Monster Hunter Gathering

"call……"

Er Qiao looked at the hacking platform in front of him, took a deep breath, and adjusted his breathing using ripple breathing.

As the power of the ripples resonated throughout her body, Er Qiao's mood gradually returned to peace.

With every rhythm of the ripples, Er Qiao seemed to be able to feel that the Hermit Purple seemed to take root in her body and grow bit by bit.

Since becoming a hunter, Er Qiao can clearly feel her own progress...

Er Qiao placed her hand on the control console, and a large number of vines and thorns invisible to others began to drill into the hacker console.

Er Qiao still didn't know the extent of her own stand, but she knew...

The stand that was supposed to awaken in his old age appeared when he was young. The Hermit Purple is still far from reaching its growth limit.

"Hermit Purple!!" Er Qiao pressed her hand down hard, and the Hermit Purple also rushed madly into the hacker console.

Originally... the Blue Jade Building, which had been equipped with state-of-the-art electronic defenses, was now completely under Er Qiao's control. The huge screens around it were filled with the images Er Qiao had read...

Even the places where there were no cameras were clearly read out by Er Qiao.

V looked at the screens around him in shock. At this moment, the actions of all the hunters could be clearly seen on those screens, and the entire Cangbi Building was in full view.

"Perspective!" Kazuma was a little excited: "Why are you still using the perspective cheat?"

It is heartbreaking to see your own failure, but it is even more sad to see your teammates cheating.

“Kazuma! Come and help direct!” Qiao Qiao focused all her attention on reading and hacking the network. “I can’t be distracted…”

Kazuma reluctantly took on the task and looked directly at the screens around him to confirm the current situation.

And then… Kazuma noticed something.

"Hey!! Nie Chiwu! Hurry up!!!" Kazuma shouted directly into the channel: "Adam Hammer seems to be going to the penthouse suite! Hurry and find a place to come down!"

"Captain, what should we do now?" David panicked after hearing what Kazuma said.

Although he became a hunter, the scene of Adam Heavy Hammer slaughtering all of the Edgewalkers and blowing his head off was still vivid in David's mind, which made David feel a little uneasy when he heard the news about Adam Heavy Hammer.

"Jumping directly from here... probably won't work." Nie Chiwu looked at the unconscious Arasaka Yoshinobu with a headache.

The hunter's physique can withstand the impact of jumping directly from a building, but Arasaka Yorinobu can't.

"Let's go through the ventilation duct." Nie Chiwu said directly: "If it really doesn't work, we can only fight it out directly. What a headache..."

"Captain...won't you tell others that I was the one who knocked him unconscious?" David said with some concern, "others will think you did something wrong, too."

"I'm the head of the group, so of course I have to take responsibility." Nie Chiwu said bluntly, "Besides, how can things always go as we imagine? You know..."

"Sometimes, hunters may need to perform several or even dozens of rounds to pull off a cool move," Nie Chiwu said. "There are so many unexpected situations during operations."

"besides……"

Before stuffing Arasaka Yoriyuki into the ventilation duct, Nie Chiwu turned around and patted David on the shoulder: "Don't be too nervous, Adam's Hammer...is not as strong as you think."

"From the moment you arrived at the gathering, your future has been far more exciting than Adam's Hammer." Nie Chiwu grinned at David. "Do you know what the biggest benefit of becoming a hunter is?"

Nie Chiwu said this while looking into David's eyes.

"I... have the opportunity to change my future?" David said after a moment of silence.

"wrong."

Nie Chiwu rummaged around in his backpack, then pulled out his wiggle eel hood and put it directly on David's head.

"No matter what, you have companions like us... and the freedom to do whatever you want!"

"You're still afraid of Adam's Hammer, right? Your expression changed after hearing about Adam's Hammer just now."

Nie Chiwu pushed David and said, "Then don't leave. Go and hit Adam with a heavy hammer."

"Just give it a try."

Nie Chiwu grinned and patted the Wiggler Eel mask David was wearing. "David, you are now... a hunter."

I'll take it easy and finish writing this battle in one go.

Let's finish writing about the first gunlance battle in one go.

Besides, Adam's Hammer isn't that weak, after all, David has just become a hunter... But I will write about the battle in detail.

Come on, it's blast time!

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Chapter 229: The First Battle of the Gunlance

"Well, Grand Commander."

