Suddenly, a pebble hit the tiger's back. It passed right through the ghostly little white tiger.
"Jingwu Er" instinctively let out a deep tiger roar, then turned around sharply. The roar suddenly rose in pitch—the "golden-haired little girl" was sitting on a high branch of a large tree behind him, holding two pebbles in her hand, watching him from a distance.
Auntie Bi, what are you doing here? Where have you been all this time?
So naughty!
On the other side of the world, Jingyang, who was sitting on the rooftop of a large hospital with Xiaodi, playing a simple chess game drawn on the ground, almost shouted out with joy.
“Twice.” Bisky, dressed as a little girl with blonde pigtails and a princess dress, sat on a tree, tossing pebbles in her hand, and suddenly said this.
"Jingwu Er" was taken aback.
Bisky said, “I’ve been observing you for 10 days (actually, I was out shopping for several days). There are at least two times a day when you suddenly… don’t act like a real tiger.”
“The way felines walk and run suddenly disappear. Blood, which should be delicious, becomes unpalatable. It’s as if something has taken over their bodies by a human.” She tossed a pebble. “And during this time, you’ll usually wander around amusement parks and towns, not so much observing anything as searching for me.”
"Am I right? A Nen user of manipulation type, whose name I don't know?" She flicked her finger, and the thrown pebble flew out like a bullet.
Snapped!
With a flick of its tail, "Jingwu Er" shattered the flying stones like a lightning whip.
"Roar……"
Jingyang wanted to say something, but all he could do was let out a tiger's roar and roll his eyes.
"Who are you?" Bisky stood up on the tree branch. The little girl-like figure was very light on her feet. She put her hands on her hips and scolded, "Sneaking around like this, do you know me, or do you want to kill me?"
It's as if this princess will accompany whoever it is.
"Auntie, do I look like I can have a conversation now?" Jingwu Er wagged his tail, his tiger eyes staring at the "blonde girl in a princess dress" in the tree. He understood now that Bisky had suddenly disappeared that day and hadn't shown up for many days. She was probably secretly observing him!
The older one gets in the world, the more timid one becomes. Bissie, in her fifties, had an abundance of experience in the underworld, and precisely because of this, she wouldn't underestimate anyone, especially Nen users. She had seen far too many Nen users who thought themselves invincible be utterly defeated by inexperienced newcomers of manipulation-type abilities who had met their power requirements and were thus "sure to win by striking first."
The more Bisky looked at the creature parasitizing the Moon Tiger, the more it seemed to be a manipulation-type. It was only because it didn't seem to harbor strong hostility or malice, and because Bisky was genuinely curious about its purpose, that she decided to reveal herself. However, even now, she maintained her distance, ready to slip away at the slightest sign of trouble.
"If you can't speak human language, you can at least write, right?" Bisky stood on the tree with her hands on her hips, pointing at the big tiger on the ground, and said, "Write."
"Jingwu Er" exhaled hot air from his nostrils. Damn it, I'll write it anyway.
Clang!
He flicked out his tiger claws and, like a carving knife, began to scrape across the forest floor.
"Auntie Bi, it's me, Jingyang. Don't you recognize me? I even had dinner with Yun Gu..."
Chapter 208 This princess will consider it at her discretion.
Within the hexagonal frame, a gray figure sat cross-legged with a sword across his chest, the number on his chest around 26101 fluctuating in single digits along with Jing Yang's heartbeat.
Eleven hazy streams of air surrounded him.
With a thought, Jing Yang injected 10 streams of grayish air into the top corner of the hexagon, causing the upper limit of the enhancement type to rapidly increase from the original 71.2% to 81.2%!
As the upper limit of the enhancement system increases, the other systems will also be affected.
The emission rate increased from 83.8% to 91.8%.
The change was 64.2% → 72.2%.
Embodiment system 82.2% → 88.2%
As for the Operation and Specialization systems, they are already at 100%, so there is no room for further improvement.
There is still one wisp of gray energy swirling around the figure with the horizontal sword; this will be digested and converted into spiritual energy later.
Jingyang opened his eyes, feeling the cool breeze from the hospital rooftop. At first, he could only refine about 800 units of death energy into his own power, making it part of his total mental energy. However, with practice, he was able to improve the efficiency of refining death energy, and could refine it into 900 units. If he was lucky, 1000 units was not out of the question.
Therefore, Jingyang is no longer as anxious about the mental energy as before. He has invested eight or nine out of ten of the death energy he gets from other places into expanding the upper limit of his own branch mental energy systems such as enhancement and transformation. The sooner he can get all six systems to 100%, the sooner he can be clean and refreshing and look beautiful.
Xiao Di sat on the ground to the side, studying the chess score.
