Hunter x Hunter: The Ubiquitous Dragon Life

Chapter 247: Labyrinth Ruins Adventure (5)

The man who greeted them claimed to be Senge, and beside him was a young woman in her twenties wearing a white gauze skirt, holding a boy of about ten years old in her hand. , Celluloid looked back, the woman stunned for a moment, then smiled shyly at them, the little boy took the young woman's hand and whispered something in words that she couldn't understand, the woman replied in a soft voice write.

Seeing that Cellulu was looking at them, Senger introduced a sentence.

"This is my wife, Sesha, and my son, Merry."

Cellulu was taken aback, this marriage is quite early, but considering that early marriages are popular in many backward areas, she felt that it was quite normal, she smiled and nodded to the two of them, and Chrollo just nodded lightly as a greeting. Some jerky responses, common language is not very fluent.

Senge led them into a broken-earth house, but Xuesha and Merry did not follow, but just waited outside. Some children in the village were closely following them out of curiosity, or perhaps because of strangeness. At this time, they were still blocking the door, leaning on the door frame and poking their heads in, whispering and refusing to leave. Xuesha and Merry tried to persuade them to leave, but the children were disobedient. Face, half-truthed a few words in a language that Cellulo could not understand, the children finally ran away in a hurry, Mei Li also ran with her friends, and Xuesa was left to burn in the courtyard. There was a fire, something was cooked.

Senge went back to the room and closed the door before turning his head to explain to the two of them in common language with a smile.

"They are noisy and disturbing you. Many children have never seen outsiders since they were born, so they are curious."

Krollo ignored the noise outside, and was looking at the facilities in the room at this time. It was very simple, with a bed made of earth, tables, chairs and benches made of rough wood. Other than that, there was no large furniture, and the equipment was a bit old, but finally They are modern products, but they are all camping or outdoor products. The beds are covered with moisture-proof pads and sleeping bags, water cups, kettles, small stoves, and even emergency lights. Anything with modern features is not a daily household type. If you don’t look at these people , Walking into this house, I definitely thought that I was walking into the living camp of a certain scientific expedition team.

Listening to Senge's words, Chrollo withdrew his gaze and smiled gracefully.

"It's okay, it's natural for children to be curious, but you said you've never seen outsiders, but what's going on? Haven't you been out? Are you the only people here?"

"That's not true. There are many gathering areas in other places, but the situation is similar to what we have here," Senge said very readily.

"There have been no outsiders here for more than 20 years. The last time I remember a group of people came in when I was four or five years old. Many of those people went to other gathering places. Our village was at that time. Let's leave five people, they are also the parents of many children here, as for going out, once you come in, you can't go out."

Chrollo raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean when you get in and can't get out?"

"It's literally, I can't find a way out. It's like a ghost hitting a wall. Wherever I go, I will only go back to this city." Senge replied happily, as if he didn't care at all.

Chrollo was noncommittal to Senge's words. He didn't believe that if he came in, he wouldn't be able to get out. It's just that the situation is unclear now, and there is no need to compete with him, but Cellulu asked strangely.

"Did you take root and start a family here because you couldn't get out? Then why didn't you see those people?"

It is impossible for the people who came here more than 20 years ago to be children of a few years old. If they are not children, they should be middle-aged.

Senge's face changed before he sighed. "I didn't die, or I went to the Dreamland of the Golden City to find a way to live, but I didn't come back. Most likely it was an accident." He felt the same sadness.

"The Dreamland of the Golden City? What is that?" Cellulu asked curiously, the Golden City, isn't this mentioned in the poem? Will that be Bellavista?

"It's the entrance to Bellavista." Senger replied frankly.

Cellulu asked after being surprised. "The entrance to Bellavista? Isn't this Bellavista?"

"No, it is said that this is the mirror city of Bellavista, and the real Bellavista can only be reached through the Dreamland, which is in a new world that we do not know, of course this is only a Legends, I don't know the specifics," Senger can say that he knows everything and says everything.

Chrollo was also surprised that Bellavister was not here, but it was even more surprising that he knew the information of Bellavister so easily. He always felt that it was all too easy, and Senge's attitude was always the same. It made him a little suspicious. In the face of outsiders whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Senger's performance was a little too enthusiastic. Therefore, his words made Chrollo feel a little more evaluation and doubt. After thinking about it, Ku Lolo still put aside the Bellavis matter first, and instead asked about the things he had always cared about.

