The weapon refiner is not doing her job properly

Chapter 140 The Monster Inside the Clubhouse (1)

While nervously adjusting the portable live streaming device in his hand, Mao Xi lowered his voice and asked several colleagues who were also operating it, "In this situation, is it possible to start a live stream?"

"Time waits for no one, let's get going." The bearded man in the passenger seat didn't even look up, his fingers flying across the screen as he started recording and turning on the live stream.

He went all out and said, "Hurry up and open it. In this kind of emergency, the police and Star Alliance's control devices haven't been activated yet. This is the golden window of opportunity. Whoever takes the first shot will grab the traffic."

The other party said this because they wanted the people in the car with them to become "accomplices" with them.

Mao Xi is more worried that he will be disliked by the higher-ups, which will make it even more difficult for him to contact people in the Star Alliance.

But opportunities are fleeting. "The bold get rich, the timid starve." Mao Xi silently recited this wise saying, gritted his teeth, and decisively turned on the live streaming equipment.

His heart was racing, his adrenaline was surging. If he could successfully capture the precious scene of the hunter killing the Mystic, he wouldn't care even if he was called in for questioning by the Star Police or fined afterwards.

This was the material he had been longing for; he had always wanted to break into the mysterious and powerful hunter circle and do in-depth interviews and reports.

Although he got to know many people in the Star Alliance through his running around, the interview content he received always felt superficial and didn't reflect what he truly longed for.

But he also knew that elite hunters didn't like appearing in public, and it was extremely difficult for mainstream media to interview them, let alone a lone independent media person like him.

This live stream might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open a door to new possibilities.

High in the sky, several Star Police hovercars flashing blue and red lights and black special small fighter jets bearing military insignia hovered at low altitude, emitting a low hum.

Both entities continuously sent signals to the surrounding area, urging onlookers to stay away from the danger zone and dispersing curious onlookers from other places.

Mao Xi and his team's hovercars were actually quite far away, but they were well-equipped and sophisticated, so all they had to do was adjust the focus and magnification of the live streaming camera.

The high-definition camera silently zoomed in, focusing on the brightly lit mountaintop clubhouse in the distance.

When the live stream started, the room was empty. The brief silence gave him a little time to catch his breath. He suddenly remembered Su Ninglong in the buffet area of ​​the banquet.

Mao Xi asked softly, "By the way, do you know who those people were sitting in the buffet area before the banquet started, eating as if no one else was around? They seem to be someone important."

"The Star Alliance. That guy with the particularly refined demeanor, wearing glasses, and exuding a scholarly air, is the Word Spirit Master Song Hu. However, he hasn't taken the Hunter License exam yet; he's just a highly regarded talent within the Star Alliance's inner academy."

"Yes, yes, and there's also the guy in black clothes, with a buzz cut and mechanical ears, Yun Fei, who's two seats away from him."

Upon hearing the name "Yun Fei," Mao Xi felt a chill run down his spine.

Yun Fei's name is legendary on the mysterious Hunter Forum, where he is known as the God of Slaughter.

It is rumored that he only appears at the mysterious sites of mass deaths. Although this statement certainly contains elements of mythologizing and exaggeration, the fact that he can receive such "honor" is enough to prove the terrifying strength of him and the danger of the mission.

Mao Xi composed himself. "Then... what about that little girl who's clearly the most favored, the one who's been eating the whole time?"

He knew Su Ninglong, a student who had been enrolled in the Star Alliance Academy for less than a year, and he had never forgotten the trip to the museum.

Now he regrets not contacting Xingyuan more often; it's hard to find topics to talk about now.

"Her? I don't know." The interstellar space is so vast, and there are so many hunters. Even the most famous one is only roughly known to them. Who would pay special attention to a child?

“I know a little about that child. He’s very smart. He’s already stood out from the kindergarten class and entered the gifted youth class. He should be able to enter the inner court soon.”

"How did you know?"

“I have a relative who is studying in the Star Alliance Academy’s Junior Class. Although they signed a confidentiality agreement, as long as they don’t discuss it online, the Star Alliance won’t interfere if they just chat about it privately.”

"With more and more pollution incidents, the general public should also have the right to know."

Mao Xi nodded, glancing at the number of viewers in the live stream. Wow, it had jumped to over a thousand in a flash, with viewers constantly commenting.

"Xizi, what happened? Can you tell me?"

"The live stream started suddenly while I was eating. I hope the content will be entertaining while I'm eating."

"I saw several media cameras pointed at this spot, just from different angles. Does anyone know what's going on?"

"Speak up, host."

"It seems to be something big. There are vehicles from the Star Alliance, the Star Radiance Alliance, the Star Police, and the military."

