun Hang clearly remembered that the dragon flames that burned everything avoided him standing beside the blood pool and went straight for Bloody Mary.

At that time, Lao Wang's infection process was relatively stable, and even in his beast form, he could maintain human rationality.

As for accidentally killing a colleague… Sun Hang immediately thought of the hunter who made an excessive demand and ended up getting a beating from Old Wang. So-called rumors probably originate from incidents like this, right?
“I also heard that the Night Fury’s meme has undergone a second-stage mutation and has now become a half-dragon, half-human monster… Is that true?” Yang Qiaoxi asked. “Since you are Sun Hang, you should be very familiar with her, right? After all, you both belong to the Tianfu City Mystery Research Institute.”

"It's true that it's half-dragon and half-human, but you can't call it a monster," Sun Hang said. "Hmm... have you ever played any Western fantasy MMORPGs?"

"I've played quite a few."

“Then you should know about the ‘Dragonkin’ fantasy race, right? You can probably imagine a dragon girl character with a strong mature and elegant aura, which is roughly what Nightshade looks like now,” Sun Hang said.

"Oh... she seems to have become more attractive?" Yang Qiaoxi was taken aback. "But I guess no man will dare to pursue her."

"Why do you say that?"

"To win her over, you'd first have to be able to beat her, right? As far as I know, with Night Fury's abilities, there aren't many hunters who can defeat her..."

"Are you referring to free hunters or those hunters on the leaderboards?"

“Including all of them,” Yang Qiaoxi said. “Night Fury is a top-tier combat hunter. If she hadn’t stayed in a border city like Tianfu City since her debut, I estimate she would definitely be in the top ten of the rankings now.” The two chatted casually, while Zhulong, except for occasionally interjecting, listened intently to the intermittent broadcasts from the Dragon City Sandstorm Observation Center.

Finally, as a section of ruins, eroded by wind and sand and almost blending into the Gobi Desert, came into view, the ruins of a city hidden deep in the desert gradually emerged on the horizon.

“This is Yumen.” Yang Qiaoxi slowed down her motorcycle slightly. “This city has been hit by more than a hundred sandstorms. Its area is shrinking every year. No one can guarantee that the name Yumen will be completely erased from the map in a few decades.”

"Where is Sima Heng Street?" Sun Hang asked, looking at the street that showed no signs of human activity.

"I don't know." Yang Qiaoxi shrugged and asked jokingly, "I've never heard of a street in Yumen called Sima Heng Street. By the way, why are you asking this? Do you know someone who lives there?"

“The previous delivery job required me to store the package in the basement of the Yumen Bank Simaheng Street branch,” Sun Hang said.

“…I think I understand.” Yang Qiaoxi nodded after thinking for a few seconds.

"What do you understand?" Zhulong couldn't help but ask.

“I know almost every street in Yumen by name, and there’s no such place as Sima Heng Street. As for Yumen Bank… I’m sorry, that bank doesn’t exist at all. There are only four banks in the entire Yumen: Chang’an Bank, Huaxia Bank, the Yumen branch of the Federal Central Bank, and Suzhou Rural Credit Cooperative… You have to understand, back then it wasn’t like now, where a small town can have seventy or eighty banks, and there weren’t so many messy private financial institutions…” Yang Qiaoxi said.

"So... the quest clues provided by Copper Finger were fake." Zhulong frowned. "No, he transferred the quest directly to Sun Hang through the Hunter Management Bureau's online website, which means that when he received the quest, he saw the same information..."

“I think this sentence is most likely a code,” Yang Qiaoxi said. “Think about it, if you were really asked to store something in a specific location, you could simply wait nearby. You would be in the dark, and the other party would be in the light, so you would have complete control. But if it’s a code, if you want to ‘lure’ the recipient out, you would have to ask around Yumen where ‘Si Ma Heng Street’ is. The other party could then observe your movements in the dark and decide whether to show up and contact you. In this way, the roles of the active and passive parties are completely reversed.”

Yang Qiaoxi stopped her motorcycle, jumped off, and said, "I have to say, they're not entirely stupid. If it were me, without knowing the delivery person's background, I would also use this method... to minimize the possibility of them killing and robbing us."

“Looks like we’ll have to find people to exchange the code words one by one… Luckily, I’m not socially awkward.” Sun Hang jumped out of the SUV and looked around. “Didn’t you say that a lot of people had gathered in Yumen? Where are they? This looks like an empty, deserted city.”

"Come with me." Yang Qiaoxi pushed the motorcycle into a roofless house and locked it. Then, she pulled out a dusty, rusty handcart from some corner and moved all the goods from the off-road vehicle onto the handcart.

(End of this chapter)