"Except for those who went to Fantasy Dream Lake, all the people who came in before died. Can you tell me the cause of death? Does this have anything to do with the fact that there are no middle-aged or elderly people here?"

Chrollo had an intuition about the relationship between the two, and the reason for this was even more unusual.

This time, Senge was silent for a while before answering. "The power of thought and vitality have been drained by this ghost realm, and naturally there is only death." A trace of fear and resentment flashed on his face.

"Mind power and vitality have been drained? What do you mean?" Chrollo found that the answer was more complicated than expected, frowned slightly, and asked back.

"You asked just now why there are no elderly or middle-aged people here, because they can't live to be thirty years old! There is a mysterious power here that will continuously extract people's ability to think and vitality. The bigger the ratio, when you reach the age of 30, you will even take out all the remaining power and vitality of a person in an instant." Senger said bitterly.

"The mind power and vitality are extracted? Will the people who come in do this?" Chrollo asked and also felt his own condition, and it seemed that there was no sign of being extracted.

"People who just came in won't, but as long as they live for a while, they will be like us." Senger said after affirming. "But there is a way to delay it temporarily."

"What method?" Cellulu immediately asked, she thought of Jin, he was over 30 years old, and at least he was prepared.

"Have a child." Sen Ge's face was serious, but Cellulu was stunned. "What? You said to have a child?"

"Yes, how do you think we got here? We are all descendants of outsiders who once entered or broke into this city by mistake." Sen Ge said in a word that was earth-shattering.

"Aren't you locals?" Cellulu's eyes widened slightly in surprise.

"How could it be! Who would want to stay in such a ghost place? I didn't even think about getting married and having children. Sooner or later, I would die. Will giving birth to a child make him suffer in this world? Meili, Meili, I'm sorry for him too." Senger cried out in hatred and pain.

After Senge calmed down a little, he continued.

"Many of the outsiders are over 30 years old. As long as they have passed the initial adaptation period, they will be quickly drained of their thoughts and vitality and die, until there was a pregnant woman who was still in her 30s. It's okay, the child's biological father is also alive and well, which aroused the suspicion of the people at the time. After the child was born, a year later, the child's parents died. After that, someone experimented. If the age exceeds 30, birth Children can delay death, but only five chances at most, that is, they can only live a little more than five years, and this is also a treatment only available to outsiders, not local-born people."

Celluloid was stunned, "How can something so absurd and unbelievable happen? How is that mysterious power differentiated? Does it have a will?"

Chrollo also felt that this was simply absurd and unreasonable.

"Besides, is there no other way?" Cellulo couldn't believe that their generation was just sitting still. "Mr. Senger, your age..." she hinted implicitly.

Senger smiled bitterly. "Yeah, I'm twenty-eight this year, and I'm about to face the same fate in two years."

"Then you..." Cellulu hesitated.

"I will challenge Huanmengze, which is the only way of life and way out. If I succeed, I may be able to escape the fate of death, and I can also liberate the city and the people who live here. If I fail, I am just like my ancestors. Let's do it." Senger has made all the mental preparations.

Cellulu opened her mouth, she didn't know what to say for a while, she thought about it, and then asked.

"I want to know, how long is this adaptation period? How long does it usually take to start extracting vitality and psychic power? What would happen if a person without psychic power came in?"

Senge recalled for a moment and said. "It varies from a week to two weeks. Some people are fast, some people are slow, and I don't know why. As for people who don't have mind power, you will only die faster. This city is designed to Only those with mind power are allowed to pass, I heard that the mysterious power here hates people without mind power, but if I say, without mind power, only life force can be extracted, and it will die earlier than others."

Senger's words confirmed Chrollo's previous guess, but what he said next surprised Cellulu.

"Did you see the shadows when you came in? I heard people say that those shadows were deliberately left behind, the residual thoughts of those who had no mind power were forcibly left behind after they died. They were controlled to block those who were not able to think. Enter, but it will have no effect on those who have the ability to read."

After Senge finished speaking, he looked at Cellulu meaningfully. He was a minder, and naturally he could see clearly that the thin layer of purple mind light on Cellulu's body was rootless. He looked towards Ku. Lolo, directly dismantle the road.

"Actually, it doesn't matter if you use it or not. As long as you come in, you won't be rejected. As for the mysterious power that draws life force, you can't fool it like this."

Cellulu was stunned, what did Sange mean by looking at her and saying this? She turned her head to look at Chrollo, he looked calm and just smiled lightly.

"Since it's okay, just use it, it's better than nothing."

