Hunter: I became stronger even after I died.

Chapter 351 A Life-or-Death Situation
By Yang De's team -

In some ways, it is even more powerful than the twelve earthly branches of the Hunter Association.

This strength does not stem entirely from pure individual combat power, but rather from their remarkably sophisticated team structure.

By Yang De's team, each member's abilities have been specifically honed. While they may not be perfectly complementary like puzzle pieces, they often form a collaborative relationship.

The power of synergy between Nen abilities is self-evident.

This alone makes it far superior to the Twelve Earthly Branches, which operate independently and are even unaware of the abilities of their colleagues.

In fact,
Although Byron had no intention of proving anything to his father Netero, the way he built his team still reflected his desire to completely surpass the Hunter Association and Netero.

Thanks to the synergy of the team members' high efficiency, Byander quickly determined the locations of Morrow and Kurapika.

After all, under the intense shrinking of the exploration area, if the two red lines that were acting together were not Moro and Kurapika, then such a low probability coincidence would be more acceptable than Yang De misjudging the situation.

"If there are coordinate points in the area between the red and black lines, then we can stop them midway."

A glint of light flashed in Yang De's eyes.

Alita glanced at Billy and said, "I'm just suggesting a possibility, not guaranteeing that the black line is definitely related to those two. If they change direction at the last minute, causing the interception to fail, don't blame me."

"Why are you so long-winded? If the decision is wrong, the responsibility is entirely mine, and I will never shift the blame onto others."

Yang Deyi spoke with righteous indignation.

Alita paused for a moment, then said calmly, "You clearly did that last time..."

"Any results from Shahua yet?"

Bi Yangde quickly interrupted her.

Seeing this, Alita didn't continue the topic. She raised her hand to touch the headphone-shaped device, remained silent for a second or two, and then said, "I've got it. The coordinates are slightly off, but it doesn't have a big impact."

"Then let's go!"

B. Yangde grinned.

Alita nodded.

Soon, a surge of psychic energy rippled outwards beneath their feet, quickly materializing into a red spider lily, its tendril-like petals enveloping them.

next moment,
The tightly closed red flower buds vanished into thin air.

Using Shahua's "Flower Crossing" ability, Byonde and Alita arrived at the coordinates in an instant.

This is a plain, and to the north, behind us, lies a vast, dense forest, the area where the extremely dark black line representing some kind of creature is located.

"lead the way."

After Hua Du finished the teleportation, Bi Yangde's body surged with a powerful aura.

Upon hearing this, Alita unleashed her maximum power, and with the boost of her psychic energy, she transformed into a blur, swiftly traversing the plains and heading in the previously determined direction.

Byron immediately focused his psychic power on his legs, unleashing astonishing speed in an instant, and followed closely behind Alita.

The two sprinted across the plains at an astonishing speed, covering a considerable distance.

Before long, a fluorescent green light in the low sky in the distance caught their attention.

That unique fluctuation of spiritual energy was particularly striking in the darkness.

"Hey!"

By Yangde abruptly stopped, instantly coming to a standstill from his high-speed dash, his gaze fixed on the green light that was flying towards him.

The distinctive color of the bullets confirmed that they had found the right target.

Before making a decision, although Alita could obtain intelligence data about Moro and Kurapika from Morina, the red line displayed by her search and location abilities could not reveal more information.

Therefore, the basis for Byang's judgment that these two red lines are Moro and Kurapika can only be the confirmed information that "two Devil Fruit users are traveling together".

There might be a possibility of misjudgment here.

However, it can only be said that the probability is extremely low.

By Yangde stared at the increasingly close fluorescent green streak in the night sky, a playful smile playing on his lips: "Alita, stop them."

"clear."

Alita's body surged with bright psychic power, and her left hand swiftly reached out and grabbed her right arm.

With a crisp click of mechanical meshing, her right arm unfolded and reassembled like a transforming mecha.

As the metal joints shifted, a cannon barrel gleaming coldly extended from inside the arm and moved onto its surface as it sank.

She slightly bent her knees to steady herself, and slowly raised the cannon muzzle upwards to lock onto the fluorescent green light.

hum-

The ring-shaped energy bar at the rear of the hand cannon lit up with a faint blue light, and the turbo-like hum was particularly clear on the silent plain.

