Monster Hunter, start with a wife!

It's Huo Ming!

The moment Cheng Zhuo saw the anonymous message, he thought of him.

He immediately dialed the number, but it showed no signal.

He dialed the number he had added before, only to be met with the same cold, mechanical message that kept repeating "The current number cannot be reached."

This made Cheng Zhuo's heart sink.

Why was it exposed?

He had carefully examined every trace when he dealt with the scene that day.

Filled with questions, Cheng Zhuo casually opened a portal and quickly stepped inside.

He found a wide-open, rocky area.

With a thought, the aircraft, transport vehicle, and six hovercraft in the system space landed on the ground one by one.

Time is frozen within the system space, and these vehicles remain in the same state as when they were loaded into the space. At that time, the surrounding area was desolate and deserted. If any problems are found, they will most likely be on these vehicles.

Cheng Zhuo activated the system's detection function.

They checked each one one by one.

Akakage even turned off his watch, and of course, all the equipment on the aircraft was also turned off.

A team like the Skeleton Hunters wouldn't be doing dirty work while recording audio and video themselves. Cheng Zhuo checked each one and, as he expected, found nothing unusual.

His gaze eventually fell on the transport vehicle.

The vehicle was badly damaged, and some of the external monitoring equipment had been destroyed by the hunters.

Are there any omissions?

With questions in mind, Cheng Zhuo investigated every detail.

Sure enough, a pinhole camera was found in the corner of the carriage.

The camera's power supply and signaling devices are independent and are currently still turned on.

"It seems some audio was recorded," Cheng Zhuo realized.

These raiding armies are quite shrewd.

I need to be more careful when doing things like this in the future.

It's unclear how large the interest groups involved are.

Is it Liang Ye, or the deputy director? Or could it even be that mysterious city lord?

Suspicion lingered in Cheng Zhuo's mind, but he didn't dwell on it any further.

While we should be vigilant, we cannot delay in doing what needs to be done.

He withdrew from the boundary gate.

My fingertip swiped through the friends list on the smartwatch, finally stopping on "Catherine's" profile picture, and I pressed the call button.

After only two rings, Catherine's cheerful, slightly teasing voice came through the receiver:

"Hey, isn't this our Redstone Town's 'newly crowned 3S legend'? The whole world's been looking for you, and you actually took the initiative to call your sister! I thought you'd completely forgotten about someone as insignificant as me!"

"Haha, how could I forget?" Cheng Zhuo's laughter carried a hint of sincerity.

"I remember how much help K-jie gave me before."

"Hey, it was nothing, don't mention it!" Catherine's voice was full of curiosity. "By the way, it's all over the internet, saying your master is a seventh-tier hunter, and some people even say he's eighth-tier. Is it true?"

Cheng Zhuo said helplessly:

"Actually, I don't know either..."

"So you really do have three Origin Cards with S-rank potential right now?"

"That's right."

"Wow! Could you sign a few autographs for me when you have a spare moment? They could probably sell for a good price..."

"...You look like you're short on money. I'll transfer some to you later as payment for your help. I promised to mentor the new recruits for a few days, but I haven't had much free time lately," Cheng Zhuo said apologetically.

"No, no, I don't need to transfer money," Catherine quickly refused.

"I was just kidding. Did you call me because you need something?"

"I remember you told me before that H0173 could drop a breakthrough source core. Can you tell me which Void Realm and what kind of alien beast it came from?"

"Huh? You didn't know?" Catherine's voice was somewhat surprised:

"After the last upheaval, H0173 collapsed, releasing a large number of strange beasts and triggering many nests. The group of high-level beasts we were keeping an eye on has created a large nest underground in the Nanling Ruins, and now many low-level hunters are gathering there!"

"Nanling Ruins?" Cheng Zhuo frowned slightly. "That's a medium-risk area, isn't it?"

Before the catastrophe, Nanling was the largest and most prosperous city in the surrounding area.

At the beginning of that catastrophe, the loss of countless lives triggered many interdimensional gates.

Initially, they were mostly low-star creatures, but parasitic alien beasts multiplied wildly in the piles of corpses, dragging the entire region's ecosystem into the abyss in just a few years.