Senge didn't say a lot, but seeing that the young Junxiu was clearly protecting the girl in front of him, he naturally wouldn't have to force him to withdraw Zhou, nodded, and let it go.

Chrollo saw that everything Senger had to say seemed to be finished, and expressed that he wanted to take a look around the village. After Senger signaled that they were free, the two said goodbye and left.

After leaving Senge's house, Cellulu followed Chrollo a few steps away from the shabby house behind, and asked with a puzzled face.

"What did Senger mean about Zhou just now? Is it related to me?"

Chrollo didn't have the habit of not keeping his name when he did good deeds. With a smile on his lips, he easily solved Cellulo's doubts, which was considered a good impression for himself.

"I added a layer of my psychic power to you, originally to deceive the shadow and this city that excludes those who are not psychic."

"Ah, is that so? I was still wondering before, saying that the right and wrong people can't get in, so why did I come in? It turned out that you did it, Chrollo."

Cellulu's eyes widened slightly, and she said suddenly. She looked down at her whole body, but she didn't feel anything special at all. She stopped doing useless work, and continued to raise her head.

"Since Senge said it's useless, Chrollo, you can take your thoughts back, it's very energy-consuming to maintain."

"I'm being underestimated~" Chrollo patted his forehead and laughed while pretending to be underestimated and hurt. "Just such a little thing will tire me? You don't believe my ability too much, right?"

Cellulu gave him an angry look, deliberately misinterpreting her meaning? "It's gone. Of course I know that you are very powerful, but in such an unknown place, I don't know what dangers lie ahead. It's good to retain more strength."

"You know, you feel bad for me." Chrollo said casually and with certainty, his smile stretched across his face, and also flowed in his voice, with some kind of slight tickling.

So, Cellulo blushed instantly after being stunned for a while. Is Chrollo seducing her? She wanted to say something, but she was speechless and couldn't say anything. "I···"

Chrollo stopped, lowered his head, looked at the girl who was at a loss, smiled slightly, took her hand, turned around, and led her for a walk in the village.

Cellulu stared at the clasped hands awkwardly, then looked up at Chrollo, trying to break away, but heard Chrollo suddenly say.

"What do you think of what Senger said?"

"What do you think? What do you mean?" Selulu was distracted by this topic, and she stopped struggling. After thinking for a while, she asked back. "Are you suspecting that he's telling a lie?"

"It's not necessarily all fake, but if it's all true, then some phenomena and reactions will make people feel unreasonable."

As Chrollo spoke, he observed the villagers he met along the way. Seeing that Cellulu was still ignorant, he made a point.

"You look carefully at the performance of these people."

Cellulo followed Chrollo's line of sight. The children ran carefree and playful. When they saw them passing by, they would look around curiously, pushing and wanting to go forward but not daring to go forward, just like. The reaction of any child in a small isolated village when they suddenly see an outsider, while the older boys and girls are basically paired, with the tenderness and sweetness of a blind single dog, although they are occasionally curious. Looking at them, but most of them are still immersed in the world of two people. As for looking at the family land, they are also focusing on their own small family. The husband and wife have a tacit understanding and a clear division of labor to take care of various chores.

Cellulo really didn't see anything special, so she could only ask her in confusion.

"Isn't this normal? What's not reasonable?"

Chrollo looked at Cellulo helplessly and sighed, his face softly poisoned. "You're so stupid, you really have to follow me closely, otherwise you won't know what happened when you get sold."

Celluloid frowned instantly and said angrily. "I'm not as smart as you, so don't betray me!"

Chrollo stopped teasing Cellulo, and spoke calmly without rushing.

"There are many unreasonable places. The first one is the language problem. They speak a dialect variant of the Noxu language family, but this language has long been on the pile of historical papers, except for a very small number of people who study this aspect. Archaeologists, no one knows this language at all, let alone as a language of daily life,

And according to Senger, they are all descendants left by outsiders. It is impossible for every batch of people who come in to be experts who are proficient in this language. Outsiders and locals do not live to be thirty years old. The soil for the inheritance and transmission of a language can be said to be zero. Even if we take a step back, even if the people who come in are indeed experts in this language, normal people will use the language that is still being studied but not proficient as a way to communicate and teach the next generation. language of life?

But the reality is that the people in this village can only speak Noxu, but they are very jerky about the common language, and even children basically can't speak the common language. Isn't this strange? "

It's okay if Chrollo didn't say it, but when he said it, Cellulu also felt that this was unreasonable. "This is really strange, but why did it become like this?" Cellulu was confused.

