I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

They are powerful, so they are highly mobile; they act without restraint, so they do not rely on the rules and regulations of society, and naturally they do not leave any traceable or reliable clues.

In the manga, Hisoka can secretly arrive at the Heavens Arena in advance based on Gon and Killua's online records and catch them off guard; however, Hisoka pretended to join the Phantom Troupe in order to fight Chrollo one-on-one, and waited for what is estimated to be one, two, or three years, but he still couldn't find an opportunity for Chrollo to be alone.

As a member of the crew, Hisoka even finds it difficult to contact Chrollo at any time. According to Hisoka, Chrollo vanishes without a trace after each mission; even if he is found, he is usually accompanied by two or three companions. A group of Nen users working together seamlessly is not to be underestimated, and even someone as monstrous as Hisoka has to think twice.

Yun Gu asked, "Do you want to seek revenge against them?"

If it were Kurapika before he met Jingyang, he would nod without hesitation.

But now, he has a higher priority than revenge against the Phantom Troupe.

Kurapika said, "If I can get revenge, I certainly won't let them go. But before that, I want to know their information. What I want to know even more... is information about the eyes of the people of my tribe that they took."

“Their intelligence is not easy to obtain,” Yun Gu sighed. “Many bounty hunters in the Hunter Association also want to arrest this Class A criminal gang, but even information about their whereabouts is hard to come by. Sometimes it’s false information, sometimes it’s true, but by the time they arrive, the Phantom Troupe has already disappeared. And sometimes, the information is true, and the Phantom Troupe is there, but the bounty hunters go there and never come back…”

"There must be some skilled fighters in the Hunter Association who can defeat them, right?" Shizuku asked curiously.

Yun Gu explained, "Not all professional hunters are bounty hunters."

This means that even if there are highly skilled hunters capable of dealing with the Phantom Troupe, they might not be willing to expend the effort to gather intelligence, spend time tracking the Phantom Troupe, or risk their lives fighting a group of more than 10 skilled Nen users...

To give an unrelated example: Gon's father, Ging = Freecss, was rated as one of the world's top five Nen users by Netero, the chairman of the Hunter Association. Pretty strong, right?

But they don't even have time to deal with their own son, let alone have the energy to care about the Phantom Troupe...

Hunters, Nen users, are inherently a privileged class, or serve a privileged class. Conventional social rules, morals, and laws are largely ineffective in restraining such individuals. In fact, within the hunter license group, there are likely members who have committed acts even more egregious than the Phantom Troupe—for example, Hisoka, a professional hunter who also voted in the Hunter Association's election for its new chairman. Does that mean he killed fewer people than the Phantom Troupe?

At the time, Kangzai called Hisoka, who came to vote, a "murderer" to his face, but even such a murderer could still stay in the Hunter Association's election hall without anyone caring.

And so, Kurapika left the ward with a slight sense of disappointment.

Jingyang, however, was not in a hurry to leave.

Yun Gu could tell that the three of them must be companions, and warned, "The Phantom Troupe is really dangerous."

"Don't worry, his life is mine. I won't let him die in vain." Jing Yang smiled and pulled a card from his pocket. "I'd like to ask, what's the address of the Hunter website?"

He waved the hunter's license in his hand.

Yun Gu was very surprised, "So you're a professional hunter?"

“I didn’t say that,” Jing Yang said with a slight smile.

Yun Gu was taken aback, then understood what he meant.

An illegal license...

The Hunter Association stipulates that once a license is issued, it will not be taken back, and it will not be reissued if lost. Therefore, the Hunter Association does not take any action against such unlicensed licenses, and Yun Gu naturally has no resentment towards them—moreover, with Zhen Yuanzi's strength, getting a Hunter License is as easy as bending down to pick up a piece of paper from the ground; it is not difficult at all.

"You want to look up information about the Phantom Troupe on the Hunter x Hunter website?" Yun Gu recited a series of website addresses. "Even if information is sold, it would probably be astronomically expensive."

"Thanks." Jing Yang put away his hunter license. "Even without any information, it's not bad to surf the Hunter website and check it out."

……

Why have you become so restless and irritable?

After saying goodbye to the ward, Jingyang and Xiaodi found Kurapika outside the main entrance on the first floor of the Sky Arena.

"Is that so?" Kurapika opened one palm and pondered, "Perhaps it's the gradual completion of my abilities that's making me a little impatient..."

Jingyang said, "Since that's the case, it's time for me, the eldest brother, to fulfill my promise."

Kurapika looked at him.

