I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Disney!

Jingyang could hardly contain his urge to complain. Founded in 1987, it's only been less than 8 years, yet you've made almost 13 trillion! Why don't you just fly to the sky?

and many more……

He slapped Menqi's hand away and clicked on the founder's name with the mouse.

"Arantelle Blanchett, member of the Hunter Association, information top secret. Estimated personal wealth places her among the top five richest people in the world..."

Only fifth?

Jingyang breathed a sigh of relief. He really was a hunter. Well, that's alright then.

In this world, about 60 of the top 100 richest people are professional hunters.

Holding a hunter's license makes things incredibly convenient in all walks of life. Governments in most countries around the world give this small card a degree of respect. And most ordinary people in the world have a considerable degree of trust in the abilities of the cardholder…

They're so jumpy, it's making me hungry.

Jingyang glanced at the sky. After spending half the day at the internet cafe, the sunset was already out, casting a unique beauty on the amusement park, which was less crowded than during the day.

“I heard from my teacher that Arantelle = Blanchett…”

Menqi pointed at the computer screen and turned his head.

The boy who was pointing and gesturing just moments ago has vanished without a trace, and even the little gray bird he was with is gone!

When did they run away?

I don't feel anything at all...

"Such impressive strength." Menqi leaned back in his chair, holding the back of his head, staring at the screen in front of him. "After he dealt with those five poachers outside the reserve, he probably didn't have much strength left..."

When his teacher took over the poachers, he pointed to Garo, who was already groggily awake, and said to him, "If you had faced him by yourself, you'd probably be dead by now. Don't be impulsive and run around alone in the future. Although you have a license, you're not actually qualified. Of course, I also bear some responsibility for that..."

Menqi couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Her mindset was still stuck in the identity of a gourmet and chef, and she really needed to work on her skills.

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Jingyang went out, bought some feed for the chirping little rock sparrow, and then ate a casual meal at a small restaurant on the street.

He had thought that hot girl Menqi would come looking for him again, and he was even prepared to order an extra meal for her, but to his surprise, the girl did not show up.

It seems I've teased her several times and angered her?

Jing Yang didn't really care about this. He was just reluctant to run into a legitimate professional hunter like Men Qi because his hunter license was a "black card." But he wasn't afraid to contact her. To put it bluntly, he found the license himself, so what if it was discovered? The Hunter Association didn't care what would happen to a lost license anyway.

After eating his fill, Jingyang took a walk with his bird, enjoying the comfortable night breeze, and casually found a small hotel to stay at.

……

The pale moonlight slanted in through the window, covering half of Jingyang's body as he lay on the small bed with his legs crossed.

Before, when I was in the desolate forests, keeping company with tigers and wolves, practicing as a wild man, I didn't feel anything. But now, after entering the town and spending most of the day among the bustling crowds, I feel a strong sense of loneliness, as if a piece of my heart is empty...

【stop.】

"Is it because Wu Er isn't here?" he muttered to himself.

Don't think about it anymore.

He sensed the location of the star markers. He hadn't given Wu Er any commands to control it, so the star markers on Wu Er were dormant and practically undetectable. However, the two white birds, which he had assigned to follow Wu Er and obey its commands, had active star markers…

Let bygones be bygones. Why create unnecessary trouble for yourself?

Sure enough, not too far away, somewhere in the woods outside a protected area in the middle of the eastern coastline town, the two white birds' markers could be sensed. One of them hadn't moved much. Presumably, Wu Er was happily munching on his dinner...

"Jiji?"

The little rock sparrow stumbled on Jingyang's body, fell over, flapped its wings, rolled around in a daze, and finally hopped up.

"..."

Jingyang, who had been stunned for a long time, couldn't help but chuckle. He flicked his finger and pushed it away, which made the little rock sparrow peck at him angrily.

Opening the window and gazing at the crescent moon in the sky, Jingyang decided to put his past life aside for now. Since he was alive in this world, he should focus on what was in front of him first!

What's in front of us?

I should have a goal to pursue, so that at least I'll have something to look forward to in life...

Jingyang reached out, as if trying to grasp the moonlight.

Menchi, that girl, is a gourmet hunter; her goal, of course, is to pursue even more delicious food. This world also has all sorts of hunters, such as trouble hunters, crime hunters, lost item hunters, relic hunters, treasure hunters, beast hunters, poachers, hacker hunters, poison hunters, ancient document hunters, and even the simplest and most brutal bounty hunters…

What about yourself?

Jingyang suddenly remembered a line from the comic book where the protagonist, Xiao Jie, had an unreliable father: "What I want has never changed from the past to the present, and that is 'something' that doesn't exist right now... Actually, I don't care whether I can actually get it. The truly important gains already appear in the process of striving for it, before I even get it..."

"Decided."

Jingyang closed the window, sat on the edge of the bed, raised his palm, and a ball of white gas shot out from his palm, silently floating in the air, invisible to the naked eye.

“Let’s choose an ultimate goal that’s almost impossible to achieve. That way, we can pursue it for a lifetime and won’t have time to think about anything else.” His eyes hardened, and he smiled. “Since the extraordinary power is real, why not try to truly transcend it and become an immortal, undying, and indestructible being?”

"Chirp?" The little rock sparrow stepped on the bed sheet and tilted its head to look at him.

"Do you think this has any potential?" Jing Yang laughed.

Just then, his expression changed slightly, and he looked out the window to the north.

A faint signal came from there that the star had suddenly been activated.

It was one of the two birds I had sent to keep an eye on that small cruise ship; they had seen humans approaching the vessel!

Jingyang immediately switched control modes, projecting his consciousness onto two small birds many kilometers away...