The answer to this question, Chrollo, can't answer for the time being, so he can only continue to the next unreasonable point.

"Then there is the attitude of that Senger, his language and his actions are completely different things. He speaks bitterly and resentfully, but why is he approaching 30 years old, yet he has not considered his own life and the next generation until now. What about the actual action? Do you really have to challenge the fantasy dream of hope until you are about to die? This is too big, and it makes people feel that his words and deeds are contradictory.

Then, walking around the village, you can actually find that Senger is not an isolated phenomenon. You just said that everything in this village looks normal, but this is the most unreasonable thing. If what Senger said is true , In the face of unknown dangers, the sword of Damocles hangs on his head at any time, and it will be one day less every day, but these people, don't you think they are too nervous and urgent? "

"Ah?" Cellulu was startled, and hurriedly looked at those people, still looking at a very normal small village, but combined with Chrollo's words, Cellulu felt that the normal laughter and homely atmosphere were inexplicably more. A strange dissonance, Cellulo instantly got goosebumps, and her back was also cold. She unconsciously got close to Chrollo, and her thinking was infinitely divergent.

"What's going on here? Are they all brainwashed? Or are we actually hallucinating and these people are just fakes?"

"I haven't found any traces of mind power fluctuations so far, so it's hard to speculate." All the incredible things in the Hunter World can basically be attributed to the effect of mind power, but Chrollo didn't get anything for the time being, he shrugged.

"Of course, there is another possibility to explain this unreasonableness. What Senger said is false. In fact, there is no such thing as a certain death at the age of 30. However, this cannot explain the previous language problem, and if it is false Yes, what good is it to deceive us with alarmism?"

Celluloid is messed up, so is it real or fake? She looked at Chrollo. "Then what should we do now?"

Chrollo stopped, lowered his eyes and covered his mouth for a few seconds, before making a decision.

"Whether what Senger said is true or false, there is no need to stay in this place, but before leaving, you can try it again."

Cellulu naturally had no objection, and the two returned to Senge's house. He was having breakfast with his wife and children. When he saw the two, he warmly invited them to join. After Chrollo politely declined, he asked straight to the point.

"We're going to leave, don't know if you have a map of Dreamland? Or would you like to go on the road with us as a guide?"

"You guys are leaving now? That's okay." Senger was surprised, but he didn't mean to stop. Even after listening to Chrollo's words, he really turned around and pulled out a dark yellow sheet from a corner. The linen came and handed it to Chrollo readily, saying.

"Here, this is the map to Fantasy Dream Lake, you can just follow the map, I won't go."

Thinking about the truth of what Senger said, Cellulu couldn't help but ask.

"Mr. Senger, since you have to go to Fantasy Dreams sooner or later, why don't you come with us? Don't you want to solve the problem sooner?"

"I can't worry about Xuesha and Merry." Senger replied very naturally.

Cellulu was startled and asked hesitantly. "Then you haven't thought about taking Xuesha and Merry with you? Don't they have the same problem when they reach the age of 30?"

Senge was also startled, as if he had never thought of this possibility, he looked at his wife and children.

"Go together?"

Xuesha seemed to understand, but she understood the general meaning. Then, she shook her head desperately, pointing to what Merry said in a hurried tone to Senge. Cellulu couldn't understand it. The understanding of the other party is also limited, the other party speaks fast, and he can only half-listen and guess, probably because Merry is too young, living in the wind and sleeping on the road is dangerous and worrying, etc., and she does not agree with him to leave, and she has to take care of Merry, so she can't leave, Let Senger not worry about them, just go by himself, and when Senger heard it, he said it excitedly, and finally hugged Xuesha Merry with a resolute look.

Then, he turned back to Chrollo and Cellulo.

"I'll stay here, Merry is too young, and I don't know if I can come back after I go. Merry is still far from thirty years old. I don't want him to challenge and adventure so early. Xuesha has to take care of Merry, and also If they can't go away, I can't worry about their mother and son, so I can't go away, so I can only wish you all the best of luck to find Magic Dream Lake soon."

Cellulu always felt that the logic in this was weird, and it was because Senge and the others were really not nervous, but since they didn't want to leave, she naturally wouldn't force it, and Chrollo just confirmed Sen Ge again. The inconsistency of words and deeds.

