Can Be Unused, But Must Be Prepared

A place that can repair weapons and people. Zheng Yichen noted it down. On the way back, he glanced at the Research Institute behind him. Although he slacked off a bit during this fight, it was due to his lack of experience.

Overall, it was quite exciting. He thought about it. If it were a commission from a farm, it probably wouldn't be like this. Dealing with bears was difficult, but against creatures like chickens, ducks, and geese, his melee attacks would be precise.

Night Banquet Bar.

The bartender placed a glass of fruit wine in front of Zheng Yichen. "This one's on me."

"Aren't you worried about a pay cut?" Zheng Yichen asked, picking up the glass of fruit wine.

The bartender chuckled. "For newcomers I know who have completed their first commission, I always give them a free drink. Are you interested in telling me about your experience?"

"It might be a bit boring. I was too lazy this time." Zheng Yichen, appreciating the good taste of the fruit wine, didn't mind sharing a general outline of his experience. He could skip the combat parts. As for Lewis and the others, they were just chance encounters, and afterwards, they only exchanged contact information.

They had a basic understanding of each other, which would allow them to quickly form a small team if they needed to cooperate in the future.

They had little else in common.

"It seems the hunters you encountered this time were good. Acquiring firearms is indeed the best way for Novice Hunters to improve themselves," the bartender nodded and continued, "However, for an excellent hunter to truly go the distance, they still need to develop their own most proficient specialty."

"Are you a hunter too?"

"I used to be."

"People who say that are usually big shots."

The bartender smiled and didn't explain much. Zheng Yichen took out the address Jamie had given him earlier. "Do you know Twilight Chapel?"

"Twilight Chapel?" The bartender pondered for a moment. "That place isn't a formal church. You can think of it as a place for hunters to exchange information. At the same time, it also provides some weapon repair and healing services."

"It can still operate without being a formal church?" Zheng Yichen was a little surprised.

"Why not?" the bartender retorted with a smile. "The Lower City doesn't have that many rules. It's informal but not illegal. From the outside, it looks like a pretty big church. The reason it's informal is that it doesn't worship any god, but rather the twilight."

"Alright, it's not strange to have such a place in Longcheng's Lower City."

The bartender glanced at the address on the paper in Zheng Yichen's hand. "It's not a bad idea for you to go and see that place, provided you don't bring too much money."

Zheng Yichen looked at the empty wine glass in front of him and pushed it forward slightly. "Another one, please."

This one wouldn't be free.

The bartender poured him another glass of wine and continued, "The hunter circle encounters many anomalies, so they always have some things that need to be dealt with. The Twilight Chapel is a place where those things can be handled."

"And Novice Hunters often spend money recklessly out of curiosity when they go there. Lacking discernment, they easily buy fakes or things that look unique but are completely useless. It's better to buy firearms than to waste money."

The bartender's words were very pertinent. Novice hunters should just go to Twilight Chapel to see the sights and get a better understanding of that circle. In fact, there were quite a few places similar to Twilight Chapel.

The Night Banquet Bar was similar to Twilight Chapel, just with different 'business' aspects. Here, they had agents for handling hunter licenses and introducing commission quests, but no weapon and item trading or medical services. Some relatively safe small items could also be traded here; those were private transactions.

The bar environment meant that such transactions were not easy to conduct, and the scale here was much smaller than that of the Twilight Chapel.

The common ground was the exchange of information between hunters.

The Twilight Chapel did not have the 'business' of the Night Banquet Bar, but it was said to be good at weapon maintenance and medical treatment. In Longcheng, regular hospitals had to keep relevant records when treating gunshot wounds or some strange injuries.

There were no such problems at the Twilight Chapel; just pay the money.

As the bartender spoke, Zheng Yichen learned about many places similar to the Twilight Chapel, but the bartender did not provide specific locations and names for those places, and the conversation focused on the Twilight Chapel.

To summarize, it was a decent place for newcomers, provided that after going there, they could restrain their impulse to buy and simply say 'no'.

Returning home after not being back for half a month, many places in the house had accumulated a thin layer of dust. After a simple cleaning of his residence, Zheng Yichen pondered preparing some dust covers for his next outing.

He took off his outer clothes and stood in front of the mirror, looking at himself. Although he had slacked off on this commission, the overall harvest was good. During the fight with the Giant Bear, he had obtained some of its blood.

Although not much, the quality was much better than that of abnormal creatures like chickens, ducks, geese, and mice.

Looking at the condition of the skin on his chest, even if he lay flat for half a month now, he could probably still go out shirtless.

As for physical enhancement, the amount of blood he had consumed was too little, and it was not obvious. However, based on past experience, even if the direct enhancement was not obvious, the subsequent training improvements would not be weak.

Regarding training, the improvement rate for beginners and those who had been training for a long time was different. The latter found it very difficult to improve even a little, while beginners could achieve significant improvements in a short period with a reasonable training plan.

Zheng Yichen had encountered this problem before, but he had an anomaly on him. After canceling out the negative problems, that thing was like a cheat, as long as he worked hard, he could always maintain the improvement stage of a 'training beginner'.

Returning to his accustomed bed, Zheng Yichen took out the business card Lewis had given him. Having one or two guns might not be necessary, but having them would definitely be useful. Just like this commission, someone who didn't even have a remote attack method had to desperately find an opportunity for close combat.

A team with extremely high firepower provided ranged output. Throughout the entire battle, he only attacked once. Although it was an effective attack, he still seemed like a freeloader. He even got injured because he wanted to attack in close combat. At that time, if he had a handgun, even if he shot randomly at the ceiling, he could have appeared to be involved.

Before buying a gun, one had to register with the local relevant department. After registration, one had to go again to register information about the type of gun owned.

The next day, Zheng Yichen went directly to the nearest relevant department to register. This was not a police station but the 'Hunter Administration Bureau'. After registering with his license, he took a taxi to the Lower City, planning to visit the Twilight Chapel first, and then go to the gun shop recommended by Lewis.

He had seen gun shops before, but unlike some free countries in his previous life, buying guns there was not easy. In that place, buying a gun required identification. He couldn't buy one before, but now it shouldn't be a big problem.