Hunter: I became stronger even after I died.

Chapter 368 The Experience of Soaring

Pence's desire to join the hunting party was unexpected by Morrow.

With her included, the team now has four members.

However, as long as you don't get too close to the core area of ​​the ant nest when you take action, the overall risk should still be within a controllable range.

While waiting for Kurt to arrive, Peng told Morrow about the effects of his manipulation abilities without reservation.

"Boundless Beehives"

This is Peng Si's operational system ability.

She is able to use this ability to control 66 bumblebees that inhabit a specially designed hat, not only sharing her field of vision with them but also performing precise individual control from a distance.

Alternatively, more complex group collaboration can be achieved by issuing instructions.

It's worth mentioning that Pence's hat resembles a beehive, with a queen bee residing inside.

Even if the bumblebee army suffers losses, it can quickly breed new bumblebees with the help of the queen, thereby maintaining the stability of its forces.

This capability combines high reconnaissance performance with sustainability, making it a high-level reconnaissance capability within the operational system.

Overall, Pence's abilities are more comprehensive than Morrow initially estimated. They are not only suitable for reconnaissance and locating prey, but also for large-scale surveillance, making them highly practical.

Unfortunately, the Chimera Ants must have already noticed the connection between Pons' abilities and Bumblebee's when they were hunting her down.

Therefore, relying on large-scale bee swarms for surveillance is probably no longer a realistic option.

However, the purpose of entering NGL this time is to hunt, and vigilance is not the primary requirement. The ability to locate enemies is more important.

Thinking of this, Moro suddenly asked, "Pons, can your swarm of bees distinguish the strength of a target's Nen?"

"can."

Pence replied, "But the information they send back is rather coarse; it can only send signals that indicate danger, and it's difficult to provide more specific intensity data."

"It's okay, this is easy to solve."

Moro nodded and offered a suggestion: "Once Kurt arrives, have the swarm memorize the Nen strength of each of us, and then assign a corresponding danger level to the swarm in order from weakest to strongest."

"it is good."

Peng Si's eyes lit up upon hearing this.

If we use the intensity of the bees' energy as a reference, we can set standards for different levels, and indeed enable the bee colony to master a simple yet effective identification mechanism.

I never thought of using this method to improve and enhance the children's abilities.

Once Morrow understood the Infinite Bee Window ability, he was immediately able to offer targeted improvement suggestions.

Amazing……

Peng Si thought to herself silently.

Not long after, Kurt also arrived at the meeting point.

After introducing themselves, Pons followed Morrow's advice and released the swarm of bees from the hat, allowing them to record the intensity of Nen from weak to strong.

The test results came out quickly.

Peng Si ranked at the bottom of the team, and based on her manifested energy level, she was designated as the weakest level 2 in the team.

Those weaker than her are naturally level 1.

Above that are Kurt's level 3, Menchi's level 4, and Morrow's level 5.

Those stronger than Moro are all classified as Level 6.

This numerical ranking of danger levels could be further adjusted if more specific and intuitive references were introduced.

For example, according to Moro's annual ring ranking system, at Lv.74, he should be classified as a level 7 danger, while Menchi is level 6.

However, bee colonies themselves do not possess such sophisticated discrimination capabilities; they can only establish a relatively simple identification mechanism by recording reference samples.

If we're talking about the most accurate data-driven identification method, it's undoubtedly Nakoruru's Nen ability, "The heavens know not that I alone am harmed."

This ability can convert a target's "manifested energy" and "potential energy" into definite numerical values ​​through the Nen mechanism.

Based on this, as long as one accumulates experience through continuous practical combat, one can eventually train oneself to roughly judge the target's energy level simply by looking at the naked eye and intuition.

In any case, given the current situation, the bee swarm's identification level mechanism is sufficient to enable it to detect enemies.

In other words, as long as the signal is a level 4 signal that is similar to Menchi's and is recognized by the bee colony, it meets Moro's minimum hunting standards.

Before the team set off for NGL, Moro implanted a star mark on Menchi and the others, and gave each of them a coin engraved with the word "star mark god".

If an emergency occurs during a split operation, Morrow can immediately detect it by destroying the star symbol on the coin.

On the way to NGL, Morrow turned to look at Kurt beside him and casually asked, "Kurt, Killua is at an inn in a nearby town. Aren't you going to see him?"

"I do think so."

Kurt said softly, "But this trip will take at least another day."

Although it had been a long time since he had seen Killua, Kalluto preferred to act with Morrow rather than meet him.

Moro smiled and said, "It's alright. You can stay with Killua for a while. I'll come find you after I've finished dealing with things here."

"That won't work."