Although the roaming beasts are still mostly low-level, the occasional outbreak of medium-risk portals is enough to make low-level hunters avoid them at all costs.

Cheng Zhuo suddenly remembered the news from a few days ago—

Mu Yanzhi rushed to suppress the four-star broken-down realm, which seemed to be located in the core area of ​​the Nanling Ruins.

"It's not exactly a medium-risk zone, but fortune favors the bold!"

Catherine's voice came through the receiver, tinged with a hint of urging, "Guess what? This time, the lair might drop a legendary series core, and I heard it's a summoning type! Want to come and join the fun?"

"A legendary summoning core?"

Cheng Zhuo's tone was full of surprise, "How did you know it was a summoning type? Has anyone already obtained one?"

"No, the nest is still in its gestation period; we can only enter in seven days."

Catherine's voice sounded somewhat confused:

"I don't know where the news came from, but the core of the series is indeed real, and you can find it in the lighthouse quest in Sanhe Town."

"With a series of core technologies, is that Samsung's lair?"

In the path of Kashuu, every three stages present a significant hurdle.

The "series" of breakthrough source cores have always appeared in bundles of 1-3 and 4-6 levels.

If a series of cores can be found, then this nest must contain all kinds of beasts from the first to the third tier.

That's why Cheng Zhuo asked that question.

Catherine also gave an affirmative answer:

"Our guild has already set up a base outside the ruins. If you want to come, remember to let me know in advance. Uncle Wang and the guild leader specifically instructed that if they get in touch with you, they will arrange a top-tier Tier 3 team for you and Huangfu Bai to enter the lair together."

"Okay, I'll get back to you once I confirm."

Cheng Zhuo agreed, then changed the subject and asked again:

"By the way, what was that upgraded beast called in H0173? Which realm was it from?"

"They used to be in the Qingyan Cave, called the Six-Clawed Poison Dog. But after H0173 collapsed, those beasts have mutated, so checking the old information is not very useful."

"Okay, thanks, Sister K."

After hanging up the call, Cheng Zhuo raised his hand and opened the system space, glancing at the boundary stones piled in the corner to confirm their location.

As expected, there was no "Qingyan Cave".

No wonder he searched through all the low-risk realms these past few days but couldn't find any trace of the Breakthrough Beast.

I wonder if Huangfu Bai had any boundary stones in his bag. It hasn't even been a week yet; I hope he hasn't used them all up.

Cheng Zhuo pondered to himself.

The first to third tier advancement cores can be replaced before reaching the fourth tier. If you can find a first tier breakthrough source core as a backup, and then go to the three-star nest to compete for the legendary core, it is undoubtedly more secure.

After all, the nest outside is different from the boundary gate made by the system, and a seventh-order living forbidden object like Tao Yaoyao definitely cannot be brought in.

However, Catherine's question about his master reminded him of something.

He is no longer the lowly commoner with no background who he used to be.

He has a master who is virtually unmatched in this city...

……

Around 2 PM.

Cheng Zhuo arrived at the inner city gate.

He originally thought that he would have to show off his S-level origin and register his identity when he entered the inner city.

But when he walked up to the smart recognition device, he heard a soft "beep" and his identity information flashed across the screen. The city guards on duty didn't even look up at him.

Apparently, someone updated his permissions.

Once upon a time, he could only gaze at the skyscrapers of the inner city through the gloom of the outer city, but now he could swagger into this area that symbolized power and wealth. He couldn't help but feel a little emotional, but he was quickly overwhelmed by his business.

Following the map, Cheng Zhuo quickly found No. 108, Yunjing Villa.

The person who opened the door was a young girl dressed as a maid.

What made him sigh with envy was—

The entrance hall is bigger than his new house.

Master Gao was already sitting on the living room sofa waiting. When he saw him come in, a look of relief immediately appeared on his face.

"Not bad, not bad. It's clear you haven't been slacking off these past few days. Have you encountered any problems with your cultivation?"

"Master," Cheng Zhuo replied respectfully.

"Cultivation is not a problem, however, my disciple may have gotten into some trouble the other day..."