Chapter 10: Hunter Association

When Wen Wen returned, the Feathered Serpent Monster was already lying on the road, its joints all dislocated, and a large pit had formed in the cement beneath it, suggesting the violent treatment it had received.

A red-haired slender girl stood barefoot next to the body of the Feathered Serpent Monster, which bore dozens of shoe prints.

"Are you the superpower user who lured the Feathered Serpent here?"

The man in a cowboy hat saw Wen Wen and showed a look of surprise; he hadn't expected Wen Wen to return to the scene.

So this monster was called the Feathered Serpent Monster...

They refer to people with supernatural abilities as superpower users, huh...

"I don't understand what you're talking about." Wen Wen looked bewildered. Since the monster was already dealt with, he saw no need to reveal his identity anymore.

"You don't have to play dumb. It was you who drew it out, and you who took that weak little ghost at Green Source Middle School. I remember your qi," said the man calmly as he looked at Wen Wen.

"..."

The man had made it so clear that there was no point for Wen Wen to continue playing dumb. He sighed and pointed to the nearby signs of a struggle.

"Aren't you going to deal with the scene here? The commotion was quite loud just now."

"We don't need to handle that, someone specialized will take care of it. People who witnessed the supernatural event nearby will have their memories erased. Right now, I need to focus on your case," the man said indifferently.

"Hmm... so it was all your doing, huh? No wonder those dead-frightened middle schoolers told me they were going to freeze in a cold storage; that was nonsense."

Wen Wen suddenly realized. He had been puzzled about this before, but it was only when browsing 'Inner World cases' that he realized there were so many supernatural cases.

Although there were many supernatural cases, there were pitifully few witnesses. Those who adamantly claimed they saw monsters were usually just following rumors.

This led to many supernatural events, due to lack of witnesses, being unproven and eventually becoming urban legends.

So much so that up to now, in the minds of ordinary people, the Earth Federation was still a world without gods or ghosts.

The man adjusted his hat and introduced himself to Wen Wen, "Hunters Association, Furong River area hunting squad captain, Lin Zheyuan."

"Demon Hunter of the Furong River area, Lin Lu." The girl with pink hair jumped next to Lin Zheyuan and said.

"Do we also need to say titles?" Wen Wen rubbed his hair and said, "Um... Great Detective Wen Wen?"

Lin Zheyuan and the girl: "..."

Wen Wen had no intention of running away, his supernatural ability had already been exposed earlier, and his identity was not much of a secret.

With his appearance exposed, unless he changed his name and abandoned his identity, he couldn't escape.

And he had no intention of giving up his identity. There was only one country in this world, the Earth Federation, with no 'foreign country' to flee to, so Wen Wen planned to cooperate with these two.

"Come with us, we won't do anything to you, just want you to understand some basic things that a superpower user should know, so you won't cause trouble like today and have only running as an option,"

Lin Lu said, giving Wen Wen a meaningful look.

"Just to set things right, I wasn't running away, I was going to get a weapon."

Wen Wen opened his coat, revealing an array of various knives strapped inside, a sight usually seen on a serial killer.

It turned out he had gone to find weapons earlier, his strength wasn't as great as that of the monster, and the monster's blood was highly corrosive, so Wen Wen could only look for as many weapons as possible to kill the monster.

"You clearly wanted to run away. Hypocrite, typical man," Lin Lu said disdainfully.

"Hiss..." Wen Wen's eyes slightly reddened, fixating on Lin Lu, scanning her from bottom to top.

From the bare feet to the torn stockings on her thighs, and then up to her flat chest…

His gaze gave Lin Lu goosebumps. Being scanned by those slender eyes, combined with the ominous aura faintly emanating from Wen Wen's body, felt like being targeted by a venomous snake-like monster.

"You demon hunters sure have some intense tastes," she commented.

Withdrawing his gaze, Wen Wen gave Lin Zheyuan a look that all men would understand, making Lin Lu grind her teeth in frustration.

Returning to the hotel, picking up his belongings, Wen Wen joined them in a van, and after about half an hour, they arrived at the western outskirts of Furong River City, The Eighth Psychiatric Hospital.

The hospital was not small in scale, but it looked desolate, with piles of garbage faintly visible in the corners.

Opening the iron gate, Wen Wen followed Lin Zheyuan into the hospital.

"A psychiatric hospital? You're not planning to experiment on me, are you? The Fifth Hospital is just a quack clinic, but the Eighth...tsk tsk."

Due to an accident that happened in that private psychiatric hospital, Wen Wen had a bad feeling about psychiatric hospitals, but, out of professional conduct, he observed this hospital closely.

The location was in the western suburbs, but it was easily accessible, and the geographical environment wasn't very complicated. There weren't many people, so it didn't attract much attention.

Therefore, the psychiatric hospital must be a front; this must be the headquarters of the demon hunters.

However, even if they really intended to experiment on him, Wen Wen wasn't afraid; after all, he could enter the Catastrophe Containment Facility at any time.

"Speaking of which, how did you find that monster so quickly? It had only just appeared," Wen Wen suddenly asked, following behind Lin Zheyuan.

"It's not that we found the monster, it's that we found you. If we had found you earlier, that monster wouldn't have even appeared," Lin Lu replied.

"It seems I've been targeted by you guys for quite a while," Wen Wen said, raising an eyebrow. When he had captured Qin Shuang's ghost at Green Source Middle School, he thought he had cleaned up all traces, yet these two still managed to track him down.

"Of course, as long as you haven't strayed too far, there's no one our captain cannot find," Lin Lu said proudly, as though it was she who had found Wen Wen.

"You say, if you had found me earlier, that monster wouldn't have appeared at all, so why is that?" Wen Wen asked curiously. He was very curious about that monster—how did it appear?

In that world of gray mist, there were countless shadows like that; why did that one specifically come to attack him?

Lin Zheyuan stopped walking, and Wen Wen also stopped.

"Before I answer you, I want to ask, have you been attacked by other monsters before?" Lin Zheyuan queried.

"No," Wen Wen shook his head, quite certain, because previously it was he who attacked other monsters.

"I can probably guess why that monster attacked you. You entered a world filled with gray mist, then you tried to get a clear view of it, right?" Lin Zheyuan stated confidently.

Wen Wen nodded. Indeed, it was after he got a clear look at the Feathered Serpent Monster that it crazily began to attack him.

"Your inspiration is indeed strong. You must have awakened not long ago, yet you were capable of entering the Gray Mist Layer and even attracted a monster from the Inner World," Lin Zheyuan commended.