The delivery address Liam had left for Claudius was the Eternal Library in the next city.
He'd thought of this chain library under Sister Rabbit's name because there was no suitable location at the moment.
Now that he thought about it carefully, he didn't even have a settlement in this Hunter world. Really inconvenient...
When she noticed Liam staring at her, Shizuku couldn't help but wonder. She tilted her head to look over.
"It's nothing. I was thinking that before we leave, I need to arrange who'll pick up the package." Liam said. "The three of us are going to a wedding. We don't have time. It always feels a bit unethical to grab someone random on the road. Need to find someone who can be discarded without any psychological burden if something happens. But he can't be a complete novice—otherwise even if I control him, in an emergency, it'll be a skilled woman who can't cook without rice. Embarrassing and useless..."
Shizuku raised her hand. "Look for gang members."
Kurapika said, "I can get the Scarlet Eyes at the wedding by myself."
"Although the gangs are good, they should be used sparingly. What's more, I'd have to find them specially. Very troublesome." Liam finished speaking to Shizuku and pointed to Kurapika. "Maybe the Phantom Troupe will come. Those two are very stronge. If you go alone, you'll die easily."
Not to mention the gum-chewing explosive woman's ability was currently unknown—let's just say the ability of the guy disguised as Machi was quite tricky.
Naturally, the first question that popped into Liam's mind was:
Can this guy become Chrollo?
If he could, then judging from the fact he could use Machi's Nen, there was a high probability he could also use Chrollo's Nen ability "Skill Hunter."
So the next question arose: Is this fake Chrollo's Skill Hunter a blank slate, or is it an intact copy of the Nen abilities Chrollo has stolen over the years?
If it's the former, then this imposter is tricky and requires care.
If it's the latter, then this imposter is super tricky and needs to be very, very careful.
Kurapika went to contact Marko and Melody.
Liam was still practicing with Shizuku. Mainly because Liam needed some special training.
The content of the special training: a one-thousand-meter sprint.
Shizuku ran a thousand meters away and waved to him from a distance.
Liam gestured OK. He didn't make a special starting position. He even deliberately kept himself in a relatively casual state.
Shizuku took out her cell phone to prepare the timer, raised her hand high, then cut it down.
The moment he saw Shizuku cutting her arm down, Liam rushed out, pushing out an airflow path difficult to detect with the naked eye.
Liam passed by Shizuku like a gust of wind. As he crossed the finish line, Shizuku pressed the timer on her phone.
"How was it? How many seconds?"
Liam used his inertia to circle around like a normal person, leaning over to look at her phone screen.
"31 seconds 24." Shizuku read.
"In other words, it took only 3 seconds to run less than 100 meters..." Liam was a little disappointed. "So slow! Really need to practice specifically."
Shizuku suggested, "Perhaps we can distribute more aura to the legs and soles of feet."
Liam signed OK and jumped back to the starting line a thousand meters away. He jumped around, moving his body.
The moment he landed, he used "Ryu" to distribute 80% of his body's aura to his legs and feet, leaving only 20% of the original offensive and defensive power in his upper body.
Shizuku raised her hands high.
Shizuku chopped down with one hand.
Liam disappeared on the spot. The ground beneath his feet collapsed.
Looking forward, there was a cracked pit every ten meters or so along the thousand-meter journey. The cracked pits were getting bigger and bigger. The trajectory was getting more and more deviated from a straight line...
Liam braked quickly with his hind legs like an old ox plowing ground. His two feet were like iron plows, shoveling two long holes in the ground.
He looked back. He was far away from Shizuku.
"30 seconds 11." Shizuku held up the phone to him.
Liam walked over, kicking his feet as he walked, and concluded, "After too much aura is gathered on the feet, it's easy to trample the ground. The broken footholds are also difficult to exert force on. Short distances are fine, but lengthening to 1,000 meters, there will inevitably be errors when running. This kind of running has high requirements on technique and the ground's load-bearing and pressure capabilities."
Shizuku said, "Then reduce the amount of aura distributed to the legs and feet."
Liam nodded, shook his head. "80% allocated to the feet is a bit much. But the key is running technique."