"Target locked."

Vertical light streaks flashed in Alita's iris as the cannon barrel, having reached its critical charge point, suddenly burst forth with blinding light.

Accompanied by the roar of compressed psychic power, a beam of azure energy shot out from the cannon muzzle, piercing the night and heading straight for the fluorescent green light.

at the same time.

Moro and Kurapika, who were standing on the transformed Deception Star, noticed the energy beam shooting from the night ahead almost simultaneously.

The landing point of this energy cannon seemed to have been precisely calculated, predictively landing on the trajectory of the deceptive flying star in advance.

At that moment, all Moro and Kurapika could do was to mobilize their Nen power as quickly as possible to protect their entire bodies.

boom!
The next instant, the energy beam shattered the flying star, causing a violent explosion.

Moro and Kurapika were ejected from the explosion, landing steadily on the ground from different directions, leaving two long trails on the grassy plain.

"They arrived so quickly!?"

Upon landing, Moro's expression shifted slightly as he looked in surprise toward the direction from which the energy cannon had come.

Two figures shrouded in a powerful aura arrived before them at an extremely fast speed.

"Better than Yang De...!"

Upon recognizing one of the people's features, Moro was startled and almost without thinking, fired a Nen bullet into the sky.

After doing this, he turned his gaze to the girl next to BYD who was wearing a sailor uniform and black knee-high stockings.

By observing the girl's clothing and the obvious mechanical features on her face and limbs, Moreau instantly recognized her.

She is the cyborg girl that King determined to be stronger than Pariston and the others in the original work.

Judging from the level of manifested Qi...

It's almost the same as Leizha.

Moro was secretly alarmed, his gaze returning to the powerful psychic energy fluctuations emanating from B. Yangde.

"This aura... is definitely above Lv.90, possibly even Lv.95. This person must be one of the world's five greatest ability users, right?"

There was no time to think about how Yang De had intercepted them in advance; Moro now only felt a huge sense of crisis coming over him.

The source of this sense of crisis is not that Yang De and Alita's manifested energy levels are stronger than his.

Rather, he knew absolutely nothing about the abilities of these two people!
Without crucial intelligence, discrepancies in the levels of manifested energy become quite troublesome.

Almost at the same time as making the judgment, Moro's right hand emitted a stalactite-like Nen fluctuation.

This is a sign that an Emission-type Devil Fruit user is about to attack.

Byron and Alita saw it all, but did nothing.

Their persistent pursuit was not necessarily aimed at erasing the existence of Moro and Kurapika.

Because if the goal is simply to eliminate unstable factors, the memory manipulation ability of the operating system can be used directly to solve the problem.

Even the fourth prince's side will eventually quell the situation by altering his memories.

This is the safest approach.

That's why Alita only targeted the flying stars earlier. Otherwise, having gained the first-strike advantage, she could have directly attacked Moro and Kurapika.

"Both of them were rising stars in the Hunter Association. It would be a pity if they died here."

Yang De, enveloped in a powerful aura of Nen, looked at Moro and Kurapika with great interest and grinned:

"For Netero's sake, we'll give you the best option: immediately close your sperm pores and cooperate with us to use our manipulation abilities to alter your memories. That way, we can pretend today's events never happened."

"..."

Moro's pupils contracted sharply.

The conversation casually revealed that they already knew their intelligence and that the other party possessed manipulation abilities.

Too confident...

But they do indeed have the capital to back it up.

After hearing what BYYAND said, Moro showed no intention of withdrawing his attack preparations, glancing out of the corner of his eye at Kurapika, who was some distance away from him.

Kurapika's expression was solemn. He gripped the cloth bag tightly with one hand to protect the eyes of the tribesmen inside, while the small iron ball of the Soul-Chasing Chain hung down in his other hand.

He also heard Bynd's opening remarks, and after noticing Morrow's gaze, he nodded slightly.

The other party was not lying.

Kurapika confirmed this using the power of the Soul Chain and conveyed this information to Moro by nodding.

The two have a great understanding.

Moro understood Kurapika's meaning, but—

That's the real problem.

