Monster Hunter Gathering

"Mm! They actually smashed our car to pieces."

Nie Chiwu held the bottle of recovery medicine in his mouth and took out the sword from his back. "Even running is a bit difficult... How should we deal with this?"

"I think... there is a way."

Laos' eyes sparkled: "But it won't work now. It seems I can only die once..."

"I think there's definitely something wrong with the concept of life and death... but I agree."

Iwatani Naofumi also said after he once again took out his heavy crossbow: "Ancient dragon species... what a monster."

The hunters soon engaged the Qilin in the Badlands.

And Arasaka Yorinobu witnessed all of this.

Under the shocked gaze of Arasaka Yoshinobu, those guys who seemed like little supermen to him were killed by the unicorn in the battle.

Chapter 216: Gunslinger David

With a little panic about Qilin, the camera on the hovercraft had already moved far enough away and could no longer see the scene over there clearly.

"What kind of monster is that..."

Arasaka Yorinobu frowned and sat in the hovercraft in a daze.

Originally... he wanted to stop Saburo Arasaka from getting that strange recovery medicine, but now Arasaka Yorinobu has discovered it.

What happened in Night City might be much more than he had originally imagined.

What Arasaka Yoshinobu didn't see in the camera was that after the Qilin dealt with Nie Chiwu and others, it had just taken out a bunch of things from Nie Chiwu's backpack when the colorful dazzling Felynx arrived and snatched away the bodies of Nie Chiwu and others.

The Qilin stamped its hooves angrily, but in the end it just picked up the materials it had dug out and held them in its mouth before returning to its new territory.

And not long after... at the gate of the gathering place...

"What a monster!" Nie Chiwu cursed. "Chop it and it will bounce with your knife. Its meat is terrible! And its attacks come in bursts! Give me back my dragon chariot!"

"Shit monster!" Nie Chiwu's angry curse immediately attracted Yang Le, who had just arrived at the stronghold from afar.

"What the hell is that dung monster!" Yang Le rushed over and saw the somewhat embarrassed Nie Chiwu and his three companions. "Huh? Are you guys... back from challenging Qilin?"

"What about that Qilin? Did you... lose?" Yang Le looked at Nie Chiwu and the others and showed some excitement of challenge.

It seems that the Qilin is a very powerful monster and should bring many challenges.

"ha…………"

Iwaya Naofumi let out a long breath: "Complete failure."

Iwatani Naofumi touched the shield in his hand and said, "Even I find it difficult to defend myself."

"Grenades and diffusion bombs can have some effect, but Qilin is too agile and its body is still small." Iwatani Naofumi rubbed his temple and said, "It's difficult to hit the opponent with some attacks, let alone hit the opponent's weaknesses."

"After I used up all my grenades, I only managed to hit its head twice," said Naofumi Iwatani. "The recoil of the armor-piercing grenades is just too strong."

"Well, Kirin's body is really powerful." Tanjiro also said: "It's like a piece of stone. Even if you chop it with a weapon, it's difficult to cut it."

Tanjiro also talked about Kirin's physical condition.

"I don't know why Qilin attacked us on his own initiative." Nie Chiwu grabbed his hair and said, "Could Qilin have gone mad with hunger?"

Just as the hunters began to discuss the results of the land reclamation, on the other side of Night City, David, under the leadership of Mann, had already met with the people from Mann's team and some other edge walkers.

"Hello, you guys!"

David, carrying the defense team's rifle on his back, stood straight with a nervous look on his face: "I'm David Martinez! From today on, I'll join you in this operation..."

"...?"

Lucy, who was holding a cigarette next to him, looked at David who was standing straight with a puzzled look on her face.

At this moment, David secretly glanced at her twice, then looked away.

Hadn't I helped this young man conceal the truth about Sian Westin? How did he end up in Mann's hands? And why did he suddenly join Mann's Edgewalker team?

"Okay! Since we're welcoming newcomers, let's have some drinks!"

After meeting David, the other edgewalkers also held a cocktail party.