In the manga, Killua—who was known for his speed—could run as fast as lightning, much faster than Liam. But he didn't have problems like trampling the ground or running out of control.
"I'm not very familiar with this kind of running. Let's practice more."
With the blessing of Star Mark in Flowing Star Strike mode, Liam was confident he could at least break into the 1,000-meter sprint within 20 seconds. Ten seconds might not be impossible.
Liam returned to the starting line. When he saw Shizuku cutting her hand, he said "Run!" and ran away like the wind.
"Come on, come get me!"
In the evening, Liam and Shizuku found a place where there were not many people, but not too few, and started fishing.
He held a laptop on his lap, connected it to the card reader, and put the Hunter License he'd picked up into it.
After thinking about it, the "Hunter License hunter" type of person best met Liam's needs.
You come to mess with me, then I'll mess with you. That's not too much, right?
Although these people usually weren't very strong, they were still there. They could be used as tools to pick up the package in the next city. Enough.
Waiting was a bit too boring, so Liam found a movie and watched it with Shizuku.
The Jaku sparrow was thrown nearby by him. When it saw a sneaky guy, it called out twice.
After watching a trilogy of movies in a row, he finally heard the rock sparrow's call.
The rock sparrow standing on top of the high wall looked down.
In the streets and alleys, from four directions, people were slowly approaching the two people who'd set up a small table on the roadside, enjoying the cool under a tree while watching TV. Seeing this scene, the group who'd come after discovering the Hunter License signal couldn't help but feel speechless. Where did these two idiots come from? They didn't look like Professional Hunters. So undisciplined—even novices didn't look like this... They guessed the two kids were lucky enough to pick up a Hunter License?
"How is it?" Liam yawned.
Shizuku said seriously, "During the battle, the special effects on them looked very strange."
Don't you think it's strange?
In this world where superpowers did exist, the more movie special effects deviated from what Nen should look like, they'd look awkward in the eyes of knowledgeable people.
"My side, your side?" Liam asked.
"Okay." Shizuku turned around.
When Liam ducked out of the way and easily knocked out several guys with evil intentions on his side, he realized something was not right with Shizuku.
It wasn't that Shizuku wasn't right. It was that Shizuku's opponent wasn't right.
There was a guy on her side who was pretty good—could at least have a chance to fight back in front of Shizuku.
Then Shizuku raised her hand and threw out a stream of aura, which changed into the shape of a chainsaw on the way.
The sharp-toothed chain began to rotate rapidly. With just one pull, one of the opponent's arms was torn off at shoulder level and began to twist toward his torso...
When Liam saw this, he put down the unconscious people at his feet, took out his cell phone, and ran away.
Fierce as a gust of wind. Hundreds of meters passed in a flash. Some pedestrians on the roadside thought it was just the wind.
The rock sparrow looked at him doubtfully.
Liam mentally estimated the distance and stopped. He turned over his phone and looked at the timer—19 seconds 59!
"Rounding up, the 1,000-meter run has reached the 19-second mark." Liam put away his phone with satisfaction and walked back. "If I work harder, even if there's any emergency in the future, before that person completely dies, I should be able to run away from the maximum distance the death energy can be absorbed. Ah, I'm so thoughtful."
He touched his heart and returned to where he was just now.
There was a bloody guy lying at Shizuku's feet. She looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"Oh, he's not dead?" Liam went over and took a look. Although the man had been cut into ribbons by Shizuku's chainsaw, he was still breathing.
"Yes." Shizuku said. "He's the strongest, so Liam should use him."
"Okay." Liam flicked his fingers and threw out a ball of aura. The aura wrapped the blood on the bloody guy and twisted it into the shape of a five-pointed star.
The Flying Star Bubble was floating in the air. With great difficulty, it found a clean place to land on the man's bloody body, successfully leaving a Star Mark.
The moment the Star Mark formed on the skin of his left shoulder blade, his incredible self-healing ability started immediately.
The muscles and skin that had been mutilated by the chainsaw began to grow and heal again. Even the broken arm moved toward him under the influence of aura...
Liam didn't intend to give this tool man any memories of the time under control, so after his broken arm was reattached and his body injuries were almost healed, he directly possessed and controlled from first-person perspective.
