Monster Hunter: I can hear the monsters' thoughts

Chapter 142 Water Yun
While briefly introducing the situation in the village, the village chief led Lin Lin and his party forward. They soon arrived in front of the melting pot at the center of the village. Through the half-open door, they could vaguely see a burning red light coming from inside.

"Okay, do you see that big cherry tree over there? The meeting house is built in the hollow of that tree."

"Huh? Is it so magical?"

Brave stood at the door of the meeting hall and peeked in. He had never seen such a unique meeting hall before. Standing here, he felt that even the air was filled with the fragrance of cherry blossoms, which seemed particularly artistic.

As for what the artistic conception is?
He didn't know how to answer this question, after all, he was just a hunter.

"Are you coming in or not? If not, get out of the way."

Lin Lin sighed. Actually, seeing this gathering hall built entirely inside a living cherry tree with his own eyes gave him a shock that the images in the game could not give him. But he had an impression of it in advance, so he didn't react like Brave, who was like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

"oh oh……"

Brave stopped thinking about the adjective that he couldn't come up with for a long time. He turned around, greeted Village Chief Puxian, and walked in.

Puxian smiled and waved his hand cheerfully, "I'm going to go arrange accommodation for you first. When you come out later, find Ye Zi and let her take you there!"

……

Inside the assembly hall.

Brave, who came in first, was startled and almost put his hand on his iron knife. Fortunately, he saw clearly the old man sitting on the monster's back and stopped his action in time.

This old man looked quite... wealthy and smiling, like a Maitreya Buddha. His unusually large earlobes were quite eye-catching, making people subconsciously ignore the dragon race's iconic pointed ears.

"Could it be that you are the visiting hunters that Ni Tai mentioned?"

"Yes, this is my hunter's notes. Excuse me, old man, who are you...?"

"Hahaha, I'm the Guild Master of the Flame Village Guild Hall, Suifeng Rengua!"

Brave muttered the name to himself, feeling it was a bit awkward, but it was rude to casually complain about someone else's name, so he turned to the business:

"President Suifeng Rengua, we plan to stay in Yanhuo Village for a while. Where should we register?"

Sui Fengren froze while twirling his beard, and corrected himself, "My name is not Sui Fengren Gua, it's Sui Fengren Gua!"

Brave was confused. What difference did it make?

Lin Lin, who followed in from behind, tried hard to hold back his laughter. Just as he was about to explain, he heard a cold voice coming from the left:
"Mr. Hotoyotoshi just has a habit of adding 'quack' at the end of every sentence. Please don't mind."

Brave scratched his head and apologized, while Lin Lin looked in the direction of the voice. As expected, the person who spoke was the dragon girl. She was wearing a uniform like a witch, with symmetrical bell pendants on both sides of her ink-black hair. Her delicate face was almost expressionless and looked cold.

"Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Shui Yun, the village shrine maiden, and I also serve as the meeting hall's poster girl. If you need to handle the formalities, just come to me."

(Comparing the model with the original painting, it’s hard to judge.)
Brave rubbed his arms subconsciously. Why is this signage lady so cold? Aren't signage ladies supposed to be enthusiastic?
"Hello, Miss Shuiyun, this is my hunter's notes."

While Brave was stunned, Lin Lin had already passed him and arrived at the task counter, handing over his hunter's notes. Sui Fengmin rubbed his round belly and explained to Brave:
"Although Shuiyun appears cold on the surface, she's actually just introverted. Plus, she's very focused on her work, which means she lacks expression. She's not someone who's difficult to get along with."

Shuiyun was indeed very focused and efficient when working. She returned the notes to Lin Lin in a short while. Compared with Shuiyun, Cihua from Jieyun Village was simply the king of slacking off.

"Miss Shuiyun, I'm sorry to bother you. I have another commission to settle."

After completing the formalities for Lin Lin, Shui Yun took Brave's notes and as soon as she opened it, she saw an urgent commission displayed on it.

Shuiyun:?
Didn't you just arrive in Yanhuo Village? How did you accept our commission?

After Shui Yun read the information on the document in detail, her expression, which had remained unchanged until now, showed a slight fluctuation.

"It turned out to be the last commission issued by the old village chief..."

She looked up. "You're saying you successfully hunted a colorful bird that lives in the abandoned shrine? Could you describe the details?"

Having originally assigned the task to Shui Yun, Sui Fengmin sat on the back of the ghost frog cub and began to doze off again. After hearing Shui Yun's sigh, he suddenly straightened up, pushed himself up with both hands and jumped off the ghost frog's back. In three or two steps, he arrived in front of the task counter. His movements were quite agile.

"show me!"

Sui Fengmin grabbed the Hunter's Notes and read it word by word, without making any movement for a long while.

"Master President?"

Brave waited for a moment, and seeing no response from the other party, he called out tentatively.

Sui Fengmin came back to his senses, put down his notes, raised his hand to wipe away the nostalgic expression on his face, and took a deep breath.

"I'm fine, just tell me how you completed the mission!"

Brave said "oh" and told the whole story honestly:
"On the way here, Lin Lin's Feline friend heard the cry for help and led us to a cliff. There, we ran into Miss Ye Zi fighting with an umbrella bird and a colorful bird..."

"Sorry to interrupt—"

Shui Yun's cold voice suddenly rang out, and she repeated as if to confirm:
"Yezi is fighting an umbrella bird and a colorful bird at the same time?"

Brave exclaimed, "Yeah, Lin Lin and I rushed over because we heard her cry for help!"

Shui Yun subconsciously rubbed her brows and whispered to herself:
"You reckless fellow, you're making me worry again..."

Brave didn't hear what Shuiyun said, he just continued to express his own opinion:
"Speaking of which, this girl is truly remarkable. She's not even a full-fledged hunter yet, is she? Yet, she's already managed to hold her own against two massive monsters, the Umbrellabird and the Colorbird. If she's more careful, she might even become a legendary hunter in the future!"

Lin Lin nodded silently. If Ye Zi was Lie Yan, then this was absolutely correct.

"...Anyway, that's pretty much how it happened. Because the Umbrella Bird and the Colorful Bird were always together, we had no choice but to hunt the Umbrella Bird as well when we were hunting the Colorful Bird. The materials we stripped are still on the Maru Bird cart... Oh, and there's also some from Miss Yezi's Fanghound!"

(End of this chapter)