"Hey, you upstairs, hurry up and explain the facts."

"I only recognized their badges and some license plates."

"I went into the business banquet. It's supposedly for the preparation of a variety show featuring spiritual practitioners, but it's actually just a business event. I suspect that some spiritual practitioners will come out to put on a show later."

"Oh ho, hunters from the Star Alliance? I saw that only hunters from the Star Alliance participated in the Spirit Master Variety Show. Why don't the hunters from the Star Alliance participate? Do they think it's too lowbrow?"

"Does the Star Alliance still need to put on a show to prove itself?"

Seeing the barrage of comments stirring up conflict between the Star Alliance and the Star Radiance Alliance, Mao Xi carefully chose his words and said, "Everyone, just watch quietly. If we get kicked out later, don't complain. They're definitely thinking about our safety."

Beforehand, Mao Xi gave the viewers in the live stream a heads-up, also for his own safety, fearing that the viewers would keep spamming "big starship" and make him stay.

He can also be greedy when faced with a large amount of Star Coins.

Inside the club, Su Ninglong yawned, tears welling in her eyes.

She forced herself to stay awake and scanned her surroundings. As a student of the Star Alliance, she was forced to stay put by Yun Fei and "watch the show" with him.

If the things inside the club are extremely powerful, hopefully she has some means to control them.

Su Ninglong's cheeks puffed up involuntarily, looking like an angry pufferfish. "Last time at the Throat of Convergence, you and Funi must have conspired to trick me."

Instead of arguing, Yun Fei reached out and pinched the little guy's puffed-up cheeks. "Your master is so powerful and capable, how can we leave him unused! You've witnessed the Tyrant's power, so you should understand that if humans want to deal with the Mystic Spirits, they have to unite all the power they can gather into one force."

Su Ninglong slapped Yun Fei's hand away, secretly thinking, "Even if you all gang up on them, you still can't handle them." They were clearly just trying to fleece her in various ways.

Xingyuan came downstairs, carrying her Dingding Mouse backpack that she had deliberately left in the car.

Taking the backpack, Su Ninglong unzipped it, revealing it filled with many of the same bracelets she wore, all identical in style to the ones she wore on her wrist.

She patted her bulging backpack with satisfaction; inside were the super-powerful magic weapons she had recently crafted.

Xingyuan silently flexed his wrists. The Dingding Mouse backpack was quite heavy. Even after strength training, he couldn't help but wonder what Su Ninglong, with her small frame, planned to do with such a heavy thing.

Behind Xingyuan, more than ten hunters from the Starry Alliance arrived.

Their presence brought an invisible pressure. Three of them were hunters who would be participating in this spiritual variety show.

The leader of their group was a middle-aged man with a goatee and an antique-looking cane. His distinctive hair color and eyes alone made it clear he was also a Starstarter.

His features were far less handsome than Xingyuan's; his narrow eyes were slightly narrowed, concealing a subtle calculation like the edge of a knife.

This was Su Ninglong's first impression of this person.

However, when the other person spoke, their voice was completely different from the cunning look on their face; it was full of energy.

"Yun Fei, the Cloud Hunter." His gaze swept over everyone, lingering briefly on Su Ninglong with a hint of scrutiny, before he said, "Hello, everyone."

Yun Fei politely replied, "Qian Rujin."

"I was just wondering why the Star Alliance didn't send any other hunters. Turns out the Cloud Hunters were here all along. Didn't the Star Alliance refuse to participate in the Spirit Master Variety Show? Did they change their minds?"

"You're here too, aren't you? It's the same whether you come early or late." Yun Fei didn't answer his question directly, acting like a riddle teller.

"Does Mr. Yun know what's going on inside?" asked the person behind Qian Rujin.

"I don't know. Since the task has been assigned to you, you can handle it." Yun Fei didn't try to take the task from them, and extended his hand to Ning Long. "Let's go."

Su Ninglong hesitated for a moment, then stood on tiptoe and hung the schoolbag on his hand.

Yun Fei was speechless: "You're really clever."

Su Ninglong gave a fake smile, revealing two rows of snow-white teeth.

The Dingding Mouse backpack was heavy, but it felt as light as a feather in Yun Fei's hands.

Yun Fei and his group brushed past Qian Rujin and her group. After they had gone some distance, Qian Rujin's subordinate sneered: "Four-star hunters, nothing special. They abandoned their mission and pushed it onto us as soon as we arrived."

Qian Rujin tapped her cane on the ground and said sternly, "Yun Fei's status as a four-star hunter is genuine. You should think more about how to deal with that giant creature inside later."

The cold, colossal creature possesses only a few types of ice-attribute mystical spirits.