David clenched his fist and said, "Can I beat Adam's hammer?"

David looked at Nie Chiwu nervously, as if he wanted to get some encouragement from Nie Chiwu so that he could face Adam's hammer with peace of mind.

"Ah? No, Oyster, NO." Nie Chiwu was stunned for a moment before waving his hands and saying, "If Qiao Qiao and Kazuma were to fight Adam Hammer alone, they would definitely be able to defeat him easily. Or if you just eat cat food for another two months, you should be able to deal with Adam Hammer too."

"As for you now..."

Nie Chiwu spread his hands and said, "Adam Hammer is a very strong opponent for you. I think you will lose to him in a one-on-one fight."

"Then I'm going to get beaten!!!" David was a little dumbfounded.

David also knew that even if he died, he would still be in trouble... After all, it wasn't the first time David had seen Nie Chiwu and the others who went to investigate Qilin being dragged back to the camp with various fatal injuries by the colorful dazzling Fey cats...

"How can a hunter become stronger without getting beaten?" Nie Chiwu said to David earnestly, "You know, swordsmen have gone through dozens or even hundreds of hunts to become so familiar with the dragon's movements that they can perform the Dragon Slash!"

"But I don't use a katana!" David wanted to struggle.

"That……"

Nie Chiwu touched his chin and said, "When are you going to challenge Adam's Hammer? When you've got your prosthetic body? Or when you've become invincible?"

"Or when you're really with Lucy? And you bring your friends to attack Arasaka?"

"At least wait for me..." David originally wanted to speak for a longer time, but the words were stuck at his lips.

"David, are you a little... afraid of Adam's Hammer?" Nie Chiwu asked David, "Because you saw that you were going to die at his hands?"

"..."

David was silent.

He had actually had such a nightmare, not long after he arrived at the rally and just after he learned about his future.

Wearing the cybernetic body, he was easily defeated by Adam's hammer like a strong man beating a child. Even his companions were easily crushed and killed by Adam's hammer.

But in that dream there was another girl with the same color.

"I'll fight." David pulled out the rifle from his back, temporarily removed his hood, and revealed his expression: "Captain."

David said to Nie Chiwu seriously, "I want to ask you a favor..."

"Whatever we plan to do in Night City... please give me Adam's Hammer!" David said through gritted teeth. "Adam's Hammer... will be the first monster I hunt as a hunter!"

"You really don't need help?" Nie Chiwu raised his eyebrows. "Actually, I'm just making a suggestion. If you want to go with me now, that's fine too."

"Grand Commander."

David grabbed his rifle and assumed a fighting stance, facing the elevator. "I want to be a legend in Night City, too."

"I also have the courage to stand by the girl I like." David's tone became more and more firm. "Captain, I was wondering when you told me about the glass of wine I'll leave behind in my afterlife..."

"David Martinez, ["Vodka on the rocks in a shot glass, mixed with a little Coca-Cola. Live a noble life, die a glorious death."]" David said this and laughed. "But I actually hate carbonated drinks. I was wondering why there was something like a little Coca-Cola in the wine I left behind..."

"But recently, when Lucy and I were learning how to be edgewalkers, we discovered that she likes to drink small cokes," David said. "So I know what happened to my glass of wine."

"Vodka on ice in a shot glass, mixed with a small Coca-Cola... the Coca-Cola is for Lucy, she likes it." David's eyes were full of color. "Captain, why do I feel like I can do anything when I think of this?"

"I will defeat Adam Sledgehammer! I want Lucy, Mom, Brother Mann, Rebecca... and more people to live happier lives in this world!" David said, "Adam Sledgehammer! Leave it to me!"

"Ha...did you hear that?" Nie Chiwu simply hoisted Arasaka Yoshinobu onto his shoulders and said into the rally channel he had quietly opened a while ago, "Adam's Hammer has already been reserved by David! Don't go and grab the kill!"

"Ah?" David opened his own meeting panel in a panic and found that Nie Chiwu had broadcast the voice from this side to the meeting channel at some point.

"Captain, when did you broadcast it?" David's face flushed and he quickly put on the wigger eel mask.

"It started when you said you wanted to be a legend in Night City." Nie Chiwu said this as he carried Arasaka Yoriyuki to the shattered window. "You're done! You've fallen in love! You can't live without that girl!"