"Information about the Phantom Troupe's abilities," Jing Yang said earnestly. "I don't want our Dawn of Dawn to have one of our members go out before we even reach the Dark Continent. I can't let you go and die in vain. How about this, tomorrow morning, come to the apartment where Xiao Di and I live, and we'll talk about the Phantom Troupe."

"Okay." Kurapika took a deep breath and replied earnestly.

Watching Kurapika disappear into the distance, Jingyang said to Xiaodi, "Let's go find an internet cafe to surf the web."

……

In a ward on a high floor of the Sky Arena, Yun Gu was concentrating his Qi to accelerate his recovery when his phone suddenly rang again.

The nurse who came in to check on him glared at him and said, "I already told you you need to rest!"

Yun Gu apologetically raised his hand and answered the phone. He couldn't possibly ignore his master's call.

“I forgot to tell you,” Bisky’s voice came through the phone, “the Sky Arena will probably send invitations to you players for the Sensui Mountain Tournament next month, but remember not to accept them—you must participate as a disciple of the Shingen-ryu school.” She paused, “because President Netero will be there this time too.”

"President Netero?" Yun Gu asked in surprise. "Master, aren't you going?"

"I'm busy right now, you can go for me." Bisky hung up the phone. Who knows what might happen with Chairman Netero's malicious nature?

Chapter 108 Discarded Like Worthless Shoes

In fact, Jingyang and Xiaodi's rented apartment has a computer with internet access. However, using the Hunter License at home might attract people with ill intentions who are eyeing the Hunter License. In order to avoid not being able to sleep peacefully at night, it is necessary to find a public place to use the Hunter License. An inconspicuous ordinary internet cafe is naturally a good place.

Jingyang chose a corner with few people and plenty of empty machines, and sat down with Xiaodi. After entering the URL of the Hunter website that Yun Gu had given them, a very strange brain pattern cutscene appeared on the screen, and a special website with mysterious technology popped up.

The main interface looks like a bar door, and then prompts you to enter your hunter's license number and insert your hunter's license.

Jing Yang glanced at the number on the hunter's license he had found, entered it into the keyboard, and then placed the license into the card reader peripheral that every computer in this world was equipped with.

With a BIU sound, the doors of the Hunter's Bar slowly opened.

The entire website was designed like an online game, and Jingyang felt as if he were controlling a first-person game character as he entered this online bar exclusively for hunters.

A few patrons were scattered around the bar, and some were even playing games on the arcade machines in the corner. It was unclear whether they were NPCs or other logged-in hunters.

There's also a bartender-like guy at the bar...

Jing Yang clicked on him with the mouse, and a dialog box popped up. He immediately asked, "What kind of information do you want?"

Then a screen popped up, densely packed with all sorts of information, categorized and varied. From entertainment news to confidential news, it was dazzling and seemed to cover almost everything.

景旸粗略浏览了一圈，在杀手一栏发现了揍敌客的词条，试着点了一下，酒保NPC提示道：「揍敌客家族情报收费5亿戒尼。」

"You might as well just rob us!" Jing Yang rolled his eyes, closed the chat box, and continued browsing the intelligence list.

He searched for "by Yang De" using the keyword, and the results were 0.

I also searched for "gold = Fuji", and the result was also 0.

I searched for "Netero" and found some results, but the information entry actually costs 20 billion gold!

It's hard to say how much information about Netero will be obtained from this 20 billion yuan investment... Jing Yang clicked his tongue and shook his head, then closed the chat window. Is the president of this organization trying to generate revenue and subsidize the association's finances in this way?

Finally, Jingyang searched for the keyword "red eyes" and actually found a result.

Jing Yang clicked on it, and the bartender NPC prompted: "Red Eyes intelligence costs 100 million Jenny."

Jing Yang's first reaction was that the Phantom Troupe had apparently already sold off the Scarlet Eyes they had taken. In other words... a significant portion of the Scarlet Eyes might have fallen into the hands of the fourth prince of the Kakin Kingdom, becoming one of that pervert's collectibles.

Xiao Di offered a succinct comment: "Only 100 million? That's really cheap."

……

Leaving the internet cafe, Xiao Di walked side by side with Jing Yang through the night streets and asked, "Jing Yang, are you trying to help him find those eyeballs?"

"Anyway, we don't have anything else to do besides cultivating..." Jingyang said, "Let's just treat this as a side quest. Most of these people with bloodshot eyes aren't good people, and they're probably quite rich. In the end, Kurapika gets the eyeballs, and we get the money. Isn't that a win-win situation?"