The tool man glanced at "his" companions who were unconscious on the floor, ignored them, and walked straight outside. He found a shopping mall on the way, went to the bathroom to clean up briefly, and washed away the remaining blood on his body.
Looking at himself in the mirror, and the men and women on both sides looking at him with surprised eyes, he always felt this scene had happened somewhere.
The tool man fell into deep thought, then bought a ticket to the next city for tomorrow.
While the tool man was taking the train to the Eternal Library in the next city to wait for the package, Liam, Shizuku, and Kurapika had already boarded the airship and headed to another city to meet up with Marko and Melody.
Kurapika looked at the glass jar in front of him and said to Liam, "Let's get started."
"If you don't mind, I definitely have no objection." Liam said. After opening the lid, he fished out a Scarlet Eye from the antiseptic solution.
Liam picked a thin strand of hair, wrapped it with his aura, and floated it toward the fiery red pupil of the Scarlet Eye, leaving a rose-gold pentagram mark as small as possible against the red.
Kurapika was speechless as he watched Liam put the Scarlet Eye back into the bottle and watched as the eye—which didn't seem to have changed much—sank into the solution.
Shizuku raised her hand to summon Blinky and sucked away all the antiseptic solution on Liam's hand.
After getting off the airship, Liam called Melody. Soon the two groups met in Marko's mansion.
Marko looked worried and in poor spirits.
"What's wrong with him?" Liam asked.
Melody took a look at Kurapika, who was meeting her for the first time, and replied, "Seems something big has happened to the gang these days. There have been quite a few changes. Marko thought the wedding would be postponed or even canceled, but he didn't expect it would still be held as usual... He was worried something might happen at the wedding. That it might be unsafe."
Liam said, "Doesn't he have bodyguards? Don't worry. I can testify his bodyguards are strong enough."
"Have you fought against gangsters?" Melody asked.
"Hey, who out there hasn't played with a few gangsters?" Liam said with a smile.
"Steady heartbeat. Not a lie." Melody said to herself, then noticed the blond boy was observing her. She nodded politely.
"She's the Hunter Liam said can listen to the heart." Kurapika thought to himself. "Being able to hear psychology and emotions from the heartbeat and distinguish lies—it's not just about good hearing. Probably a real Nen ability derived from musical talent..."
"This kind of heartbeat, the rhythm of confident and steady thinking." Melody thought. "I see. Was he confirming my ability just now? Seems they have a good relationship..."
Shizuku collected the three wedding invitations handed over by Marko.
Liam said, "Before we leave, can I make a small request?"
The four bodyguards looked at Liam warily. Marko raised his hand and nodded to Liam. "Please tell me."
"The gift you want to give is Scarlet Eyes, right?" Liam asked.
Marko smiled bitterly. "Yes, it's the one you almost snatched away last time."
"Hey, let the past go. Not worth mentioning." Liam waved his hand and said with a smile. "Do you know who the pair of Scarlet Eyes in your hand belong to?"
Marko didn't understand why.
"That is to say—whose eye sockets were those eyes originally in?"
"Of course I... don't know about this." After all, they were human organs and involved black market trade. Marko's tone was unnatural.
Liam could feel Kurapika's aura behind him fluctuate briefly. He wore black contact lenses—otherwise you should be able to see the fiery red faintly appearing in his eyes at this moment.
Liam took out a jar from the bag in Kurapika's hand. "In that case, please do me a favor. Let's switch. You give this pair of Scarlet Eyes as a gift, and give your other pair to us."
Several bodyguards looked at the jar in his hand and saw the Scarlet Eyes floating in the solution.
"Don't worry, these Scarlet Eyes aren't fakes." Liam said.
"I don't doubt that." Marko waved his hand. "With this color, you can tell at a glance they're not fake."
Melody said, "Did you do anything to these eyes?"
If a tracker was installed on the jar, it would definitely be checked.
Marko was confused. "If that's the case, it would be the same for you to treat these eyes as gifts and send them out together... right..."
Before he finished speaking, he felt an aura coming from the blond boy behind Liam... in short, an aura that made him shut up. Just that direct look in his eyes made him unable to speak anymore.
"Switch?" Liam asked.
"That's okay." Marko reluctantly agreed.
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