Hazy City hunters aren't trained from a young age; quite a few have joined halfway through life after encountering certain events that endowed them with special powers, including so experintal subjects that have escaped from labs and, out of gratitude to so kind-hearted people, have resolved to beco hunters to eradicate threats posed by extraordinary creatures to society—a rather dramatic turn of events.
Setting aside those naturally high in martial strength or physical prowess, the average hunter who starts midway would find that nothing boosts their capabilities faster than preparing a couple of firearms.
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This is the advancent guide for most mid- and low-tier hunters—simple, easy to understand, and with their inco, it's feasible. Things might be tight at the start, but once they've handled a few low-level extraordinary incidents, bravery is fostered along with habit, and everything starts to feel easier.
"...Thank you very much." Zheng Yichen felt that the veteran hunters' tips for getting stronger were very down-to-earth and made a lot of sense, not to ntion being highly practical.
"Let's continue with the ga." Lewis steered the conversation back, on the brink of victory, wondering why all the rubbish talk.
The following day, they were assigned patrol areas.
Zheng Yichen also t other hunters, so as casual and accustod as Lewis, and then there were the curious newbies, looking all around, probably novices like himself.
He was still tead up with Lewis, as the institute's security personnel hadn't made any special assignnts in this regard; it was all up to their own choice.
"We're being watched by surveillance all the way," Lewis, carrying his weapon, said to Zheng Yichen as they walked: "This area is called a patrol zone, but it's pretty much like a testing site. Generally, the first two days are safe, but so institutes can pull off a stunt where 'accidents' happen right on the first day."
"Here we can test not only the extraordinary experintal subjects but also conveniently check the security chanisms in place," said Lewis, the veteran, sharing his experiences without much concern.
This kind of stuff was sothing you could figure out on your own after a few rounds; by sharing with Zheng Yichen now, he could also earn so goodwill.
But lending guns was out of the question—none of the three roommates dared entrust a firearm to soone inexperienced with guns; missing the enemy might an accidentally taking out a friend instead.
Furthermore, Zheng Yichen had a decent level of combat ability. While playing cards and introducing themselves the day before, they all showed a little of what they could do, and Zheng Yichen demonstrated his best thod: precise stabbing.
Within his range of attack, he could hit almost anything he aid at, and he was also fast. Using a polearm, he had a distinctive advantage in their patrol area, which wasn't particularly spacious, so his contribution was actually quite valuable.
Most extraordinary creatures have conventional fatal weaknesses; as long as you can penetrate their defenses and hit their vital spots, there's no difference between killing them with a firearm and a lee weapon.
Of course, the safest and most reliable thod is to maintain distance and shoot those extraordinary beings.
"Hey, besides these, so institutes will issue so of their unique weapons too," Lewis said, followed by a laugh from Jamie who shared his experience: "When you run into that, you've got to be extra careful—the weapons supplied by a research facility usually an that the escaped experintal subjects are more dangerous, needing specialized weaponry to eliminate."
"I've had the fortune to be part of these missions twice. Though riskier, I must say that the weapons developed in those research facilities are truly impressive!"
During their chat, they passed by a testing site and faintly heard the screeching roars; unfortunately, the testing grounds were sealed, and the windows were the non-transparent type, so there was no way to gather any useful information.
Nevertheless, Lewis, seemingly thoughtful, nodded: "It looks like we'll be dealing with larger extraordinary experintal subjects this ti."
"Is this information the institute has purposefully leaked to us?" Zheng Yichen learned sothing new—so they could do that?
"Of course! We're hired as security personnel, but in reality, we're testers. If it were a completely unforeseen test, they'd ntion that in the contract," Jamie said with a smile, noting their daily salary of two thousand—it was rather standard for this type of task.
He had experienced double that sum, but with greater danger.
"Our role for the institute is as off-book military power for testing; they're not out to kill us, so it's unlikely they'd pull off anything too foul."
"Most of the ti, the 'ergencies' we need to tackle won't exceed three. But even so, we have to wait until the end of the agreed-upon ti period, and we can't be idle during that ti—we still need to patrol certain areas," Jamie added, concluding their casual conversation with a light tsk.
In the surveillance room, a researcher watching the video feed seed unconcerned with the chit-chat of the patrolling hunters; this was just the warm-up phase.
As long as the hunters perford when needed, they wouldn't lose out; the experintal subjects developed by the institute had to undergo real combat tests.
Before the real combat tests, there would be other tests, which the institute would conduct as part of other commissions they had accepted.
These typically involved testing tools provided by others, such as devices to repel or control extraordinary creatures, and equipnt to resist their attacks, among other things.
Each research facility has its own main projects, and such collaborations were frequent. Nephita Research Institute mainly studied extraordinary creatures, including technological research targeting these beings with genetics and pharmaceuticals—
but not weaponry or other technological devices.
These devices were first used to test the experintal subjects due for real combat tests, gathering sufficient data before releasing them to face off against the hunters in real combat, collecting the data they desired. The response of extraordinary creatures differs significantly when facing machines versus humans.
"His body temperature is a bit off; pay more attention to that during the real combat test," the researcher noted while observing Zheng Yichen on the monitor. The surveillance equipnt they had brought in included normal monitoring functions as well as so additional detection capabilities.
This was naturally done to better collect data and other information.
"If he gets injured during the combat, rember to collect his blood imdiately," the researcher said before leaving the surveillance room. He was there only to check on the monitored scan results of the group of hunters.
From the captured data, it was clear they were well-prepared for the experintal subjects they would confront later. However, the discovery of the extra surprise, whether Zheng Yichen had an extraordinary ability, remained to be verified.
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