After leaving the small harbor town near the Eye of Death vortex where they landed, and arriving in this slightly more bustling town, Jingyang immediately took Xiaodi to hospitals in various regions.
Jing Yang's absorption range for death energy is a radius of 1 kilometer. Therefore, whenever he arrives at a hospital, he usually goes straight to the top floor of the emergency center, finds a secluded spot, and spends time with Xiao Di, waiting for any death energy that might appear. Over the past three days, he has accumulated exactly 11 units of death energy, which he then used to spend 10 units on the enhancement system, while also slightly raising the upper limits of other systems.
With the Enhancement type's upper limit expanded to 81.2%, Jingyang figured that if he started practicing Enhancement type Nen now, the effect should be no weaker than that of a natural Emission or Transmutation type user.
Following the old method, he removed the star mark from the back of his neck, then cut his palm, leaving a bloodstain, while gathering his spiritual energy in his other hand.
Recalling the feeling of being healed by the star, he applied pressure to the wound with his hand, and visibly, the bleeding stopped, the wound healed, and a scab formed...
Little Di, who had been watching from the sidelines, asked curiously, "Did it succeed?"
"As I envisioned, it should at least have healing capabilities comparable to a star-level healing ability to be considered a success. This little wound is already so slow; it's far from enough!" Jing Yang said, then suddenly looked into the distance and muttered, "It should be finished by now, right?"
With a thought, he sensed a distant shore where a star with activated healing abilities was located, and he projected his consciousness there.
Consciousness possessed him, and the familiar sensations of a tiger's limbs and tail washed over him. He found himself lying on his side with his eyes distorted and mouth crooked. A pale, ghostly little boy was squatting next to his big tiger, staring blankly at the nonchalant "golden princess"—Bisky—examining the beaten-up tiger. "You're finally back."
It's good that it wasn't damaged!
"Jingwu Er" grinned, got up, shook his head, and glanced at the words written in tiger paws on the ground: "Auntie Bi, it's me, Jing Yang. Don't you recognize me? I even ate with Yun Gu." The first half was already blurry, so he simply scratched it a couple of times, erased the whole thing, and rewrote it. "If you know me, why did you hit me?"
The big, watery tiger blinked its eyes, gazing pitifully at the person opposite it.
Even standing on all fours, the Moon Tiger was half a head taller than Bisky, who looked like a blonde girl in front of him, yet he still felt like he was being looked down upon by her. Bisky glanced at the new words on the ground, put her hands on her hips, and said, "Didn't you say you were Zhen Yuanzi during the video call on the computer?"
"Jingwu Er" rolled his eyes, erased the words, and rewrote: "Jingyang is Zhenyuanzi, and Zhenyuanzi is Jingyang. Besides, we didn't have a video call, we only talked on the phone."
He wrote it down, and Biskey read it the same way. Fortunately, Wu Er's physical condition was quite good after successfully losing weight, and his claws were also agile. Jing Yang's hand speed in flicking the tiger's claws and scratching the ground was not slow either, but it was still not as good as speaking—but what could he do when he was now wearing a tiger's body? He could only roar and bark, without speaking human language.
Bisky then nodded.
She certainly remembered that the child on the other end of the phone, Yun Gu, was probably a manipulator-type Nen user.
In fact, when Yun Gu helped pass on a message after leaving Xian Shui Mountain, he also mentioned Jing Yang's real name to her.
With both pieces of evidence corroborated, Bisky could preliminarily confirm the identity of the consciousness residing within the body of the Moon Tiger before her.
She stroked her chin and paced back and forth a couple of times, then suddenly said, "If you need to contact me, you can just call me. Why do it this way?"
Yun Gu told her that there were gems on this island, and coincidentally, there was also a Can Yue Tiger on this island that could be controlled by Jing Yang and was tracking her. This didn't seem like a coincidence at all.
The author, Can Yuehuzhaozi, typed: "A two-star hunter? I could get her help with a simple phone call. How could I be so shameless..."
Bisky glanced at it, neither confirming nor denying the second half of the sentence, and simply said, "Help?"
"There's a reward," Tiger Claw quickly added.
Bisky tapped her toes on the ground, indicating that she should continue writing.
Jingwu Er wrote down the words "Blue Planet," then looked up and met Bisky's gaze.
Bisky's expression didn't change much. After staring at each other for a while, she asked, "The Blue Planet is indeed a gem I'm determined to have. Continue writing?"
“The Blue Planet gem can only be obtained on Greed Island right now,” she said suspiciously. “You don’t think you can get my help just by providing a gem’s name, do you? Do you have the Greed Island game equipment?”