As for Lucy, she took advantage of David's free time and directly pulled David's collar into the corner.

"Why are you here, you fool?" Lucy looked at David angrily: "You..."

"I dropped out of school." David said to himself before Lucy: "I come from a single-parent family. My mother had a car accident and can't continue to work. I also need money."

"you……"

David's words blocked all the things Lucy originally wanted to say.

"I'm sorry for making you angry before..." David said to Lucy, "I don't know why you were angry. I wanted to apologize to you but I couldn't find you..."

"You really are..." Lucy rubbed her hair in annoyance, not knowing what to say for a moment. So she looked at the strange defense team rifle David was carrying and said, "What is this weird thing you're carrying? Are you planning to use this thing as an edgewalker?"

Lucy reached out and knocked on the massive weapon, which looked like it was simply a powerful weapon. "Why don't you buy some smart weapons? Even a simple kinetic energy gun would be more practical than this, wouldn't it?"

"Yes... one of my seniors recommended this to me." David said the same thing while looking at the rifle behind him: "I also like this weapon very much, and..."

"I installed the Sian Westin. Compared with those weapons, this gunpowder rifle is more effective..." David explained to Lucy seriously.

"you……"

Lucy was about to say something, but Mann had already arrived, put his arm around David's shoulders, and then looked at David and Lucy and said, "So you two know each other?"

"I know him! / I don't know him!" David and Lucy gave completely opposite answers in unison.

Mann squinted his eyes at David and Lucy, then patted David on the shoulder. "That's perfect. David needs someone to help him familiarize himself with the Edgewalkers. I'll leave it to you."

"Huh?!" Lucy was a little anxious: "Why me?"

"Since you know him, I'll leave this matter to you." Mann said directly: "This is David's first time doing something, so I'll ask you to guide him. Don't let him down."

After Mann finished speaking, he left.

"Then..." David looked at Lucy carefully after Mann left: "What should I do?"

"...Ha." Lucy let out a breath of annoyance, grabbed David's collar, and walked away from the crowd: "Come here!"

"What are you taking me to do?" David was a little confused, but Lucy said, "Find an empty place and show me that strange thing on your back!"

"Why would a fool like you suddenly run up to me?" Lucy said. "If you don't know how to use it, I advise you to change your weapon as soon as possible, otherwise you will die here sooner or later."

"Um...Lucy..."

David suddenly asked a question behind Lucy.

"You know that my prosthetic body was ordered by Mann, right? Why... didn't you tell Mann and the others?"

Chapter 217 Explosive Charge!

"Why didn't you tell Mann and the others?"

As soon as David finished speaking, Lucy punched him on the nose. David covered his nose with his hands, looking stunned.

"Shut up!" Lucy said to David viciously.

The two of them have now come to a relatively remote suburb. There are not many people here, at most there are some Night City thugs hanging around here.

"Well……"

After punching David in the nose, Lucy squatted on the ground, covering her hand. "What kind of prosthetic nose do you have? Why is it so hard and can't be scanned... Did you put a piece of iron in your nose?"

"This one……"

David scratched his face and forced a smile with some embarrassment.

Ever since he started eating the cat food at the rally, David's physical fitness has begun to soar day by day. This has made David completely unwilling to think about getting any prosthetics. Even when using recovery medicine, David only uses ordinary recovery medicine carefully, for fear that too much recovery medicine will squeeze out the prosthesis on his back.

The leader explained that cat food was nutritious, and the hunters naturally gained strength after eating it. He then said something about how it was a gift from the cat lady, the cat lady god, and so on...

Nie Chiwu was originally planning to drag David to pay his respects to Granny Cat, but Granny Cat knocked him on the forehead and stopped him, saying that the captain was naughty or something...

"What are you laughing at?" Lucy was annoyed when she saw David's expression. "You're holding a piece of metal that can't even be scanned. Are you planning to just smash the target to death with it?"

"Who gave you this thing?" Lucy scolded David. "Why don't you do something else? Why do you have to be a Edgewalker?"

