Who hid my body?

Chapter 259 Old Hunter

“…Is it here?”

After Vic followed the young proprietress through many twists and turns, he finally stopped in front of a very remote cottage.

"Yes, it's right here." The young lady boss showed a sly smile, "What's up, are you confused? Don't worry, I'll take you out later."

"You're taking me out?" Vic was puzzled. "Why?"

"Why? If I don't take you out, can you still find your way back?"

"Why not?" Vic said, "Although you seem to be able to choose some more complicated and long routes, but..."

Vic turned around and pointed to the hotel two blocks away.

"Isn't the hotel right there? Why did you have to... huh?" He suddenly realized, "Wait, are you taking a detour?"

The corners of the young proprietress's mouth twitched.

Damn, I was discovered!
She didn't have any bad thoughts. She just felt that it was a bit too perfunctory to take Vic through two streets after collecting so much money from him. That's why she chose some long routes, wanting to take Vic around so that he would feel that the money for leading the way was worth it.

Who knew this guy could still find the way like this!
Really, if you had told me earlier that you knew the way, I wouldn’t have to walk so far. My legs are sore from walking so far.

The young lady boss complained in her heart but didn't dare to say it out loud. She just coughed twice and denied it, "Of course I wouldn't take a detour. Do you think I'm an idiot? It's just because...well, the hunter you're looking for has been living in seclusion for a long time. He doesn't want outsiders to know where he lives, so I did this."

"I see."

...He actually believed it. Is this guy so naive?
Although the young lady boss did not lie, the old hunter did not want outsiders to know his residence, but this guy had no doubts at all. The young lady boss could not help but ask: "Have you never thought that I came here to trick you?"

"Trick me?"

"Yeah, they'll lure you into an alley and beat you up, or just kill you and rob you of your money."

"Ah? You would do that?"

“…Since you asked me that, of course I wouldn’t!”

"...Oh." Vic nodded and said, "I don't think you are that kind of person."

These words touched the young proprietress a little.

She was a little embarrassed to accept money from such an innocent and kind person just to show her the way...

"Because you smell good." Vic continued, "Unlike those people."

...It smells good? Different from those people?
The young proprietress felt that this statement sounded somewhat familiar, as if someone had said something similar to her not long ago.

...Wait, isn't this the perverted priest from Rhine who said she smelled so good?

The proprietress's face suddenly turned dark.

Damn it, she actually thought the other person was a good person!

They are all followers of that perverted priest, how could they be related to Tian Zhen? !

Vic could naturally feel the change in the proprietress's mood, but he could not understand why. The proprietress did not give him a chance to ask and knocked on the door with a dark face.

Soon, footsteps were heard in the house.

Judging from the sound of his footsteps, the other person's legs and feet didn't seem to be very nimble.

Then the door opened, and an old man in a dirty gray robe and leaning on a cane appeared in Vic's sight.

Vic's eyes suddenly lit up.

He could immediately sense that the other person was a hunter, because the smell of the other person was exactly the same as that of the old hunter he had met before.

Finally... I saw the hunter again!
Vic subconsciously took two steps forward and wanted to talk to the other party, but he didn't expect that the old hunter frowned immediately after seeing Vic, and murderous intent appeared in his eyes.

"Wildfire Cultists!" he shouted, "What do you want to do here?!"

Before Vic could react, the proprietress's face changed when she heard this.

"Are you a Wildfire Cultist?!" the young lady boss shouted, "You told me before that you weren't!"

Vic immediately defended himself: "I'm not a Wildfire believer."

Before he could finish his words, Vic heard a clang and the old hunter's walking stick was against his neck.

At the bottom of the cane was a rusty dagger.

"Take another step forward and I'll kill you." The old hunter said coldly, "The reason I'm still willing to warn you is because I'm no longer a hunter. If it were before, your head would have been gone... bastard."

...Good, very fast.

Vic was forced into a desperate situation before he could even see the opponent's movements.

The last person who gave him such pressure was Bai Wei.

"Really? If you had told me earlier that you were a Wildfire Cultist, I wouldn't have brought you here!" The young lady boss grabbed Vic's sleeve in anger, "You just lied to me that you were a good person... Go away now!"

"No, I'm not a Wildfire Cultist!" Vic tried to defend himself, "Just believe me!"

"Don't treat me like a fool." The old hunter's tone was still cold. "No matter how you disguise yourself, I can smell the stench on you... It doesn't smell like a human, but like a beast. If you don't leave, I will really take action."

"I'm not a beast!" Vic said anxiously, "Neither is Ade!"

As he spoke, Vic took off his hood, revealing his half-human, half-wolf face.

This immediately frightened the young proprietress so much that she let go of her hand and subconsciously took two steps back.

The old hunter quickly narrowed his eyes, and veins stood up on the back of his hand holding the cane, it was obvious that he was about to take action!

"I'm a hunter! A hunter like you!" Vic could only shout desperately, "I came to you not for anything else, I just want to find my wolf, my Ade! You told me that if I want to gain the power of a hunter, I have to go to the Lost Sacrificial Site! I went there, and then I became like this now!"

"I can't even remember what happened!"

"No one told me what was going on!"

"When I woke up, Ade was gone. The hunters were avoiding me, and the Wildfire Cultists were hunting me! The only one who was willing to help me was the weird Rhine priest!"

"I just want to know what happened! I just want to know where my Ade went!"

Vic spoke this long paragraph hysterically.

These words seemed to have consumed all his energy, so much so that after he finished speaking he could not even stand steadily and his body was shaking constantly.

