Six-Eyed Sukuna, starting from Hunter x Hunter

Chapter 25 Maze Information

The dizzying high-speed spinning finally stopped, and Su Wu landed steadily, with a series of thuds coming from all around.

Many people fell to the ground and fainted.

Besides that, some people are missing; they're probably lost.

The fate of those wounded and abandoned in the desert was predictable; in the end, they could not escape death.

Of the entire caravan, only Su Wu and the leader were still conscious and capable of moving.

Not a single camel or horse was seen.

"...At least one person passed this time." The team leader looked around at the people, sighed, and scratched the back of his head as he spoke.

Su Wu ignored the other person and instead looked around at her surroundings.

This seems to have caused the other party to misunderstand something.

"Ah, are you looking for those camels? Don't worry, they'll find their way around," the leader said with a smile.

To prevent the cargo from getting lost, his camels and horses were all magical beasts he bought with money. They had a certain level of intelligence and could return home on their own. He even gave them special training before the exam, and the magical beasts were probably already used to it.

"What should we do with these people?" Su Wu gestured for the other person to look at the unconscious figures on the ground.

"The assessment began the moment we stepped into the desert, and they naturally failed." The leader held a hunter's license in his hand, his smile both hearty and ruthless.

Every year, hundreds or even thousands of people die in the Hunter Exam, and the probability of passing the exam is less than one in a hundred.

"So we just leave them here to die..." Su Wu stroked her chin and nodded with a light laugh.

They were now in an underground labyrinth, seemingly made of bluestone or some other hard material. The interconnected passages stretched as far as the eye could see, like bottomless corridors, without a trace of light. The darkness did not affect Six Eyes' vision; he could see that the corners of the corridors were covered with cobwebs and moss, as well as dark, dry, grayish-white and yellowish-brown marks.

The corridor seemed to have been stale for a long time, exuding the decaying smell unique to old buildings. It felt as if you could inhale a lot of dust with every breath, accompanied by a faint stench of decay.

But no matter what, it still smells better than Meteor City.

But no body was found.

Why is there no body? The yellowish-brown stuff is blood, and is that grayish-white stuff brain matter?

The presence of these traces but no signs of a body means... someone disposed of the body?

Without six eyes, it would be very difficult for an average person to discover this information in the dark.

"The next challenge is to get through this maze?" Su Wu asked the team leader beside her.

The other person had an unconscious person under each of their armpits, was carrying people in both hands, and even had someone on their back.

"That's right, the information about the subsequent exam venues is hidden in this maze. Good luck, kid." He grinned, tiptoed, and disappeared into the end of one of the corridors in a few moments.

Should we follow?

No, that road must be the wrong one.

Since the other party was not a test taker and was accompanied by unqualified individuals, their goal was to take the losers away. What Su Wu needed to do was find information about the next testing site in the maze.

It's obvious they're on different paths.

"Then which way should we go now..." The white-haired boy squatted on the ground, thinking with his eyes closed.

With so many options, which one should I choose?

Every passageway was stained with blood, suggesting that people had died there.

Why did those people die? Was it a trap?

In other words, every passage contains a trap...

Doesn't it make no difference which option you choose?

He hesitated for only three seconds before quickly standing up and making his choice, casually stepping into the one closest to his left.

As soon as he stepped into the passage, he looked up at the walls on both sides and above and below—there was no movement.

"No traps?" he murmured as he tapped the wall beside him.

Then, standing still, he raised his left hand and said, "Cang."

A dark blue energy, resembling a miniature black hole, appeared in his palm, seemingly sucking away the surrounding air.

He raised his hand and gave a gentle push, a hopeful smile on his face, as he sang a voiceover—"Boom!"

After leaving him, the dark blue energy ball rapidly expanded and swept across the corridor, destroying all the walls. Finally, it seemed to crash into the deepest wall, making an explosion.

The gravel in the passageway, which looked as if it had been visited by bombers, shook violently.

Arrows fell out from both sides of the passage, and the bottom of the corridor revealed empty traps filled with sharp spears.

If you fall in, you'll probably get riddled with holes.

He then teleported to the end of the passage, only to find a pile of rubble.

There should have been a rather large stone sphere here, which was also one of the traps, but it was blasted into dust by Cang.

However, on the left wall, two numbers are engraved—1 1

Is this what they call information? What do these two numbers represent? Or are they some kind of Hunter Continent code? Do they need to be deciphered?

But—is that all the information there is? Su Wu pondered, her figure disappearing again, returning to the starting point.

This time, he chose a different path.

He raised his hand and released the canopy, the movements flowing smoothly like clouds and water.

Finally, the roars of beasts rang out.

It seems that the trap also includes monsters.

After he had bombarded all the passages, he obtained several pieces of information—

1 1, Barnato, Ezhen.

"Hmm... what does this mean?" Su Wu tried to connect the three pieces of information, but she couldn't get them together.

Banato and Ezhen sound like place names, but unfortunately, he wasn't familiar with the place names here.

Thinking of this, he took off his bag and began rummaging through it, and sure enough, he found a map.

A map of the continental plates.

"This is the continent of Eurubian, Banato... Ah, it's a port, Ezhen... Ezhen is another continent, the continent where the Kakin Empire is located..." He looked at the place names marked on the map and nodded in sudden realization.

West Germany is indeed a responsible bodhisattva; the things he prepared were so comprehensive. It must not be the first time he has prepared things for people leaving.

"Could that 11 be the time? Is it January 1st when we arrive in Banato or Ezhen? Judging by the time, it should be Banato, since it's on the continent of Eurubian. Ezhen is another continent, and the distance shown on the map isn't short."

"So we should go to the port first to take a means of transportation and then arrive at the continent of Aizhen?" Su Wu's brain quickly analyzed.

Ah, maybe the real test lies in choosing the right tools...

After all, the information didn't say how to get to the continent of Aizhen, and the continent of Aizhen is so big, who knows exactly where on the continent of Aizhen it is.

He pondered expressionlessly, casually pulling a tissue from his bag to wipe the blood from his nose.

"However, none of these passages lead to the exit. It seems that the one the team leader took is the only exit."

"If we had followed the leader from the beginning, we could have gotten out, but we would have missed the information hidden in other passageways..."

"We have to go through the whole thing." Su Wu calmly stepped onto the passage that the team leader had entered.

He swept aside the tests that others in previous years had failed to pass despite spending a great deal of time and even their lives, finishing them in a very short time.

This maze will be unusable as an exam location for a long time, at least until it is repaired.

(End of this chapter)