Monster Hunter Gathering

"These bastards..."

Roger slammed his fist on the counter, then fell silent and asked Claire for a Johnny Silverhand.

She was of a certain age and had seen many ups and downs. She even remembered clearly that after Oger was kidnapped, she and other companions went to Arasaka Tower together.

All the brothers in Atlantis are gone, and she is the only one left in Night City as the middleman for the afterlife.

"Claire, give everyone in the next life... a glass of Johnny Silverhand." Roger finally said this to Claire.

"Okay." Claire nodded. "Are you okay, Roger?"

"I'm fine." Roger stood up. "I'm not at the point where I can't do anything."

Rogge thought of those crazy hunters and what he guessed they wanted to do. He also recalled that they had kidnapped Arasaka Yoshinobu just yesterday.

These crazy hunters are undoubtedly the opposite of the company and they have their own set of rules.

Including the things they did in their afterlife, and the many things they did during their time in Night City.

It's simply... the biggest irony. During these days when hunters have been constantly active in Night City, it can be said that this is the most peaceful period in Night City.

Most of the flamboyant gangs had their bones broken, and most of the incidents were resolved by this group of hunters with pure violence.

Even if they got their own private deals between the NCPD cops and the scavengers, these arrogant guys would directly find the cops who committed the crime and deal with them.

That's why Rogge didn't want to get close to Nie Chiwu and his group of lunatics... Some intelligence sources in Night City had already been keeping an eye on these lunatics. If it weren't for the fact that these guys were so incredibly powerful, they would have been killed thousands of times and thrown into the sewers of Night City.

It wasn't until they kidnapped Arasaka Yorinobu that Roger finally figured out what they were trying to do.

If we talk about who has done the most bad things in Night City, whether adults or children, mercenaries or police thugs, they will all turn their eyes to the tall building standing in the center of the city.

Apart from those fucking companies, is there anything more fucked up than them?

Rogge couldn't imagine whether these hunters could do it.

Rogge had seen this before... The multinational conglomerates that shaped human history had transcended their former limitations, becoming something immortal. Even if a dozen key executives were assassinated simultaneously, the conglomerate wouldn't collapse. There were still many people waiting to step up, take over the vacant positions, and access the company's vast storage.

Although the Qilin was so powerful that it frightened Rogge, he still thought that the Qilin was just a monster with a visible shape.

But those companies...are no longer something that can be eliminated by normal means.

Rogge... doesn't want to get involved in these guys' affairs at all.

But now that dramatic changes have occurred, Rogge finds himself pushed to the brink of a cliff.

Either you fall into hell with Night City, or... you can only struggle desperately and survive along with Night City.

Thinking this way, Rogge has already made a phone call, ready to mobilize all the resources he can use now.

And in the corner of the afterlife...

"Fuck! What the hell is going on?" Pyrrha listened to the announcement on the radio: "They said the whole city is under martial law? These rich people are fucking stupid..."

"What radio station are you listening to, old man?" Rebecca said, holding her glass. "Huh? Lucy, what are you watching?"

"I……"

Lucy glanced around the afterlife, feeling a little panicked. "I don't know why David hasn't come back yet."

"I know that. Men always need a couple of days of rest!" Pyrrha made a somewhat obscene gesture, then revealed an even more obscene smile: "A young man like him will definitely run away..."

"Do you think everyone is like you? No! You just sit in your room tinkering with your craft every day!" Rebecca knocked Pyrrha over with a punch. "David is pretty good, nothing should happen to him. Anyway, nothing happened these past two days..."

"Ok?"

At this moment, Mann suddenly raised his eyebrows, showing a somewhat confused expression, then glanced around in the afterlife and found that many people had the same expression as him.

He received a commission from... Roger?

The commission came with a substantial reward, and the task was to... attack the company's base? Now?

"Qi Wei, can you contact David?" Mann asked the hacker in his team directly.

"I can't get in touch with that idiot. It's like his body has been dismantled by a scavenger. I can't find any signal at all." Qi Wei crossed her arms: "What? Got a commission?"

"There's nothing we can do if we can't get in touch." Mann stood up. "We have an urgent job. We need to leave now."

"Now?" Dolio frowned, then noticed that most of the people in the afterlife had stood up. "What's going on? This request... can it really be done?"

"The reward is sufficient, and the person who issued the commission is qualified." Mann said: "This is the commission issued by the Queen of Night City, Rogue herself..."

