Blood of the Hunting God

It does sound a little strange. In such a bustling city, there are places like slums, which really don't match the status of a country's royal capital.However, this is a real fact, a situation that has existed in the capital of stars for thousands of years.

The sources of these poor people are different, some are bankrupt businessmen, some are commoners who have been deprived of their property by nobles, or have lost their original wealth and status for various reasons, and cannot even keep their houses, so they are reduced to slums Among them, he became one of the bottom people in the city.

These poor people often can only rely on garbage to make a living, or do some heavy hard work to make a living.They have no way to leave the star capital, because entering and exiting the gate of the star capital requires a high toll, and it is impossible for the poor to save this money.What's more, given the impoverished conditions of these poor people, even if they left the Star City, they would not be able to live well. Even because there is no such rich environment as the Star City, it is even more difficult for them to find a job to survive, and even pick up garbage that can feed their stomachs. If not, the result is that these people are grouped together in the slums.

By the way, the slums of Star City are located in the northern part of the city. It was originally an area to be developed in the civilian area. Because it is relatively close to the area of ​​the Star God Church, the light is blocked by tall church buildings and it is cold and humid. Without effective utilization, not many people are willing to live there. As a result, it gradually became the residence of these poor people who lost their original living resources, and was transformed into a dilapidated place where a large number of shacks and huts were stacked on top of each other.

People who can pick up garbage in the sewer for a living can only be people in the slums.

Considering the monsters in the sewers, it is difficult for poor people who live in poverty to have a strong body to defeat those mutated animals, so their general area of ​​action cannot exceed the sewer area below the slums too much.

This means that the two hunters and myself who approached the exploration area of ​​these people also approached the slums of the star capital.

"This is considered to have found a way into the city."

After confirming the situation, Abigail whispered to herself at this moment.

You have to find a way to get some marks, confirm a feasible path, and then go back to find your companions and ask them to come with them.

The girl who was thinking this way, before she could turn around and say something to the hunter, some abnormal movements suddenly resounded, and spread far to the pipe where the hunter and Abigail were standing at this time.

"That is……"

It was the screams of people.

Someone is in danger nearby.

tread--

Without hesitation, the hunter started to run.

Abigail followed closely behind and ran forward together. The two figures crossed a corner in the sewer and quickly approached the source of the sound.

The direction is already very close, ahead?No, it's below!

The pipeline in front of the line of sight collapsed, and the sound of screams came from there. Beside the collapsed pipeline, a few dirty people could still be seen hesitating whether to escape or not.However, these people ran away without hesitation when they saw Hunter and Abigail appearing, probably because they regarded them as monsters or something.

However, the reaction of these people is not interesting for the two of them at the moment. The two figures jumped down from the collapse of the pipe one after the other. With the sound of the wind, under the dim light of the lighting technique, the surrounding situation has been revealed. before their eyes.

Chapter 29: The Fly House

What a big...fly!

That was Abigail's first thought after the jump.

A full two meters long, extremely fat giant fly, with six skinny limbs like human hands, and densely overlapping compound eyes.

The wriggling finger-sized black-red maggots wriggled constantly in the fly's stomach, looking like something was tossing back and forth in a piece of fat, it was so disgusting that it was indescribable.

Such a twisted and ugly thing was the first living thing the girl saw after jumping off.

Then, she saw the surrounding scene.

Garbage piles up, bones pile up.

The spreading sewage spreads around.

Countless maggots are wriggling and eating in it.

From about the size of an adult's finger to as thick as a human's entire leg, black and red maggots one after another, at least tens of thousands of them, wriggled among the garbage and corpses all over the place. .

And one after another, two-meter-sized flies were flying in this extremely stinky room full of maggots, throwing garbage and corpses brought from other places in the entire sewer into this place equivalent to a cultivation room. Among them, as food for maggots.

By the way, these mutated flies bring food to the maggots by vomiting. For example, at this moment, Abigail saw a huge fly monster lying on a large pile of garbage, spitting out a large amount of food from its mouthparts. A pile of greenish-yellow, viscous pus like some kind of excrement mixed with rotting vegetables.A large pile of large and small maggots gathered under the fly monster, and they opened their bloody mouths to happily eat the spit out things.

In various senses, the girl had to admit that the scene in front of her somewhat challenged her physical limits.

But the hunter didn't feel anything about it. He took off the bright red grease bottle without hesitation, lit it and threw it out. The flames of the explosion quickly swept away and spread in the room full of garbage and bones.

The hunter then grabbed Abigail by the arm and pulled her into quick motion, advancing among the maggots and trash.

The source of the screams was in a corner of the room.

It was a scavenger who looked dirty, and he could see that life was very difficult. He looked thin and short, with messy hair, and his clothes were torn and covered with mending marks. He was almost no different from a tramp.

