The Death List Novel - Chapter 293

Chapter 293 The World Of Hunters
World Scene: Full-time Hunter

Time: 10 am, September 21, 2071, Youlubi A.E

Venue: Meteor Street

Main Mission: Insufficient Data

“How stinky!” As soon as Qin Lun regained consciousness, he felt a foul stench rush into his nose.

After the orange barrier around his body disappeared, he turned around and found himself in a narrow alley.

This alley was a junction between two abandoned buildings. It was less than two meters wide and was filled with domestic garbage everywhere. It was like a temporary garbage dump that had been forgotten. The air emitted a nauseating smell.

“Chi chi!” Just as Qin Lun frowned and was about to leave, an old radio placed on a wooden box not far from him suddenly emitted a noise. Although it sounded like a meaningless scream to others, it turned into a series of notifications about the world in the youth’s death list.

“A unique world that belongs to hunters?” Looking at the information on the death list, Qin Lun’s eyes couldn’t help but shine. However, he slowly frowned. “The difficulty of the world has actually leapt from Corporal to Colonel!”

He still remembered that in World War II, the most difficult quasi-collegiate mission had appeared. Once the difficulty of the mission rose to the school level, it meant that there would be a force equivalent to that of a third-grade apostle.

Although the difficulty of the mission did not represent personal strength, just thinking about Director David of the Justice Alliance and Mrs. Monica, the Sandstorm Queen, one could see that there was no lack of powerful combat professions in this world.

“It is understandable that there is no magic system.” Qin Lun sighed helplessly. He had prepared so many magic scrolls, and now they were all crippled by the Broken Star System. “But why does the Broken Star System weaken the pain by 70%? Does it think that I might not be able to withstand the torture of some power and can’t help but reveal the secrets of the Broken Star System?”

Qin Lun curled his lips and continued to flip through other introductions about the world.

According to Qin Lun’s request, the shattered starry sky teleported him into a human world where hunter professions were popular. Apart from the islands in the ocean, there were a total of six continents in this world. Like the Earth Federation, the dominant intelligent creatures were humans.

However, the surface area of this planet was much larger than Earth. Even the smallest continent, Azhia, was almost twice the size of Earth, Eurasia. As for the continent of Yolubi’an, which was the largest and had the most islands, it was almost ten times the size of Eurasia.

The world’s technology is roughly at the end of the late 1990s in the Old Calendar of the Earth Federation. Transportation has become quite advanced, forming a three-dimensional network of land, sea and air. Communications also have mobile phones, computer networks and other advanced facilities.

However, unlike the Earth Federation, this world did not develop thermonuclear weapons, and the peak force was some humans with powerful capabilities. These humans possessed all sorts of superpowers that were unimaginably powerful. Among them, the largest and most representative group was the Hunters.

The concept of “hunter” given in the death list was slightly different from what Qin Lun understood about hunters. The “hunters” of this world not only hunted wild beasts, they also hunted anything they were interested in.

Food ingredients, music, painting, precious beasts, ancient treasures, secret realms, ruins … All unknown things and dreams that humans could possess, powerful humans capable of exploring and researching them, and eventually “capturing” them, were referred to as “hunters”.

Hunters have existed in this world for over a thousand years and have formed a relatively loose Hunter Association. The Hunter’s Association is a service organization that provides information and work to hunters. It is not binding on its members.

Therefore, as long as they passed the Hunter’s Association’s test, no matter what kind of person, including thieves, thieves, and murderers, they would be able to become one of them and obtain the Hunter’s Association’s intelligence support and job opportunities.

“There seems to be a gap between them and my needs. Forget it, there’s still too little information. Let’s wait and see.” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up. He pinched his fingers and walked out of the alley. The lingering stench made him unable to endure any longer.

The “Hunter” in this world didn’t seem to have much to do with Qin Lun’s jungle hunter profession. It included almost all combat professions. There were even some outstanding people who were extraordinary in their life skills. They could be called “full-time hunters”.

Apart from having the name “Hunter”, this world was completely different from Qin Lun’s previous demand for a spacetime positioning ball, causing him to feel a little puzzled. However, he had only just entered the mission world, and with just a few hints from the shattered starry sky, he was still unable to make an accurate judgment.

After walking out of the alley, Qin Lun slowly raised his eyebrows, his eyes revealing even more doubt.

In the distance, mountainous garbage dumps surrounded his street like moats. Qin Lun shook his nose. Only then did he wake up. The foul stench didn’t seem to only exist in the alleys, but it was everywhere in this area. It had already become an environmental norm.