"So...come on! Life is short!!!"

Nie Chiwu jumped down with Arasaka Yoshinobu, grabbed the shelf next to him with his claws, and swung towards the floor below like Tarzan.

In front of David, the elevator of the top-floor suite also rang.

David took a deep breath and bent down slightly, and then the elevator door opened.

Adam Hammer, wearing an exaggerated and somewhat terrifying prosthetic body, walked out of the elevator. The first thing he saw was the man with the wobble eel mask standing in the room and the smashed floor-to-ceiling window.

Adam Hammer, who was temporarily acting as a bodyguard, quickly realized what had happened, but when he tried to track Arasaka Yorinobu, he could not find any signal of Arasaka Yorinobu at all.

"Hey, kid."

A blinding red light shone from Adam's prosthetic eye, scanning David and the room with all his might. "Where did you take the young master in this room? If you tell me now, I'm sure you'll have some fragments of your body left."

"Gu..."

David stared at Adam Hammer and swallowed nervously. "Are you Adam Hammer? The guy who was called the cybernetic demon?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Adam Hammer!" David swung the rifle in his hand, loaded it with ammunition with one hand, and pointed the rifle tip directly in the direction of Adam Hammer: "Let's fight! Let's see what the legend of Night City is..."

Before David could finish his words, he saw Adam's sledgehammer disappear in front of him. The next moment, he felt as if his internal organs had been severely damaged. He flew backwards with severe pain and was knocked out of the window.

"Just because I installed some rudimentary prosthetics, I think I'm a piece of shit..."

Chapter 230 Go all out, David!

Sian Westin...

David was thrown out of the window and was about to fall towards the ground in the distance under the pull of gravity. Then he realized what had just happened.

Adam Hammer activated Sian Westin at the moment David was still talking, and punched himself in the stomach without even using a gun, as if he was ready to let himself fall to his death right here.

If... the heavy hammer had just hit me in the head, I would probably be dead now.

Unless he had a body like Nie Chiwu and the others that could fight monsters in close combat... but he was obviously not at that level yet.

Nie Chiwu was right. He might not be a match for Adam's heavy hammer right now... but he was not without the power to fight back!

"what----!"

David roared in the air, and the Swanwestin on his back started running at full speed, dragging David into that slow world.

David turned the rifle in his hand behind him, and the shells in the rifle spurted out, giving David, who was about to fall, an upward propulsion force, allowing David to return to the top-floor suite.

"Adam Hammer! Your opponent is me!" David held Adam's Hammer tightly and roared at the hammer in Swanwestan's world.

Adam Hammer, who originally thought he had dealt with the kid, finally raised the smart gun in his hand and pointed it at David after seeing the weirdo with the strange weapon flying up again.

After confirming that there was no trace of Arasaka Yorinobu on the top floor, Adam Hammer no longer had any concerns. After sending the news of Arasaka Yorinobu's disappearance to Arasaka Corporation, Adam Hammer was fully prepared to crush and tear apart the guy in front of him and his companions - just like Adam Hammer had crushed those so-called "Legends" in the past.

The massive shell caused a violent explosion in the top-floor suite, shattering all the surrounding windows. Even the floors below felt the violent impact.

Listening to the extremely slow scream coming from his ears, Adam Hammer originally thought that the seemingly inconspicuous bug should have died in the high-explosive shell, but his military prosthetic eye still scanned David's body in the smoke of the explosion.

Even Adam Heavy Hammer could scan David's body and see the signal that Sian Westin was running at full power...

This short-looking guy was charging towards him in a full-powered Swansea.

This provocative behavior aroused Adam's desire to commit violence.

"Let me play with you!" Adam Hammer raised his special intelligent 8-star gun, and suddenly exerted force on the prosthetic leg... The two monsters whose power output far exceeded that of ordinary people collided directly with each other in the smoke.

Adam's sledgehammer punch hit David's shield directly in the smoke.

The huge mechanical force fell on David's arms and shoulders through the shield, making David feel his entire shoulder numb for a moment.

But... he held on.

He was originally just a poor student without any prosthetics... but he used his physical body to block the attack of Adam's heavy hammer.

"You seem... not as strong as I thought!"

The next moment after David said this, David and Adam fired their hammers at the same time.