At this moment, the scavenger kept screaming, fell to the ground struggling and wriggling.

His stomach was ripped open by a fly monster, and then those maggots rushed over cheerfully, burrowed in from the wound in his abdomen, mixed with his intestines, twisted their bodies, and kept eating his flesh and blood.

The eating process probably just started, so the man still had the strength to scream, but soon, before the hunter and Abigail rushed over, the man's screams stopped suddenly, and he rolled his eyes Started to twitch.Then, a slender blood-red maggot crawled out of the man's nose, and several worms crawled out of his mouth.In the end, one worm after another began to emerge from his ears, his eyes slowly bulged out, and finally were squeezed out from the eye sockets, and then several maggots scrambled out of it.

There is no help.

Hunter and Abigail quickly confirmed the situation.

However, besides this man, there are others who have fallen down here.

The hunter saw next to the man, a skeleton that had been almost eaten away.And Abigail raised his head, and saw another person who was caught by two fly monsters not far away, struggling in mid-air.

"Mr. Hunter, there are still living people over there!"

While shouting, Abigail summoned the Moonlight Greatsword.

The hunter's speed was faster, he directly chose to draw his gun to aim at those monsters, holding a pistol in each of his left and right hands and pulling the trigger at the same time, after two "bang bang" gunshots, he pierced through the heads of the two fly monsters neatly, Let the captured scavenger man fall into the maggot sea below together with the two headless monsters.

"Drink-"

Before he fell down, Abigail swung the moonlight sword, and the blue-green light exploded

When it opened, it rolled up a large area of ​​maggots around it into a meat sauce and blasted them out, which also made the man fall on the clean ground instead of falling into the pile of maggots.

Didn't see any more survivors, is he the only one alive?

While observing the surrounding situation, Abigail rushed forward and stood on both sides of the scavenger's body with the hunter.

buzz buzz - buzz buzz -

The sound of the flies flapping their wings became clear at this moment.

The two unexpected intruders, Hunter and Abigail, made quite a commotion, causing all the fly monsters in the room to boil and rush towards them one after another.

These monsters either flew towards the two of them, or aimed their squirming abdomen at the two of them, spraying mucus full of tiny maggots, blocking all the escape space for Hunter and Abigail from all directions.

Then, the moonlight swept up, and Abigail turned the moonlight sword in her hand, and swept out an arc. The burst of light instantly shredded the enemies attacking from all directions, and the broken pieces of meat were flying in all directions, making it impossible to see. Even a fly monster that can still move.

Although his own strength is still insufficient when facing powerful enemies, it is still more than enough to clean up these guys.

Abigail became a little proud at this moment.Of course, knowing that her current strength is still far from being a hunter, and she would not be able to play too much role in the frontal battlefield, she quickly calmed down, put away the moonlight sword and turned around to check on the survivor situation.

"How are you, are you hurt?"

Looking at the man sitting on the ground, who seemed to be in a daze, Abigail knelt down and asked softly.

"I...I...you, are you a warlock?"

The man opened his mouth and looked at the maggots and fly monsters around him that were smashed by the torrent of moonlight. He finally came to his senses after a while, and looked at the hunter and Abigail in front of him with an expression of disbelief. .

"Warlock? Well, it shouldn't be counted. We are hunters, people who fight against monsters in order to save this world, and fight against the darkness that overrides civilization and brings disaster to this world. Ah, I always feel like that It’s a little uncomfortable to introduce myself, but we are the ones who saved you, that’s for sure.”

With a light cough, the girl's expression became serious.

"So in return, we need to know something from you, can you please answer honestly?"

Chapter 30: A Scavenger

Montrodes originally thought that he was dead today.

Living in slums, without any protection in their daily life, they can only choose jobs that ordinary people would not do.And one of the ways is to go deep into the sewer and pick up garbage in exchange for food.

As the sewer system that carries the entire capital, as long as you are willing to endure the dirty and smelly environment to explore, it is entirely possible to find valuable things.Whether it's all kinds of metal equipment or waste with residual magic power, there is the possibility of reuse, not to mention the really valuable things like broken jewelry discarded by some lavish nobles.Of course, even if you can't find anything, the rats and mushrooms in the sewer can also be food, although it is not certain who will eat them, the poor and the mutant rats, and even if you eat the meat of these things, you will eat too much. There will be problems, but for those who have difficulty thinking about living, it really doesn't matter that much.

If you can get through today, don't think about tomorrow's problems.

With this in mind, Monrodice, who had never seen his father since he was born, and whose mother died of a serious illness when he was young, became a scavenger in the sewer, a man who was more courageous than others, and dared to go deep into the sewer. Scavengers to more dangerous places.

Those deformed animals are entrenched in various places in the sewers. This danger makes it difficult for many scavengers to really go deep into the sewers, and it also makes many valuable things be left in there without being discovered.Monrodais took courage and tried to get into the deep areas where other scavengers would not go, and in doing so obtained enough food to last him for many days.