“Why did the Broken Star Sky teleport me into this garbage area? Could it be that there are clues leading to the mission here?”

Dang! Qin Lun expressionlessly kicked a can at his feet. Looking at the chaotic surroundings like the scene of a bomb attack, he was speechless. He had originally thought that the alley would be a garbage dump, but he didn’t expect it to be the cleanest place in this area.

“Meteor Street … Such a good name would actually be used to address a garbage filling area.” Thinking back to the notifications in the death list, Qin Lun whispered to himself.

Meteor Street was the name given to his area by the Broken Star System. It covered an area of about 6,000 square kilometers and had eight million humans living there.

A thousand years ago, Meteor Street was recognized as a garbage dump in the world. Officially, it was a no man’s land. The eight million residents here are all black hukou. Even if babies are abandoned here, there is no need to register their national identity or birth records.

It was unknown how the residents lived, whether they had received education or not, and whether they had religious beliefs. In this extremely difficult living environment, many humans with special talents were born here.

Some people who know part of the story hear that the residents there survive by collecting garbage for recycling.

Because there are many residents here with special talent, but also did not form a normal human society of good and evil ideas. Therefore, this was also a favourite employment market for underworld organizations all over the world. They used their living resources and weapons to rope in special talents from Meteor Street.

“Huh?” After pondering for a moment, Qin Lun’s heart suddenly trembled. His figure flashed and he disappeared from the spot.

“Ding!” Just as he left the spot, a long, thin iron nail was nailed to the spot where he had been standing. The slightly rusty nail was deeply embedded in the stone brick. From the angle of the nail’s tilt, the target of the shot should have been Qin Lun’s neck.

“Huala!” A panicked escape sounded from the ruins of a pile of abandoned electrical appliances in the distance. It seemed that the attacker saw that the sneak attack was unsuccessful and was fleeing the scene.

“He doesn’t seem to be a brilliant attacker!” Qin Lun, who had used his claw chains to hang himself in the air of the ruined building, looked at the two fleeing figures in the distance and rubbed his chin with his empty left hand.

Qin Lun curled the corners of his lips and his right hand trembled. He jumped off the building’s exterior wall and unhurriedly used the cover of the surrounding environment to quietly follow the two figures in front of him. “I was attacked nearby … accidentally? Or …”

…

“Little Nan, Little Ya, you haven’t harvested anything for three days. As usual, you don’t have any food today.”

On an empty muddy ground, a group of strangely dressed people sat or squatted around the open space. In the middle of the clearing were two ragged children.

Two children, a man and a woman, the boy was about ten years old, his face was covered in black dirt, and his hair was in a mess like a chicken nest. He wore only a tattered vest and a quadrangle trousers, which seemed to be made from some kind of gunny sack. His limbs were as thin as firewood, and his bare feet and arms were covered in mud, making it impossible to see his original complexion.

The girl was younger and thinner than the boy. She wore a tattered dress that was also modified from unknown cloth, and her messy hair was braided into two braids and hung behind her. Due to chronic malnutrition, the braids are dry and scorched yellow without any luster.

At this time, she was hiding behind the boy, pulling his arm, sticking out his thin chin, her bright black eyes looking at the adults in front of her with fear.

The person who spoke to the two children was a tall, thin man from the group. This person was skinny, his nose bulging high, and his gaze was sharp like an eagle in the deep sockets of his eyes. His bare limbs bulged out like a living skeleton with one hand in his pocket. His face was full of wrinkles, and his hair was grey. He could not tell his age.

“Boss Bone, we haven’t eaten for three days. Just a little bit of food is fine. Just a little bit!” The boy hesitated for a moment, then looked at the girl behind him. He slowly knelt down and heavily knocked on the mud ground. “It doesn’t matter to me, but Little Ya is too young and won’t be able to hold on. Please, just give Little Ya some!”

“Xiao Nan, you should understand that no one can survive in Meteor Street without help.” The skinny and tall bone shook his head indifferently, and a strange expression suddenly appeared in his eyes. “You already knew what to do. You two can actually survive one person!”

Hearing Bone’s words, there was no dirt on Xiao Nan’s face. Suddenly, a frightening pallor appeared on his face. Beads of sweat emerged from his forehead as he kicked his head on the mud. The maid behind him also widened her bright black eyes, as if she understood something. She let go of the boy’s arm and slowly retreated.