Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

"You're smart. Open the book and let me see. I'm only taking three cards."

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Masadora.

With a flash of white light and a loud bang, Dia landed in the dense forest on the edge of the town.

'To send people to such precise locations with such ease, that's truly impressive technology...'

Experiencing the unique teleportation feature of Greed Island again, Dia was still amazed.

He can now fly long distances, and even create a huge storm with the [Third Celestial Phenomenon], which is much faster than the teleportation of the [Spell Card].

The problem is that using [Spell Cards] consumes almost no Nen, which is quite impressive.

Dia estimated that to achieve such free teleportation, extremely strict [constraints and oaths] would be necessary.

Features like "Can only be used on Greed Island" are quite basic.

Even so, it's still hard to imagine that this game was created by a team of only a handful of people. No wonder that with Jin's talent and genius, he considers Greed Island his proudest work and even couldn't help but show it off to his son, whom he hadn't seen for decades.

Stepping into Masadora, Dia strolled through this fantastical world as if she were just browsing a shopping mall.

People come and go, buildings stand tall, and various vendors hawk their wares, making it almost indistinguishable from the bustling town outside.

Suddenly, Dia noticed a large group of people gathered in front of a small building, shouting something.

Upon closer listening, I realized they were shouting:

"Give me my money back! Give me my money back! Give me my money back!"

Are there also cases of unpaid wages here?

After observing carefully for a while, Dia discovered that besides NPCs, there were also players among these people!?

It's relatively easy to distinguish between players and NPCs: those wearing rings are players, and those not are NPCs.

This abstract scene instantly reminded Dia of something, and she quietly slipped away from the crowd, hiding behind the building.

Seeing that no one was around, Dia reached out and pressed his hand against the wall. A flash of golden light, and the [adsorption force] of the ripples stuck him to the wall.

He climbed up the building silently, found a window, and squeezed inside.

Inside the small building was an antique-style room, decorated with mahogany and filled with books.

In the corner of the room, a disheveled figure lay on a rocking chair, engrossed in reading a tattered old book.

Upon seeing Dia enter through the window, his eyes lit up, and he jumped off the chair to greet her:

"Oh, you're here. I thought I'd have to wait for you until the end of the month, Youkexin's nemesis."

Diya looked at the grinning Jin with a subtle expression and asked in confusion:

"You're quite well-informed. What's going on with that group of people outside? They've angered both heaven and man."

A deafening sound came from outside:

"Give me my money back! Give me my money back! Give me my money back!"

Jin shrugged dismissively, made a cup of tea and handed it over, then smiled and said:

"It's just shouting, I can do that too."

As he spoke, he pushed open the window and raised his arms, shouting:

"No money! No money! No money!"

After calling him, he lowered the window and locked it to prevent bricks from flying in...

Chapter 317 [Ruins Department] Secrets x Past Events

A crackling sound came from outside the window.

That was the angry group demanding back wages, smashing stones against the small window.

Diya's gaze toward Jin grew increasingly disdainful, and she couldn't help but speak:

“Mr. Jin, you should know that I hate heartless bosses who withhold wages the most. If it weren’t for you here, I would have punched you already.”

Although I know this is probably just Ging playing pranks again, after all, as one of the top five Nen users in the world, Ging is so wealthy that he wouldn't be in arrears with wages.

But his portrayal of the ruthless boss was so convincing that it made me want to take his own hands.

Jin laughed heartily upon hearing this and said:

"This is just a little game I designed called 'Rich Man'. It's a multiplayer game, and the prize is a rare card and a large sum of money."

"After joining the game, players can choose to become either a heartless boss or an angry wage demander. The wage demander must make the heartless boss hand over the money within the rules, while the heartless boss does the opposite."

"Before you came, I had already played several times. I always played the wage-demander and kept winning. Eventually, no one wanted to be the boss anymore, so I had to take over."

Speaking of Jin Yizhi and the other players outside, he said gloatingly:

"They were trying to rush up and hit me just now, but I threw them out. Now they only dare to shout outside, haha..."

What a boring game...

Diya's lips twitched; she couldn't believe that Jin usually did this kind of thing to pass the time.

Because he had a responsible workaholic by his side, he assumed that such a master would be used to preparing for other work or practicing in his spare time.

"Alright, alright, let's stop playing and go."

Since the person has already arrived, there's no need to waste any more time here.

After saying that, Jin casually grabbed a pile of cards printed with gold coins from the table, opened the window, and threw them out.

A burst of cheers and jubilation suddenly came from outside the window, and the crowd gathered downstairs quickly dispersed like birds and beasts, disappearing without a trace.