With one success, there will naturally be a second one.Then, people began to follow him, trying to search for resources together.Monrodais naturally rejected these people's joining without hesitation at first, but then he found that these guys would secretly follow behind him, so he accepted them helplessly.And the result of doing this is that when he was fleeing from those monsters today, he who was running in front was caught and fell to the ground by the people behind, and at the same time, several guys who were dragged to the ground were left behind as bait.

Although he really wanted to kill those guys who would avenge him, but in order to survive, Monrodais could only take these people who were left behind to escape. Fortunately, they managed to escape some deformed monsters that were chasing after them. Unfortunately, they ran away. Arriving at a building area where structural problems had already occurred, the structural ground collapsed, and Monrodes and two other companions fell down, falling into an extremely terrifying and terrifying fly house.

I am going to die.

Monrodays clearly recognized this fact.

Falling into the lair of this kind of thing, the only result for oneself is a dead end.

Moreover, it was still a very miserable way of death.

He has seen people caught by these fly monsters, they were

Huge black and red maggots were sprayed all over the body. Those worms got into the victim's body, wriggling, eating, and eating up the person bit by bit from the inside.This process will last for a long time, especially if no bugs enter the inside of the skull, it will be suffocatingly long.The screams of the parasitized person can often last for several hours or even half a day.

After seeing the victim's struggle on the spot, Monrodez had nightmares for several days.

But now that he was in the same situation, he realized that his nightmare was about to come true.

Huge misshapen flies vibrate their wings and make a buzzing sound.

The companion parasitized by the maggots let out a shrill scream.

There was the sound of something crawling into his body.

Next, Hunter and Abigail appeared in front of him.

"We need to know something from you, can you please answer honestly?"

After those monsters were crushed and destroyed by the bright light, Abigail knelt down in front of Monrodes and asked seriously.

"I……"

He opened his mouth to say something, but the pain in his abdomen prevented him from continuing.

"He... doesn't look right..."

"Well, indeed, this person's condition doesn't look very good, could he have been parasitized by those bugs?"

The man lying on the ground stared at the two figures surrounding him in a trance, listening to the sound of their conversation.

They... got rid of all those monsters?

So powerful, so strong, the style of clothes has never been seen before, and the gleaming weapons, so powerful.

They say they are hunters?What is a hunter?Ah, I seem to have heard this name a few times, is it a hero who fights monsters in the frontier or something?I heard that there are more dangerous and terrifying monsters on the border of the Star Kingdom than these things in the sewer, and the hunter is the hero who fights these monsters.

Then I was really lucky, to be able to meet such a hero before my death, and to be saved by such a hero.

Such a dazzling hero that he would never be able to catch up with.

"I-I'm Monrodice, haha...a, a nameless person..."

Enduring the increasingly intense pain in his body, the man forced a smile and said, although he couldn't figure out what he was talking about.

"Well... he was parasitized... a lot... in the abdomen..."

The hunter didn't care what the man who had mental problems was saying, he just wrote down the name of the man, and then checked his body, and immediately found that the man was constantly wriggling, and he didn't know how many bugs were there inside the belly.

"I'll try it."

Taking a deep breath, Abigail placed her little hand on the man's stomach.

【cure--】

The words uttered softly carried a certain kind of strange power at this moment.

Those maggots gnawing at the internal organs were dissolved and destroyed by invisible things at this moment, the flesh and blood regenerated rapidly, and the eaten internal organs gradually recovered.In about two or three minutes, Monrodez, who was already on the verge of death, gradually began to realize that his stomach pain no longer continued, and even his body, which was weak due to long-term hunger and malnutrition, became stronger. up.

"I, am I okay?"

Monrodez, who already thought he was going to die, blinked, got up from the ground, opened his tattered clothes, and looked at his clean and clean abdomen, even the scars from the previous injuries were gone. , I was so stunned for a moment that I didn't know how to react.

Chapter 31: The Slums

In the deep night, bright stars dotted the sky as always.

The city has fallen into silence, following the curfew enforced by the church. The residential area is dark, without any lights, like a dead tomb.But on the contrary, in the area where the nobles and the church are located in the distance, bright lights can still be seen, illuminating the city at night like daytime.

Crash - clatter -

Armored knights of the gods walked slowly across the street.

In the silence, a faint smell spread in the dilapidated streets not far away.That is a remote place in the city. It is the bottom area of ​​the entire city composed of piles of overlapping shantytowns. It is a dark area called a slum.Even during the current curfew, the knights serving the gods and the fighting nuns don't go here very much. For the church, this place is too dirty and lowly. Unless there is no suitable sacrifice to use occasionally, they will subconsciously avoid it. open this place.