Kurt shook his head almost immediately, his expression serious. "I want to help."

"Ok."

Seeing this, Moro stopped mentioning the matter.

The group quickly arrived at the NGL border, but instead of going through normal channels, they chose to infiltrate directly.

The area near the border is a barren wasteland, requiring several hours of walking to reach the lush forest.

The people of NGL mostly live in the forests, in scattered villages, maintaining a pastoral lifestyle close to nature through farming and hunting.

They deeply revere nature, and even if someone dies from an attack by a large wild animal, they simply consider it a normal occurrence in nature, where the strong prey on the weak, and don't take it seriously.

Today, chimeric ants have formed a considerable army, and it can be inferred that human villages within a hundred-kilometer radius of their nests have probably been completely wiped out long ago.

In order to maintain the freshness of the food and meet the queen ant's increasingly rapid feeding pace...

Once the humans in the nearby area have been hunted to extinction, the soldier ants have no choice but to form an expeditionary force to capture humans in areas farther away from the nest.

This also means that the soldier ants' activity range will become more dispersed.

For Moro, the farther away from the ant nest, the lower the risk of the hunting operation.

Moro's team quickly entered the forest area of ​​NGL.

"Buzz..."

Peng Si released the swarm of bees and gave the order to immediately switch to vision-sharing mode once a danger level signal was detected.

As the swarm spread deeper into the forest, the team steadily moved forward.

After trekking dozens of kilometers through the forest, they found a silent village on a flat area near a stream.

Before they even got very close, Morrow and the others could already smell the strong stench of rotting corpses emanating from the air.

Most of the village's inhabitants had been slaughtered by the chimeric ants as if they were toys.

However, this area is still far from the ant nest, and in theory, the chimeric ants' hunting activities should not have advanced to this point.

"It is probably an autonomous behavior of some chimeric ants, not for obtaining food, but simply to satisfy their hunting desires."

Morrow gazed at the outline of the village in the night.

Chimeric ants, while incorporating human genes, also inherit human self-awareness and personality traits.

This leads many chimeric ants to act on their own.

For them, as long as they complete the tasks assigned by their superiors like cattle and horses, they can play as they please in the remaining time.

Manipulating and torturing humans has become a common way to satisfy their spiritual desires.

This innate brutality, once it awakens its Nen ability, will make it even more unscrupulous and willful.

Menqi frowned and said coldly, "It's worse than I imagined."

"It's really terrible."

Moro withdrew his gaze from the village and said calmly, "But this is something humans are capable of doing. Even in a different species' body, the evil etched in their genes cannot suppress the ants' innate sense of leadership and discipline."

"..."

Menqi was speechless for a moment.

Without the intervention of human genes, even if chimeric ants hunt a species to extinction, it is ultimately only for the survival of the group.

All their hunting behaviors are aimed at obtaining the food they need to survive.

However, after human genes were mixed in...

Hunting is no longer just about getting food.

Soon, several bumblebees flew back from the dark and silent village. Pence looked at Morrow and reported, "The village is full of corpses; there are no other signs of life."

"Ah."

Moro nodded slightly. "Keep moving forward. There's likely at least one Chimera Ant squad nearby."

This area has mostly been turned into a playground by a certain chimeric ant colony.

It's likely that after completing their hunting mission for the day, they would linger nearby for leisure.

The group continued deeper into the forest.

After walking only a few kilometers, Peng Si received a danger level signal from one of the bumblebees and immediately switched to vision-sharing mode.

"A chimeric ant squad has been discovered."

Peng Si suddenly stopped, raised her hand to cover her right eye, and with the help of the shared vision, clearly saw a group of chimeric ants moving in the forest.

“12 Level 1, 1 Level 4, at the 10 o’clock position, about seven kilometers away.”

Combining the information from Bumblebee, Peng Sifei quickly reported accurate reconnaissance data.

Upon hearing this, Moro only paid attention to the chimeric ant that was identified as a Level 4 danger signal.

This means that the Chimera Ant has mastered Nen, and its level of manifested Nen is even close to that of Menchi.

Although it is not yet entirely certain whether this level 4 chimeric ant is a division commander or an army commander.

However, the physical strength of chimeric ants is indeed far beyond what is commonly understood.

The mind was forcibly activated in a rough manner, yet the person was able to move freely in such a short time.

If it were a human being, after undergoing the baptism, they would at least be bedridden for a month, if not crippled.

"I'll go first, Kurt. You protect Pence and then follow."

Moro gave a brief instruction and then sped off toward the 10 o'clock position.

Seeing how quickly he moved, Mencius followed closely behind without hesitation.