The two walked out of the small building and onto the street.

Without further ado, Dia asked directly:

“Last year, Mr. Jin, you and I agreed that in February, if I was still interested in what happened five years ago, I would come to you. Now I’m here.”

That happened last year. After the vice president election meeting, he found an opportunity to catch Jin, who had been missing for many years, and wanted to learn about the "theft of the Ruins Department" that happened 5 years ago.

As the only clue she had related to the [Insect Arrow Fragment], Dia actually valued it highly, but unfortunately, there was very little information about that matter.

Fortunately, there is Kim Jae, a legend among the "Ruins Hunters," who still gives us a chance to glimpse the truth of what happened back then.

"Well, please don't call me 'sir' anymore. If you want to build a closer relationship with someone, it's best not to use honorifics all the time."

Jin said:

"You and Qiduo are exactly the same. You're too polite to strangers and too impolite to acquaintances. In the end, you get along very well with those you're close to, but you can't get close to those you're not close to. No wonder you and that moody guy got together."

After casually dissing Qiduo, Jin's expression turned serious:

"Getting back to the main point, regarding the so-called 'theft of the Relics Department,' it seems that only Chairman Netero is still alive as the true eyewitness. Most of the relevant information has been secretly destroyed, so neither Kido nor Mizeston can find any clues."

"But I don't recommend you go to the chairman to find out. The old man will definitely not tell you anything. But luckily, I know some inside information. Let me tell you the background first."

The full name of the "Department for the Management of Ancient Sites" should be the "International Organization for the Management of Ancient Sites." As the name suggests, it is not a department of a certain country, but an international organization.

If a comparison must be made, it is similar to the International Navigation Authority, only with far less power.

"Our ancestors most likely came from the Dark Continent, as you probably know. Ancient humans didn't have the high technology we have now, yet they were able to survive in that harsh environment and even relied on unknown technology to cross the now enormous Lake Möbius Sea to reach the human settlements we live in today."

"It should be said that ancient humans were quite powerful, definitely A-level in terms of rating. But the history of such powerful ancient humans is vague and almost non-existent."

"Therefore, in modern times, in order to understand the reasons for the strength of ancient humans, and believing that technological development was sufficient to develop the relics scattered around the world, V5 took the lead in establishing the [International Department for the Management of Ancient Relics].

Jin gave a brief introduction to the background of the [Ruins Department].

"Have you figured out anything from that research?"

"Dia asked curiously."

"Obviously not."

Jin sighed softly and said helplessly:

"If there were any achievements, the [Department of Relics] wouldn't be in such a sorry state now, not even worthy of shining the shoes of the [International Navigation Bureau]."

It took a huge amount of money and more than a decade of effort.

The Relics Department, apart from unearthing a bunch of ancient artifacts that are either useful or useless, has produced almost no real results, and its status has naturally plummeted.

As a [Ruins Hunter], Jin naturally felt very regretful.

"But in reality, to say that they made no meaningful discoveries would be to belittle them too much."

Jin suddenly changed the subject:

"At least they found out one thing—ancient humans seemed to be extremely skilled at making [Nen tools], which are items imbued with strong Nen. So-called [cursed masks], [Demon King's Melody], etc., all possess unimaginable power to varying degrees."

"Isn't that pretty powerful? As far as I know, many of those things can now be called national treasures or divine artifacts."

"Dia asked in confusion."

The things Jin mentioned are very similar to Kajin's "Three Sacred Treasures". If such things can be mined consistently, then it cannot be said that the work of the "Ruins Department" is meaningless.

It's important to know that these three divine artifacts were enough to transform Kakin from a small country into a world superpower and one of the future V6 nations. The power of these divine artifacts far exceeds the imagination of ordinary people.

"Yes, it's very powerful, but only if you can use it properly."

Jin calmly stated the reason:

“Almost every one of those things carries extremely strong ‘afterlife spirit’. Most of the time, after being mined, they not only have no value, but also cause great harm. Moreover, it is almost impossible to remove the spirit. There are too many of them and they are too strong. Even if all the human spirit removers were added together, they wouldn’t be enough.”

"In other words, such an excavation is not much different from exploring the Dark Continent."

Chapter 318 [Again] × Undercover Spider

Excavating ruins and exploring the Dark Continent are both high-risk, high-reward endeavors.

It's even possible that many ruins contain things that once belonged to the Dark Continent.

Compared to spending enormous amounts of manpower and resources to travel to the unknown dark continent in search of these special [artifacts], they are also forced by the [gatekeepers] to bring back a [disaster].