Chapter 19 Circle

On Ghost Island, on the north coast, on the long-damaged little cruise ship, two birds with slightly green feathers perched on the railing.

The moment Jingyang's consciousness took over the minds of the two birds.

He felt as if some invisible, intangible "foreign object" had landed on him, like a persistent spider web, or a cold wind brushing against his face...

"Could this be what 'circle' is?"

Using the eyes of the two birds, he quietly observed the interior of the ship in the darkness. At that moment, beams of light occasionally flashed across the cabin, and noisy footsteps could be heard through the deck, clearly indicating that someone was searching the cabin.

And among these people... there are Nen users.

Furthermore, he is a Nen master who has mastered a considerable range of "circles".

"En" is a derivative application based on the four major training methods of Nen ability. Simply put, it is a technique that involves radiating one's own aura to cover the surrounding environment in order to sense and detect.

Everyone's "circle" is different. Some people only care about the circle of their own immediate surroundings, while others' circle extends three hundred meters, allowing them to visualize the entire interior of a building...

The shape of the "circle" can vary; it's not always a perfect circle. For example, Neferpitou's circle, one of the three guardians of the Chimera Ants, is a tentacle shape that constantly changes its outline. The most outrageous circle ever seen in the manga is undoubtedly that of the Chimera Ant King, Meruem. This guy transforms his aura into endless photons, spraying and scattering them in all directions. Being touched by any photon is equivalent to being completely exposed to him, and these photons will remain at the target location, guiding Meruem...

The person maintaining the "circle" inside the cabin seemed to encompass the entire cruise ship.

The manga doesn't actually explain how "En" is trained. Even though Jingyang can use the eyes of animals to investigate, he hasn't yet put practicing "En" on his agenda. Therefore, he can't really judge the specific situation of this "En," the strength of his investigation, or accurately assess the strength of the target releasing "En" at this level...

This is partly because Jingyang was merely occupying the bird's body rather than being there in person, but it also undoubtedly reflects Jingyang's own lack of vision and experience.

I still need to continue my practice!

Jingyang continued to manipulate the two birds to observe secretly. He wanted to control the birds to fly into the cabin and listen to what the searchers were saying, but the raised claws stopped.

He has a major disadvantage.

He is not a bird.

Jingyang could never perfectly simulate the movements, postures, and reactions of birds in their natural state.

Being inside this "circle," any behavior that is too different from that of ordinary birds is very likely to be noticed by the owner of this "circle."

Jingyang then thought of another point.

The star marks I placed on the five birds were, for convenience, printed on their beaks.

Two similar birds, with similar magenta pentagram markings on their beaks... If the other party has keen enough observation skills and notices this, and also possesses the common sense of a Nen user, they might guess that these two birds are actually controlled by another Nen user hiding somewhere...

Jingyang, controlling two green birds, stood on the gunwale, staring at each other with wide eyes, chirping as if trying to use their language to give commands...

Tap, tap, tap... Approaching footsteps echoed from inside the cabin, and at the same time, the 'circle' that had been everywhere vanished in an instant.

The two green birds turned their heads together and saw a tall, steady young man with a cauliflower-like hairstyle walking out of the cabin with several men carrying flashlights.

...What a high-end Miyagi Ryota!

Jing Yang glanced at the young man with the cauliflower-shaped haircut. Judging from the traces of the 'circle' disappearing just now, it was this guy who released the 'circle'.

This "Miyagi Ryota" did not look at the two idle birds in the night, but instead looked towards the shore with his hands behind his back and said calmly, "Mr. Sloe, didn't we agree that you can't interfere with our investigation on this island? In return, we tacitly allow Ochima to investigate this island."

With a flutter, two green birds spread their wings and fled.

They slipped away, but not completely. Jingyang maneuvered two green birds to land on a rock near the shore. The angle was perfect, allowing him to observe both "Miyagi Ryota" and his group on the deck, as well as the group brought by the so-called "Mr. Sloe" on the shore.

Sloe, a slightly balding young man, seemed a bit angry at Miyagi Ryota's dismissive remarks. "I received a report from local fishermen that there's a suspicious boat here, suspected of being the site of a murder. What, as an official of Ochima, am I not qualified to investigate here?"

Babimaina, like a javelin planted on the bow of the deck, said with slightly increased emphasis, "Mr. Sloe, please watch your words. Strictly speaking, this is the territory of our Kakin Kingdom."

Um? What's the meaning?

Jingyang was using the green bird's eyes to observe a small, somewhat familiar-looking figure behind Sloe on the shore, but unfortunately it was too dark to see clearly.

Hearing the words of the palace on the ship... Babima Inna, he couldn't help but wonder, wasn't this Ghost Island the island in the upper left corner of the Okima map? It was separated from Kakin on the continent of Ezhen by a large sea, so how did it become Kakin's?

I've already surfed the internet before, okay? Don't try to fool me!

Sloe simply smiled, a smile that seemed rather half-hearted in the darkness. "You see," he said, "this is precisely where our differences lie. I thought that with this incident, this disagreement could become history."

“I will reiterate the agreement reached by both parties,” said Babimaina. “Both of us will set aside our disputes and can investigate what we want to investigate on this island for 20 days without interfering with each other.”

Sloe complained, "The vast majority of the land on this island is managed by Blanchett Corporation."

Barbimaina said, "It's your business to deal with them. Goodbye."

After saying that, he turned and went into the cabin, leaving two armed men behind to keep an eye on the group of people on the shore.

“…” Sloe touched his slightly balding head. “Let’s go.”

"Why did you leave so suddenly? What's going on?" The short man behind him complained, looking disappointed. "I was thinking of chatting with the people on the other side too!"