The two stopped talking nonsense, and simply said goodbye and left the village. Cellulu looked back at the three Sengers who came out to see them off. They hugged each other and waved goodbye to them. Cellulo looked at them for a while before turning her head. Come back, take a few quick steps, catch up with Chrollo, who is researching with a map, and ask.

"What does the map say? Where are we going next?"

Chrollo moved the map slightly towards Cellulu and chuckled slightly playfully.

"I didn't expect that there are many small villages and towns here, but it's a bit unexpected."

Celluloid looked down, but it was not. Although there were not many human settlements marked on the map, there were not many.

Chrollo roamed the map for a while with his fingertips, and quickly found a target.

"This village will pass through two or three small villages along the way. You can check and understand the situation, but tonight's destination, I plan to park in this small town 50 kilometers west."

Cellulu had no problem with this. On the way, they passed three small villages. They were still only young people, and they basically did not speak common language. Facing the strange foreign population, the people who were questioned by Chrollo were the same as Senge. The attitude is enthusiastic and straightforward, and the information obtained is exactly the same as what Seng said, and it is not bad even that he is heartless and heartless without being shrouded in the shadow of death.

But this is of no use. They still don't know if what these people are saying is true or not. This kind of unknown and unknown situation also makes Cellulu always feel unpleasant to see flowers in the fog, but they can't find a solution. Point, compared to this, Chrollo is more calm and patient. As he said, no matter what it is, there will always be a time when it will be exposed, just wait.

At dusk when the sun was about to set, the two finally arrived at their destination, a small town that was a dozen times larger than the previous village.

When she walked into the town, Celluloid saw an extremely busy and lively scene. Young parents were everywhere shouting for their children to go home for dinner. Every household was smoking, as if people who had just left work were rushing home. When they passed by them, they didn't have any interest to look at them. The two stayed like this for only ten minutes, and almost everyone in the town was almost gone. Seeing a pedestrian who was also in a hurry, he smiled and asked politely.

"Excuse me, is there a place to stay in the town?"

"Outside? See you, go to the end, it's the one where the guest house is written." The man raised his head and pointed back happily. Although the common language was unusually awkward, he almost finished speaking in one breath without stopping. Bypass them and walk away quickly.

Chrollo looked at the figure that was flying away with a little thought, and then looked at the completely empty town around him, and then he and Cellulu walked towards the place pointed by the man.

Cellulu quickly saw the hotel at the end, with two large characters she didn't recognize. She guessed that it was a guest house. Looking at Chrollo, he curled his lips with an interesting smile.

"It's a guest house, Noxu text."

Sure enough, anyway, the characters and languages that I don't know here are definitely Noxu, and Cellulu has already accepted her illiteracy.

Before the two of them went in, they saw a skinny man of twenty-five or sixty-six looking like a buddy walking to the door and preparing to close. Chrollo and Cellulu hurriedly took three steps and two steps into the store, and the guy responded quickly. , and immediately greeted with a smile in Noxu.

"Are you two staying at the hotel?"

"Yes, a guest room." Chrollo replied in common language.

The guy was stunned this time, and then he changed to the unskilled common language, and said with a smile.

"The two are outsiders. There is no problem with one guest room. Will dinner be delivered to your room? By the way, we go to bed earlier here, so after nightfall, the door is completely closed, and the two guests should also stay in the room. Don't go out."

After the man explained thoughtfully, he smiled and asked for money. "Then, accept a silver coin."

silver? Where did the silver coins come from them? Chrollo was silent. She didn't know whether he was thinking about whether he should play a robber-style murder and force his way into the hotel or other things, but in short, she asked first.

"Can I pay the fee in kind?"

This guy is quite reasonable. "Okay, what's on the guest?"

Celluloid put the bag behind her on the table and said. "See for yourself, what can be used for accommodation."

Although a lot of things are on the knights, but Cellulu also brought a lot of materials with her.

The guy glanced at it, took a water bottle and some medical gauze and the like, indicating that the account was settled, and then led them to the guest room. The guest room looked similar to the house where Senger lived, but not as many. Camping daily necessities, the guy brought them food in a short while, but Chrollo didn't move, and threw it out of the window. Cellulu could understand it. If you don't know anything, it's always right to be cautious. The two deal with it with dry food. After eating, the man came to collect the cutlery, gave some water for washing, and told them to turn off the lights immediately before leaving, and waited for the two of them to wash them separately. After that, she suddenly realized that the outside seemed to have suddenly quieted down.

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Fix a bug, the old man should not be the receptionist when I finally stayed at the hotel.

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