At the night of 24 years, 1,609 months and 16 days, Gerard sat on the steps of the platform, looking down at the adventurers who were injected with blessings, while thinking back to himself 134 years ago.
At that time, he took the postgraduate entrance examination three times and was finally admitted to the institute before the human maximum age of 25. However, because he had no interest in academics, Gerard joined the Hunting Bureau as an ordinary hunter.
The person in charge of guiding him was a senior from the Blood Saint Clan, who was a chain-smoker and lazy. Whenever he needed to do clerical work, he would poop on time, and was nicknamed the "Bathroom Hunter". He taught the young Gerard a good lesson.
Hunter is not a high-end profession. His daily work is full of boring trivialities, especially in that era when racial discrimination, sexism and class discrimination still existed. Although many people were not evil, they were like fish bones in rice, which made people feel indescribable disgust.
After too much contact with them, it feels like the throat is accumulated with many fish bones, which will need to be cleaned with blood one day.
But the senior who was unreliable in every aspect could often accurately see Gerald's low mood, and would take Gerald to places like tea, coffee, and casinos to relieve stress from time to time. Although Gerald always declined, the senior's wretched smile with stubble on his face did clear the haze in Gerald's heart.
Until one day, Gerard and his predecessors were transferred to the special task force to participate in the operation to eradicate the Four Pillar Gods cult. At first, Gerard did not take this organization seriously. Under the benevolent blood moon, evil is like accumulated water after rain, which will be evaporated by the scorching sun sooner or later.
However, accidents frequently occurred during the encirclement and suppression operation. The large force was separated, and the cult members bravely fought to the death and died together with the hunters. When they finally arrived at the location of the cult leader, only Gerard, the senior and another old hunter were left.
The senior asked Gerard to stand outside the door to prevent anyone from escaping and to be responsible for early warning.
This reason was very legitimate and Gerrard had no room to refuse.
As if seeing that Gerard was eager to make a contribution, the senior smiled and said, "When you lead the team in the future, there will be opportunities for you to play. Now is my time to show off, so you just wait outside - but if something happens to me, you must come in and save the situation."
Even when the atmosphere was not good, the senior could still dispel the darkness in Gerald's heart. So Gerald watched the two of them push open the door, hold up the hunting lights and walk into the dark room, looking for the hidden cult leader.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes passed, and no sound came from inside, but Gerard could not wait any longer, so he raised his hunting light and walked into the room.
The darkness in the room seemed as thick as substance. The light from the hunting lamp could not penetrate the darkness. Even the new pistol could not resist this unknown fear.
Bang, he stepped on a pool of liquid, it was blood. Gerard looked down and saw a strange body lying on the ground, and looking along the blood, he saw two people entangled together.
The senior bit the old hunter's throat, and the old hunter pierced the senior's heart with a sword.
"It's beautiful, don't you think?"
The strange corpse was talking, and Gerard was so scared that he sat down on the ground, and all he did was point the muzzle of the gun at the corpse.
"I'm not a magician, and I don't have any weapons, so you don't need to be so nervous." The corpse sat up and laughed, "I will die if you press the trigger."
"You...they, they—"
"The vampire was afraid that the hunter would attack him, so he bit the hunter to death first, and then the hunter fought back and killed the vampire. I just happened to be lying here sleeping."
Gerard said fiercely: "You lie!"
"You refute very decisively. If the truth does not conform to your own, then it is not the truth, right? I really like this kind of linear thinking." The corpse tilted its head: "You must be wondering why the vampire is afraid of the old hunter attacking him? That's because there is a grudge between them."
"Senior is so nice, how come he—"
"He's been good to you, so he's been a good person all his life? He's never offended anyone, never done anything bad?"
Gerard was stuck, but he quickly fought back: "You are the leader of the Four Pillars of God cult!"
"Because I'm a bad guy, everything I say is wrong, right?" The corpse smiled sweetly: "I really like your linear thinking."
"But do you know why the Four Pillar Gods exist?"
"Desire!" Gerard panted and gritted his teeth, "You are just a group of lustful demons who seduce people to depravity—"
"It's peace of mind." The corpse placed his hand on his heart: "I want to become stronger, I want to become smarter, I want to be more popular, I want to be happier... People are looking for peace of mind, so the Four Pillars respond to their wishes."
"The two of them fought each other and died here just to gain peace of mind. Otherwise, they would not be able to vent the darkness in their hearts."
"You are lying!"
"You actually agree with me in your heart, right, Hunter Gerard? You are a child with great insight. You just discovered during the exploration that the senior and the old hunter don't get along well. You have already guessed their unknown story..."
"Shut up!"
"You know even more clearly that the senior's addiction to smoking, laziness, and unkempt appearance are all due to his huge and gloomy past. From just a few words, you analyzed that the senior is a pathetic loser. Under his smile, he is growing crazy enough to destroy his sanity..."
"I told you to shut up!"
Gerard put the muzzle of the gun against the corpse's forehead, but the corpse smiled. She raised her bloody fingers and drew two bloody tear marks under Gerard's eyes.
“Rainwater will indeed be evaporated by the sun, but some of it has already seeped into the soil and turned into nutrients for the earth. The evaporated rainwater does not disappear, but follows the natural cycle, waiting for the next rainstorm. The rain will not stop, it will keep falling because I am here, because you are here.”
"In a world where the law has become a butcher's knife, committing a crime is not a shameful thing."
"So Gerald, who are you crying for?"
boom!
The corpse finally stopped talking, and at this time other hunters also arrived late, and the encirclement and suppression operation ended.
A hundred years passed quickly, and Gerard became lazy, arrogant, and unruly, but he also became stronger. Just when he thought he could sleep in the paradise of Kaimen City, a familiar name awakened those dust-covered memories.
So Gerard volunteered to make a detailed plan and wiped out the new Four Pillar God Cult in one fell swoop with the strongest attitude. He wanted to use his current achievements to make up for his past regrets.
But Gerard did not feel the slightest satisfaction - because this generation of leaders was the weakest leader he had ever seen.
He was immature, confused, and spoke in a very low voice, just like a college graduate. Catching him was no harder than catching a cat.
So when Ash said during the interrogation that he had lost his memory, Gerard believed it on the spot, thinking that he was the unlucky guy whose memory was deleted by the mastermind and used as a scapegoat.
Later, Professor Schilling found Gerard to explain the danger of Ash, and even asked him to "measure" Ash's capacity again, even at the cost of favors. Although Gerard let Ash go out of respect for his compatriots, his thoughts did not change - he still thought Ash was a lamb that did not need to be ignored.
Then a series of events broke out like a storm: jailbreak, prison control, blood moon trial, Shilling's disappearance...
Just now, Gerard received a message that the president of the Elf Rights Association, Xilin Dor, was missing and his life or death could not be confirmed, so the news was temporarily blocked.
A hundred years had passed, and even though he was sitting under the bright blood moon, Gerard felt as if he had walked into that dark room again.
Ash Hiss is undoubtedly the leader of the Four Pillar God Cult. He is the source of chaos and the head of secrecy. His mere existence will cause disasters. He himself is a vortex of evil!
With his perfect disguise, he gained the trust of the three-winged magician and the unwise behavior of the law enforcement captain!
"So it's the same as last time..." Gerard murmured in a voice that only he could hear: "Is it that I can only make up for it later?"
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the blessing team.