Monster Hunter, start with a wife!

Star Iron Inner City.

Inside the top-floor conference room of the City-State Hunting Ruins Administration.

Several high-ranking officials from the Hunting Ruins Administration sat in the main seats, with dozens of recruitment managers from various guilds seated on either side.

At the very front of the conference room, a circular holographic screen covering the entire wall is projecting in real time the hunting scenes of nearly 3000 newly awakened individuals.

Nearly a hundred segmented areas are tracking images of some high-potential newcomers and some key bosses.

There was also a projection screen in front of everyone.

With a simple tap of your finger, you can access detailed data for any squad.

"This batch of new recruits isn't very good. There are less than 10 with A-level potential, and no S-level has appeared yet."

The white-haired old man whose seat card read "Ren Tianxing, Vice President of Nebula Guild" casually swiped the virtual screen, shaking his head repeatedly.

Beside him,

A white man in a suit and tie smiled slightly, a hint of smugness in his expression.

"It is indeed a bit lacking, but our Thunder Guild's Moro has a potential of A+, which is no less than a typical S."

Ren Tianxing raised his eyelids and smiled contemptuously:

"Vice President Os, the difference between S and A is greater than the difference between A and F. Don't try to compete with A+ or anything like that."

Being ridiculed in public, the man called Os's face immediately stiffened.

You narrow-minded old man, all I did was use a few tricks to steal an A-level from Nebula, is it really necessary for you to be so sarcastic?

If you weren't a member of the city-state, I would have killed you!

Os cursed inwardly, but dared not offend them aloud, so he forced a smile:

"What Mr. Ren said is true; an A+ grade can't compare to a true S-grade grade."

Ren Tianxing glanced sideways, pointed at the projection in front of Os, and grinned at the long-haired old man on the other side:

"Kashu, with his academic background, has such shallow knowledge. He's never been a hunter, so he can't distinguish between good and bad. Look, even an F-rank summoner is on the signing list, hahaha—"

The long-haired old man tilted his head and glanced at it.

Upon seeing that an F-rank summoner was indeed listed on Os's list, he immediately burst into laughter, doubled over with mirth.

"Oss, is the Thunder really that short-staffed?"

Oss was startled and quickly focused his attention on the list at the edge of his screen—

Cheng Zhuo, F-rank Summoner, biological strength...

Level 5.2? ??

Os almost thought he was seeing things.

How could someone like this be on his contract list?

Seeing the two old men laughing so hard they were almost breathless, Oss's face was so gloomy it was almost dripping with water.

He abruptly stood up, strode to his assistant's seat, grabbed the young man by the neck, and shoved him towards the monitor.

"You'd better give me an explanation, or even Jesus can't save you!"

The young assistant turned pale with fright and hurriedly looked at the list.

After reading Cheng Zhuo's message, he stammered:

"He, he was added by Manager Liu. He said, he said it was a B-level Awakened who made the binding contract request."

"B-level contract requirements?" Os was taken aback.

"Hey, I understand, I understand." Ren Tianxing wiped away the tears of laughter and said in a loud voice:

"Your Thunder team is relatively new, so it's understandable that you'd add some binding contract requirements. Your manager did the right thing, so don't make things difficult for him."

Although the words were spoken frankly, the sarcasm in his tone was like needles pricking, which fueled Os's anger.

"Get out here!"

He said that, then turned and walked out the door.

Ren Tianxing suppressed his smile and waved behind him.

A woman in a black suit, exuding a cool and aloof aura, immediately stepped forward, bent down to his side, and bowed slightly, saying, "Teacher."

"Intercept evidence of his contract with that F-rank summoner."

Ren Tianxing glanced sideways at Aus's back outside the door:

"They won't write it into the contract. They'll find video or audio evidence first, and then talk to this kid named Cheng Zhuo."

The city-state places great importance on the human rights of high-potential Kashus.

As long as there is audio and video evidence, it cannot be violated even if it is not stated in the contract.

Oss is a guy who's obsessed with saving face, he definitely wouldn't want that F-grade.

Ren Tianxing knew this was a good opportunity to poach people.

"Understood." The woman nodded and left.

"That hip sway... Little Zhizhi looks really cool in her business attire!" The long-haired old man next to her looked the woman up and down, admiring her long, beautiful legs and swaying pencil skirt, until she disappeared through the doorway, before turning his head and saying:

"Old Ren, could you please persuade her again to let Xiao Zhizhi be my concubine? Look, my name is Song He, and her name is Mu Yanzhi, they're such a perfect match."

Ren Tianxing glanced at him with disdain:

"A perfect match my foot! You old lecher, you'll die on a woman's belly sooner or later."

Songhe licked his lips: "To die beneath a peony is to be a romantic ghost, don't you understand?"

"Don't even think about it. Xiao Mu wouldn't even look at someone like you," Ren Tianxing scoffed.

"Why--"

Songhe smoothed his flowing long hair. "I'm so handsome, why doesn't she like me?"

