Level X Rain Curtain

In the Giant Tree Forest.

A gigantic Resentful Eater Snake dragged Kevin and his companion forward, moving with apparent ease, yet at an incredibly fast speed.

On the snake's back, besides Kevin and Melusina, there was another vengeful little snake.

"Can she come along too?" Kevin pushed away the snake head that was leaning towards him and asked Melusina.

"If it were just her alone, that wouldn't work, but there's the two of us, and Gray Scale too."

The so-called Gray Scale are the Resentful Eater Snake beneath them. Because it is transitioning from its Infancy to its Growth Stage, its entire body is covered in scales that give it a gray appearance.

That's how it got its name.

Whether others approve or not is unimportant; it's just a designation used by the two of them to give instructions.

Simply put, the Resentful Eater Snake are a group of family units.

The snakes in the Snake Nest were all descendants of the Resentful Eater Snake that the two of them had never seen in its true form, now that it had reached Adult Stage.

Unlike normal classification, the Individual Stage classification obtained through Data Chip is not based on reproduction.

In other words, Resentful Eater Snake can lay eggs during their Growth Stage, and it could even be said that only Resentful Eater Snake in their Growth Stage can give birth to the next generation.

Once they reach Adult Stage, they may no longer be able to conceive.

In other words, the process of transforming the Resentful Eater Snake from an energy form into a physical entity Growth Stage, which involves considering multiple factors, is a well-planned strategy.

The Resentful Serpent of this period play a crucial role in bridging the past and the future.

The snake that was now following them was named Little Wang. Its mother was the Giant Snake that was already over two hundred meters long Growth Stage.

The Resentful Eater Snake Gray Scale, which was carrying them at that moment, was Little Wang's sister.

Therefore, you can bring Little Wang out so that the other party can observe her hunting, which is equivalent to learning.

"Is it okay for her to keep bothering me like this?" Kevin asked helplessly, pushing the snake's head away again.

Seeing this, Melusina couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Haha, you're now her snack supplier, she loves you to bits!"

Fortunately, the other party is still in the Infancy and in the state of Nen Aura), otherwise it would be really troublesome if it kept bothering me all day long, because although Little Wang is in the Infancy, its size is larger than that of a normal adult.

Watching the scenery rushing past us.

Melusina asked, "Have you thought about what would happen to the Manor if we both disappeared?"

Kevin looked ahead and shook his head indifferently.

"They're not children. Kurapika and Pairo will handle things. With Nion around, they're definitely aware of our situation, so there's nothing to worry about."

As for whether Nion could predict his situation from such a distance, that was not something he should consider, because it was meaningless.

To be honest, Kevin never worried about what would happen to the Manor without him.

At worst, Pharmacy will be forced to close.

The Hunter x Hunter's business often comes to a standstill; it's practically the norm in the industry.

After all, Hunter x Hunter are all somewhat independent and self-willed.

As long as they can go back, even if the pharmaceutical industry shuts down for a year or two, it won't have any impact at all.

After all, he was running a monopoly.

If he can't go back, then all our thoughts are meaningless.

"You're really carefree."

Kevin shrugged. "There's nothing I can do about it. Thinking too much only adds to your worries."

After a brief, casual conversation, Kevin asked, "What did Gray Scale say about the Timely Rain Cloud area?"

As Resentful Eater Snake, Gray Scale was clearly in its element when hunting in the rain, and given that its intelligence was comparable to that of a human, it was natural that it was able to glean some information from the serpent.

Upon hearing this, Melusina, acting as translator, said, "She said that there's a kind of fluctuation when it rains, which is easy to perceive."

As for the exact location, it's somewhere in that area. That's all the information we can get. After all, she's only hunting in that area, which is basically slacking off.

"Slacking off?" Kevin asked curiously.

He has a certain curiosity about exploring different ecosystems of organisms, and different ecosystems can help him understand some applications of biological materials.

He himself also has this hobby.

Melusina nodded, pondered, and organized her thoughts.

"I guess it's just... fun, right? After all, Gray Scale is in the transition from Infancy to Growth Stage, so in layman's terms, it's still a child?" Melusina laughed as she said this.

But what she said wasn't wrong.

"Is it fun? So the prey inside isn't very useful to her?"

"That's right, the creatures inside weren't very big, didn't we see that back then?"

For the Resentful Eater Snake, if it is not large, then there is not much Nen Aura that can be extracted. Even if venom is injected, the Resentment generated by the Nen Aura is limited in both quality and quantity.

