The blond and blue-eyed young man was smiling as he raised his right hand when he heard a girl scream. He stopped and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a young man in a tuxedo and a hat patting the girl beside him and whispering: "Alice?" Oh, it's fake... Alice, who was screaming habitually, reacted. She blinked and hid behind Klein. Alice's abnormal reaction successfully made Cattleya and Klein, who knew her background, look at the young man with vigilant eyes. "Do I look scary?" The young man had to raise his hands to show that he was harmless, and asked Alice helplessly with a brainless look. "It's not that you look scary..." Alice poked half of her head out from behind Klein, "It's you... You seem to have been bitten by a snake." After a pause, she stood up completely and nodded: "Yes, the snake that bit you is more scary."
Snake? What snake... Is she talking about the "mercury snake"? Klein was stunned for a moment and looked at Alice. "Snake?" Cattleya looked at Alice suspiciously. "Snake? I wasn't bitten by a snake..." The young man didn't seem to understand a word. Alice didn't answer their doubts, but asked Cattleya: "Do you know him?" Despite her doubts, Cattleya still answered Alice's question: "His name is Anderson Hood, very famous in the Misty Sea, with the title of 'The Strongest Hunter'." The Strongest Hunter... Alice blinked and didn't remember the name, so she turned her head and asked Klein, who was more proficient in memorizing the wanted poster: "How much is his bounty?" "No, not the strongest... Huh?" Anderson's words were stuck in his throat. "There is no wanted order for him." Klein replied calmly, "He should just be a treasure hunter." "Is that so..." Alice blinked, then reached out and patted Klein on the shoulder, "It seems you still have to work hard! Kill a few more pirate generals, then you will be the 'strongest hunter'!" Cattleya looked at Alice hesitantly. Anderson looked at her in surprise. Alice turned her head to look at Anderson, and suddenly thought of a way to achieve the goal quickly. She asked Klein: "If you kill the 'strongest hunter', will you be the new 'strongest hunter'?" "The strongest hunter" Anderson thought he finally understood Alice's thinking. He whistled and asked Alice: "Are you a 'provocateur'? Very talented~" "...No, I'm not." Alice denied this and shut up. Cattleya looked at German Sparrow and found that he had no intention of speaking, so she asked Alice:
"What does it mean to be bitten by a snake?" "Ah," Alice blinked, "It means... you will become particularly unlucky." After being stunned for a while, Anderson immediately reacted and asked Alice excitedly: "You know what happened!" "So you know why you were bitten by a snake?" Alice asked back. Anderson automatically established the equation of being bitten by a snake = being unlucky, and recounted the whole story: "This sea area is very dangerous, but it also hides a lot of treasures. I believe you are also aware of this. "There used to be many adventurers, or more accurately, treasure hunters, who entered here to seek adventures, but most of them did not get out alive. Haha, I said most of them. There must be some lucky ones who can not only obtain items and materials, but also leave smoothly. "This treasure hunting group was convened by two treasure hunters with experience in this area. They claimed that they had figured out which ruins in the first half of the safe route could not be explored, which relics could be tried, which monsters should be hunted in what way, and which out-of-control evil creatures must be avoided in what way. "I have always been curious about this place, and I was successfully persuaded by them to join their treasure hunting group." "This kind of treasure hunting group sounds like it will cause big problems..." Alice muttered to Klein. "Then what?" Cattleya asked Anderson, and Alice noticed that there was a circle of rich purple in her eyes. Could the purple eyes be a sign of strengthening the "Eye of Peering"... Alice rolled her eyes, pulled Cattleya and asked: "Captain~'Admiral of the Stars'~Can you look at me like this and tell me what you see? " Cattleya closed her eyes. The corner of Klein's mouth twitched, and he reached out to pull Alice back, nodded to Anderson and said: "Continue." Anderson looked at Alice thoughtfully. An experienced hunter would not look down on any prey - of course, Alice was not a prey for the time being, but Anderson would not look down on her just because she looked like a minor. After all, the attitude of "Admiral of the Stars" Cattleya towards Alice was enough to explain everything. She has a secret, and it is not an ordinary secret... Anderson turned his eyes away from Alice without a trace, and said to Gehrman Sparrow: "You are worthy of being an adventurer who wants to become the 'strongest hunter'. This sentence alone is very touching. Come on, I'm waiting for the day when you defeat me!" "Can I beat him?" Alice turned her head and asked, "I think he is about to be beaten like me." Miss Destiny...Cattleya looked at Alice hesitantly. "Shut up." Klein responded briefly. "Okay." Alice covered her mouth with her hand, and then began to look at Klein with a resentful look. In response, Klein chose to ignore it. He glanced at Anderson and said coldly: "Didn't I ask you to continue?" Anderson looked at Alice, then at Gehrman Sparrow, and finally said obediently:
"It started out smoothly, really smoothly. We avoided danger, got a lot of relics from the previous explorers, hunted some monsters, and harvested several materials. "Everything turned around after we found a strange temple on a flooded island, where there were many well-preserved murals. "One of the murals was very evil, describing a pilgrim team moving forward in the parted sea. "The leader of this team was portrayed as an angel, with long silver hair to his vest and soft facial features. "I was the first to arrive in front of the mural. I stretched out my right hand and habitually drew various lines in the air. Really, I didn't touch it. It was at least 5 centimeters away. Who knew that the angel in the painting seemed to open his eyes at that moment." "You can't do that," Alice put down her hand covering her mouth, "You should touch it and then criticize its composition, color, light and shadow..." (End of this chapter)