The young lady boss was already in a daze. Only the old hunter was still watching quietly, but his grip on the cane had slowly loosened.

"It seems... you have indeed encountered something." The old hunter put down his walking stick, then slowly moved aside to make way for the house. "In that case, let me talk to you."

……

A few minutes later, Vic sat down in the yard with a cup of hot tea in his hand. The hot tea seemed to give him strength and finally stopped his body from shaking.

Then he turned around and looked at the young proprietress who was also sitting next to him, and asked hesitantly, "Aren't you...going back?"

"Of course I have to watch you." The young lady boss said with her hands folded, "What if you are really the Wildfire Cultist who led the way? I have to be responsible to Mr. Ryan."

Before Vic could say anything, the old hunter's voice came over: "You were irresponsible by bringing him here."

Then, the old hunter named Ryan sat in front of Vic, while the young proprietress scratched her head embarrassedly.

"Um..." Vic spoke first, "I want to ask, when you said that the Wildfire Cultists have been looking for you...what does that mean?"

"It means exactly what it says." Ryan said calmly, "They have been looking for the remaining Senluo hunters."

"So what are they going to do?"

"do not know."

"……what?"

"I don't know what they are going to do." Ryan said, "I only know that many of my friends have been missing since they were targeted by them. They are probably dead."

Vic pursed his lips and said, "They are chasing me too... I also don't know what they want to do. Oh no, to be precise, they want to kill me, but I don't know why."

"It's normal not to know the reason. Over the years, hunters have been trying to figure out what these guys are trying to do, but they basically can't get an answer." Ryan said, "These guys live in the wild, survive in the wild, and exude the breath of beasts. They don't look like humans at all... just like you now."

"…I'm sorry." Vic lowered his head, "I don't know what happened to me."

As soon as he lowered his head, Vic felt his ears itchy.

He turned around and found that it was the young proprietress who was pinching his ear, of course, the wolf part.

"Oh, sorry." The young lady boss withdrew her hand immediately after being discovered. "I was just curious about what it felt like. It kept moving while you were talking, so I couldn't help it."

Before Vic could say anything, Ryan spoke up: "Rila, if you can't calm down, go back first."

"No." Ella sat up straight. "I'm quiet."

Vic also felt a little strange.

He didn't feel much disgust when Ella pinched his ears. Instead, he felt a little...enjoyed it.

This reminded him of Ade, who also liked to pinch its ears in the past.

Thinking of this, Vic felt sad again.

At this time Ryan spoke again: "What about the Rhine priest you mentioned before?"

"Uh." Vic perked up, then scratched his head. "Can you ask me something else?"

"Well? Can't he tell?"

"He's very secretive, so I don't know much about him." Vic hesitated, "And he saved my life... twice. I really couldn't do it without his permission..."

"I see." Ryan nodded, "That's good."

"……fine?"

"Yes, this makes me believe that you are not a Wildfire Cultist." Ryan said lightly, "Those guys can't learn these principles."

Vic scratched his head again and suddenly felt warm inside.

"As for the other things you mentioned." Ryan said slowly, "The old hunter who told you that the inheritance of hunter power came from the Lost Sacrifice Site, do you still remember his name?"

"Leo."

"Leo..." Ryan narrowed his eyes slightly, "I haven't heard of this person."

"Never heard of it? Well, that's normal, after all, he..."

"When I said I had never heard of it, I meant there was no such hunter."

Vic was stunned.

"How many hunters do you think there are in Senluo now?" Ryan said, "I can tell you that there are less than fifty, and we all know each other very well."

Vic was shocked, but still tried to explain: "Maybe there just happened to be a ..."

"Impossible." Ryan shook his head. "Do you know why? It's what you said, the heritage of the hunter."

"The hunter's legacy is not in the lost sacrificial site..."

"Hunters gained power from the sacrificial site when the God of Senluo was still around." Ryan interrupted Vic, "Because the sacrificial site is essentially just a medium. Hunters relied on the sacrificial site to gain power from the God of Senluo, but now that the God of Senluo is gone, how can the sacrificial site gain power?"

Having said this, Ryan paused.

"But the hunter's inheritance is not completely cut off. I can't tell you the specific method, but what I can tell you is that the hunter's power can only be passed on from one hunter to another. And after the transfer is completed, the hunter will lose the hunter's power."

Vic was completely stunned. After a while, he murmured, "So, the Lost Sacrificial Site was a scam from the beginning? That old hunter has been deceiving me? But... why? What can he get by tricking me there?"

"I don't know." Ryan shook his head, "But I suspect this is also a conspiracy of the Wildfire Cultists. After all, your current appearance is exactly the same as the wolf transformation of the Wildfire Cultists. So the old hunter named Leo you met is very likely a disguised Wildfire Cultist."

"But I don't understand," Vic said. "Why did they come to me?"

Ryan looked at the wolf half of Vic's face.

"Perhaps, your wolf is the reason."

"You mean...Ade?"

"Yes." Ryan nodded slightly. "Although the fake hunter deceived you about many things, at least one thing is true. That is, in the Senluo period, the complete hunters hunted with hounds that also had power. Hounds can be said to be the hunters' closest comrades, just like you and the little wolf named Ade. But after the death of the God of Senluo, this pair disappeared, and was replaced by Wildfire and other cultists who could transform their bodies into wolves. So over the years, there has been such an unconfirmed speculation among hunters."

Vic looked up at Ryan.

Ryan said softly.

"The Wildfire Cultists were able to retain their power because... they ate the Hound."

(End of this chapter)