The only problem is that the area is almost completely dry when Reverse Rain, so you can easily get some snacks – isn't that just entertainment?

Kevin understood perfectly well what Melusina said.

He nodded.

He suddenly gave a self-deprecating laugh.

"What's wrong?" Melusina, puzzled by Kevin's expression.

Kevin gazed ahead and said with a touch of melancholy, "The contrast is striking, isn't it? In human society, humans are the absolute dominant force, while in those tiny archipelagos compared to the rest of the world..."

But once we step into the real world, we're like Frog in the Reverse Rain.

These Resentful Eater Snake are the ones who truly dominate this place.

Dangerous areas are nothing more than playgrounds for them.

"There's no resonance." Melusina thought carefully for a while before helplessly spreading her hands and shaking her head.

Seeing the other person's adorable expression, Kevin couldn't help but smile and reached out to pinch the other person's cheek.

Melusina, of course, wouldn't resonate with it; the place she grew up in was a cage where she was confined.

No one has ever had a mindset like Kevin's.

Kevin himself is a time traveler, and in the past society, humanity was the absolute world leader.

This realization was even more pronounced for him.

"However, it's better to jump out of the well than to stay at the bottom."

Taking this opportunity, Kevin asked again.

"Ask Gray Scale what she thinks of the area around that tower and that Giant Bird."

Upon hearing Kevin's question, Melusina nodded knowingly. It was clear that he wanted to use the perspective of the Resentful Eater Snake to determine the food chain among different creatures on the Dark Continent.

She was also very interested in this.

Fluctuations in communication appeared between the Resentful Eater Snake.

Compared to verbal communication, this unique wave-based communication allows for rapid information exchange.

Within ten seconds or so, Melusina seemed to have gotten the gist of the question.

"Gray Scale said that the area around that tower has no Resentment and is troublesome, full of boring guys, so he doesn't like going there."

In other words, for the Resentful Eater Snake, the Mechanical Tower and its surrounding area are like a quiet neighbor.

They are at least on the same level, but judging from this, the food chain of the Resentful Eater Snake should be at a higher level, except that the Mechanical Tower and its surroundings are not in the other's food chain.

After all, this is from Gray Scale's own perspective, and Gray Scale is just a snake that has just entered its Growth Stage.

"What about that Giant Bird? Or does she know about that giant Sand Worm?"

"Gray Scale said not to provoke that Giant Bird, and it's best not to appear in front of it at all—only during its Growth Stage should you be careful, and not stray too far from the hunting grounds."

I understand.

Compared to the Giant Bird, the Resentful Eater Snake is of a lower status, but it is not completely suppressed by the other.

Their energy-based state allows them to handle numerous predators that prey on flesh with ease.

The so-called hunting ground is the predatory range of the Resentful Eater Snake. Kevin doesn't know exactly how big it is, but it's definitely not small. Even during the Growth Stage, it's relatively safe to hunt within the hunting ground. In other words, that Giant Bird should be the true Overlord.

Its hunting range largely encompasses the territory of the Resentful Eater Snake.

However, the territory of the Resentful Eater Snake is within the other's hunting range, and Adult Stage Resentful Eater Snake are not on the other's menu. Provoking them would be troublesome, so should they acquiesce?

It feels a bit like a feudal lord.

Kevin suddenly realized something.

Or perhaps Lord?

He has already begun to categorize the food chain in the Dark Continent.

"As for the Sand Worm, she said she encountered it once while playing outside, and it was very interesting."

This inevitably reminded Kevin of the moment they were arrested.

Sand Worm predation is a form of ecological damage.

The destructive effect was undeniable, as both men witnessed it firsthand.

The surrounding creatures will be wiped out, and his prey consists of those active creatures that possess Nen Aura.

At the moment the giant maw opens, all these creatures will be sucked in.

Damaging the geographical environment can also cause the ecosystem of a region to collapse.

Moreover, a serious problem is that if the Giant Bird hadn't come over, the Sand Worm might not have left so easily.

That might cause even greater damage to the ecological environment.

Kevin then had Melusina ask some more questions.

Gradually, a pattern formed in my mind.

Based on the information currently available...

That Giant Bird was undoubtedly an Overlord, the master of a vast area whose size was almost impossible to know.

In addition to their exaggerated size and the overwhelming power they wield in terms of life form, they also possess the ability to reshape and restore the ecological environment.

Its extravagant territory is also incredibly diverse and colorful.