"Aren't you here too..." David looked at Lucy and said, "That's it..."

Before David could finish his words, he suddenly felt something was wrong. David looked up and found that several Night City thugs were surrounding David and Lucy.

Seeing their malicious expressions, David suddenly felt like sighing. These thugs might really be Night City's specialty... They always appear at a fixed time...

But at this moment, Lucy suddenly grabbed David's collar, shortened the distance between them, and spoke directly into David's ear in a voice that made David's ears tingle.

"See these guys?"

Lucy said directly into David's ear, "I just wanted to show you how to use that big piece of iron. It shouldn't be a problem to deal with them... and."

Lucy used a little strength in her hands, grabbed David's collar and threw him towards the thugs: "It's not easy to be an edgewalker."

David was stunned for a moment and looked back at Lucy, with a lot of thoughts in his mind in an instant.

For example, why is Lucy angry?

Then David suddenly thought, could Lucy be worried about him?

When David thought of this, the gangsters had already spoken to him, saying: "Boy, take your——"

The gangster's words stretched out in David's ears for a moment, and Sian Westin moved violently, directly raising David's thinking to the highest state.

In just a moment, in front of Lucy's eyes, David had pulled out the defense team's rifle from his back, stepped on a gangster, knocked another person away with the shield in his right hand, and pierced the third gangster's shoulder with the rifle in his left hand.

"?!"

The last remaining gangster was immediately dumbfounded. Without hesitation, he abandoned his companions behind him, turned around, got into the car, stepped on the accelerator and took off.

"Is this okay?" David looked at Lucy with a little expectation.

"Didn't that mean one of them got away?" Lucy was a little surprised, but she still raised her chin at the last thug who had already driven away for a distance: "You're unqualified. You'd better give up being a marginal person as soon as possible..."

As Lucy said this, she saw David turn the rifle upside down and put it behind him. The rifle, which originally looked like just a large piece of iron, suddenly emitted a bright flame from the tip of the rifle and then exploded.

The impact from the gunshot sent David flying directly in the direction the gangsters were escaping.

A gunlance is a heavy weapon in which a gun-like spear is held in the left hand and a shield is held in the right hand.

A heavy weapon with additional bombardment capability based on the original spear with a gun shield. Not only is the spear body filled with special gunpowder, it can also cause maximum output according to different situations, and even has extremely strong defensive capabilities.

Although this is one of the bulkier weapons in Monster Hunter, it has a fantastic move.

Consumes a refill shell to perform a powerful counter-thrust, providing the hunter with an instant burst of speed, which is called... Blast Charge!!

"Sian Westin!"

David, who was directly pushed forward by the powerful counter-thrust of the blast, activated Sian Westin directly in the air.

Everything in the world slowed down at this moment. David adjusted his position in mid-air and launched a second blast charge in the air.

The originally bulky gun rifle streaked through the air like a meteor, rushing towards the car that had already gone far away.

On Lucy's side, what she could see was that after David took off with the gun rifle, he turned twice in the air almost instantly with the strange weapon, and then smashed it hard on the roof of the car.

The rifle that was smashed down seemed to have activated something by David, and a violent explosion occurred, completely overturning the roof of the car.

David stood on the roof of the car and lifted the gangster out of the car, then brought him to Lucy.

"That's all resolved now," David said. "So, being an Edgewalker should be... no problem, right?"

David said this to Lucy while rubbing the back of his head.

"..."

"Idiot." Lucy said this and turned around and left, leaving David with a confused look on his face and four thugs on the ground who had been dealt with.

"...?"

David scratched his head and finally realized something.

He really still couldn't understand what girls were thinking.

So... when David finally finished his work at Mann and went back, he went straight back to the meeting and hugged Nie Chiwu's legs.

"Captain! Teach me how to understand a girl's mind!" David said with determination: "I won't let go until you teach me!"

"Let go! You're OOC, do you know that? Is this what someone with your personality should do? Who did you learn this from?" Nie Chiwu swung his legs hard.