“That makes sense,” Little Drop said.

"Whether it makes sense or not, we'll talk about it tomorrow," Jingyang said with a sigh. "I wonder if our Vermilion Bird will be able to handle the news after hearing the information I bought tomorrow."

……

The next day, Xiao Di opened her eyes, reached for her glasses on the bedside table, put them on, and after a light yawn, saw that she was already sitting up looking at her phone.

Noticing her gaze, Jingyang showed him his phone. "Why is Sky Arena still posting ads?"

"Xianshui Mountain Conference..."

Xiao Di saw a text message on her phone screen from Sky Arena to Jing Yang, inviting him to some kind of tournament from June 16th to June 26th.

"Shall we participate?" Little Drop asked.

"We'll see when the time comes." Jing Yang gestured to the knocking sound coming from the living room door outside the bedroom. "A side quest has arrived."

……

In the living room, Jingyang and Kurapika sat facing each other on the sofa, while Xiaodi ate a bag of cookies while watching.

"The Phantom Troupe has 13 members, each marked with a spider tattoo and a number. Number 0 is their leader, Chrollo."

Jing Yang cut to the chase, "Kuroro is a Specialist; his ability is to steal other people's abilities. As for the other members, as far as I know: Machi, a Transmutation type, whose ability is to turn ki into threads; Uvogin, an Enhancer type—nothing much to say, just immense strength, no obvious strengths, but no particular weaknesses either; Shalnark, a Manipulation type—remember, against a Manipulation type, if they get the first move, you're doomed; Franklin, an Emission type—basically, ranged psychic attacks; Phinks and Nobunaga, both Enhancers, the former excels in melee combat, the latter a swordsman; the most troublesome is Pakunoda, I don't want to see her for even a second..."

Xiao Di, biting into a cookie, looked curiously at Jing Yang.

“Pakunoda, Specialist. Her ability is… memory reading,” Jingyang said. “Kurapika, you wouldn’t want your memories to be casually looked through by someone like that, would you?”

As for the others... Kubi was tricked into going to Greed Island by himself and may have already been killed by Leza; Shizuku was intercepted by himself and is now the second member of Akatsuki, Doraemon; Jingyang himself doesn't understand Feitan and Peeling Man's abilities, so he won't say anything; and Hisoka probably hasn't joined the Phantom Troupe yet.

Jingyang had no idea who was now in charge of the Phantom Troupe's original No. 4 and No. 8, who was replaced by Shizuku.

Even so, the information he has revealed so far has already exceeded Kurapika's expectations.

Kurapika frowned slightly, lowered his head in thought, and silently sorted through the information provided by Jingyang.

“But I still have to say, I don’t recommend you confront them head-on within the next five years,” Jing Yang continued. “These people are all incredibly skilled. You’ve heard Yun Gu say that talented people can quickly accumulate a considerable amount of Nen. The Phantom Troupe members definitely have a significant head start in Nen training. But their progress will inevitably slow down as they continue training, while you can rapidly improve your strength over the next five years and close the gap with them as much as possible…”

If it were the old Kurapika, his eyes would already be burning red, glaring angrily at Jingyang.

However, Kurapika, who had set his sights on reviving his people due to Jingyang's intervention, remained silent upon hearing this—a long and conflicted silence.

Just by listening to Jing Yang's simple description of the murderers' abilities, one can understand why they have been able to evade justice for so long.

Three Enhancement-type users can serve as offensive force; Specialization-type and Manipulation-type users with unpredictable abilities can act as intelligence and tactical cores; there are also Transmutation-type, Emission-type, and an unknown member whose identity even Chin Motoko doesn't know, greatly enriching the team's composition. It can be said that as a team composed of Nen users, the Phantom Troupe has virtually no obvious weaknesses…

As Jingyang said, those two traits among the spiders are particularly alarming.

One who can steal other people's abilities. One who can steal other people's memories.

Under normal circumstances, probably no one would want to run into two people like that...

“But I have to find them.” Kurapika looked up and said, “I need to get the whereabouts of my people’s Red Eyes from them.”

"Regarding this..." Jing Yang sighed, "I can tell you the whereabouts of the Crimson Eyes. But you have to promise to remain calm after hearing the following information."

"Go ahead and say it," Kurapika said calmly.

Jing Yang said, "Nine months ago, a homeless man discovered all the Scarlet Eyes in an abandoned building, which had been left there by someone. Since then, these Scarlet Eyes have gradually entered the black market and are now probably scattered all over the world, distributed among different buyers and collectors..."