The "Lord"—the one with whom there is a certain degree of competition, yet who abides by unspoken rules—is the Resentful Eater Snake, or more accurately, the sole adult individual.

Small snakes are merely sheltered beings for individuals below the age of adulthood.

As for the Mechanical Tower faction, it's harder to judge; it seems more like they're considered part of the ecosystem because their mechanical structures are difficult to integrate into the food chain.

Similarly, Kevin believes that [Timely Rain Cloud] should also be the same; a unique ecological environment will lead to differences in a region.

These vast territory is divided into different areas, each inhabited by creatures of the [Lord] rank. Of course, such a simplistic classification is very crude; Kevin is still too weak. His arrival on the Dark Continent was due to an accident.

The entire process was almost entirely a flight from disaster.

Through this conversation and reflection, they arrived at their destination.

Ahead.

It was a distorted area.

This distorted scene was like a thin veil.

"Huh? Why didn't we see this when we went in and out before?" Melusina, somewhat puzzled.

This scene is caused by the different flow of time inside and outside, resulting in the distortion and misalignment of light and shadow.

But they had never seen such a distorted scene before, whether inside or outside; they had only seen the barriers created by different Rain Curtain.

And now, as expected, we are in a period of "Reverse Rain" again.

Gray Scale stopped, turned its massive head to look at the two of them, and looked at Melusina to convey its question.

She asked us if we wanted to go inside and play.

"Tell her to wait, we'll investigate from the sidelines."

After saying that, they saw Gray Scale gently put the two down, then become ethereal and enter the room.

What's going on?

Kevin looked at Melusina.

Melusina looked somewhat helpless and shrugged.

"She said okay, she'll go get us some snacks." She said, glancing at Little Wang beside her.

Little Wang left and the two followed.

An educational predation.

Kevin withdrew his attention and focused it on the curtain in front of him.

The distorted light prevented him from seeing what was happening inside the Rain Curtain.

He began experimenting.

He picked up a branch and reached inside.

It's easy to get it in, but pulling it out becomes extremely difficult.

There was an invisible force pulling, like sticking a branch into a pool of thick glue, only without the rebounding force.

"Is it caused by the difference in internal and external time flow rates?"

Just then, Xiao Hong ran over, carrying a small animal in her hand. It looked strange, but Kevin was already used to it.

He reached out and took it, immediately displaying C-rank Material Perception.

I'm used to it now.

Anyway, it's easy to feel that desire now.

Carry the animal and place it half inside and half outside the Rain Curtain.

The change happened instantly.

The first thing is blood flow.

The blood flow in the inserted half became extremely slow, almost stopped, but the flow on the outside remained normal.

The conflict between the two was immediately manifested due to the different changes inside and outside, as well as the time stop caused by the Raindrop on the body.

Blood stasis begins to form, and this blood begins to swell and accumulate at the cross-section, while other areas begin to experience ischemia. In other words, the danger of traversing is mainly the pressure on the body caused by the difference in the flow rate of time inside and outside.

They caught another one.

This time I was awake.

Force the other party to rush into the Rain Curtain.

When this creature rushed into the Rain Curtain, it encountered no obstacles and easily made its way in.

Then, due to the distortion of light, it became unclear.

"Shouldn't the Nen Beast be allowed to go in and take a look?" Melusina asked curiously from the side.

They simply let Xiao Hong step inside.

As expected, Melusina could sense the situation inside through Xiao Hong.

"Huh? Xiao Hong isn't affected again? Is it because I'm outside?" Melusina, somewhat surprised.

Upon hearing this, Kevin formed his energy into a pillar and shot it out, noticing the change.

That's not right.

The air inside slowed down noticeably.

Besides thought, the atmosphere is also affected by the passage of time in the Rain Curtain.

Otherwise, during Fast Rain, the Nen Beast wouldn't be able to move so quickly when acting autonomously.

So why was Melusina there?

Are the Nen Beast different?

Like Resentful Eater Snake?

If Melusina form is also inside, the Nen Beast will also be affected.

But if Melusina form is outside, will the Nen Beast be unaffected?

To understand this change, we need to wait until Fast Rain and then go in to test it out.

If the Nen Beast that enter during Fast Rain maintain their normal speed, then perhaps this will provide some confirmation.

However, that's not the main point right now.

"Quick, get her to make some rain."

The Raindrop are the most important thing; that's their main purpose in coming here.

Kevin wanted to know if Raindrop could become the time-related material he envisioned.