Dressed in a military uniform, wearing leather armor and armed, the short-haired girl is naturally Cai Yutong. She appears very valiant and heroic, completely different from the very cute and adorable aura when we first met.
"Yutong has kept you waiting for a long time, it's all because Li Wei is too slow," said Judith.
Li Wei rolled his eyes.
Cai Yutong covered her mouth and giggled: "No, it's just for a while."
Judith nodded and said to Li Wei, "You know, Cai Yutong is a famous rising star in the Four Leaf Clover branch, cooperate well and don't shame me and Erin, okay?"
"Got it, don't worry."
Cai Yutong took the initiative to step forward and stretched out her hand to Li Wei: "Hello, Mr. Li Wei, we will cooperate this time, please guide me more."
Li Wei shook her hand and said, "Hello, guide you too."
Seeing the two getting along so well, Judith said with a satisfied smile, "Alright, you two try your best. I'm going to go back and get some sleep."
...
"It should be right here."
A few days later, Li Wei and Cai Yutong appeared in a park.
This is the Meilin Avenue Community in the Upper District, next to the Four-leaf Clover Community.
The mission they had previously received from the branch was to capture and eliminate a fungoid creature.
Speaking of fungoid creatures, they are a unique type of monster. A typical adult fungoid creature looks like a walking mushroom the size of an adult human. They resemble a humanoid mushroom head creature, and are a peculiar species that is half plant and half creature.
A renowned painter from the Four-leaf Clover Community once commissioned a hunter's guild to help him capture a fungoid creature for him to directly observe, so as to assist him in creating a "great" piece of art for a painting he wished to create.
This happened two months ago, but recently the painter has sent news again, saying that the mushroom person had escaped, killing three of his servants.
The Four-leaf Clover Community Police Station had arranged forces to capture the mushroom person, but without success.
As a result, this incident has once again become an assignment, thrown onto the Hunter's Guild.
Initially, there was no interest in this assignment. First, it is a local assignment, and there are not many people eligible for the task. Secondly, although the award is slightly higher than usual C-level assignments, the affair was indeed too troublesome.
All assignments that can be resolved directly through combat are the simplest. Conversely, assignments requiring the discovery and elimination or capture of a monster that has already eluded pursuit and who only knows where it is hidden, are quite troublesome.
It's possible that a large amount of time could be wasted in vain, with no results to show for it.
But Cai Yutong accepted the mission.
According to this girl's statement, a hunter should not stop just because the task is difficult; they should face the challenge head-on.
At first, when he heard her say this, Li Wei felt somewhat headache. Although she was known as the rising star of the Clover Community and was just a young girl of seventeen or eighteen, it was clear that she had not yet outgrown her childish mindset. She might indeed have impressive strength, but she had not yet learned the cunning that hunters should possess.
Perhaps this is a characteristic of academy-trained hunters who grew up in a relatively affluent environment? They seem to have completed many commissions, but in reality, many of their ideas are still somewhat naive.
"Am I just too utilitarian?"
Li Wei laughed mockingly at himself, then agreed with Cai Yutong's idea.
According to currently available information, the combat ability of these mushroom creatures is not weak. Although their temperament is not considered cruel, this individual that has managed to escape from the painter has already killed three or four people. If left to roam uncontrolled, the risk it poses is indeed significant.
Of course, apart from this, the most fundamental reason why Li Wei agreed so easily is his confidence in himself.
Tracking prey is his expertise.
At the beginning of the mission, Cai Yutong and Li Wei carried out separate actions, searching for clues to track down the whereabouts of the escaped mushroom creature.
The intelligence and leads that Cai Yutong found were extremely limited, and in this regard, the rising star was indeed not very skilled.
Disheartened, she once regretted, in the heat of the moment, accepting the mission. She thought to herself she should have followed Li Wei's advice and considered it more carefully.
But then, after she rejoined Li Wei, her frustration quickly dissipated.
All because of what Li Wei said at the time: "That mushroom person should be in the garden of the neighboring Merlin Boulevard community."
"How do you know that?"
"Look at the map." Li Wei said matter-of-factly, "It's a semi-plant creature, how many places can it hide? Parks, gardens, these are the places we must investigate."
"Then, why don't we check the gardens in our own Clover community? I remember there are three or four gardens around here, right?"
Li Wei said with a smile: "We don't need to check those four gardens, I've already asked the police to investigate. If they have any news, they will inform us. Moreover, I think it's highly likely they won't find the mushroom person. I've been to the artist's house and the place where the police fought the monster, and found some useful things. There's some fine plant powder extending towards Merlin Boulevard from the local area."
"Huh?" Cai Yutong was somewhat confused, "I also went to investigate the battlefield, but I didn't find anything…"
Li Wei shrugged his shoulders and said, "Maybe it's because I'm more experienced in this field."
It is indeed the case, tracking and clue collection in cities, the wilderness, or other complex environments are Li Wei's strong suits, and it's his pride.
Of course, this alone is not enough, but Li Wei also has a powerful eye.
With the activation of his Sharingan eyes, Li Wei could see extremely subtle clues on the ground, walls... and other places.
It was a powder, a type of white plant powder.
The environmental greening in the upper district is quite good, but it mostly consists of some very common green plants, making this white plant powder unusual.
At the battlefield, quite a few of these appeared, and Li Wei had reason to believe that they were left behind by the mushroom people.
Following the trail of the powder, Li Wei made a basic judgment of the mushroom person's location, so he directly called up Cai Yutong and went straight to Maywood Avenue.
For Li Wei's judgment, Cai Yutong still had more or less some doubts. However, in the situation where there were no other clues, she could only trust Li Wei and follow him to Maywood No. 1 Park.