"But you're right. We do need to be careful." Mann looked at Qiwei and the somewhat distracted Lucy. "You two hackers should investigate further to find out what's going on. We need to set off now... to an Arasaka factory."

“…” Lucy didn’t say anything, but still tried to call David.

But no matter how hard Lucy tried to call David, she couldn't get through, as if David had fainted.

And along with Lucy's phone call, at this moment in a trash can near the Ganbi Building...

The prosthetic body that was pushed out from behind the cat car by David's reborn body would occasionally send a signal, and then it would automatically hang up if no one answered for a long time...

At this moment, David was chasing after Kirin, who had already entered Night City, along with Tanjiro. He was completely unaware that someone had called about his lost prosthetic body...

Lucy's feeling of uneasiness gradually began to grow, but at this moment, Mann's team was ready to set off, so Lucy had no choice but to follow along.

At this moment, at the edge of Night City, after all the NCPD's hovercrafts were destroyed, Tanjiro and others finally saw Kirin who was ravaging the Terrorist Squad.

Those elite special operations departments of the NCPD, which were once notorious in Night City and were originally only used to deal with cyberpsychopaths, were now killed one after another by Qilin here.

Some members were turned into charcoal struck by lightning by the Qilin, and some were kicked to death by the Qilin's hooves.

Qilin also looked for something on the bodies of these killed NCPD from time to time, but found nothing. Qilin only found a pile of rotten meat and scrap metal.

But the next moment, Qilin suddenly raised his head and stared at the direction where Tanjiro and others appeared.

Kirin has completely locked onto the smell in the backpacks of Tanjiro and others.

"Wait! Is it staring at us?"

Shirou nervously asked after they stopped the car, holding his bow and arrow, "What should we do next?"

"Do you want to fight?" Yang Le drew out his double swords eagerly.

"Ah? Are we going to fight?" David was a little confused: "Just the few of us?"

"Hold it! Wait for the captain and the others to arrive! And... the most important thing is Mr. Sinmeier!" Tanjiro jumped off the motorcycle and drew the katana on his back: "I'm already familiar with its movements!"

"But Tanjiro, we..."

Before Shirou could finish his words, Tanjiro rushed forward.

Tanjiro didn't think so much at the moment. He just wanted to hold Kirin back to prevent him from accidentally hurting more people in Night City.

Kirin also showed his hostility when he saw Tanjiro rushing towards him in a provocative manner.

After the Kirin let out a brief roar, it rushed directly towards Tanjiro.

The remaining members of the Terrorist Squad watched in horror from their corner as the Qilin charged towards the young man wielding the large sword. They imagined that the young man would be crushed to pieces by the Qilin's charge, or pierced directly by its sharp horns...

But Tanjiro took a deep breath, pressing the oxygen into every part of his body, and instead of retreating, he advanced towards the charging Kirin.

"Sun Breathing Modified..."

Tanjiro concentrated his mind to the limit, and even the patterns on his head suddenly expanded to cover more area, and the whole world began to become transparent.

But... the Qilin in front of him still looked the same as before.

In the transparent world, Kirin still maintains its original appearance, but after Tanjiro's long period of training and challenges, and after Tanjiro's better understanding of Kirin... Tanjiro can already vaguely see Kirin's movements and muscle rhythms.

"——Mi-kiri Slash."

At the moment when Tanjiro swung his sword and put it away, Tanjiro and Kirin collided with each other.

Kirin's charge seemed to have hit nothing, causing no harm to Tanjiro at all. Even Tanjiro's counterattack after seeing Kirin's attack directly hit Kirin's neck, emitting dazzling sparks.

"!"

The members of the Terrorist Squad wiped their tactical glasses and looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief.

The monster's impact could have crushed even an armored vehicle, but when it hit the short boy... it didn't even cause any damage?

"Tanjiro! Leave the attention-grabbing to me!" Yang Le stuffed a bottle of walking potion into the bird's head, then raised his two swords, a red light radiating from his body: "Here it comes, here it comes!!! The walking potion is even more effective than caffeine, it makes you a hundred times more energetic!!!!"

"Ghost transformation!!!"

Yang Le, who had transformed into a ghost, even ran at an extremely fast speed. He bent down and rushed towards the Qilin. In just a moment, a large number of sparks were created on the Qilin's body due to the collision of weapons and scales.

After being attacked, Qilin instinctively became angry, and the surrounding ions began to move violently again.

Chapter 242 Newcomers’ Ancient Dragon Battle!

“Here it comes, here it comes!!!”