Ren Tianxing rolled his eyes. "Do you like that I'm old, or that I like that I don't like taking showers?"

Songhe was not annoyed, but asked with a puzzled look:

"However, why did you decide to take Xiao Zhizhi with you to recruit people? Is it even feasible? I have a feeling that she'll draw her sword and stab people if she doesn't get her way."

Ren Tianxing seemed somewhat annoyed and shook his head, saying:

"If I don't let her interact with more people, I'm afraid she'll really turn herself into a killing machine."

"That's true." Songhe tossed his long hair.

"This beautiful woman is becoming less and less human; even I can't move her."

Ren Tianxing rolled his eyes again.

I've lost all desire to communicate with this old fox.

He turned on the holographic projector and casually opened Cheng Zhuo's image tracking interface.

Songhe, however, leaned closer and glanced at it:

"Aren't you worried about failing to recruit him and ending up signing an F-rank summoner to keep at home for free?"

"Maybe we got a bargain."

Ren Tianxing smiled slightly, staring at the holographic projection with great interest.

In the screen,

A boy, holding guns in both hands, stabbed a strange beast to death with one thrust, then turned and unleashed a beautiful counter-attack.

The other ferocious beast behind him was instantly killed.

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In an empty street in the Trial Beast City.

The buildings were dilapidated and overgrown with weeds.

Cheng Zhuo leaned on his spear, his chest heaving, and looked at the corpse of the strange beast in front of him, which was about the size of a wolfhound. He took a few heavy breaths.

The soreness and swelling from exerting too much force still lingered between my knuckles.

It was my first time fighting a strange beast in real combat, so it was inevitable that I was a little nervous.

The thing twitching on the ground is a rat mantis.

Its body resembles that of a rat, but it has mouthparts resembling those of a cockroach and a pair of sharp, segmented forepaws.

As the most common primary stage, the rat mantis is numerous and fast.

Although its biological strength is only around level 5.0, those sharp claws can disembowel an ordinary person as easily as tearing paper.

Cheng Zhuo poked the rat mantis corpse with the tip of his gun and examined it curiously for a few moments.

As the saying goes,

When you see a rat beetle, it means there's a whole nest of rat beetles nearby.

The rat mantis lacks a nucleus, and its fur has low value.

Cheng Zhuo didn't intend to waste time on this kind of thing.

"We need to find that thing as soon as possible."

Cheng Zhuo muttered to himself, drawing a map on his wristwatch.

In this beast city, there is a pig-shaped mythical creature called the One-Horned Porcupine.

Its skull core is very special; it can randomly generate breathing meditation cards, making it a favorite beast for novice hunters.

Once the source core of this convertible card leaves the host body, it will automatically degenerate into a normal source core after more than 24 hours, so it usually needs to be opened on the spot.

Hunters jokingly call them "blind porcupines".

This is exactly what Cheng Zhuo needs.

Guanguan went from a tiny kitten the size of a palm to a Tier 1 beast pet overnight, which can only be explained by advanced meditation skills.

He checked the information and found that even epic-level items couldn't possibly have such a significant effect.

He can't very well say that he spent a few small sums of money to buy a legendary breathing meditation card.

Only by enabling 'blind cores' can this be barely explained.

He might incur the wrath of the city-state's higher-ups because he wasted a high-level source card. In a sense, fusing an F-level potential card with a legendary breathing meditation card is a waste of high-level resources.

However, since a precedent for this occurred last year, there shouldn't be any blatant punishment.

As for whether it's actually mythical, he wouldn't miss a single word.

After all, the appearance of one of only two mythical cards in history would be too astonishing.

Legendary Breathing Meditation Cards are also rare, but Star Iron City does have some.

However, it mostly appears in the blind cores of high-level alien beasts.

As for using a nascent, unranked porcupine to obtain a legendary item, wouldn't that be a bit too outrageous...?

Emmmmmm……

Who cares? Someone once got an epic item with a blind core porcupine, so what if he gets a legendary item?

Humanity still has only a superficial understanding of the Lighthouse and the Ruins.

Strange encounters can happen anytime, anywhere.

Luck is something that defies logic.

After determining the location on the map, Cheng Zhuo's gaze swept towards a fork in the road at the end of the street.

This is it!

Yida Plaza, the territory of the unicorn porcupine.

Cheng Zhuo picked up his spear and was about to leave when he caught a glimpse of a drone rapidly swooping down toward him.

Huh? What's going on?

He paused, somewhat confused.

These drones are usually used to follow high-potential newcomers; judging by the way this one is flying, it's heading straight for him.

Which guild would be interested in him now?

Before he could figure it out, the drone had already arrived at lightning speed and hovered in front of him.

"Beep—"

A notification sound rang out, and the holographic projection unfolded.

As the light and shadow shifted, a woman in a black business suit appeared, exuding an inexplicable aura of coldness and detachment.

"Hello, my name is Mu Yanzhi, from the Nebula Guild. Let's talk."