Kurt yearned for battle, but could only watch helplessly as Morrow and Menchi charged to the front lines.

Compared to the reactions of her teammates, Peng Si looked surprised and doubtful.

Level 4 danger signal...

This also made her realize that the Chimera Ants had mastered Nen abilities.

Previously, when she was surrounded and captured by a large number of Chimera Ants, she had faced Chimera Ants at the level of army commanders and division commanders, even though they did not yet understand Nen abilities.

But only a few days have passed?
Not only did he master the recitation, but he even raised the intensity of his recitation to a level close to that of his master, Menchi.
It was only at this moment that Peng Si truly realized the terrifying nature of the chimeric ant species.

A distance of 7 kilometers.

Moro quickly approached.

However, the scent of their sprinting acted like an alarm bell, giving the chimera ants time to react.

However, Moro didn't care about that at all. After getting closer, he immediately looked at the only Chimera Ant in the arena that was releasing its power.

It was a chimeric ant with an owl-like face.

Judging from the proportion of facial features, he is most likely a military commander.

"It's a rare breed!"

Upon seeing Moro, the army commander, the Owl Chimera Ant, immediately revealed an expression of extreme excitement and laughed loudly, "Haha, what luck! I've been wanting to..."

The voice has not fallen,

He felt a blur before his eyes, and his vision suddenly flipped.

Moro teleported in front of him like a ghost, reached out with one hand, and directly ripped off his head.

"Eh?"

Before the owl chimera ant could even react, its entire brain had already gone into a state of utter stagnation.

Moro exerted force with his five fingers, and the head exploded.

Then, the corners of his mouth slowly turned up, revealing a smile that was almost excited.

This should just be a military commander.

However, after activating the skill, it immediately possesses a display of energy close to Lv.60.

Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to use it at all, so his actual combat strength is probably not even as good as a Lv.30 combat-type ability user.

It seems like...

The division commander's displayed level of magnanimity should be even higher, right?
That's great.

this place,

It will definitely allow me to easily reach Lv.81.

Moro's smile grew even more excited.

This scene was witnessed by the lower-ranking soldier ants who still retained some basic intelligence, and then they looked at the army commander who had been casually crushed.

For the first time...

A fear arose from instinct.

A few seconds later.

Menqi also arrived at the scene and saw the headless chimeric ant corpse on the ground, as well as more than a dozen low-level soldier ants of various shapes.

These soldier ants were clearly wary of Moro, but they didn't know how to avoid his sharp edge and run away.

So much so that they all made tentative moves to shorten the distance.

Moro suppressed his excited smile, looked at Menchi who had just arrived, and said, "These are all low-level soldier ants that don't know Nen. Let Pence and Kurt get used to them."

"it is good."

After confirming the level of threat posed by these soldier ants, Menchi had similar thoughts.

In the following two days,
By relying on Pons's swarms of bees to locate enemies, Moro only needs to stay away from the ant nest to continuously and efficiently hunt down chimeric ant squads that are keen to act on their own.

In just two days,

Moro's level increased from Lv.74 to Lv.76.

The vast majority of this experience comes from the contributions of numerous army commanders.

In addition, he also encountered four chimera ants of division commander level.

One of the division commanders, who incorporated tiger genes, displayed a power level exceeding Lv.70.

However, its actual combat capability is at most equivalent to Lv.50.

However, killing him brings a real experience gain of level 70.

This is simply the ideal hunt with low risk and high reward.

At this rate, he should be able to reach Lv.81 in less than half a month.

There was one phenomenon that particularly concerned Moro.

He has hunted dozens of chimera ant squads, but so far he has not encountered a single chimera ant that he has implanted with a star.

Furthermore, the apparent difference in magnanimity between division commanders and army commanders does not seem to be entirely defined by rank.

Some division commanders, in terms of sheer magnanimity, are even noticeably weaker than army commanders…

Moro didn't delve into the matter further, focusing instead on leveling up.

On the third day after the team entered NGL, Pence received another message from a bumblebee.

"Two level 5s, one level 6 or higher... wait, my baby... is dead?"

Peng Si's expression changed, and she was about to switch to shared view.

The next moment, it completely lost contact with the bumblebee, clearly having been eliminated by the reconnaissance target.

When Menchi and Kurt heard that two people had appeared with similar or even greater abilities than Morrow, they couldn't help but tense up.

Moro, however, knew exactly what had happened.

The monster-stealing guys have arrived.

Level 5 is equivalent to Lv.70 or higher, roughly equivalent to Moriarty and Nob.

The one that far surpasses Lv.80 is definitely Netero.

"Let's see what Chairman Netero does next..."

Moro thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)