Greed Island is a special game console created by a Nen user who is suspected to be a Specialist type. This information is available for sale on the Hunter x Hunter website, which Bisky is certainly aware of.
As for whether this game creates an alternate dimension out of thin air or connects to a real place in the real world, Bisky hasn't actually been there, so it's still unclear.
In response to Grandma Bi's doubts, "Jingwu Er" wrote: "In short, if the invincible and adorable Big Sister Bi helps me, I will risk my life to help you get the Blue Planet. PS: I suppose I have been to Greed Island."
He recalled the timeline of the plot.
The Yorknew City auction date is unforgettable for anyone who has read the Hunter x Hunter manga—it starts on September 1st! In short, it's in September 1999. At that time, Greed Island game consoles will definitely be put up for public auction, and you'll have a chance to enter Greed Island no matter what. So there's no need to worry about making boastful claims now.
Bisky cupped her little face and said happily, "Since you've said so, well, alright then! Who told you to be that kid Yun Gu's friend?"
"So, what kind of help is it?" she didn't forget to ask.
The furry tiger claws rubbed the ground against itself, then scribbled "me," pointing to its own large tiger-like body. "This Moon Tiger, please help me adopt it. It can be taken anywhere in the world..." Moon Tigers are protected animals, and Bisky, as an old hunter who has been traveling the world for decades, doesn't need Jingyang to explain this common sense.
But Bisky ignored Jingyang and looked the Moon Tiger up and down, especially at the human-like intelligence reflected in its tiger eyes. She bluntly said, "With your strength, what's so difficult about getting a hunter's license and then adopting this Moon Tiger yourself? You're just trying to use this to curry favor with me, aren't you?"
Big Tiger touched his big head, seemingly embarrassed after being exposed.
"Your Highness is wise." He gestured with his fingers across the ground.
"Oh, what are you talking about, princess or whatever!" Bisky said with a smug look on her face, slightly raising her chin. "Just say what you want to say, and I'll consider it."
Jingyang thought for a while and finally decided to be honest with him. He used Wu Er's paw to write on the ground: "Although I have some talent and am a rare gem, I am ultimately a self-taught amateur. I really want to find a famous master to give me compassionate guidance like a bodhisattva on the path of Nen ability..."
Chapter 209 What is Operational Trait?
Bisky looked at the new line of words under the claws of the Moonlit Tiger, but she wasn't particularly surprised.
Comparing the image of "Zhen Yuanzi" that I learned from Yun Gu, he certainly deserves the evaluation of "a little genius". If he is indeed a "self-taught amateur", then he is indeed a "rare gem". Bisky's greatest love in life is gemstones, which is why she is determined to become a gem hunter.
She not only loves the dazzling and beautiful rare treasures, but also cherishes the process of carving and shaping them—a supreme enjoyment and a top-tier spiritual pleasure.
If this Jingyang is indeed as Yun Gu said, and even praised by Chairman Netero, then it is indeed worth taking the time to carefully craft it.
Since they've practically delivered themselves to my doorstep, I guess I have to have some fun with them, hehe...
After a moment's thought, Bisky said directly, "Then tell me, what makes you so confident that you can definitely help me get the Blue Planet?"
The Moon Tiger hesitated for a moment, then raised its paw and scratched, "That's a long story..."
"Then let's make a long story short."
"I know someone who definitely has a Greed Island game console."
"Isn't this a simple matter? What's so complicated about it?" Bisky sized up the Moon Tiger, her expression unchanged. "What, are you planning to kill and rob him, and that's why you can't tell me?"
The tiger's claws slashed rapidly. "How can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air? Here's what happened..."
Seeing that he was struggling to write, Bisky suggested, "Although I have the patience to wait for you to finish writing word by word, this kind of communication is really inefficient. How about this, you think carefully about your plan first, and how you can convince me that you can definitely succeed. We can have a video call tonight, which will be more convenient."
She recited a number for Jingyang to memorize, then waved her hand, lifted her princess dress, and strode away. She was so fast that Jingyang, with his tiger-like eyes, couldn't possibly see her.
In any case, our relationship with Aunt Biskey is now secure!
Jingyang gave Wu Er some instructions, telling it to be extra friendly with Bi Siji, before happily signing the number.
This is the western coast of the Nuoamili Continent. Beyond the ocean to the west lies the Sangsamei Continent. Further west, on the rooftop of a hospital emergency center in a small town near the western edge of the Sangsamei Continent, is where Jingyang and Xiaodi are currently located. It had already been confirmed that even across an ocean and continent, the time difference was almost negligible. At least, Jingyang, stretching and gazing at the sky from the rooftop, couldn't distinguish the difference between the sky here and the sky Wu Er had seen there—it was roughly one or two in the afternoon.
"I really heard someone up there..."
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