If anyone else were in this situation, given the significant difference in strength, and if they could confirm that what Yang De said was true, they would most likely have decided to cooperate in altering his memories.

However, Moro was unable to cooperate.

Because altering memories also implies the potential for extracting information from those memories.

But he's a time traveler!
How could they possibly allow Yang De to do something like this?

If this were done, not only would the secret of the time traveler's identity be revealed, but also the ability of the annual rings to rewind time would fall into the hands of Byangde.

By then, even "death rewind" will probably be impossible; they will simply be firmly controlled.

Rather than this outcome, it would be better to directly resist violently and then be killed by Byangde.

This way, even if a death node is generated on Byangde, there is still room for manipulation.

For example, they would try to take advantage of the Zoldyck family's wish machine regardless of the consequences.

Or perhaps he deliberately died at the hands of this mechanical girl, who was around level 85. He was confident he could resolve the death point within the time limit.

Aside from these outcomes, if only we could escape...

Of course, it's the best!

Moro's mind was in turmoil, but he remained outwardly calm, only his brow furrowed slightly as he asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean? We were just passing by, why did you suddenly attack us?"

"Stop pretending."

Compared to Yang De's calm tone, it revealed an undeniable sense of pressure: "Since you were able to learn of Melina's death so quickly, you should understand... the choice I'm giving you now is the best solution."

It is indeed the optimal solution...

It is entirely possible to turn a big problem into a small one, and a small problem into nothing.

But it doesn't apply to him.

Moro sighed softly to himself.

He knew Yang De was willing to say a few more words, but it was just his style; he felt that things that could be solved simply shouldn't be complicated.

For this person, there is absolutely no difference between whether they obediently cooperate in altering memories or have their limbs broken and their memories altered.

They might even change their minds and kill them right here.

Therefore, there is basically no room for further delay.

Moro quickly assessed the situation.

His judgment was basically accurate.

However, Yang De's willingness to say a few more words was not entirely because he wanted to resolve things more simply.

In fact, the already planned exploration of the Dark Continent would inevitably involve "V5".

This will be a mobilization that involves the entire world!

The Hunter Association, which serves V5, will certainly not be absent at that time.

What Yang De would prefer to see even more is that while leveraging the Hunter Association, he also wants the core members of the Hunter Association to join him in challenging the Dark Continent!

So, as he just said,
It would be such a waste for talented people like Moro and Kurapika to die here.

"Ugh."

Moro feigned a helpless sigh, even knowing our reaction to the news of Melena's death...

Compared to Yang De's team, there must be exceptionally high-level detection and location capabilities, as well as spatial teleportation capabilities.

While pondering to himself, Moro said in a serious voice, "If we had known these 'treasures' were so hot to handle, we wouldn't have done this. Let's do as you say, we'll cooperate obediently."

Saying,

He simply withdrew the sharp psychic energy from his right hand to attract the attention of Yondo and Alita.

But at that very moment,

Psychic energy surged from beneath Morrow's right foot.

"Flying Star Leap"

As the ability was activated, a cross-shaped star suddenly appeared beneath Yang De.

"What a foolish choice."

Yang De lowered his eyelids, glancing at the fluctuations in his aura emanating from beneath him.

His reaction was extremely fast; he simply stepped forward.

boom!
The dark blue shooting star had barely risen when he crushed it under his foot.

"Roar!"

A roar came from the sky.

It's a chimera.

The psychic bullet that Moro fired into the sky just now was to notify the Chimera to come over.

"Fraudulent Flying Star"

Seeing that Yang De had shattered the flying star and leaped forward, Moro shot a flying star into the air at extremely high speed, then retreated and grabbed Kurapika's arm.

This action effectively interrupted Kurapika's desire to fight immediately.

"escape."

Without needing to exchange words, Kurapika received Moro's instructions.

But Kurapika didn't expect that—

Moro actually threw him into the air.

Ding!
As Moro tossed Kurapika toward Chimera, he flicked his finger, sending several coins engraved with star symbols toward Bynd and Alita.

Guided by these coins, the enhanced star suddenly split into several streams, hurtling towards Bynd and Alita.

Rumble!
The two were instantly engulfed in the explosion.

(End of this chapter)