It's just a mysterious spirit; dealing with it is manageable.

Aberrant mutants and powerful parasites, they took on the mission alone, arriving here with great fanfare, which could be considered taking on a task on their own.

The Star Alliance urgently needs to establish a positive and powerful image.

Su Ninglong walked to the end of the corridor, turned around and glanced at them, who were preparing to break down the door. "Hurry up, hurry up..."

Yun Fei scooped her up and ran, with Lei Qingya and Xing Yuan, who were completely bewildered, following behind.

They pushed open the side door on the first floor and ran straight out of the building.

"Boom!" The building swayed from side to side as if it had experienced a magnitude 10 earthquake.

"My car." Lei Qingya suddenly remembered that he hadn't driven over. Xingyuan quickly said, "Don't worry, we had Ge Wei move it."

Lei Qingya breathed a sigh of relief. She only had one vehicle with her now, a limited edition, which could fetch tens of millions even on the secondhand market.

Xingyuan sighed inwardly. Su Ninglong's influence was too great. Even the person who cared least about material possessions had started to count their days on their fingers.

Another explosion rang out from behind, leaving a large hole in the first floor of the building.

Military starships and armed police were circling in the air, their high beams shining on the cave entrance, causing the person holding the live broadcast device to gasp in shock.

What kind of monster is this?

A person ran out of the cave first, and he walked forward along the rugged mountain path, the quantum filter that had been knocked away lying askew to one side.

Then a lump of fleshy mud with many human faces squeezed out from inside the wall, its dense eyes blinking, seemingly unaccustomed to the light.

The armed police immediately ordered a concentrated attack.

A molten bomb was thrown at the monster, and its flesh slowly covered it, but the molten bomb still caught fire.

But the monster was not afraid. Instead, it absorbed the heat and grew stronger. After absorbing a heat bomb, it went from being two stories tall to being three stories tall.

Neither the police nor the soldiers could laugh. Who was the genius who fired the molten metal bomb? Looking back, they realized it was ordered by the Star Police.

Well, the molten metal bomb is indeed very effective against most monsters, so we can't blame the other side.

They had previously been told it was an ice-type parasite or aberration, but who knew it would turn out to be a sludge monster.

The energy projectiles had no effect on the monster, so everyone put away their energy-based weapons.

Mao Xi's comment section was quite interesting at this point.

"My eyes are filled with so many faces. It's so delicious! My girlfriend made a thin bean paste today, and when she put a handful of chickpeas in, it looked exactly the same."

"I...I'm not applying to Star Alliance Academy anymore, and I'm not joining Star Glory Alliance either. It's too dangerous."

"I won't even go to police academy."

"Is this the Mystic Spirit? Does anyone in the comments know? Please let me know."

"It's not a Mystic Spirit. Most Mystic Spirits can't be touched. This is an aberration. If it were a Mystic Spirit, the live stream would have been cut off long ago. Mystic Spirits can spread pollution through the internet."

"Spreading pollution through the internet??? I never understood the Star Alliance's practice of blocking messages before, but now that you mention it, I understand."

"Ha, don't be naive upstairs. Blocking information is for social stratification, creating information gaps, and the Star Alliance wants to monopolize resources. The interstellar government supported the establishment of the Star Alliance to fight monopolies. The Star Alliance hopes that the public will have a better understanding of the Mystic Spirits' stories. The existence of the Star Alliance is a blessing for us all."

"If I didn't work in the hunter circle, I would really believe your bullshit. Star Alliance hunters are at most aloof and riddle-makers, and they are all very efficient. Eighty percent of the hunters in the Star Radiance Alliance have terrible personalities, no professional ethics, and often need others to clean up the messes they make. I'm referring to the hunters I've come into contact with, based on my own experience."

Mao Xi, who was desperately trying to find connections with the Hunters, was stunned when he saw the comments. He covered his forehead. Fans were the biggest connection. Why did he have to go through all that trouble to get to know people in the Star Alliance, giving them money and groveling to please them? He felt so stupid during this time.

Before he could intercept the fan's information, another loud bang came from the other end of the club. The first floor was smashed open again, with steel bars and broken glass scattered everywhere.

A distorted humanoid silhouette emerged, standing approximately 4 meters tall, its entire body covered in translucent blue-black gelatinous skin, with slowly flowing energy veins visible within.

Three asymmetrically distributed clusters of ice crystals continuously split and dissipate, while the dark purple eyeballs rotate irregularly.

Parasites! Damn it, what's going on with so many monsters hiding in one club?

Qian Rujin ran out of the building, turned around, and waved his cane.

The icy hand slammed down right on his head.