Hunter: I became stronger even after I died.

Chapter 5 Death Node
The cold touch from beneath your body and the shaking feeling of the vehicle as it travels over rough roads.

They are always reminding Moreau——

This is reality.

It was clear that he had reached death, but when he opened his eyes again, he found himself back to a year ago.

Moreau was a little dazed, and he couldn't suppress the memories that emerged from the depths of his mind.

A year ago, he woke up in this carriage cage.

The unfamiliar environment and the suffocating cage naturally intertwined with extreme panic in the cold and shaking, thus dominating all emotions at the time.

Now that his thoughts returned to the present moment, it was impossible for Moreau to scream and shout out of extreme panic like he did at the beginning.

He quickly calmed down and glanced at his surroundings again.

With the light coming through the small hole in the carriage, you can see two rows of iron cages in the long carriage, each of which contains a naked person.

Moreau was in it, also naked.

His eyes swept over the people in the iron cage one by one. There were men and women, about the same age as him, probably between 14 and 16 years old.

Looking at the people locked in the iron cages, the images in Moro's memory gradually overlapped with the appearance of this group of people.

Moreau was looking at the other people in the iron cage, and the others were attracted by the noise when Moreau woke up, and they all looked at Moreau.

There was dullness and indifference in their eyes.

Only two or three people looked puzzled.

Moro ignored them and lowered his head to avoid the many gazes coming from all around.

what on earth is it?

In the fragments of memory, Feitan's sinister and furious eyes could almost be reproduced before his eyes.

The feeling of the cold blade cutting through the face and the vitality also remains.

This feeling is like a poisonous snake lurking in your heart, bringing a chill that penetrates deep into your bones.

but--

Put your hand on your chest and you can feel your heart beating violently.

Still alive!

Morrow confirmed this fact, closed his eyes, and tried to calm down as much as possible.

This miraculous way of escaping death made him realize the preciousness of the ability to breathe.

After a while.

Moro slowly opened his eyes, lowered his head, and looked at the back of his right hand.

The tree ring tattoo is still there!

This cheered him up.

He remembered clearly that the outline of the tree ring tattoo slowly emerged on the second day after he traveled through time, and then took shape within a few days.

But at this point in time, the tree ring tattoo has appeared and is still complete.

That's the difference.

Moreau focused his eyes and moved his right hand into the light so that he could see more clearly.

In the dim light, Moreau quickly discovered the changes in the tree ring tattoo.

The white annual rings that were originally filled have now turned pitch black.

And the infinity symbol in the inner circle is gone, replaced by——

Lv.1.

Moro's eyes changed, and judging from the blackened growth rings, he realized that all these changes were most likely caused by the growth ring tattoo.

The infinity symbol turned into Lv.1, but I don’t know what happened.

Is it a love etude...?
For some reason, the image of Melena flashed through Moro's mind.

Lv is a symbol of level, and the hierarchy is the most special aspect of Melena's telepathic ability.

So it was inevitable that Moreau would think in this direction.

But is there any connection between the two?
If the effect of the tree rings is to allow him to return to one year ago when he dies, then what function does the level symbol that replaces the infinity symbol play?
Moro lowered his eyes, sorting out the information he already knew.

While thinking, he subconsciously raised his left hand and gently stroked the tree ring tattoo on the back of his right hand.

"Ok?"

At this moment, Moro noticed a red "X" symbol on the back of his left hand.

The edge of the symbol was as black as ink, giving off an ominous aura. "What is this...?"

Moro's pupils shrank slightly, and his attention was instantly focused on the newly appeared "X" symbol.

In an instant——

Consciousness was like a small boat being swallowed by a whirlpool, and it was blurred for a moment.

It just takes a breath.

Feitan's appearance reappeared before Moro's eyes.

This time, one could clearly see Feitan's cold murderous intent hidden under his rage.

laugh!
The feeling of the blade cutting the face and the suffocating feeling of death strangling the throat also came as multiple feedbacks.

The next moment, endless darkness came.

In this way, Moreau experienced an extremely realistic replay of his death.

Then, consciousness became blurred again.

The scene before my eyes faded away like weathering, and in its place was a heart grasped by dark hands.

Moro stared at the heart, and suddenly an answer came to his mind.

The heart held in both hands is his.

This inexplicable cognition was forced into his head like data transmission.

Along with it came a message called "Death Node".

"Ok?"

Suddenly, consciousness returned to reality.

Moro was stunned for a moment and realized that he was still maintaining the original action.

"Death Node?"

Muttering to himself in disbelief, Moreau slowly raised his head and stared at the rusty iron bar in front of him. He then sighed and leaned back, leaning weakly on the iron bar on the other side.

Death Node——

It can also be said to be the time of his death, which was June 1997, 6.

He died on this day at the hands of Feitan.

Then he was reborn at the time when he first traveled through, which was June 1996, 6.

There is no doubt that he got a chance to start over.

However, the death node that is branded into oneself will not disappear due to rebirth.

If the "Death Node" cannot be destroyed before June 1997, 6, his heart will instantly turn into foam and return to the arms of death once again.

The way to destroy a death node is to kill the person who created the death node before the original death time arrives, in order to offset the "X" symbol on the back of the left hand.

That is to say, he would kill Feitan, who was completely unaware of this, with his own hands within a year.

This is the only way to resolve the curse from the death node.

"One year?"

Moro let out a long sigh, thinking about the pair of black hands tightly grasping his heart. He always had the illusion that Kurapika's sword of oath pierced his heart.

Let the dead node be the dead node.

Let’s see whether it can be destroyed first, it’s better than dying directly.

Besides...

Moro glanced at the rank symbol in the middle of the tree ring tattoo.

Although the specific function of this level symbol is still uncertain, it should not be a bad thing.

Anyway, as long as you find a way to change Lv.1 to Lv.2, you can put it into practice and achieve results.

Anyway, let’s solve the current problem first.

Moreau collected his thoughts and glanced at the rusty iron rod.

The truck carrying them will arrive at a mental hospital built on a mountain in a few hours.

It is a mental hospital on the surface, but secretly it is doing human and organ business.

Yes.

From the moment they were put into the cage, Moreau and the others were rudely labeled as piglets.

(End of this chapter)