Under the effect of the powerful walking drug, Yang Le felt that his whole body and spirit were in high spirits.

He has always liked challenges, otherwise he would not have become a well-known dung hunter.

Now, his attack has diverted Qilin's attention to himself, and Qilin's horns have begun to control the ions in the air. Yang Le can feel the pain of the impending electric shock like a needle on his exposed skin.

The sense of crisis has completely overwhelmed Yang Le's brain at this moment, and at the same time forced Yang Le's body and mind to work, and finally turned into a desire to challenge.

"Come! Attack me!!"

Facing the impending attack of Qilin, Yang Le went towards Qilin without any fear.

When... Yang Le just arrived at the meeting and was about to choose a weapon, he asked Nie Chiwu.

What weapon is most suitable for him and the most challenging one.

He really enjoyed the feeling of walking on the edge of a knife, so...

Nie Chiwu did not directly recommend a weapon to Yang Le, but instead taught Yang Le what precision GP was.

Now Yang Le's dual swords have a new GP move. (New move for Wilderness Dual Swords)

After turning on the ghost transformation and dodging accurately, you can trigger the ghost flash and enhance the hunter's output...

In order to be able to perceive the Qilin's attack more keenly, Yang Le had even taken off his clothes long ago, and only wore a bird-scratching headgear and shorts to save himself some face. The rest of the time he relied on the large area of ​​exposed skin to sense the direction of the attack as keenly as possible.

When Yang Le, who had transformed into a ghost, rushed towards Qilin, he could feel the tingling sensation on his skin becoming more and more intense. It was a sign that the gathered ions were about to turn into a terrifying lightning strike.

“Oh————————————”

Along with the Kirin's roar, a thick pale lightning column covered the area around it almost instantly. Tanjiro had already retreated before the lightning fell, but Yang Le went further to meet it.

The terrorist squad and the remaining police officers who were watching in the corner saw with their own artificial eyes the scene of the naked boy with the scratchy hair being engulfed by the terrifying lightning.

But in the next moment, after the lightning dissipated, the red light on the naked boy's body seemed to be baptized by lightning and turned into a sharp blue light.

The double-sword ghost emitting blue light escaped from the thunder and lightning unharmed, and with a spinning posture, he finally hit Qilin head-on when Qilin could not dodge.

After being strengthened by the ghost man's flash, the double swords finally broke through the protection of the electric field around Qilin, and attacked the sharp horn of Qilin that controlled lightning, leaving a clear scratch on the hard horn of Qilin.

"Success!!!"

Yang Le cheered excitedly: "That's it!!! So cool!!!"

Yang Le successfully attacked Kirin, which shocked Tanjiro, David and others, but in return, Kirin fell into a rage.

The Qilin's horn is an extremely important organ. After Yang Le left a mark on it, the Qilin became even more irritable.

The Qilin shook its head anxiously, the neon lights flickering across its silver mane, but it couldn't hide the frenzy and hunger in its eyes. Its hooves crushed the curb beneath its feet, sending up a shower of gravel.

The figure of the Qilin was almost instantly enveloped by violent thunder and lightning, and suddenly rushed towards Yang Le.

Yang Le opened his eyes wide desperately, trying to see Qilin's movements as clearly as possible and dodge, but Qilin had completely locked onto Yang Le's body in his rage.

Almost the next second after Yang Le dodged the Qilin's charge, the Qilin's hoof slammed directly onto the ground, crushing the flat ground. Then, with the huge reaction force, it suddenly swung its head towards Yang Le's body, as if it was going to use its horns to penetrate Yang Le's body and tear it apart.

"Yang Le!!!!"

At the moment when Yang Le was about to be hit, David had already entered a state close to that of Swanwestan. He used the blast charge of the gunpowder to forcibly cross the distance between himself and Yang Le, and used the sturdy shield of the gunpowder to support Yang Le in front of him.

The force of Qilin's second collision was completely applied to David's shield.

Yang Le reacted quickly. The moment David stood in front of him, Yang Le used his body to block David's attack and together with David, he faced the impact of the shield.

David felt as if his arm was about to break, and even his chest was in pain due to the violent impact... It was as if his heart had stopped beating for a moment due to the huge impact.

If it weren't for the fact that the standard hunter's shield-holding posture is to hold the shield in the right hand, David's heart might have really stopped beating due to the impact.

Even so, David and Yang Le were both knocked out by the Qilin.

The two of them slammed hard into the building behind them, smashing the entire wall into pieces.

Qilin saw that his attack had worked, but his anger did not subside.